Aljazeera. Where ever you. See. Its been a year since former cricketer turned politician imraan khan became pakistans Prime Minister khans Campaign Slogan was nigh a pakistani or new pakistan a reflection of his promises to turn the countrys economy around and end corruption. But the 1st year of his premiership hasnt gone as smoothly as you may have hoped or even expected especially in terms of the economy the pakistani rupee has lost 35 percent of its value during his time in office comes critics call him the Prime Minister of the u. Turns as he has been forced to go back on many of his campaign pledges in an attempt to rescue the situation. But have any of these u. Turns had a positive impact on the country in terms of Foreign Affairs pakistan is closer than ever to its neighbor china but relations with its other neighbor india are at a new low are these 2 Nuclear Countries at risk of another major conflict or war. And how much of a room in islamabad Prime Minister conor recently mar
Missile strikes but the u. S. And saudi arabia they have been pretty categorical in blaming iran but a senior military adviser to irans Supreme Leader has defended the attack on Saudi Oil Facilities at home i can only. Live them is with a retell atory operation yemenis in fact carried out a legitimate defense of themselves against a priss that killed their children the reality is that america and its allies in aggressors against palestine and yemen have become tired and worn out economically militarily and politically the policies were wrong and failed the repudiation of america and its allies is declining. And within the past hour or so President Trumpet said that the us has now expanded its sanctions on iran to include the in rainy and National Bank right now we can speak to not only his director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver we are lucky enough to have him here with us here in doha thank you for joining us at this point then we have saudi arabia a
Protesters who were here block writing parts of central to this part of central is in shut down all the shops are shut all the roads are blockaded and the police have moved in so certainly some extraordinary scenes in the last hour or so here where we are which is government headquarters and is there a fear there that things things could get violent given the previous protests that have turned. Well these scenes are becoming familiar on hong kong streets every weekend we saw similar scenes last weekend where we saw tens of thousands of people once again rally in parts of central now last weekend we saw the various m. T. R. Stations in central they were set on fire at the moment weve got a number of m. T. R. Stations which have been shut down this whole area is blockaded but as i said the right place have certainly out their behavior they want to they want to arrest some of these other the more radical groups a small up Minority Group but certainly before we had parts of government head
Attacks on Saudi Oil Facilities last week iranian leaders say the only reason the u. S. And saudi arabia are blaming them is because the alternative is too embarrassing that yemens hoopy fighters were capable of carrying out such a destructive military operation. But the saudis say the drones and missiles direction of travel recover debris the capacity of the Technology Used in these attacks all draw a Straight Line back to tehran Foreign Ministers of odds are it has said of the iran coincident is used as an excuse to attack his country iran wont think twice about defending itself. He also warned u. S. President donald trump not to listen to his saudi allies who would march into war with iran for their own sake they should pray that they wont get what they seek theyre still paying for a much smaller a human war that they were too arrogant in 4 years ago for those hoping for cooler heads to prevail the rhetoric coming from to iran of widespread and destructive retaliation is worrying an
Killed at least 50 people around 1300. 00 remain missing a flooding in Southern Spain has killed at least 6 people and triggered evacuation orders for thousands rivers burst their banks swamping homes and sweeping away parked cars days of rainfall in some areas has been described as the heaviest in more than a century in Afghanistan Security forces a broken up what they say was an eyesore cell in the capital kabul 3 men have been arrested in connection with a series of suicide bomb attacks tony burke the reports these 3 men are what afghan Security Forces say were part of an eyesore terrorist cell has been busting kabul has claimed they are responsible for 29 deadly attacks in the capital. Theyre been. Very from the educated society the. Young educated youth and theyve been very savvy went to quality and even the ability to to plan and launch attacks they have about a lot of innocent blood on their hand so it was a huge huge bust the hunt for ice or die as its called locally is not eas