a series of air strikes across the gaza strip israel says it is a twenty five targets and response to rocket fire. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. continued fighting as the saudi and iraqi coalition looks to secure data airport in yemen. under scrutiny and congress battle over his controversial immigration policy of separating migrant families. a grim statistic on world refugee day sixteen million people have been forcibly displaced during the last year.

israeli military says it has hit at least twenty five targets in gaza linked to hamas it says the strikes were in response to around forty five rockets fired from the strip towards israeli territory several of the rockets were intercepted while three landed in israel tensions have been high in the area since late march when palestinians began protesting at the gaza israeli border fence very faucet has more from west to islam. israeli army says that more than forty five rockets and mortars were fired from gaza and territory into israel in the course of the night and in response the israeli military struck twenty five hamas targets within the gaza strip most of them understood to be empty military compounds training areas and the like all the palestinian sources two reports at least two palestinians being injured in those strikes on the israeli side the israeli military is saying that

seven of the projectiles were intercepted by the iron dome system at least three fell within gaza and territory but three did fall within populated areas in israel close to the gaza border and in one instance there was damage to buildings and cars but no injuries reported on the israeli side all of this comes in the context of the protests that we've been seeing in the last few months the around one hundred thirty palestinians who've been killed by israeli snipers during that period the ongoing humanitarian crisis within gaza and the biggest military flare up we've seen since twenty fourteen which took place at the end of last month amid all of this of course an intensifying it is what has become a fairly major political problem for the israeli government the continued use of in century kites and balloons by people within gaza flying them on the prevailing westerly winds into israeli territory and burning large swathes of largely agricultural land this is something that many people in israel have been protesting

about asking for some kind of response from the government and indeed a senior right winger in the israeli coalition government of benjamin netanyahu has been calling for people flying those kinds to be targeted directly by the israeli military another minister saying about is not government policy they will continue the army's recommendation to increase the targeting of hamas targets in response to this practice but it is something that is bringing some pressure to bear on the israeli government night. decide according to any number of reports wants an escalation to a full blown conflict at this stage and both to understand what have become the rules of the game over many years now but it is always possible that an escalation can take place even if neither side wants it government forces in yemen backed by the saudi america coalition say they have taken control of parts of her date as airport they are many army has also blocking the road between data province and the capital and this will cut supply lines and stop reinforcements from the who think

stronghold sana ahmed to go is on the other side of the red sea in ships movie where much of the aid bound for yemen is stopped. the intensity of the bottle for what they've. captured in a mobile form the u.s. backed sodium out equality 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 the response has been one of defiance prompting fears the bottle will spread into the town until humanitarian catastrophe the problem of 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 cross sensei's it's sending an aid convoy north from aden it's a just shot only criticized 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 after three days of meetings with 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 atlanta 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 i'll choose the whole of the health official claimed that six people have been killed after the boss there were traveling in was bombed by the coalition forces yet despite all the fighting the portal for the 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 her from others i think through brace for the. destruction to. but the main portal only and through fourteen tomasz these growing concerns of millions of human is will still fossilized more than three years

a war hunger and disease could now please toleration mohammed atta. djibouti. and libya at least wanted to 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 that area and is scared the conflict is damaging oil facilities causing environmental contamination and also impacting the already struggling economy al-jazeera has not moved up to a head as in tripoli. libya's national oil corporation has said it has lost two storage tanks in. oil terminal that is one of the two major oil ports that has been taken control of by forces loyal to the former chief of the petroleum facilities guards brahim gibran also the chief of the libya's national oil corporation said that they have lost around four hundred thousand

barrels per day. in those two burning storage tanks and now it's to made at around eight hundred million dollars a month that's the loss because of the burning oil in the north terminal now has that his forces have been they have been mobilizing in the oil christened area and security sources there say that they have been they have been receiving infantry brigades from the east of libya in order to launch a new offensive to recapture the two major oil ports of and sidra and russia and all of that have been taken control of by forces loyal to the former chief of the petroleum facilities god's. children now the situation in the oil christians area is very tense and red crescent members say that they have received twenty

eight bodies of fighters loyal to. and two but is of two girls they were killed by an airstrike on should by fighter jets belonging to a warlord the have to. thirty soldiers have been killed in afghanistan in the first major attack sense a cease fire between the government and the taliban ended government forces were ambushed in two checkpoints in the western province of this the taliban said it would resume fighting on monday after a three day cease fire during the holiday. republicans in the u.s. congress 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 the bill saying donald trump can solve this problem with a simple executive order alan fischer reports from washington d.c. today 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 working 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 dark effects together and you're looking you 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

say any bill that emerges he has changed his mind in the past the more critics continue to see that what is happening on the southern border is cruel unacceptable and un-american alan fischer al jazeera on capitol hill in washington so the separated migrant children at the center of this controversy they're being detained in at least three shelters across southern texas one is in brownsville right on the mexico border and that is working every elizondo filed this report. welcome to ground zero 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 to cross into the u.s. illegally or the dead 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 the zero tolerance 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. speaking was there on

the welfare system and it's just not fair to our 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 to handle it 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 only 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 gave rosendo which is either brownsville texas. still ahead

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some windy weather coming into southern norway sweden easing across northern parts of denmark that will continue to drive this way for the east was not so bad in london on wednesday twenty four degrees celsius to twenty eight for paris going to twenty eight in warsaw risk well blustery conditions at the mosque nice for the well couple of littlest recently just twenty celsius cloud and right continue to make its way to few showers continuing down towards the balkan scene that has some really wet weather tucking in across denmark will deposit germany by the time we come to the day twenty five celsius there in cloud and right chemo of leeway and freshening things up for the u.k. london nineteen degrees celsius but thirty three there for madrid more warm sunshine coming through want to see showers into the puzzle spain and portugal but germany showers in the focus northern parts of africa a lot of warm sunshine here she is with the top temperature of thirty one the weather sponsored by cats. three

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troops in yemen with the backing of the saudi immorality coalition have taken control of parts of the data airport and they say they are cutting off the supply lines to the east of the city as part of an attempt to retake the strategically important seaboard. 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 most of the strikes were intercepted. us 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 tunnel can solve this problem with a simple executive order. 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 any other country the upcoming election has highlighted the issue of more than four million

syrian refugees in that country they've generally been welcomed but as the economy slows they fear they will bear the fallout ahamed ball has more from gaza. 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 emma 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 not been well and as 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 majority of them have set up and 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 risk at risk changing 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. turkey's leaders are key to stabilize syria to the point where if you just 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 g.'s statists the army provides them with some protection but to them not allowed to cross into turkey and not afraid to return home. and near the turkish syrian border and south sudan tribal leader written ashar has arrived in addis ababa for a meeting with president salva kiir care and were invited for talks by the

ethiopian prime minister it will be their first meeting a sense of 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. earth korea's leader has told china has country will do all it can to protect pace can john and is in beijing where he briefed president she's in pain on his meeting with u.s. president donald trump in singapore earlier this month it's the third visit for him to china since march welcome davis is a senior analyst at the australian strategic policy institute he says he doesn't think north korea will denuclearize despite having promised to do so. i don't think denuclearization will happen that's the key issue the north koreans talk about denuclearization of the korean peninsula and this is the exact same words they've used every single time they have engaged with the united states and south korea on

diplomacy going back to the nineteen nineties in the each time the north koreans have violated agreements that we've signed with them the north koreans have every incentive to hang on to their nuclear weapons that's their sole source of international leverage and i think that president trumps decision unilaterally to cancel the upcoming military exercise of strain south korea and the united states was a mistake it was a concession up front to north korea in return for nothing in response and it weakens the u.s. hand going forward so i think that from china's perspective they would ultimately like to see the u.s. withdrawn from south korea certainly and preferably from northeast asia as a whole there have been more deaths in the caracal after armed forces backed by the government tried to regain control of the city of messiah his talks between the government of the opposition have been put on hold as violence continues to shake

the central american nation out there as many of apollo has more from managua on the 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 a president or they're. going to get a man who has 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 the second country in the world to legalize the recreational use of marijuana the federal government is expected to start issuing licenses within eight to twelve weeks for preachers first to sell cannabis people will be able to grow up to four plants was the first country to legalize recreational marijuana and two thousand and thirteen at a green light as a medical cannabis activists says canada is legalizing marijuana for public health reasons. our federal government has has realized that the criminal.