Northern pakistan. Also flooding in the big apple heavy rainfall in new york city, submerges streets and brings transportation to a grinding halt. The we start with what looks like a growing crisis on the border between serbia and northern coast of the Us Government as war and the serbian government to stop building up its military forces in the region. Tensions re ignited last week after 12 hours shoot down to northern coast of o 3 ethnics or a gunmen were killed. So was one coast of our police officer, the nato peacekeeping force and northern coast and most as its increasing its presence. Their serbia denies accusations that it was responsible, blames the unrest on coast of those policies towards its ethnics or minority. I was good now lacrosse because i had a long phone conversation, not an easy one with us secretary of state anthony blinking regarding the situation and costs of us. Theres a few things we agreed on and a few things we did not agree on. We did agree theres a need for the escalation and a greater role for nato peacekeeping forces. There are lots with what i would say to president , which is just stop messing up with coastal coastal is going to defend its freedom, its independence, and its a vanity. At any price. There is no way back, kosovo is a sovereign country and it will be so forever. The disputes around and goes to low a centuries old, but it worse and in the 1990 is after the breakup of yugoslavia coast of those predominantly ethnic albanian when ethnics are minority and 1998 ethnic albanian arm groups launched the rebellion to end. Disturb you and rule that lead to a violent response by serbian forces. 13000 people were killed. A year later, nato intervene bombed serbia and forced it to pull out his troops. Since then, international peacekeeping. Peacekeepers have been present in kosovo with about 4000 nato soldiers, and 2008 kosovo, declared its independence. Move rejected by serbia. Helena, even office and associate Research Fellow at Henry Jackson society. She joins us from the serbian capital bell. Great, helena, what do you make of the serbian military build up that has the us and nato concert as well . I think this is sort of expected, i think even if we think about previous rounds of escalations, usually when they happen president booted would be inclined to increase the military presence in the region. So i think its pretty much consistent with what we have both seen before. In previous rounds of escalations. Okay, so youre saying this is par for the course. Each time we look at an incident like the one that occurred on sunday and a flare up of tensions in northern coast of oh, you know, the question is pretty much the same. Is that, are we looking at a, at a, something thats gonna remain local or does this raise questions about the wider relations between bill grade and kosovo, made maybe intervention by bill grade etc. Rates. The incident that we saw last sunday and the significance of it . Well, i think that for as long as the escape or troops which are nato peacekeeping troops based in cost of, of course, on this k for is present and cost about i dont think that we are likely to see a lot more between. So itd be uncomfortable or a rupture ukraine scenario where serve you potentially invades possible. I think both of those scenarios are exceedingly unlikely because k force presents there means that both sides are severely the turns from escalating this beyond repair. But also at the same time, it means that if an item of decides was to escalate substantially, k for and the International Community more generally would be able to respond quickly as quickly. So i think that these escalations really do not have a potential to become a war, but they never the lives do make the situation quite have staple. And of course, lots of people in north of comfortable, particularly, extremely difficult. All right . Speaking of k 4 and 4 of yours, by the way though, thats the name of the nato contingent of nato troops in kosovo, the serbian president , we heard him a moment ago say that he agreed with the us secretary of state anthony, blinking. There is a need for a greater role for k, for, for the nato forces. What do we mean . What is serbia want here . The only thing basically, the idea is that instead of costs about police being in charge of insuring security in the north, which is currently the state as quotes or believes that having k for as a sort of International Security as also someone who was seen as independent and impartial would be way more functional for the north of cost about this is our new proposal. There have been certain diplomatic forces, claiming that this was a discussion already of the Un General Assembly 2 days ago. The Prime Minister of all the albany also came out in support of this. So the idea is, lets not have cost of ours or service in charge of best, but instead, lets have case. Busy lets have the international troops. Lets have someone who is impartial. And of course this is a non starter from the point of view of the coast of all authorities. Because if you look at it from, from their side, they want, would they consider their Police Obviously to mark their territory and police their streets . Yes, although i do think that to this particular proposal, they might be more open to negotiation. I think the broader problems here, of course, is that also is pretty much against anything which costs of those fees as in putting on their territorial integrity into tauriel sovereignty. But i think that paid for his presence and particularly given Customs Alliance like with made to the general agreement with natal. I think k 4 would be a less problematic proposal from cost of his point of view as well. Where does this leave normalization talks between serbia and coast of a to i think even before the latest round of escalation, normalization folks found themselves in a deadlock last round of talks, which was held about 2 weeks ago now. And ended by Prime Minister could be leaving the talks and abandon and rejecting the e u compromised proposal, which stipulated that costs but my fulfill its obligation from 2013 and begin the creation of the association of cert municipalities. I think normalisation folks generally have been standing for quite some time. Now. Mostly we either see certain deals accepted but nothing really implemented in practice. And in the last round, as ive mentioned, no proposal was even accepted. And of course, each round of escalation just makes these normalization talks even more difficult. So im not particularly optimistic about their success and potential helena, even of associated Research Fellow the Henry Jackson society. Thank you so much for joining us today. Voting is under way in a president ial run off election in the mall. These its seen as an important vote in terms of regional geo politics. Incumbents. President abraham, sola is closer to india wileys challenge. And mohammed lees favors ties with china. The opposition candidate. Thatd be september. 9th vote, but there was no out right winner and that has led to this run off. Tony chang is covering this for us and he joins us now from the polling station and muller and tony. You follow this from the beginning from the 1st round of voting, leading up to this date, give us a taste of what its like the hit, the mall, the campaign trail, the. Its been a very long row for these 2 major candidates. The 2 are left standing, campaigning started about 6 weeks ago that you have to bear in mind the most of these is know, like most countries, there are a 188, inhabited island spread out of, of thousands of kilometers. Both of these 2 candidates have been trying to get to a bit as many of those places as they possibly can. Some of them have historical allegiances, the various parties. Others have seen major developments in the last couple of years. Something that both found as a trying to take place both. So theyve been trying to get out the travel across the country. They say theyve been listening to voters and that concerns as well. But also youve got the capital molly with about 50 percent of the electricity is concentrated in this sort of city island state. So a lot of work to do here. We sold both candidates, come back about 48 hours ago and immediately hit the campaign trip. To be honest, they both looked pretty tired by this stage. But it has been a very long roads to voting day to the fishing boats offload the catch of gillis in tuna outside. Mollys central monkey, but its not just the rising price of fish. Thats got peoples attention over the past 2 weeks. 2 the president ial elections look as if they going down to the one this fund to solve it. They cannot make performance. Theyre all consumes. The Current Administration has lived up to expectations. This new government came into power with lead does to hold. Um, people are comfortable that will Commission Said to a man specifically to look into human rights abuses, did some disappearance as for example, um, but the only hasnt been an outcome. What they have managed to do is keep major Infrastructure Projects like this on track land, reclaim from the see the housing and industrial use. Those candidates pledge to keep these projects good. The current president using money borrowed from india, the challenger tending back to china. Some fear that could lead the multi cold in a game of cheer, politics, us, the president sola has been going back to basics on the election trail. Became 7 points behind his main rival in the 1st round of the boat and has a lot of ground to make up for us today. And so the, just the whole, the on the go, a lot of work to opinion polls really does need to decide this will be that the is dont miss pools alone line of votes as q up for this self. The with the president , no one tend to weigh north when every, the accounts across town, the opposition candidates hosting a live q and a hes already well established as the mayor of the capital molly and he thinks hes ready for the next step. Well, i think the ive, ive been to many islands ive, ive had a lot of interaction with the people. Ive seen how the people, you know, that ive seen that we use on how they want this country to go forward. So i think im better and youre the man for the job. He does have history on his side. New president s in the motives recent history is managed to secure reelection. Tony chung out as 0, monday, a tony as we wait for the results. Whats the most important thing that you want the viewers to keep in mind about this selection . Well, i think that really depends where youre watching. There is a geo political aspect to the selection. The president is very much alive to india. Weve seen their influence grow during his 5 year term that his degree other contend his policy is much closer to china. We sold them involved in a lot of infrastructure products, projects in the past, and its assumed they will come back if he wins this election road and remote theyve been, theyve been promised an awful lot by both sides. Housing projects, new land reclamation, projects, government jobs, there was a concern. Heres the p, p. M, the policy is a content deductible is comes from when they were in power loss. There was an awful lot of corruption, extrajudicial disappearances, kidnappings, even mode is now present solely said he was going to investigate those when he came to power 5 years ago. Theres a notice of this illusion that hes really done very much. A prison. Yeah, i mean, who was in power previously is currently in jail. Its just you that he will be released to boys gets into power. But i think people here hoping that this is a later stage and them all these Political Development that the democratic and Civil Society structures a Strong Enough so that they even have a policy does come into about that wants to start trying to manipulate things again that the structures and now family in place for, for them all these to survive relatively intact. And thats what were hearing to from election moments as weve just spoken to the you. They say, well, this thing and the election stay, everything seems to be above board. The mold is the certainly moving in the right direction. They say there is still a lot of issues to deal with, particularly the role of women in politics and Civil Society. For the most part, phonology supposed to be going in the right direction. All right, tony chang with voting going on behind you. It is just past 12 oclock where you are. Thank you very much for your reporting will speak you later today. As the lock is loading to elect his fist Prime Minister in 4 years pro russian former Prime Minister robert pico is up against the liberal leader. Because seneca, the election follows the resignation of edward her in may, his administration was a strong supporter of ukraine after russias invasion. The outcome of this boat could see slovakia change dance and lean more towards russia. A migrant boat in the mediterranean has reported the come under attack by the libyan coast guard. According to see, watch, international and migrant rescue organization has posted this video online. Now it appears to show the sinking with dozens of migrants on board after a close approach by that speed boat. And shortly afterwards, a larger patrol boat, the same throwing life booties to people in the water. As he watched, as its not clear if there were any casualties in a post on ex, formerly known as twitter, see, watch called the incident attempted murder. Your Organization Says that the coast guard took the migrants back to libya, to the rental rains in the us of lashed, new york city and new jersey swamping subways and grounding flights. Officials have declared a state of emergency and they have called in the National Guard. Alexander bias reports, flash floods, wreaking havoc on americas largest city. More than a month of rain falling in just a few hours on friday, state and local officials, urging people to state indoors and move to Higher Ground if possible. And i want to say to new york is uh, this is time for height and alertness and extreme caution. Infrastructure was brought to a near standstill in the city of more than 8000000 people. Train lines were shut down. Major roads submerged and never, ever, never played nearly 18 centimeters of rain fell on some areas. The National Guard has been deployed, and multiple people have been rescued from flooded cars and basements. The cities Drainage Network isnt built for this amount of water and is likely becoming the new normal. This changing weather pattern is the result of the climate change. And the sad reality is our climate is changing faster and our infrastructure can respond. Its renewing calls for the city to have better flood prevention measures. You have to prepare more for the some ways not to be flooded. Those are life ones. I also heard that a 150 schools were flooded. Have a daycare center. They had to close because the drainage outside of it was blocked. The states of emergency have been declared in both new york and neighboring new jersey. As it stands more than 23000000 americans are under flood watch. And theres more rain in the forecast. Alexandra buyers, alger 0 still ahead on alpha 0 will tell you how the u. 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Authorities have declared a state of emergency and called in the National Guard funerals, a being held in pakistan for some of the 57 People Killed after to bomb attacks on friday. At least 52 people were killed in a blast at a religious gathering in the nor the province northern province of baluchistan. And at least 5 people were killed in an explosion Near Peshawar. Welcome on hider joins us now from hangal. The site to that 2nd attack commode, you have any insights into how authorities investigate attacks like piece a well, thats an excellent question. Normally, whenever that or that suicide bombing, it did the forensic expert. So come to the spark. They always are day d and its sam pose and then tried to answer day and as to what would this be but it was and in most cases the able to find out the exact identity. Now as far as the quite doug is concerned, the most to him, the diag shorted near quite died during the body or is that taking place for the victims and and uncle, so the people get to that been bothered. Now its interesting to know the more dates of the attack they were do or die goods pregnant outside the main gate. They were keeping a growing watch on the gateway thing, but one of the police ray guns do it. I because that would mean that they would have to open the gates. As soon as they