just. out. of the. explosions and gunfire are heard near the ministry of interior in the capital kabul. you're watching a life from a headquarters and. also ahead a cease fire seems to be holding in gaza after a day of attacks between palestinian groups and israel. italy's interim prime minister and president's hold talks in a bid to end the recent political deadlock. and french police dismantle a makeshift camp two thousand migrants had been living will be live in paris.

we begin with some breaking news out of afghanistan and there are reports of explosions and gunfire near the interior ministry headquarters in the capital kabul jennifer joining us on the telephone from kabul itself what are you hearing about this attack jennifer. that's a package still going on to get on the ministry of interior expertise with an explosion and then a number of actors firing rocket propelled grenades gunfire. very very large news calling compound on a main road in kabul traffic has been diverted from that road snarling traffic around the city much of the city in a long jam of traffic because it is such a main i've just heard that flights in and out of kabul international airport has been suspended for now because the ministry of interior is not very far from the

end of the runway there so this attack ongoing we don't have any word of casualties right now and no one has claimed responsibility but the taliban have said that they would car get government institutions and they had warned regular to stay away from any government offices or security areas and presumably this must be an area where there is heavy security if it is the minister ministry excuse me off of interior just give us a sense what security would have been like on any normal given day there are very high blast walls in this compound this is the new ministry they moved it actually out of the center of power to be able to give it more standoff to be able to protect it from attack there are guards there all on all the time twenty four hours a day on friday night they found and diffused a car bomb outside the ministry of interior so they know that they were targeting they would have been on extra high alert because there are targets a number it's

a big group of building surrounded by a high blast wall and off the main road. jennifer we will leave it there for enough thank you for that update. after a day of strikes between israel and palestinian armed factions there appears to be relative calm in gaza israel carried out several airstrikes targeting what it called military sites across the strip on tuesday islamic jihad 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 by 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 that 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 then 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 of that message seems to have come through on the palestinian groups have taken notice and 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 is really navy intercepted the boat shortly after the departure and towed it to its port. italy's interim prime minister carlo cursorily is meeting with president sarah jo much irrelevant in an attempt to form a new government this comes as leaders of italy's five star movement on the far right have renewed efforts to form a coalition government their supporters have been protesting after the president vetoed their attempt to form a government a government with the far right league francesco's galiot is head of policy sonar that's a political risk consultancy he says carlo culturally stands little chance. but that only the dead men walking literally has absolutely no chances number wise to get the vote of confidence so it's a pretty simple math five star and the league will vote. but

so will he and what they found a so-called friendly stands absolutely no chance may well what we can have is either new or elections and the earliest we can have elections is like twenty nine obviously. you have a lag. in the later so normally you have sixty days that from the day in which argument. they. are so if you saw argument today maybe we can vote on the twenty ninth of july. be i'll be another somalia is one the where instead of this all the argument as they come on spec are the leaders of the league and five stars and then they saw the place on sunday had.

a place. police in paris are dismantling the largest makeshift camp for refugees and immigrants in the city the camp in the north east is that. and houses nearly one and a half thousand people police have cleared out about twenty eight thousand people from camps in the city over the past three years to talk about large joining us live from paris from where i believe you are joining us from the site of that capital just tell us what's going on behind you and whether the migrants have been cleared or what the reaction has been. yeah there were about one thousand five hundred migrants living here along a canal in the north of paris and you can see behind me an area where some of those tents. before and it's actually been cleared now they're rubbish trucks there are still some possessions left around but most of it has been clear that most of

margaret's came from eritrea they came from don and over the past few months the paris city council has had a bit of a cause for the government the paris mayor has been telling the government you've got to do something about this situation there is no sanitation the conditions are appalling people are living on the streets and i think things really came to a head in the past few weeks when you had two migrants who actually drowned in the canal right behind me now the government and then activated this evacuation police offices were here at around six o'clock in the morning local time it was very peaceful people were put on to buses and they are being taken to shelters we are told across the paris region about a thousand of them were evacuated to another five hundred by the left before they simply weren't here at the time to what extent are camps like these natasha at the heart off or what role do have they played in france's immigration debate.

i think they're just a very visual simple symbol of immigration in france for many people what the french government have done recently is passed a new immigration law and has passed a tough law which tries to crack down on what is called so-called economic migrants the government says that this law makes it easier for so-called asylum seekers now is interesting because the interior minister talking about this particular evacuation this morning put out a statement in which he said that the migrants that are being played from this camp would be helped and supported with their asylum process if it was deemed that they were eligible of course that statement omitted to talk about what would happen to those who are not deemed eligible for asylum but we know that this government has been very keen on speeding up detentions and deportations of illegal migrants

there's no doubt though that the government will certainly be hoping that its new law will help reduce the numbers of people trying to reach france and reduce the sort of camps in tents like this which keeps bringing up across paris because it is the thirty fifth such clearance in the last three years people simply keep coming all right that's thank you 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. for more as a last team to look for the aircraft but its mission wrapped up on tuesday the plane disappeared twenty fourteen with two hundred thirty nine people on board malaysia's new prime minister mahathir mohamad says the search could resume if new evidence is found. we had then. so this program all over the world. and we have not found any evidence yet so we had to come to us to see where we can keep on the city for something

that we really cannot find even anybody has any information. we wouldn't want to do resuming but at the moment as we had we had to put a stop to this still ahead on al-jazeera a senior north korean official heads to new york ahead of a planned summit between kim jong il and now donald trump. and as greece's financial aid program nears its sad workers from its energy sector angry over more reforms. hello we've got the usual rash of showers across southeast asia some big ones there into thailand over one hundred millimeters of rain here twenty four hours in those

big dam pose will continue to trundle away from aced to west so more storms gathering together southern parts of the mill a potential northern areas of sumatra seeing some bigger lively downpours not wall to wall downpours but still plenty of heavy showers in the heat of the day lots of sunshine ahead of fact they go as you go on into thursday more of those heavy showers through much of the philippines down into malaysia indonesia on the other hand does look like is drying out quite nicely over the next couple of days jakarta around thirty two degrees celsius a little bit of fair weather clouds around here but some places of cloud to making their way across southern parts of australia down towards the southeast and cold a little area of granges pushing its way down towards victoria cold front tucking in here's a cool air comes in behind high pressure keeps it last five and settle in there we have got some other easy conditions a little further east was as the wind of the rain makes its way towards the eastern side of the country new south wales will see it clearing brightening up seventeen

celsius for cities and particularly warm a high of thirteen in melbourne and twenty five. exploited demand and use the killing. in the would be to make the charcoal that fuels the furnace is that forge the steel that didn't make shoes the trade that exploits the man. penetrates global market slavery a twenty first century evil continues to charcoal slaves. hello

again the top stories on al-jazeera explosions and gunfire are being heard near afghanistan's interior ministry headquarters in the capital kabul airport has been closed temporarily because of the attack this is a developing story and we'll bring you more information as we get it it's 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 besieged enclave islamic jihad and hamas have launched rocket and mortar attacks on israel after their fighters were killed earlier. italy's interim prime minister carlo collaterally is holding a meeting with the with an attempt to form a new government the leaders of at least five star movement on the far right lead have renewed efforts to form a coalition on monday the president rejected one of their choices for

a minister which led to protests. russia has rejected allegations by ukraine that it ordered the killing of a russian journalist living in kiev. was shot dead in his apartment in the ukrainian capital the prime minister has blamed russia for the shooting. covering the story joining us from moscow so has there been official reaction from moscow. but. well the response from moscow has been pretty textbook have to say russia seems to have a kind of formula that eases in any incidents where it's likely that the finger of blame is going to be pointed in some way after moscow and generally what it does in these cases is to call for an independence and. quick investigation to suggest the the incident itself was some sort of provocation and also to say

that russia's adversaries would be using the incidents for their political ends and all of these boxes have already been ticked by various parts of the russian state the russian federation council the russian duma the russian presidential human rights council have all spoken in one way or another along these lines we've heard recently from sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister saying that yes this this death was a tragedy but that's as you just said in your introduction there that the ukrainian government is already pointing the finger of blame at moscow despite the fact that in a proper investigation hasn't been carried out yet here this man was a tough guy in many ways a. former soldier in the chechen wars and someone who had been so revulsed by his experiences in conflict that he then became a war correspondent writing against war and in many books and articles he'd also

become very soon in acts of eight was an activist in the two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve protest movement he fled russia early last year because of an online post he made about a military plane crash in syria that drew the ire of russia's state media machine he felt perhaps he had to get out of russia that he wasn't safe clearly wasn't safe in kiev either and many responses many tributes are coming in from the numerous friends and colleagues that he had across the russian speaking world they're shocked and horrified by this killing ok rory thank you. north korea's leader kim jong un's right hand man is now on his way to the united states 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 and is due to hold talks with secretary of state my pompei o later on thursday they're expected to pave the way for a meeting between donald trump and kim jong il in the next month the u.s.

state department to suggest that that's 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 o looks 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 are proceeding well so far that's the only clue we've had that same 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 pomp aoe meeting will happen in new york later this week now separately to the u.s. north korean talks and into a korean summit 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 will that's a long way down the track and can really health care has more from washington d.c. on that meeting between ken myung chore and the u.s. secretary of state. 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 it will also restrict investment by chinese companies in the u.s. limited 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 florence louis has more from eastern province. china says it surprised at the latest announcement coming out from the trump administration and called on the. u.s. to implement the spirit of the 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 u.s. 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. hands in those negotiations and to signal that gloves are coming off those traits and on to and let's 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 bag 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 small they've not 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. germany has marked the twenty fifth anniversary of an arson attack that killed five turkish citizens two women and three children were killed in the fire bombing the assaults carried out by a group of young german men was considered one of the country's worst hate crimes chancellor angela merkel attended a 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 anti-semitism because the state has a special responsibility here we are very aware of that that's why it's indispensable that jim and security authorities do everything they can to prevent and clear up right wing extremists crimes we know and this knowledge that al thora she's too at times make serious mistakes as the german government we can only ask for forgiveness union leaders in greece fear hundreds of jobs could be lost when the country's biggest public electricity company sells some of its power stations m.p.'s have already approved the sale which is a condition of greece receiving its third bailout from international lenders in august john reports in the city of. make a locally introduced electricity to southern greece in one nine hundred seventy the

public power corporation p.p.c. invested hundreds of millions of dollars in a power plant based on exclusive access to cheap lignite coal but that is about to change greece's eurozone partners and creditors have ordered the corporation to share access to this abundant fuel in the name of competition the p.p.c. is being forced to sell three power stations and the lignite mines that feed them union leaders fear that will put eleven hundred jobs at risk in this town alone the little guy got on the gullible dislike of buying the whole idea this power station called to be did great a to create his energy security for half a century now they're expected to sell it to a privateer in the blink of an eye they're coming in to buy ready built plants and mines that's not development development is building new plants hiring people creating jobs this is a sellout there's enough coal here to run the past ation for another fifteen years that would see most of the present workforce safely into retirement but under privatisation their jobs are guaranteed for only six years so they're looking at

the prospect of unemployment in middle age but they are partly the victims of their own success the p.p.c. union has fought liberalization for two decades the public power corporation built the electricity market and its infrastructure from nothing over the past century making money wasn't the point investment in the economy was the goal but under europe's free market rules it must now divest itself of its titanic monopoly it has sold its transmission network is privatizing three profitable power stations and by the end of next year must lose half its client base high carbon dioxide emissions risk putting lignite coal out of action altogether last year this plant paid thirteen and a half million dollars in emissions fines and their costs have since nearly tripled energy experts say the real value of the sale is not in the existing operation but the thousands of. hectors of land and the operating license that come with it so we may well see in a situation where no one or

a new owner comes seen operating in ignite power plant a few years and then decides to dismantle the lignite. parts of the operation and substituted with a gas power plant or a fourth hole take one that's not a transition workers here support renewable energy requires little labor and if this land is given over to a different use it likely won't require their skills jumps at all plus al-jazeera megalopolis. well us truck drivers entered the second week of a nationwide strike over soaring fuel prices in brazil oil workers are now threatening to join the president michel tomorrow said he was preparing a lawsuit to stop the planned strikes by workers and unions that has paralyzed latin america's largest economy. the reports from sao paolo. 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's still waiting for. 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 to everyone. what are the possible if i 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 received 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 stopped 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. feel a despair with full until the end of june were full capacity here we needed to extend our 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. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera explosions and gunfire are being held near afghanistan's interior ministry headquarters in the capital kabul airport has been close temporarily because of these attacks it's a developing story and we'll bring you more information as we get it it's 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 besieged on klav islamic jihad and hamas had launched rocket and mortar attacks on israel after their fighters were killed

earlier. italy's interim prime minister carlo carli is meeting president. in an attempt to form a new government this comes as leaders of italy's five star movement on the far right lead have renewed efforts to form a coalition government their supporters have been protesting after the president vetoed one of their proposed ministers after a multi-million dollar four year long operation the current search for the missing malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy has been called off a private u.s. firm was the last team 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 malaysia's new prime minister mahathir mohamad says the search could resume if new evidence is found russia has rejected allegations by ukraine that it ordered the killing of a russian journalist living in kiev. was shot and killed in his apartments in the ukrainian capital the prime minister has blamed russia for the shooting releasing

kids say the forty one year old dissident could have been targeted because of his job. last year saying he was receiving threats and feared he might be jailed 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 that houses nearly one and a half thousand people they'll now be taken to gymnasiums this month to migrants drowned in one of the canals along the camp and police have cleared out about twenty thousand people from camps in the city over the past three years those are the headlines slavery a twenty first century is coming up next right here on al-jazeera. the i.m.f. said riyadh's breakeven although price twenty eighteen is likely to be around eighty eight dollars a barrel why is argentina again turning to the i.m.f. for help now we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live

in counting the cost on al-jazeera. to three hundred years the most powerful nations on earth richer and strong go on the profits of the slave trade over twelve million men women and children will be transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south america today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the nineteenth century it is a law if it is thriving and it is bigger than ever.