we're entering. a series of airstrikes across the gaza strip israel says it has had twenty five targets in response to rocket fire. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up under scrutiny donald trump and congress law corns over his controversial immigration policy of separating migrant families. with a grim statistic on world refugee day sixteen million people have been forcibly displaced during the last year. continued fighting as the saudi numerati coalition that looks to secure data airport and yemen. and canada becomes

a second country in the world to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. israeli military says it has sit at least twenty five targets in gaza linked to hamas it says the strikes from response to around forty five rockets fired from the strip towards israeli territory which were intercepted tensions have been high in the area since late march when palestinians began protesting at the gaza israel border fence. joins us live now from west jerusalem so this seems to be a bit of an escalation harry can you kind of put this in context for us how significant is this. well that's right over the last few days we've seen a number of in century kites and balloons flown from gaza on the prevailing westerly winds into israeli territory they have lit dozens of fires and in response to that

we've seen some strikes from the israeli air force on hamas targets but the israeli army says that last night that escalated with more than forty five rockets and mortars being fired from gaza territory into southern israel the areas bordering the gaza strip and that in response as you say they struck twenty five separate hamas targets within the gaza strip palestinians reports at least two people were injured most of those targets though understood to be empty military compounds training sites and the like in terms of the effect of the rocket and mortar fire on israeli territory well is really say that seven of those projectiles were intercepted by the anti missile iron dome system at least three fell within gaza but three fell in populated areas inside israel and that there were no injuries but that in one instance at least buildings and cars were damaged why is this happening

now. well this is a tense situation a tense period there's the ongoing humanitarian crisis within gars of the protests that have been going since march thirtieth in which around one hundred thirty palestinians have been killed by israeli sniper fire and last month the end of may we saw the biggest flare up in terms of an exchange of fire between largely hamas although islamic jihad as well and israeli forces since the twenty fourteen war and so this is a period in which there is an increased level of tension added to all of that what has been an increasingly difficult political headache really for the israeli government in terms of responding to these in century kites and balloons we heard a senior right wing member of benjamin of nose clip coalition this week calling for

targeted killings or at least for the people flying these kinds to be targeted by the israeli military the another ministerial voice saying that that is not government policy that they will follow the advice of the army to continue to intensify strikes on hamas targets in response to these and century kites and balloons which have burned and destroyed large areas of cropland and have caused as i say a lot of political problems for the government here i think both sides you hear the message being mediated from both sides for many months now that neither side wants a war now that neither side wants a major escalation both understand where the lines really are in terms of fueling that further escalation but at the same time escalations can happen without either side wanting them ok i pressed and i stress like thank you. the latest violence in gaza comes just hours after the white house pulled out of the human rights council branding the institution a cesspool of political bias present on

a trumpet and threatening to quit the council for months claiming it is anti israel also in jordan reports. special a year ago the us ambassador to the united nations criticize the un human rights council for what she called its hypocritical behavior and nikki haley said the u.s. would quit the council if it didn't change its ways it's hard to accept that this council has never considered a resolution on venezuela and yet it adopted five biased resolutions in march against a single country israel it is essential that this council address its chronic anti israel bias if it is to have any credibility it is correct to criticize the state of israel for its actions as said by rabbi law you can you can challenge the israeli government's policies we thought being a mighty comet such as this a permanent agenda item investigating israel's treatment of palestinians and the us

is recent failure to prevent the un general assembly from condemning israel's use of force in gaza finally made the trumpet ministration say enough on tuesday but when organizations undermine our national interests and our allies we will not be complicit when they seek to infringe on our national sovereignty we will not be silent we take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights we could have withdrawn immediately we did not do that instead we made a good faith effort to resolve the problems the u.s. has had a troubled relationship with the council when it was set up in two thousand and six president george bush refused to join because he feared countries with poor human rights records would be able to sit on a panel intended to punish human rights violators and bush's decision making the us

ambassador to the u.n. at the time john bolton he's now president trumps national security advisor right. president barack obama then joined the council in two thousand and nine are you that the u.s. would have more influence and give israel more protection from negative resolutions in the process now the u.s. is leaving the council again and that has human rights groups around the world very concerned they fear that without the american presence on the council it will be much less able to hold countries such as russia syria or north korea accountable for the mistreatment of their citizens it's also not clear how long washington plans to stay away from the human rights council rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the state department. yes republicans have a great to work on legislation to end the political process around the president's policy a separating migrant children from their parents at the southern border but democrats are not willing to support a bill saying donald trump can solve the problem with

a simple executive order alan fischer reports from washington d.c. mr president the president went to capitol hill to discuss immigration as the crisis on the southern border escalates system is broken for many years the immigration system that's been really. interesting probably the words that they were the word of we're going to try and see if we can fix it as he went into a meeting with members of his own republican party democrat staged a protest outside but on a number of bills doing the rounds which deal with various immigration issues trump wants an end to children being separated from the pimps and funds for his promised border wall so while he wants a comprehensive deal the problem is there isn't comprehensive support no republicans in the senate a walk in the on not only focused legislation on just the separation issue congress can step in and pass this this week i'm a urging congress we can fix this problem we can fix this and i've been speaking

with both republicans and democrats we can come together we are all be united and say of course kids should be with their parents but democrats aren't ready to help the president out of a crisis the insist he created with his own policies president trump if you're truly ashamed of what's happening at the border get your team together and undo this shameful policy immediately which you can do with a flick of the pen there's no need for legislation there's no need for anything else you can do it mr president you started it. you can stop it after a little more than an hour donald trump left capitol hill he didn't take questions during the meeting but told his party he would sign any immigration deal that got house and senate approval so this is an opportunity for us to be compassionate but also stand for security and he said if you put security and doctor fix together you're looking here very strong. like eighty percent sure there is

a clear consensus across the house in the senate to address the immigration issue here are the two big problems first of all there isn't a clear idea of what will get enough support to pass all the president says he'll sign any bill that emerges he has changed his mind in the past few more critics continue to say that what is happening on the southern border is cruel unacceptable and un-american. they separated by grandchildren at the center of the controversy are being detained at least three shelters across south southern texas one is in brownsville right on the mexico border a caper elizondo filed this report. welcome to ground zero of donald trump's zero tolerance immigration policy for asylum seekers welcome to brownsville texas. this is the border crossing many migrants fleeing poverty and violence to cross legally to ask for asylum. the lines are long recent weeks most asylum seekers get

turned away so they try other means crossing to the u.s. illegally they then are often arrested and families are separated. and then the children often here more than one hundred of them that were detained here in this shelter that was once a wal-mart store journalists are not allowed to film and so this is how close the people of brownsville texas are to the immigration issue this is the border fence where i'm standing now is the town of brownsville on the other side is mexico when there's zero. policy was announced and parents started to be separated from their children it not only brought unwanted attention to this town but also divided opinion i mean right now it's kind of like a really negative light for i guess the environmental community everyone's kind of turning hostile it's a really negative impact on people in general i know i mean i don't know why

they're doing it but i just know it's not right kids not being with their parents i don't like what's happening but they have to come in legally they don't speak english they're on the welfare system and it's just not fair to all our homeless in our citizens that are in poverty it would be some people here say the parents bear part of the responsibility for protecting their kids. on that issue alone is difficult i wouldn't be able when i would hate to be you away from my children but at the same time i can also understand if i'm going to take that risk you're running into that very possibility you know and maybe as a parent if i'm going across a border maybe i should you know follow the rules with the trumpet ministration appearing to double down rather than back down on its policy a sign that the more families it separates the more polarized communities like this

are likely to become. which is either brownsville texas thirty afghan soldiers have been killed in the first major attack since the end of a cease fire between the government and the taliban government forces were ambushed in the box a district province the taliban said they would resume fighting on monday after a three day cease fire for. saudi moroni coalition forces say they have taken control of parts of it and airport and yemen as a fight hit the rebels they many army is also blocking the road between head out of province and the capital this would cut who they supply lines and stop reinforcements from sana hominid joe as on the other side of the red sea and ship it where much of the aid for yemen is stocked. the intensity of the bottle for what they've. captured in a mobile form the u.s. backed sodium not to call the ship has been fighting for control of the airport for

a week while calling on the fighters holding them back to start and on condition that the host response has been one of defiance prompting fears the bottle will spread into the town until humanitarian catastrophe the problem always is highly densely populated areas trying to clear these areas from non-state actors who are embedded in the civilian population who are dug in and have nothing to lose and then you have a semi conventional military trying to clear these areas and that's always going to be difficult us pictures open tonally displaced people in who they either continue to emerge the united arab emirates red crescent says it's sending an aid convoy north from aden it's a just criticize outside yemen thing time national rescue committee says the relief plan announced by suited to be on the united arab emirates to protect civilians living in the data as they all talk the port city is a publicity stunt meant to draw attention away from the undue suffering the

offensive is calls. the united nations special envoy for human martin cliff it's just left some after three days of meetings with the whole of the rebels who control large parts of the country he failed to secure any peace deal the u.n. envoy to yemen. in the same request. but if you're. a u.n. envoy to yemen would. like for a cease fire or a truce in the data at the land over the border to. the united nations says more than five thousand two hundred families have fled in the past three weeks here in djibouti aid just watching the unfolding situation in that they are with increasing alarm they've not been able to deliver aid to say that since the offensive began civilians to have been caught in the crossfire on tuesday a horse the health official claimed that six people had been killed after the boss

there were traveling in was bombed by the coalition forces yet despite all the fighting the portal for the a lifeline for millions of yemenis remains open the question is for how long we are planning to be doing to should be. tomorrow. we heard of heard from others i think through brace for the. destruction to. the day that is yemen's main port on only three for international aid this growing concern that millions of yemenis war so far more than three years of war hunger and disease could now face toleration mohammed at all just djibouti. and libya at least one of two oil storage tanks has collapsed after being set on fire during the battle for control of the country's oil fields fighters loyal to warlord khalifa haftar trying to drive a rival group out of the area its fear of the conflict is damaging oil infrastructure

causing environmental contamination and impacting the country's already struggling economy. still ahead on al-jazeera. more violence in nicaragua after the latest round of talks between the government of protesters fail. hello and welcome to international weather forecast now we're seeing changes in the weather across europe at the moment still pretty warm across many central areas temperatures pushing thirty degrees cooler conditions across eastern areas without weather front to commute some quite big storms at times but we're seeing changes taking place further towards the west still find your wednesday still one particular across the iberian peninsula which we had through thursday the wind changes direction coming in from the north so certainly tuning cooler across many

western and eventually central parts of europe as we head towards the latter part of the week on the other side of the mediterranean weather conditions are looking largely they're coming in it certainly degrees and should be pretty warm across more eastern areas with carlos in the mysore thirty eight really not much change expected as we head on through into thursday so let's head into central parts of africa where we have some big musical convective systems coming through from east to west we've still got showers across the ethiopian highlands so sudan is looking pretty wet at times and then towards the gulf of guinea heavy downpours are likely continue we've had some serious flooding issues in one cheerio in recent days are still light to be a problem as we head on through wednesday into thursday further towards the west will be some showers in encounter.

watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you right now the israeli military says it has hit at least twenty five targets in gaza linked to hamas the strikes are reportedly in response to around forty five rockets fired from the

strip towards israeli territory those strikes more intercepted. as are probably have agreed to work on legislation to and the political crisis around the president's policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the southern border but democrats are not willing to support a bill saying donald trump can solve this problem with a simple executive order. government troops in yemen with the backing of the saudi i'm ready coalition have taken control of parts of her data airport and they say they are cutting off with the supply lines to the east of the city this is part of an attempt to retake the strategically important seaport. international organization for migration says the number of people crossing the mediterranean to europe has dropped sharply over the last few months forty thousand people have made the journey so far this year compared to double that number for the same period in two thousand and seventeen but there's a big increase in those trying to reach spain karl penhall us and our maria in

spain he joins us live now so arrivals in spain from year to year karl are up significantly how much and what is driving this why the change. i think you're right michel within that broader picture which is a decrease in migrant arrivals and refugee arrivals to europe there are some interesting regional pictures and one of them is this western mediterranean route as it's called in the year so far the number of migrant and refugee a rival's coming here by sea is up more than three fold compared to last year the numbers now rivaling the modern arrivals we're seeing in italy and being greece but even more stunning if you see the numbers arriving here in southern ports of spain in the month of june alone now those and now around twelve twelve thousand in india in four thousand sorry in a single month but that's double the number that have arrived in italy and that of

course was the biggest point of arrival up until now why june well of course that coincides with the populist right wing government being sworn in in italy and it also coincides with spain's socialist prime minister signaling that he is willing to look at a more safe and legal policy for a migrant rival's here so what all thora t's are thinking is that this is now signaling a shift away from migrants traveling through the central mediterranean route from libya to italy and there could be many more arrivals in the coming months from northern africa and here to southern spain that it does of course draw up its own series of problems because the kind of boats that are being used to cross the hundred sixty kilometers or so. to north africa from where we are now all these are typically very small fishing vessels that carry no more than forty or fifty people very poorly equipped and in many cases with not enough gasoline to make the

crossing and that is a key factor in if you look at this year the number of migrant deaths in c. has increased more than four hundred percent michel. well it's quite a number karl penhall live for us in our maria spain thank you. and wednesday is world refugee day when the plight of migrants is highlighted more than sixteen million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes in the last year turkey has more refugees than in the other country yet coming election has highlighted the issue of more than four million syrian refugees currently living there they've generally been welcome but as the economy slows they fear they'll bear the fallout mohamed ball has more from gaza on tip. ahmed is a bad man. he has kidney problems so severe has to wear a catheter. the family also has to care for his six year old daughter nema

she lost her sight when she was a baby. shortly after the family fled their home in aleppo and the heavy bombardment by the syrian army has been wrecked lama has problems with speech and movement despite years of medical examinations no one knows what's caused her disabilities which people haven't been to know has an awful lot of our own we were surprised by her illness aside begin to deteriorate rapidly after we left aleppo doctors in turkey also didn't understand why she couldn't speak normally it's strange because she can easily memorize and repeat whatever we say in front of her but when she talks she's not articulate. still sons don't go to school he says he's had problems of rolling them but the family needs the money they get us to apprentices their wages supplement twenty ns working in a plastics factory one situation shows some of the complex problems of the devil

the lives of about four million people fled the war in syria and became refugees in turkey a majority of them have set up in cities from managed to find out why less than twenty percent still live in camps near the border. life in these camps is not easy while the refugees get food and other necessities they can't work or move around freely well first aid years before they're there or. there is no. change in their. management of that yes but it's neat problems are still in the cities this. means my years on the side. as the turks prepares to vote in a general election the status of syrian refugees has become a campaign topic. to keep to stabilize syria to the point where if you feel

safe enough to go home for many that's a distant dream. but they're more secure than the thousands of people trapped on the syrian side of the border they don't target a few statists the army provides them with some protection but to them not allowed to cross into turkey and you know afraid to return home. and yet the turkish syrian border south sudan's rebel leader it was shar has arrived in addis ababa for a meeting with president salva kiir care in the shower were invited for talks by the ethiopian prime minister it will be their first meeting since a peace deal between the government of bashar as rebel group fell apart in two thousand and sixteen tens of thousands of people had been killed since the civil war broke out in south sudan five years ago. or korea's leader has told china that as country will do all it can to protect peace camp john it is in beijing where he

braved china's president xi jinping on his meeting with u.s. president donald trump of course that was last month or earlier this month rather in singapore it's kim's a third visit to china since march. there have been more deaths as armed forces backed by the government try to regain control of the city in the south. peace talks between the government of the opposition have been put on hold as violence continues to shake the central american nation. has more from managua. right confrontations between anti-government protesters and paramilitary groups have claimed more lives in messiah nicaraguan police and government backed militias fired on demonstrators as scores of people fled to their homes for cover the latest offensive by police comes after representatives of the resistance movement in messiah declared they would no longer allow themselves to be governed by president or. the blood of our brothers who have been cowardly murdered demand that we

continue belligerently and unwavering towards the fight until or take it is gone. messiah is where much of the most brutal fighting has been concentrated as police attempted to regain control of the city massed protesters huddled behind barricades to shield themselves from live rounds one demonstrator continued to fire his homemade mortar at police even after being shot in the arm but i'm not some of us is that and did not know i've been shot with a bullet here it's not possible that we're going to give up easily messiah is ready to fight and using our mortars we will kick them out long live messiah. the political crisis in the can i one is now in its second month after protests over pension reform plan were met with violence by the government a growing opposition movement is now calling for the immediate resignation of president or at least one hundred eighty six people have died since the start of the conflict law enforcement authorities maintain that their efforts or to combat

a delinquent movement that is part of a conspiracy against the government commerce in messiah once a popular tourist hot has been halted with all roads leading into the city blocked off there are now reports that food and supplies are running out one of the main conditions for the peace talks to resume is for president or if they got to end the repression against anti-government demonstrators without a stop to violence against civilians it's hard to imagine a national dialogue that will successfully restore the peace anytime soon. canada has become a second country in the world to legalize the recreational use of marijuana federal government is expected to start issuing licenses within eight to twelve weeks for producers to sell cannabis it will be able to grow up to four plants was the first country to legalize recreational marijuana that was back in two thousand and

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resume fighting after a three day cease fire for eat yes republicans have agreed to work on legislation to end the political crisis around the president's policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the southern border but democrats are not willing to support a bill saying donald trump can solve the problem with a simple executive order when you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally which should happen you have to take the children away now we don't have to prosecute them but then when they are prosecuting them for coming in illegally that's not we want to end the border crisis by finally giving us the legal authorities and the resources to detain and remove illegal immigrant families altogether and bring them back to their country. south sudan's rebel later it was shar has arrived in addis ababa for

a meeting with president salva kiir karen michel are war invited for talks by the ethiopian prime minister it will be their first meeting sense a peace deal between the government of bashar as rebel group fell apart in two thousand and sixteen tens of thousands of people have been killed since the civil war broke out in south sudan five years ago canada has become the second major country and the world to legalize the recreational use of marijuana federal governments expected to start issuing licenses within eight to twelve weeks for producers to sell cannabis as are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera inside story is next the i.m.f. said riyadh's breakeven or 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 of the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. the u.s.

won't be a migrant camp resident holds its ground as children all things to be separated from their parents in the midst of conclude it will be outrage and international condemnation from immigration reform what would changes mean for those trying to start a new life in the marriage this is inside story. hello and welcome to the show i'm sam is a damn dog and a five zero tolerance approach to migrants who cross the border without proper don't.