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hello again the top stories on al-jazeera there's been what seems to be the biggest barrage of mortar shells fired 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 defense system. the north korean spy chief and senior official kim jong chole is headed to the u.s. after stopping over in beijing he's likely to hold discussions with u.s. officials were guarding a possible summit between kim jong il and donald trump the leaders of libya's factions are to meet with the french president in paris for talks to end the seven year political crisis in eastern based renegade general how different is there along with his rival the head of the u.n. backed government in tripoli prime minister it faces a sudden libya has been in a state of unrest and political instability since mamata gadhafi was toppled in

twenty eleven. italy's president has appointed. interim prime minister he's a former official with the international monetary fund said he was appointed after the president's veto derailed efforts by two populist parties to form a coalition government. political convulsions in italy meet 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 a 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 the overarching 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 stab. five star movement for an even bigger slice of the next electoral. carlow culture 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 on to 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. a political crisis has also gripped spain the prime minister is set to face and no confidence votes after his ruling people's party was linked to a corruption scandal parliament will vote on friday to decide whether socialist leader pedro sanchez take over has been under increasing pressure after a court ruled his party profited from an illegal scheme twenty nine people have been sentenced in that case including the party's former treasurer. colombia's military says it's killed eleven members of the former rebel group the 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 presidential elections the government where the fark has been one of the main issues. this demonstrates our renewed ability to

dismantle this residual group that has brought so much pain to this area of colombia we are continuing operations in the area. will head back to the polls for the presidential runoff in three weeks the choice is between a critic of the twenty sixth and a former leftist who supports the agreement or latin america editor of reports from . new york and is human is 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 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 mccaskill 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 that 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 dark rebels. inexperienced but charismatic at this rally he comforted a woman whose missing mother was kidnapped by far rebels ten years ago promising to see that justice is done. the showdown between the two candidates will undoubtedly impact a still fragile peace agreement that ended more than fifty years of armed conflict with the fark better and they have less than three weeks to win over colombians

will voted for other more moderate candidates in the first round but many people tell us that they would rather cast a blank ballot rather than vote for a president they don't want. and that gives dougie who won the most votes a decided advantage through is wasting no time trying to assure colombians he won't take from the rich to give to the poor rather that he will make the poor rich or at least middle class if he can defeat the fear factor he might stand a chance to see in human. form mural painters had a lucky escape after they were left dangling when their scaffolding came loose in mexico city rescuers scaled down the building to reach these stranded men and lower them to safety they were suspended some twenty metres up for close to two hours. it's one of the greatest aviation mysteries and now it seems the disappearance of

malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy will remain just as the malaysian government has announced it will not extend the current search for the aircraft which vanished in twenty fourteen but as the year gopalan reports from kuala lumpur many of the families of the passengers want the search 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 racing off its mother was a passenger she has been following the investigation closely at one point she along with other relatives of m h three seventy passengers traveled to madagascar to look for debris from the aircraft the trip yielded few on cers like the numerous searches over the past four years it's definitely gone beyond has become all 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 by a stray chinese and malaysian investigators covering one hundred twenty thousand square kilometers and in january last year under pressure from the families of those on board the flight the malaysian government reopened 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 underwater ok the loss of a quick stop on the. last off star kind of 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 has gone 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 my heart there mohamed urging malaysia's prime minister to pursue a long term search for songs here 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 side's 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 the pollen is there a full import. sub tropical storm alberto has made landfall in florida it's expected to bring heavy rain and flash flooding and for us states thousands of

people are in shelters and a day earlier another weather system swept through the coastal area of the state of maryland in the northeast and in gallagher has more on that. ellicott city in maryland for a time it's main street turned into a raging river after torrential rains fell on sunday i caused all washed away and property damage his authorities continue to look for a missing man who was reportedly helping rescue people flood waters and now receding an issue to clean up operation is under way some here are still recovering from similar floods almost two years ago i don't think without exaggeration saying that this is worse than july thirtieth of two thousand and sixteen i can tell you my heart is broken. thinking about what the people are going through here and the people's lives who were devastated years ago when they rebuilt and now they're face of the same. daunting task again. on the coasts of florida

alabama and mississippi a state of emergency has been declared as the first named storm of the hurricane season approaches so tropical storm alberto is expected to bring tidal surges high winds and may even trigger tornadoes as it makes its way inland some areas mandatory evacuation orders are in place be very very very careful out there you know we're going to get a lot of rain so you know the rains come and down hard some places so if you're if you need to travel just make sure you're very cautious about that and when i mean for sure don't drive in your standing water when we have a chance to. fly sliding that we've got a chance of tornadoes you just follow local weather the two thousand and eighteen atlantic hurricane season doesn't officially start until friday although far from being classed a hurricane forecasters say the effects of alberto will be felt across the southeast of the u.s. the days to come and gallica al-jazeera the european union has proposed banning

single use plastic products to help reduce may or marine litter under the plan products such as cotton buds and plastic straws would be replaced with more environmentally suitable furs and sustainable versions countries would also be required to collect ninety percent of single use plastic bottles by twenty twenty five. the world's largest known for us water pearl called the sleeping lion will be up for auction in the netherlands on thursday the three hundred year old pearl has been owned by some powerful and famous people over centuries charlotte bellus reports. inside the star chart studio lies a three hundred year old sleeping lion decay it's caged off limits to the world and to now meet the sleeping lion the world's largest freshwater poll has a history as rich as its price tag named after shape the five hundred seventy eight carat jim is valued as high as six hundred thousand dollars it's up for auction in

the hague on thursday. because i need a new car or something like that but the book the reason there isn't. a private collection is an important piece of nurture that we. or to she it's a rarity has increased as the perl industry commercialized the last century seeing the emergence of mass produced cultured pills you know most girls you see today are all cultures so in their way created by human intervention this brutal is really formed by a model ask somewhere in the river or lake living there. this sleeping line has changed hands over continents and class from merchants to russian in european royalty it was pulled from chinese waters in the early seventeen hundreds of dutch

merchants took it to present day jakarta and then on to india where it was purchased to fifty thousand florins modern day equivalent to four hundred thousand dollars the pole was shipped to amsterdam and sold in seven hundred seventy nine the buyer the empress of russia catherine the great a jeweler working for the king of italy then purchased it returning it to europe and eight hundred sixty five one of the earliest accounts. that we could find was actually present in the city archives of and. it was a print of this pool saying that it was called the sleeping lie and for all waiting five hundred seventy eight carrots and come first day it may bring history into the hands of anyone with at least half a million dollars ballasts al-jazeera. hello

again the headlines on al-jazeera there has been what seems to be the biggest attack on israel from gaza since the twenty fourteen war several rockets and shells were fired but few landed after being intercepted by israel's iron dome defense system also in gaza preparations are on to break israel's eleven year long naval blockade to both carrying several passengers including patients and students are expected to set sail from the gaza port a new report from human rights watch says some of israel's largest banks are financing the expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied west bank it says the banks are providing millions of dollars in mortgages and loans to israeli settlers the north korean spy chief and senior official can john chole is headed to the u.s. after stopping over in beijing is likely to hold discussions with u.s. officials regarding a possible summit between kim jong un and donald trump. japan's prime minister says he'll also be meeting donald trump before any summit goes ahead in singapore the

two also spoke on the phone about japanese citizens being held by north korea. the abduction victims today and have conveyed their feelings to u.s. president donald trump and discussed how important it is to resolve this issue also agreed to have a japan u.s. summit before the u.s. north korea summit the leaders of libya's factions are to meet with the french president of paris for talks to end the seven year political crisis the general is there along with his rival the head of the u.n. backed government in tripoli prime minister of. libya has been in a state of political instability. he was toppled in twenty eleven colombia's military says it's killed eleven members of the former rebel group the fark in the country's south the defense minister says they had been threatening politicians entrepreneurs. quotes a region the operation comes a day after the first round of colombia's presidential election the stream is up

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