to make sure they never top. israeli air strikes talk at how mass positions in the biggest daylight military assault on the gaza strip in four years. ago i made reinflate again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a high state of alert iraq's security forces prepared as protests show no sign of ending. embracing his friends after years this rivals ethiopia and eritrea put aside two decades of hostility and form a new relationship. and still dividing opinion donald trump's visit to the u.k. provokes pro and anti protests.

israel says it's conducting the largest daylight attack on hamas since the gaza war in twenty fourteen israeli jets were seen targeting several neighborhoods in the gaza strip and smoke could be seen rising above gaza city the military says that it struck dozens of hamas targets meanwhile how mass more than seventy rockets at southern israel overnight israel's on the system intercepted some of them one though exploded near an israeli border community there are no reports of injuries amassed says the attack was meant to stop israeli escalation let's go live now to gaza al-jazeera has been at smith is that for us but what is it that israel is targeting right now that. well it's been quiet adrian for the last couple of hours there have been a couple of explosions in between that we think the iron dome was sounded like the

iron dome activating maybe about ten minutes ago but much quieter than it was earlier on in the day when israel hit these forty targets mainly sort of hamas or training facilities blocking two of the armed groups in guards are very carefully targeted it seems most of these open areas one house was injured and one house was hit and two people in the house injured it there was a house of a commander from the codes for a gate israel has been really aggravated over the last few weeks by these burning kites and balloons that pro some protesters have been sailing and sending across the border from gaza into israel these cars a balloon some of them falling off on israeli crops and burning the crops and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been under a lot of pressure from those border communities to do something about them and israel has not been able to stop these very rudimentary weapons it's a very advanced army but it isn't able it seems to deal with these balloons that

israel has been threatening and threatening and threatening and it now says he's carried out these strikes because house which controls gaza has not stopped these balloons adrian as far as the these rockets the mass has fired into southern israel what is that the hamas strategy here is really media reporting that harasses talking of a new deterrence balance that doesn't allow israel to do to determine the rules of the game what does that mean. well there's been enormous there is enormous frustration here that all these weeks and weeks of protests along the border with israel have yielded nothing but garza life has not improved the siege is not it not ended the protests have not got them anywhere of anything israel has tighten the screws further by closing the main crossing into gaza that brings in goods industrial goods so how mass needs to show that it can still resist israel and this is part of the i have to say that we understand there have been mediation efforts going on with nicholai mladin of peace the un's middle east peace envoy here and

with the egyptians and there are early reports just rumors on some local palestinian media that some sort of ceasefire agreement with the factions on with israel has been reached very early to say that they're just rumors as we say because while we hear those rumors as i said i've been a couple of other explosions in the last hour or so later all right but many thanks indeed i was there as both smith live in gaza iraq has placed its security forces on high alert after anti-government protests spread to the capital baghdad the order was issued by prime minister body who also serves as commander in chief of the armed forces protests began in the southern city of basra of a high unemployment of a lack of basic services i was a serious muhammad obama see reports. it's nearly fifty degrees celsius in iraq's southern city of basra and people have been feeling the heat. the city's unstable electricity grid and dwindling infrastructure fuelled angry protests over the past

week. they know more than a german general here. geez protests of the oppressed people of we are asking for what is rightfully ours the government should provide clean water. electricity and basic infrastructure these basic needs is the responsibility of the prime minister and the company. demonstrated you burning tires blocking roads as they marched on government installations even attempting to storm a bus or oil facility to protest escalated after thirteen year old sad was killed when security forces opened fire on crowds. prime minister hyderabadi flew to busser and met with the city's governor as well as security officials to try and ease tensions bussau is iraq's richest oil province but despite the city's wealth and natural resources unemployment rates have skyrocketed and that's mainly due to most of the jobs in the oil industry being filled by foreign workers rising living

costs contaminated water supplies and lack of basic services in the city aggravated frustrations with the government. there are presented of grand ayatollah ali al sistani expressed his support for the demands of the shia majority city. all we can do is show our solidarity with these people in their righteous cause we feel their suffering we are concerned about their difficult living conditions and it's all due to the incompetence of former and current officials the prime minister has vowed to revive the economy which has been ravaged by years of conflict. i bet he is keen to conference as iraq struggles to build a new government two months after parliamentary elections have been marred by controversy amid by d.c. al jazeera. is a professor of political science at the london school of economics he joins us now live from london good to have you with us professor as these protests began high

unemployment and a lack of basic services they've now spread from bastrop to iraq i mean is that is that it is it people just frustrated about their economic situation is that all that protesting about. no no i think it's an accumulation of all the what happened in iraq since two thousand and three cumulation of protest against bad services about corruption about unemployment about no services no electricity all these things have been have been. going on for a long time and the people are suffering from them and mind you it is the protests are taking place in where the shii the government sais that they are representing them more than anywhere else i mean brought this now is in the shii governor a note in the sudanese governor eight as they used to do accuse these governor days

of being favorable of dies or suddenly brought this they get the shiite government so the prime minister's put the security forces on high alert in response to these set these protests i mean seriously what would try to on a body said you know put the military against forcefully put down these these these disturbances against his own people that he uses own military. world the problem is that mr arar by the is so weak that nobody knows what he's going to do and i don't think that he has this control over the armed forces or specially the police forces second the other ruling parties are interfering in the issues and they are sending their militias into these areas because they fear that if anything happens they will lose all of their interests and what they have been getting out of the smuggling of oil from bustling so mr ambassador you could take

a lot of measures if he is there being if he takes that they are being measured now or dating step he could narrow issue orders to a rest corrupt people to a rest sectarian people failing. officials i mean not people failing. to introduce measures to improve things but the problem is not going to do think this thing that the problem is that iran is playing a major role in that because since it has been sanctions by by the united states and put a corner economically they are cutting all alec to this is supplied the water supplies to iraq which were normally going going smoothly and this is also creating a problem for iraq i think the iranians want to tell the americans that if you create the problem somewhere else we can't combat you everywhere syria iran gulf

whatever we can do professor many thanks indeed for being with us. history is being made the words of eritrea's president is working on his first visit to neighboring ethiopia in more than two decades it's the latest step towards reconciliation and peace between the longtime rivals last weekend the leaders signed a pact to restore diplomatic and trade ties ending a twenty year military standoff more now from as a serious one hundred out of who's in at this hour. most of your life. was a visit to addis ababa in twenty years and they did not disappoint you they welcomed in warm tens of thousands lined up the streets between the airport and the national palace where he went to meet prime minister just last month miles if you are with ready to accept the outcome of international forces that are be treated that this

feud between it and ethiopia a dispute that is based on their home border now is higher than what he is here on a three day visit and the highlight of his visit will be on sunday when he is going to be open the embassy heidi here twenty years ago and also address at the national because you appear from one of the halls here in this. region that will be televised of course the country how many people are. and how things are going to go just last week the prime minister visited at a prayer and now it is here but the real test of all this. is growing a probability between these two countries will be when this part. of the whole issues between the two countries particularly on the disputed territory

between the border of the two countries for a second day protests have resumed in the. kingdom against u.s. president donald trump's visit that it's scotland where trump is right now protesters have been marching through the streets of edinburgh demonstrations are happening in london as well where tens of thousands of protesters turned out against trump on friday al-jazeera is in the scottish capital. we're calling this a carnival of resistance at this park in the middle of edinburgh you can see the blimp the balloon of president trump has a baby has a right now some protesters did want to take it up to the turnberry go for zot on the west coast of scotland where donald trump is spending saturday and sunday he's a tweet it on saturday that he's there for toll. coals but also he says hopefully for some gulf which he says he's only his main form of

exercise well perhaps if he switches on the t.v. he would have seen pictures from london as well as from glasgow on friday night where there was a demonstration but this is the main focus of the scottish protests thousands of people marching through edinburgh from the scottish parliament to this court under the banner of united against there are many different themes that people have been highlighting including the perception that donald trump's policies towards migrants are racist condemning his separation of children from their parents at the border criticizing his decision to pull out of the parents climate change agreement and so on we'll get a weather update next here on al-jazeera then. fearing for their lives students caught up in the violence in nicaragua as the president's supporters rally in force and national pride running high and from some past still

day which is somewhat special this year due to the world cup. hello again we have some heavy rain. across southern parts of china at the moment and it's still a supplementary some quite angry looking cloud into parts of india china too so i think for much of vietnam it's looking pretty wet at the moment the same goes for laos and me amar heavy rain is likely for hong kong but once you get north of hong kong is a better situation fuzhou should be fine and indeed fine conditions all the way up to shanghai more heavy rain for hong kong during the course of monday so let's then head across into south asia where we've still got some pretty heavy rain down through the western ghats looks to be fairly steady at the moment so i don't see

anything particularly nasty rotten gary coming as some decent rainfall us what you expect really with the monsoon at its peak and then you look at the forecast the circulation across the eastern side of india so kolkata this sort of very life you see some very heavy rain over the following forty eight hours still some decent showers across central areas delhi for the most part looking dry on sunday monday i think there's a risk of showers much of pakistan expected to be dry and then across into the arabian peninsula and here in qatar we've got more of a northerly wind picking up so that's reduced the humidity but it does mean the temperatures will rise of the next day or so and as we head on through into monday every chance we could see temperatures of forty six. a new series of rewind can bring your people back to life and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries. from.

these districts remind continues with the silver friends when going back to a poor south african neighborhood when using and tradition come together in an annual competition to the people. we want on al-jazeera. the top stories this hour on syria iraq has placed its security forces on a high alert after anti-government protests spread to the capital baghdad demonstrations began in the southern city of basra over high unemployment and lack of basic services. more process to taking place against u.s. president donald trump this time in scotland where he's on the final leg of his

u.k. visit tens of thousands of people turned out in cities across the country on friday to voice disapproval at israel says it's conducting the largest daylight attack on hamas since the gaza war in twenty fourteen the military says that struck dozens of hamas targets meanwhile how mass more than seventy more simple rockets into southern israel the night or more that now. is a senior columnist for al monitor news website he joins us now via skype from tel aviv so good to have you with us once again to forty targets struck by israel today in the biggest daylight raids in four years most of them on targets in open ground after these hamas rocket launches thirty one of them into southern israel overnight what do you make of it. what i make of it is that this is an unfortunate collation that nobody wants not this well neither the harm us but

you know something sometimes things have to happen because the leaders are not doing the right thing and the right thing right now is both these wellies and hamas have to agree on what not the hamas has offered it to israel which is kind of a cease fire as you mentioned before at me and it lasted for about three and a half years and now there is a new kind of struggle that israel has not faced in on it and now is just just agreed with. putting on the kind of an arrangement in syria to get the iranian out of the israeli border but it is same time israel has no answer to the kite attacks of children and since its launch from about two kilometers from the border of israel has no ability to travel at them so what you need to do

and this both sides know is to find an answer to what brings those children to launch this of these rockets and this is of course the embargo the closure on gaza and what the americans are doing right now a huge you mentioned the demonstrations against the tribe i can imagine what would happen if you arrived to gaza there are about thirteen thousand workers that are going to lose their jobs because the americans are cutting their aid to to the u.n. relief and work agency. says the israeli media was talking about a mass describing a new terence ballot. that does not allow israel to determine the rules of the game i mean these attacks today were in sport in response this is a complicated picture after the deaths following the friday's protests at the gaza

border these mass launch these attacks into southern israel israel responds again but what do you make a pass about of that statement from who asked not allowing israel to determine the rules of the game and its forces responding much faster than expected. i think it's a message a is. a not only to israel but also to mahmoud abbas through president abu mazin who cut. aid to gaza financially supported by one third so there was. not only bilateral it goes with the united states since we are still expecting president trump to come up with his blueprint so the hamas is saying don't forget us we are not only part of the problem we are also we have to be part of this solution on the other hand i think

that the hamas knows one or two things about israeli politics and they they know that netanyahu is under great pressure from his own coalition from his own party they want to see results they there is a lot of criticism nowadays about it and how that is traveling to moscow while he never showed up in the early feels in the south even the labor party let alone the extreme right is now demonstrating cooling actually tonight there is a demonstration in tel aviv against the ten yo that he abandons the people who are now under another attack of rockets and constant fire and losing the fields to those kite attacks oversteps took his seventy thanks david being with us keep that from a longer use against civil aviation authorities are back in control of the local

airport until recently the alligator airport near yemen's border with oman was supervised by saudi led forces the change in control appears to be inspiring protests in parts of yemen charlotte better supports. a success in negotiations roughly one year after taking over the airport and southeast in yemen the saudi u.a.e. coalition has agreed to give up control it will now hand it back to local civil authorities it's the first such move in yemen civil war and the decision follows months of protests from local tribes. who were given control of the airport and friday morning the public all the way in all the civil aviation gates this is a positive step from saudis motor force and. having control of the airport is one of the six demands issued by protesters any student yemen this victory is inspiring other communities to take action. in the city of tire as people are calling

attention to other problems with local governments from corruption to lack of security. three years into the war thousands have been killed entire communities displaced the fight between who the rebels and government forces backed by the saudi u.a.e. coalition continues in other parts of the country getting control of our guidance airport is important for those who live in the area and the. one who we pray this will be the end of the crisis and the end of the protests we also hope that our brothers in saudi arabia will appreciate the demands of microbe residents and not repeat these actions. but some political analysts believe the gesture is mainly symbolic and will have little impact on the ground there needs to be serious steps to force us to hand over. the last year towards brought us all the airports in yemen rather than just give you one airports and expect you to be

a success story. despite handing over supervision of the year port the coalition still controls most of mara province. province of mazar leading to the entire south of yemen that is currently under control the coalition. a seemingly small get significant move and a battle with a long road a hate challenge ballasts al-jazeera what was meant to be a peaceful three day protest in nicaragua has turned into a bloody scene with pro-government paramilitaries surrounding student activists in the capital some of the students remain trapped in a university church from where they've been live streaming their ordeal and i am a sanchez has more from managua. i don't know how much students behind barricades at me get i was national university. unarmed and terrified like. this student leaves a recorded message from her mother. because it was on this day of national strike

they were now to defend the country but if our where and i mean and now they think they're going to die. just a few hours before government supporters followed the love data in a caravan commemorating a date in the sunday east of evolution thirty nine years ago that helped topple dictator anastasio from us that was what they just spoke about peace. with the enemies it took so much for most of nicaragua to find reconciliation and now there's a group of nicaraguans who don't accept it and that's because inside of them they carry the poison of hatred. or they were supporters say he's done a lot for he got our album out he's given most poor nicaraguans a guarantee for their rights to food education entertainment and freedom of expression. but as the caravan left the city of the size uniformed police armed with rifles an r.p.g.

opened fire in the neighborhood of money leaving two people dead. more than two hundred fifty people have died in almost three months of civil unrest pension reform protests turned into opposition calls for us risk nation. but on friday thousands of me that i once showed the president their support in his cabin was the answer was yes right facts our government supporters and the fish and their strategy in politics crisis off the main highway the capitol menow up and most of the country remained mostly shut down streets empty gas stations banks shopping malls most businesses closed. but at the immigration offices a queue of people many fearing for their safety. was getting passports for her two sons could give almost all they could be kidnapped just because these students and i want to protect them. three months of bloody protests and luring didn't saya with

civilians dying in the crossfire than one hundred twenty people who remain disappeared and hundreds wounded among them some of the students trapped under the gun they say of police and paramilitary but in asuncion. france is celebrating best deal day the national memorial of the landmark moment of the french revolution president and many on the call led the military parade along the shores elisei in paris this year's festivities are extra special of course the day before france faces croatia in football's world cup final in russia expectations are high this time around that they can take home football's biggest prize the tasha but reports from paris. you're never too young to be a football fan and he doesn't get better than your team making it to the world cup final these children say they can't wait to see their team france play croatia. i'm

going to get lots of flags i'm going to shout i'm going to go to the show as it is they are somewhere with screens to watch. was the world cup final coincides with france's most important public holiday weekend the joy for team bastille day parade is steeped in french tradition with so much to celebrate national pride here is running high. we've been watching the world cup on t.v. and decided to travel to paris to take part in the celebrations secured with. the hope that everyone france keeps up this festive spirit we should always be united like this and happy. business has been brisket this kjell square anything sporting france's national colors has proved popular. many tourists are buying the french blags and hurt i'm amazed i thought it only be the french interested but many people from overseas are supporting friends with more than two hundred outdoor

screens and for all security will be high ninety thousand fans are expected to watch the game in a fan zone at the foot of the eiffel tower if france win the world cup final thousands of pounds will come to herself in israel and this brave will be replaced with a party when france last won the world cup in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight paris his most famous interview was transformed into a street party that seemed to last for days the winning team became a symbol of multiculturalism of today's players were only children at the time star striker killem bapi wasn't even born but for the team the spirit of ninety eight lives on. yes afford to france is a country of many colors and origins we all feel french were happy to wear this jersey i'm very happy to have grown up in france to have french culture even if i left to play abroad early in that way france is beautiful it's how we love it and how we will always love it. whether or not france bring home the trophy many fans

are already proud that the team of made it this far there's no doubt though that if it tree remains the ultimate goal natasha butler al-jazeera power. it is good to have you with us hello adrian from going to here in doha the top stories in al-jazeera israel says that it's conducting the largest daylight attack on hamas since the gaza war in twenty fourteen israeli jets were seen targeting several neighborhoods in the gaza strip and smoke could be seen rising above gaza city the military says that it struck dozens of hamas targets for its part hamas fired more than seventy rockets at southern israel overnight israel's iron dome system intercepted some of them one exploded near an israeli border community there were no reports of injuries hamas says the attack was meant to stop israeli escalation but it's fair to reports now from gaza but we've heard just the last few

minutes that a house was hit in one of those israeli strikes in cardenas and south of gaza strip and that belonged to a commander of the could spread gate what is important there are two injuries from that house being hit what is important to look at from these air strikes the israeli strikes is that all of the targets upset by house have been essentially open areas all training areas used by hamas or other armed groups nobody as far as we know is being killed and there have been a couple of injuries iraq has placed its security forces on high alert after anti-government protests spread to the capital baghdad. demonstrations began in the southern city of basra high unemployment and a lack of basic services eritrea's president says if work is making an historic visit to neighboring ethiopia it's the latest step towards reconciliation and peace between the longtime rivals last weekend the leaders of both countries signed

a pact ending that twenty year military standoff. protests have resumed for a second day in the united kingdom against u.s. president donald trump's visit in scotland where trump is right now protesters have been marching through the streets of the capital and want to get in the nation's capital in london france is celebrating the still day the national memorial of the land mark moment of the french revolution president emmanuel micron led a military parade along with sleazy in paris this year's festivities of course extra special the day before france faces croatia at the football world cup. the newsgroup in a little over twenty five but it's here on al-jazeera after rewind. from the hills of northern greece the places in turkey where refugees hideouts before trying to cross easy to see the crossing countries means crossing the intimidating river more and more refugees are attempting this route even though they know how dangerous it is even outside the risk of drowning with dying of cold in these huge empty spaces

any number of refugees have told us that confessions can forcibly turned around by greek police acting in coordination with from texas the european union for the agency. this eighteen year old syrian was in the smugglers boats with his young the system. the police came up to us and that but they told us you can't cross they made us turn around the police who previously given us access to their fence and border patrols gave us a statement denying that they'd turn any refugees around think claimed their priority was human dignity. but human rights advocates say they know pushbacks happen all the time and accuse the greek government of breaking its national.

hello and welcome again to rewind and fully back to. since the launch of al-jazeera english back in two thousand and six we've built up a library of award winning documentary and here on rewind we've been delving into the vault to pull out some of the best of them today we're going back to two thousand and seven to a poor south african neighborhood just outside cape town when using honor enter edition come together in an unusual annual competition in recent years soph africa has seen huge political upheaval and corruption scandals and cape town south africa second largest city has been feeling the impact of climate change and struggling with drastic water shortages.