regional allegiances whenever we have one prevailing over the other you have civil war so it's always this balance that's a week out following its first parliamentary elections and nine years people in power investigates the state of lebanon or just zero. she's become a symbol of palestinian resistance and is valid to continue the fight that's the message from our hotel me me on her release from jail for a slap bang an israeli soldier. no i maryam namazie and london you're with al jazeera also coming up cambodia's ruling party claims victory in an election described as a sham by critics thousands of firefighters battle what is being described as flaming tornadoes as northern california is mongst a wildfire burns for

a fourth day. and zimbabwe's ousted president robert mugabe turns his back old what used to be his ruling party a day before monday's historic vote. a palestinian teenager who became a symbol of resistance against the israeli occupation has been freed from jail seventeen year old i had to mimi was jailed for slapping an israeli soldier in his images of which went viral she's now back home and she remains defiant andrew simmons has the story from now beside in the occupied west bank. released from a jail term looks much the same as hundreds served by young palestinians every year but the case of a head to me is profoundly different tasting freedom with. jail time with greeted by her father as she's already being read. veered by palestinians as an

icon of resistance to the occupation. gadabout of the law i was subjected to many violations during the interrogation first the interrogator used bad words also i have the right to have a famous soldier during interrogation i never got that in the three interrogation sessions instead of one interrogator there were two they interrogated me for long hours my plans for the future to continue my university studies and study law to raise my country's cause in international forums and to speak about the prisoners case to the whole world and in the international courts. she went to jail because of this slapping an israeli soldier filmed by her mother and the video went viral on the internet then i had was arrested and her mother was also detained legally i had to mimi is still a child her seventeenth birthday came during her time in jail the father who spent most of his life as an activist with several prison terms says he is both proud and

sad. must have the image of she can't live normally i feel i feel some type guilty because we can't in the basin and it's become of the do it and that is what the warts and her father is probably right when he talks about his daughter's life changing for good at the heart of it all is social media the battle over imagery and symbolism. here the conversation is about how i had to mimi who promote the palestinian cool's she's known nothing beyond israeli soldiers entering her community in her home as they like and she is empowered i wouldn't say hero but she is definitely empowered in a sense that she was forced to become older and a lot more brave than her age necessitates and other communities around the world

palestinians on the israeli security forces keeping a constant watch on this small village will expect more defiance from had to me her jail sentence is more likely the beginning not the end of the protest action under symons al-jazeera not the seller in the occupied west bank. well israel's cabinet discussed how mimi's release the agriculture minister called her a terrorist. murdered i think israel acts too mercifully with these types of terrorists and others israel should treat harshly those it's soldiers we can't have a situation where there is no deterrence deterrence leads to that reality we see now you can change that we must change. well tammy's detention is cast a spotlight on the number of minors being held in israeli prisons israel's military juvenile court was established in two thousand and nine and rights groups argue the system mosque's human rights abuses under

a facade of legality as of the end of may two hundred ninety one palestinian minors were in israeli jails the security detainees and prisoners that includes three palestinian minors held under what's called administrative detention which means they are detained without charges or trial another six mine is held in israel's prison service facilities for being in israel illegally israel says their courts allow a great deal of parental involvement but rights groups say a vast majority of cases never even go to trial ending instead in a plea bargain or so hard francis is the director of human rights lawyer of america pretty prisoner support and human rights association she is saying there isn't enough parental involvement allowed during court proceedings it's very limited and restricted to specially on the time of the end total geisha and so most of these children would be ending up investigated and into the gated for long hours without being able to meet the lawyer actually according to the military orders the. lawyer

for a meeting with the child for up to twenty days the next like most of the period of the integration families of course are not allowed to visit and they can communicate just in the toyman very shortly in the time of the extension of detention which means most of these children confess at the end of the day without getting the proper legal advice before in total. meanwhile a boat loaded with aid for gaza has been intercepted by the israeli navy and is now being escorted to the port city of ashdod it was one of two boats attempting to break a twelve year blockade of gaza by israel and egypt it set off from pelham a in italy a week ago carrying twenty two people including some israeli citizens or child stratford joins us live now from ashdod charles what can you tell us about the location of the boat now. was difficult to tell you exactly where the boat is

because there has been no communication from the boat we understand since it was intercepted by the israeli navy israeli navy put out a statement a couple of hours ago saying that they didn't say intercepted the ship. that it to europe. in order to avoid what israel describes as the illegal naval blockade that is imposed upon the gaza strip that statement also saying that the israeli navy had monitored and into set to do it in accordance with international law or it was about that time the last statement was issued from the organization behind this flotilla calling on the governments of the sixteen different nationalities of the people traveling on that ship and the relevant organizations to act immediately. it's important to point out that despite these efforts this incredible effort that this the international freedom flotilla coalition has put towards this this attempt at breaking the see the head of the organization was under no illusions and

knew that the israeli navy were going to indeed stop the fertility from getting sick gaza but the whole point of the exercise according to the organization is that they want to draw attention to the plight of the two million people living in gaza suffering under that twelve year land and sea blockade imposed by israel as you say . is carrying aid and supplies that are intended for gaza how difficult are living conditions inside the strip. it's very difficult to describe i have one of the best ways to make a comparison as you drive down south through israel down towards gaza you pass through these incredible farms very well manicured very well maintained farms you pass through towns with shopping malls with cafeterias people sitting outside and drinking coffee and then you gets to the erez crossing the northern crossing of the

gaza strip and it is a shocking experience more than fifty percent around fifty percent of the population living under the poverty line fifty percent unemployment not enough fuel to supply electricity across the street people suffering only only getting around four hours electricity a day in places rule sewerage being pumped into the ocean and when you speak to the people they are desperate and deeply deeply despondent they blame the international community. for ignoring them they blame the palestinian all soroti as well for ignoring them of course israel blames how mass full the conditions inside the gaza strip israel says that if it wasn't for hamas then the conditions would be a lot better but as i say the efforts of this for tila to draw attention to the plight of the palestinians living in there and it gives you some sort of access to understanding why we're seeing these protests the eighteenth week of

protests a couple of days ago more than one hundred fifty palestinians killed in those protests so yeah this was expected this fertility was expected to be stopped but as i say in the woods of the organization behind it they hope that it will draw some sort of attention international stage to the plight of the palestinians in gaza thank you very much and now that international. cambodia's ruling party says it's won a landslide in sunday's election paving the way for a leader and sent to extend his thirty three year rule although twenty parties participated in the poll the main opposition cambodian national rescue party was dissolved last year human rights groups have dismissed the poll as a sham while the e.u. the u.s. and japan refused to send election observers white has more from phnom penh this

could have been a day of political change for cambodia instead voters lined up knowing there was little chance of that the choice was vote for a continuation of prime minister hussein's thirty three year rule back one of nineteen small opposition parties most of which can't be called truly independent or stay away but i came to vote because it's my right and my obligation every five years i want to see my country develop more. at this polling station in the capital phnom penh came so car was still on the voter list he's the leader of the banned cambodian national rescue party which called for people to boycott the vote this is where would have cast his vote if he were not in jail awaiting trial on treason charges this could have been a day of big celebrations for him and his party given they almost won the last election five years ago. the assumption is they became too popular so had to be removed by a government determined to stay in power. it is and our party

so we don't want to risk about this matter we wondered what can what you can do for the future of democracy across town the prime minister voted early in an election that was dismissed as illegitimate by many even longtime supporter japan refused to send election monitors you know what. you thought of. easily but without any reaction i don't care so i'm not. sharing. among cambodians choosing to stay away was conveyed out who won a seat in local elections last year only to lose it when his party was dissolved he now drives for a living and hopes one day he can reenter politics. i will never give up and i strongly hope that in the future my party can be revived through cambodians voting

for it and i believe the cambodian will provide justice for the c.n.n. r.p. with think is stained purple for those who voted there will be no hiding for those who didn't and may now fear repercussions the government including the prime minister tried to intimidate people into voting even though it's optional another sign say critics of his increasingly all thora tyrian rule that will now continue wane hey al-jazeera phnom penh. what are being described as flaming tornadoes have destroyed entire neighborhoods in northern california at least five people have been killed by the wildfires including two children seventeen as a missing in the setting of in the city of reading. reports. tornado like photos of fire ashes and combustible gas residents say was unlike anything they've seen before just like in oklahoma you see like on the wizard of oz they also use a scene points like a wall for names and then there are sheets of metal for an around like two hundred

feet in the air. fueled by steep terrain hot weather and dry brush what was left the smoldering remnants after an out of control wildfire that scorched northern california in zero five hundred structures burned to the ground including hundreds of homes the fast moving flames burned entire neighborhoods and in at least one case destroyed an entire small town it's not over the fire is only five percent contained at times firefighters had to switch from defending property to hoping people escape more than forty thousand people have been ordered out of harm's way the unstoppable flames even jumped a river under normal circumstances the overnight hours provide a reprieve lowering the heat and allowing firefighters to gain an upper hand on the blaze but this is no ordinary fire after sunset the winds have picked up

and made a fire increase in size overnight this is highly unusual and it's expected to get worse with temperatures expected to be over forty two degrees celcius in the coming days there are more than a dozen fires burning in california putting property but more importantly people at risk. they didn't realize how much my. my home with me to me. in central california yosemite national park home to four million visitors a year remains closed because of another nearby fire it's the first time since one thousand nine hundred the park closed because of fire the wildfire aspect has intensified over the years so we need to experience more and more damage the wildfires it's like throwing gas in. these type of fires they wrapped and they spread so fast that national guard has been called in to try to help

a state that is bernie. redding california. still ahead for you on the program indonesia's government just calm after an earthquake rocks the island killing more than a dozen people. and celebrating sixty years since the u.s. began its journey to boldly go where it had gone before but what could the future bring an asset. most of the rain in china is hanging around south of the moment we're still getting occasional showers in sichuan or in the middle in by for example not as heavy as they were twenty four hours ago but some tuna beaches is a decent diamond pole but to say majority is further south and running into north

vietnam is creeping up the coast of china will probably get towards hong kong the time we get to tuesday and that cloud band then is on the western side of china but it's sort of it's the worst case scenario from the mature monsoon which is now right up beyond the tibetan plateau to be ours is all the cloud heaviest rain has been in northern india but it's in a fair amount in bangladesh and in myanmar all of which of course have suffered flooding which is to be expected is just quite bad in places this year come west of that in size and the rain is rather more spartan than a lot of clouds to accumulates twenty nine degrees in mumbai but it's not especially wet in the rain be to say north and that of the dries and with the exception of twenty seven degrees cloudy interestedly we're talking about a breezy dusty if it is quite hot and then to go to up to forty four again in dire hard as well but there's not really a cloud in the sky that is what you can see it's skies awful a fairly dusty picture at the moment.

twelve boys in their football coach go missing deep in a cave in northern timer with rising floodwaters rescuers are running out of time and want to be inside story of time it's extraordinary scene on al-jazeera. where every. welcome back

a quick look at the top stories now a teenage palestinian activist who was jailed for kicking and slapping an israeli soldier has been released from prison seventeen year old i had tamimi urged people to continue to fight against the israeli occupation. cambodia's ruling party says it's won a landslide victory in sunday's election paving the way for leader consent to prolong his thirty three years in power human rights groups have dismissed the vote is a sham but the main opposition banned from taking part. in the death toll from. wildfires in northern california has risen to five more than thirty eight thousand people now remain on the evacuation orders in and around the city of reading. zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe has given a surprise news conference on the eve of monday's elections speaking in harare the ninety four year old turned his back on his full masonic p.f.

policy on the military saying he could not endorse those who have illegally taken power he also failed to endorse his former deputy and successor amisom and saying opposition candidate nelson chamisa was the only viable candidate. to. those. who. just know. when to. hunt for. the. serious harm

a chance has more now from harare robert mugabe says he's not going to vote for the people who to make him the people who removed him from office in november he was it is not going to vote for the rulings on a pay party or for president. he insisted he's going to prefer to vote for nelson chamisa the main opposition party he also said was planning to resign in december last year at the congress and hand over to sydney by the former defense minister he implied that it wasn't god or was never going to be his preferred candidate to lead to this country so what does this mean we're not people listen to mugabe and choose not to vote for the rulings aren't here party opinions are mixed some people feel he is ninety four years old and he's no longer relevant in politics but others say remember there is speculation that the ratings are a party and some people are reduced the portable gobby with suggest they are fractures within the ruling party and the army those people could listen to regard and vote for the main opposition leader nelson chamisa what is clear is that money

is election is going to be very very interesting. well opposition leader nelson chamisa says monday's vote isn't about former president. well apologies for that will bring you that clip a little bit earlier on the opposition leader there in zimbabwe commenting on some of the things we heard from the former president robert mugabe refusing to endorse his own party a little bit earlier on when out east fourteen people including five children have been killed in a strong shallow earthquake on the indonesian island of long walk more than one hundred sixty others were injured when the six point four magnitude quake hit early in the morning indonesia's government is urging everyone to stay calm step boston has more from jakarta. it was seven am on the island of lombok when you earthquake struck me and many ran outside immediately dozens of others were injured by falling good grief when their homes started to collapse some couldn't escape in time. to

receive on the neighboring island of bali ran out of the hotels but no earthquake damage is reported there longbox is also a popular tourist destination and nearly eight hundred physical for climbing mount three johnny all managed to leave the slopes of the volcano safely but a malaysian tourist was killed when a guesthouse at the foot of the volcano collapse. no one but she was in the kitchen when the quake happened she was packing all of this stuff to return to malaysia. the quake or several landslides and the volcano has been closed to visitors indonesia's one of the world's most active earthquake zones and more than five thousand quakes are recorded every year after this morning's strong tremor more than one hundred aftershocks were felt causing even more panic on both lombok and bali it's the peak of the tourist season and many hotels are full the government is

urging everyone to stay calm step fasten al-jazeera. health officials in yemen a warning the escalation of saudi led as strikes on the country could lead to a new cholera outbreak they say coalition aircraft are targeting hospitals drinking water projects and sewage infrastructure. the charity save the children says close to three thousand suspected of cholera cases were reported in the first week of july across the country or than a million people were infected with cholera last year. i still has claimed responsibility for saturday's attack on a school for midwives in afghanistan afghan forces battled with the gunman for several hours in the eastern city of jalalabad three people were killed dozens of students and teachers were trapped inside during the operation. well now to iraq where the prime minister suspended the electricity minister after weeks of protests against power outages poor public service is an unemployment.

demonstrations continued on sunday in a number of the cities in the south hydro a body imposed curfews and cut internet access in some areas human rights watch accused iraqi special forces of using lethal force against protesters or now emergency teams in laos are continuing to search for survivors as flood waters that begin to recede official sources say bodies have been recovered and one hundred twenty others remain missing following the collapse of a dam in southern province and as far as louis reports from still trying in northern cambodia it's not it's not just laos that's feeling the impact. floodwaters in at a poor province in southern laos a slowly receding but the deluge of mud left behind is hampering search operations lower water levels have made some areas in assessable by boat helicopter flights are the only way into some communities makeshift shelters are packed with thousands of people who fled their homes they've lost everything homes were swept away and

farmland submerged when an auxiliary dam at the sippy hydroelectric project collapsed on monday parts of neighboring cambodia are also flooded about five thousand people here in storm trying province right next to the border with laos were moved to safety on tuesday have been no reports of missing persons or casualties floodwaters have begun to recede and the water level in the se kong river which rose above the danger level several days ago has begun to fall the disaster has revived debate about plans by the lao government to boost the economy by building dozens of dams to export hydro electricity to neighboring countries why the dam collapsed remains unclear the minister of energy and mines is quoted as blaming substandard construction and there are conflicting reports about when damage to the dam was first noticed raising more questions on whether the order to

evacuate villagers from their homes should have been issued earlier florence louis al-jazeera still trying cambodia from putting a man on the moon to sending unmanned missions to the milky way and mas is no denying nasa sixty years have been filled with some notable triumphs but in recent years the space agency has seen its funding with joost and it's been forced to partner with private firms like space x. to get its ideas off the ground she has a chance he explores whether nasa can keep up in the space race. when president eisenhower signed the bill creating nasa there were fears in washington that the u.s. was being left behind by the soviet union space exploration has always been a matter of geopolitical prestige for the us will be here well we are behind and will be behind for some time in manned flight but we do not intend to stay behind but national politics have been key too and one reason why i can hear it long term

plan for nasa has been impossible for example george w. bush directed massa to return to the moon only to have president obama scrap of those plans and direct mass of the land on asteroids with a long term goal now donald trump has ordered nasa back to the moon this time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint we will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to mars yes local political leaders keep moving the goalposts on changing destinations from asteroids and war. i mean these are long term horizon goals going to take decades to achieve a lot of. how like one goal the plan is for us astronauts to be back on the moon by the mid twenty twenty s. but timeframes keep being pushed back and it should be noted that the us count even ferry astronauts to the international space station that loaned the moon nasa has been reliant on russian spacecraft since the space shuttle was discontinued president obama pushed private public partnerships with boeing and space x.

to create u.s. space craft but they're well behind schedule that may mean no u.s. presence at all on the i assess for a time and liftoff of the space shuttle just u.s. priorities shift for human space travel but that represents just one of four areas of activity for nasa the other aeronautics sons and space technology here innovation continues with unmanned space travel satellites and space telescopes nasa isn't just studying outer space but the earth to the president and when donald trump named climate changed. denier jim brandon stein as mass administrator there were fears that earth sciences would suffer but remarkably off to six weeks in the drug brighton stein converted i don't deny the consensus that the climate is changing and i thoroughly believe and know that the climate is changing i also know that we human beings are contributing to it in a major way this year congress passed the highest budget for nasa since two thousand and nine rejecting the trumpet ministrations attempts at cuts so even as

uncertainty and delay characterize nasa is human missions into space for the moment at least the agency's urgent investigations into the state of our own planet are secure she had returned. well there's more to everything we're covering right here you can watch us live there as well the address al jazeera dot com. quick reminder of the top stories this hour a palestinian teenager whose arrest by israeli security forces troops global attention has been released from prison i had to mimi was sentenced to eight months jail time after kicking and slapping an israeli soldier who entered her family's property she's denounced the jailing of children by israel and called the palestinian unity weird to think they are gathered out of the lobby i was subjected to many violations during the interrogation first the interrogator used bad words

also i have the right to have a famous soldier during interrogation but i never got that in the three interrogation stations instead of one interrogator there were two they interrogated me for long hours my plans for the future to continue my university studies and study law to raise my country's pools in international forums and to speak about the prisoner's case to the whole world and in the international courts well in all the developments of boat loaded with aid for gaza has been intercepted by the israeli navy and is now being escorted to the port city of ashdod it was one of two boats attempting to break the twelve year blockade of gaza by israel and egypt it set off from palermo in italy a week ago carrying twenty two people including some israeli citizens the second boat is expected to arrive in the same area within days cambodia's ruling parties claim victory in an election widely described as a sham by human rights groups prime minister hun sen who's been in office for over thirty years is accused of voter intimidation last year dissolved the main

opposition party whose leader is in jail awaiting trial for treason. zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe has given a surprise news conference on the eve of monday's elections speaking in harare the ninety four year old turned his back on his former zanu p.f. party in the military saying he could not indorse those who have illegally taken power he also failed to endorse his former deputy and successor amisom and i gotta say opposition candidate nelson chamisa was the only viable candidate and what is being described as flaming tornadoes have destroyed entire neighborhoods in northern california at least five people have been killed in the wildfires including two children seventeen others are missing in the city of reading was the top stories i'll have more news for you in about twenty five minutes time to join me then coming up next it's one of one east.

i mean this is difficult to say whether someone voting for someone if it breaks it doesn't matter when you meet three i think it's how you approach an individual enough that it is a certain way of doing it you can't just. story and fly out. twelve young boys and their football coach enter a cave in northern thailand and disappear. with water levels rising how will rescuers find them and bring them out alive. i'm steve chair on this episode of what i want to east the inside story of one of the most extraordinary rescues of all time.

saturday afternoon june twenty third twelve boys and they saw her courage heading to the rugged mountains of northern thailand for a trick. they posted photos before writing to the tom no one cave a place they have visited before. they are expected to return home to the nearby village later that day. a dozen members of a youth football team and their coach a missing after they entered a cave in northern thailand investigators believe the teenage boys and their coach called into the cave and they never came out search and rescue crews are on the same trying to locate the boy it's believed detain has been trapped by a flooded strain in the cave entrance. within twenty four hours of the boy's going missing

a search operation is underway. the boys bikes and backpacks of found near the entrance to the cave.