from around the globe if you find latin american jazz private lessons i was even. zero. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes israel launches as strikes and tank fire amassed positions in gaza killing four people in a renewed protest along the border. rebels start leaving syria south-west live in the north as the u.n. calls for safe passage for one hundred forty thousand civilians displaced by the fighting. as warnings grow that person could crash out of the e.u. with no deal we look at what that would mean for people in the u.k.

and in europe and international observers keep a close eye on zimbabwe's first elections without longtime ruler robert mugabe. and i'm far as well be here with all the sporting including the latest from the open championship in scotland where there is a two way tie for the lead at the end of round two. has been another day of escalating violence at the gaza border with israel israeli airstrikes and tank fire and hamas positions in gaza killed at least four people three of them hamas members and the israeli military says gunfire at the gaza border fatally wounded a soldier the first israeli killed since the protests began on march thirtieth at least one hundred forty nine palestinians have died in the border demonstrations as

protesters demand the right to return and an end to these raids blockade on gaza charles stratford has more now on the day's events. these men say it's their duty as palestinians to protest against israel's occupation. they put together their kite clipping its tail which they say will keep it balance as it carries the burning cloth over gaza's border fence they soak the sackcloth in petrol and oil because they say it helps it slowly regaining power in africa or not we are here to prove to the whole world that we will never leave the island we're going to launch burning kites tools that occupied land and i'm not afraid of the israelis i'm only afraid of. smell funny sits close by he has come to support the protesters. i must say the kites and balloons to carry the burning rags into israel are a peaceful form of protest israeli snipers have been targeting balloons that the protesters have been launching and well behind the main demonstration these

protesters say they will continue launching their fights holding those incendiary devices until israel lets the siege. the men like the rag and the kite drifts off towards the border fence israel says fires started by protesters have destroyed large areas of crops and private planned. protests to set fire to tires which they uses color from his radio on the snipers positioned along the fence. is ready tanks targeted hamas positions along the border often used that an israeli soldier had been injured these radio me later reported that the soldier had died from his wounds the protesters climbed the walls of a building being used by the israeli soldiers. the army responded with tear gas a mold sounded like live ammunition. an israeli drone flew overhead one hundred forty protestors have been killed since the weekly demonstrations started four

months ago the israeli army shot this man in the leg during a protest in april on the budget itself that unless i'm sending a message to the occupiers that this is our land and you came and took it from us you jews who came from france in england and around the world here it is our land and we inherited it from our grandfathers and before them. the israeli government is under pressure by some politicians to launch a large scale military offensive to stop the protesters. as the day ended israeli fighter jets targeted various hamas bases across gaza including this one in the densely populated neighborhood of z. tune. the ministry of health says at least three civilians were injured in this attack. well mohammed jim is live for us now in west jerusalem ahmed we know now that an israeli soldier was killed on

the gaza border how might israeli government respond or mariam we've just heard in the last twenty minutes or so from the israeli army another statement this clarifying further that this operation this wide scale attack that they say is going on in gaza is still ongoing that's according to the israeli army they say that the i.d.f. that's the israeli defense forces recently completed an additional attack on twenty five military targets located in the how mass but talian headquarters in units in the southern gaza strip targeted were warehouses aerial defense systems observation posts and even more this really goes to show how much things have escalated now it's not really all that much of a surprise considering the fact that even early this morning we've been hearing from israeli officials particularly the israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman he was in the town of there ought that's on israel's border with gaza he told the

assembled audience there that essentially hamas better watch out that israel was not going to back away from a confrontation if they thought that more violence was emanating from gaza today take a listen to more of what the israeli defense minister had to say several hours ago . oh oh oh well we tried to be sensible and responsible but the heads of hamas are leading us to a defensive situation a situation where we would have to go for a painful military operation not for the sake of appearance but an actual operation which will be one and a painful one. so these rainy security cabinet level said been meeting tonight mohammed any indication as to what they might do next. on this particular issue miriam we've not been able to get any details from the israeli army we have contacted them numerous times the past several hours since the israeli media outlets started reporting that this emergency security cabinet session was ongoing

at the moment we don't know if it's actually still going on the army will not confirm it there are reports in israeli media that it is ongoing obviously that makes many here wonder if the operations inside gaza being conducted by the israeli army are going to continue if in fact this is going to escalate even further so a lot of tension right now people are very concerned we're looking for more clarity from the israeli defense forces from the israeli army to find out exactly what's going on as i told you before we heard from the israeli army that this operation is ongoing at this hour but it's not clear about how much longer might be going on and how much longer this might escalate from leicester islamic. we go to developments in syria now rebels in the southwest province of can attract started leaving the area after giving up that fight against the government in the front tail of the israeli occupied golan heights the surrender is an important

victory for president assad's forces a close to a claiming complete control of the country south or above manly has mall a month of intense government bombardments in southwest syria and the devastation is clear the military offensive started by government forces backed by the russian ally a trying to recapture dura in the neighboring province of can a trip. surrendering control of draw city one of the last remaining rebel strongholds would be a major defeat for the opposition. drop the birthplace of the syrian uprising seven years ago from where protests against regimes tortured teenager has spread nationwide. i the province all supported with lebanon and was a major commercial crossing. in some areas near syria's border with the israeli occupied golan heights government bombs have been replaced by buses in deal struck

last month between the syrian government and rebel fighters anyone who refuses to live under the rule of president bashar assad so we move to the eclipse province in the north the displaced populations which i think this time it's around two hundred thousand people are unfortunately going to face the same. of. the same conditions faced by other communities who have left. and in homs before and most likely to be taken to. dozens of display syrians sought refuge from bombing near the its radio golan heights last week but were turned back by israeli border guards. people left their homes weeks ago looking for safety trying to protect their families they have been stranded without shelter without. without any kind of help for

a while and what we are asking for is under. a law in the fighting or even it's very able to reach the population. the can a trivial is similar to others elsewhere in syria. buses transporting people from for walk of fire to government house areas and aleppo had their windows smashed by rebels who'd besieged them with three years hundreds of rebel prisoners a jew to be released in return although some internally displaced syrians are now making their way back home it's a small percentage of more than six million who fled since the start of the war. al-jazeera. well now to iraq where protesters been killed at a rally outside the headquarters of the bugger military paramilitary branch in southern iraq as security forces push back crowds while trying to quell the unrest there his death brings the total number of people killed during weeks of protests

against poor services and unemployment to thirteen imraan khan reports now from the capital baghdad where many of also been rallying in solidarity with the south. protesters face off with security forces in baghdad although a smaller gathering than seen in the last two weeks in the south of iraq it's still a significant number for the capital showing solidarity with protesters in the south on the edge of the matza here more than two but we came out to protest the injustice and lack of job opportunities for the unemployed the government isn't listening to us. even with a small amount of people involved we will continue to protest this time it's make or break for us the protesters break free of a barbed wire cordon set up by the federal police. the protests spreading to the capital and then nationwide it is a concern for iraq's leaders. of the government and i'd say the big quite slim was

i put in place that unprecedented security operation they say they are trying to beat the protests tomorrow but they may not be able to meet all of them their souls on friday at least people want was. the challenge for iraq's government is meeting the development of the protesters marching through the economic reforms and into corruption job creation and a regular electricity supply. the government is looking for solutions they're open talks is how to arabia and a deal has been struck with kuwait for energy supplies will it be enough iraqis here say they will continue to protest until all the demands are met iran called out as a baghdad. well there's much more still to come on this news hour from london nicaragua's president urges protesters to end what he calls their attempt to destabilize the country. a space of lynchings and threats from the government problems whatsapp to impose limits on forwarding messages in india. and

in school will have details of a new policy aimed at boosting confidence in the integrity of the light ics. global markets have stalled off the us president donald trump front to slap five hundred billion dollars of trade tariffs on china that's the total amount of chinese goods imported into the u.s. last year washington has already imposed levies on thirty four billion dollars worth of goods which beijing quickly reciprocated the international monetary fund warns that tit for tat tariffs could damage the global economy i raised fifty we're down five hundred now some people would say three hundred seventy five billion i'm not talking about a million i'm not talking about pennies i'm talking about we're down three hundred seventy five billion but other estimates could say five hundred seven it was a matter so it's in between there or it's there we're down

a tremendous amount i raised fifty and they matched us as. meanwhile the new york times is reporting that donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen secretly taped a discussion with him about payments to an ex playboy model he says she had an affair with the u.s. president newspaper says the f.b.i. seized the recording in april chairing a raid on cohen's office is being investigated for tax fraud and campaign will violations out of trump's twenty sixteen election troubles current lawyer rudy giuliani is confirming that trump discussed the payments with cohen on the tape but says the payments were never made our white house correspondent can has the latest . this recording seems to reveal the president discussing with his personal attorney michael cohen the payment of money in the form of check fully one hundred fifty thousand dollars this is problematic for the president given that he has denied he ever had an affair with karen mcdougal the playboy model the white house

saying this was fake news and that the president never had such a relationship the recording seems to contradict that statement of course the president at the time of this alleged affair also married with an infant son certainly problematic on a personal level so this really brings up the question of what the president knew and when he knew it it's also a concern given the fact that there is a separate investigation that is ongoing in all of this and that is the one being conducted by robert muller the special counsel well these two investigations are separate the one into michael cohen trumps personal attorney and the one into whether or not there was russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election and whether the truck campaign colluded with russia with this information is shared it could be problematic for the president given the fact that if michael cohen in order to save himself from the charges he is currently facing he could decide to cooperate with the special counsel and that could certainly be risky for

donald trump. the u.s. secretary of state saying that economic sanctions need to be fully enforced against north korea in order to get it to eliminate its nuclear weapons made the comments on to meeting south korea's foreign minister cancun want and u.n. officials to brief them on going to nuclearize ation efforts of pyongyang by also accused north korea of illegally smuggling petroleum and coal in violation of u.n. sanctions the u.s. ambassador nikki haley also called for the u.n. security council to remain strict with pyongyang. we can't do one thing until we see north korea respond to their promise to denuclearize we have to see some sort of action and so until that action happens the security council is going to hold tight to the international community we ask you to hold tight as we go forward. at least thirteen people have died off to a tourist boat capsized and sank on a lake in the u.s. state of missouri thirty one people were on board when the amphibious vehicle

overturned on table rock lake during the storm divers the searching for the four on the passengers who are still missing seven people have been taken to hospital all of those actually is from county sheriff's deputy on the boat. he was in the water rescue people there was also some of the stuff in branson belle believe and trying to help her escape by i was in the show boat and i i didn't see them fall over but i knew we all knew that whatever road or whatever. we're now in nicaragua pro-government paramilitaries up a troll in the streets of more nimble after retaking control this week of what had been a center of opposition to president daniel ortega marianna sanchez is there for us and so my own of the government's attempt to quell the protests has been bloody you are in money which was attacked by got the government three days ago what's happening then now. that's right marianne the situation here is is calm we are here in moneyball where there were heavy attacks just three

days ago between paramilitary forces and. police attacking protesters that have set up roadblocks throughout this. traditional if you will rebel rebel. if you will now with the situation here is calm there is some traffic on the streets on the main street there is some there are but in the other streets in the throughout the neighborhood we've seen a lot of houses close to a lot of houses abandoned. businesses closed here there's only one street food vendor that we've talked to and while ago who said that this was the first time she came out to sell food in three months now the paramilitary are going around in caravans throughout this neighborhood and in the city of my neighborhood . and of course they are heavily armed their cars are are not marked they have no

plates and their presence of course is still very intimidating to the people here. who are these pro-government paramilitary forces. well the government has not explained who they are they have not said anything the chief of police of a few days ago said that these these forces these joint operations by paramilitary and police have been have been instructed directly by preceded the need of the guy and his wife vice president. yesterday we were at the celebration of the thirty ninth anniversary celebration of the revolution and we asked people if they thought there was a was ok to see all these paramilitary going around the country open operating in the open and and many people share the same views are some of the commanders of the

revolution that are supporters of a thing or who told us that these were people fighting the people thank you very much from. around a sanchez with the latest. well now corruption experts in mexico have condemned the response of the president elect to a ten million dollars fine for breaking campaign financing laws that fine was imposed on wednesday on the party of. john hohmann has more from mexico city. miscues president elect andres manuel lopez obrador ran a one a landslide victory on a promise to eradicate corruption but already his party morena has been fined around ten million dollars for regularities during the campaign the national tour institute has penalized the party for setting up a trust fund for earthquake victims it says the fund shouldn't have been set up by a political party and the way it was paid in part with big anonymous cash payment

was also against the law corruption experts we've talked to said that the judgment of the electoral authorities seems based on sound evidence what's particularly worrying they say is lopez obrador is reaction to it he's called it a bio act of revenge by authorities of these we know this is a leader whose opponents have often said that he doesn't respect the country's often severely flawed institutions and attacking the country's electorate authority in this way before he's even in power is not going to do anything to dispel those criticisms of afghanistan now where at least fourteen people have died in as strike in kunduz city in the north of the country u.s. and afghan military planes were targeting taliban fighters there the u.s. army says there's nothing to suggest that it's jets were behind the strike but last week the un demanded more protection for civilians after a report found that as strikes have killed three hundred fifty three afghans so far this year.

well pakistan's autonomous tribal region will vote for the first time in next week's general election it's home to five million people who are mainly from the pashtun ethnic group they say they've been victims of government oppression including ethnic targeting and forced disappearances military operations against armed groups in the region of also displaced large numbers of people commodified has moved from pakistan's tribal belt the khyber agency. they're getting ready for the. border and for the country but for the tribe or dr literally it is more and more germans regard for go for it they really threw it in their lives return has to go a little far limited a flarm a bog treasure in georgia is stronger than the problem of greece the real

go forward and their tribe or go to the people not a. whole lot harder khwaja that and they said they will send that up to them for their little cause of saudi problem and this is after all of the other degree neglected for over thirty years. the world war. and there are. no four go forth done. to prevent there's a. problem. in the dr berlin. wall now what's up is testing ways to restrict our uses in india for content the latest attempt to curb violence and lynching spawn by rumor spread on the popular app the facebook says what's not uses every well now be able to afford messages to just twenty people instead of two hundred fifty six but more than two hundred

million indian uses one of the forward to more than five people at once it will also remove the quick forward button next to media messages to deter the mass forwarding of photos and videos but the company has rejected demands from the indian government to enable the tracing of messages where in the last two months twenty one people have been killed by crazed mobs of unfounded allegations spread only at a room of blame for many of the recent incidents kind strangers what sedating and abducting children early i spoke to kayani child tom an associate professor at the philip merrill college of journalism part of the university of maryland in the in the u.s. she says more needs to be done to tackle the problem. i think it's probably going to make some sort of temporary difference but i think the question is not really one of technology the question really is why is this happening and you know certainly the affordance is. make some of this easier. but i'm not convinced

that this test is either enough or that it's actually going to prove very effective in the long run particularly because i think we found a technology that mostly people will find some other kind of what. if they're really motivated to spread misinformation or woman it's a country where there isn't always a lot of trust in institutions i know sometimes we see these surveys saying india does have this great trust in the government will they have trust in the media i actually think that it's a country where trust is often in very short supply and so people sense of trust comes from you know trusting people in their social network maybe friends maybe relatives maybe community members and so i think that's where really the challenge lies so people will still want to get their information from people that they think are credible and very often those people are people in there you know whether they're people who've never been to by strong ties or whether they're bound to them by weak ties i think that's where they're trying to get the information from and so i'm not as i said before i don't think that either regulation or you know trying to

get whatsapp to do you know limit you know put away the forward button is necessarily effective. still ahead for you the u.s. party leader hoping to benefit from the political impasse at november's midterm elections. why mollies election preparations are being mobbed by fear as a violent attacks by armed groups and then later and foremost sadie's resigns one of their promising young for me i wonder. that story coming up later. hello and welcome back we're still looking at some big thunderstorms across europe there's a lot of energy in the atmosphere and it's going to be released as we get these high surface temperatures just about everywhere so the eastern part of europe again

severe storms are likely here other areas not too bad but really all across the the alpine region through into southern parts of germany eastern parts of france it is looking very very stormy n.t. so we're looking at flash flooding large hail storms could be a few tornadoes mixed in the western areas a little bit quieter with the roads who find conditions and after a week front passes through the u.k. temperatures back up to twenty nine degrees in london on the other side of the mediterranean weather conditions also looking generally fine we've got the wind coming off the desert there for two to forty two degrees the high on stuff there dropping back a little bit as we get through into sunday fine conditions expected in cairo the maximum of thirty seven degrees and then into central parts of africa some big showers chutney share mali all these storm systems moving through west africa looking pretty large it mo in terms of precipitation meanwhile in southern portions of the continent is looking largely dry and fine it should be a decent day in cape town with highs here of twenty degrees celsius.

on counting the costs of stronger growth for cost to sub-saharan africa but a big trade challenge is looming the world's second biggest aviation trade show takes off in the u.k. plus why three d. printed buildings are causing some just. counting the cost on al-jazeera. volcano kill way it erupted explosively last thing boiling clouds of steam and ash and rock high into the atmosphere scientists say it's not unusual for eruptions to stop and start up again later as for kill away a it has been spilling love a continually for more than thirty years. the spiritual beliefs eruptions reflect the mood of the goddess. why it's always

nice to us whether she takes our home or reacts this type of. welcome back a quick look at the top stories this hour the israeli military says gunfire at the gaza border has killed an israeli soldier israeli as strikes and tank fire aimed at her last position in gaza killing at least four people three of them come out members. syrian rebels in the southwestern province of connection have started leaving the area after giving up their fight against government forces and the new york times is saying donald trump's formal lawyer michael cohen secretly taped

a discussion with him about payments to an ex playboy model who says she had an affair with the u.s. president. now the green party in the u.s. is hoping to benefit from the country's current political impasse at november's midterm elections the party believes it can take advantage of anger at the trumpet ministration and frustration with the democratic party around two hundred candidates and their supporters holding their annual meeting in the state of utah christian salumi hospital. in salt lake city utah against a backdrop of beautiful local scenery and national political turmoil the green party is holding its annual national meeting. these left leaning green candidates are hoping to capitalize on american voters frustration with an increasingly polarized two party system and make a mark in the upcoming midterm elections i'm here to represent a better way forward i'm here to represent policies built on empathy built on the

idea of the things that we do to our impact all of us green site studies that show sixty percent of americans want a third party option whether it's protecting the environment social justice or immigration the greens insist that they not democrats are the truly progressive party and unlike democrats and republicans they are free from the influence of corporate money. to. just sign ran for president on the green party ticket in two thousand and sixteen she got less than one percent of the vote nationwide but some democrats blame her for hillary clinton's loss they queue stine of siphoning democratic votes in states like michigan and wisconsin that clinton narrowly lost to donald trump many believe greens would have more impact if they worked with democrats to unite under the banner of the democratic party to essentially fight for the soul of the democratic party i think is a smart strategy for people on the left who need a place not only where they can feel at home but where they can more importantly

where they can have an effect on our country right now. shereen gorani agrees she shares a lot of the greens frustrations. but decided to run for congress as a democrat i think third party politics has risen to give people that sort of sense that they could have a voice unfortunately as the system works we're going to have more success if we can get in line behind one of these two major parties and really start talking about the issues that matter to everyday people but the green say democrats aren't doing enough the democrats have traditionally not been able to stand up they've offered no solutions and in fact being also corporate backed they will always choose their corporate donors and the elite over whether people in the planet me they may be small in numbers but greens are fired up. setting their sights on the midterm elections hoping to change not only the direction of american policy but the election system itself kristen salumi al jazeera salt lake city utah. i'm

joined now from los angeles by bill schneider a political analyst and author of standoff how america became ungovernable thank you very much for speaking to us is the green party in a position to win more voters in november midterm elections. i don't think so because the democratic party whatever the complaints may be from the left the democratic party is really pretty united in its distrust and even hatred for donald trump i think that's going to be enough to hold democrats together in twenty eighteen how have the green party then impacted the general political landscape have they contributed to a shift in the balance of power towards the left wing of the democratic party possibly. well it they might have made some contribution towards that the democratic party is having an argument among themselves right now over how whether to move to the left and how far i'd say the

biggest force in that debate is not the green party it's bernie sanders the independent senator from vermont who got about forty five forty three percent i think of the primary vote in two thousand and sixteen his people are there they're very are they're very powerful they argue that the party made a mistake in nominating hillary clinton who lost instead of bernie sanders and his voice is still a very strong voice in the democratic party certainly stronger than the greens right but what does that mean then will increasingly have to the left help or hinder the democratic party's chances in november well i don't think the parties is moving to the left as a whole party some candidates are from the left we saw some upsets in primaries where the left defeated candidates who are part of the democratic establishment but

it varies right now democrats are doing very well in the polls because they represent the alternative to trump to vote democratic is to send a message i want to stop donald trump that's a message centrist democrats left wing democrats radicals even greens agree with and really the only way to make that happen is to vote for a democrat which is strengthening the democratic party right now and in a way it's weakening the greens what does all this mean for president on the trunk what's at stake for him in november. well what's this thank you for him is that the democrats they are to riri a very good chance of taking over the house of representatives and possibly a smaller chance of taking over the senate and the message will be very simple stop trump that's the whole message and the democrats will get that message if they are in charge of the house of representatives they will do everything to stop trying to defeat his policies they can't stop his nominations because nominations don't go to

the house they go to the senate and there we simply don't know what's going to happen but democrats will get that message loud and clear and the only question in the house will be do will they also see a mandate to vote to impeach president trump that's not clear yet but that would be the most extreme version of the message you can imagine. without getting too technical just give us a broad brush view of how many seats are in contest in november how how many seats could the republicans lose potentially well there i think there are twenty three democrats need to pick up twenty three seats which is well within the prospect for this year's election probably about at least fifty seats are in play all over the country most of them are suburban seats outside of the major cities there inhabited by affluent and well educated voters

who have a history of supporting republicans the problem is that trumps republican party is bleeding support from affluent well educated voters who simply can't accept donald trump they can't stand him there's a big educational difference now in american politics the better educated you are the less likely you are to support donald trump and that's what's driving a lot of republicans away and that means that a lot of these suburban districts outside of cities like philadelphia and washington are are now in play for the election in november it'll be a fascinating one to thank you very much bill schneider in los angeles. now the e.u. says the u.k.'s new bricks it plan is constructive but there is still concerns about what the with about the withdrawal agreement itself the british prime minister terry's amazed balancing the demands of the program faction in our party with the need to maintain close ties to the e.u. in order to avoid a hard border with their public of island joan hull reports could this be the

reason may's last stand she was in northern ireland promoting the benefits of a vision for break city upon which her survival is staked a deal that would keep close trade ties between the u.k. and the european union in return she said the e.u. needed to evolve its negotiating position and then there was this the reality is that any agreement we reach with the e.u. would have to provide for the frictionless movement of goods across the northern ireland border equally clear is that as the united kingdom government we could never accept that the way to prevent a hard border with ireland is to create a new border within the united kingdom and with that to resume a rejected the e.u.'s idea of a backstop or contingency plan that would see northern ireland maintaining special ties to the e.u. in the event that no deal is reached over breaks it with a new economic border emerging between northern ireland and the rest of the u.k. and since a no deal scenario is on everyone's lips at the moment with the venal nature of

british politics right now that seem like pretty serious stuff it wasn't long before the e.u. used chief breaks it negotiate it responded the block he said saw some basis for negotiation in the prime minister's plan but the absence of an agreed backstop was something the e.u. couldn't accept we are all prone to any sort of issues. any solutions longer walkable who could be transformed into a legally operative text in time for the withdrawal or group q. predictions not for the first time in recent weeks of to resume a imminent political demise the e.u. cannot sign off deal without a bus stop to reason why is it that the torpedo that option social hot seat and i will almost certainly perceive say her resignation but not just yet for now the british government's plan remains alive and with it just about this is mary's premiership. london at least fourteen people have been wounded in

a knife attack in the northern german city of lubec the male suspect launched at people on a bus before being overpowered and taken into custody a police spokesperson has confirmed no one was killed in the attack a french president has fired his bodyguard after he was caught on camera beating a student protester this mobile phone video appears to show alexander banal of dragging the protest on the ground. before hitting him on the head several times. and i was not on judy at the time but he was given permission to observe police operations on a gago has more from paris. a second man has now being held in custody alongside mr alexander ben he is also accused of engaging in those violent activities on the protesters on may the first meanwhile mr benn faces several charges including

tampering with evidence it's alleged that he tried to get access to c.c.'s t.v. footage that showed him in gauging in about violent activity there and he did that allegedly with the help of three other police officers who have since been suspended with their role from their roles in the meanwhile he is also accused of impersonating a police officer as well as taking part in the acts of violence whilst in a public role in the meantime this is the most serious crisis to have hit the presidency of mind where calm man who promised to lead an exemplary republic but it also goes really to the heart of the in the workings of the state as well as public faith in the public servants as well in the meantime the process to fire mr ben has begun and it is the most serious punishment of being given to a security official ever at the elysee palace a court in south korea has sentenced former president park geun hay to an

additional eight years in prison if found guilty of unlawfully receiving state funds and interfering in the selection of candidates for the twenty sixteen parliamentary election park is already serving a twenty four year term handed down in april for all the corruption charges a former head of the united nations is keeping a close eye on elections in zimbabwe kofi annan is leading a team of observers known as the elders is trying to reassure opposition leaders that elections at the end of the month the first without deposed president robert mugabe will be free and fair. more now from harare. koffi annan and other well known faces were banned from zimbabwe by robert mugabe ten years ago a lot has happened since then the army forced mugabe from power last year his replacement president. is preparing for the general election on july the thirtieth despite an attempt on his life a lot of people were but is included here we did call them for nonviolence yes

there was an incident in blowing but that was intended to. move to democracy a man's leading a high profile election observer team known as the elders who are assessing preparations for the courage of peaceful and credible elections and then also made to main opposition leader nelson chamisa he says he's worried the ruling zanu p.f. party is planning to manipulate voter numbers by tampering with ballot papers mr non-god was not complaining because he's a beneficiary in fact is a corporate traitor of this transgression so that's why he's taking an arrogant position but he's failing provide leadership was his plans in this country instability and this is why we feel that is being reckless and we really feel it's regrettable was the answer i was. the ruling party denies the fraud allegations made by the opposition more than five million zimbabweans have registered to vote sixty percent of them under fifty year olds who could determine who's above his

next president will be president m.s.m. and holds international observers who are here for the first time since two thousand and two was a elections were free and fair it could give them credibility and in the country's economic isolation the results of the parliamentary and presidential elections have to be announced within five days of polling day many here and elsewhere a keenly awaiting those results wondering what the new looks like after mugabe. al-jazeera. there are fears of violence in mali ahead of a presidential election at the end of the month attacks by armed groups have become more frequent in recent years despite international efforts to drive out i cell and al qaeda affiliates but security is not the only thing voters a wide about as mohamed vall reports now from. the. presidential candidates looking for votes in bamako election campaigns launched

a week ago are in full swing the current president ibrahim keita is appealing to his supporters for a second term because he's widely known was elected in a landslide majority five years ago on promises to restore peace defeat armed groups and improve the economy critics accuse him of failure to deliver on any of those promises as well as incompetence and lack of vision it has twenty three arrivals forty year lection led by this former prime minister so while a c c e c as the president's main rival. having lost two previous presidential bids he's managed to rally a large support with promises to fix molly's problems and end poverty for voters there was no end to the list of the months for any leader but i think that. we will the next president to run the country efficiently and not think of obamacare only but also remote poor villages we need a solution to high prices in the shortage of food supplies molly has great

potential with rich natural resources on the niger river as well as being africa's third largest gold producer molly has large reserves of iron ore mine going east and you're a name despite its natural riches mollies ranked among the poorest countries in the world landlocked on drought stricken in its a vast northern regions mali and struggled with for and that's government mismanagement political disunity and ethnic fighting mileage you grew up around five percent last year not bad compared to many other developing countries but i mean even distribution of wealth especially of the half of the population and the internationally recognized poverty like many in mali don't care about statistics they simply want jobs and social services in a secure and stable environment. my life it is now millions are suffering because of low income and high cost of living we pray to god to give us

a good leadership that would make the country better but their leaders in general don't keep their promises and they only think of their personal interests some have dubbed it the election of all the challenges and or the high stakes others doubted the election could be organized in time because of the rising number of attacks by armed groups no matter who wins this presidential race everyone here is worried about the future of mali and few deny the need for change one hundred five zero. so i had. emotional scenes in eritrea as an ethiopian. with his wife and daughter. separated by a wall. and facing a tall order at the open championship. thanks to.

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from. marion thank you so marge two players share their lead at the end of round two of the open championship in scotland one of those is kevin costner who was leading from the previous round he carded a one under seventy that despite a double bogey on the eighteenth is your shares the lead with fellow americans back johnson his birdie on the eighteenth finished with a sixty seven and his six under par. tiger woods is still in contention but only just he had a seventy one and finished level on harwood's last won the open championship in two

thousand and six. i played a little better yesterday. today it wasn't it wasn't quite as good but a firebird par four. so that's such a positive. right now expect. and you know by the days that i think i'll be more than that. it'll be a pretty leaderboard and. i'm sure they're out there in. kenya's beatrice chup coach smashed the women's three thousand metres steeplechase world record at the dominant league meet in monaco the twenty twenty seven year old one of world record time eight minutes forty four point three two seconds speeding previous record by more than eight seconds runner up american courtney freer just was sixty. a limbic and world champion caster semenya continued her row of the women's eight hundred meters the south african won her twenty sixth final in a row setting

a meet record in monaco so money it has not lost in the distance of twenty fifteen . i knew transparency drive in track and field has resulted in a new policy from now on all details of the athletes facing disciplinary proceedings will be made public the athletics integrity unit has released a list of more than a hundred elite athletes who have been banned or provisionally suspended poll that are worth reports. olympic three thousand metres steeplechase champion and world record holder ruth jibbitz is just one of the big names released as part of the little contiguity units new public disclosure policy the twenty one year old is facing disciplinary proceedings over positive test for the blood booster e.p.o. . hu gold medal is one of eighty five olympic and world championship medals that have been won by people are the provisionally suspended or already serving bans all but two of the one hundred twenty cases relate to doping and almost half the cases

involve russia chairman david howman who's the former head of the world anti-doping agency says the transparency measures will help instill greater public confidence in the integrity of athletics the unit says there's still a lot of work to be done to restore the sport's repudiation but despite that they say they're ready to take on the challenge of kicking cheap off the track and with al-jazeera. world champion peter sagan has clinched his third when this year's tour de france the you slovakian rider claimed the stage thirteen of the race a one hundred and sixty nine point five kilometer leg he completed in less than four hours sagan beat out alexander christophe for the win arnaud de mar was third britain's gerald thomas retains the overall leader's yellow jersey. mercedes driver valtteri bottas will stay at the formula one team for another year the twenty eight year old from finland is in fifth in the driver's standings fifty nine points

behind teammate lewis hamilton who is currently second place behind leaders of aston vettel vortices contract extension comes just a day after hamilton agreed a new two year extension deal. but it was team red bull who was the fastest in both practice sessions ahead of the german daniel carter was just a fraction faster than it was hamilton in the morning session where carter was teammate max for stop and set a record breaking last year after beating both hamilton and voters to the top. in the car. i'm happy about that of course and to be first in the second practice is of course always very nice but there we have to wait and see what's going to happen tomorrow when they turn up their engines in qualifying but at least is a positive step. for us compared to silverstone. the blockade of capture is check mating chats players they're being unwittingly caught up in the thirteen month long diplomatic dispute says fan tend not to have reports. this tournament in doha is

a chance for counters chess players to move up in the international rankings but opportunities like this are proving harder to come by many of these players were looking forward to competing in the arab regional chess championship but host country the united arab emirates banned them from taking part so i didn't even know before one day of the total that i was i don't know if i was going to go look at that gives train of thought i kept my hopes up lots of just this was very disappointing and i just wasn't a lot to do. as much as i was taking over the u.a.e. band follows controversy at a global tournament in saudi arabia two months earlier cattery players were initially denied the right to compete under their flag and there were delays in issuing visas the saudis relented at the last moment but the cattery missed the competition at the opening ceremony ahead of saudi arabia sports authority denied there were any problems but refused to refer to concert directly by name and that

if you like is that any three of us and we will focus on the tournament and we will not be bothered by this mini state i assign someone who will deal with this many states because they are irrelevant the political chess game playing out in the middle east to see moves to isolate catherine all levels diplomatic ties been severed and trade routes being closed sports and games traditionally brought together even rival countries in spirit a friendly competition but here too blockading nations are working to freeze out catherine despite what happened in saudi arabia the ban by the u.a.e. still caught many by surprise that he and that is to ensure you. as you would if the nation when with all my friends. but the they didn't get most of the court you know that it would have been. sure the persons who are video. thirty years ago who used to play chess together now three players have complained to feed a the world chess organization but they aren't optimistic the can do

a lot if the tournament is belongs to either this is more time to ship or vision but for of the region i don't know the i don't think they would they want to interfere in the the say ok guys it's your problem you know it's just we do it to take one side or the other cd has a slogan again when assumes we are one family but that message of unity rings hollow when the gulf players have become pawns caught up in the poll tax of a region divided into modern al-jazeera. and that's all you spoke about how it's now back to marion and london thank you for and i you might remember an ethiopian journalist others saddam had to be featured on wednesday was preparing to reunite with his wife and two kids in an eritrea for almost two decades apart is now met his family in us mara in two thousand is wife took their two teenage daughters back to her home country.

but with ethiopia and eritrea in a state of war for eighteen years there were no transport links telephone lines or postage between them and no way for the family to communicate with each other but of the ethiopian airlines flights to resume this week had you reconnected with his wife and children and also met his grandson for the first time. none of the planets in the moon other than they're going to know the darkness is going on able to see my wife and children and i've met my grandson it's like winning the lottery without buying a ticket. i spent years going to church and crying then so that my children would not see me today this emotion is not really crying it's like a loss because a time of cry is a book. well that's it for the news hour but i'll be back in a complex minutes with much more of the day's news stay with us i have now.

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when diplomacy fails and fear sweeps then our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and it's ill to sixty's instead of being an obstacle to it dole wastes into became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera. we have a news gathering team here that is second to none and they're all over the world and they do a fantastic job when information is coming in very quickly all at once you've got to be able to react to all of the changes and al-jazeera we adapt to that.

my job is is to break it all down and we held the view on the stand and make sense of it. israel launches as strikes and tank fire amassed positions in gaza killing four people and an israeli soldier is killed by palestinian fighters on the gaza border . and though i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up rebels start leaving syria southwest in the north as the u.n. calls for safe passage for one hundred forty thousand civilians displaced by the fighting. as warnings grow that person could crash out of the e.u. with no deal we look at what that would mean for people in the u.k.

and in europe. and international observers keep a close eye on.