ceasefire seems to be holding in gaza after a day of attacks between palestinian groups and israel. launching a zero line from a headquarters and. also ahead a senior north korean official heads to new york ahead of a planned summit between kim jong boon and donald trump. italy's interim prime minister and presidents hold talks in a bid to end the recent political deadlock. and malaysia officially calls off its current search for the missing m h three seventy plane the prime minister says it could resume if there is new evidence.

follow after a day of strikes between israel and palestinian armed factions there appears to be relative calm in gaza israel israel carried out several airstrikes targeting what it called military sites across the strip on tuesday islamic jihad's and other factions had launched rocket and mortar attacks against israel after their fighters were killed earlier bernard smith has more from gaza. it's been quiet in gaza since about four am local time when a cease fire appears to have taken hold this we understand was following a message delivered from the israelis via egyptian mediators to the different palestinian factions in gaza saying that if you do not stop firing rockets and mortars into israel now then israel will retaliate in a much stronger way perhaps even targeting the leaderships of the different

palestinian factions in gaza but it seems to have done the trick the groups here in gaza saying while they have agreed to a cease fire what happened in the throughout the night was that because islamic jihad was the main protagonist that started firing these rockets into israeli territory and the kassam brigade hamas is armed wing felt obliged to join in there was pressure on the street to show its strength so this is when more and more groups started joining in firing rockets and mortars into israel and israel continued to fire rockets into gaza hit targets in gaza both sides exchange all of this fire till four o'clock when find out message seems to have come through on the palestinian groups have taken notice well the former u.s. national security official hillary mann leverett says the latest escalation in violence may be used against the palestinians by israel's close ally the us. 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 seem particular. there 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 in

a separate development israel has released some palestinian protesters detained while on a boat that was headed to cyprus they were attempting to breach israel's naval blockade of gaza for the first time from inside the strip the israeli navy intercepted the boat shortly after the departure from gaza and total to its ports. the north korean leader kim jong un's right had is now on his way to the united states kim was seen boarding a flight to new york from beijing just a few hours ago he's the vice chairman of north korea's ruling party is due to hold talks with secretary of state mike pompei or later on thursday they're expected to pave the way for a meeting between donald trump and kim jong next month while the u.s. state department suggests the summit in singapore is back on. 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 i look forward to being a part of those meetings north korean vice chairman of the central committee kim yong 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. . thomas has more from seoul. the talks that began on sunday and continue on wednesday inside the demilitarized zone between a u.s. delegation and a north korean delegation shrouded in secrecy as you can imagine we're not getting anything from either side directly involved but an official of the president's palace here in seoul in south korea said on wednesday that those talks all proceeding well so i thought that's the only clue we've had that's so you official also said that he expects a fruitful outcome from the meeting between kim yong chill essentially kim jong un's right hand man and much pump a zero meeting will happen in new york later this week now separately to the u.s. north korean talks and korean summits will be held on friday that will be between

high level officials from north and south korea and essentially they'll be talking about a longer term aims and ambitions among other officials there of people from the respective transport on the railroad ministries long term they would like to reestablish rail links between the two koreas but the summits need to take place first between donald trump and kim jong il and talk of a renewed rail link well that's a long way down the track after a multimillion dollar for your long operation the search for the missing malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy has been called off a private u.s. firm was the last scene to look for the aircraft but its mission wrapped up on tuesday the plane disappeared in twenty fourteen with two hundred thirty nine people on board well asia's new prime minister mahathir mohamad says the search could resume if new evidence is found. in.

this program all over that were. not on any. so we had to come to is this the. people on the city put in that. but. as. we have to. live now it's a difficult balance is joining us from malaysian capital kuala lumpur it's been for years the view on the government's had called the search off before is this really the end. that is the question doing and as you said there was a time after malaysia china and australia had launched a full fully fledged search they called it off saying that they hadn't found anything significant but malaysian families are families of those on board the plane had pressured the malaysian government and they restarted the search now this

time it was a ninety day contract with an american exploration company which is said to be using some of the latest most modern equipment in undersea exploration this deal with that company has just come to an end it came to an end technically last night at midnight here and so. now the malaysian government is saying nothing significant has been revealed from that search they say there are no leads no new clues the transport ministry is giving a press conference once again confirming that there isn't anything else to go on and so they are and doing the search and they are confirming that they are ending the search but once again the prime minister has said if anyone comes up with any new information there is a possibility that it could be extended but as far as we can see right now and the rhetoric from the government they want this to come to and then another big reason for this is that this government has only been in place over the past few weeks and

that come to a country which has which is in norma's debt so that's five to budgetary constraints to if the exploration company had found the black box or the plane the malaysian government would have had to pay them seventy million dollars for it so there are all kinds of reasons but the fact remains that the families of those onboard are still very concerned and will be lobbying lobbying and pressuring the government to continue looking for the plane you know how much more they're going to be doing divya because one does wonder how disheartening this information must be for the families of those who lost their lives on that flight. that's right we spoke to some of the members of the families of those who had parents siblings on that plane and they said that for them this is not any more just about them getting their own closure it's also about closure for the aviation industry there are so many questions about what happened and you know on a technical level on an aviation love all people do want to know how something like

this could have happened so these mistakes will not be repeated we also spoke to aviation industry experts who said oh cited previous plane crashes where it took years to find evidence saying that this time frame is not necessarily enough to find the evidence that they need right difficult fallen thank you italy is interim prime minister carlo carli is meeting president sergio motorola in an attempt to form a new government another election may now have to be held as early as july if culturally fails to form a government on a whole reports. with financial markets on tenterhooks and the government of non-elected technocrats being assembled in rome supporters of the anti establishment find stumble meant 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 material rejected one of their proposed ministers. but from there's been no breakthrough in efforts to form a government led by to release pictures prime minister designate former international monetary fund official countercultural really after meeting the president on tuesday afternoon a spokesman said listen please remain fifteen or very very simply here to inform you that prime minister designate color quarterly has updated the president on the situation or 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 voted down in parliament that 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 that whatever happens for talia

will not give its confidence votes to cut. but i do know all we will abstain because it's a neutral technical government it 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 john a whole al-jazeera still has. a russian journalist is shot and killed in ukraine police believe he was targeted because his work was critical of the kremlin and what u.s. coffee chain starbucks is doing to avoid racial bias in its stores details coming

up. from a fresh breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. how i love the warm sunshine around for europe at the moment but lots of showers as well some lively ones into central and western parts you can see the cloud the thunderheads here and they will continue to rumble away as we go on through the next day or two areas of low pressure around spain pushing ever towards france as well the line of very heavy showers spilling out to spain into southern france easing up into that western side of germany look at the temperatures thirty one celsius there for a similar valley there for warsaw even up into scandinavia we getting up to twenty four degrees in stockholm most of drawing hot sunshine around here then little cooler there from moscow to around sixteen celsius but again lousy dry showers

continue across central and western pos if anything those showers pushing further north was much a front seeing some lively downpours as we go on through thursday with the possibility of some localized flooding twenty four celsius in london twenty five celsius their form of dread going to see the fine weather making its way across northern parts of africa but always a chance of one to two showers into northern areas of morocco maybe also to northern parts of algeria twenty one celsius there for about twenty two for algae is a he's on the other side of the continent with a high of thirty four the current. there with sponsored. these. stories generate thousands of headlines. with different angles from different perspectives. that russia was responsible for this separate from the facts that's why i own. the misinformation from the journalists and the

issues here go far beyond one data mining company and one election we've been listening on. top stories this hour after a day of strikes between israel and palestinian armed factions appears to be relative calm in gaza. israel carried out several airstrikes targeting what it called military sites across the. islamic jihad. on israel after their fighters were killed. a senior north korean official is on his way to the united states. boarding

a flight to new york and beijing his talks with secretary of state pay are likely to pave the way for a summit between. prime minister. is meeting with president. in an attempt to form a new government another election may have to be held as early as july if fails to form an agreement to rule. out a policy that's a political consultant joining us on skype from rome thanks for speaking to us. with new governments the man to live up to the job right now. no customarily is a dead man walking literally he has absolutely no chances number wise to get the vote of confidence so it's a pretty simple math five and the league will. die down but

so will the p.d. and for faith out just so caught up in the stands up to no chance to make it so what's out. there what happens next. well what we can have is either a new election and the earliest we can have elections the is like nine but obviously. you have a lag. in the later so normally you have sixty days that from the day in which limits. they like so if you could do so different today maybe we can vote on the twenty ninth of july. the other scenario is one that where instead of this all the arguments that they someone's back the leaders all the leader and five stars

and then they saw the place on sunday had. didn't take place. and sit down with the subby in the mine i was a five. and leave and agrees on government whether whether you have legs and arms or you. lose all or men are not all that or is it different and that is one of the main issues when you look at the broader picture of this some investors analysts saying that if there was a snap election then this is going to turn into a referendum on the euro and the e.u. itself and for you coming from a political risk consultancy background how risky is all of this going to be for the euro and the e.u. . it can be quite risky. in that this

has to be laying on the head of state the head of state when when you refuse to sign all. the media so i know it's proposed by the league and five. mentioning the angel right to the savings of the house and to the membership of the euro. and because of that really escalate the. a. level. you are correct that. and then maddow obviously you have come from the fact that some. are saying stating it amounts micrometer around it so not only we need to have. certain the next year act another government we have out there like that's not enough we also need to send the reassuring signals

to the markets and here it all boils down to understand they want the signal would be it needs to be a powerful one. would have to do with the skills the bellew the commitment and these new row. we've had the never out it would be about the semantics but also about. all right now i mean i'm hearing on the on the list is that orses are a silly find one of the stand where the biggest is do all and a very short. time because i just speak. french chef i'm going to have to we thank you for speaking to us from rome. now we're just getting some breaking news out of afghanistan and there are reports that explosions and gunfire have been

heard near the afghanistan interior ministry headquarters in the capital of kabul it's where law enforcement and tactics for the country are strategized we are following the story and we will have more for you as it continues to develop. russia has rejected allegations by ukraine that it ordered the killing of a russian journalist living in kiev. chain co was shot and killed in his apartment in the ukrainian capital prime minister has blamed russia for the shooting chalons has more from moscow. ukrainian police say that arkady bob 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 juncos he came back from a trip to the grocery store now this was a journalist rights and 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 rushed. 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 warnings of year 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 the lower house of parliament announced that this murder proves that ukraine is the most dangerous country for journalists the upper 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 of this hit. police in paris are dismantling the largest makeshift camp for refugees and immigrants in the city the camp in the northeast is next to a canal and houses nearly two and a half thousand people they'll now be taken to gymnasiums this month to migrants drowned in one of the canals along the police of cleared out about twenty eight thousand people from camps in the city over the past three years. all four days in saudi arabia have arrested two more human rights activists since a large scale crackdown on women's rights activists and other supporters began on may the fifteen that brings the total number of people arrested to fifty and they have been accused of having suspicious contact with foreigners the un's human rights office says it wants to ensure the detainees rights to due process. the u.n. says it's extremely concerned about the situation in the port city of how they the

yemen the forces of a saudi erotic coalition and the yemeni government have been advancing on the city which is controlled by hold the rebels or colleagues in the area have already take started to take precautionary. measures in terms of ramping up assistance and redefining contingency plans in case is further escalation food non-food items warded sanitation hygiene and cash assistance have already been delivered to displaced families in various areas are we see increased fighting would even be she would more internally displaced people starbucks close thousands of fat stores in the u.s. for one day so staff can get training to avoid racial bias the move follows an incident last month when two black men were arrested by police while waiting for friends at starbucks gabriel is on the reports from philadelphia. at first it was

business as usual at starbucks but by midday the doors were locked in stead of serving frappuccino 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. managers trainers discuss each racial bias and how to deal with it and 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 of 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 bias trainings 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 hope. that with

a little training they can at least make change in their stores gabriel's on al-jazeera philadelphia running. back to the breaking news we're getting out of kabul we were telling you moments ago the gunfire has been heard and explosions near the interior ministry in kabul jennifer gloucester wanting us from the afghan capital what are you hearing about this jennifer during the do you know that a complex attack is underway that is when an explosion begin peak attack and then gunmen have tried to get into that ministry of interior compound this is a new compound for the ministry of interior it is heavily fortified we are hearing gunfire and explosions understand the attackers do have rocket propelled grenades the weapons that they have now this comes on friday nights the afghan security forces some car bomb near that ministry and able to get rid of it it did not go off but clearly a lot of pressure here as this complex attacks going going on the ministry already

heavily fortified there's already been high security in the city yesterday they found a car full of a of a weapons at the main international airport so definitely afghan security forces under a lot of pressure to maintain security here in the capital do we expect any deaths or casualties i understand that this is still going on right now as you're saying. it is ongoing it is really too soon to tell it's unclear what caused the first explosion how big it was and who might have been in the vicinity at the time as i said during this is the interior ministry it is in a it is surrounded by large blast walls and it is heavily fortified it's a complex of a number of building so right now we don't have any word yet on any injuries or casualties and you know history shows that a lot of these attacks can go on for many hours the police the chip that attacked the production weeks ago here in the center of kabul that siege lasted seven hours

because the attackers were able to get into a building we're not exactly sure how long this will take as well all right jennifer we'll leave it there for now thank you for that update from couple. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera this hour there are reports that explosions and gunfire have been heard near the afghanistan interior ministry headquarters in the capital it's where law enforcement tactics for the country are strategize. after a day of strikes between israel and palestinian armed factions there appears to be relative calm in gaza on tuesday israel carried out several airstrikes targeting what it called military sites across the proceeds enclave islamic jihad and hamas had launched rocket and mortar attacks on israel after their fighters were killed earlier in the palestinian president. is accusing israel of escalating

tensions and is calling for peace and. difficult days have on the west bank drucilla and especially on the gaza strip these really today a fierce aggression on the gaza strip with rockets and aircraft indicates that does not want peace however we want peace and we demand peace. a senior north korean official is on his way to the united states. boarding a flight to new york and beijing his plan talks with the secretary of state pay or likely to pave the way for a summit between donald trump. italy's interim prime minister carlo carli is meeting with the president. in an attempt to form a new government another election may now have to be held as early as july if the fails to form an agreement to rule. russia has rejected allegations by ukraine that it ordered the killing of a russian journalist living in kiev. was shot and killed in his apartment in the

ukrainian capital the prime minister has blamed for the shooting. police in paris are dismantling the largest makeshift camp for refugees and immigrants in the city the camp in the north is theirs next to a can all of houses nearly two and a half thousand people will now be taken to gymnasiums this month to migrants drowned in one of the canals along the police have cleared out about twenty thousand people from camps in the city over the past three years. we'll have more news for you in less than thirty minutes time for now it's the stream coming up on al-jazeera. getting to the heart of the matter if. you today. would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification would look like there are people peaceful unification is the only option for prosperity you. hear

their story on al-jazeera. ok and you're on the stream live on. today nearly seventy years on what will it take to in the korean war discuss the ongoing prospects for peace on the korean peninsula. for some americans the korean war is considered a forgotten conflict for north korea the three years of fighting that killed more than two million between nine hundred fifty and nine hundred fifty three remains a constant reminder for vigilance against what pyongyang sees as u.s. imperialist aggression more than six decades since one thousand nine hundred fifty three armistice the historic into korean summit held last month. resulted in yet.