rockets are fired from gaza into southern israel for the first time in four years. you know zero life from a headquarters and i'm dead you know again also ahead the former north korean spy chief kim yong chill heads to the u.s. ahead of a planned summit between the leaders of the two countries. france hosts libya's top leaders in an attempt to resolve its instability we're live in paris and starbucks shuts down thousands of its coffee shops for anti-bias training following the erast

of to block customers. hello we begin with the biggest rocket attack in four years from gaza into southern israel the israeli military says at least twenty five rockets were fired towards communities in the south crossing over to bernard smith joining us from the gaza port what's being said out of gaza bernard. during on the rockets we think what we're being told is the rocket attack is separate really from all these the last sort of two months of protests in the great march of return what happened was that a couple of days ago three fighters from islamic jihad were killed when israeli shells targeted a lookout post of theirs near the border in the southern part of the gaza strip and our understanding is that these rockets were fired by islamic jihad essentially in

retaliation but those three deaths seen as a matter that would you have felt it was so serious and their fighters are being killed that they had to reality retaliate but our understanding is that is essentially the end of that incident. and separate from this great march of return an event of which i'm today hearing and we understand that there are two boats leaving from the port where you are that are attempting to break the israeli naval blockade on gaza what's going on there. well this is the first time the boats have sailed out of gaza but with the intention of trying to break the siege in years past boats have tried to come in significant crowds of gathered here there's a large reception set a bit beyond me we don't know which to focus it's going to be because in the last couple of weeks israel has blown up boats that have been in this hobby that is thought were being prepared for an event such as this is the identity of the

vessels that are going to be used as being kept under wraps i mean there are boats here obviously in the harbor these are all fishing boats behind me what we do know is there's going to be eleven patients on board who need treatment overseas outside gaza is going to be more students looking for work or need to go to university plus the crew so about twenty five people in all and we also know daryn that everybody knows they are not going to get beyond the maritime blockade that israel has over gaza ok we'll leave it there for now bernard that we will come back to live later on thank you for that update. a new human rights watch report says israel's leading banks are helping support maintain and expand unlawful settlements in the occupied west bank it says that israel's seven big banks have loaned three million dollars to construction projects building the illegal settlements they also give financial assistance to regional and local authorities to provide basic services like

sanitation and schools homebuyers in the illegal settlements get loans on easy terms from the banks palestinian west bank residents are forbidden by military order to enter settlements except as laborers bearing special permits sediba she is the israel and palestine advocacy director for human rights watch and she says banks need to do more to comply with international law. israel's largest banks are providing services in and two settlements in the west bank that contribute to severe abuses settlements are a war crime it's unlawful for an occupying power to transfer its civilian population into the occupied territory and settlements also trigger severe human rights abuses such as restrictions on freedom of movement for palestinians they take place on land that has been stolen from palestinians and they also a trigger a discriminatory regime in these cases banks are actively partnering with

developers to build new homes on land that has been unlawfully seized from neighboring palestinians while residents of nearby palestinian villages can't even access their land much less build on it so israel as an occupying power has a responsibility to dismantle its settlements because they're a war crime but banks and all businesses have responsibilities to make sure their business activities do not contribute to or benefit from serious human rights abuses and we are asking these banks to fulfill those responsibilities by ceasing their activities inside settlements it's the strongest indication yet a summit between the us president donald trump on the north korean leader may still take place kim jong un's right hand man has been seen on his way to the u.s. kim young child is the vice chairman of north korea's ruling workers' party and as andrew thomas reports from seoul there's been plenty of movement from other players involved as well. with just one flight from pyongyang to beijing shop

light camera operators can watch and wait to see who steps off it's the man in the what shirt is kim yong stopping over in china before connecting to a flight to the united states on wednesday kim you'll actually hates north korea's into korean relations department and he's essentially the north korean leader on denuclearization talks he came to the winter olympics closing. ceremony in south korea in february that events was the catalyst for the positive into korean relations since earlier this month he was at kim jong un sawyer when u.s. secretary of state pompei o visited pyongyang last saturday he was in the room when the leaders of the two koreas met for that surprise summit that he's on his way now to the u.s. probably to meet pompei again bodes well for the trump kim jong un summit so to the ongoing talks between the u.s. and north korean delegations happening inside the demilitarized zone this was the

u.s. team leaving the seoul hotel early on tuesday morning led by an experienced south korean born u.s. diplomat soon kim their focus will be on the issues that donald trump and kim jong un would discuss trying to move from the general to the specific in a phone call on monday the u.s. president and japanese prime minister agreed to meet in person. we agreed to have a tapan u.s. summit before the u.s. north korea summit and it's likely that will happen just before or after a g seven meeting in canada on the eighth of june like south korea's moon. wants to ensure his concerns are addressed in any u.s. north korea summit not just those exclusive to donald trump andrew thomas is there so the leaders of libya's key factions are due to meet the french president in paris for talks to end the political crisis emmanuelle michael has been welcoming delegates at the elysee palace the eastern based renegade general he felt have to

add is expected to be there along with his rival the head of the un backed government in tripoli say is a set of hours libya has been in a state of unrest and political instability since mama gadhafi was toppled in twenty eleven attacks a butler following the talks joining us from paris what is the aim of this meeting a tosser. what the french president aims to achieve with this meeting is to try and end the instability and political crisis in libya which has as you point out plagued the country since twenty eleven now what micro has done is try to get some of libya's main rival leaders around the table here in paris to talk to try and resolve some of the issues and to agree at the end of the meeting he is hoping to a road map which pave the way towards elections at the end of this year and also other points such as support for a national army in the immediate reunification of the central bank now emmanuel

marco had a similar meeting to this last july and at the time invited only he went back to prime minister fires also roger and the renegade general khalifa haftar who's based in the east of libya around the table that it was seen that perhaps that was not representative enough of the leadership and different protagonists on the ground in libya so why didn't it's out there are two other libyan leaders here as well as a host of representatives from international organization the special envoy to libya for the united nations and representatives from nineteen other countries now the u.n. has actually had a process like this in place pretty much since last year but french diplomats are saying is that this isn't about overshadowing that process it's simply about trying to supporters but then why is france taking such a prominent and leading role to try and end the libya crisis. well under a president of france has certainly been extremely active in trying to end the

crisis in libya and one of the main reasons for that is the fact that what happens in libya are simply has an immediate impact in many ways on won't happens in europe especially when you think of the many migrants who cross from libya to european sure and leaders across europe have wanted to stop that for a long time it is very much in a model michael style that he's somebody who's often in a hurry he wants to get things done so he has decided to try and push ahead and get to the leading protectionists around the table the thing is many analysts say that this meeting is actually fraught with risk because not only do they say is it quite unrealistic to imagine that you'll be able to put in place elections by the end of the year but also they're all some libyan leaders here the main ones but there are many other players on the ground who simply haven't been invited to not included all refuse to come in without that consensus you're not going to get any real results out of the meeting and it has to be said many of these sorts of meetings and road maps and agreements in the past have simply failed all right thank you

so heads on al-jazeera. they are also across brazil as a trucker strike enters its second week plus. a caretaker prime minister is appointed to head a technocrat government in italy but the country's political crisis deepens. hello there we've certainly seen some very active storms across europe recently across the u.k. there's also been plenty of thunder and lightning this is what we've seen in london that lots of lightning as you can see and it's not just been across the u.k. it's been from this area of cloud across many parts of western europe actually originating from the northern parts of africa and is this region again where we are

most likely to see some rather lively thunderstorms as we head through the next couple of days again not only with lightning and thunder we're also likely to see some very large hail stones and some damaging gusts of wind and some very heavy rain as well so plenty more of that as we head through the next day i'll say but in between those showers there should also be some bright sunshine and plenty of warm sunshine towards the east as well walsall there up to twenty nine degrees and forcing kiev up at twenty six now for the other side of the mediterranean we've had a fair amount of cloud here over the last day or so particularly of a pause about geria and she needs but that's beginning to lose grip it's working away away from us so i think for most of us here it'll be fine unsettled by the time we get to wednesday warm in june is it twenty eight before summer about not quite as hot here a pleasant twenty one for the east the temperatures on to about in cairo at the moment i'm getting to around thirty three degrees.

an international committee vote for. alarm this partition. many have no say in the matter. the colonial power washes its times of palestine. and what happens in one nine hundred forty eight are events that are still shaping the present. seventy years on al-jazeera tells the history of what palestinians call the catastrophe omak by. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera there's been what seems to be the biggest

attack on israel from gaza since the twenty fourteen war several rockets and shells were fired but most of them were intercepted by israel's iron dome don't defense system north korean spy chief and senior official kim jong il is headed to the u.s. after stopping over in beijing he's likely to hold discussions with u.s. officials regarding a possible summit between kim jong un and donald trump the leaders of libya's rival factions are due to meet in paris for talks to end the political crisis french president some money one might call has been welcoming delegates at the elysee palace the eastern based renegade general thirty five have to is expected to be there along with the head of the un backed government in tripoli prime minister is a set of those. it's been one of the it's one of the rather greatest aviation mysteries and now it seems the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy will remain just that the malaysian government has announced it won't

extend the current search for the aircraft which vanished in twenty fourteen it's promised to fully disclose the findings from the final search but is the vehicle pollin reports from kuala lumpur many of the families of the passengers want the search for answers to continue. the search for m.h. three seventy has been an emotional journey for the families of the two hundred ninety eight people on board the plane when it disappeared but it's not the mother was a passenger she has been following the investigation at one point she along with other relatives of m seventy h three. passengers travel to madagascar to look for debris from the aircraft the trip yielded few answers like the numerous searches over the past four years it's definitely gone beyond our closure it has become more about them keeping their promises it's about accountability and above all it is about prevention of something like this from happening again it is completely unacceptable that we have no idea how a plane vanished into thin air

a three year long search bias trail in chinese and malaysian investigators covering one hundred twenty thousand square kilometers and ended in january last year under pressure from the families of those on board the flight the malaysian government reopen the investigation twelve months later this time signing a seventy million dollar no find no fee deal with a u.s. exploration company ocean infinity has been using one of the world's most advanced civilian survey vessels to scan more than eighty thousand square kilometers of the southern indian ocean but the mission has yet to reveal any significant clues the echo is now six thousand meters under the water. a quick stop on the. strong current movement and we don't know if it has broken up or soil so far if it has then we need to know what section is born where. fourteen different nationalities were on board the boeing triple seven more than half of the passengers were from china. john hood still hopes to find out what happened to his

mother who is traveling home to beijing he has written a letter to mahathir mohamad urging malaysia's prime minister to pursue a long term search for sales yeah i firmly believe m h three seventy will be found in technology wise we see the efficiency has been raised almost ten times and in another three or four years it will be easier and cheaper and more efficient to do the search. the recently elected malaysian government sides budgetary constraints for its decision to stop looking for the plane the families of the m.h. three seventy passengers say the two hundred million dollars cost of the search so far doesn't even come up to the price tag of a brand new boeing triple seven to be gopalan with an important. police in malaysia have made their largest seizure of crystal meth finding more than a ton disguised as. it was hidden in a shipment from me and maher and is worth about eighteen million dollars six suspected traffickers have been arrested and then thailand's i've also made record

seizures the sear to reuters journalists detained in man maher have been back in court accused of possessing secret government papers while loan and so could face up to fourteen years in prison if they're convicted they were arrested while working on an investigation into the killing of muslims and rakhine state earlier a police officer revealed the journalists and mobile phones were searched without a warrant the men have been in custody since december italy's president has appointed an interim prime minister to head a technocrat government carlo a former i.m.f. official has been tossed with the job his appointment comes after the president's veto derailed efforts by two populist parties to form a coalition government jonah has more. political convulsions in italy beat the new prime minister designate not a political figure but a former international monetary fund official. a

must underline that the government will maintain a neutrality a total neutrality with respect to the electoral debate. must now come up with a workable list of ministers but he's unlikely to survive a confidence vote in a parliament stacked against him so the new government will likely become a lame duck interim government until fresh elections in the autumn on the weekend president sergio rejected the euro skeptic finance minister proposed by the five star movement northern league coalition dashing their hopes of becoming europe's first far right populist government. last night with the darkest hour in italy's democracy president chose to ignore his constitutional prerogatives and prevent from power political force the five star movement which received eleven million votes they've been calls for mass protests and the president's impeachment as head

of state the latter seems constitutionally unlikely but it's a nasty turn that sets the scene for a potentially ugly standoff we are going to see throughout the next three months is an overarching theme of the people versus the. establishment that with the head of state for the first time becoming the main target of the entire campaign there's also the economy to worry about italy's cost of borrowing is rising with the political uncertainty if the country's sky high debt were to become unserviceable then real crisis would arrive in the euro zone's third largest economy add to that a debate that will only grow louder perhaps angrier now about italy's membership of the eurozone as the nationalist northern league and ante a step. five star movement vie for an even bigger slice of the next electoral pint . really did his best to calm the waters there. in the past

few days tensions have increased on the financial markets you know that the spread has increased but italian economy is still growing and the budget remains under control i can assure you that a government. will guarantee a prudent. public accounts. in italy political instability is a fact of life so they'll be little surprise about these twists and turns but no less anxiety over the outcome. al-jazeera. colombia's military says it's killed eleven dissident members of the former rebel group fark in the country's south the defense minister says they have been threatening politicians entrepreneurs and civilians in the region the operation comes a day after the first round of colombia's presidential election the government's peace deal with far has been one of the main issues. will be voting in a presidential runoff in three weeks the choice is between

a critic of that peace deal former leftist guerrilla who supports the agreements or latin america editor of the syrian newman reports from bogota. you're going to humanise and his wife struggle to make a living selling orange juice there among the millions of colombians who voted for . the first left wing presidential candidate with a serious chance of winning but i voted for gustavo petro because i'm tired of the old political class that doesn't care about the poor it's time that the working class gets a chance at a decent life. the former mayor of the capital bubble who was once in in one thousand urban guerrilla has tapped into massive discontent with the political establishment he is seen as a champion of the poor and the marginalized but high macassar warns that pedro who is close to venezuela's hugo chavez is a wolf in sheep's clothing i don't think you're going to get them he must be clear petro is a populist disguising as a leftist populism can also be disguised as

a center or right wing but in the end it's a strategy to get power and to not let it go. on the opposite extreme of the ideological divide is evander seen as a younger version of his mentor conservative former president. he represents the status quo and those opposed to historic peace deal signed with fark rebels the most. inexperienced but charismatic at this rally he comforted a woman whose missing mother was kidnapped by far grumbles ten years ago promising to see that justice is done through the showdown between the two candidates will undoubtedly impact a still fragile.