al jazeera. where ever you. desson protests along the gaza fence and israeli strikes into the strip palestinian factions say there's a deal for a new calm. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from my headquarters here in doha also coming up syrian government forces move closer to complete control of the country's south. mongers and satanical terrorists nicaragua us president attacks the clergy trying to bring peace between the government and the protesters. and aiming to end deadly

misinformation whatsapp curbs services in india after a spate of lynchings. the friday of protests and death along the gaza fence with israel has given way to a call for calm and a little uncertainty palestinian factions say they've agreed to what they call a return to calm starting at midnight local but there's no word yet from the israelis early on friday at least four people were killed inside gaza as israel launched airstrikes and tank rounds and the israeli military says one of its soldiers was killed by gunfire al-jazeera channel stratford begins our coverage. 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. over gaza's border fence they soak the

sackcloth in petrol and oil because they say it helps it slowly losing contact with their land 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 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 well behind the main demonstration these protesters say they will continue launching their kites 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. protest 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 in 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 i'm not bored just a sense that i left 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. jhoom following developments for us out of west jerusalem he's just sent us this update. after hours of escalation in gaza has a ceasefire been reached well that very much depends on who you ask according to hamas a cessation of hostilities has actually been achieved how my spokesman fozia but whom issuing 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 all being

said however israel israel's army has not commented on if a cease fire has actually been reached we've been reaching out to them repeatedly since the announcement by hamas that that ceasefire has been reached there has been no comment from israel's army the last several hours we have heard from israel's army that operations have been ongoing in the gaza strip that israel's army had targeted upwards of sixty five targets also there had been reports through israeli media outlets that for the last several hours israel security cabinet have been meeting to discuss the ongoing operations in the gaza strip we've also reached out to israeli officials and israel's army trying to find out what if anything was being discussed and when that meeting might end but no details have been forthcoming all of this of course happening at

a time when tensions were already escalating now the question have a has a ceasefire actually been reached is it going to remain calm or will tension once again flare up phyllis bennis is program director of the new internationalism project of the institute for policy studies in america she says the cold for calm won't hold. 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 you know that there have been extraordinary rhetoric escalations throughout the day the minister of education after ali bennett one of the furthest 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 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 of 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 phyllis bennis syrian rebels in the southwest province of connect truck started leaving the area after giving up their fight against government forces the surrender is a big victory for president bashar al assad whose force a close to reclaiming complete control of the country's south florida in manly with more

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 trump 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 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 fortunately going to face the same. of. the same conditions faced by other communities who have left. in eastern and. and in 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 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. a long in the fighting or even it's very 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 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. nor about a manly al-jazeera. and a camera in president has now turned on catholic bishops trying to mediate between antigovernment protesters and the official forces and paramilitaries who run against them daniel ortega has called them satanical 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 protesters to end what he says is a u.s. backed conspiracy to topple him nearly three hundred people have been killed in anti-government demonstrations the past three months in a sanchez has more from the name both the neighborhood in the city of messiah. the

situation has finished three days ago when members of the police and paramilitary forces attacked and cleared the roadblocks that have been set up for nearly three months here in the neighborhood of money 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 the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o says economic sanctions need to be fully enforced against north korea to keep the pressure on for denuclearization mr pompei and made those comments after meeting the south korean foreign minister. and u.n. officials to brief them on the on going talks with pyongyang mr pompei also accused north korea of illegally smuggling petroleum and coal that's in violation of 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 the former president of south korea will be spending at least thirty years in prison parky on hayes just being given an additional eight year sentence for

embezzling almost three million dollars of state funds and interfering in the choosing of election candidates she was already serving twenty four years for the corruption scandal that led to her impeachment last year. anything up in journalist has been reunited with his family after eighteen years in the eritrean capital asmara now in the year two thousand have goes wife and it's lamb who is eritrean took their two teenage daughters back to her home country for a visit but the neighboring countries were soon in a state of war and for eighteen years there were no transport links telephone lines or mail between the two countries this week you theo p. an airline flights to a small resumed and i was really connected 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 the sun shines on 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. still to come here on al-jazeera. and the secret tape reports. the president discussing payments to a former playboy model. also ahead zimbabwe preparing for the first elections minus robert mugabe the observers keeping a close eye on all that. the weather sponsored by. welcome back southern china and indochina are

looking very lively weather wise at the moment this area of rain we've got is partly as a result of the tropical storm will form a tropical storm. across northern vietnam through especially and also into b.m.r. is going to be very wet indeed we've had a huge amount of rain coming down a lot more to come and i think this low pressure center will probably inch use more showers to come off the bay of bengal as well so very wet indeed further north where the conditions all look rossetti fine and dry but to move on through into sunday you can see this circulation coming into the shanghai region and this is another tropical storm system it won't reach typhoon status but it is likely to bring some very heavy rain to shanghai of the following twenty four hours a bit of a storm surge as well possible with it now as you move down the southeastern parts of asia it's really heavy rain across thailand parts of come vietnam and also northern parts of the philippines the first to get across the region the better it is. it should be dry and fine but we have got showers across

a scattering of showers across borneo and then up through the main we've got fine conditions then for singapore and kuala lumpur but again getting up to bangkok showers are likely highs here thirty to. the weather. and. the world's primary. producing nation. 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 north 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.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from these are your headlines palestinian factions have agreed to return to calm with israel after a day of violence along the fence separating gaza and israel and hamas spokesperson says the agreement was mediated by egypt and the u.s. for palestinians and israeli soldiers died in the latest violence 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 bashar al assad's government is not close to king but complete control of the countryside. and daniel ortega the nicaraguan president has turned on catholic bishops have been trying to mediate months of violent unrest or take a call them satanical terrorists and as for speaking on the thirty ninth anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power. a protest is being killed

at a rally outside the headquarters of a paramilitary unit in southern iraq his death brings the total number killed twelve three weeks of protests against poor government services and unemployment imran khan reports now from the capital baghdad but many have also been rallying in solidarity with the protestors in basra. the protesters face off with security forces in baghdad although a small the gathering in 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 issue of how the matzah 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 fudge and b. i doubt 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 break free of a babu i couldn't set up by the federal police the the protests spreading to the

capital and then nationwide is a concern for the iraq's leaders. of the government and i'd say the big quite simply the last one i 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 salt on friday the least people want the the 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 they open talks is how to arabia and the deals been struck with kuwait the energy supplies will it be enough. iraqis here say they will continue to protest until all the demands are met in iraq on al-jazeera.

the pakistani authorities say they have now identified the suicide bomber behind an attack at an election rally that killed one hundred forty nine people the blast last week and i must tell me on this earth was targeted candidate siraj but i signing he was killed police say the attacker hafiz now ours and his brother were from the southern sindh province and they were members of the i saw the group lashkar e jhangvi. well the news comes as pakistan's autonomous tribal region prepares to vote for the first time in next week's general election it's home to five million people mainly from the past tune ethnic group they say they've been victims of government's oppression including ethnic stereotyping and forced disappearances military operations against armed groups in the region have displaced big numbers of people. from the tribal pashtoon belt the khyber agency. are getting ready for the next joined i did your family ordering for the country but for the tribal book relationally it is even more important god put up for

a time there will be cooling their leverage in his garden of parliament in islamabad and drive your yard if you are going to a problem. the price we have seen. and the tribe or. the people are not excited. they were all hard to take part in this election and they will send it up to them for their cryptography already prodding me after all and there you are there did be neglect they are always. very poor communication infrastructure. well worn. and. their representatives. are going to address the issue of problems. in the tribe and. the old times is reporting that donald trump's former lawyer secretly taped a discussion with the president about payments to an ex playboy model the newspaper

says the f.b.i. seized the recording in april during a raid of cohen's office he's being investigated for tax fraud and campaigning for violations ahead of trump's twenty sixteen election comes current lawyer rudolph giuliani has confirmed that mr trump discussed the payments with cohen but says the payments were never made. the white. correspondent kimberly health has more now from washington 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 trunk 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 computer hackers is still in the personal details of one and a half million hospital patients in singapore including the prime minister's the health ministry is assuring patients these cyber thieves didn't toss them medical

records in the names addresses and details of prescribed drugs have been compromised. a british man who became ill after coming into contact with navi chalk has been released from hospital charlie rowley was admitted last month as part and died after exposure the couple found a bottle containing the chalk near seoul's brain where the former russian agent and his daughter yulia were poisoned the u.k. government has blamed russia for the attack on the script holes whatsapp is testing ways to restrict how uses in india forward their content this is the latest attempt to curb violence and lynching sparked by rumors spread on this popular at the facebook owned company says whatsapp users everywhere will now be able to forward messages to just twenty people instead of two hundred fifty six but the more than two hundred million users in india won't be allowed to forward to more than five people at any one time now 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 in the past two months twenty one people have been killed by mobs of unfounded allegations spread on the rumor blamed for many of the recent incidents was the strangers were sedating and abducting children on a charter is an associate professor at the philip merrill college of journalism part of the university of maryland in the us she says more still needs to be done. 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 upset but media platforms 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 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 they're people within the bounds or 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 the former u.n.

secretary general kofi annan is keeping a close eye on the elections in zimbabwe he's leading a team of observers there known as the elder sees trying to reassure opposition leaders that the elections at the end of the month will be free and fair hair of a tussle 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 and man's leading a high profile election observer team known as the elders who are assessing preparations 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 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. and rightly 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 were 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. lots more news one of you wanted on the website background stories analysis as well al jazeera dot com. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories palestinian factions have agreed to a return to calm with israel after a day of violence along the fence separating gaza and israel i'm a spokesman says the agreement was mediated by egypt and the u.n. for palestinians and israeli soldiers died in the latest violence on friday mohammed jump jhoom has more from west jerusalem after hours of escalation in gaza has a cease fire been reached well that very much depends on who you ask according to

hamas a cessation of hostilities has actually been achieved how mass spokesman foes ybor home issuing 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 all being said however israel israel's army has not commented on if a cease fire has actually been reached we've been reaching out to them repeatedly since the announcement by hamas that that ceasefire has been reached there has been no comment from israel's army syrian rebels in the southwestern province of can intro have started leaving the area after giving up the fight against government forces the president bashar al assad's government is now close to taking but complete control of the country some of nicaragua's president has turned on catholic bishops have been trying to mediate months of violent unrest daniel take a call them satanical terrorists and coup mongers while speaking to him the thirty

ninth anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power. 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 had an affair with the u.s. president cohen is being investigated for tax fraud and campaign law violations ahead of trump's twenty sixteen election his current lawyer rudy giuliani confirmed the discussions but he says payments were never made south korea's former president will be spending at least thirty years in prison park geun hayes being given an additional eight years sentence for embezzling almost three million dollars of state funds and interfering in the choosing of election candidates you are right up to date with all our top stories the news continues after inside story i'm back with a summary in about thirty minutes see them. the

heat in iraq it's another. violent protests in the spread north all the way to the capital. what's fueling. this is inside story. welcome to the program. security has been tightened in. iraq because more on to government protests are expected several iraqis have already been killed protesting against frequent electricity cuts clean water shortages and lack of job

opportunities security forces firing tear gas and water cannon struggle to quell.