power investigates the state of lebanon on a just. after eight months palestinian teenager and activist i head to mimi is released from an israeli prison. hi there i'm jonah this is al jazeera live from long also coming up zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe intervenes on the eve of the country's election to back the opposition candidate thousands of firefighters battle what are being described as flaming tornadoes in northern california. and floodwaters recede in laos but think mud is hampering efforts to reach survivors following last week's collapse.

a teenage palestinian activist who was jailed for kicking and slapping an israeli soldier has been released from prison seventeen year old i had to meet me urged people to continue to fight against the israeli occupation and to simmons' us the story from nabil sala in the occupied west back. if we dread jail ordeal much the same as hundreds experienced by young palestinians every year but the case of had to mimi is profoundly different with her mother now a man who shared jail time with her she was greeted by her father i had to mimi is already being portrayed by public opinion as an icon of resistance to the occupation of the love of the modern she spoke on a range of political issues including the rights of children in israeli jails to get education and sit exams as she managed to do after pressuring the authorizes. later she told out zira she was deprived of some rights in jail to enter

a geisha i was really hard i was subject to sever violations into gaither used scene words to me i'm against there were no female soldiers here and i have a right to that i had two little interrogators questioning me also as a minor they didn't even charge family member to be there which was my rights people are describing you as an icon do you intend to take up politics perhaps and . maybe with time went on even i might think about it coming up in addition at some point. the prison sentence was for this head slapping israeli soldiers outside her home filmed by her mother never mind the video went viral then it was arrested a short time later her mother was also detained. a father who spent most of his life as an activist with several prison terms says he's both proud and sad i had lost her childhood must have been a job she can't live normally i feel i feel some type guilty because we can't in

the basin and it's become but of the do it and that is wanted to avoid children 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 and so this is the face the palestinians and the israeli security forces expect to represent more defiance to the occupation. it may be a start and not an end to her actions andrew simmons al-jazeera nabby seller in the occupied west bank israel's cabinet discussed to me in his release the agriculture minister called her a terrorist. so. 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 lack of deterrence leads to that reality we see now you can change that we must change that a fishing boat carrying aid for gaza has been it intercepted by the israeli navy and is now under escort towards the sports 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 charles strafford has more from ashdod. the israeli ministry released a statement saying that the navy had intercepted this vessel because it was trying to violate what it describes as the illegal blockade on gaza or is said that the navy had been monitoring and indeed the interception of this vessel was carried out according to international law it was around about the same time that the older guys ation responsible for this flotilla put out a statement calling on the governments of the various people on board to act

immediately now the organization the international freedom flotilla coalition says that it was fully aware that there was a very strong chomps that israel was going to do this that israel was going to stop this flotilla from reaching but he said it was important that it was done anyway as a means of trying to highlight the suffering of the gazans on the international stage and i have just come from gaza today and trying to describe the conditions for the two million people living there is very very difficult fifty percent of the population living in under the poverty line around fifty percent unemployed not enough fuel to power for example sewerage plants rule sewerage flowing into the sea when you speak to the people of gaza you understand how desperate they have become they feel completely isolated. ignored by the international community let down by

the palestinian leadership in ramallah. and when you see the protests that we've seen for the last eighteen weeks along the gaza border fence that that shows you just how desperate these people are one hundred fifty more than one hundred fifty people killed in those protests so as i say the aim of the this flotilla according to the organization that has put it together is to highlight some of those terrible issues for the almost two million people. living in gaza today well it's not the first time that activists have attempted to break the blockade of gaza or than thirty boats of made the journey across the mediterranean sea over the past decade stephanie decker has more from gaza. 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 israelis 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 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 zimbabwe where opposition leader nelson chamisa has been reported to the police for holding an unlawful press conference on the eve of elections when campaigning is no longer allowed. to received an endorsement from an unlikely source former president robert mugabe who said he was the only viable candidate and zanu p.f. leader and current president emerson i'm gonna go on has accused the pair of

striking a deal from harare here's how. 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 exotic vs the party he laid for so long or endorse his texas or. its. three in d.c. . there's. a remembrance of him or really might. rocked ease.

i think it's just. 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 through this election to choose what it is we are going to be just 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 she speaks was for after spidey are unconstitutional it is one of the last of this generation granted an african politician to support the sayings that has influence in the really hot seat and what is this can influence how some people vote. and the opposition lines have pulled in relatively large crowds at campaign rallies some analysts say monday's election could be a tight race now that was a major weakness might be the fact that you may have some people supporters who may

still be sympathetic to robert mugabe and this for me not for the side for the opposition also on the other hand as a primary challenge of i mean you have to have a quick fire campaign a divided opposition but also not so much of a campaign in the rural areas of. president when i got 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 seen a credible hope of helping international isolation after decades of political and economic instability. next welcome web has been speaking to voters and sent us this report from guru a town in central. zimbabweans will be voting in the first presidential election in nearly forty years while you have 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 he's the presidential candidate for the rulings than e.p.a.'s policy 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 he's also promising to revive the economy he says he'll bring change to tackle corruption and build infrastructure in this town where we are. he says he'll turn it into the new political capital zimbabwe but the key issues for most voters are the economy and jobs. my trades clothes on the street to get by he struggles with zimbabwe's shortage of currency in circulation of what for are far from for new sometimes i want to change we need change. yes. something if you speak for you for forty years but let me just say it might have

done just magic item a tour says she'll welcome any kind of new leadership oh what do we need to change if they didn't to give us that drug does that a drug again being a chant do you think 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 is similar story in urban 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 but the electoral commission and the ruling party deny that anything on toward is going on fighters attacked a northern mali and city of firing several several mortars including one near a polling station. millions in mali and cast their votes in an. election that's

been dominated by the growing threat of al qaeda and other armed groups the county is underway now president abraham kater is hoping to secure a second term but faces a challenge from sixty eight year old similar see say. as the latest from bamako. voting has been going on small city throughout the day sunday here in the modern cups of bamako 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 and should do it 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's most areas where a big challenge for the government here so today the government can boss that some

success has been registered some is students have been reported in the north in some areas around timbuktu a ballot boxes were confiscated by unknown groups a few cases of that happened and of saw some shelling on a u.n. french base in agon hawk in the north but we don't know about 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 still to come in this bulletin cambodia's ruling party claimed victory in an election described as a sham by critics and observers and it's sixteen years since the u.s. pledged to boldly go where no man had gone before nasa celebrates its birthday.

hello there we've been seeing some rather stormy conditions over parts of australia very very violent winds across parts of victoria this is a system responsible it is trying to pull away towards the east but there's more unsettled weather following it so plenty of cloud for the southeast corner and not feeling warm as we head through monday and then more cloud rolls in there as we head into tuesday and then the winds will be picking up as well to the north of all of that it's fine and dry force in sydney warm to add to twenty one degrees and further west cooler we've got seventeen is the maximum in perth and here they could be a fair amount of cloud coming and going at times there over towards new zealand and that system that's just hit australia is working its way towards us it will reach is just yet though so i think for monday it's really the come before the storm his that system as it rolls its way across as most of us are going to have a pretty wet day on tuesday if we had further north of course we had a typhoon that struck us in japan and that's this area of cloud here is just

beginning to work its way southwards now and it's going to hold for just off the south coast of q shoe over the next few days that could cause us quite a few problems because it's going to be throwing plenty of what weather to the north of it as we head through monday and tuesday and they could be very heavy downpours and maybe some flooding. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of the. other stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's what about inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers everybody's going to the. sacrifices that. is going to be so most of. us on al-jazeera.

welcome back here's a quick look at our top stories again a teenage palestinian activist who was jailed for kicking and slapping an israeli soldier has been released from prison seventeen year old i had to mimi urged people to continue to fight against the israeli occupation. zimbabwe's ousted president has denounced his former party under military ahead of elections on monday robert mugabe said he'd vote for the country's opposition candidate rather than indorse those who have quote illegally taken power. and presidential elections in mali have been marred by an attack apparently aimed at a polling station in the north of the country fighters fired mortars near the city of p. down so far no casualties have been reported. emergency teams in laos

continuing to search for survivors as floodwaters there 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 at a pew province florence reports from strong training in northern cambodia it's not just laos that's been affected floodwaters in at upper province in southern laos are slowly receding but the deluge of mud left behind is hampering search operations the 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 hopes they've lost everything. homes were swept away and farmland submerged when an auxiliary dam at the scipio hydroelectric project collapsed on monday parts of neighboring cambodia are also flooded about

five thousand people here in still trying province right next to the border with laos were moved to safety on tuesday there's been no reports of missing persons or casualties floodwaters have begun to recede and the water level in the second 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 villages from their homes should have been issued earlier florence li al jazeera still trying cambodia cambodia's ruling party has claimed victory in an election widely described as a sham by human rights groups current prime minister who has been in office for

over thirteen years is accused of voter intimidation last year he dissolved the main opposition party whose leader is in jail awaiting trial for treason the party's former leader spoke to al-jazeera. the united nations has already set. up at us and the exchequer and the u.s. european union head stockton to take sections how did that section eight games that mr hunt is funny and ate her curly i expect those actions will get worse if i was there in the months that you cops or even better comedy acts and if not a lower jaw running the inside of a backyard. of these fourteen people have been killed in an earthquake on the indonesian island of lombok among them five children 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 karmas aftershocks spread panic in the area stan plus some as 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 raise on the neighboring island of bali ran out of the hotel but no earthquake damage is reported there longbox is also a popular tourist destination and nearly eight hundred visitors 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 her stuff to return to malaysia. the

quake or several landslides and the volcano has been closed to visitors in the region 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 what in 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. what are being described as flaming tornadoes destroyed entire neighborhoods in northern california u.s. police say at least six people have been killed by the wildfires including two children gabriel is on the sent us this update from keswick california. 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. now the u.s. space agency nasa is marking its sixtieth anniversary with the global space race preoccupying us policy makers just as it did back in one thousand nine hundred fifty eight the soviet russian achievement in getting the first satellite into space in one nine hundred fifty seven had shock to us and led to the creation of nasa the following year the soviet union followed this success in april one thousand nine hundred sixty one with the first manned space flight it was of course yuri gagarin orbiting the earth the u.s. was quick to match that achievement in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine apollo

eleven made the first moon landing tshering in several decades of u.s. dominance in space more recently though the superpowers of cooperated on projects like the international space station but since the space shuttle program was ended in two thousand and eleven nasa has been reliant on russian spacecraft to get there and with china joining the party to landing a spacecraft on the moon five years ago nasa is first future and funding rather had become a hot topic on capitol hill or does this now there she have returned explores the final frontier. 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 master 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 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 s s 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 changed. denier jim brandon stein as master administrator there were fears that earth sciences would suffer but remarkably after six weeks in the drug brighton stein converted i don't deny the consensus that the climate is changing in fact 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 obertan see. sarah crevasses a space journalist and astrophysicist she says while nasa is role may change in the future it will always be associated with space exploration. it's about thinking a space is the continent in the world you think and want to have a way of explore governments of going in first in private industry going best so we need to stop thinking of space as an industry and start thinking of a place to do business think of the moon landings as being the columbus moment and we're now entering into this mayflower moment where private industry would do a lot of the heavy lifting particularly in low earth orbit but for as long as we've been looking at the stars not exploring space nasa has been the public face of

space exploration that role will change over the coming decades with international cooperation and private corporation but i think it be a someday if nasa wasn't associated with space on long way in ten years. time before we go for a look at the main headlines again a palestinian teenager whose arrest by israeli security forces sparked outrage around the world has been released from prison 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 for palestinian unity everything can't get the job 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 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 my plans for the future to continue my university studies and study law to raise my country's pause in international forums and to speak about the prisoner's case to the whole world and in the international court a fishing boat carrying aid for gaza has been intercepted by the israeli navy and is now under escort 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. zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe has given a surprise news conference on the eve of monday's election speaking in harare the ninety four year old turned his back on his former zanu p.f. party and the military saying he couldn't indorse those who had quote illegally taken power he endorsed opposition candidate nelson chamisa instead. and there are

elections in mali too where voters are choosing the next president but the vote has been marred by an attack apparently aimed at a polling station in the north of the country fighters fired ten mortars near the city of key down so far no casualties have been reported al qaeda linked militants of threatened to attack voters or to 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 seventeen of us are missing in the city of reading. that's all for now those were the headlines to stay with us al jazeera witness is next. as armine as a velvet revolution has forced the ruling party to step down you have been to russia twice you've just got back from brussels how are you going to balance that relationship between russia and the us armenia's new prime minister told challenges

era. so so. so. so so. early on. in this country that. i certainly didn't want it to be this one but i just feel like. those afghanistan and start are will. always be.