A weather pushing across northern parts of england pushing in scotland Northern Ireland as well some plaster showers too just rattling across scandinavia towards the Baltic States central areas looking fine and dry warm sunshine down towards the southeast corner and remain the case as we go on into monday by monday a few showers across northern parts of spain weve had a few showers across northern parts of algeria recently quieting down here as well as we go on through the next couple of days for the high 31. The letter sponsored by catalona is. Told to aljazeera. What guarantees will be given to the people who will be attending the minimal workshop we listen im supposed to explain apologize for someone who is also terrorizing me we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter just 0. They want you got to see it on a mind of our top stories busy this hour u. S. Secretary of state my own peo has accused iran of direct involvement in saturdays drone strikes on some of saudi arabias most vital Oil Facilities iran is dismissing the claims as meaningless. Tens of thousands of antigovernment protesters of hong kong have defied the ban and are gathering to continue their push for democratic reform and protection the activists say that fighting indiscriminate arrests and authoritarianism. Polls have opened in tunis is 2nd president ial elections since the out of spring 26 people are vying to replace space you see who died in july aged 92 and its an essential for straight it with the lack of progress under democracy. Palestinian israelis are being urged to vote in greater numbers in tuesdays National Elections there after only half of them cast their ballots in aprils polls and heating pad. Standing israeli politician has also made an Unprecedented Coalition call provoking strong responses i mean fawcett reports of what. Big days left in the Election Campaign a clash over race voting in hidden cameras came to a head in the israeli parliament. You are a liar shouted knesset member iman or day confronting israels Prime Minister with a camera phone Benjamin Netanyahu had been trying unsuccessfully to force through last minute legislation allowing Party Activists to film inside polling stations palestinian israeli politicians saw that has an attempt to intimidate voters in arab areas. But in this election im an order isnt just taking on what he calls netanyahu is racist campaign hes confronting a long held within palestinian israeli politics saying he would be prepared to be the 1st leader to take his grouping of mainly palestinian parties into Israeli Coalition government albeit with conditions that make it unlikely in the near future that they know that. We have a great influence on who will form the government if you put aside the arab vote in your who will be the pm if you include the arab vote then there are other scenarios other members of his alliance have distanced themselves from his message but a recent poll suggests nearly 80 percent of palestinian israelis are in favor of either joining a Coalition Government or supporting one within the knesset nobody ever expected an arab politician to say it and the reason is for all sorts of historic internal debates among the arab palestinian citizens and israel theres been a very ambivalent feeling to what extent the parties should legitimize the Israeli Government to what extent being part of the Israeli Government puts them in a position where they would have to give up on very significant principles in aprils elections the turnout among palestinian israelis was down to a new low 50 percent so with this idea of more active Political Engagement lift that number. And voting is a very positive step people here dont. Do it and if you dont vote a vote goes to rival parties but i am against arab parties joining an Israeli Government. Its good if they join a left wing government not a right wing races government that works against arabs the palestinian citizens of israel there is a level of support for the idea of engaging in Coalition Government in the future but the palestinian israeli politicians they say the vital thing is that their electorate comes out and votes in greater numbers than they have before to have any chance of bringing down the administration of Benjamin Netanyahu netanyahu is him so if using or days starts to warn voters of the suppose a danger in supporting the main opposition led by benny gantz and yeah i look pete will be me at the head of the likud or will it be the period and guns at the head of a leftist government that will include a committee b. And i mean as minister of them their government those politicians say no one you know who is trying to diligent him eyes palestinian israelis engagement in National Politics the question is whether this time it might inspire them instead to engage more powerful sit out a syria type israel as i mentioned before were covering the elections going on right now in stephanie deckers outside a polling station in the capital stuff and we saw in your report just a few minutes ago that many were saying to their 1st straight heads with the lack of them the progress under democracy whoever wins this election theyre really going to have a big job on their hands on day. They are because the message really is your saying it depends who you talk to and the message is the same sometimes from different start is of society rob you know youll get a different message but here theyre all saying the same thing and well just show you around the polling stations just going about an hour and 15 minutes and already people have been queuing up because they want. Theres a lot of people here and theyre all hoping that what theyre voting for here is going to make a difference and thats because jobs the economy unemployment. Far higher than it was before 2011 the security situation is worse than it was before 2011 so the question people are asking here is what is democracy really giving to them are sick and tired of the message politicians are going to try and take you inside the polling station ousted in what may be. So it is important for people here but theyre also telling you that they could perhaps be seeing more to be done empty promises what one person was telling us the words were done you can see here theyre looking through the Voter Registration area before theyve cost their vote but they want change they dont want to a new person to come and sit on the chair as they say and for the problems are to remain the same so the polls are going to close at 6 pm tonight we are also expecting preliminary results later this evening but i think to all intents and purposes you heard in our package there people are expecting a runoff between the 2 top candidates and thats going to happen in november and stephanie is where you were mentioning you were in your report earlier this is only the 2nd president ial election since the arab spring how much does this have the capacity to change politics there. Im sorry we seem to have lost our feed to stephanie there in sure this will move on west African Leaders have plays 1000000000 dollars to fight on groups in the region an emergency summit held in booking a faso discuss the growing threats from groups linked to al qaeda and i so often sort of ports in the capital. A moment of silence for 29 people who were killed in 2 separate attacks in north and book enough last week one of the attacks happened at a location where all dizzy or all was filming just the day alia a minibus carrying civilians drove over land mine 15 people were killed. Heads of state who attended this emergency summit organized by the regional bloc raised concern about the increasing number of cross border attacks by armed groups in the sahara theyre also worried the violence could spread to other coastal countries. In the last 6 months there have been many terrorist attacks with serious consequences violence and insecurity has caused an unprecedented humanitarian the crisis millions of people displaced in the region. The summit brought together president s from the hell countries known as the g. 5 mandated to fight terrorism and illegal migration across the board as representatives from other west african countries affected by armed groups like boko haram what also here they agreed to share intelligence have joint patrols along the borders invest in training Security Forces and so on they also pledged a 1000000000 u. S. Dollars within 5 years for counterterrorism activities. We have asked the defense and security missiles to put together a practical proposal or not be a causal Standby Force going to be deployed to help. Some security analysts say regional efforts to contain the crisis have not quite been effective in the past because of conflicting interests by individual countries and Regional Organization as well as competition for resources and visibility are both say that a military intervention on its own cannot work without a Development Agenda in. The fight against terrorism is not only about deploying troops there are many regions that have been neglected by governments for years people are poor and frustrated the issue of disparity must be addressed theyve been more than 2000 attacks by armed groups in this a hell in the last few years just over 11000 people have been killed in book enough many of the displaced have sought refuge in schools camps set up by the government and aid workers as well as with well wishes in safe areas where they fled to their leaders say the action plan theyve endorsed is solid implementing it will be the harder part catherine saw aljazeera. 82 migrants rescued a week ago in the mediterranean by the ocean viking charity ship have been allowed to land on the italian island of lampedusa is the 1st time in months that the rescue ships been given permission to dock in an italian ports after the previous governments ban the new government has promised a new approach by messages if it contains said several e. U. Countries agreed to accept the rescued migrants at least 6 people have died in flooding across the southeast of spain rainfall in some areas has been described as the heaviest in more than a century cars were swept away as rivers burst their banks and homes have been swamped 3 and a half 1000 people have been ordered to leave a 1000 military personnel helping with cleanup and rescue efforts in the regions of violence here and under the fear. Indonesia is struggling with refugees escaping conflict and poverty in africa the middle east and elsewhere in asia many say theyve been left in limbo for years waiting for documentation so they can be resettled. Reports from jakarta. They came to indonesia and hoped they could start a new life in Australia New Zealand or canada but many say theyre now stranded. On the job fled the war in afghanistan and 2015 he and his family live in this makeshift shelter without electricity a basic sanitation and little food. If i have money will dont have come here my wife has been sick 3 times a fever i was in hospital for 5 days she leaves but. I have no money to buy better food. Mohammad is one of 400 refugees sharing the small space in ca to do this in west jakarta up to 26 men live in this room using cardboard boxes and plastic sheets to make the floor more comfortable to sleep on unable to work or study they sit and wait for transit papers a permanent assistance but as conflicts in africa and the middle east continue frustration levels are rising the refugees have been demonstrating in front of the Un Refugee Agency for the past several weeks many of them have come from afghanistan pakistan to don eritrea somalia and iraq. Many blame the authorities for not doing enough. Youre not protecting those women what are you doing here you are supposed to protect all the refugees treating them equally. Indonesia is home to 14000. 00 refugees and decided but is not a signatory to the Un Refugee Convention which means it only acts as a transit country but the Australian Government has tightened its borders to refugees from indonesia and cut its International Funding to migrants the Un Refugee Agency says chances for resettlement on limits. Direct assistance isnt going to be the answer because Everyone Needs to be able to have the tools to take care of themselves and this is why were working with the government the government of indonesia here to try to find ways under the indonesian laws for refugees to have the ability to take care of themselves so they dont always have to depend on handouts Rights Groups saying no single group is responsible for the backlog what i think is very important in order to solve the situation is actually bringing all the parties together Civil Society business sectors and also Government Agencies as well as the refugees but it is about the refugees want their voices heard having come this far they say its their only hope for healing Mohamed Al Jazeera jakarta. A battle zone the way for the survival of the largest forest of its kind in east africa and the people and where wildlife living in it kenya is government has effected hundreds of thousands of such in the mouth forest over the past 20 years as nicholas reports Indigenous People who are determined to stay their homes or risk. Deep in the mouth forest are people who communicate with honey bees. Bees can sense our intentions explained secure macho to her nephew collect the honey with a pure heart she says and you will be unharmed hanging from the branches are wooden hives people built to protect the bees its a relationship of cultivated over centuries which is at risk. The bees done truly unsub back but we know what death thinking its a death by the sound they make theyre angry they are upset with the lid destruction in these forests. East africas largest indigenous force was cut down to almost half of its original size over the course of 100 years british colonisers of kenya invaded and killed people to turn part of their forest land into te plantations then came 50 years of kenyan government logging when settlers who moved into the forest were given title deeds to the land. Won a Landmark Legal battle against the kenyan government 2 years ago the verdict recognizing their land rights and need for compensation for their suffering now kenyas government is evicting 60000 settler families from their forest in the distance right behind me are trees that were burned to the ground to make way for farmland and pastures to use for people who want to feed their animals and right here is a 200 year old red cedar tree that was cut down days ago now it will take centuries for part of this forest to grow back and thats why the government here is taking such drastic actions to protect the environment at risk of extinction say environmentalist our 173. 00 species of animals including the bongo elephant and the golden cat sen the drama from the messiah tribe plays jazz music to his cows. They need soothing explains because too many animals are dying. This country is littered with caucus is of dead animals because of the drought the matter which gives this county over 2000000000 shillings every year dries up. The sea and when you go down and look at the river is horrific. It is a fragile ecosystem in which the survival of the bees depend on the you. And their survival depends on this forest Nicholas Hawk forest kenya. This is all just here these are the top stories of u. S. Secretary of state mike pump aoe has accused iran of direct involvement in saturdays drone strikes and some of saudi arabias most vital Oil Facilities iran is dismissing the claims as meaningless well weve seen many images of the attacks from the ground but photos from space are offering a new perspective of the scale of the drone strikes thick black plume of smoke spanning about 80 kilometers can be seen rising from the of hague Oil Processing facility. Tens of thousands of antigovernment protesters are gathering in hong kong to continue their push for democratic reform and protection these are live pictures from hong kong the rally which has been organized by the civil human rights front has been banned the activists say theyre fighting indiscriminate arrests and the thought of 10 minutes of. Voting is underway in tunisia is 2nd president ial elections since the arab spring 26 people are vying to replace. Said see who died in july aged 92 many of the 7000000 chinese instead expected to vote. 5 defense witnesses have testified in the trial of former sydneys president Omar Al Bashir including the director of bushs office item haasan buckwheat said he received 25000000. 00 from Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin selman through an envoy millions of dollars in foreign sudanese currency were recovered from bushs residence after he was arrested in april but she was trial in corruption and money and all of laundering charges will resume next week. 82 migrants rescued a week ago in the mediterranean by the ocean viking charity ship are being allowed to land on the italian island of lampedusa is the 1st time in months of rescue ships being given permission to dock in an italian ports off of the previous governments ban the new government has promised a new approach from those searches that theyve gone to said that several in new countries agreed to accept the rescued migrants at least 6 people have died in major flooding in the southeast of spain rainfall in some areas has been described as the worst in more than a century causal have been swept away by floodwaters rivers of burst their banks and homes of being swamped 3 and a half 1000 people have been evacuated. And those are the headlines the news continues here on al jazeera and about how often are off to talk to all jazeera by from. 0. Switch every. Little. City. Its been a year since former cricketer turned politician imraan khan became pakistans Prime Minister khans Campaign Slogan was 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 khans 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. Entry 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 improvement islamabad Prime Minister recently marked one year in office i sat down with him in discussed his governments controversies as well as pakistans foreign and domestic policies pakistani Prime Minister imran khan talks to aljazeera. Pakistani Prime Minister imran khan thank you for talking to aljazeera youll soon be at the u. N. G. A. In new york youll be making your debut there as the Prime Minister of pakistan what message do you hope to impart to the International Community from their well under normal circumstances i would have. Talked about Climate Change by just done as one of the few countries that is most wonderful to Climate Change i would have spoken at length on that and secondly about islam islam a phobia the way muslims suffer from islam before especially living in western countries and of course in india islamophobia in india right now muslims are. Subjected to persecution but because of what is happening in kashmir i would be i would be merely talking about the situation at the United Nations Human Rights Council in geneva pakistans foreign minister sharma mood he made remarks saying that he believed that because of what india was doing in kashmir that india and pakistan could be led into an accidental war do you believe this is a possibility absolutely what is happening is that india is more or less conducted conducting a genocide the sort of racial attacks on the population i dont think its been witnessed since nazi germany what is happening is the indian version of a final solution for the muslims of kashmir so it 1000000 muslims and kashmir under siege for almost 6 weeks. And why did this gun become a flashpoint between india and pakistan because what india what we know already and just india is trying to do is to divert attention from the illegal annexation and their impending genocide on meet their draw they are taking the attention it away by blaming pakistan for terrorism and this is what the last february when the there was a Suicide Attack a young boy blew him self up against an Indian Military convoy and india blamed pakistan for it and then bombed us so we fear that this will happen again because what theyre doing in kashmir will lead to a reaction some sort of a reaction and they will then blimp august on for it to divert the worlds attention from this the genocide in kashmir Prime Minister khan youre speaking about kashmir being a flashpoint of course that raises concerns about potential use of Nuclear Weapons either in pakistan or in india now recently you made remarks saying or at least the remarks were interpreted as you saying that pakistan would never use Nuclear Weapons 1st in any potential future conflict with india but then a few days later pakistans ministry of Foreign Affairs clarified that there had been no change to Pakistans Nuclear defensive posture so there is some confusion now what exactly is pakistan stance and is there a scenario by which you could envision Nuclear Weapons being used 1st by pakistan as a defensive posture there is the confusion what i said was that pakistan would never start a war. And im clear i am a pacifist im anti war but what i said clearly was that when 2 Nuclear Armed countries fight if they fight a conventional war there is every possibility that its going to end up into nuclear war the unthinkable i mean you know if if said pakistan for god forbid we fight a conventional war were losing and if a country is stuck between the choice either you surrender or you fight till death for your freedom. I know pakistanis will fight to death for their freedom so that when a Nuclear Armed country fights to the end to the death it has consequences so thats why i am we have approached the United Nations we are prepared we are we are approaching every International Forum that there must act right now because this is a potential. A disaster which would go way beyond the indian subcontinent where do you stand now when it comes to potentially seeking dialogue with india because at 1st you had said you were open to it you had made overtures and then recently you said thats no longer the case from the time. I assumed office pools last august we have made repeated attempts to start a dialogue with india 2 men to live a civilized neighbors to resolve our difference and there is only one difference thats kashmir to resolve it through through a political settlement. And that wide trade was important between pakistan and india both countries of a from poverty both countries suffer from a huge impending disaster of Climate Change both of us of us have similar problems so i approach them that we should you know resume talks and sort out our differences. We repeatedly tried that all the time when we were trying to. Do start a dialogue and. Ask for talks we now i realize that this was misinterpreted this b. G. P. Extreme right wing racist fascist government was treating as if we were scared of them or they took it as appeasement we were trying to please them and as a result we discovered that while we were trying to have dialogue they were trying to push us in the blacklist in fact of if we are on the gray list pakistan is pushed into the back blacklist of factor that means there will be sanctions on pakistan so they were trying to bankrupt us economically thats when we pull back and thats when we realize that this government is on an agenda the gender is to push pakistan to disaster so a so theres no question of talking to the Indian Government right now after the. Revoke the article 370. 00 of their own constitution and the annex illegally against the United Nations Security Council resolution which had guaranteed the people that they would be able to hold a referendum a plebiscite to decide the destiny so they have unilaterally. Not only broken International Laws but also their own constitution so theres no question of talking to india in these circumstances so if downgrading of diplomatic ties hasnt changed indias stance toward kashmir and if cutting off trade ties with india hasnt changed their stance and if there is no longer a prospect of dialogue what else can pakistan do salute lee theres not much more we can do except approach all the International Organizations that was set up after the 2nd world war many the United Nations so we are hoping that this is appealing to these institutions and the stronger countries in the world the superpower the u. S. Joint china is a supporter of russia European Countries where we are approaching all of them that this flashpoint what is kashmir if they do not resolve it this has potential of having an impact on the entire world and unfortunately because of this whole thing about big markets you know countries look and markets and trade and employment in their own countries they look upon india as a market of 1000000000 people. They do not realize that if they do not intervened right now this is consequences not just as i said on the subcontinent on world trade everyone will be affected by this you mention the us you talked about countries potentially intervening in this crisis and when you were in the United States in july and you met with President Trump he had made a public offer to try to mediate in the dispute over kashmir between india and pakistan you were open to that Prime Minister modi was not do you think that this is something that could happen because just in the last few days President Trump has said again that he would be willing to mediate do you believe this can happen you see 1st of all i mean you know we are thankful to President Trump because. You know he is the president of the most powerful country in the world and if the United States the president of the United States intervenes in this and seriously into weans its its one way that you can guarantee that there will be some sort of resolution secondly even if he doesnt intervene directly the United States has this power in the United Nations Security Council. That can as a Security Council the the u. N. Can act you see why i think. India is stone walling the situation because india knows that once the International Community gets involved then then the ruling will be for the people of the International Community will insist on the people of kashmir exercising their right of selfdetermination id like to focus on another component of your meeting with President Trump for just a minute because when you were there much of your meeting time was taken up with the issue of afghanistan now i want to ask what do you make of President Trump basically calling off the peace talks with the taliban and how do you believe thats going to impact the security situation for pakistan. Well 1st lets just concentrate on of honest on building from a human point of view everyone must want to. Help the afghans get peace so therefore pakistan is playing its part whatever little influence we have on the taliban we have asked them to you know go on the dialogue table theyve already the talks with the americans actually were at a pretty advanced state the only thing was now to get the taliban to talk to the avant government so that you know they can all get together and decide what they want to do not this is unfortunate what i think its because of the bloodshed that is going on in afghanistan the idea that it is the you know talks dialogue and at the same time youre fighting that always was going to be tricky so i hope that this is a temporary thing i hope that President Trump will get the talks going again because there is no other solution there is not going to be a military solution if there was in 1000 years there would have been one this is already the longest war fought by the americans so the only way out is getting back on the dialogue table are we spoke a lot about the security situation i want to turn for a bit to the economy how would you classify pakistans economy many people say that its failing many of your critics blame you including former finance minister is hocked or he blames you for the current economic crisis what do you say to that and to the other critics who are blaming you for had the economy is right now. Pakistan inherited the worst economy ever in our history we had the biggest current account deficit you know which in our history nor the government has had to face that moment that the rupee the moment we took over because there were a shortage of dollars because we were selling much less than we were buying from the world that meant there was a pressure on our on our rupee and so the rupee devalued when the rupee devalues. The has to be inflation because everything you import few. Affects electricity because you know 40 percent of electricity is from imported fuel then gas to be import l. N. G
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