power investigates iran's water crisis on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching the news hour live from our headquarters here in doha sixty minutes of news and comment today. burying their dead funerals in gaza as the an easy calm settles across the territories. rebels evacuated from syria's south begin arriving in the north of the country. a new twist in the tale of donald trump his lawyer and the playboy model. and the

i.m.f. chief is met with angry protests on the streets of point as ira's. ok let's get going and uneasy truce appears to be holding along the fence that separates israel and gaza that follows a day of violence on friday that saw israeli airstrikes and tank fire hit dozens of hammers targets following the death of an israeli soldier four palestinians were killed and at least one hundred twenty were wounded stephanie decker reports from gaza. how mass is military wing 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. to through this or. after that we will have. many problems over the. people and. the pattern of escalation ceasefire as elation ceasefire between israel and hamas will only continue unless there is a long term plan to alleviate the 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 any obligation to work as a tailor in israel before the blockade 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 ma that's 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 analyst us what do we need to do to be able to live like everyone else stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza. well mohammed germ jhoom has more now on the israeli government's response from west jerusalem israeli officials we've been speaking with are not calling it a ceasefire they are saying in fact that calm has been restored on 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 i.d.f. 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. well living under occupation in gaza has left many desperate for change even if it means risking their lives the eleven year land sea and air blockade imposed by israel has taken a huge toll now here's a quick snapshot of what living conditions there are actually like at least ninety five percent of the territories water is unfit for human consumption and unsuitable

even for agricultural use the proceeds areas only get four hours of electricity on most days of the week the world bank says unemployment is staggering forty four percent of adults between the ages of sixteen and twenty nine are out of work one reason why unemployment is so high many gazans used to work in israel but the longstanding border closure has cut them off from jobs as well as medical care and education let's talk. he's a fellow at the brookings institution center for middle east policy he joins us live now from washington. how do we explain the false equivalence here that some people it would appear to me want to apply to what's going on to israelis in israel and also to palestinians in places like gaza. well of course there is no equivalence israel is not being besieged by palestinians israel the palestinians are not imposing an air land and sea blockade

on the israeli people or any portion of the israeli people whereas as the others have mentioned two million palestinians in gaza live under an almost hermetic seal. closed off not only from jobs in israel or. health care or other services beyond its borders but also cut off from other palestinians in the west bank. and they are not able to export not only that israel controls what comes in as a matter of security there is an effective. virtual ban on exports out of gaza and so you have no economy and so for for many years. humanitarian aid workers the united

nations and others have said that. gaza is becoming unlivable if if we don't do something to alleviate this pressure on the people there and we've now essentially reached that point and that is why we're seeing such. a recurring you know recurring crises along the gaza border is because gaza has essentially become unlivable and that pressure has to be released somehow how will that happen because when you talk about gaza being unlivable i mean everyone is now saying the same thing gaza will actually factually be unlivable in twenty twenty that's two years away the israeli reaction to that seems to be zero. well. their reaction from israel from the egyptian side of the

border and also from the palestinian authority. has been very close to zero so there is very very little action it is only when gaza erupts and you know into some new conflict that suddenly the international community and others start to pay attention but let's not forget whereas you know i i would say that israel bears primary responsibility because it is in control of most aspects of life in gaza what goes in what goes out. but there is also a shared responsibility that belongs to the palestinian authority which has imposed its own sanctions. on the gaza on the people in gaza by cutting salaries and energy supplies to gaza so that has i think exacerbated and maybe accelerated this the crises that we're now seeing these these frequent

eruptions you mentioned egypt ok unemployment running at forty four forty five percent in that crucial sixteen to twenty nine age group could egypt i mean shares a border could egypt or should egypt gets involved in this is a prism talk to the egyptians they might be able to pull something out that. well egypt obviously does play a role they play a critical role in brokering the cease fire agreements. and they have an interest obviously in in maintaining a measure of stability on its border. with an already unstable gaza sinai border so. it has an interest in doing that on the other hand it does not want to inherit the two million palestinians in the gaza strip israel has been inclined i think to sort of more and more push gaza toward toward egypt egypt will

occasionally in order to release some pressure. open the border crossing to allow some people and goods to move back and forth but these are band-aid remedies to to a much much deeper. illness and that is. there is a desperate situation from a humanity there is virtually no economy in gaza people live off of. the majority of gazans live off of humanitarian aid so it is it is only a matter of time before we see the next eruption we're talking about this now as a period of calm we on this channel will actually labeling it as a ceasefire because it seems to me it's so very very it's so delicate it is a precarious situation i'm intrigued to know why is it we're not getting reports of

how mass talking to itself within that within the bubble of palestinian politics also is very difficult to get a handle on what israel is doing when it comes to talking to itself talking to its own security agencies to try and knowledge this period of calm towards being something that you could recognize as being a complete cessation of hostilities are you a cease fire. well it's a very delicate balance for both sides there it doesn't take much to to start a war if we recall if we go back to two thousand and fourteen the last very serious confrontation that we had in gaza. i think it was safe to say that neither side neither hamas nor the israeli government were interested in an all out war but when you get a tit for tat and each side has to respond it has to respond to if only to appease its own public opinion you end up. being sort of speil

spiral out of control and that could easily happen. i think we're in a similar situation where neither side i think has an interest in an all out war from how masses perspective they want to apply some pressure just enough pressure on the israelis to force some sort of change in the blockade regime to allow some opening because that's what all of these wars have been about about trying to ease the many restrictions and the closure that is imposed on gaza from the israeli standpoint they also don't want all out war but when an israeli soldier gets killed when a bomb went off when a rocket lands near a kindergarten there is a sense that they have to respond there is a public outcry for for some kind of response and so it's

very it's very easy for things to spiral out of control the problem is that all of this is happening in a political and diplomatic vacuum there is no peace process. to speak of even. you know we talk about a failed peace process. for five years ago now there is no peace process whatsoever . or there is no international community or mechanism that can intervene and attempt to find a political resolution and a pathway out of this this crisis that simply doesn't exist and you also have a vacuum on the palestinian side the palestinian authority in government in ramallah is. pretty much completely disengaged from the situation in gaza they are bystanders for the most part but also i think complicit in the

crisis the humanitarian crisis that exists there because of the sanctions imposed by mahmoud abbas we have to leave it there. in washington thank you of the carrying aid for gaza has left italy the freedom flotilla coalition campaign says its goal is to peacefully end the israeli blockade of the palestinian territory is expected to take just over a week to reach is really waters. syrian rebels who surrendered in the south west of the country 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 broke in hama province the fighters and their families were given safe passage in a surrender deal with the government from syrian army forces have since enter the city of the deal is a major victory for president bashar al assad his forces have retaken much of the substance. the rebel held area in hama where those rebels and

families from after all arrived. the evacuation buses carrying people displaced from connector 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 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 on 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. protests against the i.m.f. are taking place in argentina as the country hosts the organization had along with

g twenty finance ministers now there is anger over the government's decision sticky fifty billion dollar loan from the i.m.f. has to risible. left wing groups gathered to protest against the international monetary fund in one aside is on saturday. last month the i.m.f. stepped in to shore up the argentinian economy with a fifty billion loan agreement but people like the boy believe it won't help improve people's lives. we already had the i.m.f. and a crisis we know what happened in greece they will fire state employees they will reduce salaries and take away workers right what is today one. argentina's economy has been struggling in recent months due to a drop in investor confidence in emerging economies their currency lost over forty percent of its value and inflation has continued to rise this people are protesting

just a few blocks away from where the g twenty finance ministers and central bank governors are meeting by they were prevented from getting closer by security forces this people that you can see here i'm hoping that greece the guard the director of the i.m.f. with him will sign it will be here they met it would be years that the austerity measures did lament that by the government. will generate more poverty and unemployment but christine legarde who came to attend the g. twenty summit showed strong support with what modi is trying to do there has been significant progress in terms of monetary policy as well where clearly the measures that have been taken by the bank have restored and managed a much better situation with less volatility more transparency. test because of policies suggested by the i.m.f.

are not unique to argentina there has been strong opposition in countries like jordan and haiti international n.g.o.s like oxfam and others have suggested at the i.m.f. should rethink its standard recipes that take away power from labor unions do not help lower unemployment and demand of government spending which leads in most cases to an increase in poverty levels. for the seats in the me the essence of the i.m.f. is the same it is to prioritize the physical deficit protons will sterrett images it's the same old i.m.f. with a change in discourse look at what's happening in other parts of the world like jordan and haiti and that's why many here are distrust four of the current government's economic policies because they believe it will only deteriorate the lives of those who need government help the most. plenty more still to come for you here on the news including the baby who symbolize the controversial u.s. policy of separating migrant families is reunited with her parents in honduras.

lingering questions about how much influence the military when it's as pakistan heads to the opinion polls also ahead the formula one world champion has a really rotten day we'll tell you what went wrong. u.s. president donald trump accusing his former lawyer of potentially acting illegally after it emerged that he secretly recorded donald trump discussing payments to a former playboy model the recording was seized during an f.b.i. raid on michael cohen's property earlier this year in new york in the recording mr trump reportedly discusses paying money to karen mcdougal says she had a ten month long affair with him live now to washington and my colleague shihab rattansi she heard was it actually illegal. do you recall the conversation no not not in new york in new york one part of the telephone conversation is allowed

to to record a conversation ethically there could be a debate about whether lawyers should be recording their conversations with clients but old trump though certainly suggesting it could be illegal several hours ago he tweeted 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 clown's totally unheard off and perhaps illegal the good news is that your favorite president did nothing wrong now the reason why investigators burst into michael kearns office early in the morning and seized various documents and recordings was because it seems that they're investigating whether campaign finance regulations were broken that payment to karen mcdougal was made by american media and could publish is a national enquirer and others but it was with the express purpose it seems to to not publish her story about her alleged affair with donald trump don't trump is always denies he had he had an affair with her back so the question is then was that because m i had colluded with michael current on trump's lawyer in

a bid to try to help donald trump's election campaign if that's the case and that one hundred fifty thousand dollars payment could be seen as a campaign contribution it's illegal for corporations to make to conspire with political campaigns for electoral advantage and anyway individual contributions going to be around the five thousand dollars if it is found that michael curran was acting with donald trump's blessing in order to in order trying to affect the election that could be very serious trouble for donald trump has more trouble than i think we've heard from the special counsel's investigation into and there's russian collusion thanks very much let's talk now to bill schneider bill is a political analyst and professor of public policy at george mason university joining us from los angeles bill schneider what's your reading of this tape. well it's potentially very damaging because the president has always denied not only that there was an affair but that he knew anything about the payments this

tape very clearly indicates a couple of months before the election that he discussed the payment that was made by the national enquirer to this playboy model that suggests there was an affair and that he wasn't telling the truth when he denies it the affair appears to be done shortly after his wife gave birth to their son and it was he trying to reimburse the national enquirer in order to buy the rights to this story and as you just heard that could constitute an illegal campaign contribution and more legal trouble for the president so that comes down to the national enquirer is decision to do that thing called a touch and kill i.e. you get the story you research it but you don't publish it and they must have presumably got payment for that from some place well they paid the money to the model to trump campaign so they know nothing about this discussion on the tape appears to be i haven't heard the tape but the discussion appears to be about whether the trump campaign mr cohen with the blessing of the candidate mr trump

whether they would buy back the rights in that would be a way of reimbursing the national enquirer and that could very well be an illegal campaign contribution that investigation has been turned over to the new york prosecutor's office by the moeller investigation because it's not directly related to the issue of russian influence on the campaign will this damaged trump will it take a dent if it's bass support i mean helsinki would wouldn't would not would etc that didn't damage him nato didn't i mention g seven doesn't damage him and the jobs figures they're looking pretty healthy. well he's really riding on the good economy but your question about whether there was damage done by stories like this that's really two different questions yes i would say there is damage done in the electorate at large there are likely to become more and more

they already are becoming more and more exasperated with mr trump if only because he doesn't seem to tell the truth in many instances and in this case he could be revealed not to be telling the truth about his affair with his playboy model not only is it unseemly but it's deeply disturbing to the american electorate at large the second question has to do with his political base his core supporters who maybe twenty five to thirty percent of the american electorate they believe everything he says they were gar all of this as a trumped up conspiracy to trap the president by the mainstream media and none of this is likely to face his core supporters bill i want to carry on talking bout the satellite is about to disappear for which i apologize for this and thank you for your insight we always appreciate a good structure. a one year old honduran baby who symbolized the u.s. policy of separating migrant families on the border has finally been reunited with his parents johann boyce was separated from his dad by u.s. border patrol and placed in an arizona detention center his father was deported

back to honduras it was only after being granted a voluntary departure that johan was allowed to fly home and be reunited with his parents off to five months in the shelter the child took a step spoke his first words on his first birthday in detention. they told me what we are going to do is take away your child to separate you from your child i asked them well you go to the child are 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 u.s. with him. 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 that'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 is not an adult to say he does not want that so if he wants anything.

campaigning is well underway in pakistan for the general election weapons day but a while bhutto zardari the head of the pakistan people's party and son of the assassination former leader benazir bhutto has been rallying in the southern city of karachi but the vote is widely seen as a two way race between the parties the former cricket star imran khan and jailed former prime minister nawaz sharif whose brother is in for contesting the vote over three hundred thirty over three hundred seventy one thousand soldiers have been deployed to guard polling stations come on hyder is in district close to the border with afghanistan there he spoke to rural voters. awash majority of the budget gunny population lives in rural areas where dime has. although did take part in the election rigorously they have not seen the kind of results by their leadership

in a country where corruption runs high in political political leader direct. typing all the billions of dollars from their country ended rural areas people do not have clean drinking water they do not have basic education they do not have medical care and all those things are necessary for nation building. and for political leadership change will translate into a change. in. elections. as it's never brought any change to a lot of what i'm doing now is what i mean to him for many years there is no change for the poor in this country and it's going from bad to worse. for the poor elections only mean a change of thing more but it matters a lot to the elite class who are sucking our blood through corruption for their own

good and they have gone from millionaires to billionaires but the poor are still suffering because of the social media dated now are nowhere near and political leaders are getting a grilling from the population to what they have done in. government and goal by dad not being able to deliver on the promise of trying to better the lives of the watch majority of its population and therefore there are question marks as to what happens next. now on the other side of the headlines we'll bring you the stories of state elections approach in germany the chancellor angela merkel coalition partners well looks like they're shifting a little bit to the right. some u.s. democrats are embracing a political label that used to be considered toxic. legendary keep on the beach before makes its debut for paris and we'll tell you how we got on in the sports news in about twenty minutes.

hello again we've had some severe weather over parts of north america recently and the system responsible is still with us is this one here and is still giving us some heavy downpours watch out for some very gusty winds or some very large hail as well so that system still swirling away as we head through the day on sunday towards the west is generally a fair amount drier here but it's pretty hot for some of us dallas up at forty two degrees a real hot day for us even seattle there will be thirty degrees here that should be a good deal of sunshine as well a bit further towards the south we've got some clouds just drifting its way through parts of cuba and the bahamas so a few showers have been spotted here and we more of them as we head through sunday but really spreading down through parts of jamaica and into his band as well

there's more persistent rain through parts of panama and into costa rica and here the rain does it very very heavy as we head through the next day or say before the towards the south we've seen quite a bit of snow over possible livea that's all clearing away though for us on sunday and then eight degrees will be chilly maximum here elsewhere is not that warm for some one is always here thirteen will be our maximum well cloud around times for some of us as well that stretching through parts of paraquat and down towards foreigners ari's it's also cool in santiago to. the pressure is on the fifteen thousand people posing an imminent threat to israeli snipers as they work for a top israeli diplomat a must people not palestinian people get a right to know where they are the same thing that it was done in the bay are sending them to die it's a cultural traditions and when they come and attack us it's a war zone he was attacking maybe his son goes head to head with danny and what

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welcome back you're with the al-jazeera news hour sixty minutes of using common less up to the top stories funerals have been held for hamas fighters killed by israeli airstrikes in gaza on friday an israeli soldier also lost his life during fighting along the israeli gazan fence border line a truce brokered by egypt and the u.n. appears to be holding for now. syrian rebels who surrendered in the south west have begun arriving in opposition held areas of the province of how much more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have reached the town of broke and government forces have been making strong gains in the south with most of the areas now under the. control. u.s. president donald trump has accused his former lawyer of potentially acting illegally after it emerged that he had secretly recorded mr trump discussing payments to a former playboy model the recording was seized during an f.b.i. raid on michael cohen's property earlier this year in new york. the green party has

been very much an also ran in u.s. politics but now it's hoping to become a bigger player because of voter frustration with donald trump and the democrats candidates for the midterm elections in november have been making their cases at the annual conference kristen salumi is in salt lake city. 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 o.o.

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.