this is al jazeera. low and welcome i'm peter w. watching the news live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes after a day of rapidly escalating tensions hamas says calm has been restored with israel . in syria government forces move closer to reclaiming complete control of the country's south. donald trump ups's threats and the growing trade war with china. and the corrupt he was president finds a new enemy in the country's catholic bishops.

ok let's get going palestinian factions say they've agreed to a truce with israel after a day of escalating violence along the gaza israel border now on friday israeli airstrikes and tank fire aimed at how mass positions in gaza killed at least four people and the israeli military says gunfire at the border killed one of its soldiers at least one hundred forty nine palestinians have died in demonstrations along the border since late march protesters are demanding the right to return and an end to the israeli blockade on gaza charles stratford reports 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 petra. an oil because they say it helps it slowly losing contact with

the land but we are here to prove to the whole world that we will never leave the island we're going to do with burning kites was that occupied land and i'm not afraid of the israelis i'm only afraid of god. from us leader ismail haniya sits close by but 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 the well behind the main demonstration these protesters say they will continue launching back heights holding those incendiary devices until israel lifts the siege. the men like the rag and the kite drifts all too and now it's the build a fence israel says spies 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. he's ready tanks talk to hamas positions along the border often news that an israeli soldier had been injured these radio me later reported that the soldier had died from his wounds 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. and is ready drone flew overhead well one hundred forty protesters 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 i'm not just a sense that i lost by 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 and england and around the world here it is our land and we inherited it from all 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. struck at al jazeera gaza. ok that story still developing in real time is live for us in west jerusalem mohammed has a cease fire actually been declared and crucially been reached. peter it's a very good question and one unfortunately that we cannot answer definitively at this hour now if you ask how much does a ceasefire has been reached in fact the spokesman for hamas foes about whom he tweeted out a statement saying that with egyptian and united nations efforts it has been agreed to return to the era of calm between israel and palestinian factions that's how

much on the other hand you have the israeli army we have contacted them repeatedly since the statement was made and we've not been able to get any details they are refusing to comment the last we heard from the israeli army was in the past several hours where they talked about ongoing operations inside of gaza in fact statements have talked about hitting as many as sixty sixty five targets destroyed infrastructure of how muss saying that this operation was ongoing earlier in the evening you had israel saying that this was a wide scale attack not clarify exactly what they meant now you have news that the this operation is ongoing really not that much of a surprise considering the rhetoric that we were hearing from israel much earlier in the day before all of this began before the tensions were ratcheted up the rhetoric was ratcheted up you had obdurate lieberman the israeli defense minister he was in the town of dot that's on israel's border with gaza in the morning hours

he told the a symbol of people there that israel would not hesitate to go into a conflict with how much if island was going to continue to emanate from gaza this was hours before protests were happening earlier today take a listen to more of what he had to say. 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 will. to me know if the israeli security cabinet is still in session. this is another question that we've been trying to get clarification on from israel's army there have been reports throughout the last several hours that there was an emergency meeting of israel's security cabinet that they were discussing what to do with regards to the situation in gaza again we have reached out

repeatedly to israel's army they have refused to give us any details about if the security cabinet is meeting how long that meeting may or may not have gone on we expect that in the coming hours or at least by morning we should have more clarification on that point peter mohammed stay close in the meantime thanks very much well phyllis bennis is a fellow at the institute for policy studies she joins us live now from washington phyllis bennis welcome back to the news here on al-jazeera is this column is this a truce or is it just a chance to reload. well it's important that they use the word calm and not the word peace there has been no peace in gaza for many many decades and i think what we're seeing right now is a moment of hesitation it may be that the firing has slowed and israel doesn't yet want to acknowledge that it's a little hard to know as we just heard from mohammed on the ground we know that there have been extraordinary rhetoric escalations throughout the day the minister

of education after ali bennett one of the fergus right of this right wing cabinet had called earlier today for the israeli snipers on the gaza fence to fire at directly at the children who are launching some of these kites and it was the chief of the army the chief of the israeli army came back and said i can't accept that it and he's indicated he believed it was not a moral position and despite that the minister of education called again for essentially killing palestinian children so there is this incredible level of of rhetorical escalation underway and we know that the position of the israelis for some time has been to anticipate a more significant attack that would be even more deadly than the two thousand and fourteen war which left over two thousand one hundred palestinians dead so in that situation i think if there is a cease fire that holds briefly it will not hold for very long i'm afraid clearly

if hamas is going to run with it effectively you have to cap the simmering tensions that have been on display for the past two months with the in gaza therefore how do they sell this calm domestically. i think that the irony what we're seeing here is that the palestinians for seventeen weeks now have been launching extraordinarily nonviolent protests every friday afternoon at and near the fence those protests from the very first one from even before the first one the israelis announced that those nonviolent protests would be met with brutal force that they were going to send in the sharpshooters these snipers which they did the snipers have now killed over one hundred fifty people throughout that period more than fifty on one day on may fourteenth on the day that over two thousand palestinians were injured mostly by live fire and there seems to

be a position on the from the israeli military and the political echelon that says we have enough confidence that we will get absolute impunity from the trumpet ministration and in that context we're not afraid of being held accountable for international law so we can go ahead and announce ahead of time we plan to violate international law we plan to use sharpshooters and snipers against civilians who are not threatening any people a direct violation of international law and so far they have been right they have not been held accountable is the reaction to that there on the other side of the gaza israel border something of a dichotomy if you will in as much as the rights of return march organizers have undoubtedly unified the people on the ground we've seen eight weeks of the videotapes of that we've seen the reaction to the handiwork if you will of the sharpshooters and yet these units see on the ground but the politicians within

hamas the politicians within gaza they are not in step lock when it comes to their reaction to this. they may not be but i think what's important is that the population of gaza seems to be following the lead of the civil society activists who first called for the great march of return this was not him us who made this call this with these were activists in the community who said enough we have to do something and what they chose to do rather astonishingly when you think about the conditions in which they live in this outdoor prison without sufficient access to medicine to electricity to clean water to anything like that the united nations says that gaza will be uninhabitable by twenty twenty that's less than two years away so in that context what's extraordinary is that the population has followed the lead of those who have called for nonviolent protests and they have

been met with more and more violence with more and more young people being killed and i think in that situation it's likely to continue i think there probably will be children who who send these these little burning kites over the fence when they can it's a symbolic gesture yes there has been some property damage and that's unfortunate but it's the consequence of the decades of occupation gaza remains occupied despite the withdrawal of troops and settlers from the territory of gaza that has been replaced by a siege in which gaza is completely surrounded by israeli troops who control the airspace the waters control electricity and lack of electricity make sure that there is no viable economy so in those conditions this kind of nonviolent resistance is actually rather astonishing that it has held this law is it astonishing perhaps because of the reality here because some of those people who organized the march they say look we simply cannot do

a war at the moment we can't afford a war and if we look at the broader issues the broader picture here when you talk about the use of occupation if we look at it in the context of neck bar for example this as far as israel is concerned is heading to what the palestinians can never accept it is the ultimate humiliation i guess that's the best word for this. i think that's one of many words i think that you're right that this is leading the israelis the recognition that palestinians are starting to get support globally at a level that they have never had to face before that israel has never had to face before one of the consequences of that has been the new law that was passed just yesterday in israel that makes the apartheid that had been a characteristic of israeli rule over palestinians both inside israel proper and in the occupied palestinian territory it's now legal it's sort of equivalent to one

thousand nine hundred eight in south africa when the practices of separation the practices of apartheid the practices of discrimination were for the first time legalized into the legal system of apartheid israel has now announced the same thing the recognition of arabic as a second language no longer exists there is no longer even the pretense of israel as a quote jewish and democratic state democracy has been abandoned in favor of privileging the jewish majority so in this situation i think that israel is very very worried about nonviolent responses from the palestinians that when palestinians support from all around the world governments and people so in that situation i think they're trying very hard to provoke a more violent response from the palestinians which would give them in their view if not the right at least some kind of political cover for launching an even

greater more deadly war against gaza phyllis bennis always good still to get your insights thank you so much. syrian rebels in the southwest province of can a truck have started leaving the area after giving up their fight against government forces the surrender is a big victory for the president bashar al assad his forces are close to reclaim in complete control of the south florida manoli has more a month of intense government bombardments in southwest syria and the devastation is clear the military offensive started by government forces backed by their russian ally a trying to recapture dura in the neighboring province of can a truck surrendering control of droste city one of the last remaining rebel strongholds would be a major defeat for the opposition. the birthplace of the syrian uprising seven years ago from where protests against

regime's torture of teenagers spread nationwide. in some areas near syria's border with the israeli occupied golan heights government bombs have been replaced by passes 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 fortunately going to face the same. of. the same conditions faced by other communities who have left the areas in eastern and. and then hands before and most likely to be taken to. dozens of displaced syrians thought refuge from bombing near the its radio golan heights last week but were turned back by israeli border guards. over people left their homes weeks

ago looking for basically 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 of the military and able to reach the population. the can a true deal is similar to others elsewhere in syria. buses transporting people from for want of trying to government housing areas and the latter had their windows smashed by rebels besieged them the three years hundreds of rebel prisoners a-g. 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 have fled since the start of the war. nor about a manly al-jazeera. was staying with

a wave of victories this year they mean the syrian government now controls the vast majority of syrian territory having seen off rebel resistance in connector and deborah only pockets of eisel territory remain to be taken into the southwest of the country syrian rebels are being pushed into two main areas a small number hold territory near syria's borders with jordan and iraq but most are in province where the government is expected to turn its guns next the free syrian army backed by turkey has taken over a sliver of land along the turkey syria border mainly to prevent kurdish fighters from advancing to the west the kurdish dominated syrian democratic forces hold syria's northeast the biggest territory outside of government control. the press to be a protester has been killed at a rally outside the headquarters of a paramilitary unit in southern iraq his death brings the total number of people killed during weeks of protest against poor government services and unemployment now to twelve imran khan reports from the capital baghdad where many have also been

rallying in solidarity with protesters in the south. of the protesters face off with security forces in baghdad although a small gathering and 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 motson here mother i'm sure but we came out to protest the injustice and lack of job opportunities for the unemployed the government isn't listening to us vijay nambiar i knew that even with a small amount of people involved we will continue to protest this time it's make or break for us the protesters broke free of a barbed wire cordon set up by the federal police the the protests spreading to the capital and then nationwide is a concern for iraq's leaders. of the government and i'd say the big quite simply was finally put in place unprecedented security operation they say they are trying

to fit the protests tomorrow but they may not be able to meet the time their small time frame and the ways people want the. challenge for iraq's government is meeting the demands of the protesters which include economic reforms an end to corruption job creation and a regular electricity supply. the government is looking for solutions the open talks is how to arabia and the deals 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 imran khan al-jazeera baghdad. now to the states because 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 who claims to have an affair with the u.s. president the newspaper says the f.b.i. seized the recording in april during a raid on mr cohen's office he's being investigated for tax fraud and campaign war violations had gone from twenty sixteen to tourist election trump's current war

rudolph giuliani has confirmed that trump discussed the payments with cohen on the tape but says the payments were never made. donald trump says he's ready to put tariffs on five hundred five billion dollars of chinese imports washington has so far impose tariffs on thirty four billion dollars of chinese products which breaching immediately countered the international monetary fund is warning the tip 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 doesn't 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 you know matt just u.s. secretary of state mike pompei it says economic sanctions need to be fully and force against north korea in order to get it eliminate its nuclear weapons mr

pompei i made those comments after meeting south korea's foreign minister kang and u.n. officials to brief them on ongoing denuclearization efforts with pyongyang mr pompei also accused north korea of illegally smuggling petroleum and coal in violation of standing u.n. sanctions the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley also called on the u.n. security council to remain strict with pyongyang we can't do one thing i'm till 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's going to hold tight the international community we ask you to hold tight as we go forward plenty more still to come here on the news for you including as warnings grow that britain could crash out of the e.u. with no deal we look at what would that mean for people in the u.k. and europe. also had pakistan's pash to minority the pair to vote soon you know

thomas tribal regions first general election. tiger woods is facing a tall order at the open we'll have the details in sport in about thirty minutes. top story from latin america nicaragua's president has now turned on catholic bishops have been trying to mediate in the ongoing violent unrest there daniel ortega has called them satanic terrorists and coup mongers in addressing crowds on the thirty ninth anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power the seventy two year old urged protesters to end what he says is a u.s. backed conspiracy to topple him nearly three hundred people have been killed in antigovernment demonstrations in the past three months mariana sanchez joins us live from the neighborhood in the city of messiah marianna you're there in mn imber

the neighborhood attacked by government forces three days ago what's the situation like there right now. well. absolutely the situation has finished three days ago when members of the police and paramilitary forces attacked and cleared the road blocks that had been set up for nearly three months here in the neighborhood of moneyball in the city of the situation is calm there are some cars there are some people going out slowly. but a lot of fear i can tell you few. food vendors here tell me that this is the first day that they have been able to go out to sell their food in three months and of course there are paramilitary forces going around

patrolling this area they are massed they are armed to they go in their vehicles that are have no plates and a lot of fear of course because the their presence for the people here is very intimidating peter. these paramilitary forces. well the government hasn't said who are they but it surely has the blessing of the government because the chief of police of. talking about this operation joint with the police said that this was an operation that was ordered straight directly by president that he and his wife. who are these paramilitary it's difficult to say but many people yesterday at the thirty ninth anniversary of the revolution a supporters of that were telling me that they agree with members of.

the revolutionaries that are supporting or that these people are uniformed people fighting the people that's the explanation that people want to give these. for these men you get the sense. for mr ortega there might be a growing problem and it might be this that the people who are demonstrating against him can't really see the difference between him today and what went before him many years ago now. i think there is a difference and people a lot of people perceive that because that's the reason many people are protesting the protests began three months ago against pension reforms but it has turned into a protest against the president himself they say that. as a revolutionary fought to topple dictator and. family haven't been in power for

nearly or more than fifty years and a thing himself has been in power for eleven years now six years before so it's seventeen years and so people here say that the precedent there has turned into a dictator himself and this is now the time for him to leave. maria thank you very much. still to come here on the news hour for you only weeks after an election triumph a ten million dollar fine for the party of mexico's president elect. a spate of lynchings in india what's to limits some services in the country. and in sports news we'll tell you which formula one team dominates practice out of the german grand prix.

welcome back to look at weather conditions across the americas this time in north america we've got active area of low pressure a lot of heavy showers through the great lakes down into the mid atlantic states but the frontal system the eastern seaboard gradually pushing away towards the southeast but really this whole area likely see some very severe storms strong gusts of wind likely very hot in parts of the south urgency for dallas texas moving through to sunday that low pressure begins to fill slightly the fronts begin to clear way so it should become brighter out across parts of the west fine conditions thirty five in denver colorado should be a nice day in seattle in washington state highs of twenty seven degrees into central america and here we've got heavy showers for panama costa rica nicaragua. through toward sunday we're likely to see some showers sort of pushing away towards the pacific side the islands the caribbean generally looking fine plenty of sunshine to be hired here into south america a few showers across north america should expect interesting thing now is that with

this frontal system having clear from argentina and uruguay we've got snow quite a long way north in the on the moment at the moment into bolivia and peru although it does tend to clear through as we head on into sunday. the world's primary could change producing nations is at the forefront of the war on drugs we're talking about serious organized crime as a country where reaching a critical point while some have made fortunes many others have suffered at the hands of this multi-billion dollar industry both of this business will go on forever it will not change almost global policies do who are the winners and losers of this illicit trade snow of the andes on al-jazeera and new perspectives can change your world. for one chin is ian what began as a hobby has grown into

a passion a way of life. teaching the next generation to strive for a higher level. and in so installing in his country a sense of freedom and strength. new heights my chin is here on al jazeera. welcome back here with the al-jazeera news with you today your top stories so far palestinian factions have agreed to a return to calm with israel after a day of escalating violence along the fence separating gaza and israel the agreement mediated by egypt on the u.n.

for palestinians and an israeli soldier died in the latest round of violence along the fence on friday. syrian rebels in the southwestern province of kony trucks have started leaving the area after giving up their fight against government forces president assad's government is now close to combat complete control of the country's sux. krug u.s. president has turned on catholic bishops have been trying to mediate months of violent unrest daniel ortega called them satanic cult terrorists and coup mongers speaking on the thirty ninth anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power. in pakistan say they've identified the suicide bomber behind an attack at an election rally that killed one hundred forty nine people another blast in my storm in southwest pakistan last year last week targeted candidates for

a sunny who was killed police say the attacker was and his brother were from the sindh province and were members of an isolating group lashkar e jhangvi. pakistan's autonomous tribal regional votes the first time in next week's general election it's home to five million people mainly from the past two main ethnic group they say they've been victims of government oppression including ethnic stereotyping and forced disappearances military operations against armed groups in the region of displaced large numbers of people coming has more now from pakistan's tribal pashtoon belt the khyber agency. are getting ready. for doing for their country but for the tribal belt relationally it is even more embroidering god put up for a time there will be cooling their leverage in his garden of parliament. and drive your yard if you are going to a problem. we have been over and their tribe or.

the people. they were all i did. and they will send their definite answer there was a family pride to me it is after all or nearly i did been. born. yes you know very poor communication infrastructure our. mortgages. and dare i say if you. go for it. they're very very good your representatives are. going to address the issue probably won't go broke in the dr. no british man who became ill after coming into contact with chalk has been released from hospital charlie rowley was admitted last month his partner died after also being exposed the couple found a bottle containing nava chalk near seoul's pre where the former russian double agent and his daughter yulia were poisoned the u.k.

government has blamed russia for the attack on the script owl's the european union says the u.k.'s new plan is constructive but there are still concerns about the withdrawal british prime minister tourism is balancing the demands of the prober exit faction within her own party with the need to maintain close ties to the e.u. after london formally leaves john hole from london could this be the reason may's last stand she was in northern ireland promoting the benefits of a vision for brake city upon which her survival is staked out 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 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 a 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 seems like pretty serious stuff it wasn't long before the e used chief negotiator 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 open to any sort of issues. any solutions as long as the how workable it could be transformed into a legally operative text in time for the withdrawal agreement q predictions not for

the first time in recent weeks of to resume a imminent political demise of the e.u. cannot sign off a deal without a bus stop to reason maze of petty torpedo that option social hitch late and i would almost certainly perceive state a resignation but not just yet for now the british government's plan remains alive and with it just about this is may's premiership tone how al-jazeera london. mexico's president elect is being condemned for his response to a ten million dollars fine imposed on his party for violating campaign finance laws but penalty on andrus manuel lopez obrador party was imposed on weapons john holmes in mexico city. mexico's 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

electorate insitute was penalized the party for setting up a trust fund for earthquake victims it says that the funds should 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 after his win now this is a pleader who's 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 the new theory and journalist. reunites with his family after eighteen years in the eritrean capital as mara in two thousand. had was wife.

who is eritrean took their two teenage daughters back to home country for visits but soon the two sides were in a state of war and for eighteen years there were no transport links telephone lines or postage between the two nations but after ethiopian airlines flights to a smaller resumed this week reconnected with his wife and children and met his grandson for the first time and the other planets in the moon i didn't again and now the darkness is gone and i'm able to see my wife and sunshines and my 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 there so that my children would not see me today this emotion is not really crying it's like a laugh because the time of cry is over. meanwhile the ethiopian parliament has passed an amnesty bill for those arrested during protests in twenty fifteen and twenty seventeen the prime minister has overseen the release of thousands of

political prisoners ended a state of emergency and announced an economic liberalization plan but many of ethiopia's youth say only democratic elections will save their country as mohamed atta when a group of young men started protesting here against the location of us school playground told private developer little did they know all the while starting a movement that they've been trying to lead to a change of leadership after days of protests in the spall town and youths in other parts of all me and neighboring omaha to region become protesting for political rights. university student. was one of the first to protest in. you know both or neither but i mean. it's a sieve everyone else with him for a treat or the planned expansion of and a city which would take from many from us poor one of the african grievance to rally a pawn and then we started calling for more freedoms. hundreds of people

were killed during two years of protests from two thousand and fifteen tens of thousands was arrested. as one of the protesters at the literalist from prison is just chest was tortured in prison they would he to me all over until i fainted no medical treatment was a lot tensions among the four parties in the ruling coalition on how to deal with the protest led to the resignation of the then prime minister imbecile and after weeks of negotiations forty two year old former army officer. was elected prime minister by coalition members. the new prime ministers from the ethnic group his elevation loadout intended as an olive branch to the rest of or more region. during the proctors the people of this region and what they call the historical marginalization of the people and how they have been pushed to the margins of mainstream with you here three months after one of their own was elected to leave

the country some here are still uncertain whether the president's the new deal there why did. we consider him. to cure what ails the o.p.m. the future depends on the next election with and whether they are free and fair. since taking office in approved the new prime minister has hit the ground running promising widespread economic and political reforms and ordered the release of political prisoners in their thousands the prime minister fully believes on love unity as well as forgiveness saw that as an choosing everybody with. every issue is we need to release them all though he enjoys considerable support prime minister but faces the challenge of calming the angle of ethiopia's young people and there are many of them in the population of one hundred million who

complained they are politically and economically marginalized he will have to deal with hints of discontent within the ruling coalition whose one hundred and eighty council members are far from unanimously behind him. al jazeera. region the former head of the u.n. is keeping a close eye on the elections in zimbabwe kofi annan is leading a team of observers known as the elders he's trying to reassure opposition leaders that the elections at the end of the month the first without deposed president robert mugabe will be free and fair or much faster has 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. not to democracy a man's leading a high profile election observer team known as the elders who are assisting preparations coverage 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 to 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. the right man 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 are keenly awaiting those results wondering what the new looks and bobby is like after mugabe . al-jazeera. the french president emanuel has fired his bodyguard who was caught on camera beating a student protester this mobile phone footage appears to show alexander a banal dragging the protester onto the ground before hitting him on the head several times but now it wasn't on at the time but he was given permission to observe police operation to go has more now from paris

a second man who is now being held in custody alongside mr alexander. 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 those acts of violence whilst in a public role in the meantime this is the most serious crisis to 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 workings of the state as well as public faith in his own

servants as well in the meantime the process to fire mr ben ali has begun and it is the most serious punishment of being given to a security official ever at the elysee palace at least fourteen people have been wounded in a knife attack in the northern german city of lubec the male suspect talk to people on the bus before being overpowered and taken into custody no one was killed in the attack. whatsapp is testing ways to restrict how its users in india forward pass on their content is the latest attempt to curb violence and lynchings sparked by rumors spread on the popular app the facebook owned company says whatsapp uses everywhere will now be able to forward messages to twenty people instead of two hundred fifty six people but the more than two hundred million indian users won't be allowed to forward to more than five people at one time it will sort of move the quick forward button next to media messages to deter the mass

forwarding of photos and videos the company has rejected demands from the indian government to enable the tracing of messages. in the past two months twenty one people have been killed by mobs of unfounded allegations spread only half the blame for many of the recent incidents was that strangeness was sedating and adopting children. kalyani is an associate professor at the for that merrill college of journalism part of the university of maryland in the u.s. she says more needs to be done to tackle the problem 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 upset but immediately 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 the problem with 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 their 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 their you know whether the people in the boundary 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 quick forward button is necessarily effective so it's come here on the news hour for you holds more scenes with farai

will have to tell us about a new policy aimed at boosting confidence in the integrity as. he had. a one.

on one. thanks very much to players share the lead at the end of round two of the open championship in scotland one of those is kevin it kisner who was leading from the previous round the car today one under seventy that's quite a double bogey on eighteen kids or share the lead with fellow americans out johnson

his birdie on the eighteenth meant he 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 car woods 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 funny bird a par four. so that's that's a positive right and right now i'm six back. 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 right there in. kenya. smashed the women's three thousand meter steeplechase world record at the domini league meet in monaco the twenty seven year old won in world record time eight minutes forty four point three two seconds that's beating the previous record by more than eight seconds runner up american court of free choice was sixteen seconds behind. olympic and world champion caster semenya continued her rule of the women's

eight hundred meters the south african won her twenty sixth final in a row setting a meet record and. so many a has not lost in the distance since two thousand and fifteen. a new transparency drive in track and field has resulted in a new policy from now on all details of 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 ruth job it 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. her 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 the 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 trunk vendor 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 leaders 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 in second place behind leaders about vettel vaults as 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 grand prix daniel carter was just a fraction faster than lewis hamilton in the morning session were part of his teammate max for stop and set a record breaking last year after beating both hamilton and voters to the top. of the car short and long. of course and to be frozen in the second practice is of course always very nice but we have to wait and see what's going to happen tomorrow when they turn up their engines in qualifying but at leas is a positive start 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 as fintan monaghan reports. this tournament in doha is a chance for katter's 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 didn't know if i was going to go to law and that gets train. kept my hopes up lots of us just this was very disappointing and i just wasn't allowed to play 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 half

the competition at the opening ceremony ahead of saudi arabia sports authority denied there were any problems but refused to refer to caster directly by name and that if you like is that any of three of us now 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 moved to isolate catherine all levels diplomatic ties been severed and trade routes been closed sports and games traditionally brought together even rival countries in spirit of 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 its very that is to ensure the. as if the mission when with all my friends. but the didn't the most of the court you know the very what if we knew each other since we have video playing thirty years ago you know we used to play chess together. now three players have complained to feed

a the world chess organization but they aren't optimistic physic and if the tournament is belongs to freedom this is war to end this ship. but for of the region and on the day i don't think they went into the theater of the say ok guys it's your problem you know it's just me doing to take one side of the day has a slogan again when a sumus we are one family but that message of unity rings hollow in the gulf players have become pawns caught up in the politics of a region divided into al-jazeera doha and that's all your support for now more later ok we will recount all the top stories for you when we come back thirty minutes of al-jazeera will i will see you on the other side of the break.

you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera whenever i see something that has happened in the news my first reaction is to please god don't let this person have been someone that we released on parole gatekeepers of the parole system you're asking us for a second chance rape was important to me was on the other side of the fence and how i'd get to the other side of phones it was amused at argument are all going to how many times you've been in prison exploring the dark side of the american justice system with joe burman judge on al jazeera. al jazeera. where ever you are.

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