A conservative m. P. And leading bracks its a supporter who Boris Johnson now a baby of the law but parliament was put in front of him. Andrew bridge and welcomes conflict so. One of the biggest obstacles preventing a deal between britain and the e. U. Is the irish backstop the socalled insurance policy to keep open border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic the government has promised new proposals where are there well i think there are already out there alternative arrangements have been discussed for over 12 months a trust a trade a scheme for regular trade its a very relatively small amount of trade that goes across the board about turn off 1000000000 pounds a year exemption exemptions for small traders. And checks away from the border but always 21st the Prime Minister said in berlin standing beside angola merkel you rightly say the onus is on us to produce those solutions he hasnt produced any since then why not well i think to an extent the irish born. Issue is or is
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
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 talked 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 have the economy is right. 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 was 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 rupee and so the rupee devalued when the rupee devalues. There has to be inflation because everything you import few. Affects electricity because you know 40 percent of electricity is from imported fuel than gas we import l. N. G. That everything gets expensive so a country goes through a difficult period but the pr
Its been good were just hoping that by no the young people would have come on board and increase the percentage of preliminary results later with the official announcement on choose day the winning candidate will need more than 50 percent of the vote and no one expects that to happen the likely scenario out of 24 candidates the top 2 will head to a runoff in november by the end of the day tunisian should know who they are Stephanie Decker aljazeera tunis well 8 operations have resumed in the bahamas as Tropical Storm on baritone moved on after dumping heavy rain just 2 weeks after after Hurricane Dorian devastated the islands boto and threaten to hamper Recovery Efforts but forecasters say the storm is now tracking north away from the archipelago 1300 people are still listed as missing as a result of dorian the official death toll remains at 54 alan fischer joins us live now from freeport and allan youve just visited one of the hardest hit areas what. You know over here in the hudson a
Government pushed the country to the brink of famine and that was before the flooding the man out flat man understand i used to have a little bit of cooking for our budget process washed away we dont have anything to eat so everything was flooded may god have mercy on our son our children. People living in these camps have little support and nowhere to go they can only hope that help comes soon. Possibly gone aljazeera. Still to come here and aljazeera israel gave to the polls for the 2nd time in less than 6 months and a zimbabwe holds a state of the morial for Robert Mugabe the families of those killed and disappeared during his rule a demanding held since. The us. Had over northern caspian is just a little area of low pressure this is circulation and not much is come of it a few showers around took my standards back is down and its more or less for the part so throughout saturday there we got a northerly breeze indicating the attempt to change of season theres not much in the frankly