voters casting their ballot to elect their third consecutive civilian government let's talk to kemal hyder who is outside a polling station in the capital islamabad way in the north of the country reports of those clashes beginning in the northern province and of course that attack in the southern state of baluchistan the tensions are high and that's what the authorities were worried about. indeed. and it's something that. because people like coming out the war so far that the. incidents are reflected to k.p. and tag just on however we've seen a larger than usual. award. people are coming out in large numbers but that women are also participating actively in this election. very young and you have to be eighteen to be awarded so did going to be an important and crucial element to see which go and. any political party would be unable to god that kind of support from a watch section all society had and also the fact that social media had added and you why bring teetered that election because everybody. the political party that you would vote for. or try and encourage more and more prepared to

in a race against time to extract the team as monsoon rains a forecast of the next few days scott hyder is at a rescue site in chiang rai so mancow don was a retired navy seal diver who was brought back to help with the operation to rescue the stranded football team and their coach he was part of the seal team with the british divers who found the boys' early friday morning he was ferrying air tanks deep in the cave he passed out on the water a fellow diver pulled him out and attempted to resuscitate him he died from lack of oxygen his death underlines just how risky the conditions are it takes six hours to reach the boys and their coach and involves a series of complicated dives the effort to find another way to get them out is picking up pace by the drilling is ongoing on the western side of the mountain and aiming to reach the location where the boys were found we can't yet to pinpoint exactly cation using global positioning systems otherwise we could drill into the cave and bring them out. but another team is specifically focused on finding their location above ground using technolo

demonstrations continued on the sunday in a number of southern cities that's despite the prime minister hyder alibi imposing curfews and cutting off internet access in some areas. there's other headlines keep it here al jazeera world is next. guns are part of the civic cookie. is simple but their knowledge of well before our city but the more peaceful and lit are the. big cut that's your close of aussie summer for my little girl must be the seventh century nor engender so we send a similar service also in the go corporal part of the so no one. set that deal with this so we open the back up for. the color quite missing the on the fifth. way. you can use it. in view still he could. hear this throughout or know enough to stand up and says. this will doubly put your sister the couple sankar sighing. that i'm sure the first center got a. diffuse really do we need more gas as opposed to shores turkey she wouldn't do call for a mob to come executed by saddam link a little bit deficit in the facility. to salvage yankee process which you did deep you don't cool like you need don't cool cd killer made

with young voters well security across pakistan has been stepped up ahead of wednesday's vote kimo hyder has more now from islamabad. eight hundred thousand security forty four thousand men being they're going to run the country according to the election coverage you know don instructed bridge avoiding a fair and free.

finished with a combined total of forty eight let's go live now to islam about al-jazeera has come out hyder is there so as you are saying a couple of hours ago imran khan will be the next prime minister of pakistan but there are those who are disputing the result. well yes absolutely and they did allude to our disputing that it did the politicians who have had complete grip on the budget sonny pollard gig they've been dead a tradition of bargees some of them all old hands out political parties or what didn't happen days the leader of the right wing religious party that in the months ahead there might they say i'm i'm all enough i live here man he's come out very strongly think that this election should be null and void and there should be reelection however them ron kahn had already said i need religion to open any constituency for a recount one of various ministers all the elected representatives and even said that he's willing to lead them all on a do a recount in the constituency read he has been defeated and even ready for an election and that constituency emraan looking very confident

alleging blatant election rigging a charge the electoral commission has rejected from islamabad kemal hyder has more on the political developments. most of that have gone. as far as the polling is concerned. needing that good renard be a problem for them to form a government. and maybe even into. one province. they have crept up. in a strong position and up one job and to get there would be independent and smaller parties they have a simple majority even end up one job province where the strong order of the shiny family the political party saying their d.n.a. actions were rigged and that day may be planning some sort of agitation within the next few days should really be important to see what kind of. one thing is clear that emraan is heading for three need to be the next prime minister of pakistan to be important to see how the political opposition is going to react are they going to need more political instability or are the politicians going to be reconciled with the idea that they have suffered a major defeat that their traditional parties have been booted out and that the new party rej

canid coalition partners to get that majority of one hundred and thirty seven seats will come all hyder is in islamabad for a side there kemal so will these claims of electoral fraud make any difference to that official result. none whatsoever i mean every election in this country is gone and if you look at the history of this country the elections the looting. of manipulating the polls and all loaded in criticism that something was. manipulated and the fact of the magic that it did the people of pakistan were mostly the young. women who have large numbers and they're surprised everybody that. the president of course has grown gradually did the election commission the election commission. free and fair election under the circumstances given the security detail so as far as the government is concerned it does believe that. time and so that's the situation on the ground so far and i suppose con has a heart to be in task ahead what do we know about how he'll go about coalition building and i know that having to compromise along the way. well not necessarily i mean first of all we are getti

election and since then it's been done in for him and uphill for him run well out there is come on hyder has been missing votes has interceded district near the border with afghanistan. awash majority of the budgets county population lived in the rural areas where dime had. although it did take part in the election rigorously they have not seen the kind of results by their leadership in a country where corruption runs high in political political leader derek you typing all the billions of dollars from their country ended rural areas people do not have clean drinking water they do not have education they do not have a medical care and all those things are necessary for the nation. and for political leadership change will translate into a change. in a. snippet any change to a law what i'm doing now is what i mean to many there is no change for the poor in this country. for the poor elections only mean a change of thing more but it matters a lot to the elite class who are sucking our blood through corruption for their own good and they have gone from millionaires to billionaires but the poo

handover of power after a full term let's get the very latest from our senior correspondent kemal hyder who's in islamabad for us so the stage is set cobol the countdown to the voting starting begins what's the atmosphere like where you are. well i'm outside the election commission. electioneering campaigning of game two and the election commission of august on it saying that they have distributed that ballot bowl clinic cross country very high i think yoder g. or more to eight hundred. eight million new for that election and it is going to be the most expensive election and budgets on the history made saying i did it is going to cost. two elections or to get that indeed everything in that million. have deployed that security force to all the areas where they are going to be acquired and all the ballot box have been moved to the boiling station of course to a speculation as to who might win it's a close election. get small members of parliament elected of course will become the prime minister but what's have been the tangible issues that the candidates have been discussing with the pote

underground complex was discovered on friday offering hope that the boys may still be found alive scott hyder a pause from chiang rai. one. week after the boys and their coach passed through this entrance into the tom long cave a line of ambulances and hundreds of workers carry out a drill for their rescue. non-home is the mother of one of those boys she tells us thirteen year old among loved all sports but football was his favorite mother and son are very close uncharacteristically he did not ask for permission to go to the cave i often think that he's a good boy he liked to play football since he was small i always support him i never thought and if the light these would happen because when ever he would leave home he always act. for the first few days after monk or went missing his mother just cried at one point she was so distraught and exhausted she fainted she's only just started eating again she did not previously know any of the other parents of the missing boys now they're getting strength from each other i feel much better now and this the pause is making me stronger i have to be st

resume good health heavy rain is forecast that could make the flooding inside the cave even worse scott hyder is at the site. i'm. at first glance the crowd in busy center for the rescue effort looks like it has for more than a week the good news that the boys were found by two british divers on monday night means only half of the job here is done. that second half of the job will be very difficult getting them all out safely with family members are already thinking of what they'll do once they are out when up the road he won't seek john heard the good news all she wanted to do was hug her nephew but oh my god i hope all of them come out safely not only my nephew everyone who's stuck in the cave divers and doctors are now going back and forth to the boys and the football coach who found refuge on a ledge when the cave flooded following to rancho rain the divers are checking on the house and taking them food and water they're said to be in good health with only slight injuries but there are mason the group is four hundred meters further into the cave system than the so-called potty a beach sec

the job and other there are a lot well i just called one o'clock in the afternoon in pakistan while hyder our senior correspondent in pakistan is standing by i'm sure one hundred eighty million and more pakistanis have got their eyes focused on that building behind you and they're waiting for official results come i'll. absolutely go out all that gear then you drop them in the local media some of them up guards have a stakeout it's really raining really for either day out there but important to know all that emraan now had according to the reports that we have been receiving and now ward says he will easily be able to form the negs government so why did the all police can they kept their god so it's called the bugger son looks league now wide led by step by trade has already hinted degre would be railing on the opposition benches and of course the peepers bar-b. regard to its board rarely better than last election will also be hoping to pick. in parliament a big question mark still far on died down because the religious right party the line they say that they warned this nolen ward they'r

attempt will be made to bring them out and concerns are growing about oxygen levels in the cave scott hyder is in chile right. coming from hundreds of meters deep within this mountain handwritten notes from the trip thirteen were delivered to the eager and worried parents outside the town long cave it was the first direct contact they've had since the boys went missing one read i love you mom i love you dad and he placed an order for his first meal when he gets out barbecued pork a seal diver added a note don't worry everyone is strong another note came from the twenty five year old football coach who took them into the cave he apologized to the parents and said they were being well taken care of the parents then wrote notes of their own also hand delivered the nearly five kilometers into the cave. twelve year old proper out is a novice monk at a temple just next to the football pitch where the boys were two weeks ago just before they went into the cave the temple is believed to be a guardian for the cave it's currently also acting as a base for some soldiers working on the rescue effort i

over three hundred seventy one thousand soldiers have been deployed to guard polling stations come on hyder is in district close to the border with afghanistan there he spoke to rural voters. awash majority of the budget gunny population lives in rural areas where dime has. although did take part in the election rigorously they have not seen the kind of results by their leadership in a country where corruption runs high in political political leader direct. typing all the billions of dollars from their country ended rural areas people do not have clean drinking water they do not have basic education they do not have medical care and all those things are necessary for nation building. and for political leadership change will translate into a change. in. elections. as it's never brought any change to a lot of what i'm doing now is what i mean to him for many years there is no change for the poor in this country and it's going from bad to worse. for the poor elections only mean a change of thing more but it matters a lot to the elite class who are sucking our blood through corruption for their

as a new pakistan summer job with al-jazeera lahore let's go live now to islamabad of zeros kemal hyder is there so come out this opposition group is planning to launch a countrywide both when they want a reelection but are they going to be able to to get enough support to do that. yesterday's meeting was. and. the fact that they were not all on the same page. the budget on people's party led by a. acknowledged dead body had done much better dead than they did in the last election and day would be sitting on the opposition benches. ruling the fact that they will be taking part in dio taking said it many more. head of the religious party. had suffered a humiliating defeat and. the trying to head movement. had everybody not. many but it didn't even. need. a younger brother of the watch any who had been jay has said that he needs. and read it his. good idea. the old taking credit many. emraan boys. and division grit in the opposition ranks you see they did this poised to take over . this opposition group inc prolongs its protest. is him on council going to be able to for the next couple of

with young both well security across pakistan has been stepped up ahead of wednesday's vote come out hyder has more now from islamabad. eight hundred thousand security forces pushed in and have been deployed across the country according to the election commission no foggiest on instructed to boarding a fair and free election the ballot bowl could have already been diffused through the fall flung polling station running across the country forward broke and candidates really be trying their luck full board the national and provincial family. turnout is expected to be high but the figure to go in front of god are very to be found among the election coverage you know foghat standard in russia they were dead responsibility of conducting fair and free elections in a country where the election go read become controversial and that could go to the forehead of god that all go out in large numbers because of the return deadly attack by elements who have vote. on the election making it bloody and the radio one hundred fifty people carried it including the leader of the political party the preparation

to do next amitabh it out of the lahore let's bring in our senior correspondent of pakistan come on hyder who's live for us in islamabad of course as early indications suggest the party is doing very well official results on friday kemal but perhaps it's a sign that the public there are tired of the established parties of the past. at. the ward for change because. these political parties have had a stranglehold on people's party and the muslim league now watch taking their guns . from the military to the civilian administration deterred administration and again georgian government will be taking over it and it's. something which is good for at the moment mentioning imran khan leading his party had been a very good. job and to get there would be independent and smaller. for much simpler than majority government even and up on job and of course. independent. government in islamabad more or less although as you mentioned the election the election commission of pakistan had already mentioned that it will be formally announced. even before the election. indeed award for change. their plans and

you for that service in who is very close to the mouth of this cave system now we can speak to scott hyder our correspondent scott and said that you're about sixty kilometers away from lisette is and you're closer to the town center where these boys are receiving treatment in the hospital and there's been an update as to condition. yes exactly mark you know we're in the provincial capital of chiang rai it's about about an hour's drive quite honestly from where step vasant is in the mouth of that cave and this is where the four boys who were pulled from that cave on sunday are in hospital now it depends what we saw yesterday sunday and we'll be seeing this probably unfolding over the next couple of hours depends on the severity of the condition of the boys how they go from the cave are brought from the cave to here to chang right venture capital and to go into the hospital we know that at least one boy yesterday was medivac here we assume because of his condition but getting an update from the commander of the rescue mission earlier today he says that the boys are in good condition and some

provincial capital of baluchistan more than thirty people including placement have been killed while hyder seven this update from outside a polling station in the capital islamabad. they are tagged and quite are taking place at the navy yard called the heat then by by this idiotic guard of the day where door their mortgage cycle a dog a day before you go to war related to bowling duty and to go to did you did they had very very good old days then and there were a number of other people who guard guard our brain that block that grell where odors did thirty five. and therefore their dead dog may go higher. now that didn't comes at a time when millions of voters are casting their ballot to elect a new government one of the main contenders shahbaz sharif from the ruling p. and l. and the party has cast his vote he's the brother of the former prime minister nawaz sharif who's in jail on charges of corruption and his biggest challenger is the former cricketer cum politician iran khan who leads the center right. party. now suicide attackers also hit a southern syrian city of an so later near the

violence including a bombing that killed one hundred fifty people in a moment we'll speak to come out hyder in the opposition stronghold off in northern pakistan but first we go to osama bin job it in the hole where many candidates campaigning osama tell us about the mood there with just four days to go until voting day. well in the provincial capital of the horror which is the political heartland of august anyone trying to form a government campaign the hardest to try and win the majority of people where the competition is going to be bogged down within the law and the party of a former prime minister nawaz sharif with behind bars on charges of corruption and pakistan very thin. cricketer and politician. who many people fear is responsible for thinking that the cream is going to be making sure that he goes he kept up the pressure to make sure that the market really is finally jailed and that is what is making this very very interesting and it's good i'm going to be running to be building downtown or here larry is there is a lot of energy and there's a lot of. people who are. trying to. pol

pakistan's military the power to punish people for electoral violations at polling stations welcome all hyder is in charge of the district near the border with afghanistan where he's been meeting voters from outside the country's main cities. awash majority of the budgets county population lived in rural areas where dime has . although did take part in the election rigorously they have not seen the kind of results by their leadership in a country where corruption runs high in political political leader direct. typing all the billions of dollars from their country ended rural areas people do not have clean drinking water they do not have education they do not have medical care and all those things are necessary for the nation. and for political leadership change will translate into a change. in a. snippet any change to a law is what i'm doing now is what i think. there is no change for the poor in this country and it's going to. for the poor elections only mean a change of thing more but it matters a lot to the elite class who are sucking our blood through corruption for their own good and the

thank you very much come on hyder our correspondent live in the pakistan capital islamabad thank you. let's move to the middle east because the israeli military says it struck a rocket launcher in syria after two missiles fell into the sea of galilee now the sea is close to i still held territory which is syrian government forces trying to clear this pocket pocket of law. and borders he is radio golan heights russian and syrian jets have stepped up their air campaign to try to dislodge eisel within the last four days now israel says it will act against any attempt to compromise its sovereignty will mean more mass funerals are being held for some of the at least two hundred forty victims of the coordinated us a little bit in the government held city of alsa wait the attack on wednesday involved multiple suicide bombings and similar trainees raids this is been the deadliest attack in this particular area since the war began in twenty eleven let's go live now to stephanie decker she's a correspondent in these radio golan heights quite a bit to talk about staff let's start them with the a

pakistan of bullying the refugees into returning by using threats and arbitrary detention come all hyder has more from islamabad. ever since the russian and raise you know of one has done and laid nine hundred seventy seven refugees have guarded paul get it on their home their country has become host to a million refugees and even today. decades on august on is said to hold over two point five million of run refugees of which one point five million afghan refugees are registered and the others do not have adequate documents the government of pakistan has been exerting pressure on these refugees to go back because they. say you will die thank you need by a militant outfits which are targeting august on however the relationship between kabul and islamabad has become. several rounds of talks between the civil and military leadership. as far as dealing with the of foreign refugees as concerns the country is also due to horde an election on the green the fifth of july. new government will be in place in islamabad to take key decisions on the future relationship or doesn't understand and the p

underground complex was discovered on friday offering hope that the boys might still be found alive scott hyder reports from chiang rai relatives remain positive despite so many questions and very few. week after the boys and their coach passed through this entrance into the tom long cave a line of ambulances and hundreds of workers carry out a drill for their rescue. non-home is the mother of one of those boys she tells us thirteen year old among them loved all sports but football was his favorite mother and son are very close uncharacteristically he did not ask for permission to go to the cave. he's a good boy he liked to play football fields he was small i always support him i never thought any of the light would happen because whenever he would leave school he always. for the first few days after monk went missing his mother. just cried at one point she was so distraught and exhausted she fainted she's only just started eating again she did not previously know any of the other parents of the missing boys now they're getting strength from each other i feel much better now and this the poet i

elect the third consecutive civilian government let's get the very latest from our correspondent kemal hyder who's outside the polling station in the capital islamabad let's begin with reports of clashes beginning in the northern province and that attack in kuwait the tensions are high and that's what the authorities won't be worried about. absent intelligence agencies had already warned that they were the name and date by elemental diet that they did get dollar bond buggiest on the web already claimed responsibility for the attacks during the electioneering campaign. in quite are taking place at the navy yard chord that he didn't buy boston today out of the city where doors are done more to take in a dog a day before you go to war related to polling duty and security duties that happened very close to a boarding and there were a number of other people who guard the guard that blocked that red door to thirty five. and therefore their dead may go higher now i farted the problem in the book bob and there were clashes between supporters of enron tahn and the national lead with me now to party i

are working for the same goal seeing those twelve boys and their coach in the daylight again scott hyder al jazeera cheering right. teachers from across the u.s. will meet soon to decide their next moves and demanding better pay and conditions thousands have been taking part in strikes saying they're having to buy cars from equipment themselves and take second shelves and dig out of their reports. it began in february when thousands of teachers in west virginia took to the streets and every public school in the state closed teachers here are among the lowest paid in the nation but their actions and success in getting more pay inspired others to follow suit i have the following weeks similar strike action was seen in several more states including arizona and oklahoma across the u.s. teaches a calling for better pay more funding for schools and a reduction in cost sizes i think teachers are by nature caring people and they do whatever it takes but we're tired of it and we're getting ready to change. the way we are i was here last century oklahoma arizona on west virginia we are now startin

government condit's coalition partners to get a majority of one hundred and thirty seven seats with hyder is in islamabad for us hi there kemal so officer figures have been speaking what are they saying. where. headed by. on the head of the right wing religious party the line known as the m.m.a. now the m.m.a. got together before the elections to form the lines for the second time hoping that they would be able to get many seats within the pakistani parliament a wave of deaf suffered a humiliating defeat. today called for an order party gone friends and. his party along with other opposition party they need to be going to all the opposition parties who have complained complaints about election to start a agitation. to make the election not lend war and even ted in their day we're. taking that many of parliament however within the opposition we have been able to be some divisions the progress on people's party headed by but at. the press conference his party leader. party conference gordon adi and he said they would be sitting in the open on the opposition benches. we'll be trying to bar.

progress has been made since the weather cleared on friday but still no sign of them in chiang rai scott hyder sat down with someone who was once lost in the same caves. this is the map of that cat into inchoate own has spent his entire thirty four years just minutes from the tumble on cave but when he was a teenager it almost took his life everyone praying like many times before he went in with some friends but this time they went in deeper and got lost for five hours and they yelled for help and someone inside heard them and led them out on his main concern about the twelve missing boys and their coach holes in the cave floor that could act as huge drains when they're flooded but also like what happened to him it's easy to lose your way don't want to scare off us like when the last life has gone you have to walk by your by only for your home you know you can walk like when you you are at home when you want you know you i think you know everything in your house but minu cost you i and you turn around and you wouldn't find a way where is the right way to go. rescue workers have come to into fo

in a race against time to extract the team as monsoon rains a full cost of the next few days scott hyder is at the rescue site in chiang rai. so mancow don was a retired navy seal diver who was brought back to help with the operation to rescue the stranded football team and their coach he was part of the seal team with the british divers who found the boys' early friday morning he was ferrying air tanks deep in the cave he passed out under water a fellow diver pulled him out and attempted to resuscitate him he died from lack of oxygen and his death underlines just how risky the conditions are it takes six hours to reach the boys and their coach and involves a series of complicated dives the effort to find another way to get them out is picking up pace by the drilling is ongoing on the western side of the mountain and aiming to east the location where the boys were found we can't yet to pinpoint exactly cation using global positioning systems otherwise we could drill into the caves and bring them out. but another team is specifically focused on finding their location above ground using te

remaining nine of us but bad weather threatens yo ready complicated rescue mission we'll go live to ascot hyder shortly who's been covering this story for us from thailand but first here's what the governor of chiang rai province had to say about the rescue operation. paul. i would like to inform everyone at home and all those who have been giving us support all along but after sixteen days today's the day we've been reading for you're seeing the wild boar football team in the flesh now all right live not to scott hi there who is near the site of that rescue. scott it would seem that this rescue mission is initial phase is going pretty quickly much quicker than they were anticipating just bring us up to speed with the latest first it is several hours quicker than expected fully the and this leak we heard ten am this morning the official announcement from the head of the rescue mission that we just heard that that sound from there he said it's probably going to take at least ten to twelve hours he estimated that nine pm local time is when we would have seen the first voice come out it was about

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