the. tensions run high and as the gears up for a controversial election pakistan's disgraced former prime minister now about sharif has been arrested on corruption charges this as the country reels from a suicide attack at a political rally one of the deadliest in its history also coming up. protests greet the u.s. president in scotland as he drops up the official part of his controversial visit. spending the weekend at his private golf resort and of his highly anticipated

meeting with russian president putin on monday. a look ahead to today's battle for bronze at the world cup st petersburg is gearing up for belgium versus england with both sides playing for pride and one last victory in russia. and welcome to the program. former prime minister nabil sharif has been arrested shortly after he returned to lahore from london last week a pakistani court sentenced him to ten years in prison for corruption that decision came just weeks ahead of national elections as sharif's party insists are being rig's meanwhile the pre-election violence that many had feared has become a reality friday's suicide bombing has killed at least one hundred thirty people. in a political rally in southwest pakistan ripped apart by

a suicide bomber scores of people killed many more wounded the blast in a town near the boat just down provincial capital quetta was the latest in a growing wave of violence and head of nationwide polls in two weeks time on the streets of lahore security has been boosted thousands of security personnel were deployed across pakistan ahead of the return of former prime minister nawaz sharif sheriffs' backers say the country's military is colluding with the judiciary to damage his political party ahead of elections they are prepared to confront to authorities if challenge. i am ready to give the last drop of my blood. i'm ready to face jail i'm ready to die let them do whatever police and their police want to do we are here to face that we will not turn back. and was widely viewed as

a political survivor but last year the country supreme court barred him from office of the graft charges this year the same court banned him from politics for life shareef is gambling that turning himself in will galvanize support for his beleaguered party. but i'm making the sacrifice for the future of pakistan. so join me walk with me join hands with me and change the direction of this country. pakistan's army has denied middling to tip the scales in favor of national security conservative imran khan and his p.t.i. party. its pledge to ensure a fair and free election on july twenty fifth. more i'm joined by n.p.r.'s golan islam abad who's following the story for us mr goh why has mr sharif

returned to the country now especially given that he's facing these corruption charges. well he had to do two buckets donna to fire and if you load is the word you are to god. otherwise he would have been declared absconded up so little personal presence for acquiring such a p.t. is mandatory and secondly he had to be closer and he could actually use how do you know if you don't or you would have been seen as having come from minus the images of the body buried particularly in a situation where it has guided an editor of victimhood and only a thing for the sake of. his daughter's a political future he probably wanted her to continue in politics after the settlement of this legal case which we both take the appeals process should be over in four to six weeks with regard to the political element of the story sharif has

criticized the military's role in pakistan how much influence does the military actually have especially heading into the selection what dhimmitude is going to do in influence it all walks of life. and the kind of influence and the leaves are talking about has really nothing you do only if you will tune for this election and even the last election there was a knock knock joke military and i think behind victory for. the team but he wanted a new thing in this election is there a civil military conflict as come out in the traumatically because of. the socially idiotic tronic media now sharif is in police custody what happens next with regard to any appeals that he may launch. well part of it. was

probably you appear before the start of the high court on monday to find the p.d. and usually the process comprises a few days and. even there. the highest court. for you to leave the. weirdest court stand because it is supreme court has heard the entire process of. process does not last more beyond six feet so this is the first step is to appear in person people who are defining the of. empty as gore and islam abide thank you after meeting with british prime minister tourism a u.s. president donald trump is now at his private golf resort in scotland to wrap up his four day visit to the united kingdom hundreds of people turned out for anti trump protests in scotland largest city claws go in

a small group calling themselves scots for trump were also there to welcome the president for a further demonstrations against his visit though as he arrived in the scottish town of turnberry on friday trump has tweeted that he plans to hold more meetings there and play some golf. correspondent barbara vessel has been covering trump's visit for us from london she told us earlier that it's likely he'll ruffle yet more feathers this weekend there are rumors that he's going to probably meet some off to reason may's worst enemies nigel farage and forrest johnson and talk a bit more about bret's that for instance and that would really cut the mustard for the british public because then it shows that come the trump has really come to divide and rule over britain and that's not something that goes well down well with people here. now while trump is on his overseas trip twelve russian intelligence officers have been charged in the united states they're accused of hacking into the

then democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton's e-mail accounts during the two thousand and sixteen campaign the twenty nine page indictment accuses the russian intelligence agency of a large scale fiber operation in a bid to harm clinton's chances these charges just days before trump is scheduled to meet russian president vladimir putin in helsinki here's what u.s. deputy attorney general rosenstein had to say in an effort to conceal their connections to russia the defendants used a network of computers around the world and they paid for it using crypto currency . the conspirators corresponded with several americans during the course of the conspiracy through the internet. there's no allegation in this indictment that the americans knew they were corresponding with russian intelligence officers that was u.s. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein moscow has rejected the charges against twelve

of its intelligence officers calling them an attempt to spoil the atmosphere at of the upcoming u.s. russia. belgium take on england at the world cup later today to see who will be crowned the third best team in the world already from did always sports joins me now from moscow ali i'm going to ask you both teams are certainly hoping to play in tomorrow's final and not today's third place match but surely they're looking to leave russia with a win. of course i think this place playoff is one of the weirdest events in sports you know these players have just missed out on what would have been the biggest game of their careers and because of that you actually get often a quite entertaining game in these third place playoffs because there are some real motivating factors like professional pride and simply not wanting to end what has

been a successful world cup campaign on a lot of note by losing two games back to back and so the question really is who will be more affected by those motivating factors and who will be more affected by the disappointment of losing their semifinal well let's get some insight into that now by having a look at how both teams have been preparing. i belgium were demoralized after front stopped them from reaching their first ever world cup final but just four days later the red devils need to shake off their disappointment and get ready for saturday's third place play off. difficult to play for. you that's what. you have to do to restart every time. it's just part of the life of you know you lose next week you win so often means we can put them to play for the. belgium's best performance of the world cup was in one

thousand nine hundred eighty six when they finished fourth but this time they want to go one better and only england stand in their way. and the three lions manager is raring to go. i'm not scared of anything away from the big really we have motivation to perform we have the chance to win a medal. at the world cup which only one other english team has ever done the england manager is not planning on making many changes in saturday's clash so with both teams almost at full strength fans can expect a cracking match in st petersburg. now i'll be leaving it all on the field as they try to get this went on no matter the outcome well belgium and england see this as a successful tournament i think england certainly this is the best they've done at the world cup the furthest that they've progressed since one nine hundred ninety. and they weren't expecting to get this far either i think a lot of people thought in them i get to the round of sixteen of the quarter final

so the semifinals and now the third place play off is is a real bonus also there's a feeling in england the times of change that the negativity is gone and that this young team is actually heading in the right direction now head of future tournament for belgium it's a bit more complicated they are a better side than england so perhaps we're expecting to make it this far at least and hoping to make their first ever world cup final they also a lot of the players are at the peak of their powers right now and when they beat brazil in the quarter final there was this real feeling that this was their time obviously it wasn't to be but they have given their fans a lot of great moments that win over brazil that i just mentioned and also that last minute victory against japan it was a real electrifying moment so i think both teams certainly although they haven't made it to the big day itself they can go home feeling very proud of what they've achieved now looking ahead to the final which will take place behind you on sunday what's the mood like in moscow before france plays croatia.

well perhaps unsurprisingly the atmosphere hasn't quite been the same since russia went out of the world cup at the quarter final stage and i think just generally the latter stages of the world cup are not quite the same as the football festival that you have in the group stages simply because a lot of teams have gone home and their fans of followed them but that being said we've got more and more french in croatian fans now turning up in moscow for the final french fans were brilliant at their semifinal and some petersburg they made a lot of noise although there weren't a huge number of them there and of course croatia fans after their semifinal the extra time semifinal victory over england were absolutely ecstatic so i'm expecting a great atmosphere here at the luzhniki stadium to fit the occasion of the world cup final. sports reporter all the movie in moscow thank you very much courage as coach has been speaking to the needy ahead of sunday's world cup final he says he thinks history counts for nothing as his side go for their first title

against one thousand nine hundred friends. yun implosion i don't set much store in statistics tradition or head to head on it was the tradition is that they demolished. there tomorrow is the world cup final and we don't care who is on the other side of the pitch we're here to enjoy the moment to enjoy the final and give everything we've got the dumbest remarks in our mind of the top story we're following for you. prime minister. has been arrested on corruption charges shortly after returning to lahore from london this comes ahead of elections later this month which his party says. hundreds of people turned out for anti trump protests in scotland as the u.s. president arrived to spend the weekend at his private golf resort is wrapping up his forty visit to the u.k. before traveling to hell thinking russia's president putin on monday. watching.

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