camp for palestinian refugees. in world news. this talk of the truce softer attacks and counterattacks by palestinian factions and as israel. welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha made a soprano also ahead it appears the united states plans some of what north korea is back on as pyongyang sends a senior official to the u.s. but as the u.s. moves towards a possible summit with north korea relations with the closest ally china a growing tense also a russian journalist a shot and killed in ukraine police believe he was targeted because he was critical of the kremlin.

israel is denying reports that it's agreed to a truce with palestinian factions and gaza israel has struck dozens of targets in the gaza strip in response to attacks by hamas and islamic jihad the palestinian factions launched their biggest assault on israel and for years the u.s. has requested an urgent u.n. security council meeting to discuss the rocket strikes but smith reports from gaza . the sound of explosions occurred over gaza for much of tuesday it's been the most intense exchange of rockets and mortars between israel and various fighting groups here for years. israeli defenses intercepted many all of the rockets. one of the armed groups in gaza islamic jihad said it would launch rockets because israel killed three of its men to look out

post earlier in the week. which runs gaza that israel had escalated tensions. this is a collation is very dangerous for the zionist occupation and the bears complete responsibility for this that collation and its really think ations the compiler su know that the crimes will be responded to with resistance. israel's military said that some mortars hit a kibbutz and its kindergarten before it opened for the day. israel views with utmost gravity the attacks against it and its communities by hamas and islamic jihad from the gaza strip the military will respond with great force to these attacks israel will exact a heavy price from anyone who tries to attack it and we view how as the responsible party to prevent such attacks against us. throughout tuesday other armed groups have joined in firing rockets and mortars into israel and

israel's military has continued to hit targets in gaza ultimately hamas has influence over all these armed groups and is believed to be trying to calm things down but there is a lot of frustration here that after more than two months of protest more than one hundred people killed palestinians here and closer to ending israel's blockade of gaza but it's with al-jazeera. a former u.s. national security official hillary mann leverett says the latest palestinian actions may cost them some sympathy have around the world. i think the palestinians have been much more effective in terms of their their case here in washington and i think particularly in european capitals when they are engaged in what seen. seem generally as nonviolent resistance but when it goes anything further than that where there could be some sort of an attack on israeli civilians even though it still may be justified as

a way to defend oneself against an illegal occupation it's the political discourse does change and i think that you see in particular on the u.s. side someone like the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley who is very politically ambitious here she is seizing on that to now have a u.n. security council meeting that will. what her hope is is to really condemn the palestinians even though just a few weeks ago they had broad sympathy i think at the united nations even here in washington and certainly in european capitals and into separate development as front has released all of the seventeen palestinian protesters detained on a boat that was headed to cyprus they attempt to breach israel's naval blockade of gaza the israeli navy interceptor the boat shortly after the departure and toted it to an israeli port. let's move on to other news now the u.s. state department has suggested that the so much between donald trump and kim jong un and singapore next month is back on that comes as the north korean leaders right

hand man travels to the u.s. for talks with secretary of state mike pompei o. the united states continues to actively prepare for president trump's expected summit with leader kim in singapore president trump will meet with prime minister shinzo abi of japan on june the seventh at the white house and the secretary pompei o looks forward to being a part of those meetings north korean vice chairman of the central committee kim yong chal is arriving in new york and will meet with secretary palm pale later this week we also have a u.s. delegation meeting with the north korean delegation in the d.m.z. committee held at has more from washington d.c. . well the white house is confirming when north korea's vice chair travels to new york city it is the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o with whom he will be meeting this is significant because previous visits between the u.s. secretary of state and north korean officials happened in pyongyang this is now happening on u.s. soil an important gesture in the eyes of the united states as the two sides begin

to build trust leading towards what the white house says will be an expected meeting between the north korean leader kim jong un and the u.s. president but of course the date not yet confirmed now the white house says it is continuing to actively prepare for a meeting between the two leaders in addition to delegations in asia there is also work happening here at the white house the national security adviser john bolton discussions daily going on we're told according to the white house press secretary between not only the national security team here in the united states but also the counterparts in south korea as well as japan in addition to just trying to nail down the the meeting and whether or not it will occur other fine details that are being worked out the agenda what does denuclearization mean and can the united states offer north korea the security guarantee that the north korean leader is

looking for. the u.s. says it will impose a twenty five percent tariff on fifty billion dollars worth of imports from china but also restrict investment by chinese companies in the u.s. and limit exports of high tech goods to china earlier this month the two countries agreed to look at measures to cut china's trade surplus and a move that appeared to reduce the risk of a trade war between the world's two largest economies and the u.s. state department is planning changes to the visa system for chinese students and spot a president trying to tempt a crackdown on what he calls the theft of u.s. internet troll property official. expected to limit student visas to one year for chinese who plan to do graduate work in science or technology in florence louis has more from gen jang and easton junge soon province. china says it surprised at the latest announcement coming out from the trump administration and called on the us to implement this period of their most recent joint statement on china's

commercial ministry is of course referring to a preliminary deal reached between the two sides not too long ago in which the us had agreed to delay imposition of tariffs on chinese goods in exchange for china agreeing to significantly increase purchases of u.s. farm goods and energy products. but this latest announcement from the u.s. government is of course a reversal off that deal and it comes just days before u.s. representatives are due to arrive in beijing to continue trade talks and some analysts have said that this latest announcement by the u.s. government is intended perhaps to strengthen u.s. hand in those negotiations and to signal that gloves are coming off in those traits and other analysts have said that this perhaps is a move to appease u.s. politicians. just last week the trump administration had made and not the reversal it lifted a seven year ban but it imposed just made on chinese telecoms giant. from

buying u.s. components now it lifted the ban after china complained that the band would put the company out of business this is a company that has already been fined by the u.s. for selling high tech components to north korea and iran in violation of u.s. sanctions china's reaction you can say has been quite mild that north reiterated threats to impose retaliate carrots but they seem to have taken a sly dig at trumpet ministration and its propensity to flip flop on decisions saying they're surprised by the same time the decision is somewhat expected. a prominent russian journalist has been shot and killed at his apartment and ukraine . it was well known critical president that a man who said police and here said the forty one year old could have been targeted because of his job that's been reported left russia because he feared for his life or chalons has more from moscow. ukrainian police say that our caddie bob janko was

found bleeding in his apartment by his wife he received several gunshot wounds and died on his way to the hospital ukrainian politicians says the gunman had been waiting in the stairwell of the building and shot but janko as he came back from a trip to the grocery store now this man was a journalist rights an activist he was self exiled from his home country russia he had served in the chechen wars in the ninety's and early two thousand and that experience had made him both very anti war and also anti putin in the protest movement of two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve he had tried to organize forceful resistance against the putin government but it was an online post in two thousand and sixteen that

triggered his flight from russia he had basically said the. military plane crash in syria in which a russian. military choir die and various russian journalists as well he said that left him in difference because he disagreed with the military campaign that russia was involved in in syria that was the start of a of a russian media campaign against him and he felt that his life was in danger that's why he fled first to prague and then to kiev but it seems that that wasn't enough to keep him safe that the russian government has swung into gear already regarding this the foreign ministry is saying that it expects that kiev conducts a quick and transparent investigation that it wants international organization to take over that investigation as well the presidential human. rights council here in

russia says that this is a very provocative killing and the state duma that's the lower house of parliament announced that this murder proves that ukraine is the most dangerous country for journalists the opera house says that kiev will likely use bob jenkins death for its own political games so russia being fast in getting its messaging out there i think it knows that the spotlight is going to be pointing at moscow as a possible source of this hit. moscow says there's an agreement to hold a three way meeting between russia the u.s. and jordan to discuss the deescalation zone and southern soviet the announcement follows reports that syrian government forces are being sent to the area and preparation for an offensive saying aha the reports from bay vote. this corner of syria has been quiet for over a year there are fears that may change washington has threatened the syrian

government that it will act if it moves against the rebels and. the u.s. along with russia and jordan are guarantors of a cease fire in those southern provinces now moscow says. a day after jordan said the three countries see eye to eye on the need to preserve the truce. but there are many questions about what they agree on we don't know what kind of an agreement will they reach how long will the ceasefire last would it be a permanent cease fire what about the force that would control this area will government rule return to south in syria. which is what the syrian government wants state t.v. has been. it says the army. to the area in preparation for an offensive the opposition enclaves along the borders of israel and jordan both countries want russia to make sure iran and its allied militias stay away from the

area it seems moscow supports their position. from the very beginning of the agreement on forming a deescalation area in southwestern syria for the eventual withdrawal of all forces from this part of syria the result. should be a situation in which troops of the syrian armed forces will be stationed alongside the syrian border with israel but israel denied reports of an agreement with russia to prevent the deployment of back to forces in the area prime minister benjamin netanyahu said israel is not interested in any partial agreement. to syria opposition is clear we believe that there is no place for any iranian military presence anywhere in syria. there has been escalating tension following a series of israeli strikes on iranian targets in syria there are reports that iranian and iranian backed forces have withdrawn from the front lines in southern

syria and reposition closer to damascus if this is confirmed it will mean there is progress in the talks jordan and israel want those forces away from their borders and russia is pushing to return states rule to that corner of syria without the need for military action. syrian army commanders and their allies say the battle plan is ready and preparations are completed clearly keeping up the pressure while diplomacy takes the front seat. beirut. the u.n. has called on saudi arabia to provide more information on women's rights activists held in custody at least thirteen people were detained in a government crackdown that they've accused of having suspicious contact with foreigners the un's human rights office says it wants to ensure the detainees are treated fairly. these include the rights legal representation the rights know the reason for their arrests the nature of the charges against them the right to have

access to their families the right to challenge the legality of their detention before a competent independent and impartial champion all and if charged with an offense the right to be brought to trial within a reasonable period of time still ahead on the button there is impatiens anger at failed attempts from italy to form a coalition government and. change your coffee date why starbucks a shutdown or eight thousand of its us dollars for the day. hello and welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia we're looking pretty quiet across eastern areas find an almighty temperature twenty three around the caspian sea you may just see a few showers on the southern side so that might just get that the odd shower in tehran certainly very warm in baghdad in iraq with

a mix of forty two degrees showers around the caucasus one or two shows for the eastern side of the mediterranean but generally a fair amount of bright weather so beirut is looking good there with a high of twenty six degrees moving into the arabian peninsula is pretty hot here at the moment temperature forty four expected in mecca and here in doha we're going to hit forty degrees i think during the course of wednesday he says he wanted to sharon's further south still the weakness from the tropical cyclone mecca new which was gave such incredible rainfall across allow about the still little circulation which is also perhaps lifting some dust across the rubble calley the empty quarter saudi arabia so through towards a thursday the risk was gone forty two degrees expected here in doha to move across into southern portions of africa is looking largely fine you've got some cloud across eastern parts of south africa into mozambique but generally looking dry and bright for most areas and should be a fine day in cape town but not particularly warm of just sixteen.

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to have you with us on al-jazeera and these are our top stories as well as denying reports that it's agreed to a truce for palestinian factions in gaza and struck dozens of targets in the gaza strip and response to attacks by hamas and islamic jihad the palestinian factions launched their biggest assault on as rail and for years the u.s. state department has suggested the summit between donald trump and kim jong un and singapore next month is back on the north korean leader's right hand man is traveling to the u.s. the talks with secretary of state mike pompei are and a prominent russian journalist has been shot and killed as apartment in ukraine. was a well known critic of president vladimir putin police in cannes so the forty one year old could have been targeted because of his job. now supporters of italy's five star movement have been protesting after the president vetoed its attempts to form a coalition government on monday president appointed former i.m.f. official rarely interim prime minister repaid elections may now be held as early as

july if any fails to secure support. for an interim government john holl reports. with financial markets on tenterhooks and a government of non-elected technocrats being assembled in rome supporters of the anti establishment five star movement voiced their anger in naples. they're not prepared to stand by after their party having formed a coalition with the far right league party was denied power on the weekend when president sergio rejected one of their proposed ministers. but so far there's been no breakthrough in efforts to form a government led by matter ellis pick as prime minister designate former international monetary fund official carlo quarterly after meeting the president on tuesday afternoon a spokesman said this meant they've in order. and simply here to inform you that prime minister designate. has updated the president on the situation will meet

again tomorrow morning i'm not authorized to say more. even if a technocratic government is formed it's likely a majority of m.p.'s will vote it down in parliament would lead the country to early elections in the autumn. it is an extremely delicate situation without doubt in political terms a transformation is occurring in italian politics whatever happens sportswear tally it will not give its confidence votes to culturally. we will abstain because it's a neutral technical government which serves to lead us to elections as soon as possible. analysts suggest the political mayhem blamed by figures from the league five star alliance on the e.u. power centers of brussels and berlin may well strengthen right wing anti establishment support the next election they say could be an unofficial referendum

on italy's membership of the eurozone and that is a development financial markets already wary of italy's massive debt burden will not welcome joan a whole al-jazeera. germany is marking the twenty fifth anniversary of an acid attack in which five turkish citizens were killed two women and three children were killed in the far bombing and selling again the racist assault carried out by both of young german men is considered one of the worst country's worst crimes chancellor angela merkel has attended a more memorial along with turkey's foreign minister. the view muslims go through in the suits and we especially have to protect those people who are the target of xenophobia racism and he seem it isn't because the state has a special responsibility here we are very aware of that that's why it's indispensable that german security authorities do everything they can to prevent

and clear up right wing extremists crimes we know and this knowledge hurts that al thora she's to at times make serious mistakes as the german government we can only ask for forgiveness. to kenya now where nearly half the people arrested in a corruption scandal have now been charged by prosecutors forty officials and fourteen business men are caught up in the case involving the national youth service so and why has the director and other staff members are among those arrested in dawn raids on monday the n y s a paramilitary training institution at the forefront of president hu kenyatta plan to combat youth unemployment. or oil workers and are threatening to go on strike from wednesday as brazil struggles to cope with a truck driver strike but governments are going to lower fuel prices by up to twelve percent but truckers are still taking action. reports from sao paulo on how people are being affected. fuel supplies are now reaching the gas

stations but the return to the normality most people crave is still some way off public transport services were reduced schools closed and domestic flights cancelled. even though there is a custom to three rubbish collections a week. but she still waiting. the other lima like thousands of others spent five hours in line only for the pump to run dry just as he reached it he hasn't worked since last friday but supports the truck drivers since he believes high fuel prices everyone. leave now and look for another gas station i will end up running dry in the middle of the street i have enough to get home but i would rather wait here to see if another truck arrives with fuel. this wholesale market in sao paolo on monday we see just ten percent of its normal deliveries that is my employees went on vacations it's just

my son and i coming here now to wait for the end of the strike there's nothing else we can do. the truck drivers road blocks last week stop twenty nine million tonnes of fruit and vegetables from reaching markets the truth is both temporary and fragile the negotiations are continuing however nobody wants to see this kind of an activity they say the commodity is returning over it'll be some days before these warehouses are again filled up and this street is teeming with trucks unloading fruit and vegetables. many brazilians are taking action to avoid what they see is inevitable future petrol shortages by switching their vehicles to compressed natural gas cleaner cheaper and most importantly available. for filler despair with full until the end of june where folk pesty here we needed to extend their working hours to convert around twenty cars daily. while the government has

reduced the price of diesel to sixty days tens of thousands of trucks remain by the roadside the drivers say the offer is not enough and while many agree with them because it is bracing itself for more difficulties ahead. there are so powerful. a new survey has found that more than four hundred thousand people died in last year's puerto rico hearkened it is around seventy times the official government numbers how come area devastated the u.s. territory in september the government put the number of dead at just sixty four but an estimate compiled by harvard university found thousands more died during the three months after the storm. starbucks close all eight thousand of its u.s. stores on tuesdays that the staff could get training to avoid racial bias the move follows an incident last month when two black men were kicked out of the coffee shop after asking to use the bathroom gabriel elizondo reports from for the dollar

figure. at first it was business as usual at starbucks but by midday the doors were locked and stead of serving. the only thing on the menu was racial bias training for employees this sign was put on the front door telling customers to come back tomorrow five to the press wasn't allowed inside a new starbucks really has to be arcs of the training that he and he will ease managers trainers discuss exertional bias and how to deal with it the company tramplings third place in the place between home and work we don't where everyone is welcome or can we structurally change the organization it's an unprecedented move the world's largest coffee chain closing over eight thousand stores it racial bias training to one hundred seventy five thousand employees it's in response to this cellphone images captured two black men that were kicked out of the starbucks after asking an employee to use the washroom while waiting for a business meeting police were called protest calling to boycott starbucks and sued

making a public relations nightmare on tuesday outside that very starbucks store customers had mixed feelings if the training's would really solve underlying issues of racial bias i think it's a positive thing and place it by the anti by straining don't cover the full scope of of complexity when it comes to addressing white supremacy critics say one day of racial bias training without any sort of measurable benchmarks is simply not enough but starbucks founder says this is just the beginning racial bias trainings like this could be coming to a starbucks near you no matter where you live in the world we hire one hundred thousand new people a year this is going to be part of the ongoing training we're going to globalize this i've been through the training myself as as has all the global leaders and this is something that we're going to stay with starbucks knows they cannot change decades of racial bias in america but hoping that with

a little training they can at least make change in their stores gabriel's on al-jazeera philadelphia. now avis jones do we have a diversity consultant in washington d.c. and she thinks more u.s. companies should follow starbucks example i think that there is a level of authenticity with this c.e.o. unlike other incidents that we've seen here in the states the c.e.o. stood up pretty immediately and said that this company would take action obviously this is obviously a p.r. tragedy that no company wants to face right but he could have just ignored it he could have just moved on we've had other incidents here particularly i think a great example is the waffle house horrible incidents there and their owners have really done nothing as a result at least with starbucks they've started to make a change in terms of taking the other president an act of setting down thousands of

stores having some level of racial bias training isn't enough no but i do believe they do deserve some recognition that they are moving in the right direction and i think it would be great if other companies would sort of take their lead and be more proactive when they have racist incidents like this occur in their establishments. and i again i'm there's a problem and the headlines on al-jazeera and as well as denying reports that it's agreed to a truce with palestinian factions in gaza it struck dozens of targets in the gaza strip and response to attacks by hamas and islamic jihad the palestinian factions launched their biggest assault on as rail and for here is the u.s. state department has suggested the summit between donald trump and kim jong un and singapore next month is back on the north korean leader's right hand man is

traveling to the u.s. for talks with secretary of state mike pompei on. the united states continues to actively prepare for president trump's expected summit with leader in singapore president trump will meet with prime minister shinzo abi of japan on june the seventh at the white house and the secretary pompei i look forward to being a part of those meetings north korean vice chairman of the central committee kim jong il is arriving in new york and will meet with secretary pompano later this week we also have a u.s. delegation meeting with a north korean delegation in the d.m.z. the u.s. says it will impose a twenty five percent tariff on fifty billion dollars worth of imports from china it would also destruction vestment by chinese companies in the u.s. and limit exports of high tech goods to china earlier this month the two countries agreed to look at measures to cut china's trade surplus in a move that appeared to reduce the risk of a trade war a prominent russian journalist has been shot and killed as apartment in ukraine. it

was a well known critic of president putin police and care for the forty one year old could have been targeted because of his job the u.n. has called on saudi arabia to provide more information on one's rights activists being held in custody at least thirteen people have been detained in a government crackdown they're being accused of suspicious contact with foreigners . and kenya almost half the people arrested in a corruption scandal have now been charged by prosecutors forty officials and fourteen businessmen of course top of the case involving the national youth service . those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us the listening post is coming up next thank you for watching. seven billion in the school each one is still. demonstrably. to. be reckoned with several women's rights

protections but the rest. of what i got in the. train and accusing. women the rest of the media can rest easy with this. last play by taking us back. hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week saudi arabia jails women's rights activists in the media ask is the crown prince driving real change or hitting the brakes one journalist arrested another one sentenced egypt keeps tightening the screws on the news media in mexico and government advertising those ads keep some media outlets afloat but that comes at a price and read my lips badly britain's royal wedding reworded if you want a hot dog good you've got a lot of what to do with almost don't.