around the globe. latin america chess let's. see. the. varying bedad hamas held funerals for fines has killed by israeli airstrikes and the calm settled on gaza. and the one suiter this is all just there a long way from london also coming up wildfires rage across central sweden as the country faces its worst drought in seventy four years the militias bringing fear to the streets of managua after helping suppress antigovernment protests and nicaragua

and china little she's a charm offensive in senegal to win over hearts and minds to chinese trade and investment. an uneasy truce appears to be holding along the israel gaza border and follows a day of violence on friday that saw israeli astronauts and tunk fire at dozens of hamas targets following the death of an israeli soldier four palestinians were killed and at least one hundred twenty wounded a cease fire brokered by egypt on the united nations stands at midnight local time stephanie decker has the latest from gaza. i think. hamas is military wing in the kasam brigades are burying their dead three of their members were killed on friday afternoon israel struck various ham ass monitoring posts along the border soon after an israeli soldier was shot from gaza he later died of

his wounds sixty sites belonging to ham ass were attacked by israeli forces late into the night a few rockets were fired from gaza in response and a cease fire was announced hours later it's the second ceasefire in a week i don't think. would last for a long time i think it's better for us. unfortunately we will have just. two of those or stories after that will have the same story because many problems of the. people in. the pattern of escalation ceasefire as relations ceasefire between israel and hamas well i continue on the long term plan to leave a situation for the people here almost two million people are living under this blockade and everyone says the same thing how impossible life has become here. i

can't afford anything to work as a tailor in israel before the blockade i made around a thousand three hundred dollars a month of the moment i can't even make three hundred dollars a month exchanging money i work two shifts a day morning and night my that's the meaning of humanity is missing and most people are educating the confines work people have straight on to pressed people are willing to die those who are married cannot feed their children patients can't get medication and there's no electricity this is really painful and sad. palestinians here have little power to influence the political decisions made either at goals or israel no one wants another war but as one woman asked us what do we need to do to be able to live like everyone else stephanie decker al-jazeera . one hundred first now in west jerusalem when the events on friday looked like things were spiraling out of control but there is an uneasy calm you would say i'm guessing such as. yeah that's right sue it's interesting because while neither

hamas or the israeli army are calling this officially a ceasefire that is what it is for all intents and purposes you have the israeli army that said that everything has gone back to normal for civilians in those border areas israel's border with gaza there was one incident earlier in the day around ten am local time at which point we heard from the israeli army that because of a breach five homeless in the ins breaching the fence in gaza that because of that israeli tanks had fired on a hamas position but since then it's been calm throughout the day that's really quite remarkable considering the fact that you know just about twenty four hours ago you had these very intense operations the israeli army was calling this a wide scale attack you had something like in the neighborhood of sixty sites that were targeted by the israeli army different hamas targets at a time when there was already so much tension we must remember that yesterday well before the protests started in gaza you had israel's defense minister avigdor

lieberman saying that that israel had had really practiced restraint but that if there was any more violence that was going to be emanating from gaza whether it be from incendiary kites or balloons or other forms of violence that they were prepared to escalate this so there was a real concern yesterday throughout the day leading up to the operation especially once the operation commenced and especially after it was announced that an israeli soldier had been killed the first israeli soldier killed on the border with gaza since two thousand and fourteen there was concern that this could really escalate into a full blown conflict we think to be rebounding from think five back to violence again and so forth what did that what did they challenge says really that this one can hold long time. it's a very good question and you know there are a lot of different minds about this sue and really nobody knows right now because obviously egypt and the u.n. are doing their best really hurt efforts to try to calm things down this is been going on for over a week now since the last escalation and today since last night's escalation but

nobody really knows if it's going to hold look the common wisdom here in west jerusalem is that neither the israeli government nor hamas really wants to see another war actually happen that even though there are these conflagrations people are going to do what they can to try to calm things down but there is another mindset here people here that you speak with that they are really worried that this could escalate into full blown war at any time that it just takes one little thing and it would escalate once again and when those events happened last night many people we were speaking with thought that said the war has started today it's a different story but really it's just depends on what happens any given day of the week and earlier today when that breach happened of the fence and when the israeli tanks fired on that hamas position people once again even though this essential cease fire had been declared this truce had been declared they were worried that things were going to get bad once again. giving us the latest picture and west jerusalem.

syrian rebels who surrendered in the south west have begun arriving in opposition held areas of the country's north more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have reached the town of my broke and province the fighters and their families were given safe passage in a surrender deal with the government syrian army forces have since entered the city of connection the dail is a major victory for president bashar al assad forces have retaken much of the south and. is in the book the rebel held area where those found rebels and families from connection and now arrived well some of them have a lot of people to look at the evacuation buses carrying people displaced from connecter have arrived in hama province fifty five coaches containing more than three thousand people this is the first group from connecticut and will be followed

by many others the total numbers will be more than thirteen thousand going from south to north this displacement followed a wave of offensives by the syrian and russian military says it takes place after negotiations between opposition groups and the government which resulted in the opposition surrendering heavy weapons and allowing people to leave from south to north syria this will take place today tomorrow and the day after there will be more people coming here coming from south to north there will need to be a lot of resources and a concerted effort to accommodate such numbers of people they will initially be taken to already prepared shelters in northern syria. and inch and town in yemen is at risk of being destroyed by an offensive to take a city near by zob it is a unesco world heritage sites with thousands of historic homes religious institutes mosques it's south of the data which the sound coalition has been fronting to retake from groups the rebels aid agencies fear the battle could create

a humanitarian catastrophe. dozens of wildfires are raging across sweden which is experiencing its worst drought for seventy four years the swedish prime minister says always will says are being mobilized to prevent a greater disaster day in baba how small. firefighters in sweden say their battle for control is far from over remarkably nobody's been injured by the dozens of wildfires i the government's appeals for help from other countries it's really france and norway have responded by sending water bombing helicopters and planes as well as emergency personnel reeling in albania that fatah don't business government is ready to take all necessary decisions and supply all needed resources our duties to support all agencies so that they have what they need to get the fires under control and therefore the government is following this event closely every minute every day. and usually high temperatures across the whole

nordic region up to thirty three celsius coupled with virtually no rain for several weeks have made the vegetation here highly flammable finland norway have also had wildfires in the last week but it's sweden that suffer the most. this dairy farmer says the grass is normally much longer right now i'm not so real problem we don't use this much. normally. i think we've used to feed about three or four a day. and now it's five or six. i think else alive. in some areas homeowners have been moved to safety while fowls of swedes have been warned to stay indoors with the windows shut to avoid breathing in smoke the situation is very serious and the rescue services do not see that their biggest failures will be able to be extinguished in the near future due today weather and wheat and at the moment the focus is on delaying and requesting and trying to well delay

and they're disbanding of the fires swedish authorities say that as of thursday an area equivalent to twenty thousand football pitches had burned that's ten times the size you'd expect in a normal year and some fires are still spreading the al-jazeera. riot police in the philippines have fired water cannon to demonstrate just protesting against the u.s. and china hundreds gathered outside the u.s. and chinese embassies in the capital manila are ongoing about the ongoing u.s. military presence in the country and accuse president deter not upholding philippine sovereignty they also wanted to do more in the south china sea dispute with beijing is due to deliver his third state of the nation address on sunday.

campaigning is underway in pakistan for wednesday's general election below while bhutto zardari the head of the pakistan people's party and some of formulating benazir bhutto has been rallying in the southern city of karachi but the july twenty fifth vote is widely seen as a two way race between the parties a former cricket star imran khan and now jailed former prime minister nawaz sharif his brother is running in the poll over three hundred seventy one thousand soldiers have been deployed across the country to guard polling stations as some avenger of aid has been meeting voters in the city of lahore in pakistan's point job for engine. behind me is that true the much talked about group of performance of the pakistanis and the law of the party which was in power in the previous assembly that is the development that many political parties in their respective areas are talking about right to say that this is what they have achieved in their tenure and that's why people vote for them the biggest question is off her up and down hard

thanks to iran calm is woken up the messages sent to top corrupt men to jail. to account don't just start at one individual. this is the quintessential drink in the city of lahore home to about twenty million people people in the months come out and drink this drink and like that question of whether to have it with or without ice people in the hall or are divided on whether to vote for. which is who is the leader of the pakistan muslim league currently behind bars or the war for iran far on promising change. my vote is for imran khan because it's time for a new generation to take charge. to my voters only from the wilds sharif because he's done a tremendous job including the china pakistan corridor which no one else could bring to pakistan. activists and human rights. about the media and the

rise of the right wing the first time many religious bodies that used to be on the fringe of the political spectrum of our knowledge involved in the political process people are expecting that this is going to be one of the most actively participated elections in pakistan's history. still to come on the program his prime minister has passed on and i'm the stateful thousands of political prisoners some are saying his reforms don't go far enough and we hear of a rising tide of rubbish that stressing the dominican republic golden shows. hello there for some of us in asia the weather is looking pretty dangerous at the moment for you look at the satellite picture we can see there's plenty of cloud

across the southern parts of arm up and also into the east as well and we are seeing some distinctive swirls now within that area of cloud so we've got one storm here this is our tropical storm called pill there's another one here that's a tropical depression and a third area that we're watching at the moment is actually the remains of another storm seem to be reforming so loss of heavy rains across this region where we've already got waterlogged grounds so this could well give us a problem with flooding over the next few days of a storm that was near lose all much heading away towards the northeast but i'm pill is more of a concern because that's edging its way towards shanghai probably the winds won't be too much of a problem but it's certainly going to give us a very heavy downpours as we head through sunday and then into monday as well on monday will be clearing away towards the north easing as it does say but still giving some very heavy downpours as it works its way over land now out towards the west plenty of cloud in our shot at the moment certainly has been very wet for many

of us across india and nepal nepal has been reporting from flooding more wet weather still to come and you can see a little circulation that's developing here so when hans rains are expected. in the wrong waste inefficiency and a growing population of lead to do including water supplies. to try to extract water from in stores possible this is what we see as a result now of the country's future its. attitude to change and innovative solutions are being found. people in power investigates iran's move to crisis on al-jazeera.

welcome back remind all the top stories here on al-jazeera funerals have been held for hamas fighters killed on israeli airstrikes along the israel gaza border on friday an uneasy truce brokered by egypt on the united nations appears to be helping the syrian rebels who surrendered in the southwest have begun arriving in opposition held areas of the northern province province of hama more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have reached the town of my book and dozens of wildfires are raging across sweden which is experiencing its worst drought for seventy four years. more empty government protests are expected in nicaragua where nearly three hundred people have died in three months of unrest the demonstrators want president daniel ortega to resign and have accused him on his supporters of heavy handed tactics placed on paramilitary groups hamas said to have

laid siege to the last opposition stronghold of known them bow east of the capital from that mario 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 the says 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 and 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 since those an attack going on we couldn't go out. since security and pro-government forces launched a so-called cleanup operation in 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 road blocks have been lifted there are still some tensions here in the neighborhood of mourning as a paramilitary continues 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 if it doesn't work if the fire because of the situation we can't talk we can't say anything but we are ok because we are back to work. police say the clean up operation was ordered by president reagan and his wife vice president. 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 protest to me that i will have left nearly three hundred people dead. more nimble was a bastion of rebel resistance since the sundanese to 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 get over. many innocent just. with the u.s. slapping five hundred billion dollars of tariffs on china this week beijing is having to work extra hard to promote alternative trade president xi jinping is on an official visit to west africa to promote ties with some goal the first stop but as nicholas haq reports from dakar there's been a rise in on teacher any sentiment and she will have to work hard to win over

hearts and minds ethiopia's parliament has passed an amnesty bill for those arrested during protests between twenty fifteen and twenty seventeen since taking office in april prime minister. has overseen the release of thousands of political prisoners and in a state of emergency and announced an economic liberalization plan many young people say only democratic elections can save their country mohammed our reports when a group of young men started protesting here against the location of a school playground told private developer little did they know all the while starting a movement that the ventra led to a change of leadership of the days of protests in the school time and youths in other parts of little me and neighboring omaha 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 with him for a treat or the planned expansion of and

a city which would take only land from many from us put one of the african 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 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 not 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 closed door 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 my generalization 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 just a pin and not a cure to what pm the future depends on the next elections 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 so as a result of chasing everybody with. every issues we need to release them all though he enjoys considerable support prime minister but faces the challenge of

coming the uncle 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 would have to deal with hints of discontent within the ruling coalition whose one hundred eighty council members are far from unanimously behind. the. region. chavez in iran are feeling the pinch after the value of its currency hard unless a year economy is further threatened by the imposition of u.s. sanctions and loss of oil customers after president donald trump pulled out of the nuclear deal while some blame the americans as usual others say their own data should have known better they must wrong very forceful to. the price of one of america's best known exports is pretty much the same wherever you go but in iran the falling value of the local currency the real means what someone here might have

paid for a smartphone last year has doubled a thousand dollars in iran now costs twice as much electronics is just one sector feeling the effects of american foreign policy iranian say from food to clothes to rent sanctions have made everything more expensive. missiles are going on. i see the purchasing power of people has been reduced a lot inflation is going up rapidly instability of the dollar price has caused tension in the markets and it causes problems for everybody i think we need a change in our economic administration this change could help to me as the iranian president's chief of staff said last week a reshuffle was in the works to bring new faces into the federal cabinet to deal with economic issues but experts say years of economic uncertainty have created such a negative business atmosphere that no one seems to know how to turn things around . a common saying in iran is that the price of the rio always gets worse never better it's value has dropped so much in recent months that many exchange companies

have stopped selling foreign banknotes just to get a sense of how bad things have gotten many iranians compare the dollar rate to what it was in one nine hundred seventy nine when one dollar cost seventy rio's now that price is nearly eighty thousand in the decade since the islamic revolution iranian men and women aged thirty or under have become the largest segment of the population many say they want to leave iran for a better future abroad and don't cha. i'm concerned about whether i can afford rent and food in this expensive city as a student i shouldn't have these worries i should have enough money to focus on my studies my pocket is empty and i'm very worried about what to do i think the cause of these problems is mismanagement it is said it's because of sanctions but i think that's just one part of the problem. while u.s. president donald trump is blamed for many of iran's problems iranian say their leaders should have seen incoming government leaders said the signing of the twenty

fifty nuclear deal was the light at the end of the tunnel but for many europeans that light turned out to be a train. to her on. a one year old baby who became the poster child for the u.s. policy of separating migrant families and the border has finally been reunited with his parents and separated from his father upon arrival in the u.s. and placed in an arizona detention center his father meanwhile was deported back to honduras it was only after being granted a voluntary departure order that johan was allowed to fly home. with his parents after five months in the shelter the child took his first steps first words and how the first day in the facilities. one service. they told me what we are going to do is take away your child to separate you from your child i asked them what are you going to do the child is still young but they told

me because you cannot be in the united states you cannot go further with the child you cannot enter the us with him. he had his birthday if there he will not turn one year old again that has passed and i missed it when he learned to walk it's not going to happen again either i missed that because of them they should not have done that he is a baby he can't defend himself he's not an adult to say he does not want that so if he wants anything. waves of plastic and damper a have washed up on the coast of the dominican republic conservationists say they were where they removed sixty tons of rubbish at a beach near the capital santo domingo but there is so much waste that the military has been brought in to help with the cleanup. charles moore is the founder of marine research foundation a member of the plastic coalition pollution coalition he says 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 and that also is plastic as well and that's invading our bodily tissues so this is a worldwide problem and we've got to deal with it 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 is refillable things we use over and over again we must constantly be throwing stuff away in order to make new stuff . yourself. as keep reminding of the top stories hang on to their uneasy truth is holding along the israel gaza border and i asked a violent family don't even find them for palestinians i counted at least one hundred twenty engine and he's right he asked trying to come to my attacks on the border fence that surrounds council and he said he fell and was later killed by a palestinian gunman a ceasefire brokered by egypt on the united nations silence about midnight local time. syrian rebels who surrendered in southwest in connection began arriving in

opposition held areas of the country's north more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have reached the town of more broken hama province the fighters and their families were given safe passage in a surrender deal with the government syrian army forces have since entered the city of connection. and then sion town in yemen is at risk of being destroyed by an offensive to take a city nearby zammit is a unesco world heritage site with thousands of historic homes religious institutes and mosques is south of the data which a coalition led by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. has been funding to retake from the rebels dozens of wildfires are raging across sweden which is experiencing its worst drought for seventy four years it comes after months of high temperatures and has prompted an appeal for help to other european nations the government in stockholm is also calling for emergency imports of grain to befriend cattle and sheep from dying of starvation reeling it out for

the government is ready to take all necessary decisions on supply all needed resources. to support all agencies so that they have what they need to get the fires under control and therefore the government is following the servant closely every minute every day to make sure the agencies have the resources they need the riot police in the philippines have fired water cannons demonstrators protesting against the u.s. and china hundreds gathered outside the u.s. and chinese embassies in the capital manila are angry about the ongoing u.s. military presence in the country and accuse president the turtle of not upholding philippine sovereignty. those are the main headlines the stay with us they're out there up next people in power.

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