more from kabul. president danny has come out he issued a statement he very rarely does that after bombings and attacks but this time with it being a shia mosque he has come out condemning the attack saying afghanistan will not be divided sunni shia we stand together and we're unified against attacks of this nature now taleban has said this is not they work eisel is suspected they have targeted shia many times especially over the last year there were two attacks here in kabul in march thirty nine people killed both suicide attacks last year there were four quite significant attacks all in kabul suicide attacks and more than one hundred people died in goes again i so took responsibility parliamentary and district elections are coming up on october the twentieth security is a big issue the presidential elections are announced for april next year and it is only everyone's mind not just day to day attacks we've had a couple of attacks on civilians and then province. its operations there and as

you put a few attacks between the taliban and i saw this so this is attacks across the country and civilians really taking the hit and being in the crossfire on those attacks in recent months and of course prison gone is mind he's he's really concerned about the setting up to the elections to the point that he seemed in the national army to afghanistan's fifth biggest city in jalalabad to take control from the police try and shore up security for civilians. the syrian government has been accused of faking the cause of death of thousands of prisoners in a report published by two human rights groups the syrian foundation's platform and the human rights and justice movement presented their findings in istanbul according to the syrian government eight thousand prisoners died from heart attacks asked for cancer or other health causes in the past week alone where the group condemns what they call fake death reports. the conflict

in syria will soon come to an end assad's government is trying to find new ways to avoid being judged at the international criminal court to justify their crimes to their supporters they have reported that thousands of people died because of health reasons it's clear these reports are fake. while i am talking there are thousands and thousands of people being tortured without food and without medical care in assad's prisons the regime tells the family that their relatives have died just to close this chapter of detention this is very dangerous and this is the reason why we came here today to tell the world that thousands of women children old and young people are still detained in tortured and lost their lives because of their opinion and political activity while the world keeps silent. one person has been killed during protests along the gaza israel border palestinian officials say fifty of those were injured when the israeli military used live fire

against demonstrators tensions along the border has been growing with weekly friday protests taking place against israel since. over one hundred fifty palestinians have been killed since the protests began stephanie deca has more now from gaza. it is the nineteenth week of protests and people still keep coming to the scene is really the same you can see now tear gas landing on the crowd the crowds are smaller probably even less than one percent of gaza's population but the message is the same they want their lives to improve on what is different this time is the political negotiations that are going on there is a senior delegation of how mass leaders including solly he is one of the main deputies chief deputy of hamas he's wanted by israel so him coming back here first time in eight years mean there are some kind of guarantees on the table that he won't be touched he comes from cairo they've been negotiations going on there extensively with the with the u.n.

with egypt the bigger picture is this they're trying to establish a long term cease fire with israel they're trying to improve the situation for the people here water elektra's city power openings of borders the details are difficult or complicated but certainly it does seem like something is movement moving hamas is talking the israeli cabinet will be meeting on sunday to discuss this specific issue we've been hearing also from leaders here that these protests nineteen weeks of them have borne fruit so we'll have to wait and see if anything comes out of these talks. jordan's government is coming under fire for a controversial gas project which will see a ten billion dollars pipeline run through israel jordan says the pipeline will help to meet its growing energy needs but critics say it amounts to support for israel's occupation of palestine or from among them harder reports. public opposition in jordan failed to stop this project work has begun on a sixty five kilometer pipeline which is supposed to start bringing gas from israel

in early two thousand and twenty the jordanian government says the deal will save hundreds of millions of dollars a year critics disagree it's a waste of taxpayers' money to support terrorism. but there's ten billion dollars of taxpayers' money that can be invested in. a wide variety of. sources like solar energy stanley belongs to a movement called the enemies gaz is occupation which has been campaigning against the deal since it was signed in two thousand and sixteen for them it's not just about funding israel they don't want jordan to be linked to economically to a country they don't trust. we are hostages of the israeli enemy it makes us vulnerable at any time they can just stop providing us with gas the demand for energy is only growing in jordan already it imports up to ninety five percent of its needs some forty percent will now be provided by israel in the next fifteen

years are enemies gas is occupation is one of many organizations involved in an tight normal isolation campaigns it's been over two decades since jordan signed a peace treaty with israel but that deal is still largely popular a significant portion of jordan's population many of whom are palestinian refugees continue to resist efforts to promote ties with israel. some of the biggest protests in the arab world were held in the jordanian capital after u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital the kingdom rejected trump's decision and has been outspoken against what it calls israel's violations against holy sites in jerusalem this is part of the approach of the jordanian government they say we cared about jerusalem then we signed because. we need. you know for sure. then the

question is why don't you get. got thirty. or get from anywhere else the government however remains committed to the project despite criticism from the public and members of parliament who have still not seen the terms and conditions of the agreement. a man more than one hundred thirty thousand people have been evacuated to shelters across shanghai as tropical storm john dari slams into the city the storm has been downgraded from a typhoon of powerful winds caused more than one hundred fifty flights of the city's two airports to be canceled and more than one hundred twenty public parks to be closed last week john dari caused power outages to thousands of homes in japan and left sixteen people injured. u.s. authorities have cleared parts of lynchburg city of the state of virginia amid fears heavy rain could cause a dam to collapse officials reported the imminent failure of the college lake dam

on thursday local media say it could flood the city with five meters of water in just seven minutes. more weather now meteorologists always warn that it's hard to tie particularly extreme weather events like floods and typhoons to global warming well record temperatures are now being seen across the world as shown in this map from the university of maine's climate change institute and that's widely being seen as confirmation of what the scientists have been warning us about for years or last week japan saw its highest temperature ever forty one point one degrees celsius or fifty thousand people have been treated for heat stroke their records are being broken in north america too in death valley california the average for july was forty two point three degrees celsius the hottest month recorded anywhere in the world ever north africa is used to the heat of course but even there the temperature of fifty one point three logged in the sahara desert

last month set a new record and all eyes are now in spain and portugal where it's expected to reach forty seven degrees and the european record temperature of forty eight degrees could indeed be broken in the next two days well from montoro in southern spain karl penhall reports on how people are coping there. by a bend in the river spain's hottest town. it's only mid-morning and the temperature in one dawdle is already above thirty celsius. ninety two year old olive farm appeared to more assured that every year the summer months at getting hotter were hard war if it carries on like this i think the earth could catch fire and the world would come to an end. this corner of spain is on heat wave alert but the local police chief is confident they can handle it. there's no alarm here people are smart the old folk have passed down the

know how from generation to generation like a secret recipe. this is one of those recipes. traditional despatcher tomato olive oil vinegar and garlic. this is essential it has a lot of vitamins and when it's served fresh it revives your body the pharmacy thermometer marks a high of forty one degrees well shy of last year's spanish record of forty seven point three celsius. down the street the rodriguez sisters sell air conditioning the higher the heat the bigger the fan i mean i mean that we only have an equal in the past there was even a secret language with the fans depending on how woman moved her fan she would send a message. next door basket weaver. blames plastic

and the younger generations for the demise of old fashioned natural fibers that he uses for everything from window blinds to food hampers. you don't need a fridge you put your food or somewhere in here to keep them fresh just closed elite narrow streets white walls and cobbles all designed to keep montoro as cool as possible the spanish formula for staying safe seems quite simple stay off the street stay inside and take a siesta a little response by the fountain as evening temperatures dip but the heat wave is set to continue culp in all al-jazeera spain. well the searing heat is hampering efforts to contain forest fires in spain fight as the working through forty degree heat of a sudden spanish province of twelve to contain blazes there twenty one planes and

helicopters are also involved in the effort to contain the fire near san cristobal natural park. now let's talk more about all of this these weird weather conditions with glenn mcgregor who's a professor of climatology at durham university joining us live via skype many thanks for joining us these these conditions i mean if indeed meteorologists do say you can't necessarily link weather conditions to climate change i mean how worried should we be this time. i think we've got an exceptional situation developing the iberian peninsula by portugal with temperatures forecast to reach forty seventh grader write a report that the world. raised possibly forty eight degrees so there's an exceptional situation i. think although i'm not used to that kind of

a. chorus from different parts of europe. they are warming and of course these extremes occurring on background. increasing numbers of all or climate change change so. that. the probability in one direction increasing likelihood of extreme events like this in the future skeptics might say you know in this country all the talk over the last few weeks a couple of weeks of heat wave is all about the great some of drought of one hundred seventy six others might point to athens extreme temperatures in one hundred seventy nine they'll say look there is extreme temperatures that have taken place over the years. don't be so quick to point to climate change what is the connection here and how clear is it. well if you consider the u.k. nine hundred seventy six which you mentioned already we know from records across

the country that had the driest. first summer. on record already. some of the records. nineteen and i suspect twenty eight saying now. are ready for summer in relation to have the. saints. with rising global temperatures as essentially increases the probability of six train. let's think that say the base level of empathy. you imagine your your jumping up and down on a trampoline and you're a fighter there from full length then you will you know jumping at a higher heart. this is why for the warming is causing to

somewhere where reaching the higher strains and the observational record they say very clearly that i was thirty four years are experiencing an increasing frequency of the strain temperatures and which resonate was one of the climate change. projections are right on that point just remind our viewers that if you if you would blend weather so the global fight against climate change stands right now because the consensus the international consensus that activists crave does seem to rather have for an apartment in particular with the trumpet ministrations exit from the process can we still row back on climate change. i think what i might be perfectly possible it comes down to the political will. be in for action but basically technology economics. and politics.

change the. remaining with one point five degree warming compared to prevent us troops levels. of parents. for the same. rates for. so part of my presently possible. never ducks and it comes down to politics economics and technology so all is not lost as yet. another state. will draw from the power of greyman does not help. but we're going to leave it there glen mcgregor professor of climatology at durham university many thanks for your thoughts. and there's much more still ahead on this news hour including opposition leader most likely to be is barred from returning

home to the democratic republic of congo. britain's prime minister cuts short her summer holiday to visit the french president and try to convince him to soften his breakfast stance. and in school peter will have action from the copa should america including this stunner of a strike. how the reports of the drought situation in iran are pretty widespread not it's not a big surprise and usually it is a hot dry summer we've just seen fewer showers the normal recently there back in the caucasus is a hint maybe on the southern coast of the caspian otherwise it's dry and iran of course i strong afghanistan to kabul's at thirty six degrees it's also dry back on the coast beirut thirty one just shows warm sunshine and of course it's hot it's

still in the middle of iraq and that hot breeze sometimes dusty keeps flowing size haven't seen fifty recently in this area but it was run sure as we saw fifty recently in iran forty three in dyer ha the breeze of a lighter during saturday and the sunday and the cloud which shows itself here in amman and then later in sudden saudi yemen it's always a suggestion the might be enough cloud to produce the occasional funds to sell is more reliably wet there was drizzle this is the time the air for the forty five to keep blowing is the edge of the monsoon. in southern africa cold nights quite frust of the most part dry and sunny days is the picture nasa satellite picture did you spot any cloud very difficult to see there's a hint of some certainly even a hint of some rain returns the western cape in durban we're up to twenty six by day.

on counting the cost pakistan's new leaders facing some tough financial questions will be taking a look at the economic and human cost of extreme heat events plus china the u.s. and saudi arabian economics counting the cost on i'll just be about. every armed attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens where stories of loss no one told. a sweeping association of islam with violence leaves european muslims facing the stock reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they live love and moon the tragic loss of life. twice eviction on al-jazeera.

welcome back but it's take a quick look at our top stories zimbabwe's opposition leader nelson chamisa rejected them assuming that god was presidential election victory as quote a vote stolen from the people three truckloads of riot police tried to disrupt his press conference in harare. the world health organization is warning of another potential cholera outbreak in yemen it's calling for a cease fire to allow vaccinations this a day after attacks in the port city of a dado which the red cross says have killed at least fifty five people. and at

least thirty nine people have been killed and eighty injured in a suicide attack on a shia mosque in afghanistan police say two suicide bombers opened fire before blowing themselves up during friday prayers. mollies opposition candidates from odyssey say is calling on all parties to forge a broad democratic front against incumbent ibrahim bill baka. a runoff vote is being held on august the twelfth after no candidate managed to secure the fifty percent needed on sunday an official tally gave kater forty one percent. secured seventeen percent he's dismissed the result as a fraud sunday's poll was marred by violence for the fifth of polling stations affected. opposition leader more as it could be has been barred from returning home to run in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election it comes as another rival of president joseph kabila former rebel leader and ex vice president

jumpier bemba also returned home to launch his own bid katherine sawyer has more from. the voice good to be arrived at the border between sandy and the democratic republic of congo to support his filming his journey with the r.c. government has denied many john. kerry out there to be managed to get to know months mind a police clinton first time back crossed the border into. exile in nine hundred sixteen after fooling out with president joseph kabila he was accused of trying to topple the government using foreign mass no ease and latest sentence in his absence to three years in prison for real estate fraud government officials say you will. be arrested if he manages to return tension is high in his strongholds and novel position figure. is watching closely his history timed they live in years in the netherlands ten of them in prison as he faced trial at the international criminal

court for the war crimes to his reason to quieten them but also has ambitions to be president situation very sad and i feel very sorry for mr khatami. who they don't allow him to come back to his own country. i think he's period of time is very important for the election for me everybody should be able to participate in the election is cruisin is not to the government official that annoys her to me i'm not use there i proceeded to get into the country and he's just trying to cause trouble that to me insists that he just wants to come to the capitol hill just back from your face close to the electoral commission presidential hopefuls have until wednesday to file their documents with a commission many companies are concerned about how to be supporters react the government continues to mount catherine. and staying in the d r c a new outbreak of ebola is worrying doctors and international experts the world health organization has announced it's found the trigger event for the outbreak

it's believed to be the death of a sixty five year old woman in hospital but there's now a new suspected case in a different province where at least twenty people have died in the past two weeks and fighting between rebel groups and government forces could make it harder to stop the disease spreading paul said urgent reports in the democratic republic of congo near the ugandan border the u.n. experts toward the city of beni in the remote northeastern province of north kivu. scientists are worried fighting involving rebel groups on the government forces in both the d. r. c. and uganda may hinder their response to the new ebola outbreak. it was important for us to be here to come up with a good strategy against ebola and this will be the epicenter of our response we've taken measures to contain the outbreak and we appeal to the public not to panic we're deploying all necessary medication and resources to treat patients at home

there's no need for the patients to be moved isolating the sick is vital to contain any outbreak ebola is carried long distances by bats and then can find its way into bush meat sold in markets people infected by bodily fluids die from hemorrhaging diarrhea and fever the united nations organization stabilization mission in the d.r. c called monusco is now on the ground on fit. what s a trouble. we've done it in past cases and we will together with the governments provide the help that is needed will also provide security as we seek to contain the bolus situation. another outbreak two thousand kilometers to the west and me bundaberg two months ago prompted doctors without borders to inoculate thousands of people with an experimental vaccine at least thirty three people died there before doctors were able to contain the strain of the virus called zaire which is the former name of the d r c but we cannot rule out that this connected to the previous

outbreak what we can say is that there is no evidence to suggest there is a concrete link we suspect that the strain he's here will know much more when we get the genetic sequencing results which should be as early as next tuesday of next week an outbreak that peak three years ago in west africa killed more than eleven thousand people and infected nearly thirty thousand the new outbreak is the tenth one in the d.r. c since ebola first appeared in one thousand nine hundred six d r c has also had more than twice as many outbreaks as any other country. on al-jazeera to libya now where hundreds of thousands of families are facing homelessness in the eastern city of benghazi they've been kicked out of the government compound where they fled in search of safety after an outbreak of violence in two thousand and

fourteen. has more now from misrata. it's time for people who fled the water but was he three years ago to leave this compound in misrata this man like many others here is worried if he shows his face supporters of the warlord thief or have to might go after his relatives in. the compound owners have recently demanded the government return the property because it hasn't been paying its bills jan mahmoudi says her house in it was destroyed by the war she and her husband have been living here with the help of a charity's notion we were asleep in the street if they don't find a solution for us what can we do we've got only ten days ultimatum to leave. since has to launch his military campaign but in two thousand and fourteen more than one hundred thousand people have fled their homes after his forces took full

control of the city in december last year but many here are still afraid to go back more than two hundred displaced families have lived here on this beach compellent for the past three years most of them lost their homes during the war. but now with the government's decision to evacuate this area many of them say they have to start from scratch others don't know what to do next many families have already left the compound during the last couple of months. those remaining say they also struggle with a complicated civil registry procedure that all women if we have been massively as we are now requested to leave the compound we don't have salaries we can't go to benghazi to kasher salaries and we can't get them here if we leave this compound we can't even afford to buy furniture. according to the u. n. estimates more than two hundred thousand people are internally displaced in libya

most of them live in misrata and they kept. tripoli over the last few years those from he had been voicing their demands but they say no one is listening and so far efforts by the united nations supporting mission in libya have failed to end their suffering it appears for now a political solution might be the only way to take them back home. without the. misrata. turkey's president says tensions with the united states will not impact on their joint roadmap for the northern syrian city of monday's it comes two days after washington imposed sanctions on two turkish ministers over the trial of a u.s. pastor accused of backing terrorism turkey's foreign minister told his u.s. counterpart secretary of state like that threats and sanctions would not work than the leader yup that we have said from the start that the other side's threatening

language and sanctions will not get any result we repeated this today. which might pump a a we discussed how to solve issues how to take steps together it was an extremely constructive meeting there may be tensions and differences of opinion between countries but turkey always wishes to solve problems through the polar sea and dialogue mutual understanding and agreements. a suspected russian spy reportedly worked at the u.s. embassy in moscow for a decade before being fired last year the russian woman was discovered to be having regular meetings with russia's main intelligence agency the f.s.b. it's reported she had access to sensitive data including the shared duals of the us president a security official accused the u.s. secret service of trying to keep her firing quiet to avoid embarrassment. opponents of nicaragua's president daniel ortega say his government is taking unprecedented action to crush a nationwide uprising and new antiterrorism law targets students and demonstrators

who take part in street protests latin america editor lucien newman has more now from managua. until a few weeks ago twenty year old lester was a familiar face on the streets of managua at massive antigovernment protests. as a student leader he took part in a short lived national dialogue with president daniel ortega mediated by the catholic church there today he's almost a fugitive implicated under a new anti-terrorism law and he says afraid for his life. by peers under investigation for financing the supposed to takeover of the city of messiah which the lie to pose a system of injustice kidnapping killings and paramilitary groups on the streets does not make you a terrorist. please stand behind of the law and his wife are among the

scores of activists arrested and charged under the new law. the un high commission for human rights calls this a mechanism to criminalize opposition to the government the antiterrorism law contemplates up to twenty years in prison and or confiscation of property for those found guilty the terms are vague and broad even those who have given food medicine or water to protest hers or who encourage street protests calling for a nation could be implicated that includes her take his former comrade in arms. today a fierce opponent who preferred to speak to us via skype because she says she's received countless death threats apparently and. that's the reality we're living kidnapping assassinations persecution. or takers former deputy foreign minister who's also being linked to terrorism says it won't work as

long as. we're. in this county. the lack of guarantees of due process is more worrisome than the law itself says a nicaraguan constitutional expert. the courts don't act in accordance with legal constitutional principles that govern a state of law but rather in accordance with the political interests of those who decide what happens in the karada that's daniel ortega and his wife and they don't hide it. but ortega is unapologetic accuses the u.n. of being an accomplice to terrorists to criticizing a law that could soon see nicaragua's prisons overflow. you see in human al-jazeera . in sweden the prosecutor investigating the fatal shooting of a twenty eight year old disabled man several police officers opened fire eric toro .