aster feed on al-jazeera. the. burying their dead how mass holds funerals for fighters killed by israeli as strikes as an uneasy truce hands of a gaza. oh i maryam namazie and london with algiers they are also coming up u.s. president accuses his former lawyer of potentially acting illegally after reports he secretly recorded a conversation with trump about paying off a model. wildfires rage across central sweden as the country suffers its worst drought in seventy four years. and the baby who symbolized the controversial u.s. policy of separating migrant families is reunited with his parents and honduras.

come to the program our top story an uneasy truce appears to be holding along the israel gaza border as follows a day of violence on friday that saw israeli as strikes and tank fire hit dozens of hamas targets following the death of an israeli soldier four palestinians were killed of which three. and at least one hundred twenty wounded stephanie deca has more from gaza. i. have masses military wing because some 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 have mass 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 this would last for a long time i learned that i think it's better for us. unfortunately and we will have just couple of days to throw this or story after that we'll have the same story because many problems over the. the pattern of escalation ceasefire as relations ceasefire between israel and hamas will only continue in the long run to leave the situation for the people here almost two 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 double care i made around the 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 mother the meaning of humanity is missing in gaza most people are educated the confines work people have to straight on to pressed people are willing to die those who are married cannot feed their children patients can't get medication and there is no electricity this is really painful and sad. palestinians here have little power to influence the political decisions made either in gaza 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 gaza. has more now on the israeli government response from. israeli officials we've been speaking with are not calling it a ceasefire they are saying in fact that calm has been restored in israel's border with gaza they are saying that activities are returned to normal but they are not calling it a cease fire now hamas also wasn't going to cease fire when they were talking about

this cease fire for all intents and purposes that's what it is but it is a very shaky truce at this point now we did hear about one incident that happened several hours ago in gaza the israeli army released a statement saying that a number of suspects infiltrated israel from the northern gaza strip the suspects then returned to the gaza strip in response an idea of tank targeted a hamas military post but beyond that we've heard of no other incidents throughout the day as of now still calm but there is a lot of unease because people here very much aware that any little thing could could spark something and it could be a wider conflagration really at any time. syrian rebels who surrendered and the southwest have started arriving in opposition held areas of the country's north well then fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people of arrived in the town of my book and how my province to fight is an

effort armies were given safe passage in a surrender deal with the government syrian army forces have since entered the city of connection it is a major victory for president bashar assad whose forces have retaken much of the south. is in my book the rebel held area in hama that those rebels and families from connect have now arrived. well some of them have a lot of people like you asian 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 connector 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 on 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 engine town in yemen is at risk of being destroyed by an offensive to take a city nearby zab it is a unesco world heritage site with thousands of his starry religious institutes and mosques itself of a day which the saudi coalition has been fighting to retake and who things aid agencies fear the battle could create a humanitarian catastrophe. now to developments in the u.s. the president has accused his former lawyer michael cohen of potentially acting illegally after it was reported that he secretly recorded donald trump discussing payments to a former playboy model a recording was seized during an f.b.i.

raid on cohen's property earlier this year in new york in the recording reportedly discusses paying money to karen mcdougal he says she had a ten month affair with trump. joins us now from washington and it looks like michael cohen is bearing the brunt of donald trump's frustration today. he is and he's taken to twitter to basically attack the entire story let's take a look at what he had to write there he said it's inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyers office early in the morning almost unheard of even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client totally unheard of and perhaps illegal the good news is your favorite president did nothing wrong all right these are not true let's break it down shall we first of all the government f.b.i. agents did not break into michael cohen's office they had a search warrant to get a search warrant they have to go before a judge and meet a much higher bar than just your average search warrant they have to prove to this judge that they believe

a crime is being committed and within that lawyers office then it is unusual judges don't like to give these search warrants out they have to meet a high standard of proof they did according to the judge they got that a search warrant as far as it is being illegal for michael cohen to record president donald trump probably not we don't know exactly where the search place but it seems more than likely it was in manhattan new york state is a one party consent state which means only one person needs to know that the recordings being made and that would have been michael cohen and as for him being your favorite president he is not by any stretch of the imagination if you look at polls americans favor president he is he has very high popularity among republicans republicans make up less than a third of this country is overall in favor ability rating is more than fifty percent so all of that in that tweet all of it showing he's concerned but all that also is a lie. and so we have seen in these tweets and i suppost past arguments that

trump has tried to he will he's blame the f.b.i. he's now blaming his longtime lawyer michael cohen what on the implications of this for the president. well legally it could have huge implications depending on what's on the tape and politically it could also be damaging let's not forget this is the president of it has been able to basically swat away every negative story by saying fake news didn't happen this is audio recordings president trump's voice and cadence is very distinctive and this is we believe just one of many tapes that michael cohen made was kind of striking about this is it's been widely reported in the press for quite a while that michael cohen did this he'd like to make recordings of people he would often play them for people within trump's orbit and the president himself but the president apparently felt that michael cohen wouldn't possibly record him so it depends what's on this tape the bigger issue is the f.b.i. has these tapes they know what's on these recordings and michael cohen could be

facing some serious legal jeopardy he's already indicated that he is more than likely to make a deal with prosecutors tell them what he knows in order to seek leniency the other thing he could do and he's being prodded to by some is release all the tapes he has let the affair can public hear what happened in that campaign and it seems inconceivable if we just take a step back think about this this was a president two months before the election was confronted with the story that he had a lot pretty long affair with a playboy playmate just after his son was born he denied it the election took place and now there are recordings that not only did he know about it but he talked about money for this playmate so it would have been career ending for any other politicians but this is donald trump still it'll be interesting to see if the equation on that changes when it's not him claiming fake news but his supporters actually hearing him in his own words thank you very much patty klein with all the latest on this story from washington well we take you to sweden now and dozens of

wildfires are raging across the country and what is the was strauss a seventy four year is a prime minister says old missiles as a being mobilized to prevent an even greater disaster. firefighters in sweden say their battle for control is far from over remarkably nobody's been injured by the dozens of wildfires i government's appeals for help from other countries italy france and norway have responded by sending water bombing helicopters and planes as well as emergency personnel reeling in albania the. 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 and that's a real problem we don't use this much. normally. i think we used to feed about three or four a day. and now it's five or six. think of a life. in some areas homeowners have been moved to safety while thousands 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 fires will be able to be extinguished in the near future due today whether you know that i mean wheat and at the moment the focus is on delaying and requesting and trying to well delay and hinder 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. still to come for you on the program zimbabwe's president is attempting to woo white voters ahead of this month's election and don't look down and find out if this french tightrope walker makes it to the end of the line. hello there is still very warm for many of us across europe at the moment but first sweden where we've got a major problem with wildfires there have been a few showers there now the rain may well be quite welcome but unfortunately there's been some gusty winds associated with that rain and so that hasn't helped

with the fires atoll elsewhere there has been more persistent rain that's been over parts of russia this stretching into ukraine we've also got some thunderstorms that are over the central belt of europe and they're just going to spread down towards the southeast there as we head through monday watch out for these because they could be some very large hail and some flooding rains out of them towards the west is generally looking bright for us on monday and hot again with paris topping at around thirty one degrees now for the other side of the mediterranean we're seeing just a little bit of cloud over parts of morocco and algeria and that is just giving us more in the way of humidity really keeping the temperatures down so twenty nine degrees the maximum there is that fatah forces in. the area of tab just drifts a little bit further east with there as we head through monday so that will drag the temperatures in june is down for the central belt of africa lots of thunderstorms here all rattling their way towards the west as you'd expect some particularly heavy ones over sudan there and they gradually work their way towards the west and into nigeria.

egypt is now china's third biggest trading partner in africa more than ten thousand chinese are living in cairo and wanted to see the permits so in september one thousand nine hundred five i came with my friends to egypt many started in small traders but are now successful in business shipped to them i began to do business in two thousand and three or two thousand and four at a time it was small but then it becomes tricky but underage al-jazeera world meets the growing chinese community in egypt egypt made in china on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick look at the top stories this hour funerals have been held for hamas fighters killed by israeli as strikes along the israel gaza border on friday an uneasy truce brokered by egypt in the united nations does appear to be holding that . syrian rebels who surrendered in the south west have started arriving in opposition held parts of the northern province of hama more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people of which the town of broke. in the u.s. president has accused his former lawyer michael cohen of potentially acting illegally after it was reported that he secretly recorded donald trump discussing payments to a former playboy model. campaigning is underway in pakistan for wednesday's general election law bhutto zardari the head of the pakistan people's party and son of the former leader benazir bhutto has

been rallying in the southern city of karachi where the july twenty fifth vote is widely seen as a two way race between the parties a form of cricket iran khan and the now jailed former prime minister nawaz sharif is brother is running in the polls over three hundred seventy one thousand soldiers have been deployed across the country to god polling stations. has been missing in the city of lahore in pakistan's punjab problem. behind me is the metro the much talked about proof of performance of the city the laws the policy which was in power in the previous assembly that is the development that many political parties in their respective areas of talking about right to see that this is what they have achieved in the i'm not by people who are there the biggest question is off her up and down hard thanks to iran calm is woken up a message was sent to top corrupt men to jail. account just started one individual. this is the quintessential in the city of 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 lahore are divided on whether sharif which is who is the leader of the baathist on the from the is going to be behind or. 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. and the rise of the right being the first time many religious bodies because to be on the fringe of the political spectrum are not involved in the political process people

are expecting that this is going to be one of the more actively participated elections in pakistan's history. why voters in zimbabwe of being public courted by the rulings on a p.f. party for the first time since president robert mugabe was deposed last year president amazon has told them the government's controversial policy of land grabs are thing of the past as he campaigns to be elected on july thirtieth opinion polls suggest it's a close run race harmattan brings us one l. from harare. many whites than they farm seized and given to black families because of land reform rules possed when robert mugabe was president over the years some felt his black economic empowerment policies excluded them from mainstream politics and job opportunities the army forced mugabe to resign and the man who replaced and says land grabs would no longer be tolerated president. who's

seeking reelection has been looking for votes among whites and bobby and that's already in had already. made near. one of the what. must be. one. to. some a skeptical about the timing of the president's reassurances to white voters a few days before the parliamentary and presidential elections others are more optimistic we need to come to. our. not. from from politics and voting day at the end of the month will be the first without deposed president robert mugabe the elections are being closely watched by the international community. generally. true.

even though there have been complaints from intimidation. or general. to give their work. but the main opposition leader nelson chamisa isn't he believes the electoral process is forward alleging the voters' role could taint so-called ghost voters and that the rulings on the party is tampering with ballot papers election observers are urging politicians to resolve their differences through dialogue before voting day time is running out the general election is on july the thirtieth some opposition supporters say they will protest next week if the issues aren't addressed these accusations and counter-accusations have heightened tensions something election observers say they are aware of how these disagreements are managed could determine the success or failure of the first post mugabe elections since one nine hundred eighty.

spain's opposition popular party has chosen the right wing congressman assad owes its new leader hassan who replaces the former prime minister at marianna a holy step down last month after losing a vote of no confidence assad has appointment to seen as a lurch to the right for the party is taking a hard line stance on the catalan independence crisis and he wants to lower taxes. well now politicians in the german state of bavaria are trying to win over voters ahead of elections in october the c.s.u. party which is in a coalition with merkel's christian democrats as moved further to the right in an attempt to stop people voting for the anti immigration a.f.d. party but poll suggests that could be against the public mood as domenic cain explains. on a warm summer evening for many bavarians the beer garden is a must certainly that's true. and tonight accompanying the salads and schnitzels

there's also political chat because the local m.p. has dropped in to hear people's concerns as this is election year the christian social union is taking no chances this is a belief that once we're here to speak for the voters to persuade them that ours is the right way as a genuine people's party we can govern varia that we can keep our society pulling together not apart and so our economy prospers and i grew up in cherry hill but that's the problem for his party. traditionally this parliament has been a stronghold for the c.s.u. in election after election since world war two it seemed to have a stranglehold on parliament and politics here and yet if the opinion polls are accurate that grip may be slipping where once the c.s. you could count on winning almost half the votes now that's fallen below forty percent the nearest rivals are the center left green party with the social

democrats a few points back in third place and the far right anti immigrant a.f.d. close behind some people blame this man for the c.s. use present predicament horsed zero for federal interior minister and long time party leader his plan for tougher border controls and an accelerated program of deporting failed asylum seekers pleases the far right but it's also galvanized the left and center left in opposition and some analysts say some of his ideas seem to be a serious threat to civil liberties it is a very slippery slope in that sense that you gradually have a degree dacian of after the rule of law and of human rights because if you look for instance at their. media coverage of migrants and especially the more right wing media you see that you have they don't see migrants as humans anymore they see them as an issue such thoughts seem quite distant and sunny guess who from the

c.s.u. insists instead it's based on humanitarian pragmatic policy but as october election draws nearer perhaps that pragmatism may well be tested dominant cane al-jazeera in bavaria. cuba is set to approve a new constitution that will recognize private property something which the communist state has long with jetted as a remnant of capitalism lawmakers hope the sweeping reforms will help to stimulate the economy and encourage foreign investments but president miguel diaz kell says the island's political system will remain the same also named his cabinet on saturday retaining the majority of ministers from predecessor raul castro. well now to iran where she offers a feeling the pinch after the value of its current c. hard in less than a year the 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 all some blame the americans as usual others say that their own

leaders should also have known better same bus ravi reports from to iran. 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 tensions 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. 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 one 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 this 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 them coming government leaders said the signing of the twenty fifty nuclear. at the end of the tunnel but for many europeans that light turned out to be a training. run. a one year old honduran baby his symbolize the u.s. policy of separating migrant families in order as finally been reunited with his parents ten month old johan was separated from his father upon arrival in the u.s. and placed in an arizona detention center his father meanwhile was reported back to honduras it was only after being granted a voluntary departure order that the baby was allowed to fly home and be reunited with his parents off to five months in the shelter the child took his first steps but his first words and had his first birthday in the facilities.

they told me what we are going to do is take away your child to separate. from your child i asked them were 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 a child you cannot enter the us with her. he had his birthday over there he will not turn one year old again that has passed and i missed it when he learned to walk 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. on now in france a tightrope walk or a scale paris's tail and reach the sacral a celica tatiana. made the attempt with no assistance or even a safety net on a rope hanging thirty five meters above the ground started walking tightropes when

she was eight years old and says she has been preparing for this show for a year. there's more to see on our web site the address al-jazeera dot com. just a quick look at the top stories this hour an uneasy truce is holding along the israel gaza border a day off to violence that resulted in several deaths an israeli soldier was killed by palestinian gunmen at the fence that surrounds gaza up that prompted israeli abstracts which killed four palestinians three of them hamas fight has a ceasefire brokered by egypt and the united nations started at midnight local time we did hear about one incident that happened several hours ago in gaza the israeli army released a statement saying that a number of suspects infiltrated israel from the northern gaza strip the suspects then return to the gaza strip in response an idea of tank targeted hamas military

posts but beyond that we've heard of no other incidents throughout the day as of now still calm but there is a lot of unease because people here very much aware that any little thing could could spark something that could be a wider conflagration really at any time syrian rebels who surrendered in southwestern connecticut have begun arriving in opposition held areas of the country more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have arrived in the town of my book and hama province the fight is in their families were given safe passage in a surrender deal with the government syrian army forces have since entered the city of connection. and ancient town in yemen is at risk of being destroyed by an offensive to take a city nearby zab it is a unesco world heritage site with thousands of historic homes religious institute's and mosques it's south of data which a coalition that by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. has been fighting to retake from who feel rebels. well now the u.s. president has accused his friend

a lawyer michael cohen of potentially acting illegally after it was reported that he secretly recorded donald trump discussing payments to a former playboy model recording was seized during an f.b.i. raid on cohen's property earlier this year in new york in the recording trial reportedly discusses paying money to carrying mcdougall he says she had a ten month affair with trump riot police in the philippines of five more to canada demonstrators protesting against the u.s. and china hundreds gathered outside the u.s. and chinese embassies a kid's present the territory of failing to uphold philippine sovereignty. iraq today with all of our top stories more news coming up for you in about twenty five minutes time do join me then bye for now.

twenty sixteen was the deadliest year on record for migrants and refugees attempting to get into europe. over five thousand people died between libya and italy or turkey and greece. the following film was first broadcast in two thousand and seven well before today's conflicts in the middle east. than many european migrants were using another less publicized route to a better life. this is the southernmost outpost of four chris.