from the north with me starting. to see her. israeli forces shoot at a palestinian along the israel gaza border one hundred and fifty have now been killed since the rights of return protests began. hello there julie what donald this is sound as they were live from london also coming up former cricket star iran khan wins pakistan's election but it's a victory clouded by allegations of vote rigging the trumpet ministration fails to meet a deadline to reunite my good children with their parents hundreds remain separated . and it's a p.r. disaster for iceland the images that have prompted a renewed call for

a complete ban on whaling. we begin on the gaza israel border where a palestinian protest it's been killed by israeli soldiers forty three year old man was shot in the head near the border fence welch awestruck for it is at the israel gaza border for us hi there charles at what's the situation right now. well that's right yeah we have confirmed now that one person has indeed been killed we understand at least at eleven on the injured other people injured when the situation here is very tense we have seen a lot of takeouts fired by the israeli military the soft zone a lot of it actually being fired from drones overhead you can see the protests behind me there's another big protest going off on my right we also understand that there was an israeli drone strike on what the israeli military describes people

trying to launch those incendiary balloons. on an area in gaza city no casualties there i mean effectively we're seeing here a standoff between hamas and the various factions here in gaza and the israelis hamas say that these people have every right to continue protesting they stay describe this form of protest using these insane dribble loons in these cuts as being peaceful and they say that they will have every right to defend the people of gaza using their weapons and of course after the two largest collations of violence we soar over the last week between hamas and israel you can imagine that the level of tension the level of fear here about a further escalation and trials the longer this goes on i guess it seems increasingly hard to maintain that cease fire one in silence left being made to stabilize things. well we saw

a flurry of activity yesterday following that escalation on wednesday when a an israeli soldier was injured in what the israeli minister described as a sniper attack. and shri palestinians were killed as a result of israel's response to that attack yesterday we had the un special coordinator to pull the middle east peace process nicholai mlodinow off who came to gaza of meetings with the hamas leadership he then went back around mid-morning to israel and then came back for a second meeting so you understand by that level of activity just how desperate the international community the u.n. are trying to forge some sort of last thing ceasefire we also understand that the egyptians have been very active as well the head of the egyptian intelligence currently in the u.s. we understood spoke to hamas yesterday. meanwhile the language from israel continues to be very full stright earlier today defense minister avigdor lieberman

speaking in one of the cuzzi say that if israel is forced to go on red alert basically reference to the rockets from project cells that are far from it into israel he said that gaza will be on raids too and we know that there have been a number of israeli politicians putting a lot of pressure on the israeli government for a wider military operation in gaza unless this violence of what they describe as violence from hamas doesn't stop telstra there live right now from gaza charles thank you. the gates of the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem have been reopened it will close for three hours following clashes with palestinian washer. will stun grenades and tear gas were used to disperse crowds and gathered for friday prayers all entrained the mosque which is one of islam's holiest sites is prevented anderson. joins me now live from occupy

them and you at what happened today. well julie i'm standing right beside lines gates at just over an hour ago the gate was closed had been closed for five hours in a standoff between security forces and people who wanted to pray people who wanted to protest people who wanted to get their message across then a surge of people i was amongst this the crowd surging through these gates having made their protests and being allowed back in this was the end of what the israelis describe as a security operation a security operation described by the walk off which is the organization of religious organization custodian organization that represents the joy in running the al aksa compound this very huge me important site walls coding to wax invaded by the israeli security forces this was by no means

the most serious event in the history of the all of the conflicts and the contrivances that going on here but it did have a lot of symbolic aspects to it in that the people were told to evacuate many refused to went in to pray and then decided to stay put. they couldn't move anyway because the security forces had closed for all of the gates of the compound people could not get in people could not get out and then there was a rush a further rush forward off to another rush involving the firing of sound grenades and a whole host of other aspects in security operation but this second one was in fact to the key belief bosc which is a main mosque in the front of the dome of the rock that was. operation which

involved a number of people security forces and also the mayor of jerusalem the israeli mayor of jerusalem nir barkat that upset many many palestinians because they saw this as symbolic of jerusalem showing some sort of control aspect to this occupied land here but that is really one of the major points twenty people twenty young people were arrested on the occasions he went through with the security forces the mood right now is one of normality but a very bitter taste in the mouths of those who came here to pray and then did up in what is described as a security operation and you're simmons there live from occupied east jerusalem and thank you. well it's been a controversial election steeped in allegations of vote rigging and army meddling

with most of the results in pakistan's ruling party has officially conceded defeat accepting that former cricketer turned politician in long khan will be the next prime minister well this is how the results stand so far comes up pakistan tehreek e insaf or p.t.i. party is leading with a hundred and sixteen seats his closest rival the ruling pm l n of jailed former leader now a sharif has managed to get sixty four seats on the party of the assassinated former prime minister benazir bhutto p.p.p. has got forces story and the smaller parties combined are also at forty three but to form a government canid coalition partners to get that majority of one hundred and thirty seven seats will come all hyder is in islamabad for a side there kemal so will these claims of electoral fraud make any difference to that official result. none whatsoever

i mean every election in this country is gone and if you look at the history of this country the elections the looting. of manipulating the polls and all loaded in criticism that something was. manipulated and the fact of the magic that it did the people of pakistan were mostly the young. women who have large numbers and they're surprised everybody that. the president of course has grown gradually did the election commission the election commission. free and fair election under the circumstances given the security detail so as far as the government is concerned it does believe that. time and so that's the situation on the ground so far and i suppose con has a heart to be in task ahead what do we know about how he'll go about coalition

building and i know that having to compromise along the way. well not necessarily i mean first of all we are getting that from the old days. madeleine. willing to sit in the open ocean and the. prime minister mr gone up by sea speaking to our. very long. awaited the election. and. indeed decided. we do have the open trying to get together we've got the religious right we're just trying to get together to try and see some sort of agitation and bring the other parties on board that had. produced the needed dollars. and are going to accept the election results because many or.

ruled this country for decades have been thrown out by the electorate and they said of course the new electorate and new phenomena are driven by the media driven by a moron concept in head in front of parliament a few years ago and his. dad and died. they want to give somebody a new john but emraan. challenging the head of fame and if he doesn't deliver then he may need to say. before. hi to their life but the latest from islamabad thank you. citing u.a.e. coalition aircraft have launched air strikes on the yemeni city of poll data but data holds a strategic important seaport which is the main entry point for most of the countries food aid well those collision strikes are in response to an attack on abu

dabi airport on thursday which has been claimed by yemen's hooty rebels well andrea's craig is an assistant professor at the defense studies department at king's college in london and he says the claim is difficult to believe if you look through social media if you look through the evidence that's out there so whatever the who these provide have provided as evidence cannot is fake it's basically these are photoshop images which you know have nothing to do with the reality. and unequally that if the you are you haven't done enough to provide evidence that it did not happen or provide an explanation that someone logically incredibly explains the disruption of flights yesterday and the thing is here that the country that were known for falls information and a country that really is very secretive about what's going on in that country and they have quite a good control over social media domestically so leaks are very very difficult to to come by so both sides have a long track record of not telling the truth so very difficult to ascertain who is

right. but there is no causal link between a disruption in abu dhabi and the claim of the who these particular when we look at the technological ability of the who these at the moment when it comes to the drone capability the distance between you know a potential control center of the who these in yemen to the airport is around thirteen to fifteen hundred kilometers depending on where you measure the sum of three if you look at it is quite an extensive drone this is not a small toy there's not a quatro caught there as we might know it so having such a huge vehicle penetrating the airspace quite deeply and then thinking that the air defense system wouldn't issue a warning and pick it up before it actually reaches a critical infrastructure such as i would be able it seems to be very very unlikely . you are watching al-jazeera live from london still to come on the program the search for those missing after the last dam disaster goes on as survivors that's why helped it so long to come. and could more have been done to stop this great town being ravaged by fire and to save the lives of those killed me and final.

hour there are still one of two big showers along the yangtze for example nearly two hundred millimeters this is west of shanghai in a big massive one of cloud that's disappeared now unfold in the past the still plenty though for the rest and sichuan the right front some heavy rain there but the concentration has been for a day or two in the southwest of china and beyond and it still is heavy rain that contains the contents of at least one tropical depression some tin which is you know is a storm for a while as in hollister rainfall right far as west is as bangladesh but it's still allowing plenty of more should show big shot in the southwest of china in sichuan maybe one to other places forty one you'll notice on the coast where is drawing

some rather the monsoon season now the heaviest rain has been recently in bangladesh the middle of northern india and just touching pakistan on the pole not swayed expected to be as in the forecast as well temps is right about the if you're unlucky the middle thirty's and humid rather cool remove by about twenty nine degrees west of all this of course the pictures of much dry one still very hot we saw fifty again yesterday in the southwest of iran bits of iraq forty one there noticeably in doha. when people think of cuba they think of revolution but a bonus is undergoing a revolution and the problem with you is and. we're here to discover if those changes are reflective of the plea that this is a few of you and your. russian owner are trying to.

leave me. on boundaries or. our minds of those top stories that right here on al-jazeera about a standing protest has been killed by israeli soldiers on the gaza israel border forty three year old man was shot in the head near the border fence but most of the results from pakistan's election in iran khan looks set to become the new prime minister boarding party has conceded defeat commonly to form a coalition to govern. coalition aircraft launched air strikes on the yemeni port

city of poll data main entry point for most of the country's food a. us federal judge is deciding whether the trumpet ministration is in contempt of court for missing a deadline to reunite hundreds of migrant families or two thousand five hundred children were separated from their parents at the us mexico border as part of a hard line immigration policy and as of friday more than seven hundred still remain separated by the jail castro joins us now from the town of macallan in texas so heidi the government has missed its target. indeed it has julie the government claims that it has or united all of the eligible children for reunification but they make up only about sixty percent of that twenty five hundred children who fell under this court order by the judge that were taken from their parents at the border and order to be reunited by midnight that was already many hours ago as for those remaining children the separation from their

parents continue. alone and left behind despite thursday's court order deadline for the trumpet ministration to return all of the children who've been taken from their parents at the border about seven hundred remain in government custody most of them have parents who've been deported and i should outraged that they did children five year old and many younger children from their friends with no plan whatsoever to reunite them never read what the government has labeled these children being eligible for reunification they include children whose parents have been deported or who according to the government have criminal backgrounds that make them ineligible for reunification not knowing when they get to go or if they get to go is well written they will have developmental delays they will have long term chronic care problems they will have a question in their developmental status that morning everybody thank you for being

here this morning the government says every deported parent had a willingly left their child behind but immigration attorneys insist that's false citing client after client who say they were forced to abandon their child that's a question that all parents could best be left when am i going to see my child again some fourteen hundred kids have already been returned to their parents there are emotional reunions taking place in detention centers airports and bus stations across the country. i was sad it was hard because i wasn't together with my father . thursday's court ordered deadline for the government to reunite all the children and parents separated at the border was a hard one victory for civil rights activists but this display of shoes left behind by migrants is a reminder of the many families who even now remain separated indefinitely i want to call to remember that this is not the end of the fight. now comes the challenge

of tracking down the deported parents and giving them back their kids. and that will be a very difficult task these families when they left their home countries in honduras or guatemala they gave up their homes and so very few had new addresses or phone numbers to report to the u.s. government prior to their deportations of the challenges how will these people be found advocacy groups led by the a.c.l.u. of american civil liberties union appear to be the ones that are driving this effort now they are working with other groups in latin america as well as consulates to locate these deported parents and then there's also the other concern that some of these parents fleeing political prosecution persecution may not want to come out of the woodwork after they were deported back to the places where they felt that danger and then once they are found julie still it could take months to organize the law just sticks of finally putting parent and child back together.

their lives for macallan and takes is hiding. now the number of people killed in monday's dam collapse in laos has risen to twenty seven with more than one hundred missing as water levels recede villages are questioning why they weren't moved to safety sooner florence luis sent more from stung trying province in neighboring cambodia. as water levels begin to recede people start to return to their homes to clean up to repair to salvage what they can monday's collapse of a newly built hydroelectric dam in province in southern laos flooded villages and farmland in both laos and neighboring cambodia the scale of the disaster remains unclear information from state media in this remote part of laos has been sketchy and sometimes inconsistent many survivors tell a consistent story however water levels rose so fast they never experienced

anything like it. a little i felt so desperate when i saw the sight of the water i thought i might die the water was rising and rising and everything in the house was all washed away the search for the missing continues the lao army and teams of international experts are helping to look for survivors when young i'm looking for my brothers i'm worried about them and five thousand people in neighboring cambodia have been evacuated from their homes the water level in the sacred river remains high but it appears to have peaked here in still trying province it's about twelve point four meters roughly the same as twenty four hours earlier the cambodian ministry of water resources and meteorology expects water levels to fall on saturday as water levels recede in places villages are questioning why they weren't moved to safety sooner and there are conflicting reports on when cracks in the dam were first spotted florence al-jazeera trying province cambodia. opposition

parties are accusing the greek government of failing to do enough to save lives to protect people from the wildfires that broke out on monday greek officials suspect the fires were caused by arson the number of people known to have died has now risen to more than eighty many of the survivors were saved by the sea but rescuers say a large number of victims were found close to cliffs after failing to reach the water people have taken part in protests across poland after the president signed off on a law which effectively lets the government choose the next supreme court chief right wing governments made a string of judicial reforms that it says will make courts more efficient but opponents within and outside including the e.u. describe the changes as a threat to democracy and the rule of law about a third of poland's supreme court judges have been forced into retirement.

on monday zimbabweans are voting in a presidential election for the first time in nearly forty years robert mugabe's name won't be on the ballot but his legacy of an economy in ruins continues to dominate campaigning forces hope the results will help and the years of economic isolation reports now from harare. research from a profit dropped out of school when his parents died he sixteen in a few jobs in zimbabwe three earns about eight dollars a day selling tomatoes and overthrew saddam and the reason why i came here is to look for money so i can any leaving. and actually working for someone i get little money and i send most to make it in my. informal traders only appeared here on the streets of the capital harare has the economy clapped into the rule of former president robert mugabe agricultural exports plummeted after his government seized white owned farms nearly twenty years ago mines and factories closed as investors

pulled out foreign banks stopped lending the government blamed the economic sanctions. now there's a chronic shortage of cash in circulation these people are queuing to withdraw money they're allowed twenty dollars each. flower made from imported wheat it's hard to get for this bakery because of the lack of foreign currency to violate. the aging avenues combi replaced so they're continuously repaired. yeah we just bring that no good for takes in there maybe things will improve in begetting this will be getting a lot of things from south africa i think we need feed me so the new weeds also need so much i mean that's why that all materialized was. and that's the presidential election campaigns draw to a close head of monday's poll voters want to hear more solutions the politicians have to offer. opposition leader nelson chamisa doesn't go missing is the real deal

the economy all exactly but afghans is buying the same kinds of promises they support and that was exactly the kind of message that it was but for foreign investment and international finance to resume or about my view about the election. clearance being. a position of unready complained of serious irregularities in the campaign has been largely peaceful compared to the past we should do continue with the same spirit get a credible election using those debate everybody should induce it in the national pleasure to endorse it that within it provides a. bit of a comfort for capital to come to zimbabwe. even if capital starts to flow back into the banks and big business. before street traders like mischa feel the difference. but people here hope the election will provide a chance for things to turn around malcolm webb al-jazeera harare zimbabwe.

activists are pushing to ban whale hunting in iceland industry is back under the spotlight after a cross between a fin whale and a protected blue whale was killed and brought ashore for processing to reykjavik at clark explained. iceland has much to boast of when it comes to natural resources its dramatic scenery and geothermal springs draw tourists in their millions and there's a marine environment to tens of thousands of people go whale watching every year there's even a whale museum where you can immerse yourself in an ocean of life size whale replicas the one thing iceland tries not to publicize too much is the fact that whales are still killed commercially here which in rage is a big sector of society doing these they are going to steps backwards into the viking times and the whaling nowadays especially well not just in iceland but whaling in iceland show that people is not doesn't have a low buzz they really think to show the world that they are so it's something of

a p.r. disaster when photographs like this appear what is suggested to be a highly endangered and protected blue whale killed and brought back to shore for processing d.n.a. sampling has since shown the whale was in fact a rare hybrid between a fin well which icelandic whale is do have a quota and the ban on blue whale kristen lawson who runs the company that killed the whale says his whale is acted in good faith their wages working for us they've been doing it for decades and to be. here. and when being approached. in which. they went after news one i think for one hour it is no question in my mind. nothing else than a finn way when it was taken but turned out to be a hybrid these are images of a fin well being legally processed at the whaling station most of the products are

exported to japan the killing of the hybrid well which is banned from export has led to more coolness for the industry to be finally halted in iceland this hunting is very inaccurate they cannot know the difference between a hybrid bluefin wage and in which they cannot make a distinction that's what they say between the two so you know for that sake they should absolutely stop it. so this is workable as to whaling ships come in from the ocean with their catch and take it up the fuel to the processing plant for about one hundred days a year between june and september and this year they have a quota of one hundred sixty one fin whales it's an activity that has drilling support among so icelanders ten years ago about seventy percent of the population were in favor of whaling today that figure is more like fifty fifty and as tourists seek out whales alive in the wild still there's a pressing issue what to do with several tons of hybrid whale caught up in

a freezer with nowhere to go nick clark al-jazeera reykjavik iceland well you can find it much more about the stories we're following on our website head. al-jazeera cong. a quick landmine tonight all of the headlines we're following this hour a palestinian protesters been killed by israeli soldiers on the gaza israel border forty three year old man was shot in the head near the border fence on hundred fifty palestinians have not been killed since the week to protest began at the end of march charles stratford is on the border i'll just get out of the way here now so you can film some of this tear gas being fired as i say from the drones. will stand these two guys exceptionally strong as well and a number of those injured today have been treated for two guys inhalation the

situation as you can see is desperate for these palestinians they have said that they will continue to protest and they have literally been endorsed by hamas hamas describes these protests as being peaceful it says that it will defame them with their weapons if israel attacks the gates of the al aqsa mosque compound notified east jerusalem have been reopened. clearly a stun grenades and tear gas were used to disperse worshippers who gathered for friday prayers all entry into the mosque one of islam's holiest sites which prevented for three hours following that violence most of the results in from pakistan's election in iran come look set to become the new prime minister willing parties conceded defeat to the former cricketer still has to form a coalition for he can take our side to u.a.e. coalition aircraft raunchier strikes on the empty city of the data the data has

just to teach it clearly important seaport which is the main entry point for most of the country's thirty eight. a u.s. federal judge is deciding whether the trump of ministration is in contempt of court missing a deadline to reunite hundreds of migrant families over two thousand five hundred children were separated from their parents at the us mexico border as part of the hard line immigration policy and as of friday more than seven hundred remain separated opposition wants he's there accusing the great government the failing to do enough to save lives but take people from the wildfires the broke out on monday because michelle suspect the fires were caused by austin those are your current headlines up next is a visit to the cuban capital will be back in just under half an hour's time see them.

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