thank you. 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 one saw ready. iraq elections on al-jazeera.

condemnation from tehran after israel attacks dozens of iranian military bases in syria. hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up support for palestinians in indonesia tens of thousands protest against the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. a pardon for a jailed opposition leader in malaysia comes off the country's new prime minister is sworn in. donald trump welcomes home american prisoners from north korea and sets the stage for his highly anticipated meeting with kim jong il. iran's foreign ministry has responded for the first time to israel's largest attack

in syria for decades israel says that it destroyed iranian basis in response to rocket attacks against its forces in the occupied golan heights an iranian spokesman called the claims baseless and fabricated harry force that reports. 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 and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is threatening further action in syria you have 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 a rainy in targets in syria but if the syrian army will act against us we will act against it a senior iranian m.p. says that israeli action in syria will have consequences. that 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 of life out of terror. is there so the foreign ministry in tehran has spoken for the first time a given its reaction to the the israeli attack what it said. absolutely

two days after the incident in question we have heard from a senior government ministry the foreign ministry put out a statement in which it criticised israel's frequent attacks and incursions into syria they criticize it as a violation of syria's sovereignty of violation of international law and he also lashed out at the global community saying that their silence was also unacceptable on this matter now we should keep in mind that iran is still in the process of trying to save what it can from the twenty fifty nuclear deal by negotiating with members of the global community that is it is indeed a criticizing the foreign ministry statement also blamed israel for as part of israel's strategic depth in syria the foreign ministry allege that israel is in fact supporting armed groups inside syria a common allegation that israel is in fact behind groups associated with the islamic state and the store front but what wasn't said is almost as important as

what was said no comments or reactions to the allegations by israel that iran was to blame for this cross border fire and no comment about the fact that iran suffered heavy losses allegedly according to israel during this cross border fire now it has to be said iran maintains it has no bases inside iran inside syria it has assets on the ground that are there to support its ally syria and it never really responds any allegations by israel when it comes to the theater of war inside syria all right so what are people there making of it zain. well. really what's going to happen today is a refocus by the government on response to the nuclear deal in the immediate aftermath of the nuclear deal there were scattered protests outside the old u.s. embassy by small groups of and two u.s. demonstrators and the government put out a call for nationwide protests today following friday prayers and if we know

anything from rallies that are organized by the iranian government they promise to be very very large so we're anticipating large crowds having anti-american demonstrations in response to the pullout from the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement saying many thanks indeed. in iran bahrain has expressed support for israel's attacks in syria on twitter the foreign minister said that as long as iran is destabilized the status quo in the region that is 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. muslims in indonesia are rallying in the capital to cause have a show of solidarity with palestinians there condemning the decision by the united states to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital into the has long been a supporter of a palestinian state stepped past and reports from jakarta. angry speeches here at

the national monument in shock after tens of thousands of people have gathered here to show solidarity with palestine and they're saying that the move of the united states embassy to jerusalem is an insult to islam and a provocation to the world although it's organized by conservative groups this is an issue that unites many here in indonesia in the nisha doesn't have any diplomatic relations with israel and president joke we don't again stressed this morning that he condemns the u.s. move and also condemns its route and he urges united nations to take steps against the move of the embassy and the united states embassy is very near to here only over there and the security is very very high but so far the organizers have not announced if they're going to move the whole protest to the united states embassy this is a large protest of a series of protests that have been happening since last year december when donald trump announced the move of the u.s. embassy and also than tens of thousands took to the streets showed their anger and

also urged all indonesians to boycott american products india's prime minister narendra modi has begun a state visit to paul he arrived in poor where he's attended a press session at a temple it's about his first visit since twenty fifteen when india imposed an unofficial book aid along the indian police border let's take you live now to the for serious severe stress that is in john paul why is the indian prime minister beginning this visit in such a small city like teleport so we know. it's very important place for the indian prime minister largely because of the hindu politics in divisive politics that he's been doing john of who are is the home office seat have who is the goddess who married rum from are you there and are you guys one of the places where movies started his politics from also the missing movies coming

back to the place where the blockade started the process before the blockade started and it is seen over here as a symbolic gesture just to come back to the place where the relationship between of holland india frayed ok so why is this important for the polls particularly but for india to. most or for india it is an important of. the relationship between the fallen india is an important place because of china since the blockade china has been influencing the power especially with its one valve one vote policy and has been in putting a lot of money into the fall in many major infrastructure projects and that has threatened the power in terms of strategy geopolitics of strategy and foreign

apollo obviously because of the because it's landlocked and it's hard relies heavily on india its relationships need to be better for the policy ok sabina many things do down to serious sabinus rest of them live in charcoal. we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then protests in the philippines after one of the president's biggest critics is removed from her job. had there been some pretty big shout of the last day or so in the middle of europe more or less you see white dots all over the place at that arc of clouds come to the british isles and through france this one here that tails off through is europe has produced a rather chilling effect

a drop of something like ten degrees in london however it soon recovers the forecast for friday is eighteen degrees twenty two in passing the sunshine again it's warmer still further east and this is where you'll find the occasional big dam balls through croatia for example maybe austria germany even western poland but the next tranche of weather coming in from the atlantic cool things down again fourteen and eighteen in paris and it's proper rain once more to be honest it's pretty standard spring weather now the still an outflow of coolish air on to the coast of north africa there in the low twenty's the most part twenty six in tunis a pleasant change thirty three in cairo has been a lift in temperature and forty six in as well but that won't necessarily last that breeze will penetrate and drop temperatures here still forty four in the far south of algeria than you might expect it for size beyond that pretty big showers as well the reading kenya's still occasionally quite heavy but the most violent storms more recently have been nigeria and ghana and there are more to come.

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again this is al-jazeera our top stories this hour iran says that israel's air strikes in syria were based on fabricated and baseless accusations israel insists that it launched its first they offer a radian forces fired rockets of its positions in the occupied golan heights. muslims and into the sea a rallying in the capital jakarta a show of solidarity with palestinians condemning the decision by the united states to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. at india's prime minister narendra modi has become a state visit to the poll it's but his first visit since twenty fifteen when india imposed an unofficial blockade along the indian nepalese border. rescuers in kenya are continuing their search for survivors after a dam collapsed killing at least forty nine people many more still missing the dam in the rift valley around one hundred fifty kilometers north of nairobi bust on wednesday washing away most of the nearby village of any of i village after simmons

reports. it was fun and unforgiving the die. 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 jogging 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 lived 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. 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 symons zero there is a county in kenya malaysia's new prime minister says that the king has agreed to pardon the jailed opposition figure and whatever him immediately and it also promised to reveal his cabinet on saturday the ninety two year old was sworn in on thursday after a shock when that swept the opposition to power for the first time on what abraham is in custody on charges of sodomy and corruption under serious way hey joins us live from kuala lumpur he's outside a hospital where and why even him is

a patient wait any sign of him. not yet he is in there obviously still under prison police prison guard because you are still serving that five year jail term for sodomy which he says is politically motivated we have seen his family members going into the hospital to see him also members of his party members of the victorious coalition but no sign of himself a small media contingent starting to gather here too in anticipation that perhaps something could happen and of course this all comes about after mohamed the new prime minister of malaysia wasted no time really getting down to business on friday morning he assembled the senior members of that coalition for a meeting in that meeting they discussed the cabinet positions that you mentioned that he says he will reveal to the public on saturday and they also discussed the situation with n y abraham and afterwards he spoke to the media and confirmed that

the king of malaysia would grant him a pardon. it is going to be a full five this was me this is the eat you know believe me if i didn't eat would be the least immediately when. you see. this speech really. so what happens the way that he is to be released immediately when might that be. yes so that's the part that no one really knows the actual pardon once the king signs off on it he hasn't done that yet as far as we know all he's done is agreed to pardon him immediately as. as far as we know he hasn't actually done that paperwork yet but that could happen any time that could happen quite quickly after that that is what is unknown. has said that he will hand over power to abraham once he is released within the next

two years but even that is a little bit in doubt on thursday evening after the swearing in ceremony at another media conference he was asked exactly about there what is the time frame what deal if any have you reached with to hand over power and he simply smiled and he said well maybe the winning coalition needs my experience for some time yet so clearly he's still enjoying the moment still clearly enjoying pulling the strings any may well do that for some time but once on is released he will then have to stand in a byelection somewhere in malaysia they will then have to be once he becomes a member of parliament and internal party election that will take place for him to become president of the party and then he will become prime minister if if it decides to stick to his word to hand over power so the whole process of him becoming prime minister could take some time yes all right way many thanks indeed i was there as wade hey in kuala lumpur. iraqis will vote on saturday in their first

parliamentary election since the defeat of eisel nearly a million security forces but members cast their ballots ahead of the voters they'll be needed to protect polling stations it's the fourth election since the u.s. led invasion opposed president sort of the same fifteen years ago parts of iraq people who were forced from their homes are struggling to recover they're cautious but hopeful that this election may bring about change. charles stratford reports from a refugee camp in northern iraq. mohamad schuchat and his family fled mosul in june last year during the battle against leisel their home was destroyed. like many of the two million people in iraq displaced by violence in recent years they live in a camp for the internally displaced yes we are asking politicians to look after everyone equally regardless where they are from and especially those living in camps we don't want charity we want to go home and we don't want money in return

for our votes. the iraqi government says one hundred sixty six polling stations are being set up in seventy camps in time for saturday's parliamentary election campaign cheaps say candidates from a number of parties have visited but apart from the post there's little sign of election campaigning. only around twenty five families of the one thousand three hundred fifty living in this camp have returned to the areas they fled during the battle against. the majority of the people here sundays and their homes have been completely destroyed is when you speak to people here many of them say that even if they could return to the areas they lived in they have very little faith in politicians because they feel so let down and discriminated against by previous shia led government. the government says it's going to cost two billion dollars to rebuild mosul forty thousand homes were destroyed in the west of the city alone.

every few days people who used to live there gather in the camps to collect food handouts. off camera tell us that when eisel took control of mosul in two thousand and fourteen many among the city's predominantly sunni population believed eisel may improve their lives up to what they describe as so many broken promises by the bank that government but they say that quickly changed when they began to experience the brutality of life on the. fled the fighting in mosul in july last year she blames the government. and the suffering she and her family enjoy in the camps. one that i do not know what it is we only want to go home it's inhumane living here the other day it rained in our tent flooded we're only asking politicians to rebuild our homes this is the least

of all human rights it's the fault of the government that brought this calamity on us. winning the trust of mosul sunni population is going to be a major challenge for the new government if it is to prevent iraq's sectarian divide getting wider. and hundreds of thousands of people like him the first step towards winning that trust would be rebuilding their home so they can start rebuilding their lives. camp. there from protests in the philippines after the country's highest court expelled the chief justice. she was ousted in a vote by fellow judges acting on a government petition seeking her removal sorrento has been critical of president were to go to urging people to stand up to his authority area richard hadari and as a fellow at the middle of a star struck base institute he says the supreme court has been supportive of the

taser major decisions in the past two years. in many ways it was expected that the supreme court will lean towards president attended 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 mali 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 philippine supreme court a large lean towards philippine president so there were concerns that in this case the same thing will happen if fact of the matter is that present there to open he has said that he wants a supreme court justice and supreme court justice center and national issues she was appointed by the former president appears that keynote was in many ways. seen as the enemy of president and of course or at no has been among very few voices of independence i think their highest level of government and she has question and

multiplication of president a tear at this assault on the rule of law and president there this war and drugs dozens of protesters have been arrested in kazakstan after demanding the release of political prisoners the rally was organized by a leading government critic in the country's largest city of. a cold cold. as offs group extremist movements two months ago judges have warned the public could face criminal prosecution if they support him. singapore is to host the historic meeting between the u.s. and north korean leaders next month on june twelfth the u.s. president announced the date and location on twitter donald trump previously said that he wanted to meet kim jong un in the demilitarized zone on the border between north and south korea that's where. the leaders of the two countries held a summit last month but the announcement was made after the u.s. president welcomed home three americans freed by north korea they were released.

their release came off the secretary of state mike pompei o traveled to north korea to finalize plans for the trump kim meeting well lisa president trump addressed supporters in indiana where he spoke about the upcoming summit. some of the relationship is good hopefully for all of us 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 it's ok if it is it isn't fine and you have to have that because you don't know we're not going to be walked into a red deal where the negotiators john kerry refused to. analysis now from john hendren in 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 an 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 considers himself a deal maker his critics would say he is a deal breaker after pulling out of the iran 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 un the goal the white house says is the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula let's hear now from japan's prime minister shinzo who's spoken about his expectations of the meeting. in each built it would like to welcome the decision for the official date and location for the u.s. north korea summit in regard to the historical summit i have strong expectation is that it will be a chance to make progress on nuclear issues missile issues and most importantly abduction issues like hawaii is closing the puck around one of its most famous volcanoes to use the growing risk of an eruption lava and steam of the scaping through vents the a killer whale for a week now scientists fear that it could lead to the biggest eruption in one hundred years thirty six homes near the crater have been destroyed. music streaming service spotify has removed r. and b. artist r.

kelly from his curated playlist is part of the company's new policy on hate content and hateful conduct music can still be found on the platform but it won't be actively promoted the recent social media campaign has called for a boycott of his music following sexual assault allegations against him he's always denied the claims and has won a number of legal actions to defend his name. it is good to have you with us adrian figure here in doha the top stories this hour on al-jazeera iran says that israel's air strikes in syria were based on fabricated and baseless accusations israel insists that it launched the attack on thursday after a radian forces fired rockets at its positions in the occupied golan heights prime minister benjamin netanyahu is threatening more action you have not covered 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 the reigning targets in syria but if the syrian army will act against us we will act against it muslims in indonesia a rallying in the capital jakarta a show of solidarity with palestinians there condemning the decision by the united states to recognize to roost as israel's capital. india's prime minister narendra modi has begun his state visit to the pole here arrived in jack poor where he attended a press session at the temple it's modi's first visit since twenty fifteen when india imposed an unofficial blockade along the indian nepalese border. heavy rain is hampering the search for survivors of wednesday's dam collapse in kenya at least forty nine people died many more remain missing the dam is in the rift valley about one hundred fifty kilometers north of the capital it burst of washed away most of

the nearby village malaysia's new prime minister says the king is agreed to pardon the jailed opposition figure and whatever him immediately. mohammad also promised to reveal to his cabinet on saturday the ninety two year old was sworn in on thursday after a shock when it swept the opposition to power for the first time and waiving him is in custody on charges of sodomy and corruption and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after today's inside story next. once the strategy of war now the conflict is long over but the adoptions continue one on one east investigates why so many sri lankans disappeared without a trace on al-jazeera. leaving again at the age of ninety two behind here mohamed comes out of political retirement in malaysia to our stuff.