pakistan some major cities the front runner sabah ruling party led by former prime minister now as cherie is currently jailed and former cricket star in one car. i'll be doubly correspondent to know me conrad is in pakistan's capital islamabad welcome now let's start with voter turnout. well it's difficult to say the polling stations closed about two hours ago so results so slowly trickling in now but they're counting the ballot papers by hand so it will take quite a while until we have an over all results as you say as we heard earlier of course there was the huge blast in quite a that deterred people for a while but in the afternoons correspondents in various cities that we talked to said that they just came back out again so it will be interesting to see how high voter turnout is will know that later on today in the evening and which issues were uppermost in voters' minds so the vote as we talked to we talked to quite a few are very much the bread and butter issues so electricity they huge electricity shortages water shortages here poverty but also education health care really the brea

cherie so many. i don't. think. you. need. to get. this right exactly yes. i have to for you. i'm. sure how he. it's. dancing again when most of the way it's going to win but it's going to be right here. yeah i think you. go to the celebrations a bit like in some of the shots of the host city has been a great atmosphere lots of russians enjoying this world cup and just picking a new team to support to the end after russia departed let's go to sochi to hawkins is. in st petersburg let's come to you first looks nice try that what's it been like for you being part of the outing team covering this world cup the football on the pitch has been fantastic and i think that final really really encapsulates the kind of tournament that we've had great individual performances fantastic goals our studio here in st peter's it's been really a wonderful backdrop for what's been a great talk about a great personal experience for me i've managed to take in st petersburg the wonderful people here the culture the architecture everything about this city has really been welcoming certainly i even brought

former prime minister of france welcome to the cherie it's really great to have you with us. our friends has promised to remain committed to the iran nuclear deal and struggles along with germany u.k. russia and china to keep it on life but with us cutting heir to european business in iran but there's a little left to win for tehran for this deal so let's be realistic the deal has no chance to survive without the americans and more so does it. we think that the nuclear deal must be saved because it is very important today to give iran a seat at the table with other nations or the international community needs iran and we have to make sure that iran not only participates in the community but also that it commits to denuclearization this is the french stance but since mr trump in a unilateral way and that for us means in a rather disagreeable way has chosen his path this means that we have to work on a deal that will be supported by the great powers that are committed to this common position notably russia china russia and germany. that look good day out on the other hand in ea

president that's brought down by a foreign war but he really doesn't want to get involved in i mean cheri i mean he's old enough to know what happened to lyndon johnson for example or george bush jr with a rock he doesn't want to have that around his collar but james you know using sanctions to intimidate friends and foes not to import a rainy and all i mean i again you know you know and you look at the american allies in the region saudi arabia and israel which would love to see some kind of regime change or instability that's probably their first priority i mean this seems to kind of go counter what trump it is them is all about when it comes when it goes to foreign policy james. absolutely clearly and i think peter is right absolutely it's america first policy i wouldn't call it isolationism i would simply call it a sovereigntists policy however there is one big fat exception and that is the middle east we don't have an america first policy in the middle east we have a saudi arabia and israel first policy in the middle east i don't know whether that represents where mr trump really wan

president that's brought down by a foreign war that he really doesn't want to get involved in i mean cheri i mean he's old enough to know what happened to lyndon johnson for example or george bush jr with iraq he doesn't want to have that around his collar but james you know using sanctions to intimidate friends and foes not to import a rainy unoiled i mean i again you know you and you look at the american allies in the region saudi arabia and israel which would love to see some kind of regime change or instability that's probably their first priority i mean this seems to kind of go counter what trump in islam is all about when it comes when it goes to foreign policy james. absolutely clearly and i think peter is right absolutely it's america first policy i wouldn't call it isolationism i would simply call it a sovereigntists policy however there is one big fat exception and that is the middle east we don't have an america first policy in the middle east we have a saudi arabia and israel first policy in the middle east i don't know whether that represents where mr trump really wants to go

otherwise hot and sunny much as you would expect let's head into central parts of africa where it's pretty cheri as you would expect some big storms was the gulf of guinea west africa seen some heavy downpours i think we'll see some big storms affecting guinea guinea-bissau liberia further north in mali should be largely dry there with bamako coming in with highs of thirty one degrees. welcome back to the mind of the top stories here on al-jazeera beijing has accused the trumpet ministration of launching the largest trade war in economic history to u.s. tariffs of thirty four billion dollars on chinese goods that went into effect china's filing counter measure setting the stage for a prolonged trade conflict between the world's two biggest economies. one of the divers helping with the cave rescue of a teenage thai football team has died the former navy seal lost consciousness on his way out of a cave where he'd been delivering oxygen tanks to the twelve boys and the coach rest he was on a race against time to get the team out with monsoon rains forecast for the weekend . u.s. president donald tr

president that's brought down by a foreign war that he really doesn't want to get involved in i mean cheri i mean he's old enough to know what happened to lyndon johnson for example or george bush jr with iraq he doesn't want to have that around his collar but james you know using sanctions to intimidate friends and foes not to import a rainy unoiled i mean i again you know you know and you look at the american allies in the region saudi arabia and israel which would love to see some kind of regime change or instability that's probably their first priority i mean this seems to kind of go counter what trump pianism is all about when it when it goes to foreign policy james. absolutely clearly and i think peter is right absolutely it's america first policy i wouldn't call it isolation ism i would simply call it a sovereigntists policy however there is one big fat exception and that is the middle east we don't have an america first policy in the middle east we have a saudi arabia and israel first policy in the middle east i don't know whether that represents where mr trump really wants to go o

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otherwise hot and sunny much as you would expect let's head into central parts of africa where it's pretty cheri as you would expect some big storms with the gulf of guinea west africa seen some heavy downpours i think we'll see some big storms affecting guinea guinea-bissau liberia further north in mali should be largely dry though it bamako coming in with highs of thirty one degrees. seen but rarely heard india's two million street children live the desperate existence one of the nice meets the child reporters from the slumdog press are giving a voice to india's invisible children on al-jazeera. july on al-jazeera in a new series of head to head maddie hasson tackle the big issues with hard hitting questions pakistan is going to the polls to elect a new government what power will the country take people in power continues to examine the use and abuse of power around the world a generation of voters in zimbabwe grew up knowing only the leadership of robert mugabe now they're electing a new president and the first time since independence his name is not on the ballot on television and online the

host: congresswoman cheri bustos, democrat from illinois, looking at the state of the democratic partyon our facebook page, first from cindy -- steve says - - come back to that in a moment. we will go to our twitter page. this is a comment from dave, our friend in new jersey -- -- finally we will come back to the facebook page in a moment. go ahead, john. caller: yes. the problem with the country we have today is nobody is being held accountable for their actions, and nobody is using any common sense. the woman was talking about guns -- what would she do if somebody broke into her house? and who would protect her from rape or murder? the problem with the gun situation here is the guns are not the problem. the problem with the guns are the people who have them in the house, the parents. they are not paying enough attention to what their kids are doing. and they are not protecting themselves against being held accountable for what the kids do with the guns. host: thanks for the call they let me go back to the facebook page for your is from patricia. is centrism dead? she says -- stefanie

there was a line that was drawn but there were those relationships i will always cheri cherish. then when you get married and have a baby, those words of advice from women who have been there were really very comforting and very helpful. and wii think we stood each oth up. i remember being -- i think i was getting an award at the glamour women of the year awards. pat schroder was there as a former and connie as a former. it was either taylor hook or aberde aberdeen. we met in the lobby, we happened to be going out at the same time and we said, did you hear this story that's breaking? pat, being on the armed services committee, organized a meeting shortly thereafter. it must have been aberdeen because i had susan at the time, and was able to organize this meeting where, you know, the generals had to come in and answer some questions about what was going on and how they were monitoring it. i think it was -- there were notic notic those issues, right that, allowed us to stand each other up and say, we are going to challenge the way things are done. sure, i learned a lot from congre

interesting is that was the same economic trouble people were describing, whether in new hampshire or in cheriustos's district in illinois, or in madison, wisconsin. this is a way to answer western for folks across the country, if we can have bold, new ideas on how to actually make sure folks have that opportunity. i think, from pulling i have seen in 2018, a lot of folks want to see a check on donald trump. they think he has gone too far. they want that chapter there are 10 states where democrats have seats, but trump won their states. ofhink bill nelson is one them. a lot of those swing voters are donald trump goes to far sometimes. so they want to see bill nelson or heidi heitkamp stay because they can be a check on his most extreme influences. hopefully, that is what we will see in 2018. and in 2020, democrats need to offer something new and future oriented that they can combat donald trump with. host: in matters of health care, your pull looked at the current state of the aca versus single-payer. what did you find? ofst: we found the idea expanding and completing the aca, expanding covera