a restoration of calm between israel and gaza follows one of the bloodiest days of protests in four years. well i'm adrian for the good this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the destruction of the ghost town the remains after rebel fighters were bussed away from their former syrian stronghold. patrolling the streets the militias using violence to suppress anti-government protests in the qur'an. and making connections china turns to africa in response to a trade dispute with the u.s. .

a restoration of calm seems to be holding between israel and gaza hamas says the ceasefire brokered by egypt in the u.n. was made at midnight local time it followed another bloody day along the border which saw one israeli soldier shot and killed and four palestinians die in retaliatory air strikes and tank fire from gaza city traffic reports the israeli military is still targeting hamas positions despite the truce. there are no reports of attacks overnight by either israel or hamas it seems as if this relative calm that is being called full it's a bit too early to call it a ceasefire goes on however in the last hour or so the swarming we understand certainly the i.d.f. the israeli military saying that a tank is ready tank targeted hemis position and north of gaza on the border there

off to what the israeli military say were infiltrators from gaza trying to get into israel the israeli army saying that after that attack the so-called infiltrators returned to gaza no reports of casualties meanwhile the protesters say that they will continue to launch their kites their balloons carrying these a century devices across the border fence how mousy yesterday off to guess today's protests announced that next week's protest would be held under the banner of our motto children reference to the many hundreds of children that have been killed in this conflict over the years so as i say there may well be relative calm at the moment today seems all indications would suggest that neither israel or hamas want an escalation but of course the siege the suffering of the palestinians goes on and the more protests there are the more pressure there is only israeli government for a larger military response and i was zeros may have

a jump jim is monitoring the story from west jerusalem. israel is not using the term cease fire we've spoken to the israeli army just in the past hour they say that the situation is calm they confirm that there has been a cessation of hostilities and that it is a full civilian routine in israel's border areas with gaza that means basically that the fighting has stopped that the operation is not ongoing but also when you look at how masses statement last evening they also did not use the term cease fire they said that it was a return to an era of calm clearly this is really just going to show that while everybody is trying to ensure that this doesn't escalate into a full fledged conflict the situation even though it's much calmer this morning does still remain tense and there's a lot of behind the scenes negotiations going on now the israeli army had said that as of yesterday when the operation was ongoing in the gaza strip that sixty sites

in three how mows but talian compounds were targeted and those targets included weapons manufacturing sites a shaft to a tunnel that were going to factory used for underground infrastructure manufacturing talking about the tunnels that israel has repeatedly targeted in the past we wait to hear more from the israeli government today as far as what exactly is going on as far as if we can consider this to be an actual cease fire and what are the steps that the israeli government will take going forward syrian rebels who surrendered in the southwest of the country have begun arriving in opposition held areas of the north buses carrying more than two thousand people have reached the town of broke in hama province the faces of the families were given safe passage under a deal with the government the agreement is a major victory for president bashar al assad whose forces have retaken much of the south laura but mainly reports a month of intense government bombardment from southwest syria and the devastation is clear. the military offensive started by government forces backed by russia have

recaptured dura in the neighboring province of canape surrendering control of tourist city is a major defeat for the opposition. the birthplace of the syrian uprising seven years ago from where protests against regime's torture teenager has spread nationwide. i in some areas need syria's border with the israeli occupied golan heights government bombs have been replaced by buses in deal struck last month between the syrian government and rebel fighters anyone who refuses to live under the rule of president bashar assad so we move to the eclipse province in the north the displaced populations which i think this time it's around two hundred thousand people are unfortunately going to face the same. of. the same conditions faced

by other communities who have left. and in homs before and most likely to be taken to. dozens of display syrians sought refuge from bombing near the it's radio golan heights last week but were turned back by israeli border guards. these 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 an act alone in the fighting or even it's very able to reach the population. the can a trivial is similar to others elsewhere in syria. buses transporting people from for want of trying to government how they areas and the like who had their windows smashed by rebels who'd besieged them the three years hundreds of rebel prisoners

the due 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 the syrian government now controls most of the country after a wave of victories and agreements having seen off rebel resistance in the southern provinces carette and data only eisel pockets remain in the southwest opposition groups have been pushed into two main areas a small number hold territory near the southern borders with jordan and iraq most the province in the north thought to be the next target of the government since january the anti acid free syrian army has taken land along the turkish border that's mainly to prevent kurdish fighters consolidating control of populated areas near turkey the kurdish dominated u.s. backed syrian democratic forces hold the northeast the largest area outside

government control. a protester has been killed at a rally outside the headquarters of a military unit in southern iraq twelve people have died in two weeks of protests over poor government services and unemployment the demonstrations have spread to the capital baghdad from where i was a zero zimmermann com reports on protesters face off with security forces in baghdad although a small a gathering been 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 could 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. 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 i the protests spreading to the capital and then nationwide is a concern for the iraq's leaders. of the government and i've seen a big quite slim was what i put in place unprecedented security operation they say they are trying to beat the protests tomorrow but they may not be able to meet the time their souls on friday the least 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 and. the government is looking for solutions there were open talks of 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 him out is a. nicaraguan church that was being besieged by the army in managua has reopened

student protesters were taking refuge inside the catholic church last week when gunmen loyal to the president began shooting at them rights groups of criticized president daniel ortega as violent crackdown on anti-government protests almost three hundred people have died in three months of demonstrations or government are now roaming the streets of a city west of the night after suppressing protests that many people in that city a living in fear as many other sanchez reports. thirty year old man this had disappeared for three days but on friday his family found his dead body at the coroner's office in the capital. his father a man this is cuts to his arms show signs of abuse. he was tortured he was beaten here in the head in the back and was shot in the chest in the leg he didn't have weapons or mortars. his family says he wasn't involved in the protests but he was taken away by security forces. they took him away

outside the house but then of those an attack going on we couldn't go out. since security and pro-government forces launched a so-called cleanup operation in messiah on tuesday to lift barricades a caravan of heavily armed and masked gunmen have taken control of driving around in vehicles without license plates many businesses and homes here are still closed but the roadblocks have been lifted there are still some tensions here in the neighborhood of money as the paramilitary continue to patrol the streets here i was thinking of food vendor one says she's out selling stew for the first time in more than two months. she's still afraid to tell the elephant in the foyer because of the situation we can't talk we can't say anything but we are ok because we are back to uk. police say the clean up operation was ordered by president reagan

and his wife. says the government confronted protesters to bring back stability after weeks of turmoil. it has been our duty once again to defend peace for everyone it's been a painful battle because we've confronted an armed conspiracy. violent protests in me that i will have left nearly three hundred people dead. a bastion of rebel resistance since the sandinista revolution thirty nine years ago and also during these months of protests on tuesday's confrontations at least two people were killed but the crackdown is not yet over. the chills have been held for the seventeen american tourists who drowned when a so-called duck boat sank during a storm the amphibious bus which becomes

a boat was overpowered by waves on table rock lake in missouri line of the dead are from the same family some of the thirty one passengers on board say the captain told them not to wear life jackets. we'll get a weather update thanks to zero then. trump paving and russia baiting that's really the extent of the democratic party agenda right now the party that's offering a different approach to politics in the united states. and wasting away tons of plastic day because an environmental disaster in the dominican republic. hello there we're still seeing some very very heavy downpours over parts of the philippines is

a loser on where we're seeing the worst of the weather there was already some flooding here and now this area of cloud has continued to bring us some more heavy rain and within that area of cloud we have now seen a tropical system develop that depression is expected to move away towards the north but as you can see from our chart on sunday the still a lot of dark blue colors across lose on so that indicates that we're expecting some more very heavy downpours and that of course will make the flooding there worse plenty of what weather there then and that sticks around even as we head through the day on monday monday is also looking pretty wet towards the west thailand again is looking fairly soggy for the south so for many of us in somalia it should be fine it's in the east where there's the greatest risk of seeing a few outbreaks of rain here and the same goes for borneo the east is where we see the worst of the weather further west looks like kuching will be fine and settled a bit further towards the south and force in australia is just really in the far south where we've go over cloud is being grazing the southwest for

a while now bringing us quite a bit of unsettled weather over the past few days and more to come over the next couple of days as well so a few showers on sunday and maybe even a couple more as we head into monday. on counting the cost of stronger growth forecasts the subsaharan africa but a big trade challenge is looming the world's second biggest aviation tradeshow takes off in the u.k. plus why three d. printed buildings are causing some just. counting the cost on al-jazeera.

hello again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera palestinian factions of a preacher return to calm with israel after a day of violence along the border fence between gaza and israel a how mask spokesperson says that egypt at the u.n. mediated for palestinians it is and that israeli soldier died on friday. syrian rebels who surrendered in the south west of the country of the kind of arriving in opposition held areas of the north more than two thousand three hundred people have reached chroma province but fighters and their families were given safe passage through a deal with the government at a nicaraguan church that was besieged by the army in the neck was reopened student protesters were taking refuge there last week when gunmen loyal to the president began shooting at them. argentina's president has met the head of the international

monetary fund to discuss a fifty billion dollar bailout the i.m.f. approved the package last month the government says it will provide a safety net and avoid a repeat of financial crises of the past many people who blame the i.m.f. and m f a sterile measures for an economic crisis in two thousand and one. as the united states threatens war tariffs on imports china's president is pushing a message of free trade xi jinping is about to begin his first official tour of west africa among the stops is senegal with china is the largest foreign investor nicholas reports now from the capital dhaka. until two years ago she was a rice farmer in henan province in northern china now he's making the final touches for the you know gratian city girl's first wrestling stadium. is due to be open on saturday by china's president xi jinping who's making his first visit to west

africa and no detail is being spared for his arrival everything has to be perfect for time and you'll learn a former restaurant owner from sichuan who is now mason. thank you we've been working here for years we're proud of what we've done and we want people in china to know what we've built here it's more than just a stadium with one point six billion dollars in investment the chinese government says it senegal's largest foreign investor and with it has come an influx of chinese migrants who've made to car their home this is where they live chinatown is right on the capital's main avenue most migrants come from china's poor provinces after working in construction some set up shop selling chinese goods descending lease customers. i have been living here fifteen years my sister my aunt my brother in law all own a shop around the corner senegal is my country too. although there are no

government migration statistics as to its range from two hundred fifty thousand to two million chinese living in africa who are not all welcomed dozens of chinese vendors have been killed in the past five years no arrests have been made. with so many chinese right greens choosing to make this place their home there's arise in empty chinese sentiment not just here in senegal but throughout africa and so china's government is now on a charm offensive trying to win over hearts and minds in countries it's investing in. this is one of forty nearly open confucius institute in africa here the chinese state offers classes in the martial art touchy and making green tea as well as mandarin language lessons for adults and children. i want to see the great wall of china eat their food and speak their language because my mom says it will be useful one day she didn't bring is due to sign an additional agreements with senegal's

president mikey sol including the first chinese garment factories in west africa promising thousands of new jobs for both senegalese workers and chinese migrants alike. nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car ethiopia's parliament has passed an amnesty bill for those arrested during protests in two thousand and fifteen and twenty seventeen prime minister ahmed released thousands of political prisoners ended the state of emergency and announced an economic liberalization plan but many young people say the only democratic elections will save that country. reports 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 truly led to a change of leadership of the days of protest in the spall town dudes in other parts of all media neighboring i'm hotter region become protesting for political

rights. university student. was one of the first to protest in. you know button it up but i mean. it's a sieve everyone else listen for a creed are the planned expansion of and a city which would take only land from many from us power went to the perfect grievance parady upon 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 watrous that. is one of the protesters at the literalist from prison as just. was tortured in prison they would heed to me all over until i fainted no medical treatment was a lot of tensions among the four parties in the lead coalition on how to deal with the protest led to the resignation of the then prime minister i led him to sell and . after weeks of negotiations forty two year old former army officer. was elected prime minister by coalition members the new prime minister is from the

ethnic group his elevation loadout intended as an olive branch to the rest of or more region. doing the proctors the people of this region and what they call the historical margin lies the short of what people. call they have been pushed to the margins of mainstream mithi of 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 do. we consider him just a i'm not a 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 all political prisoners in their thousands the prime minister fully believes on love

unity as well as forgiveness so that is an chasing 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 donald trump's former lawyer is reported to have secretly taped discussions with him about hush money over an alleged affair the new york times says the f.b.i. seized the recording during a raid on michael cohen's office he's being investigated for tax fraud and breaking election campaign laws trump has denied paying former playboy model current look to

his current lawyer confirms the payments were discussed with cohen but says they were never made a white house correspondent kelly how could reports. 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 term campaign colluded with russia with this information is shared it could be problematic for the president given the fact that if michael cohen in order to save himself from the charges he is currently facing he could decide to cooperate with the special counsel and that could certainly be risky for donald trump the green policy of the united states is hoping to capitalize on those a frustration with donald trump and other politicians in washington candidates for the midterm elections in november a meeting of the party's annual conference in salt lake city policy leader jill stein has been explaining her aspirations to a correspondent christian salumi. she is the woman democrats love to hate many believe jill stein cost hillary clinton the election in two thousand and sixteen

arguing the green party candidate diverted crucial votes in swing states that nearly went for now president donald trump recent revelations have only fueled her critics we know from the moller investigation that the russians not only took out ads on behalf of donald trump but also on behalf of you are you worried about russian intervention in the elections one facebook ad with the kind of you know among i think it was three thousand ads if i'm not mistaken that were attributed to this russian internet agency those ads cost one hundred thousand dollars compared to know donald trump got six billion dollars worth of free air time from corporate t.v. why because he was quote damn good for their bottom line according to the c.e.o. of c.b.s. for example so you know if you're looking for intervention in the election or interference how about the interference of big corporate media that had billions of

dollars in free airtime to throw around for candidates that benefited their bottom line but then there is this photo of her sitting next to russian president vladimir putin and former trump national security advisor michael flynn at a moscow dinner in two thousand and fifteen i was in russia to talk about a piece of offensive in the middle east to talk about nuclear weapons and to talk about climate change and ending fossil fuel use this was not selling out to the russians i did not receive funding i wasn't paid by russia they didn't even pay my way. and as greens put forward a slate of candidates running for congress in the mid-term elections she dismisses concerns that their progressive platform would divide up. position to the party of trump as democrats work to retake control of the house of representatives people are not buying into trump paving and russia baiting that's really the extent of the

democratic party generate now at least its its establishment its leadership we are ready for something different and the better alternative stein says is green kristen salumi al jazeera salt lake city utah. piles of plastic de brie have washed up on the coast of the dominican republic consider conservationists say they've already removed sixty tons of rubbish at the beach near the capital santa domingo but there's so much waste that the military has been scrambled to help with the cleanup charles moore is the founder of algol its own body in research foundation a member of the plastic pollution coalition he says that what's happening in the dominican republic is a small example of a bigger problem. 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 now no size 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 probably got lifestyles we got to stop throwing things away everything is a resource everything can be really 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 as refillable things we use over and over again we must constantly be throwing stuff away in order to make new stuff . it is good to have you with us adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories this hour on al-jazeera palestinian factions have agreed to return to calm with israel after the violence along the border fence between gaza gaza and israel a hamas spokesperson says that egypt to the un mediated for palestinians and israelis phones have died on friday chunks traffic reports from gaza. there may well be relative calm at the moment this seems all indications would suggest that neither israel or hamas want an escalation but of course the siege the suffering of the palestinians goes on the more protests there are the more pressure there is

only israeli government for a larger military response syrian rebels who surrendered in the south west of the country have begun to arrive in opposition held areas of the north buses carrying more than two thousand people have reached hama province the fighters and their families were given safe passage under a deal with the government the agreement is being seen as a major victory for president bashar al assad whose forces have retaken much of the south and nicaraguan church that was besieged by the army in managua has reopened student protesters were taking refuge there last week when gunmen loyal to the president daniel ortega began shooting at them almost three hundred people have died in three months of anti-government demonstrations that argentina's president but he has met bed of the international monetary fund to discuss a fifty billion dollar bailout christine lagarde the i.m.f. approved the package last month the government says it will provide a safety net and avoid a repeat of financial crises of the past but many out sometimes blame i.m.f.

impose austerity measures for an economic crisis in two thousand and one vigils have been held for the seventeen american tourists who drowned when a so-called duck boat sank during a storm the amphibious bus which becomes a boat was overpowered by waves on table rock lake in missouri line of the dead from the same family some of the thirty one passengers on board say the captain told them not to wear life jackets and waves of plastic and de brézé of washed up on the coast of the dominican republic conservationists say they've already removed sixty tons of rubbish at a beach near the capital santo domingo folly say with a new sound a little over twenty five minutes after counting the cost next. the former bishop of hong kong says the pope is sending out china's complex pieces of things that you need out there on those information. out of the church cardinal joseph then talks challenges era.

hello i'm sam is a than this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week stronger growth prospects for sub-saharan africa but a big trade challenge is looming. also this week airplanes and e-commerce and ports cars the world's second biggest aviation tradeshow gets underway. plus the world's first habitable three d. printed houses technology causing a stir in the construction industry. all this week the international monetary fund album graded its growth outlook for sub-saharan africa.