denounced by israel hailed as a symbol of resistance for palestinians teenager i had tamimi leaves jail. and i know i'm maryanne demasi in london you know with al jazeera also coming up zimbabwe's ousted president robert mugabe tuns is back on his old ruling party a day before monday's historic vote. in cambodia the ruling party claims victory in an election described as a sham by critics and thousands of firefighters battle what are being described as

flaming tornadoes in northern california. a palestinian teenager who became a symbol of resistance against the israeli occupation has been freed from jail seventeen year old i had tell me was jailed for slapping and kicking and his ratings soldier images and footage of the incident lifestream by a mother went viral on social media on the internet she's now back home and she remains defiant under simmons has the story from the occupied west bank. released from a jail term that's 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 her greeted by her father as she's already being revered by palestinians as an icon of resistance to the occupation. dog at the bottom of the log 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 a long hours and 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 head 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's spent most of his life as an activist with several prison terms says he is proud

and sad. so you can't live normally i feel. guilty because we can't in the in and it's become to the do it on those ones with the words 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 cause 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 and the israeli security forces keeping

a constant watch on this small village all expect more defiance from to me her jail sentences more likely the beginning not the end of her protest action andrew simmons al-jazeera in the occupied west bank israel's cabinet discuss tommies release the agriculture minister called her a terrorist. i think israel acts too mercifully with these types of terrorists and others israel should treat harshly those who hit its soldiers we can't have a situation where there is no deterrence deterrence leads to the reality we see now you can change that we must change. a boat carrying aid for gaza has been intercepted by the israeli navy and is now being a score to the port city of ashdod it was one of two boats attempting to break the 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 charles

traffic joins us live now from ash die. charles what more can you tell us about the base johnny. but we can't tell you exactly when the boat will arrive here we understand just estimating given the the distance that it where it was when it was stopped by the israeli navy we expect any time sort of three to four hours from now the israeli navy military sorry put out a statement saying that the navy stops the ship in order to to stop it violating the legal naval blockade that is on the gaza strip it also said that it had monitored and had to step to the vessel according to international law now that statement was made around about the same time that all the tweets stopped coming from that vessel the allow the ship. around about the same time the head of the organization put out a statement saying well calling on the governments of the various different people

on that vessel to act immediately calling for help from the relative relevant international organizations as well it's important to recognize that. this flotilla had expected to be stopped by the israeli navy this is happened on a number of occasions before but the organized organizers say that it was very important that this was done in order to draw international attention to the plight of around two million people living under the siege in gaza and indeed they are very difficult living conditions in gaza what can you tell us about the situation inside the territory. it's difficult to describe belittle of poverty and suffering inside the gaza strip i was working there the last few days came out today the contrast between gaza and israel it is quite astounding

around fifty percent of the population unemployed around fifty percent of them living under the poverty line as well some areas only getting around four hours of electricity a day not enough electricity to fuel the pumps that are needed in order to to for the things like the sewerage works to operate so you've got rule sewerage going into the sea i mean it's these kind of things that have pushed the gazans for the last eighteen weeks to protest along the border fence with israel a protest that have resulted in more than one hundred fifty palestinians being killed of course the israeli government blames how mass for the suffering of the gazan people in this even try to urge the gazans to try and over strode the hamas ministration says that these people have every right to protest and those protests will continue but will they do is they highlight the level of suffering of the

people inside the gaza strip and that is exactly so these organization organizing this fertility says that's exactly what it's aiming to do as well thank you very much child stratford and ashdod. zimbabwe's phone president robert mugabe has given a surprise news conference on the eve of monday's elections speaking in harare the ninety four year old time is back on his form a zani p.f. party and the military saying he could not indorse those who have illegally taken power he refused to endorse his former deputy and successor and someone gaga saying opposition candidate nelson chamisa was the only viable candidate. garcia back on board for the party. or those. who are.

just now or the people. involved have. meaning to this. country for. the do you see my. tribute to. the. opposition to nelson chamisa says monday's vote isn't about the former president please leave me alone mr when and how in your zambia people deal with your old man you know you have disappointed him is so disappointing that please make your way make your amends with him i have nothing to do with what president mugabe would want to say is of what is this it is that it is not my duty as a candidate to going to choose what are we going to this election to choose what

candidate we are going to be chosen so if someone says they are likely to have a favorable disposition in my favor why am i to deny that extra vote that will make the fundamental win that we want women. well malcolm webb has been speaking to voters and sent us this report from blown away a second largest city. zimbabweans will be voting in the first presidential election in nearly forty years with former leader robert mugabe on the ballot paper he was pushed out by the military in november his right hand man took over president emerson and god were and he's the presidential candidate for the ruling zanny p.f. party ever since he took over he's been promising to revive the economy and he says he's got pledges of billions of dollars of foreign investment that could soon come in he's up against several candidates but the main opposition contender is here nelson chamisa is also promising to revive the economy he says he'll bring change

to tackle corruption and build infrastructure in this town where we are called he says he'll turn it into the new political capital zimbabwe but the key issues for most voters are the economy and jobs. trades clothes on the street to get by he struggles with zimbabwe's shortage of currency in circulation of which for far from for new situations where i want to change we need change you can be coming right down yes i do something if you speak for you for forty years but let me just say it might have done just magic item a juror says she'll welcome any kind of new leadership oh what do we need is. it meant to give us that drug does it mean that a drug again being a genuine being that their definition of a people. night is the. ruling party supporters are in the minority here the opposition of one in this town for many years this isn't

a story in areas across the country but the ruling party says its support base is in the rural areas opposition says in the past that's because it's been able to use bribery and voter intimidation there but this time the campaign for the large part has been peaceful. the opposition have complained that there are irregularities even ahead of the polls for the electoral commission and the ruling party deny that anything on toward is going on well now to cambodia where the ruling party says it's won a landslide in sunday's election paving the way for leader and sent to extend his thirty three year rule although twenty parties but dissipated in the polls the main opposition cambodian national rescue party was dissolved last year even rights groups have dismissed the poll is a sham though while the e.u. the u.s. and japan refused to send election observers in 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 who since 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 kim would have cast his vote if he were not in jail awaiting trial on trees 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 the. 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 there an election year. 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 that come bowden's 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. still ahead for you on the program indonesia's government is calm after an earthquake rocks the island of longboat killing more than a dozen people. on the u.s. space agency nasa marks its sixtieth anniversary we explore china's mission to win the space race. hello we missed fifty yesterday remiss fifty two gave it not by much and iran is one of the hottest places in the world seventy southwest iran and iraq not

a cloud in the sky here but even much in the caucasus in pakistan was in the shower too and that might be repeatable or otherwise is just drawing and hot cool of course the further west you go and that is going to change the next day or so the breeze very thing strengthens a little a dusty one running at all of the middle of iraq sidestreet q eight into the eastern side of saudi arabia taking the heat and the dust with it and running quite quickly dance in the middle of saudi arabia to assess who is yemen where it turns around so long as twenty seven represents the cloudy and damp rather grim picture this time of year we've had some pretty big showers in tauriel africa but to the sides well rain has been showing itself every now and again in the western cape and running eastwards we've got clouds coming in a rather weak looking cloud it will amount to nothing just about sixteen degrees in cape town twenty in durban your nerves the breeze not as strong as it was to twenty seven in botswana so it's warming up steadily cape town's clouds well might be

a promise of things to come but if you want a lot of rain or can't really promise you that.

welcome back a quick look at the top stories this hour a teenage palestinian activist who was jailed for kicking and slapping in his radio soldier has been released from prison seventeen year old i have tamimi urged people to continue to fight against the israeli occupation zimbabwe's ousted president has denounced his former party and the military ahead of elections on monday robert mugabe said he'd vote for the country's opposition candidate rather than endorse those who have taken power and cambodia's ruling party says it's one of the landslide victory in sunday's election paving the way the leader can send to prolong his thirty three years in power human rights groups have dismissed the vote as a sham with the main opposition banned from taking out. well fight his have attacked the northern mali and city of firing several mortars including one near a polling station is comes as millions of mali is cost the vote in an election

that's been dominated by security concerns amid a growing threat from al qaida and groups. president abraham boubacar kater is hoping to secure a second term but faces a challenge from sixty eight year olds in my assists a who has been heavily critical of molly's lack of security mohamed val has the latest from bamako. voting has been going on smoothly throughout the day sunday here in the modern cups obama and that's contrary to the expectations of some observers who just a few weeks ago have been talking about the impossibility of organizing this election on should do and that in view of the tremendous security challenges and logistical problems during the last several weeks some groups related to al-qaeda in the islamic magreb threatened several times to disrupt this vote and also just a transportation of ballot boxes and voter cards to somebody most areas were a big challenge for the government here so today the government can bourse that

some success has been registered some is students have been reported in the north in some areas around timbuktu the ballot boxes were confiscated by unknown groups a few cases of that happened and also some shelling on a un french base in agony hawk in the north but we don't know about a casualties if there are any casualties in these incidents apart from this throughout other regions of the country no reports of major incidents happening today or are being described as flaming tornadoes have destroyed entire neighborhoods in northern california u.s. police say at least five people have been killed by the wildfires including two children gabriel elizondo has more from keswick california. i want to give you an idea of how bad this fire was we're in the community of keswick california this entire town completely destroyed from the fire you can see these homes here everything pretty much gone the force of this fire is so obvious here and it jumped

the road as well the other side of the street everything gone as well this is a community of about five hundred people it was a small town really in the mountains outside of redding california a working class town and it's just completely gone look at this these are power lines melted brought to the ground there can see the force of this fire the ruhr through here and showed absolutely no mercy there are more than three thousand firefighters that continue to work this blaze and you'll see a lot of the smoke in the air still as well step over that power line they're not letting residents back in here and that's the reason why is because there's power lines still down and the area is still too very dangerous for people to come in here it's still in an evacuation zone we're at right now look at this another example of the force of this fire just ruhr through this car here and this is

a fire that's not even close to contained yet firefighters are saying it's so bad that they're really not even trying to stop this fire at this point they're just trying to get people out of the way because there are other communities here that have not been burned down yet like this one that are in the path of the fire and that's what's really worrying firefighters here. health officials in yemen a warning the escalation of saudi led airstrikes 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 opposed to three thousand suspected cholera cases were reported in the first week of july across the country more than a million people were infected with cholera last year iraq's prime minister has suspended the electricity minister after weeks of protests against power outages poor public services and unemployment.

demonstrations continued on sunday in a number of southern cities. posed curfews and cut internet access in some areas human rights watch has accused the rocky special forces of using lethal force against the protesters. meanwhile i say list prime 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 jalalabad at least three people were killed dozens of students and teachers were trapped inside during the operation. two days of torrential monsoon rains in india's most populous state of killed nearly sixty people landslides and to pradesh have destroyed hundreds of homes and large areas of the state a flooded. and has mall. seemingly endless to run to rains have flooded streets and the de lucia in the northern state of which are

project has triggered landslides. delays we've recorded dozens of injuries and deaths since friday night a large number of houses of also been damaged animals have been reported dead. six members of one family including children were killed when their home collapsed and home of the famous talk mahal rescue operations are underway and emergency crews are trying to clear roads and provide relief. all of our civil servants are in the field visiting those affected keeping an eye on the situation we are working together with residents and local officials using floating flood pumps to remove some of the water and doing whatever is possible the monsoon rains between july and september provide much needed water for farmers across india but the annual rainy season is also responsible for the loss of life and property weather forecasters say more days of heavy rain are on the way while judging on al-jazeera. at least

fourteen people including five children have been killed in a strong shallow earthquake on the indonesian island of long block more than one hundred sixty others were injured when the six point four magnitude quake hit early in the morning indonesia's government has everyone to stay calm step in has more from jakarta. it was seven am on the island of lombok when you earthquake struck 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 of them 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. the u.s. space agency nasa is marking its sixtieth anniversary the agency was set up in one nine hundred fifty eight to stop the u.s. falling behind russia in space exploration but now there is a third competitor in the space race china sent wall rockets into space than russia in two thousand and sixteen and now it's planning a trip to mars adrian brown has more from beijing. history tells us that it's more

than eight hundred years that china's curiosity with space began two hundred years after that they built this place the beijing observatory one of the oldest observatories in the world today it is a museum a permanent reminder of how and when china's space ambitions began in many ways china's space program is a reflection of the country's rapid economic development but china was a late entrant to the space race it only put its first astronaut into space in two thousand and three but today rocket launchers are commonplace and in two thousand and sixteen china actually launch more rockets than russia that was the same year the chinese astronauts spent their longest time in space and also in that year china completed construction of the world's largest radio telescope now this has been enabling astronomers to better understand the shape of the universe and also potentially identify alien forms of life now in two thousand and thirteen which was

the year that president xi jinping assumed office china managed to do what only russia and the united states had done before they managed to land a craft on the moon this was known as the jade rabbit and it was a a huge cause of national celebration here in china china has also big ambitions for the future in twenty twenty it hopes to put a probe on to mars and this year later this year it intends to put a craft on to the dark side of the moon something that no country has ever done before now if both these missions are successful they will be a symbolic triumph for china's ruling communist party. now welsh cyclist garang thomas has sealed his maiden tour de france title they've achieved has more from paris. the thirty two year old welsh thomas said fighting in self wearing the yellow shirt was like being in the middle of a whirlwind i will take time for things to settle down but tens of thousands of

supporters have gathered here in paris to watch him make that final sprint for victory bowed to its friends simply as she he's earned the respect of his fellow professionals in one of those ruling races in sports or in the world it's great the brits are doing so well in the cold fronts so that it builds up the support for cycling back home it deserves a you know he's been. left handed to prove we're games before him it's his time it's been an amazing race and just like it is every year in whoever works the hardest and does the best and doesn't use the wrong drugs gets to him but not everybody here has been cheering team sky's remarkable run of six victories out of seven consecutive races the only one. that's it and it's to battle through to get catch. maybe when that smart or maybe somebody

help. goes after makes or sting journey of three thousand three hundred fifty one kilometers those last few steps up to victory podium will be no effort for governor thomas and he will be eating more than usual burgers and beer for his celebration risaldar. quick reminder of the top stories this hour now a palestinian teenager whose arrest by israeli security forces sparked outrage around the world has been released from prison i had tamimi was sentenced to eight months jail time off to kicking and sacking an israeli soldier. entered her family's property she's denounced the jailing of children by israel and called for palestinian unity did they 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 if

a male soldier during the interrogation i never got that in the three interrogation sessions instead of one interrogator there were two they interrogated me for long hours and my plans for the future to continue my university studies and study lord 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 meanwhile a boat loaded with aid for gaza has been intercepted by the israeli navy and is now being a score 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 paloma 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. 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 and the military saying he could not endorse those who have illegally taken

power is that the opposition's nelson chamisa was the only viable candidate. elections in mali as well voters are choosing the next president to the vote has been mobbed by an attack apparently aimed at a polling station in the north of the country militants five ten mortars near the city of condell so far no casualties have been reported and what are being described as flaming tornadoes have destroyed entire neighborhoods in northern california u.s. police say at least five people have been killed by these wildfires including two children seventeen others are missing in the city of reading. well as the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera its inside story.

a turning point in zimbabwe the ruling party is put to the test in the first election without robert mugabe for forty years but the former president who was overthrown last year makes a surprise appearance and refuses to back his successor this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. millions of zimbabweans who have lived for years under relentless poverty corruption and voter violence are deciding their future monday's election is being seen as a major test for the ruling zanu p.