Conference insider a get a time where many World Leaders were boycotted over the murder of journalists. At the site the consulate in istanbul but at the time run concept fox fan was desperate for loans and he secured a 6000000000. 00 loan and also earlier this year saudi arabia pledged 20000000000. 00 in investment projects in pakistan but iran can very much just put itself forward as a statesman not only for pakistan but also for the muslim world and thats what hes statement in the speech was about at the United NationsGeneral Assembly but in terms of iran and saudi arabia hes very much seen as a middle man hes not to arab and hes not persian so he could pave the way to open up some sort of negotiations and mediation between these 2 regional rivals. Saudi arabia and iran have been at odds for decades iran is a largely shia nation while saudi arabia sees itself as the leading suddenly voice in the region irans rising influence in iraq after the fall of saddam for sale in 2003 is seen as a threat by riyadh wealth around support for syrias president bashar assad has worsened tensions and in yemen Houthi Rebels fighting the saudi u. A. E. Coalition of claimed several attacks inside the arab kingdom there seem to be supported by iran to iran denies that well for more on this lets speak to our bell about bode in brussels on skype hes a visiting professor at the middle east institute at the National University of singapore good to have you with us 1st of all do you think this mediation effort by iran can can succeed well we hope it will because i think all of us in the region and also of the global level. Could ill afford to have another conflict. And in the gulf we know how costly this could be we know how long they could be and also what effect it could have on the Global Energy security and the Global Economy so i think there are 2 sides seem to be ready for it you know has always signaled that it is ready to talk and we have seen also a change in tone from some you know you have that they are happy to talk so i think. The visit of iran can could be an asset face saving arrangements of both sides to talk and i think all the holes are actually going on is that we could have a avoid another conflict in the region whats prompted this mediation effort now. I think its the the the level of escalation and the dangers that we are we are seeing and this collision has been going on of course with the u. S. With unilateral withdrawal from the c. P. U. 8 and also there are sanctions against iran iran feels that it is being strangled and is being pushed into a corner so its trying to push its luck as it were and try to create some havoc an indonesian and one can understand that because i dont think theyre going to wait to be to die slowly and at the same time theyre using their. Allies and proxies to create problems whether it is in yemen or of the shipping in the. Sea of oman all round in the strait of hormuz and and the last thing was of course the major attack on the Oil Installation and a gate in saudi arabia so i think these are its collisions and weve just heard that you know kind of days ago there was an attack on an iranian person so it seems that the tape for tat or attacks are as collating and going to a very dangerous level and therefore i think its understand at the end that there is no handle this and what is not a possibility. As i said you know both countries and also the region and Global Companies they can elevate or to have another conflict and that he and it also. There was a signal from the United States that theyre not going to stand with saudi arabia. And they are also there was a signal that they should talk with the saudis i think all of these. To think her hard about this and think that the only way out of this is through negotiations and the many asian and this is i think one prominent this. Or i thank you so much for your analysis on that and the board today as ins are casting their ballots in a president ial runoff vote for tween 2 political newcomers more than 7000000 people are eligible to vote but previous polls have shown a low turnout last weeks parliamentary elections or a close tie between media mogul in the bill for a week and retired law professor need the new president will have to deal with pressing issues including poverty and unemployment. Is at a polling station in tunis how are things shaping up there. Well the the vote is underway were expecting more people particularly later in the day to cast their vote in this crucial election to elect the 2nd democratically elected president in tunisia after the 2011 revolution now the 1st round of the vote was very tight between the 2 main candidates that we lock up with the media mogul and the law professor cases say yes now theres been over the last few days a surge in support for a place to say a particular alter his performance at the debate who was seen widely as more eloquent and what convinces but you have to wait and see particular because in the northern northwestern part of the country the bill remains very popular has been very active with his own charity over the last few years providing handouts and and aid to the poor and this election for the 1st time into his year is more about economy its about the one people see as likely to fix the economic problems into his ear so we have to wait and see who is going to win the hearts and minds of tennesseans tonight. All right. Thanks so much for that lets take a closer look at the 2 remaining candidates will be facing off in the run off to choosing as hashem was explaining between business tycoon a bill holloway and retired law professor criseyde or how it was recently jail released from jail rather on charges of Money Laundering and tax evasion his party heart of tunisia is the 2nd largest came 2nd in last weeks parliamentary vote is opponent criseyde has run as an independent candidate backed by the end of the party which secured the majority of votes in sundays elections well if he wins sayed says he wants to change the system and allow elected regional representatives to choose National Leaders and millions and millions of people in poland are voting in parliamentary elections the governing law and Justice Party is trying to tighten its grip on power its widely expected to win comfortable reelection would give the party a mandate to see through many of its conservative policies including a strong anti immigration stance. And they should wind co few remains in effect in ecuador as the 1st talks between the government and indigenous groups is set to begin later on sunday president nitin moreno said hes willing to reassess the lawyer ending fuel subsidies that sparked protest more than a week ago when saturday thousands more demonstrated in the capital. Reports in quito. Unrest has continued on the streets of the ecuadorian capital on saturday thousands of people flooded downtown quito. Demonstrators calling for the resignation of the countrys president once again clashed with Police Officers who were pretty diverse stuff not that this president is using public funds to kill us and shoot at us but we want to run away if we have to give our lives then so be it. Was hundreds of women from across the country joined in the demonstrations and held a march of their own in solidarity with indigenous demonstrators that they called of the government to end with they say is a violent repression of Peaceful Protesters who doesnt think this doesnt just be that women are protesting for life because we are nice weve had enough of the brutal repression against ecuadorian demonstrators and indigenous ecuadorians. Throughout the day smoking tear gas filled the air as more and more demonstrators filled the streets once again in doubt take it or it appears as though many are people are showing up to participate and joining the front lines of these demonstrations these people are coming from all parts of the country take shape in these demonstrations carry on the government to reverse course id cannot make their citizens that they say are damaging for the country was at one point demonstrators set fire to one of the governments main administrative buildings another group of protesters set fire to a local television station many here have a deep distrust of the National News media with unrest spreading to other parts of the cap. Little ecuadorian president lenin more endo announced a mandatory nationwide curfew sending the military to restore order to city streets and public spaces in the book today we have declared a curfew in quito and the valleys which is already having tangible results and we have established a car in a large part of the city. With a curfew in effect many of the capital city streets have emptied although there are still plenty of people who remain defiant for most the hope is that an Upcoming National dialogue will finally return peace to the country manildra below and as he damn key to a quote. Japans military is deploying tens of thousands of troops to help with rescue and cleanup efforts after a powerful typhoon swept up the eastern coast at least 23 people were killed and many are still missing the storm brought damaging winds and heavy rainfall causing flooding and landslides has the latest from tokyo. Those living in the path of typhoon were told to expect a short sharp burst of violent weather it soon became clear that the main feature of this storm was a huge amount of rainfall some areas saw around a meter of rain in 24 hours and waterways simply couldnt cope one of the worst hit areas was not good no prefecture west of japans capital tokyo where a 70 meters stretch of the levee gave way many homes and businesses were flooded and japans famous bullet trains was surrounded by water and going nowhere fast or slow all of. The major typhoon has caused extensive damage far and wide in eastern japan one point the special warning for heavy rain was issued for as many as 13 prefixes it has also been emergency relief from various dams and flooding of various rivers it turned out to be a record heavy rain coastal areas were battered by huge waves and winds exceeding 200 kilometers an hour before i took them off the building shook in the elec tricity went off for a moment that was really scary as the typhoon approached a tornado made landfall in chiba prefecture destroying houses many communities he was still recovering from a typhoon that struck last month. For most in the path of the storm it came at night. The streets of tokyo were eerily quiet as businesses closed and people were urged to stay home by day it became easier to assess the damage and carry out search and rescue operations millions were ordered or advised to evacuate but some chose not to leave their homes or couldnt get out in time. The storm was compared in size and strength to a typhoon that struck tokyo in 1958 leaving more than 1200 people dead modern japan has become well drilled in dealing with the threat of natural disasters and it seems this time it was as well prepared as it could be. Was japans 19th typhoon this year but those who experienced it say this was one of the most intense in decades many are relieved it was relatively brief allowing the recovery to begin quickly wane hey al jazeera tokyo well in a few moments well have the weather with absolute but still ahead an aljazeera nation fisherman one the government pulled the plug on water pollution. Turning a new chapter those of them could stand as religious schools watery. And in a sport with the medals dark help false. Hopes. However lets just take a look at how heavy that record rainfall was for japan this is tokyo where we had 210. 00 millimeters of rain in 24 hours the average the time of the october only sees around 198. 00 millimeters of rain further north in sendai we had 365. 00 millimeters of rain in 24 hours in eclipsing all of that just to the east of mt fuji we had a staggering 142. 00 millimeters of rain in just 24 hours unbelievably almost a staggering is the fact that the system has now cleared away out into the open waters and we have largely blue skies coming back him behind so you can see things a good deal quiet said the clear up operation of course is now well underway you can see those blue skies the the water on the ground of course will stay high for quite some time to come but at least that 2 up operation is now a well underway as we go on through the next couple of days or so we are going to see a good deal of dry weather coming through but just notice this little legacy of wet weather coming back into central parts of the home she could really do without that by the time we do go into cheese day that will eclipse through it will be fine and dry a little colder than of late tokyo with a high of 21. 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Back youre watching out to syria time to recap our headlines now Turkish Forces and their syrian allies say theyve captured large parts of town of cebu its important because intellectual supply routes from turkey to the operation goes for. Pakistans Prime Minister a man can is met irans president Hassan Rouhani into iran khan is reportedly working to defuse tensions between rival here break. To nations are casting their ballots in the president ial runoff vote between 2 political newcomers last weeks parliamentary election sort of close time between media mogul in the field how do we retired law professor by saeed new president will have to deal with pressing issues including poverty and unemployment. And speak to mr callans to this seize a journalist who has been following the election closely good to have you with us who has the edge so far but morning all so far people are thinking about the car was open and so were talking about i say actually why is turnout been so low do you think lets say that. Well stills one of the 2 part do they have all the chairs that actually took to be competitive on the field on the ground. Do a computer without having troubles or 4. 3 all the time that followed the 1st hour or i was there a bit for interrupting you im afraid we have some. News we need to go to this live event now lets listen in to president as a minister of afghanistan addressing one of those talks with the leader of iran the president of iran. I am so you hear more about that and i will be sad as my family had had there at this stand your jazz than stand in as the chemist that is not someone in the us them are there more compact had been all that in and that elaines have had a more in has come on in the time. I just bring you up to speed with what were witnessing here in iran minister of pakistan only come when i was there in the iranian capital hes come in something of a Mediation Mission that trying to broker a new understanding is the expectation egypt when we ran and saudi arabia or iran and saudi arabia have had their. Lot over a number of issues going back a number of years from the situation and syria the conflict there the conflicts in yemen have to get on as well as the balance of power in iraq all of those areas where iran backs one side of a conflict and saudi arabia the other enough for now iran when it can pakistans Prime Minister we understand is trying to mediate a new understanding to at least lock things down lets listen in to what hes saying i want to stress is broadly. A Pakistan Initiative its an initiative. Taken by us we havent been asked by anyone to do this it is. Anish to and i repeat because it isnt better to that we do not allow a conflict to take place because and i again repeat theres a vested interest that wants this to happen and so. Ive been very encouraged. Talking to you mr president that i feel encouraged and. I will i go in a very positive. Frame of mind to saudi arabia and we will act i repeat as a facilitator not a mediator or a facilitator we would like to facilitate dogs as you mentioned in our during our conversation in the bost. Focused on us holstered sold you were going around in a slum about in the past you are not your differences and so we are again willing to do the same thing we again want to for subdue to brotherly countries to. Your differences and i repeat again its its complicated its complex but i feel its possible to resolve these differences in stuff out of a child or somebody commandos especially about i was stunned staff at a movie. After we heard there the imitation is being extended by the Prime Minister of pakistan saying he wanted to host as he put it to brotherly countries to iron out their differences he said that this initiative was a purely Pakistani Initiative that. Promised to act as a facilitator ranvir only 8 or was like at that point to 2 pakistani efforts and that possibly he said im a bit hence i thought hosted about talks between man but during the n s and saudi official and she said it was imperative this is done on the region which i realize that conflict is in nobodys interest and he warned that there were vested interests as he put it seeking back to us and that would be of a very dangerous thing he warned for the region of. Pakistan. That is of course comes at a very sensitive and critical time for a number of those conflicts which have been raging in the region in new york. President. You want to facilitate. Us to for sort of do some sort of dialogue between iran and the United States we discuss things and details. I nor given the difficulties involved but again we will learn whatever we can do to facilitate this dialogue so that the sanctions are lifted. And the nuclear deal is signed between the 2 countries again whatever we can do we will have to do for saluted what we discussed in detail as the issues involved and we recognize that iran has certain issues about it so so this is an ongoing process and if we can help we will be willing to do a facilitate in the future i dont know how i got time and madison found it. And then i think we just heard the pakistans Prime Minister try to step in there as a facilitator at the very least to try and sort out some of the tension around Irans Nuclear program the reference there his desire to facilitate a dialogue he said until a nuclear deal is signed between the 2 countries were his words that of course has been a very sensitive issue since the rise of the Trump Administration in the United States of america where we saw or of course the u. S. Withdraw from the agreement which the u. S. Had previously signed with iran over the curbs put in place to check Irans Nuclear program has eminence. Always on with our moment has already daryn has that. For many. All right so there we have seems to be the conclusion of that press conference by the Prime Minister of pakistan and the president of iran. The 2 of them there addressing members of the press of course the Prime Minister of pakistan iran cant stress that this was a park especially Pakistani Initiative which they were taking to act as he said as a facilitator rather than a mediator to try and bring an understanding he said between saudi arabia and iran to iron out their differences he offered to host the 2 as he put it brotherly countries try and work out their differences differences of course which have. Spiraled out of control in a number of areas from yemen to syria with the 2 sides backing different sides of a conflict i think as a bag joins us live now from tehran as a good to have you with us so pakistans message there quite an open optimistic invitation to host directly talks between the 2 countries. Yes and around corners very clear that instability in the region dont favor that they dont want to conflict between iran and saudi arabia under any circumstances he said that they are vested interests though that want this conflict something that iran has been saying for a while now noncon is repeating that line that they are vested interests that want to drag iran into a conflict he spoke about their brotherly nation about the historical ties between iran and pakistan but also what he said was that this is a pakistani Led Initiative that nobody and no country has told iran contra pakistan to engage in this to try to mediate this is in one corner pakistan doing this of their own back but what you also said was that donald trump has asked iran khan to kind of mediate between iran and the u. S. Away from saudi arabia iran tensions so thats something that we didnt know before that donald trump is now tension runcorn and seeing this pakistani statesman as a go between possible go between between iran and the United States and any indications of whether vis will lead to pakistan actually hosting talks over how those sort of positive signals particularly from reality. Well it does it theres a possibility because both riyadh and the harness that open to talks are open to negotiations of what president rouhani said that the solution in for the tension in the region lies in the in the yemen in the war in yemen that there must be an end to the war an immediate cease fire and he said for humanitarian assistance and imran khan again reiterated that any conflict in the region would result not only for instability in the region but instability around the world in terms of oil prices so there have been positive just as from riyadh and to her on that the open to talks and negotiations and maybe it will take iran khan and pakistan to get both parties to sit down and begin talks and especially on the backdrop of this Draft Agreement that were seeing coming from saudi arabia and the emirates in terms of the conflict in yemen they both backed different factions both are fighting against the iranian backed rebels so off the back of that it could mean that iran and we are willing to sit down with pakistan hosting the 2. Thanks so much as said bake there now Security Forces in bangladesh have killed more than a dozen ringle refugees in recent weeks Police Accuse them of being involved in the murder of a politician but Rights Groups reject the allocations this time via child reports from cox is bizarre. A young mother of 2 children recently lost her husband we have not identified her at her request she doesnt believe her husband was involved in any criminal activities to the good he had at the end of that parallelogram we have a lot of my husband used to work as a simple day labor and the camp he worked very hard for his money it was after 4 days that i found out that he was killed by the Security Forces. The recent murder of the local ruling Party Politicians sparked Violent Attacks against by some in the Host Community instead of defusing the tension Law Enforcement officers allegedly refused to intervene and protect the refugees more going to doesnt growing as ive been killed by Security Forces in recent weeks most directly was for their involvement in the killing of a local Ruling Party Politician the utmost care in this refugee camp i very trance right now authorities often link these extrajudicial killings to the drug Human Trafficking and other criminal activities another young woman who became a widow recently thinks her husband was wrongfully framed and killed he was accused of drug smuggling she say she is scared and is now left alone with her 2 children. Justice we can find in my and my after all the atrocities committed against us and i dont expect to find any kind of justice here for my husbands death. In the last 2 years since the rolling exodus to bangladesh more than 46 rominger have been killed by Security Forces some groups are. Too different to illegal activities supposed Drug Trafficking and Human Trafficking and other are already like criminal activities so the situation based decision we have taken when we are to control or edit them then to safe and secure our Police Personnel and our life in the bar past sometimes this terrible gunfight havent rights activists say this incidents are unacceptable 2 years from from the genocide in may and mar the sympathy and compassion towards are going on in bangladesh seems to be slowly fading after a period of relative calm and stability uncertainty and fear on our hunting the refugees tundra charger a aljazeera coxs Bazar Bangladesh now fish farmers in northern malaysia are calling on the government to tackle the issue of marine pollution they say the poor quality of seawater has caused them huge financial losses Florence Louis reports state of panic. There have been fish farms here at the mouth of the korean river in penang northern malaysia for more than 40 years but owners say the quality of the sea water is degrading and they believe thats causing their fish to die they blame a nearby landfill for polluting the water. Cant go on we depend on the sea for a living if our fish can survive we are going to have to shut the farm if theres no fish in these waters will be out of job as well. On the northern shores of penang island. His caged fish have been dying as well he too blames the Water Quality the State Government says the polluting of sea water may be caused by runoff from an illegal quarry operated by marine researches say the increase in jellyfish off the coast of penang is an indicator that the sea water is becoming more polluted but say their studies suggest that thats not enough to cause fish to die as the same basic know its difficult for us to actually pinpoint on one factor the ocean is a very dynamic environment. Is a ball and. Effect as well as. The Climate Change that causes course the pollution. Its not just those in the fishing and Aquaculture Industries who are affected. Greater hoteliers tell us that on some days the pollution from this river is so bad. In the air and the water turns into a dark almost black color on those days