and strength. new heights my chin is yet on al-jazeera. the man who stormed a government building in iraq's kurdish region have all been killed by security forces. but i'm adrian finighan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up donald trump issues an angry warning to iran never ever threaten the u.s. again. hundreds of thousands of parents in china that children were given substandard vaccines. and the fallout for france's president continues after one of

his bodyguards is filmed hitting a protester. all three gunmen who stormed the kurdish regional government building in a deal in northern iraq have been killed. one aid worker one worker rather was killed two policemen were injured in the operation it follows a five hour standoff with security forces in the center of the city the group shot its way into the building in the early morning hours one of the gunmen blew himself up let's go live out of baghdad of zeros imran khan is the iran takes us through what happened. well the attack started around seven am in the morning before the workday began the gunman entered the governorates of building one of the most secure buildings in irbil that has to be said they shot their way through injuring a security guard they then made their way to the third floor where they began to

shoot at gathering security forces now the security forces very quickly cordoned off the area all roads leading into the governor as well and then off to being prepared they want into the building and cleared every room that they could going up to the third floor and that's when the suits at one of the suicide bombers blew himself up another woman was injured in the shooting and the third one was killed now subsequently the one who was injured died of his injuries in hospital after being taken into custody so all three dead there was a hostage the hostage was released on injured but a fifty five year old man did die in the attack now kurdish politicians are blaming eisel for this attack they say. they have evidence that it was i still have a kurdish security sources haven't confirmed that as of yet and we're still awaiting a statement from the governor of a bill that's his office that was attacked a little bit later on to those details as well iran many thanks indeed i'm serious

imran khan reporting live from baghdad. iranian state media has condemned a tweet by u.s. president donald trump as a passive reaction to remarks by iran's leader both the u.s. and iranian leaders have been trading threats in recent days the rhetoric escalated on sunday when president hassan rouhani warned the u.s. against playing with what he called the lion's tail bellus reports. with television as their platform a ratcheting up of threats between iran's president hassan rouhani and the trumpet ministration on sunday secretary of state mike compare spend a full twenty six minutes criticizing rouhani and his leadership the ayatollah are in on the act too judging by their vast well they say more concerned with riches than religion these hypocritical holy men advice all kinds of cricket's games to become some of the wealthiest men on earth while their people suffer as the u.s.

administration is attacking iran from multiple angles in may president trump withdrew from the twenty fifteen nuclear chord in august he will reimpose sanctions aimed at crippling iran's economy pompei are warned tehran its exports will be squeezed in the coming months and is pressuring allies to stop importing iranian oil by november its biggest source of income and now the u.s. administration is seizing on protests in iran to begin a media campaign president rouhani referred to the strategy and thracian trump against turning his people against him but doma she was you're not going to change don't play with the lion's tail you will regret it forever you cannot carry out these measures it is out of your capability you cannot force during ins to act against their own country you have clearly shown you are against the iranian people . those comments got this response from president trump who tweeted in capital

laces never ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before we're no longer a country that will stand for your demented woods of violence and death be cautious . you tweet is a flashback to trump and north korean leader kim jong un kim was also at the wrong end of a new caps tirade last year before the two leaders came together at a summit in singapore in june. but the difference with iran is protests the soaring cost of living has pushed iranians to the streets numbers not seen since twenty twelve but analysts say a media campaign to win them over will be received as u.s. propaganda i think it's quite clear that as much as they are frustrated and deeply frustrated with the government of iran they're not jumping on to trump side any time soon from california to tehran the high stakes verbal sparring will be watched by its target audience the iranian people shelob ellis al-jazeera the syrian regime

and its how i russia have stepped up their offensive against eisel controlled areas in the southwestern part of the country and people in northern israel have reported hearing sirens let's go live that are to syria stephanie decker who's in the israeli occupied golan heights overlooking southwestern syria the last time we were talking at staff there was quite intense aerial bombardment bombardment going on it's still happening i can see. it is it is it's been it's been relentless really for the last couple of hours airstrikes tank shelling and as you mentioned this is you know the sort of last push by the government backed by the russians to take back this park at this point that is the last rebel held area really in this southwestern area that hasn't had a deal some kind of reconciliation deal executed or offered to them the group that is in control here is in what lead they are affiliated with i still it's been

relentless there were also rockets sirens that were heard here a couple of hours ago and these really army initially we've been here on and off for the last couple of weeks you wouldn't have really seen them today on a much higher alert we see them along the border there watching very closely what's happening they've got cameras monitoring it because the fight as you can see is this close to the border it's difficult to see on our t.v. screens because it's so far away what what's actually being targeted that behind you what is what is down behind you there on the horizon. well it's villages really adrian and in the last hour or so they keep targeting the same areas sort of in front of us i can't tell you exactly what the targets are i'm assuming perhaps some form of military targets or you know formations of the group but again that's total speculation on my part but what is clear is that it has been intense not just on this area also much further to the right which is the other side so it looks like

they're trying to squeeze this pocket from both sides and you know it just it highlights in the seven years of this war this is the last rebel held area. in southwestern syria so once the government takes this with russian help of course it will be back in control of all of it and just interesting lee as well we used to see a lot of tents along this border from the internally displaced people who've been fleeing the war people who are also very afraid of the regime advances because they've been living under opposition control they're afraid there's another airstrike just coming and they're afraid of what some kind of retaliation perhaps that the regime may take whether they're activists or journalists or anyone but those tense have now gone their little further north here completely gone so i think there's also an indication that people in the areas where the fighting is over are returning to their homes but certainly in this area we know many people have left of the last week or so but i can confirm how many civilians remain on

surely if they do it is a pretty terrifying place to be for them. stephanie thanks data out there stephanie decker their lives in the occupied golan heights israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been speaking about his upcoming meeting with russia's foreign minister over the situation in syria. for virtual machine look i will meet with the delegation today with the approval of the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and russian chief of staff valerie get saddam out of the delegation arrives following the request of president putin during a conversation that he had with me a couple of days ago i will discuss the regional issues and mainly the situation in syria hundreds of thousands of children in china they have been given some standard vaccines health regulators found a drug maker violated safety standards it's the second scandal to hit the company in the past week are china editor adrian brown reports from beijing. it is a worrying time for parents across china outside beijing's top children's hospital

we found many still absorbing the fact that china's second largest pharmaceutical company has been producing vaccines for babies that are fake you know your god you know the people who made this fabricated vaccine should be executed right away without any hesitation they did it to babies not adults he added this mother is especially concerned her one year old son was inoculated for rabies last month he has a fever and the scandal has heightened her anxiety my son was born very weak he always has been now his dad and i don't know if it's related to the fake vaccines in china or vaccinations to prevent diseases like tetanus hooping cough and rabies are free but now some parents no longer trust the made in china versions. these three chinese vaccines cannot meet correct safety standards i would have to think about buying imported vaccine so far there have been no reports of children harmed by the

vaccine or having contracted rabies. the chunk shroom biotechnology company in northeast china produced the fake vaccines executives have now admitted full surviving test results for its rabies vaccine production is halted all vaccines are being recalled were still just last thursday this same company was fined over its substandard production of other vaccines it's a tiny c.f.b. and often we found out that the company forged the records of production and production inspections and modified technical parameters and equipment at will the actions seriously violated their relevance to belay sions of chinese law this scandal broke four days ago but it wasn't until sunday night the china's premier league spoke out urging severe punishment pull those responsible now the government says but all companies that produce vaccines in china will be subject to unannounced inspections this industry was already in trouble just two years ago

another pharmaceutical company was found to have improperly stored tens of millions of dollars worth of vaccines many of them had expired but in unusually open coverage china's state controlled media have called for an overhaul of an industry which one newspaper editorial said had been contaminated by scandals adrian brown al jazeera beijing will get a weather update next to zero then no reprieve from a heat wave as record scorching temperatures hit japan. catus taken its gulf neighbors to court over the wrongful expulsion of thousands of its citizens a ruling is expected in the next two hours. hello there tropical storm continuing to disintegrate over parts of china you can

see it on the satellite picture here this is a blob of cloud working its way towards the west and now it's over the land it's lost its energy source so it will continue to disintegrate as it runs its way towards the north of beijing though we're still expecting to see some heavy rain because all of the systems losing the wind it's going to dump all the moisture that it picked up from the sea so there's the weather for tuesday then and then this system gets swept up with the next one that's edging its way eastward so it turns into this blog of clouds and rain here as we head through wednesday and that will give some of us some very heavy rain ahead of all of that though we're untouched really in japan so here just staying hot and the heat wave is continuing a bit further towards the south and we've got another storm it's now edging its way towards shanghai is in this area of cloud here this working its way towards the north and more rain on its way to shanghai and then you can also see this massive cloud here this is now a tropical system tin and it's gradually expected to work its way northward it's

already given a from flooding in the northern parts all viet nam this is what it looks like at the moment and with that storm having reforms of course we're seeing more rain across the region so more very heavy rain potentially more flooding here for tuesday. whenever i see something that has happened in the news my first reaction is to please god don't let this person have been someone that we released on parole gatekeepers of the parole system you're asking us for a second chance rape was important to me was on the other side of a fence and now i get to the other side of things is a music are given a good amount of times you've been in prison exploring the dark side of the american justice system with joe burman judge on al-jazeera.

and again this is al jazeera top stories this hour all three companies stormed the kurdish regional government building at appeal in northern iraq have been killed the group shot its way into the building in early in the morning with one attack of blowing himself up one worker was killed two policemen were injured in the operation. hundreds of thousands of chinese babies some as young as three months old may have been given substandard vaccine sprang a leak at china's call for an investigation and says that anyone who's connected with the below quality drugs will be severely punished and iran has condemned the tweet by u.s. president donald trump calling it a passive reaction to comments by iran's president trouble and has some rouhani of consequences if he threatened the u.s.

it's in response to the speech saying that war with iran is the mother of all wars a senior commander in iran's revolutionary guard says the trumps tweet amounts to psychological warfare that he says that iran will never abandon its revolutionary beliefs despite pressure from the u.s. to zero same bus ride he reports from tehran. we've seen in the days since donald trump pulled the united states out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal with more sanctions looming large first in august then again in november iranian leaders are becoming more and more aggressive in their tone and we're hearing more consistent public speeches in which they criticize the u.s. unilateral decision to pull out of the nuclear deal and reinstate sanctions what is also at the center of this escalation in the war of words is a statement made by the president in a recent visit to switzerland iranian president hassan rouhani on a diplomatic trip made a vague threat against the strait of hormuz saying that it would be unrealistic to

expect that if iran can't sell its own oil that everybody else still can so we're seeing iranian leaders backed into a corner at every turn trying to secure their own economy against on coming u.s. sanctions and playing every card they have it used to be that iranian leaders would threaten to restart nuclear enrichment at higher levels and now we're seeing them also play their other card which is to threaten or to disrupt international shipping lanes french politicians have questioned interior minister over what he knew about the president's former bodyguard beating up a protest and exams. seen here to the right of the ninety has been charged a video of the assault appeared online column said that he was told about the incident the day after it happened in may not crown has not yet commented on the case more now from david chase in paris. the french interior minister is being

grilled by the commission that the national assembly behind me he's revealed that he knew about this incident one day after it happened he also knew there was a video of the alleged assault and he decided that it wasn't up to the interior ministry. to go forward with this investigation he passed and. all of the details to the french happened now that somebody in the french capital school should have informed the public prosecutor that's the article of moral here in france but instead what happened was that the bodyguard was down on suspension for two weeks without pay he then started working once again he was in the personalty curity detail for president not draw in and around bastille day on july the fourteenth and also of course the return of the victorious french football team from the world cup so serious questions are being asked about the transparency and integrity of

present two ideals that he was elected on he was going to change the face the way politics works in the least say so now instead of being called an affair about a bodyguard who's lost his job he was fired on friday and is now facing assault charges this is about what the president is doing this is his biggest crisis since being elected and he's now dropped to below forty percent to thirty nine percent in the polls so he has to get this right he has to start making statements on this but of course he'll be limited by the fact that our legal case is now ongoing it's going to view on this from a christian makhaya who's the editor of l'express magazine he joins us via skype from paris good to have you with the circus and so many coming under fierce criticism for the way in which he's dealt with this is that criticism valid. of course it is because it was said micro was selected for four

main reasons why and breaking with the past two exemplary three transparency and four legally to four points are rich by the bella case and it's a point of weakness for president. personal definition of the function is very much and you know way it's the core of the presidency that these reach today is firing on are going to be enough to put an end to the matter i don't think so firing is a minimum and it should have been done let's say two months ago just after the first of may when the demonstrator who were a victim of such a violent coming from a man who has not the status of a policeman so he had not the right to represent the police one and two not the right to do so finally it against people who where

apparently more peaceful than dangerous so i think that micro refuses to see the political face of this case because it's very embarrassing for him but nevertheless we are in the middle of a political storm how dangerous is this for the president that we heard about how mccrone his popularity rating has has plummeted it's dangerous because all his personal credit was based on the fact that it wouldn't be like it was in the past he promised it. and he showed it in many signs there was a kind of the new era but it's the end of the new era if it doesn't take very severe measures to change the cabinet or to to change his definition of the

presidential election anyway he he needs to give to the people some explanations we are still waiting for good to talk to somebody thanks indeed christian. editor of l'express magazine japan has recorded its highest ever temperature as people less struggle with a scorching heat wave the mercury rose to forty one point one degrees celsius in the city of coma guy a that's northwest of tokyo meteorologists say that staley twelve degrees hotter than the average temperature at this time of the year at least thirty people have died in the last month due to the heat in the philippines president has said his country's war on drugs is far from over rigo to thirty made the comment during his annual state of the nation address he says his administration's fight against drugs will be as relentless and chilling as the day it began the president also promised to sign a new law to help curb violence in the southern mindanao region within two days

a young woman is dead thirteen other people have been wounded in a shooting in toronto police say the gunman was killed after an exchange of fire with officers the attack happened in a popular area of the city known as greektown the motive is still unclear but toronto's mayor says the canadian city has a problem with guns. israeli soldiers of shot dead a palestinian teenager in a raid of a refugee camp in the occupied west bank the fifteen year old was shot in the chest at a camp their best to him another person was shot in the leg that israeli military says that its troops were responding to being attacked with rocks and grenades during the raid at least twenty five children have been killed by israeli forces in the first half of this year alone from of zeros behind a jump in western with jerusalem kantha him is him that's the name of the fifteen year old palestinian boy who was killed during an overnight raid by israeli

security forces in a refugee camp known as the haitian in southern bethlehem now we've spoken to the israeli army they tell us that two suspects of terror activity were apprehended during that raid when which confrontations took place we're also told by the israeli army through a statement that a violent riot was instigated in which palestinians hurled rocks and threw fire bombs and grenades at i.d.f. soldiers in response to the threat the soldiers used riot dispersal means twenty two caliber round and fired live rounds selectively now we must remember that raids of this nature are a nightly occurrence we're told by palestinian officials that more than three thousand five hundred have been detained in the first half of this year we've also heard from defense of children international palestine they say that this year in this period up till now that at least twenty five palestinian children have been killed and that's three times the amount of children that were killed in the same period in two thousand and seventeen the united nation's highest court will rule later on a dispute that's divided gulf neighbors council accuses the u.a.e.

of violating international law by expelling the thousands of casseroles since the start of the g.c.c. crisis last year how should the whole bottle reports. qatar is stepping up its legal battle against the u.a.e. accusing it of human rights violations the two members of the gulf cooperation council the regional body created to boost cooperation and referees bats among its members has been quick polled by a diplomatic dispute so is turning instead to the international court of justice. last june u.a.e. saudi arabia and egypt sever diplomatic ties with qatar and imposed a land sea and blockade qatar alleges that its citizens were either illegally expelled or denied access to the u.a.e. where they have families own property i think it's highly likely that the ins which

court justice will accept jurisdiction and so what qatar is seeking at this stage is is more of a cease and desist order so to prevent any further violations and to remedy compensate those that have suffered. the blockading countries accuse qatar of funding extremism accusations strongly dismissed by doha the u.s. fears a prolonged crisis would undermine its push to contain iran's growing influence and defeat isis i think it continues to be fractured and and dangerous i mean the amount of weaponry that's being poured into the region is escalating. daily basis the language is escalating particularly given john bolton's push against iran e.

this legal action is made possible because of the four blockade in countries u.a.e. is the only one to have signed up to the nineteen sixty five international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination mike and lawyers representing the u.a.e. challenge the case and ask the court to dismiss it. says it remains determined to pursue all legal means to and the blockade. the course case was by qatar against the u.a.e. is another sign of the ongoing tension triggered by the g.c.c. quizes it's been fourteen months since the brocade was imposed and people feel more instability and uncertainty if differences cannot be set aside to and the worst political crisis the region has ever seen has about al-jazeera. in northern mali years of conflict or for some three hundred thousand people to flee their homes

tens of thousands of headed to the capital bamako but it's only the fortunate ones who are able to get charitable handouts mohammed valve reports. how does atlanta her friends make the daily visit to normal eman foundation to check if any aid is being distributed came to bamako with their families during the last few years fleeing insecurity and harsh living conditions in the north some of these women are we doze others just too poor to feed their children. to keep. to i arrived here from timbuktu in two thousand and twelve because the north became too dangerous i didn't want to stay here but i have no other option i can feel my children and our lives were in danger. the head of the charity has offered the backyard of her home as a haven for the women when there was no aid to be delivered to communal work or

receive basic learning they also plant vegetables in the back yard and shelled the produce the charity provides help to nearly one thousand displaced families. that will go home and. we send requests to other charities which provide us with aid for these people their main problem is housing rental cost is very high and so are the needs such as water electricity and. emad also has a shelter for orphans and children of the displaced these families are the lucky ones because they managed to get registered and help by relief organizations such as the one behind me or the one talks of more than sixty thousand internally displaced people in mali and with the violence ongoing that number keeps rising once a family is registered they receive monthly rations and their children are holstered fed and schooled for free but the number of those unregistered is unknown and they are mostly left to fend for themselves. while any as millions are

about to elect and you president these northerners tell us they don't feel that any of the twenty four candidates represents them they say they're ready to go and vote for anyone who will really be able to end the fighting and bring stability to their homeland in the north but judging from the previous five years under the current president ibrahim keita they say they have no faith in campaign promises. by michael. it is good to have you with us hello everyone forget here in doha the top stories this hour are just here all three gunmen who stormed the kurdish regional government building in a deal in. that iraq has been killed the group shot its way into the building in the early morning with one attack of blowing himself up one worker was killed two

policemen were injured in the operation. iran has condemned a tweet by u.s. president donald trump calling it a passive reaction to comments in excuse me comments by iran's president trump warned hassan rouhani of consequences if he threatened the u.s. its response to iranian speech saying that war with iran is the mother of all wars . the syrian regime and its ally russia have stepped up their offensive against eisel controlled areas in the southwestern part of the country air strikes have continued to hit positions along the southern border people in northern israel have reported hearing sirens and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke about his upcoming meeting with the russian foreign minister over the situation in syria . i will meet with the delegation today with the approval of the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and russian chief of staff valerie get saddam out of the delegation arrives following the request of president putin during a conversation that he had with me

a couple of days ago i will discuss the regional issues and mainly the situation in syria japan has recorded its highest ever temperatures people there struggle with a scorching heat wave the mercury rose to forty one point one celsius in the city of goma gaia that's northwest of tokyo meteorologists say that that's nearly twelve degrees hotter than the average for this time of the year at least thirty people have died in the past month due to the heat french politicians have questioned the interior minister gillard calm over what he knew about the president's former bodyguard beating up a protester an example nala seen here for the rights of the many omac wrong has been charged after a video of the assault appeared online column said that he was told about the incident a day after it happened in may. those are the headlines born use fear on al-jazeera after today's inside story with next.

pakistanis will go to the polls for a general election this week comes with need for the second peaceful transfer of power in the country's history but what role is the military playing and how powerful is it this is inside story. hello there and welcome to the program. tens of millions of voters and pakistan will head to the polls this week to choose a new government is going to amount to a few weeks for the country of nearly two hundred million people this month and to

corruption court for found. guilty of corruption his posse is one of several contesting this election in.