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of a bomb iran crossed a red line. benjamin netanyahu warns iran and syria as president bashar al assad that israel will strike if attacked. alone will come on peter you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up around fifty people are dead after a day can go with rescue workers desperately searching for survivors. the world's oldest elected leader takes over in malaysia and promises to help a former opponent he once put in prison. worries in argentina as the country goes back to the i.m.f. for a loan to avoid another economic crisis. israel's

prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his military will attack any nation targeting his country including preemptive strikes now that follows israeli claims that it's destroyed most of iran's military infrastructure in syria in a wave of strikes early on thursday in response to alleged iranian attacks on the occupied golan heights. look of a bomb iran crossed a red line our response was appropriate the israeli army carried out a broad strike a very broad strike against iranian targets in syria i sent a clear message to the assad regime our action is aimed at to rein in targets in syria but if the syrian army will act against us we will act against it. very forsett reports from the occupied golan heights on that israeli action. cockpit video from israeli warplanes is they carried out the largest and most prolonged air strike in syria since the start of its civil war israel says it hit dozens of

iranian military targets as well as five syrian anti-aircraft installations israel says it was a response after iranian forces launched twenty rockets at israeli targets in the occupied golan heights we have made it very clear that we are here to defend ourselves those who started this round of violence were hearing ins who attacked israel we responded accordingly and we are now waiting to see how the iranians will respond israeli forces in the occupied golan heights were on alert for any further response at the same time local residents were told to go about their business as normal schools were open no restrictions placed on large gatherings israel says of the twenty rockets that were fired towards the occupied golan heights from syrian territory they all either fell in syrian territory or they were intercepted what followed was a massive and prolonged response from the israeli armed forces a real escalation in the kind of force that israel has so far been prepared to use within syria it's

a message to deter any further such action and it's also making the most of an opportunity to do as much damage to rein in forces as possible israel's government has long warned of a growing threat from iranian bases and missiles inside syria it seems to have decided to act sooner rather than later and. we have of course hit all the infrastructure not all but almost all of the iranian infrastructure in syria they must remember the saying if it rains here it will pour over there and i hope that we finish this chapter and that everyone got the message. syrian state media said syrian air defenses it inserted most of the incoming rockets over the capital damascus but also confirmed that a radar station and a weapons storage site was struck. with iranian state television said syria had given a quote crushing response to. israeli attacks the strikes were carried out hours after israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was in moscow saying he'd come away

confident that russia would not prevent what he called israel's freedom of action a day later a different tone from the russian foreign minister. we see this is a very alarming development we believe that all issues must be resolved through dialogue during our multiple contacts with the leadership of both iran and israel including during yesterday's meeting between putin and netanyahu we underline the necessity of avoiding any actions that might be seen as mutually provocative. for now this latest flurry of cross border violence has subsided but all sides are aware that a new bar has been set for its intensity that it could all too easily rise again are a force at al-jazeera in the occupied golan heights well iranian m.p.'s have denied that iran was behind the goal of attacks a senior politician telling al jazeera that israel is fabricating the nature of iran's involvement in syria say in basra via now reports from tehran. senior leaders in tehran were silent in the immediate aftermath of cross border strikes

between syria and israel that israel blamed on iran instead we heard from m.p.'s members of iran's parliamentary commission on national security and foreign policy an influential body of government in the country one m.p. flatly denied iran's involvement saying it was syria rightfully responding to repeated attacks by israel another m.p. speaking told his hero muhammad ali said that israel was fabricating the nature of iran's involvement in the country. in accordance with international laws we have a presence in syria but there is no specific iranian military base there we may have a presence in some syrian bases for kind of consultative training so israel's claim is devoid of truth jamal he also had a warning for israel saying that the days when countries in the region did not respond to acts of israeli aggression are over so much as we have a remark from the supreme leader that the era of hits and run has gone before the iranian revolution and even until recently israel attacked syria several times

bombed them bombed military bases to avoid direct will syria chose self-preservation even in iraq in the saddam era israel hit the atomic power plants whenever the zionists wanted they would break the sonic wall and attack the south of lebanon and syria iraq and other countries so far they haven't seen any response but recently they saw the f. sixteen shut down syria stood firm despite being weakened by seven years of civil war so because of that they have been considerably frustrated they are accustomed to being invaded and they never receive response be sure that if confrontation occurs surely the country who would be damaged the most is the zionist regime jamali added that he hoped the actions taken by israel by launching missiles at syria would eventually result in the liberation of the golan heights very strong words coming from iran's parliament and no matter what iran senior leaders say in coming days two things are certain that this represents a dangerous escalation of the syrian conflict where iran is heavily committed and

it comes at a sensitive time in the region when iran is backed into a corner with the devolution of the nuclear deal earlier this week. bahrain has expressed support for israel's attacks inside syria on twitter the foreign minister said this as long as iran has destabilized the status quo in the region and has exploited states using its missiles and power any state in the region including israel has the right to defend itself and to destroy the sources of danger. the u.s. and the united arab emirates say they've disrupted a large network for smuggling funds to another branch of iran's armed forces the us smugglers used companies based in the u.a.e. to funnel millions of dollars to iran's revolutionary guards could force its imposed sanctions on six people and three companies the u.a.e. has put those sanctions on a so-called terrorism list. the syrian army is pushing ahead with his campaign to clear pockets of territory held by what they say are terrorist groups south of the

capital damascus this footage from state t.v. is said to show regime forces patrolling a neighborhood near the yarmouk camp that area is still held partly by rebel fighters and also by i saw the syrian president bashar al assad has denied in a new t.v. interview that his forces were behind a chemical weapons attack in duma last month more than forty people were killed in the area which was held by rebels at the time but is now under government control denied his military has chemical weapons we don't have any chemical arsenal things we give it up in two thousand and thirteen and. the international agency for chemical. weapons made investigation. and it. it's clear or documented that we don't have rescuers in kenya searching for survivors after a dam collapse killing at least forty nine people with many more still missing the disaster happened in the rift valley which is about one hundred fifty kilometers

north of the capital nairobi the dam burst on wednesday washed away almost an entire village after simmons was there. it was fast and unforgiving the dam burst released a surge of water that took homes and lives with it there was no warning and it happened in darkness this is the scene hours afterwards they're searching for a man one of dozens of people many of them are children the sprawl of daybreak is where families once lived whole homes swept away. from the air you get some idea of the scale of this tragedy the dam is almost fully drained downstream the waves of floodwater gained momentum and later spread out inflicting much more devastation over a wider area. thank you for a long stretch from the dump down stream we are also looking for the families

that they were missing hoping that christening. yes charles kim or no already knows he's lost a family member his sister fifty year old nancy moon this was her home. to what we heard about the flooding came to look for my sister we looked everywhere we only found her body hours after the water receded. bernard mankato works at a village clinic he's trying in vain to clear things up. i live here with my colleague there were many houses around us and this is where many people were swept away the dam's main purpose was irrigation of a large flour farm investigators will want to know what type of fortifications had been used and other dams in the area are being checked. this tragedy has really brought it home just how dangerous these continuing rains are making it for kenyans

right across the country the rainfall is the heaviest for two decades and it proves beyond all reasonable doubt that the infrastructure of this country simply can't cope with. the kenyan red cross is describing the floods which started in march a national disaster it says that aside from all the lives lost the number of people now homeless has reached three hundred thousand and two simmons zero there is a county in kenya. so the stage is finally set for that meeting between donald trump and the north korean leader kim jong un the u.s. president took to twitter to announce the date and the venue for the systemic historic summit saying it will take place in singapore on june the twelfth the u.s. leader said both men aim to make the meeting a very special moment for world peace later mr trump addressed supporters in indiana where he spoke about the forthcoming meeting. their relationship was good

and hopefully for all of ours for the world hopefully something very good is going to happen and they understand it's very important for them it's important for everybody so japan south korea china everybody i think it's going to be a very big success but my attitude is and it isn't it isn't ok if it isn't it isn't fine and you have to have them because you don't know we're not going to be walked into an array and where the negotiator john kerry refused to. wellness the from sun and spent of the summit details came just hours after he personally welcome to home three americans freed by north korea seen as a gesture of goodwill from pyongyang john hendren has more now out of washington. the white house is calling it a victory for the world three american citizens were released from

a north korean prison president trump threw some happens when he said kim jong un really was excellent by releasing those three men that struck a lot of americans in a bad way they have not forgotten the story of auto warm beer american citizen who was returned to the u.s. from a north korean prison in june in a coma and died just a few days later the senate minority leader chuck schumer said it is no great accomplishment of kim jong un to do this and when the president does it he weakens american foreign policy and puts american citizens at risk around the world there is a long history of hope and then disappointment in meetings between the u.s. and north korea but president trump considers himself a deal maker his critics would say he is a deal breaker after pulling out of iran's nuclear deal in the paris climate treaty but trump fancies himself a deal maker we will find out after june twelfth whether he's able to make a deal on north korea with kim jong il the goal the white house says is the

complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. now when we come back in about a minute also we'll cover this story for you what's next for the asylum seekers being held in australia run detention centers. from long flowing island winds to an enchanting does it breeze. well there was some may rain around the gulf states in the last twenty four hours as one trough was followed by another became windy and brief rain fell in fact there's quite a lot of rain running considering it is may all the way from iran particularly on the eastern side of iraq in northern syria and turkey that range is falling for about three days now it's dry throughout most of the levant the onshore breeze exit a little bit cooler middle twenty's you'll notice and the showers exists through tehran all the way to couple though it looks drier in afghanistan and then again

the last couple days was not completely dry nor has the range phase the way on saturdays forecast from the borderlands is when iraq iran or again northern syria turkey it is still raining here and the breeze seems quite light to be fluctuating but also fairly strong so the arabian peninsula looks like we're going to have rather lightish breeze day on friday possibly thirty seven in die hard but that's nifty ducked the low forty's or the breeze out of the interior for many places during saturday event even culminate in a shower or two or least of fairly windy weather now south of all the action southern africa has been recently dry recently but the cloud is building again more rain gathering for the western cape. the weather sponsored by cattle peace. on package price what were you hearing whether on line horrendous things you misunderstood. or if you join a sunday sacked

a lot of the major countries in the commonwealth have far bigger fish to fry and chips to eat this is a dialogue. about some of this except perhaps everyone has a voice what happens when the robots themselves are making to. join the conversation amount is iraq. ok a quick reminder of our top stories so far this half hour israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his military will attack any nation targeting his country including preemptive strikes it follows israeli claims that its destroyed most of iran's military infrastructure in syria in a wave of strikes early on thursday in response to alleged iranian attacks on the

occupied golan heights. a search and rescue operations underway after a bust in central kenya police say they've recovered at least forty nine bodies and there are reports many others are unaccounted for. lazio's new prime minister has been sworn in after a remarkable election victory come back ninety two year old mahathir mohamad is back in the job he once held for twenty two years does not become the world's oldest elected leader a reports from kuala lumpur. it was a long day for mahathir mohamad has he waited to be sworn in by the king of malaysia as prime minister for the second time the ceremony was expected the morning after the election but following apparent delays it happened a few minutes before ten in the evening so. mild a month afterwards he spoke of the achievement and what's to come and.

to say. the. least. for those supporters there was excitement with disbelief that malaysia was finally seeing a change in government after sixty one years in power by the ruling very son coalition we have struggled for more than their teachers government and that is to be good for our mission. gives you know it is the story of the followers and i think. i think everyone will have on this ball great say this. could be regarded as the puppet master of malaysian politics. in wednesday's election he defeated the party he used to lead it's now led by now the politician man had a hand picked to be prime minister and is now in peru old in a corruption scandal niger denies involvement. here is now in coalition with

anwar ibrahim the difficulty prime minister the sect in one nine hundred ninety eight and why reserving a five year jail sentence for sodomy charges he says are politically motivated mcateer says he'll seek a real pardon for anwar which may allow him to become prime minister within two years leading up to this farce and on election day when it became clear that this was going to be a close race there was concern about exactly how this would unfold depending on who would win. violence on the streets there's been no sign of. only celebrations. the delays to the swearing in ceremony would have created a few nerves within the government in waiting and its supporters fearful of last minute tricks ruining their party but the transition was smooth which in itself is remarkable given the high stakes the characters involved and their intertwined

history wayne hay al jazeera kuala lumpur muslims are rallying in the indonesian capital of jakarta in a show of solidarity with the palestinians there condemning a decision by the us to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel indonesia has been a longtime supporter of an independent palestine is in jakarta step give us a sense of a big the protest is. welcome very angry speeches here at the national monument people are calling the move of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and. provocation to the world thousands are now here at the national monument more are expected to arrive organized actually said that more than seven million would attend this rally but that seems to be a bit higher than at the nation but people are. just for that we've lost the interest in jakarta trying to if and when we can argentina has started formal talks

with the i.m.f. about getting financial support to stabilize the economy there the economy minister nicolas me as met the i.m.f. chief christine lagarde of the group's headquarters in washington argentina is dealing with soaring inflation while its currency the peso is losing value last week argentina's central bank tried to stabilize the situation by increasing interest rates to forty percent. the economic turmoil has sparked protests on the streets of the capital when osiris protesters are worried that strict terms from an i.m.f. bailout could lead to another crisis now many blame the i.m.f. so sterritt see measures for a financial collapse in the early two thousand that left millions in poverty. to their workers they will not stop all the storm we work as they're not going to like congress to accept the interference of the international monetary fund the increase of tariffs or labor reform and we are going to fight until the end so that those infamous resolutions of the next week government to turn back the workers have

a memory we know that policies like these lead us to hell and we will not allow we . brought is the co-director of the center for economic and policy research in washington he says argentina's government could have avoided going to the i.m.f. . they are not facing the kind of situation even that they were facing in the depression from one nine hundred ninety eight to two thousand and one which of course the i.m.f. is quite a bit of fault for are. very much worried about going back to the i.m.f. you know poverty rose during those few years from eighteen percent to forty two percent of the population and that was a country there was you know not long before that one of the richest richest in america i think perhaps they think that this will restore credibility with the markets. that's kind of the way they look at these things and i think also it's way

and this is typical in many cases of the i.m.f. where the government wants to take measures that are going to be deeply unpopular they're going to cut spending most likely could possibly push the economy into recession and they use the i.m.f. as cover the i.m.f. is making us do that we have to know we have an agreement. and so i think those would be the reasons why they would do that you know all these programs and i remember typically they reduce the deficit by cutting spending and pushing the economy towards recession because then people have less money to spend they import worse and that's not the best way to do it of course for most people but it could be the way. some of the government investors and people they care about look at it . at least one person has been killed after three men attacked

a mosque in south africa has entered the mosque after midday prayers armed with guns and knives they attacked three worshipers before setting the place on fire and then leaving the scene police say the motive behind the violence is still unknown. there's been protests inside australia's offshore prison camps after many refugees were refused to resettlement in the united states australia won't comment either on the protests or on the details of the resettlement deal it reached with the us however al-jazeera has learned that hundreds of refugees have gone to america but a further three hundred of them have now been brought to australia from those offshore prison camps something the government said would never happen here is andrew thomas. australia's government won't confirm there is a refugee on hunger strike inside this sydney hospital nor that the iranian refugee inside is even in australia this guy's twenty four twenty four year.

that he has finished the protest outside his tiny seven people watched by police officers in three cars that's as much about secrecy as apathy if you know that story his sister was rates on australia's refugee prison island of nuru in twenty fifteen she was brought with her brother and mother to australia for treatment. been locked in a city detention center ever since his hunger strike is his protest and his family are the only refugee serving brought here from the roof to study government won't comment or give any numbers but refugee advocates say they think that three hundred forty refugees have been brought to australia from the roof or man aside and australia's government refuses to give what it calls a running commentary so all the numbers in this report come from refugees or their supporters what is known is that in twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen australia deported about two thousand five hundred refugees who had arrived in it shores by

boat to prison camps in papua new guinea and the roof said none would ever resettle in australia but some have been brought to australia to give birth or for serious medical problems and then remained hundreds more have been paid thousands of dollars by australia to return to their countries of origin and two hundred forty seven have been resettled in the united states after donald trump agreed to on of barack obama's favor to australia's government despite describing it as a done deal but most sent to madison almost five years ago are still there iranians and somalis make up more than a third of those but since donald trump's so-called muslim travel ban none of them have been accepted to the u.s. resettlement this week australia said those rejected would have to stay in papua new guinea on a route despite those countries saying they don't want them we'll continue to look at third country iran schmidt's believe me that our department been working on this for a number of years people are jumping out of their skin to provide places and that's

the reality refugees on man a silent are approaching three hundred days of peaceful protest but very few australians know it that's exactly what australia has policies aim to achieve andrew thomas al jazeera sydney. human rights groups are calling for justice for a young sudanese woman sentenced to death killing her husband after he raped her noura hussein's lawyers are appealing against that decision the case of the track had widespread attention on social media with the campaign justice for nora she was forced into the marriage by her parents three years ago when she was just sixteen years old yasmin hassan is the global executive director of the activist group equality now the group is backing a petition calling for justice. this is a travesty of justice from every angle that you can look at and it also shows all the various steps and which sudanese laws and policy failed this young girl who had

a very bright future ahead of her from the aspect of child marriage sudanese law allows girls right after puberty to be married off by their fathers it allows for no marital rape exemption there's no marital rape recognized under the law and the wife the girl has to be obedient to her husband so there's not some aspects of the law that are called in to challenge by this case the case is a very very hard one under sudanese no but when you look at it from a human rights aspect in many many other countries of the world this would be looked at as a victim and would be provided services and care as opposed to being you know put in solitary confinement and given the death penalty so we are appealing to the president of the legislature to the ministry of justice on behalf of sudanese activists and international human rights groups that no new around must be freed and this case must be really looked at and the hope that i have here is that we have had a previous case four years ago in sudan where a young ethiopian woman was gang raped and the know at that time provided that if

you couldn't prove your rape you were going to be flogged and guilty of fornication and adultery and we got together with sudanese activists and that time bad law was changed and so the rape provisions were amended and that woman did get justice so i'm hopeful that justice will prevail in numerous cases and i'm hopeful that with international media attention with international human rights groups and sudanese activists all working together we can get there for. the music streaming service spotify has removed the hip hop artist or kelly from his playlist as part of the company's new policy on hate content and hateful conduct. music can still be found on the books it will be actively promoting a recent social media campaign a school for a boycott of his music following sexual assault allegations he's always denied the claims as well in a number of legal actions to defend his. more news on our web site it's always there for you al-jazeera dot com the top story israeli strikes hit iranian military

targets in syria. welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera live from doha my name's peter dhabi your headlines benjamin netanyahu has want iran and syria if they try to hit israel they'll pay the price now this comes after israel said it destroyed nearly all of iran's military infrastructure inside syria it was in retaliation to alleged iranian attacks on israeli positions in the occupied golan heights the syrian army is pushing ahead with its campaign to clear pockets of territory held by what they say are terror groups south of the capital damascus this footage is from state t.v. it's said to show regime forces patrolling a neighborhood near the yarmouk camp that area is still held partly by rebel fighters and also by isis well the syrian president bashar al assad has given

a new interview saying his forces were not behind a chemical weapons attack in duma last month or than forty people were killed in the area which was held by rebels at the time it's now under government control we don't have any chemical arsenal and things we give it up in two thousand and thirteen and. the international agency for chemical. weapons made investigation of. it and it. it's clear or documented that we don't have a search and rescue operations underway after a dam burst in central kenya police say they've recovered at least forty nine bodies and searches continue for others who are still missing malays here has a new prime minister two year old martin mohammed is back in the job he once held for twenty two years he led the opposition to an unexpected victory in parliamentary elections donald trump says he'll meet the north korean leader kim jong un in singapore on the twelfth of june mr. made the announcement on social media twitter after he welcomed home three americans freed by north korea as

a gesture of goodwill. argentina has started formal talks with the international monetary fund about receiving financial support to stabilize its economy is finance minister has met the i.m.f. chief christine lagarde at the fonz headquarters in washington d.c. to discuss the deal despite reform efforts the country has found itself facing a falling currency high debt and soaring inflation. those are your headlines this half hour the news continues on al jazeera after the stream i will see you very soon. hoping to rebuild a country that went through insufferable conflicts and economic uncertainty iraqis are getting ready to cast their vote for a new government. what path will the country take in an election that was delayed once so ready. iraq elections on al-jazeera.