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iran crossed a red line. benjamin netanyahu wants iran and syria president bashar al assad that israel will strike if attacked. again on pizza you're watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters here in doha also coming up the world's oldest elected leader takes over and announces that a leading opponent he previously jailed is to be part. of around fifty people are dead after a bust in kenya with rescue workers desperately searching for survivors. also this hour worries in argentina as the country goes back to the i.m.f. for a load to avoid another economic crisis. welcome

to the program israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his military will attack any nation targeting his country including preemptive strikes it follows israeli claims that has 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. the covered 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 well harry forces reports now 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 iranian m.p.'s have denied that iran was behind the golan attacks a senior politician telling al-jazeera that israel is fabricating the nature of iran's involvement in syria as in basra v reports now 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 a zero on the homage of jamali 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 you 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 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 as exploited states using its missiles and power any state in the region including israel has the right to defend itself and destroy the sources of danger the u.s. and the united arab emirates say they've disrupted a big network for smuggling funds to elite branch of iran's armed forces the u.s. says smugglers used companies based in the u.a.e. to funnel millions of dollars to iran's revolutionary guards could force its impose sanctions on six people and three companies the u.a.e. has put them sanctioned on its so-called terrorism list. 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 now this footage is from state t.v.

it said to show regime forces patrolling a neighborhood near the yarmouk camp that area is still held partly by rebel fighters and also by eisel or 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 of 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. international agency for chemical. weapons the made investigation of this and it. is clear or documented that we don't have. new prime minister says the country's king has agreed to pardon a jailed leading opposition figure on what abraham immediately dr mahathir mohamad also told a news conference he would reveal his cabinet on saturday the ninety two year old was sworn in after

a shock when they swept the opposition to power for the first time in the country's history on what is currently serving a jail sentence after being convicted of sodomy when he joins us live from kuala lumpur where you just walk us through what he's been saying at this news conference today yes well peter late on thursday after mohammed was sworn in as the seventh prime minister of malaysia he said after that that the work would begin immediately and that's exactly what has happened on friday morning he convened a meeting of the senior members of their victorious coalition in that meeting as you say they discussed the cabinet positions which he says will be confirmed on saturday and they also discussed the fate of anwar ibrahim the former deputy prime minister under. a was prime minister for the first time in the eighty's and ninety's a man that fired in one nine hundred ninety eight now they are in the same coalition they are working together and my says they would like to see him freed as soon as

possible. it is we to be in full by then we must mean is that each you know really be bad in each should be released immediately when he's. there then you can be good or let this be relieved by the way when he was found guilty and sentenced a few years back i mean the atmosphere around whom was one of viciousness i mean they really wanted him gone does this mean ironically perhaps a return to politics for him. yes i think undoubtedly it does in fact it could mean a return to the very top to become prime minister in fact man had to mohammed has said that he will hand over power to you and where and why you bring him sometime within the next two years that seems to be a little unclear as to exactly when that may happen the actual pardon once the king signs off on that could happen quite soon he's actually in hospital at the moment

yes a shoulder problem so he's actually outside prison in a hospital so he could be released from that hospital quite quickly but then there is a process he has to go through a byelection in a seat somewhere in the country then there would have to be an election of votes within his party for him to become the president of his party before he can then become the prime minister it may not happen quickly i think. as we've seen in the past even when he left the ruling coalition barry son likes to keep very much involved likes to keep in control and even now at the age of ninety two once he does step aside and allow him to perhaps take over that he may well still pull the strings behind and even at last night's thursday night's press conference after that swearing in ceremony he was asked that question again about the timeframe about what sort of deal has been done to allow and want to take over and he had

a bit of a smile on his face and he said well they may well need my experience around for some time so i get the impression that my head here is certainly enjoying the moment and may well stay in control for a while yes but it's surprising on his part and dr mahathir mohamad is part going i mean given that the electorate voted for him the coalition have said yes we will work with you and if he's already in effect annoying to his successor to two and a bit years down the road maybe the voters won't like that. well i think it's been clear for some time that my head's year and i have been working together so that is something that's been known it's not a surprise that it's been spring after the election by now that he is prime minister that is something that is being known to the electorate people voted for that in fact and why abraham's wife one as he is the deputy prime minister right now and. hammered at the media conference we just saw it was quite a bizarre sight for people who were followed politics in this country for so long

to see the wife of n y abraham standing alongside the man who jailed her husband in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight so and fired him from the position of deputy prime minister so again it's something that people have known i guess there will be a section of the electorate a section of the population that is not going to be happy if it were him does take over but again it is something that has been known that is what the majority of people voted for. when thanks very much rescuers in kenya searching for survivors after a dam collapsed killing at least forty nine people with many more still missing the disaster happened in the rift valley that's about one hundred fifty kilometers north of the capital nairobi the dam burst on weapons washed away almost an entire village under simmons's 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 how it was afterwards there searching for

a man one of dozens of people many of them are children sprawled is where families once lived whole homes swept away. or 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. charles kim or know 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 dams 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 al-jazeera there is a county in kenya. plenty more still to come for you here on al-jazeera including these stories the philippines chief justice has been ousted in a vote but fellow judges will tell you why plus how the u.k. finally apologized to a man illegally kidnapped by british spies and then sent to libya there he was tortured by gadhafi security services. 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 strong most of the levant the onshore breeze thanks a little bit cooler middle twenty's you'll notice and the shows exist through tehran all the way to couple though it looks dry in afghanistan and then again the last couple days was not completely dry no has the right 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 a 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 reasonably dry recently but the cloud is building again more rain gathering for the western cape. al jazeera wild need some extraordinary women. who are making things happen that way. following their daily struggle to survive. for their families to thrive. egypt swimmin street sellers on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm peter dhabi your top stories today the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his military will attack any nation targeting his country including preemptive strikes now that follows israeli claims that has 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 off for a downburst in central kenya the police say they've recovered at least forty nine bodies and there are reports that several others up on accounted for. new prime minister says the country's king has agreed to pardon jail using opposition figures and what he put in immediately thanks to your old lucky mohammed was sworn in after a shock when that swept the opposition to power for the first time in the country's history. the philippines top court has expelled its chief justice.

she was ousted in a vote by fellow judges acting on a government petition seeking her removal sorrento is a vocal critic of the president roderigo to let's talk now to rich daddy and he's a fellow at the manila based based aid institute and he also wrote rise of deter he joins us on skype from canberra richard good to talk to you again was this expected . yes in many ways it was expected that the supreme court will lean towards the president it's fair to in the past two years actually on major issues whether it was the church this unilateral declaration of a martial law light of the siege of mirali by isis elements or the very controversial burial of former if you'd been a strong line marcus at the cemetery of national heroes on those two important issues to fix philip in supreme court a large lean towards philippine president so there were concerns that in this case the same thing will happen of the fact of the matter is that present

a third to open yes that he wants a supreme court justice out and supreme court justice serrano actually shoot she was appointed by the former president because i cannot was in many ways knowledge seen as the enemy of president there and of course serrano has been among very few voices of independence i think their highest level of government and she has question on multiple occasion of president of terror this assault on the rule of law and president there is this war and drugs so this is seen as part of a broader effort and the meaning of voices of criticism and also d.c. is also seen some sort of a setback for judicial independence in the philippines or at the start so the critics of the president and also look at the answer and it will look at it there has been also question on the constitutionality and the legal bill i believe that you have the cold water until case colic and serrano are going to create that bar of the philippines which is essentially association for all the lawyers in the country actually question openly whether d.c. is the right way forward because per the philip in constitution if you want to get

treat of the feel of the supreme court justice you have to do it treat pietschmann via the philippine senate but if you look in senate actually that the numbers were not there for the president and a lot of members of opposition and dependent elements in a bit of a senate showed their opposition to keeping out a chief justice or an a so this was seen as an alternative effort by the fifteen president to get treated with the head of the jewish judiciary was been very critical of president does this mean that the senate or the supreme court rather i should say does that mean the supreme court is in his pocket and what does it say what about what he can do in terms of latitude his war on drugs is still an ongoing operation. well there are concerns that judicial independence is not under assault and you know the philippine supreme court has that you story of not standing up to the presidents going all the way back in ninety seven three when the libyan supreme court went along that variation of the marshall law by then former president of virgin marcus the fact that it matters at judiciary is that we get of the three

branches of the government under very reliant for funding for resources and for legitimacy in many ways from the president so unlike the president these people are not elect that so they don't have the kind of political gravitas the next major test is the are two things one is the ongoing case questioning the terrorist war and drugs and also extra judicial killings and the next one is question of the result of the vice presidency whether ferdinand marcos jr the former and the son of the former and a strong it was very close to president there where he was cheated out of the elections so it's not done yet the supreme court has a lot of major cases and but at this point in time there's a feeling that the feel of being a judicial independence is very much under assault and present it there are days almost fully in control of the appeal of the state offered this richard hadari and there in canberra thanks very much. well the stage is now finally set for that meeting between donald trump and kim jong il from north korea the u.s. president took to twitter to announce the date and the venue for the summit saying it will take place in singapore june the twelfth is the date the u.s.

leader said both men aim to make the meeting a very special moment for world peace. for u.k. government has apologized to a former libyan dissident and his wife for the role it spies played in sending them to libya to be tortured in two thousand and four. and his wife were abducted with the help of u.k. agents and handed over to moammar gadhafi security forces in florence li. if revenge is a dish best served cold then the fourteen years it took hakim bella and his wife atom up to get their apology will have been worth it so we come now. so the statement by the attorney general in the british parliament a place which so often hears lectures about how other countries should have paid the rule of law the government finally admitted what had always said that it's had illegally kidnapped him and handed him over to the gadhafi government in libya to be tortured and on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize on reservedly we

are profoundly sorry for the ordeal which you both suffered and our role in it. in two thousand and four the british prime minister tony blair was eager to win over gadaffi as part of the american war on terror. and his wife were taken from thailand by officials from the british intelligence service and i six i was suspicions they were linked to al-qaeda through the libyan islamic fighting group which was rebelling against gadhafi but ten years on in the same british government was helping bring gadaffi down and in the rubble of tripoli the files emerged detailing the relationship between m i six the american cia and libyan intelligence . it took a full six years for the u.k. authorities to accept his arguments he had asked for nothing except an apology. for whom he did funny today the british government has acknowledged and apologized for

the suffering of my wife and myself years ago i thank them for this brave step the british government has learned a lesson from this and i hope other governments around the world will learn it as well. and outside the u.k. parliament fastener held up the letter from the british prime minister offering the total apology for what they've done. the u.k. lost its way when i got mixed up in the rendition of an innocent pregnant woman and an end to get off a dissident but today i think it stood on the right side of history by recognizing its mistakes and by apologizing. and so where does this leave the reputation of m i six it's worth bearing in mind that spies do what their political masters tell them to and in the years after the september the eleventh attacks in new york the americans were doing rendition a loss and presume of the british thought that they should too but times change and so do political considerations and this is the people made can come back to haunt

them. the torture cells was held in a go on the political architects of u.k. foreign policy then including former prime minister tony blair can now rest as easy as the m i six agents and the line is drawn into the scandal but had it not been for the persistence of human rights lawyers this day would never have come lawrence lee al jazeera london. argentina started formal talks with the i.m.f. about getting financial support to stabilize its economy the economy minister nicholas giovanni has met the i.m.f. boss christine legarde at the funds h.q. in washington the argentina is dealing with soaring inflation while its currency that's the peso is dipping in value last week argentina 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 there are fears among some that the strict terms of an i.m.f. bailout could lead to another crisis many blame the i.m.f. says there are two measures for

a financial collapse in the early two thousand years that left millions in poverty mark weiss province is the co-director of the center for economic and policy research in washington he says the argentinean government could have avoided going to the i.m.f. . they're not facing the kind of situation even that they were facing in that depression from one nine hundred ninety eight to two thousand and one which of course the i.m.f. is is quite a bit of fault for our times 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 that was you know not long before the 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 things in the i.m.f. is making us do that we have to you 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.m.f. typically they reduce the deficit by cutting spending and pushing the economy towards recession because then people have less money to spend the import less and that's not the best way to do it of course for most people but it could be the way that some of the governments investors and people they care about look at it. more news comment and analysis whenever you want it on the website al jazeera

dot com. updating the top stories here on al-jazeera iran has condemned israel's air strikes in syria the foreign ministry spokesman said the decision was based on fabrication and baseless excuses israel said it launched a wave of strikes on targets inside syria early on thursday in response to what it said were iranian attacks on the occupied golan heights iran's foreign ministry has just put out a statement it appears to deny the israeli claim that iranian forces carried out rocket attacks against its forces because zionist regimes frequent attacks on syria under fabricated and baseless excuses it says is a breach of the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of syria and in defiance of all international laws and regulations 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 now 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 eisel. the syrian president bashar al assad has given a new t.v. interview saying his forces were not 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 it's now under government control they 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 of this 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 but he say they've recovered at least forty nine bodies and several others are now unaccounted for malaysia's new prime minister says the country's king has agreed to

a pardon to pardon rather the jailed leading opposition figure and what immediately ninety two year old martin mohammed was sworn in after a shock when swept the opposition to power for the first time in the country's history donald trump says he'll meet the north korean leader kim jong un in singapore on june the twelfth the announcement on social media after he welcomed home three americans freed by north korea as a gesture of goodwill. those are your headlines so far up next it's earthrise we'll have a quick summary of the news for you when we come back at sixteen. the former bishop of hong kong says the pope is selling out china's catholics. thinks. cardinal joseph then talks town jazeera.