a stranger came to town witness on al-jazeera. a deal for calm emerges after a day of death and protest along the gaza fence and israeli strikes into the strip . i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up syrian government forces move closer to reclaiming complete control of the country's south . it's all a plot a lot was president attacks the clergy trying to bring peace between the government and protesters and awash with rubbish the military is called in to clean up the plastic mess on a dominican beach. restoration

of call missed seems to be holding between israel and gaza hamas says agreement was reached for a deal from midnight local time after a friday of more protests death and fast rising tension at least four people were killed inside gaza as israel launched airstrikes and tank rounds israeli military also says one of its soldiers was killed by gunfire mohamed jam jim sent this update from west. 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 hamas 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 has

a cease fire actually been reached is it going to remain calm or will tension once again flare up. friday had begun like so many in the past few months with large crowds gathering at the casa fence trafford was there. 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 regime han are risking their lives we are here to prove to the whole world that we will never leave and we're going to do with burning kites tools that occupied land and i'm not afraid of the israelis i'm only afraid of. come us leda 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 rock and the kite drifts all too and now it's the build a fence israel says five 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 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 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 assaulted 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. cherami press and s.s.e. a professor of political science and rector of middle east studies at the university of connecticut he says the division between hamas and fatah complicates and nation talks it's very difficult to put florida kind of negotiations that require both the government of israel and the palestinian authority to be to be present just in recent days we've seen an important opinion piece written by three of the most important u.s. officials involved in this mr kushner the master friedman and jason green blair and the opinion piece in the washington post did not indicate in any way i think any kind of ability to mediate between the two sides as opposed to a preference for endorsing the israeli position on a card fighting can tell you that in a practical sense the splintering of the power of the new national movement between hamas and fatah in our plays into israeli hands right it allows it to come to shore

to play the two parties are two sides affably each other but it also suggests that there without reconciliation without those two parties coming together it's going to be very difficult for any international media here to patch together some kind of package of steps and agreements that could lead us away from this kind of constant up and down of the tactical exchanges the only suffering particular on the palestinian side but suffering that goes on and we have to imagine things like of p.t.s.d. on both sides as a result of the fighting but absent the ability of hamas and fatah to work together in some way i think it's going to be difficult to move beyond the syrian rebels and the southwest province of can a try have started leaving the area after giving up the fight against government forces the surrender is a big victory for president bashar al assad who is forces are close to reclaiming complete control of the country south are mainly 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 the russian ally a trying to recapture dura in the neighboring province of can a drum surrendering control of draw city one of the last remaining rebel strongholds would be a major defeat for the opposition. durai the birthplace of the syrian uprising seven years ago from where protests against regime's torture of teenagers spread nationwide. i 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 are unfortunately going to face the same. of. the same conditions faced by other communities who have left the. area in eastern and. and in homes before and most likely to be taken to. dozens of display syrian refugees from bombing near the its radio golan heights last week but were turned back by. the river people left their homes weeks ago looking for safe 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 low in the fighting and. able to reach the population. the can a true deal is similar to others elsewhere in syria. buses transporting people from

trying to government housing areas and they had their windows smashed by rebels besieged in 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 war nor about al-jazeera. president has now turned on the catholic bishops trying to mediate between anti-government protesters and the official forces and paramilitaries trying to stop them in ortega call them satanical terrorists and coup mongers and arch anti-government protesters to and what he says is a u.s. backed conspiracy to topple him the comments came as he addressed crowds on the thirty ninth anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power and only three hundred people have been killed in demonstrations over the past three months and sanchez that is

a 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 road blocks that had 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 armed to the go in vehicles that are have no plates and a lot of fear of course because the their presence for the people here is very

intimidating waves of plastic waste and debris are washing up on the coast and the dominican republic conservationists say they've already removed thirty tons of garbage from the beach near the capital santo domingo there is just so much of it that the military has actually been called in to help with this cleanup charles moore is the founder of marine research foundation a member of the plastic pollution coalition he says what's happening in the dominican republic is just a small example of a bigger problem in dealing with plastic. we're losing the battle i predicted this twenty years ago that it would happen when i discovered the great pacific garbage patch that dozens of miles from shore now it's invading the biosphere it's in our salt our sugar our water our air our honey our beer and just because we see big pieces floating up now people are taking notice but when you see a bunch a little bit plastic you gotta understand there's a bunch of micro

a nano sized plastic as well and that's invading our bodily tissues so this is a worldwide problem and we've got to deal with it it's too late to put the genie back in the bottle but it's not too late to turn around our profligate lifestyles we got to stop throwing things away everything is a resource everything can be re-used everything can be put back into service it's got to be respected but it's also got to be feared or plastic gives us a great amount of freedom and we must not abuse it we've got to reduce the amount of plastic that we consume it's plastic substitutes for things that were formerly really usable here in our office we sell re-usable refillable things you use over and over again and we must constantly be throwing stuff away in order to make new stuff silat on al-jazeera after donald trump the former lawyer and the secret

cheney reports the report of the president discussing payments to a former playboy model and pawns in a political power play the chess players caught up in the gulf crisis. thank you. i'm just. going to change in the state. still has a little since i catch highways. well there looking at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia is pretty quiet in terms of actual weather of any note we'll look at the old chap perhaps on the southern side the caspian sea but i think tehran should be dry and hot temperatures into the forty's temperatures also in the forty's across iraq and down through to kuwait but then that's what you expect at this time of the year we still have showers around the caucuses and some of those workers could be on the heavy side the eastern side of the mediterranean generally looking fine thirty degrees in the sunshine in beirut now as you move

down into the reagan peninsula on the western side things are looking draw and fine for those across into africa we have got some showers for the ethiopian highlands well as on the eastern side of the peninsula we've got relatively light winds during saturday so the humidity in qatar may come up a little bit but next week the ship is developing so that humidity will drop and the temperatures will rise but for the time being we're looking at night some temperature over the weekend of about forty two degrees celsius here down into southern parts of africa it's fine all the way we've got plenty of sunshine twenty degrees in cape town the bit of cloud on the coast of mozambique i wanted to showers also possibly affect sea madagascar but across. so looking dry and fine and highs of twenty one degrees expected in the soka. the weather sponsored by. the former bishop of hong kong says the pope is sending out china's catholics put on the pieces of things which. the church

cardinal joseph then talks town jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories right now palestinian factions have agreed to overturn to calm with israel after a day of violence along the fence separating gaza and israel hamas spokesperson says the agreement was mediated by egypt and the u.n. for palestinians and an israeli soldier died in the violence party. syrian rebels

in the southwestern province of crete nature i have started leaving the area for giving up their fight against government forces president bashar al assad's government is now opposed to taking back complete control of the country south. of iraq was president has turned on the catholic bishops who have been trying to mediate months of violent unrest in or take a call them satanical terrorists and to mongers while speaking on the anniversary of the revolution that brought him into power. donald trump's former lawyer secretly taped a discussion with the us president about payments to an ex playboy model the new york times says the f.b.i. sees that recording back in april during a raid on michael cohen's office he's being investigated for tax fraud and campaign law of violations ahead of trump's two thousand and sixteen election donald trump has denied making payments to hush an alleged affair with karen mcdougal trump's current lawyer rudy giuliani confirm that trump discussed the payments with cohen

but says they were never made by house correspondent kimberly how it has more 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 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 is russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election and whether the trump 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 and the u.s. trade war with china could soon go to a whole new level with donald trump saying he's ready to increase tariffs more than ten fold he has so far slapped tariffs on thirty four billion dollars of chinese products but now he's ready to put tariffs on five hundred billion dollars of imports immediately counter the last round of tariffs. 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 matches if you have yes parliament has passed an amnesty bill for those arrested term protest in two thousand and fifteen in two thousand and 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 say only democratic elections will save their country reports when a group of young men started protesting here is the location of a school playground told private developer little did they know all the while starting a movement that they've been truly led to a change of leadership of the days of protests in the school time and youths in other parts of me and neighboring omaha to region become protesting for political rights university student. was one of the first to protest in.

a sieve everyone else lived in for a treat on the planned expansion of the city which would take over from many from us poor one of the african grievance parady a porn 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 with one of the protesters at the little east from prison is just chest was tortured in prison they would he to me all over until i fainted no medical treatment was it not. for parties in the coalition on how to deal with the protest led to the resignation of the then prime minister i limit him to selling. after weeks of closed door negotiations forty two year old former army officer abi ahmed 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 restive or more region. during the proctors the people of this region and what they call the historical my generalization of the people emphasizing how they had been pushed to the margins of mainstream if you here three months after one of their own was elected to leave the country some here are still uncertain whether the presence the new title there why did they do. that we consider him just a pin i'm not a curate what. the future depends on the next election is on whether they are free and fair since taking office in approve 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. chasing everybody with.

every issues we need to release them all though he enjoys considerable support prime minister but faces the challenge of calming the uncle of ethiopia's young people and their 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 eighty council members are far from unanimously behind him. good zen people aren't being allowed through ok crossing on the libyan tunisian border to nation traders have prevented libyans from entering the country for more than a week and responds to libya's customs officers preventing some goods going the other way through adela had reports. the road to the russes deal terminal is almost deserted. and security officers say only libyans seeking medical treatment

are allowed to cross the border into tunisia the border gate has been closed by tunisian customs officers for ten days now dozens of trucks have been turned away some carrying food others transporting claimable liquids local tunisian traders are preventing libyans from entering the capital tunis by setting up road blocks between being geared down city that is in this pans to a decision by libya's customs agents to ban tunisians from taking libyan goods libya's government says libyan exports to tunisia harm the economy libyan border officers say they close the border why diplomats in the foreign ministries of both countries work to find a solution. for before quote. we have the sort of the stop libyans from moving into the museum inside just to protect them that's because they've been

abused there and it's a museum authorities have been sending them back to going home aren't sure if they will be able to return to libya or he can hardly carry all his belongings and rest is for a while before his exit he cannot hide his frustration. confessional. i know i might not be able to get back to my work in libya but i'm very sick and i have to go home to get medical treatment what can i do i have no other choice. during the past few years the russes de of terminal has been closed several times due to unrest on the tunisian side of the border that affects many people especially tunisian traders but many libyan travelers here say the tunisian authorities should do enough to ensure their safety libyan. from the capital tunis had his duties deter khalifa bushido was planning to spend

a vacation with his family into news but it was too late in the back he says they had to make a one hundred and fifty kilometers detour to the crossing in. after we left the customs gate local stopped us then the authorities there asked us to wait we were stuck a whole night in the car it was terrible the roses due to the crossing is a lifeline for tunisians whole make their living by trading across the border and vice versa for the libyans to until the dispute is resolved many travelers would likely have only a one way trip home. on the libyan tunisian border pakistani authorities say they have now identified the suicide bomber behind an attack on an election rally that killed one hundred forty nine people the blasts last week and strong in the southwest targeted candidates. who was killed police

say the attacker was in his private or or from the southern province and members of the i saw a linked group. junkie. the former president of south korea will be spending at least thirty years in prison are going to has been 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 the blockade of qatar is checkmating chess players are being unwittingly caught up in this thirteen month diplomatic dispute as one want to have 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 and that gets train. kept my hopes up lots of us just this was very disappointing for me 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 of 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 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 moves 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 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 that is to ensure that it is. as if the nation when was that all my friends. but the they didn't the lowest of the court you know the very way that we knew each other since who video like thirty years ago who used to play chess together. catherine players have complained to feed a the world chess organization but they aren't optimistic physic and the note if the tournament is belongs to peter this is what championship championship but for of the region i don't know the i don't think they would they want to interfere and say ok guys it's your problem you know it's just me doing to take one side of

the day has a slogan against sumus we are one family but that message of unity rings hollow in the gulf. players have become pawns caught up in the poll ticks of a region divided into a moment an al-jazeera doha. three kept the headlines for you now on al-jazeera housen in factions have agreed to return to comment this real after a day of violence along the fence separating gaza and israel hamas spokesperson says the agreement was mediated by egypt and the u.n. for palestinians and an israeli soldier died in the latest violence on friday mohammad champion has more than must resign. 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 much spokesman photos

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 could nature have started leaving the area after giving up their fight against government forces the president bashar al assad's government is now close to taking back complete control of the country sell. president has turned on the catholic bishops who've been trying to mediate months of violent unrest daniel ortega called them satanical terrorists and coup mongers this is all speaking at the thirty ninth anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power. waves of plastic waste and

other rubbish that's been washing up on the coast of the dominican republic conservationist say they've already removed thirty tons from the water at a beach near the capital santa domingo but there is so much of it the military has now been called in to help with that cleanup. the new york times is reporting that donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen secretly taped a discussion about payments to an ex playboy model who claims to have had an affair with the u.s. president own is being investigated for tax fraud in campaign law violations ahead of trump's two thousand and sixteen election trump's current lawyer rudy giuliani confirmed the discussions but says the payments were actually never made those are the headlines the news continues so keep it here on al-jazeera visit our website and talk to al-jazeera is next. when people think of cuba they think of revolution but ivana is undergoing a revolution. it's an old age and we're here to discover if

those changes are reflected in the plea that this is q what is today q and future. restaurant owner i'm trying to read more today group a.j. it's on al-jazeera. and. you can. see. they're all full to be around ten million catholics in china the majority worshipping in government approved churches like this one in beijing. but many others do so in secret in so-called underground churches which means they're often under surveillance and so never totally say. they see themselves as the true followers of the catholic church in the official church the pope's authority is not

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