coming up a series of air strikes across the gaza strip israel twenty five targets and response to rocket fire. under scrutiny and congress battle over his congressional immigration policy of separating migrant families. the crime statistic on world refugee day sixteen million people have been forcibly displaced during the last year. government forces in yemen backed by the saudi and morality coalition say they have taken control of parts of airport many army is also blocking the road between her date of province and the capital that would cut supply lines and stop reinforcements from the hooty strongholds mom was on the other side of the red sea intrade booty were much of the aid for yemen is stopped.

the intensity of the. the u.s. . has been fighting for control of the airport for a week while. holding them back to start and on condition that the response has been one of defiance prompting fears the bottle will spread into the town until a humanitarian catastrophe the problem always is highly densely populated areas trying to clear these areas. as well imbedded into civilian population who have dug in and have nothing to lose and then you have a conventional military trying to clear these areas and that's always going to be difficult us pictures open ton of displaced people including the continue to march the united arab emirates red cross and says it's sending an aid convoy. it's a just. outside yemen. i think i'm national rescue committee says the relief plan

announced by so that it be on the united arab emirates to protect civilians living in the data as they are tucked the port city is a publicity stunt meant to draw attention away from the and do suffering the offensive his cause the united nations special envoy for human martin griffiths has 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 a data a planned 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 enforcing 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 earlier 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 her from others i think through brace for the. destruction to. the day that is yemen's main port on only entry for international aid this growing concern that millions of yemenis will of so far more than three years a war hunger and disease could now face starvation mohammed at all just djibouti. the israeli military says it is sit 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 harry fossett has more from less truce on. 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. designed according to any number of reports wants an escalation to a full blown conflict at this stage and those do understand what have become the rules of the game over many years now but it is was possible that an escalation can take place even if neither side wants it 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 are trying to drive a rival group out of the area it's fear the conflict is damaging oil infrastructure causing environmental contamination and also impacting the country's already struggling economy taliban fighters in afghanistan have killed thirty soldiers in

the first major attack since a ceasefire between the armed group and the government and afghan security forces were ambushed in two checkpoints in the western province of backus the taliban said it would resume fighting on monday after a three day ceasefire during the eight holiday. republicans of the us congress have a great 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 say they're not willing to support the bill because i say donald trump can solve the 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 dr fix together you're lucky you're 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 imagines he has changed his mind in the past the more critics continue to say that what is happening on the southern border is cruel unacceptable and on american alan fischer al jazeera on capitol hill in washington. an

investigative journalism organization called for a public eye recorded and released audio of distressed children inside the detention centers take a listen. there are some. people who. i think of the mother. i think i. think it was never. i think anything that i called. them but was. the group also recorded what appears to be a mocking response of a border patrol agent. was quite like a criminal ok that. was

. still ahead on al-jazeera. more violence and after the latest round of talks between the government and protesters failed. russia as the host of the world cup a second match in a row. however got the usual rash of heavy showers across much southeast asia at the heaviest across the philippines luzon simo big down poles the line of salary rain that extends right across the gulf of thailand much of thailand the heavy showers then

as we go on through the coming days with the southwest really the monsoons of course i some really big showers coming in haiti to the day as long the spells of fright certainly it's a loose all that's the pitch just but the difference as we go on into friday will big dabbles coming in shows a little more widespread across malaysia as we go on and see friday and even northern parts of indonesia could see some wet weather to concert around thirty three degrees thirty three degrees across australia at the moment we've got cold weather the days of the end that coming up of course those they will be the shortest day of the year we've got high pressure in charge frost temperatures struggling to get to around sixty eight celsius in sydney fourteen that melbourne out all safe dry there you tonight is where that little area called that cold air making its way across the southeast and cold a. similar values we go on into friday cold enough analysis around seventeen celsius some of the value that the sydney is and coated meldon.

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al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you the government troops in yemen what the backing of the saudi i'm right a coalition have taken control of parts of potatoes airport and they say they are cutting off the supply lines to the east of the city this is part of an attempt to retake the strategically important seaport. 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 those strikes were intercepted. bursa publicans have agreed to work on legislation to end the political crisis around the president's policy of separating micro children from their parents at the southern border but democrats are not willing to support the bill saying donald trump can solve the problem with a simple executive order. 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 last year however there is a big increase in those trying to reach spain karl penhall has more. we're now maria and this is one of the ports along the southern coast of spain that is seen a huge uptick in margaret and refugee arrivals by sea in just the last week from way we are it's about one hundred sixty kilometers to the to the northern coast of africa and that is the so-called western mediterranean route. in the last four days for example there have been fifteen hundred people plucked from the sea by spain's marine rescue service both here in el maria and points further south towards the straits of gibraltar what is really worrying the authorities right now is what this means in terms of an overall trend this year alone migrant and refugee arrivals by sea to spain is three times higher than it was at this time last year and if you

look at the figure for june alone the number of arrivals in spain is more than double the number in italy which for years has been the most favored route between libya and italy by migrants and refugees what's the significance of june well of course that was when the right wing populist government was sworn in in italy threatening to close ports to refugee arrivals and here in spain the socialist government has signaled perhaps a more open policy to receiving new arrivals of course with all this comes grave danger and if you look at the number of migrant deaths in sea off the coast of spain well those are now up more than four hundred percent. wednesday is world refugee day more than sixteen million pay.