to stay out of the civil war and when you had this horrendous attack you can hear that because it's so windy here but you know a lot of outgoing rocket launches happening now from the syrian army towards islip positions but you know this deadly attack where you had a suicide bomber managed to infiltrate in the center of the city you had. opened fire at civilians families in their homes in the countryside that death toll now over two hundred forty one of the most deadliest single attacks all of this conflict martine just goes to show and question the security situation going forward as the government is taking more and more land making these deals reconciliation deals with rebels of course the dynamics have changed if you look at syria how it's become now to how it was before the war so certainly that is going to be a big concern moving forward. live in these radio. thank you. now the military wing of hamas in gaza says it's on high alert after three palestinians were killed in israeli attacks

a commander for the al qassam brigades says israel will pay what he called a bloody price for the air strikes and tank fire the israeli army spokesman says it responded after treats was shot at near the border with gaza hamas leaders agreed a cease fire with israel just a few days ago to prevent hostilities from escalating charles chaput has more from gaza. very tense situation here in gaza and one can only believe sudden israel as well the smalling following an escalation of violence last night now the israeli military saying that hamas kucing hamas of using children as cover for a sniper attack the military saying that's a group of around twenty children approached the fence around seven pm local time last night and the israeli military went down to the fence to investigate and that's when they say the sniper opened fire one israeli soldier injured in that attack the israeli military responding with strikes against various terrorist posts

three members of hamas military wing the kasam brigade killed in those attacks israel says that there were nine projectiles what it describes as project cells launched from gaza last night one of which was intercepted by the r. and the rest landing on what it describes as empty ground now a massive come out with a statement the smalling saying that israel will pay the price with its blood for these attacks and say that its forces in the forces of other groups here in gaza a state of maximum alert now also at the israeli minister of public security and strategic affairs gilad area and has been speaking to an israeli radio station he says we are being dragged into a wider operation with hamas. we are approaching with great strides so despite what can only be described as relative calm over the last few days in

a very tense situation this morning. meanwhile an israeli cartoonist has been fired because of his cartoon which mocked prime minister benjamin netanyahu and others celebrating the passage of the jewish nation state law his cartoon depicted israeli politicians as pigs was in fact published by the jerusalem post but he was laid off after working for the paper for thirty years israel's union of journalists has called on the editors to me and say to him. we've got a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including the races from beijing on the explosion outside the u.s. embassy. and searching for those who remain missing in greece that were some of the wildfires started to liberate me. tested again serena williams claims she's being discriminated against by anti-doping officials that's coming out with tatiana in sport.

and police in china say a suspected fireworks device exploded outside the u.s. embassy in beijing it did only the twenty six year old male suspect the embassy has described the device as a bomb. you'll see some bomb we heard a loud bang at the time so everyone ran towards the front of the embassy i didn't see anyone get arrested but we didn't know what was going on at the time so people just around we thought it was firecrackers at first then we were told there was an explosion. go live tejan brown our correspondent in beijing said was it a firework or a bomb adrian. well that's interesting because the police and the embassy are using different language the police issued a statement several hours ago saying that a twenty six year old man who had detonated what they said was a suspicious firecracker like device but the embassy issued

a statement shortly after that saying that it was a bomb that had been detonated outside the embassy whatever it was the alert is well and truly over now marty within two hours of this incident the u.s. embassy was up and running once more and people were queuing in a sort of orderly fashion for visas outside the embassy now we actually spoke to an embassy employee after this incident she told us there was a very loud explosion which happened at about one pm local time she said that staff were evacuated to safe areas of the embassy by u.s. marines now we still don't know the motivation for this attack but here in china martine you do get random acts of violence and often mental illness is a factor we don't know whether that is the case on this occasion this man who injured his hand during the explosion was taken to hospital he doesn't have serious injuries we are told but of course the police will want to interrogate him in the

days to come to find out why he did that and of course the u.s. embassy will also be hoping for some answers as well adrian brown live in beijing thank you. for floodwater from monday's dam collapse in la. house is affecting thousands of villages in a neighboring cambodia where the total killed in laos is now going up to twenty six one hundred thirty people are missing and rescue workers are trying to move many people to safety whilst aid workers and volunteers are distributing emergency supplies teams from thailand china and south korea the rule joining the rescue operation well let's take a closer look now which areas in cambodia have been affected the. memory dam is located next to this river which extends from laos is at a pool province into cambodia is trying province the water level of the circle has now risen to alarming levels because of the floods forcing those living downstream

to move to higher ground live now to our correspondent who's in the cambodian capital phnom penh florence louis and florence so it didn't take very long before this cascade of water this wall of water from laos reached villages in neighboring cambodia. you're absolutely right i mean we know about the dam in laos collapsed on monday and on tuesday the government had issued an alert trying province on tuesday night they evacuated a thousand two hundred families now initially they thought they were only evacuate about five hundred and fifty families but the rising waters made it evident that they would have to evacuate a lot more people and in the end they've moved about one thousand three hundred families roughly about five thousand people to safety now they've also issued and a lot of flood alert for neighboring crotty province which is just south of still trying province the concern is floodwaters could continue to flow downstream south

to the provinces that hasn't happened yet but there is a flood alert in place and we are of course in the middle of the monsoon season which typically typically brings heavy rains and tropical thunderstorms so this is a real reminder is. floors of how interconnected all of these countries in the river delta area and how when one disaster affects one country how it can have ramifications across a much wider swathe of territory. absolutely this is what some n.g.o.s are calling a transponder the impact that we're seeing from the collapse of the dam in the attic. province in laos affecting a neighboring country now it is. the cambodian government was prepared there's been no lives lost they have been able to move people safely they acted very quickly they've probably they they have experience dealing with this kind of

thing is as well allows lao government didn't have as much notice survivors in laos say they badly had time to escape the flood waters rose so quickly several villages are still inundated the flood waters are receding slowly but they are still many places are still submerged we don't yet know the extent of the damage in laos but we've seen how farmlands have been inundated they've been completely destroyed crops have been damaged livestock would have been killed as well and it really highlights the risks involved in these huge infrastructure projects in such a fragile ecosystem as well lawrence who live in phnom penh thank you. and at least eighty one the people have died in greece after wildfires swept across land close to the capital after rescuers is still searching both in the sea is one is on land as they try to find people who are still missing reports now from. well the relief

effort here in marty and other places along this coastline is gathering pace the military has been drafted in to help distribute aid and the red cross have set up a command center in the town of rafa a bit further down the coast in terms of support well the prime minister alexis tsipras has offered short term financial aid for those worst affected but when it comes to this kind of damage where do you even begin this was a very very busy and very popular beach bar at this time of year would have been full of tourists both greek and foreign well in terms of the clear up operation that's also gathering pace as well this road only a day or so ago was completely choked with cars it is now at least clear but fears are now growing for those people who remain missing fire crews have been going from house to house searching the worn off to another there are still dozens of people in hospital some of them are in a critical condition when it comes to this area recovering well that road will be

a very very long one. police in california arrested a man suspected of starting at least five hours of forced thousands of people out of their houses communities are being threatened in the southern part of the state just east of los angeles at least five homes have already been destroyed california is currently in the midst of a heat wave that spurred on the fires. hundreds of families in the u.s. is still waiting to be reunited as immigration authorities rushed to meet a court imposed deadline donald trump's government has until the end of day to bring together all two thousand five hundred families it's separated at the us mexico border at least one thousand and twelve children of the successfully being reunited with their parents but it also says four hundred sixty three parents have already left the u.s. it's not known if they were forcibly deported several hundred others are still

quote under review and it's also not known how long families will be given to decide whether or not they go to seek asylum where the government has proposed a four day waiting period but the american civil liberties union says a full week is necessary heidi joe castro reports. to a thousand families separated by the u.s. government have yet to experience these happy moments of reunion and it's uncertain when or if they ever will hundreds of children whose parents were already ported remain in government custody their forced abandonment the casualty of the trump administration's rush to implement its hard line border policies. i was afraid if they deported my father i would never see him again i would be left here alone sixteen year old franklin d.s. says he's lucky that didn't happen he and his father left us in may to seek asylum in the united states. we turned our souls into immigration because we thought they

would help us. we never thought it could go so the two were immediately separated the father sent to face criminal charges the son delivered to a children's shelter. i didn't suffer from the food or anything but i suffered from not seeing my dad. i told him not to worry about it because if he did he would go crazy when i would go crazy after forty days of separation father and son were finally reunited behind the gates of this texas detention center a judge said july twenty sixth as the deadline for the u.s. government jury unite the thousands of children who were taken from their parents at the border citing the practice of separating families as legal charities are offering recently reunified families a warm meal and a night's rest for a child that would turn around and look at me and say today i'm not going to cry or

tonight i'm not going at a cry because tonight i would. cry every single day since. mom was not with me with the knowledge that many children remain without their parents franklin says he and his father feel fortunate they boarded a bus that will take them deeper into the united states knowing that for now they have their freedom and each other. castro al-jazeera macallan texas. coming up in just a little. also coming up find out why saudi arabia is stopping. a major shipping lane. fraught with problems in zimbabwe we have the latest allegations about. neymar is being tackled again. coming up with.

the weather sponsored by qatar airways. hello there is still incredibly hot for many of us across europe at the moment this is our temperature chart and it shows you the bright red colors are in the west at the moment and that's where the temperatures are highest germany is just one of those places that has been is suffering here in hanover with the tarmac of the runway was damaged by the heat it's so extreme at the moment also we have a number of wildfires across many parts of europe still burning obviously we had the horrific ones in greece but these are in sicily with others in parts of italy with more in parts of the u.k. and also they're still burning in sweden in fact in sweden where we've had wildfires for weeks we've now taken the rather drastic step of forming them as you heard that right we had laser guided missiles bombing a particular part of sweden where the fires were very difficult to get to and it

works a little bit like blowing the candles out of a birthday cake and it did work the fires were extinguished around one hundred meters from impact so still incredibly hot then over the western parts of europe but there is a little bit of a change on the way you can see the flatley less hot to watch the far northwest over ireland there and that starts to more clout that's gradually rolling its way eastwards unfortunately ahead of that we're seeing the winds all sucked up from the south that we thunderstorms in the uk but if you don't see a thunderstorm it's going to be even hotter. the weather sponsored by qatar airways . young man joining in the battle for somalia. many never return. to understand.

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time for us to take a look at the top stories here at the very it's a still being counted in pakistan's general election amid allegations of rigging cricketer turned politician in pakistan tehreek e insaf the p.t.a. party is leading in early results his opponents say they won't accept the results and funerals are being held for some of the two hundred forty victims of a nice letter back in the southern syrian city of alsa wade this comes as pro-government forces continue their campaign to clear an i still held area that's close to israeli occupied golan heights. police in china say a suspected fog device exploded outside the u.s. embassy in beijing wounding only the twenty six year old male suspect the embassy described the device is a bomb. all right good we're going to look a little bit more closely at what's going on in pakistan of course as the votes

from the general election continue to be counted we can talk now to the political analyst. who is in the pakistani capital islamabad what do you make then of these allegations that are coming from all of the opposition parties it would appear that the vote. irregularities and indeed irregularities in the counting of the votes mean that the results from this election the nonvolatile should be at least. i don't think so i think this is deja vu for pakistan because all the candidates who are not winning these seats would come out with such kind of allegations but i think election commission of pakistan yesterday made it very clear that yes it is voting went very smoothly pakistan is also had by the terrorist organizations there was excellent security at the polling station that the polling booths and we see that the indications might come up but this would be a challenge for the election commission of pakistan that how would they justify the

whole election that went on yesterday but generally overall we see that bucket thought that in south has been winning and they welcome the arrangements made by election commission of pakistan so this whole delegation thing is sort of. the every allegation election of two thousand and eight and who doesn't thirteen we see that some political parties were losing they come up with allegations ok table but i mean the electoral commission has invested heavily as the into state of the new technology that was supposed to help with the with the processing of the of the votes and that seems not to have i mean how do you account for the delay in in having an official count an official result. right. here in pakistan we do all this forces the whole process of election ing in just one day which is a big challenge for election coverage out of pakistan but i think the bigger thing is that if there is

a delay election commission of pakistan would certainly be coming up with some strong argument for that if it is a delay i think delay might be there but this allegations of these allegations of irregularities or rigging i think are not justified and we have to accept the mandate given by the people to the political parties and let's see what happens next all right so it looks very much as a column to one degree or another has to secure a greater number of seats he needs to govern if this is indeed going to be the case he needs to govern with a coalition partner who does he team up with given that he's already precluded the possibility of the the two main parties the p.p.p. and the p. and l. lens. that's right and at the moment according to the trends that we see because they're not any of the results at the moment but we see that somebody can solve has one seventeen seats at the moment and there might also

form a coalition the independent candidate they would play our large. role in these elections they have almost like twenty two seats at the moment and these independent candidates if they joined by accent that he can solve that will make it on one thirty six one thirty five seats which is pretty much good enough what bugs don't then you can solve to bomb a government let's see if it can independent candidates were joined by example you can solve or not. tame or share meal in islamabad thank you very much indeed good to get your thoughts. now a choice between cooperation and confrontation that was the message of the chinese president xi jinping at the opening of the bric summit in johannesburg day two of the summit is now underway with the tilt expected to be dominated by trade china's urging the world's emerging powers to unite a major growing u.s. protectionism well the greeks is a group of five big emerging economic powers they are resilient russia india china

and south africa now this is a group was formed in two thousand and six and these countries represent more than three billion people or perhaps forty one percent of the world's population combined value of their goods and services is worth according to some estimates anyway more than eighteen trillion dollars and many had great expectations of these bricks economies perhaps optimistically predicting that they would rise exponentially even in the face of the two thousand and eight financial crisis but brazil russia and indeed south africa all of their economies stumbled partly due to the fall in commodity prices we can go live now to the brics conference taking place in sandton in the northern suburbs of johannesburg our correspondent there is her room a tosser her all we can. seeing a sense from the bricks economies then as to applying the strategy that they have to try and counter what's being described as the growing protectionism coming from washington d.c. . well with the threat of u.s.

tariffs we seeing all five leaders coming out and saying that they are united they are planning to work more closely together than ever before and they plan to increase trade between each other china is by far the biggest economy here at the bric summit and it's among friends and allies but it has to keep those friends happy and one way we see that is in the past few days in africa for example the chinese they've been pumping billions of dollars into some african countries like south africa rwanda and a synagogue all those things are on the table what's happening now is that all five leaders are in closed door meetings they will be merged from those meetings and give some form of statement to explain how they plan to work together how they plan to counter plans from the u.s. and then of course they released a statement and science and documents and her it's not just the americans of course is it who have a particular problem with the way the chime in does business is others as well notably the european union countries have problems with the way china does business

what about the other five countries that make up the brics are you getting a sense that they also have a bit of a problem with the way china does its trade. some people are worried for example the fact that the chinese tend not to interfere in domestic politics so they won't speak out against human rights abuses example being committed in some of the countries it deals with another issue of course is do with trade because it's such a big economy compared to others in the brics nations you get cases where for example if it does trade with south africa charges are a lot more chinese products will flood first african markets which will kill local businesses this is already happening in many parts of africa a lot of people concerned about that so all these leaders have to manage all these tensions. do you know that the u.s. is posing as a significant threat to them and how they counter that is what people are waiting to hear when they emerge from the closed door meeting all right harry thank you for

that aaron the task of our correspondent covering the prick summit in johannesburg . allegations a venture for order of a common in zimbabwe when robert mugabe was president the opposition say little is change for this the first election since he was deposed that's being held on monday malcolm webb reports from the capital harare. just days to go until the presidential election. from school and opposition parties say the receiver reassess regularities with the electoral process including problems with the ballot papers and i don't think it's sensible for elections to be described as they've raised them in a series of meetings with the electoral commission and all the parties the commission up late.

and the police. the representatives of the ruling zanu p.f. the party of former president robert mugabe walked out of this meeting saying they've been insulted the opposition represents is necessary to be implying that isn't impartial and that it is on the side of the only but they participated in selecting. and. it does not engage some people we only hear is political parties and those accusations are completely untrue. with no agreement reached opposition supporters came to hear what their leader nelson chamisa had to say make sure that we the people. took the deception and will stop this ninety guns. the thing is to do it right. we are going to you know our number. we want to make sure that they will not steal this election. the opposition enjoys

overwhelming support in the urban areas it is no longer backed by western government as it was during mugabe's tenure and short of money and it is the rulings only p.f. parties paraphernalia is much more visible here in the capital harare like this banner on the side of their party headquarters and the party has decades of experience of using violence and other tactics to win past elections that were widely seen to be on free and unfair. but some things have changed since mccarthy was deposed in a coup last year under the watch of his successor and zanu p.f. presidential candidate. campaigns haven't seen the widespread violence of the past he needs the polls to seem credible the opposition already say they're not. al-jazeera harare zimbabwe. saudi arabia is temporarily stopping

shipments of oil through a major trade route after attacks on two tankers there who three fighters are reported to a slightly damaged one of the tankers now the bab al mandeb straighted between yemen on the arabian peninsula and djibouti and there is a trail in the horn of africa the saudi and coalition war in yemen says it's trying to protect shipping routes in the gulf of aden and the red sea and tankers carrying middle east oil and container ships from asia pass through these straits on their way to the su is can now as well as to ports in europe now if oil cannot transit through an important channel like the barber and even for a short while it could lead to a substantial supply delay and higher shipping costs and that could push up energy prices worldwide the alliance fronted by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. has been fighting in yemen for three years against the hooty rebels who are linked

to iran during that time the u.s. is issued several warnings to commercial ships about using the route they've been attacks on u.s. turkish and saudi amorality coalition vessels but in the most recent incident per who think the media isn't mentioning an oil tanker instead two separate reports talk of an attack on a coalition warship off the western coast of yemen well roger shanahan is a research fellow at the lowry institute for international policy and is a former australian army officer with extensive experience in the middle east and he believes the saudis will resume shipment soon. on this tradition the other. incidents posts in the fifties years. lend to ship led by ship missiles have targeted military vessels and i think this is probably in order to calm the markets saudi authorities have decided to

temporarily put a halt to oil oil tankers traveling through the belmondo but i think it will be a relatively short term proposition i don't think we're going to see a long term trend in rising oil prices because i don't think that he sees. me out a long term campaign of this type there are any other coalition vessels who are talented in this way you'll see a pretty swift response from those countries because freedom of navigation particularly net sensitive waterway is something that is really essential. to the maintenance of the economic lifelines in the coalition will take. significant steps to ensure that debt occurs and you may well see as well additional force protection from the maritime assets in the short term to ensure that there is freedom of navigation for. those economically vital supply lines. the

u.n. special envoy for yemen has arrived in the capital for another round of talks. is also shuttle to meet the who thing rebel leaders before arriving that the u.n. envoy met yemeni prime minister ahmed obeyed been in riyadh amassing griffith's arrival comes as fresh warnings from the save the children have been released that yemen is on the verge of a second cholera epidemic well than a million people were infected last year. in yemen's port city of what data eight month old lena is suffering from severe malnutrition two of her siblings have already died from diarrhea and fever. lena is exhausted and suffering she's in a weak state we buy food as much as we can afford but everything. we have had enough be all frayed and weary tens of thousands of yemeni children like lena risk

of contracting cholera in these hot summer conditions the disease could spread rapidly last year her data had one hundred sixty four thousand cases out of more than a million nationwide in the first week of july alone thousands of new suspected cases were reported charities like save the children say they are doing all they can to help kids like lena we are able to help but how much longer if we can't get humanitarian supplies in here if we can't get medicine in here save the children says what data could be ground zero for new cholera epidemic in one district new cases increased by one hundred ten percent between mid may and mid june food emergency supplies and medicines were already scarce and the saudi emirate he led offensive against the rebels has turned hospitals into rubble and damaged water and

sewer pipes thousands who have scaped. living in makeshift camps with no sanitation and water these conditions have left children especially for that many children here and these children have seen things children should never see i just saw a game where they learned about explosives i saw at play where children are going through the trauma of being bombed with the possibility of data being besieged save the children is warning children here won't have a chance to survive. on al-jazeera. the. power sharing deal aimed at ending almost five civil war. and helped to broker this particular day.