life in cuba today. taught a course under my boss hang on me when i hear a lot of long ago i may hang my cue on al-jazeera. this is. a low i maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes she's become a symbol of palestinian resistance and is vowing to continue the fight that's the message from my head to mimi on her release from jail for slapping an israeli soldier. in cambodia the ruling party claims victory intellectually described as a sham by critics. thousands of firefighters battle water being described as

flaming tornadoes as northern california has monster wildfire burns for a fourth day. i don't peter standing in doha with all the day's sport as great britain's curing thomas wins he's first grand to a title winning the tour de france better more later this new selma. alabama teenager who became a symbol of resistance against the israeli occupation has been freed from jail seventeen year old i had tamimi was jailed for slapping and kicking an israeli soldier images and footage of the incident lifestream by a mother went viral on social media and the internet she's now back home and she remains defiant andrew symonds has the story from not be in 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 had to mimi is profoundly different tasting freedom with.

jail time with greeted by her father as she's already being revered by palestinians as an icon of resistance to the occupation we are a good thing don't get about 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. 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 prisoner's 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 needs of you can't live normally i feel some die guilty because we can't in the basin and it's become the do it and that is what's with the wars 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 will expect more defiance from had to me her jail sentence is more likely the beginning not the end of her protest action andrew simmons al-jazeera the seller in the occupied west bank and a short time ago andrey spoke with i had to meet me about her ordeal. then through a geisha and was really hard i was subject to sever violations the interrogator used scene words to me there were no female soldiers there and i have a right to that i had two little interviewers questioning me also as a minor they didn't even charge a family member to be there which was my right so what are your plans now. i anything i can do to deliver the message of palestine to do for my country will

leave a positive mark a sight and make me optimistic of course no palestinian spirit in every palestinian house there's a prisoner a martyr only the person i'm not the only people who describe you as like on june tenth as a good politics perhaps and. maybe with time when i'm able i might think about it coming up at this and at some point. well israel's cabinet has been discussing tommies release the agriculture minister called a terrorist. group i think israel acts too mercifully with these types of terrorists and all this israel should treat harshly those it's soldiers we can't have a situation where there is no deterrence lack of deterrence leads to that reality we see now you can change that we must change. well to me means detention has cost the spotlight on the number of mine is being held in israeli prisons israel's military juvenile court was established in two thousand and nine and rights groups

argue this is the mosques human rights abuses under a facade of the galaxy as of the end of may two hundred ninety one palestinian miners were in israeli jails as security detainees and prisoners that includes three palestinian mine is held under what's called administrative detention which means that they are to ten without charges or trial another six miners are held in israel's prison service facilities for being in israel illegally israel says the courts allow a great deal of parental involvement rights groups say a vast majority of cases never even go to trial and instead in a plea bargain well so hard frances is the director and human rights lawyer it adds american prisoners support and human rights association she says that isn't enough parental involvement allowed during court proceedings. it's very limited and restricted the specially on the time of the in total 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 a child for up to twenty days. like most of the period of that into the families of course are not allowed to visit and they can communicate just in the time 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. when all the developments are 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 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 or child strafford joins us live now from ashdod charles what do we know about the location of the boat. we know very little about the location of the boat what we do know though is that it was around about six hours ago that the israeli military released

this statement saying that they had in intercepted this boat the they said that it was intercepted because it was trying to violate the the legal blockade on gaza or said that the interception was done according to international lord said that it had been monitoring the boat and was waiting for it to arrive in that area before intercept to get it was around about the same time that a statement was released by the organization organizing this for the tiller the international freedom flotilla and they said that that the governments of the various people on board that vessel should act immediately called on relevant organizations to do exactly the same it's important to recognize though that in the same statement. in the same information that was given out by that organization they say that they fully they were fully prepared for these raids to

do exactly this they had seen it happen on numerous occasions before these attempts to try and. break the gaza blockade but they said it was important that it was done as a means of trying to draw international attention to the suffering of the two million people living in gaza underneath this this twelve year siege by israel and tell us more about that explain why these boats and trying to break the blockade of gaza and have made this journey what are living conditions like inside the territory. it's difficult to really to describe the level of poverty the level of suffering of the people inside gaza i often try and describe it in terms of contrasting it with the area immediately north of gaza when you drive to gaza through israel through southern israel you're ineffectually what feels like a first world country there are amazingly cool well manicured well maintained farms

that you drive through you drive through towns that have shopping malls and people drinking coffee you then gate to there is crossing the border crossing with gaza it's when you get into gaza that it's quite astounding as i say fifty percent of the two million population living under the poverty line fifty percent on the employed some areas getting as little as four hours of electricity a day rule sewerage being pumped into the ocean because there isn't the fuel to power the sewerage plants and when you speak to the people you understand how desperate they are they fear but actually ignored by the international community they feel let down by fatah dominate the state in all thorough as well of course israel will say this is a fantasy. they say that is to blame for the such as ns but when you've seen as we. apologies for that. be speaking to

charles trafford a little bit later but nonetheless we got the gist of what he was saying there are two boats trying to break a blockade of gaza to take supplies and aid into the territory because of difficult living conditions that of course it's not the first time we've seen activists attempting to break the blockade of gaza by israel and it's made the journey across the mediterranean sea over the past ten years stephanie deca now reports. the so-called freedom flotilla sailed from italy just over a week ago a host of international activists on board all with one aim to reach gaza symbolically breaking israel's navy blockade and bringing with them thousands of dollars worth of much needed medical supplies and. what happened today is that the flotilla was fifty nautical miles from gaza's waters in the israeli navy came and asked them to return they refused and insisted to continue the navy then seize the

boat the activists on board were hoping to reach gaza after sunset and if they had they would have received a huge welcome but as expected they haven't been allowed to get anywhere close they've been intercepted by the israeli navy and taken to the israeli port of ashdod thirty one boats have been used by international activists to try to break israeli naval blockade over the last ten years the only time they managed was back when they started in two thousand and eight since then every single one has been intercepted by the israeli navy its passengers detained and deported the most controversial attempt was in twenty ten israeli forces stormed the mavi marmara and opened fire killing ten and wounding many more israeli troops say the passengers attacked and the controversy and protests which followed calls turkey to withdraw its ambassador from tel aviv and expelled israel's from ankara it was six years before diplomatic ties were restored and israel agreed to pay compensation to the families of the dead subsequent patellas of escaped attack but not interception and

despite most activists knowing that the israeli navy will never allow their boats to reach gaza they say they will continue to try in order to raise awareness of israel seach stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza. to cambodia now where the ruling body says it's won a landslide in sunday's election paving the way for leader unsent to extend his thirty three you rule although twenty parties took part 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 the us and japan refused to send election observers why now 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 sends 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 band 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 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 there was no. talk of. easing the war but without any reaction. so not. fair. 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. if al-jazeera much will have for you on the program going to be live in mali very shortly where polls have just closed in an election dominated by security zimbabwe's ousted president robert mugabe turned his back on his old ruling party a day before monday's historic vote. to extend his formula one championship lead with a dominant performance in hungary. two children and their great grandmother are among the five killed in northern california more than thirty eight thousand people remain on the evacuation orders in and around the u.s. city of reading about two hundred fifty seven kilometers north of the state capital sacramento on saturday president declared the wildfire an emergency authorizing

federal funds for disaster relief efforts. california and joins us live now gabriel what is it like the way you are. well i got to tell you it feels like you're on the moon because in this little town of keswick everything has been destroyed take a look at this it gives you a better idea of how bad the destruction is here the town of keswick was about five to seven hundred people a small town about twenty minutes outside of redding california little mountain community and as you can see when this fire roared through here it burned and destroyed everything in its path people were frantically packing up and leaving here as fast as they could and as you can see there are no people here right now because they have not been allowed back into their homes or businesses here because this is still an area that's under mandatory evacuation and look might look like

the fire is over and at least here in the town of keswick it is but surrounding communities around here the fire is still burning very large and very fast it's still only five percent contained firefighters say they have no idea when they're going to get a handle on this fire but it is already approaching many other communities and they're basically trying to defend those places that have not been burned down yet and get people out of the path of this really devastating fire and we're talking about nearly forty thousand people that are under orders to evacuate what are the challenges logistically in moving this many people out of the area. fortunately a lot of people here go to reading and the reading is still open for business for the most part it's a lot of stores are shut down but people are getting to reading they've got about four or five different shelters set up there a lot of people here it's

a very tight knit community so they're going to live with family or friends in other parts of california but the challenges of this fire have been that it is just burned so hot and so fast in so many different directions i mean look at this bus you see here you can just get a sense of how devastating this fire was it was a fire that was burning as a tornado or as a windstorm almost burning embers and and wind in this direction and normally firefighters say at night is when the fire kind of dissipates a bit make it a get a handle on it but here at night the fire is actually growing in size because of the high winds in the middle of the night here so the key factor is getting people out of here moving people to safe areas but the challenges are real they already have four four thousand firefighters here they've called in several hundred national guard to help with this effort as well state of emergency as you mentioned everyone here says this is the worst fire they've seen in california at least in northern california for decades thank you very much gabriel in as way

when our fight is of attack the northern mali and city of kid l. firing several mortars including one near a polling station is comes as millions of millions cost the votes in an election that's been dominated by security concerns amid a growing threat from al qaida an armed groups present every him is hoping to secure a second term but faces a challenge from sixty eight year olds to my ss say. there is mohammad vall is in the capital bamako and joins us now. mohammed security was always going to be the big issue in this election apart from this more to shell attack near a polling station how smoothly has voting then today. yes i can say that here in the capital bamako it has gone smoothly throughout the day we have been touring some stations or some polling stations including the one where i'm standing now by the way it has just closed at the top of this hour it has

been smooth as i said for a while today or so in the south no reports of major incidents in the north what you have just mentioned there in mortar shells and also some unknown people confiscated some ballot boxes in the area of timbuktu outside timbuktu and in agony hawk just further north from some shelling also on a base with some u.n. and french troops there but no reports of specific casualties there have been threats to do this by armed groups linked to al qaeda in the islamic magreb for the last several weeks they warmed up they will try to disrupt this election particularly in those areas in the north mali has been going through some difficult times during the last few years and incidents of violence incidents have been increasing of late particularly in the center around the area of mctee where ethnic

fighting between several groups there has caused hundreds of deaths and displacement in that area some mass graves were found there also. that's why there has have even been talking about the possibility that this election will not be organized on shed you will but it is happening and the government has been proud of the fact the president has mentioned it when he when he voted today. that to now this is the end of rumors that money has finally voted the mako see is. underway however we don't know what will happen in the next hours because also now begins the counting of votes we don't know how many yet we don't know if there are some people who will you know claim that there has been some rigging but something that we should know in the next few hours as the counting of votes progresses is it likely to the viewed or perceived as

a free and fair election hunt what we have seen hundreds of observers from the e.u. and from the african union from other bodies international bodies hundreds of them have been we have we're also talking to some of them they told us that most of the time they haven't seen anything that you know they can describe as you know fraudulent or rigging of the election but the opposition has already been talking to some opposition parties have already been talking to them during the election campaign about attempts on the part of the government to rig the election but there has been no proof of that that has been produced to the media so far you know in countries like mali where you know the state has no presence in many areas there can always be some planes and counterclaims with regards to this this type of things and i thank you very much with all the latest from bamako where the polls have now closed mohammed vul.

zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe is given a surprise news conference on the eve of monday's elections speaking in the capital the ninety four year old turned his back on his form a zanu p.f. policy in the military saying he couldn't endorse the illegally taken power from harare harm matteis to reports. it's the second time robert mugabe has spoken to reporters since he was forced from office last november his reappearance hours before monday's general election was a surprise so was what he said he says he won't be voting for the rulings out of p.s. the party he laid for so long or endorse his successor him assuming that. the m.d.c. we. do through others. through

remembrance and or remote. rocked. i think is just. so. the leader of the main opposition nelson chamisa says he welcomes every vote he can get it is not made judy is it kind of going to choose what we're going to this election to choose what it is we are going to be chosen so if someone says they are likely to have a favorable disposition in my favor we're mine to deny that extra vote that will make the fundamental win that we want women. the ninety four year old says because for office by the r.d. was unconstitutional it is one of the last appearance of a race and a grant to an african politician to support the sayings that has influence in the ruling party and i mean what he says could influence how some people vote.

and the opposition alliance have called in relatively large crowds at campaign rallies some analysts say monday's election could be a tight race that was a major weakness might be the fact you may have some people supporters will be sympathetic to robert mugabe and there's room enough for the so-called for the opposition also on the other hand as a primary challenge of having had to have a fire campaign a divided opposition but also not so much of a campaign in the rural areas of. president when i got my says he's confident he's going to win and that the election will be free and international observers have been invited for the first time and sixteen years have said a credible poll could help exert international isolation after decades of political and economic instability. i'll just have. to say we're here on the news hour from london indonesia's government just calm after an earthquake rocks the island

of long block killing more than a dozen people floodwaters recede in laos but fick mud is hampering efforts to reach survivors following last week's dam collapse. and in sports a stunning gold caps off. a nice michigan. hello we missed fifty yesterday were remiss fifty's you 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 we see share a tune that might be repeatable otherwise it's just dry 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 size through kuwait 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 yeah we've had some pretty big showers and 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 now rather weak looking cloud it will amount to nothing just about sixteen degrees in cape town twenty in durban your notice the breeze not as strong as it was are up to twenty seven in botswana so it's warming up steadily cape town's clouds well it might be a promise of things to come but if you want a lot of rain or can't really promise you that. istanbul is known for its history and food today

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welcome back a quick reminder of 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 these rain occupation. cambodia's ruling party says it's won a landslide victory in sunday's election paving the way phillida incentive prolonging his thirty three years in power human rights groups have dismissed the vote as a sham though with the main opposition banned from taking part. and presidential elections in mali have been mobbed by an attack apparently aimed at a polling station in the north of the country. fighters fired ten more says near

the city of get out but so far no casualties have been reported. here to discuss what we can expect from this election is paul malley he's an associate fellow of the africa program at the chatham house think tank here in london thank you very much for taking the time to come in and speak to us we were speaking to our correspondent in mali a little bit earlier and he was saying that voting in bamako has been fairly smooth but that was this incident we were just talking about in the north of the country with mortar shells being fired at a polling station would you say by and large this has been a peaceful election yes by and large this is less trouble more more to fear. the place that was attacked the are going to come because in the middle of the sahara desert and even the place near timbuktu a few ballot boxes disrupted but we're talking about communities where very tiny number of voters live the overwhelming majority of molly ends of had the possibility if they wished to at least take part in a normal election in a normal way and it has to be said turnout in mali is really very high but at least

they've had a chance. how might a low turnout impact the done the dynamics here. president abraham boubacar kato did quite well in the election in two thousand and thirteen but since then there have been these security concerns could undermine support for him now yes the biggest challenge that he faces the is that when he was elected in twenty thirty it was on a wave of pride after the liberation of the north which had been taken over by jihad ists for most of the year and at that time he campaigned really on a very general sort of national restoring mali's self belief program and now five years later many people are asking tough questions there's a lot of disillusioned many many people are disappointed despite the peace agreements and there certainly has been progress in some respects but there's also

been a deepening of violence in the center of the country and the be quite a few corruption scandals and of course for ordinary malia's many of whom don't live in the conflict affected zones what affects them is the quality of everyday services stories about whether supplies in schools or whether for example there was a scandal about fertilizer for farmers that sort of thing which affects a lot of ordinary voters so his problem is just keeping enthusiasm going. and if no one wins more than fifty percent of the vote in the first round there will be a second vote i think on august the twelfth what what is your assessment of the opposition's chances in a runoff vote well the opposition has a stronger chance that in twenty thirty one the leading opposition candidate so majlis uses the same guy and he has a tendency to lapse into rather dry technocratic language opposition parties are better organized and the candidates likely to come third and fourth have openly

their campaign teams have openly talked about the need to. present a common front and challenge kater so he could face quite a tough runoff if it goes to august twelfth it could be quite a tight result and in that period of time between the first and second round i mean were you talking a few weeks but could we see a spike in violence we could well see a spike in violence either jihad is the tax which would be if you like deliberately organized because the jihadist movements are coordinate a seed they have commanders they have an alliance or we could see an upsurge in the sort of sporadic almost spontaneous into communal violence and banditry which is modern situation in central mali so there are factors that are completely beyond the government's control and one of the challenges is if we are between these two rounds of the government needs to appear governing decisive with a president who looks presidential and yet mali and they're asking themselves is

this really the person we want to lead the country for the next five years that is quite a difficult situation it's probably more difficult for the opposition than for the president but either way it could be quite a serious test and the track record of the last eighteen months would suggest that mali rarely goes through a week or two without some sort of violence it's not a place we often get speak about but thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on this for this poll nearly from chatham house. now at least fourteen people including five children have been in a state of 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 step vasan 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 out of 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 physicians were climbing mount when 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 his stuff to return to malaysia. the quake or several landslides and the volcano has been closed to visitors in the news as 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 steadfast and al-jazeera. iraq's prime minister is

suspended the electricity minister after weeks of protests against power outages and poor public services. demonstrations continued on sunday in a number of cities in the south of the country hyderabadi imposed curfews and cut internet access in some areas human rights watch is accused iraqi special forces of using lethal force against some of the protesters well earlier i spoke to run out months or who's a specialist on politics in iraq he said the protest movement is being joined from people right across iraqi society. well one of the sort of interesting things of these protests is that they're largely leaderless there's no real political leader or big organization that's running them they're spontaneous there are sporadic at some point even neighborhoods coming together professional unions coming together different employees sort of coming together colleagues. and it's really showing

a big divide and that is the divide between the political class and the people and so even in the past when you have someone like look everyone knows as one of the leaders of the protests was that there is no so that in this point and they're just all frustrated with all politicians and for the first time really they're actually attacking the sort of offices of the different political parties in the south how significant is it that there are many people in this part of the country in the south that are expressing that outrage at the government corruption and the ruling political parties this is something that's been stirring for some time many iraqis have said you know especially where you have almost all of iraq's oil wealth and they're sitting on it and they see these international companies and they see their politicians becoming wealthy and they don't really see a trickle down to them it's a destitute area and so they think it's really unfair and you have an election just a few months ago and the result of the election really looks like the next four

years the same leaders and so that many iraqis who are protesting just don't buy it anymore they don't buy that these leaders are actually serious about fixing the system about corruption and so that's why they're kind of moving and protesting they just it starts off with basic needs the temperature is too hot there's no electricity there's no water they don't have jobs these are basic needs and they don't think that the current political class is either willing or able to do it given the political limbo period that we're in right now. how does that affect the government's ability to tackle the causes of these protests are they likely to get . an escalation before this situation dies down well i mean we'll have to see as i say because the protests are largely sort of spontaneous and confined there's no real glue that can bring them together like some other would a few years ago but certainly it's a caretaker government the parliament is in convening but many iraqis are like even if the gun when the government was there didn't really do much anyway so they're

not really you know what they're looking at the government they don't really think that the same leaders can call the change something important happened a few days ago grand ayatollah ali sistani came out and the sermon from the biggest sort of authority came out and said we need to change we need a new leader and so that's been a way to look at how to inspire some of the people and that was a very significant call so then is the you said that it's spontaneous grassroots very organic all these protests likely to remain leaderless or could we see. youth leaders possibly imagine from this so i mean from my conversations and my travels around there are youth leaders there are civil society leaders professionals as i say lawyers engineers who are sort of trying to emerge but oftentimes if you're not part of a political party or part of the elite you don't have the finances you don't have the capabilities and you're often shut down so it's hard to really imagine what

this change will look like because those in power don't want change but certainly these protests will continue and if they're shut down the continue over the years until the system is changed your rocky's are calling for regime change they're not calling to change leaders they're calling to change the system which is much bigger of a task i think for the current leadership to tackle. well now emergency teams in laos are continuing to search for survivors as flood waters that begin to recede official sources say eight bodies have been recovered and one hundred twenty others remain missing following the collapse of a dam in southern atropos province and as lawrence louis reports from strong trying in northern cambodia it's not just laos that's been affected 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 they 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 dabs 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 villages from their homes should have been issued earlier florence louis al-jazeera still trying cambodia still airfoil on the program celebrating sixty years since the us began its journey to boldly go where it had gone before but what could the future bring and nasa. and its for a bad day at the office for this finish rally driver. crashing out in his home in. a survivor of the genocide there are people who beg me to kill them when they're suffering but it wouldn't have been hard to do who's dedicated his life to searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. in the curious to draw. you know hope of finally laying the past to rest and giving peace

to the victims' families because if i could just find a finger i could bury him bone hunter on al-jazeera. corrupt officials have been ousted. and activists of the chinese village will take center stage and on the president of local elections. in the first of a remarkable series filmed over five years al-jazeera documents of a new village committed. rebels to politician. wannabe crack china's democracy experiment on the edge is there.

a comeback from putting a man on the moon to sending unmanned missions to the milky way and to mas there's no denying nasa sixty years have been filled with some notable triumphs but in recent years the space agency has seen its funding reduced and it's been forced to partner with private firms like space x. to get its ideas off the ground shavar tansey 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 came here at long term time 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 matter to 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 just look at our political leaders keep moving the goalposts around changing destinations from asteroids and war. i mean these are long term horizon goals are 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 us 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 change denier jim brandon stein as mass administrator there were fears that earth sciences would suffer but remarkably up to six weeks in the drug brighton stein converted i don't deny the consensus. that the climate is changing and thought 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 characterized massa's human missions into space for the

moment at least the agency's urgent investigations into the state of our own planet are secure. when in recent decades china has been racing to catch up with u.s. and russian space programs in two thousand and sixteen it sent more rockets into space than russia and by two thousand and twenty it's planning to send a craft to maz adrian brown has more on this now 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 came after the u.s. for with peter. marion thank you very much great britain's gehring thomas has been crowned tour de france champion while alexander christophe of norway put in a superb final sprint on the shelves elisei to win sunday's final stage but the day was all about thomas the champagne bottle had already been open to celebrate his ride into paris thomas who has now won his first grand to become the first welshman to win the sort of france and the third brit after bradley wiggins and chris froome who finished third this year tom was the second position and british and team sky riders have now won six of the last seven tours. david chase is in paris and has more on that maiden win for gay rights office. the thirty two year old welshman thomas said funny and 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 though to his friends simply as she sees it and the respect of his fellow professionals in one of most moving races in sports in the world it's great that the brits are doing so well in the top france so that it builds up the support for cycling back home it deserves a you know he's been the. best tenant to prove we're games before him his time it's been an amazing race and just like it is every year and 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 have anyone. that's it and it's to battle through and get catch. maybe within that smart or maybe somebody

helped. off an exhausting journey of three thousand three hundred fifty one kilometers those last few steps up the victory podium with no effort for governor thomas and he'll be eating more than his usual burgers and beer for his celebration . lewis hamilton has made it back to back for me one victories of the winning in hungary the bridge has extended these chamish would be to twenty four points off the dominating throughout the race. miss eighties wasn't expected to do well and hungry but after getting lucky in qualifying lewis hamilton didn't look back on a track that is difficult to pass on and with down terry bought s acting as a roadblock ferrari could only hope that the silver arrows would suffer reliability issues. instead it was vis a losing position after a problem with his front left tire during his pit stop one lap thirty nine i must

say he's one to head been looking on the counts but with both hands struggling for grip will use the advantage of d.r.s. to get past the fern with five laps remaining the german surviving the contact to finish second with brighton and i was leeward quite lucky that he didn't take us out so. yeah i could have had a punch as well and then it could have been. a disaster for my they are they we had a pretty good bit today but. i'm not that it's like that but. for the next that leigh a lack of downforce from his broken front wing process crashed again this time heading down your counter there was no such drama for lewis hamilton he finished seventeen seconds ahead of the ferrari's for a six when in hungary. a tough race for us we came for us we came to fight so. we came in knowing that the prize would be real quick this weekend but to come out with a point i would definitely take is

a bonus but. it deserved a holiday this kind of hamilton goes into the summer shutdown with a twenty four point advantage over the vessel in the championship standings he is also well aware that the upcoming race is inspiring monza a much more suited to was calm cool planned with al-jazeera. to occur as one rarely firman but it wasn't such a good day for he's team mate far from me don't be where we. finish driver esa-pekka lackey rolling his car just a kilometer from the end of stage when. time to change the sick and will really cherish it when all the season off to not taking any risks on sunday to finish fifty two seconds ahead of mads aust. liverpool have thrashed the english premier league rivals manchester united for one in the pre-season international champions cup saudia manet started off the scoring for liverpool at michigan state in the united states an equaliser for man united didn't seem to steer the reds down

daniel sturridge brought them back in front at sixty six minutes and michael was capped off by swiss forwards jordan chicanery who lost his little debut with a stunning bicycle kick. it's a preseason game so you don't make mistakes you should lose that's ok it's good as well and today we don't make it big of course it's a pre-season game but. it was a good game one from the point of no i'm happy with that. feels good atmosphere is good but if i was them i wouldn't come. i'll wouldn't come i'll just spend my money to see these teams i wouldn't spend my money. it was a better day for united's local rivals then so do you feel that a young side against by and munich the premier league champions winning three two but not a silver scoring twice in the way. barcelona is new for malcolm is making a positive start for the spanish champions helping them secure

a hard fought win in the international champions cup bassa looked to have everything in control against the english club taught them as they went into halftime with a tuna lead but two goals in two minutes for spurs change there is the ninety minutes ended two two the game went to penalties and that's where malcolm struck the brazilian helping boss a win the shootout finally. after being soundly beaten in the test series south africa has bounced back to win the first one day international against sri lanka on sunday south africa were asked to a bowl first up to sri lanka when the task force sort about or did the damage up front and finished with four wickets spend but it's a brace shamsi also claiming another four sri lankan wickets the hosts were never able to really get going rule out for one hundred ninety three in under thirty five overs in reply of south africa's captain faf duplicity and clinton because both school forty seven the match was stood in the balance with the proteas at one

hundred twenty nine for four but j.p. duminy club fifty three not out from just thirty two balls see the tourists win by five wickets with nineteen overs to spare. dillion white says he wants a second crack at unified heavyweight world champion anthony joshua of the beating jos of parker on saturday parker was knocked down twice in the fight the first time any pro career that he has hit the canvas packers' camp but left i'm happy after the referee allowed the big white to repeatedly lean on the new zealand the british fighter beating the former w.b. a world champion by unanimous decision that makes it eight wins in a row for the thirty year old whose only loss was against joshua. but it's back to london and merriam. to thank you all that wraps up the news out but my colleague john hall will be with you very shortly with much more of the day's news a full roundup of the top stories coming up very shortly stay with out is there

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a struggling economy and frustration amongst many other voters means the results on the object is still hard to predict follow this involve the election analysis center. denounced by israel hailed as a symbol of resistance for palestinians teenager i had tommy needs jail. welcome to the program i'm jonah this is al jazeera live from london also coming up zimbabwe's ousted president robert mugabe gives he's backing to the opposition a day before monday's historic vote. the polls have closed in mali where president . cato's bid to win another term hangs in the balance. and.