what extent is the country exposed to exploitation by a profit driven multinational corporation. a pregnant mother and her toddler are among the dead as israel strikes back against rocket attacks from gaza. followed welcome to our jazeera live from doha and it's also coming up. canada will always speak strongly clearly in private in public on questions of human rights standing firm canada's diplomatic dispute with saudi arabia deepens plus.

passions run high tina's senate debates extending legal abortion in an historic moment for latin america's second biggest country. she's still a very backing why the ivory coast former first lady is out of jail after serving just three of a twenty year sentence. but first the u.n. says it's deeply alarmed by a new flare up between israel and gaza at least three palestinians have been killed including a pregnant mother and her eighteen month old daughter in an explosive exchange in the gaza strip the israeli military says seventy rockets were fired from gaza israeli media say six people have been injured by shrapnel in the israeli border town of the rot and in response israel launched

a series of air strikes targeting hamas positions andrew symonds has the latest from gaza. the attacks may be more in cements and and less intense but the fighting is going on as strikes some shelling from the sea from the israeli navy hitting gaza panic in the streets and on the israeli side panic that to run across the southern communities of israel and what next it's unclear this is my report. deep into the night intense bombardments the flash of outgoing rockets from gaza. israel's iron dome air defense system knocked out several of the missiles but the majority got through it in response came the blasts and claims from israeli air strikes. this is how it started here a rocket unlike most of them finding its targets the israeli town of iraq has

people fleeing in all directions in the panic towns right across southern israel under attack. the response was fast. as strikes right across the gaza strip up to twenty mostly bases of the al qassam brigade the military wing of hamas. it released a statement saying in retaliation against the israeli aggression the resistance is continuing to fire rockets at israeli towns. the casualties may not have been a higher number but they included a mother and baby in a house hit in daryl barracks. as emergency services on both sides of gaza's walls responded to the incoming and outgoing fire egyptian mediators bring gauged in trying to pursue both sides to call a truce much rest now on the real intentions of israel and hamas to warn or both

really intend to break down the cease fire talks and nicholai madden of the un special envoy has been here before not so serious but he mediated and succeeded in stopping the fighting a month ago his words our collective efforts have prevented an explosion until now we will work hard to ensure gaza steps back from the brink. camelot and of and egyptian mediators bring gaza back from the brink again thousand people are in fear tonight that he may not succeed there are more questions than answers right now could this be attack to go pro you to violence ahead of signing any agreement to get more damage done on how fast as far as israel is concerned and hamas to rally its faithful with a show of force possible but everything rests now with the israeli response it

seems and the israeli security cabinet is meeting later on thursday we may know more that. to yemen now where the rebels say at least eighteen civilians including children have been killed in the airstrikes by the saudi amorality led coalition they say two separate strikes targeted bedouin tents in the am run province killing twelve people six others died in another strike on a farm in the province of hijrah. justin trudeau insists canada will always speak strongly in favor of human rights the prime minister was responding to a growing diplomatic route with saudi arabia riyadh has cut new trade investment and educational agreements after canada called for the release of jailed political activists christian salumi reports from toronto. canadian prime minister justin trudeau had no apology for his government's call to release two human rights

activists being detained in saudi arabia canadians i have always expected our government to speak strongly firmly clearly and politely about the need to respect human rights at home and around the world we will continue to do the trick doe promise to continue to engage with the saudis and their allies with the saudi foreign minister wasn't having any of it he accused canada of intervening in what he described as a national security issue claiming that the activists had attempted to get sensitive government information. to do something is no need for mediation kind of them either a big mistake and has to fix it fully understands what's required from it mediation is when there are two parties who have demands in this situation the mistake has been made by only one party it was kind of the whole interview and this mistake has to be corrected the value of the canadian dollar fell on news the saudis would divest from canadian stocks and bonds experts predict the overall impact on the

economy from this and other measures will be small but the message is being heard far beyond canada's borders ultimately this really is not about canada or say canada here is collateral damage if you will or it's incidental to this issue saudi arabia is is trying to send a very strong and clear message to western countries to europeans in particular do not criticize or song human rights or you will be penalized middle east expert best moment mani believes domestic saudi issues are at play i think this has more to do with a very useful diversion it's an attempt to make canada a case signal to the world that it's not going to accept international criticism particularly western criticism of its domestic policies and i think the chill effect has worked because we have seen pretty much no western european country including the united states as well and terms of supporting canada so it's. really has had the chill effect on the international western world it's hard to gauge how

saudi nationals here in canada feel about being forced to leave the country because many are reluctant to speak but we do know that hundreds of canadian muslims who are leaving this week to attend the hodgins saudi arabia are worried about how they're going to get home saudia airlines are suspending flights in and out of the country next week but have promised to find passenger seats on other airlines but so far no sign the saudis in the canadians are coming together to resolve this dispute christine salumi al-jazeera toronto after debate senators in argentina are due to vote soon on a highly contentious bill that could legalize abortion during the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy that's a seen live in the senate in one osiris the capital now if the bills passed the catholic nation would become only the third country in latin america to make the procedure legal that been process for and against abortion since the lower house

passed a law last month has a latin america editor lucianne human. to make here in argentina is a coded one move for those who oppose it i agree with those who favor abortion rights to hear. their voices heard just up the street inside the senate disease very important for all the society because a lot of women are dying because they made their status that abortion because you don't want to be bothers it's a right you can't just to be a modern aren't already eleanor eagle or easily go women will continue having abortions and we ask that women don't die and can have the right to a legal safe and free procedure the decision is not expected until after midnight you are here for the long march. and all right now there are real

activists out on the street perhaps it's because they have to promote your hearing like me that they will lose the job in the senate less than five senators change their mind the last minute this is the star of vote in south america second largest country and it's a debate that has both galvanized and divided public opinion in a country where planned destiny and save abortions of the long poles of maternal deaths across the region thousands of people are rallying in support of women in argentina this is the scene in the brazilian city of rio de janeiro there supreme court is deciding whether to legalize abortion up to twelve weeks. to be marching in their capital from tiago demanding their own a passion or be relaxed even more lost jack chile legalized terminations in certain circumstances and cases of rape when the mother's life is in danger or a fetus is malformed. a government of the democratic republic of congo has

announced that president jersey. kabila will not be standing in december's election president kabila was due to step down into the sixteen but the election to replace him has been repeatedly delayed speculation that he would try to seek a third term triggered violent protests in the country in which dozens of people were killed instead now he's backing his former interior minister emanuel of amazon e should r.t. . zimbabwe's main opposition party says it will challenge the results of last week's presidential election in court lawyers for the m.d.c. alliance say they have what they call mammoth evidence of electoral fraud president i was in milan god where is you to officially start his new term on sunday after winning last monday's vote but the opposition says he can't be sworn in while facing a legal challenge. ivory coast's former first lady has been freed from jail after

being granted the si for her role in the civil war simone barber's husband long refused to accept electoral defeat in twenty ten and that triggered a conflict in which three thousand people were killed her release along with eight hundred others is being seen as an effort to reconcile the country ahead of elections in twenty twenty colin baker reports. the international criminal court has an open case against her she was a prisoner her own country for seven years now simone backbone is going home. to old pages have been turned to my supporters get ready for a new page we are going forward and we won't stop thank you. the former wife of the imprisoned president receiving a hero's welcome. ivory coast was divided by bloody conflict twice in the twenty

first century first by and civil war and again after the disputed election in two thousand and. over five months human rights watch says three thousand civilians were killed and more than one hundred fifty women were raided the home refused to cede power holding it from a bunker in the capital. allison watrous forces backed by the french military and supported by un peacekeepers arrested him that bo is now in detention in haiti. it was during this struggle that his then wife simone is alleged to have coordinated atrocities ordering retaliatory violence and rapes against political enemies and guiding attacks toward residential areas in defiance of the international criminal court ivory coast's new leader. said the country would try her case on its own soil in two thousand and fifteen simone backbone was sentenced to twenty years in prison but was granted amnesty after just three along with eight hundred other people including her party's former minister of defense so it's not entirely

a surprise it's been an issue that a lot of political act as a lot of prominent act of war had been talking about for a while now right we also saw the e.u. in a report that they released recently also kind of put in pressure on ouattara to do this so it's not entirely a surprise that it's coming now ivory coast has become one of africa's fastest growing economies and allison what one reelection in two thousand and fifteen but critics say that above all he is not doing enough to heal the country's wounds. the amnesty law every time we use it victims are not consulted. no one has been asked for their perspective and you can imagine the trauma is there law and justice this is not normal. after seven years of investigation by an independent committee in ivory coast only sixty people have been called to face justice for war crimes human rights groups continue to criticize the lack of progress while victims await answers that may never come calling baker al-jazeera. also has

a calm hear it out there including little functions for russia over the poisoning of a double agent in britain. and on the fringe of the fringe performance fail one of the world's largest office has become too big. welcome to look at weather conditions across the americas now in north america we saw some pretty warm air across the eastern seaboard there with temperatures in excess of thirty degrees for many areas and a door into canada where twenty eight in ottawa rain again in parts of the southeast fine conditions across many parts of the west and certainly for the civic northwest looking pretty warm there seattle well into the thirty's calgary two looking pretty hot so move through into friday again fine conditions for calgary

but slightly cooler conditions for seattle showers likely across the desert southwest you'll notice but los angeles driver temperatures thirty one down into central america and certain pacific coastline of mexico is threatened by a series of storms but largely they expected to remain offshore nevertheless there are plenty of showers around here in the course of thursday showers all the way southward towards panama and costa rica but the oilers the caribbean cherry looking pretty good at the moment lots of sunshine are own and temperatures just into the low thirty's into south america going to shows around northern areas as we'd expect but draw an ocean come further south we have this area of low pressure just affecting your acquired which is expected to pull out into the south atlantic so we should see a brighter conditions coming on behind that and so we should see some sunshine in buenos aires with highs here of fourteen degrees. it's a story of survival. it's

a story about how people learned to live in such remote. but each week to the way. to eat and how that instinct helped the cover from the financial crash i would continue as long as i can stand. this is a story about iceland. a.g.t. on al-jazeera. to take a look at the top stories here of. a pregnant mother and her toddler are among the three palestinians killed in an explosive exchange between israel and hamas the

israeli military says seventy rockets were fired from gaza but intercepted several israel retaliated by targeting hamas sites in the territory with the air strike. prime minister justin trudeau insists canada will always speak strongly in favor of human rights saudi arabia for a. new trade deals after the release of jailed political activists argentinians have been protesting for legalizing abortion the senate is currently debating a bill that would allow terminations during the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy a result is expected within the next few hours. now the u.s. has announced that it will impose new sanctions on moscow over a chemical weapons attack on a former russian double agent the state department says russia used in agent an overture to try to poison said gasquet apologies door in soulsby in southern

england last march she had her chance the reports. the latest sanctions don't appear to be the result of any new information into the poisoning of surgeries rip out a double agent spying on the russians for the british and his daughter in march of this year in the u.k. but the trumpet ministration has expressed confidence in the british allegation that the russians were responsible it certainly looks like the russians were behind it something that should never ever happen and we're taking it very seriously as i think are many others in march the trumpet ministration expelled sixty russian diplomats from the us as a result of the attacks the state department says having made the determination that the russians were responsible sanctions were required to be imposed on the u.s. law governing chemical and biological weapons the sanctions mean there will be what's called a presumption of denial on exports of goods to russian companies owned or funded by the state that the u.s. deemed to have

a significance for national security the state department gave examples of gas turbines electronic equipment integrated circuits and calibration equipment and officials said that over fifty percent of commerce department export licenses include at least one such national security item so hundreds of millions of dollars of goods may be affected over the u.s. will still export items on a case by case basis deemed to be of foreign assistance for the russian people related to space flight currently the americans are entirely dependent on the russians to transport its astronauts into space and passenger aviation. if moscow doesn't prove within three months that it's not using chemical or biological weapons has not given reliable assurances that none will be used in the future and doesn't allow inspections to ensure no usage what were described as more draconian sanctions would be imposed there has long been a contradiction between the trumpet ministrations tough policies against russia and donald trump's wish for closer engagement scene most notably in helsinki i think

that the united states now a step forward along with russia getting together and we have a chance to do some great things but these are the latest in a raft. sanctions against russia imposed on the trump on along with the approval of lethal arms sales to the ukrainian government the bombing of syrian installations and increasing from for the european defense additional specifically designed to counter russia there has been a hardening of the u.s. position geopolitically against russia since the previous administration she turns the al-jazeera at least nineteen people have been arrested over what the venezuelan government says was the attempted assassination of the president nicolas maduro wasn't heard when explosions from a drone interrupted a military parade in caracas on saturday he's blamed the opposition colombia and a group of us for nancy as for the apparent attack some opposition figures have been stripped of their parliamentary immunity over the incident. in the u.s. five people charged with abusing eleven children have been accused of training them

to commit school shootings the children were found starving and living in squalor a foster parent for one of the kids says they were being trained to use assault rifles one of the suspects is the father of a three year old boy who disappeared from his home in atlanta several months ago. a photo journalist detained in bangladesh is back in police custody after being given the all clear in a medical examination show he do alarm has accused police of torturing him in jail where he's been held since sunday he was detained hours after doing an interview with al-jazeera about antigovernment protests more than a dozen journalists have reportedly been attacked by the security forces or government supporters of bangladesh's information minister says she. was not detained for his journalism. he has been a distant thought in the columns of which we are looking into it but as first to

the producer the court the courtroom he said what will happen to him but he has got to read that instead of down a list of go has been arrested for. the informant for the company isn't a club didn't act so he does it is a general act for the don't citizens not for the down of these so for done the sick and they were he has not been ordered on a different. medium he has not been out of there are the reasons we will give a report to the quote we believe. on her last place and we think that the john lewis food have the security to water. on the spot and this would not be had by the law enforcing it all by any court of the moment give protection to them. i'm going to see international is blaming hostile e.u.

policies for more refugee deaths in the mediterranean sea the rights creep estimated more than seven hundred people drowned in june and july that's despite fewer people attempting the paralyse crossing from africa to europe so we're going to report. a frantic charge to wards a rescue ship and a desperate plea to be sent back to libya to be on the t.v. i do believe i know it all eighty seven people stranded off the libyan coast saved by a spanish charity vessel a week ago after a brutal journey libya the people of what you must know that did not know what. they are among the tens of thousands of people who have crossed from africa to europe this year the ones that make it all the lucky ones. many do not survive amnesty international says that in june and july of this year more than seven

hundred people drowned in the mediterranean an increase in deaths from the same time last year and that's despite a drop in the numbers of people making that same journey. alongside this there has also been a dramatic rise in the number of people being held in overcrowded detention centers in libya in recent months the number of detainees has shot up from four thousand four hundred in march to more than ten thousand by the end of july nearly all were taken to centers such as this after being intercepted at sea and returned to libya by the libyan coast guard. the search comes after a backdrop of intensifying anti migrant politics in europe germany's chancellor angela merkel faced a fierce backlash more than a million refugees mainly from syria and afghanistan into the country now the government is seeking agreements with fellow members of the european union to send my kids back to the countries where they initially registered but this has done

little to calm populist figures all over the continent who are keen to be seen as cracking down on asylum seekers amongst them italian far right interior minister. speaking to al jazeera. more than seven hundred thousand people have arrived in italy across the mediterranean sea alone we cannot continue this way this holds neither italy nor africa therefore i wanted to stop such action such as human trafficking which could be tied to terrorism or to drug or arms trade was the european union has provided financial incentives for member countries to take in asylum seekers it has been criticized but failing to act but until there is a coordinated effort by the e.u. as a whole this may simply be seen as a delaying tactic for a crisis that is not going away anytime soon so you go al-jazeera. that's a lot of pictures in southeastern italy have been protesting about what they consider to be poor conditions for migrant farm workers they waltz to the city of

from a shanty town where many of them live in huts without water and power are there demanding employment contracts and safer conditions. and some critics say that one of the world's biggest arts festivals is becoming too commercial and way too expensive thousands of actors comedians dancers and musicians perform every year at edinburgh in the u.k. the event generates millions of dollars interest revenue our correspondent has more now from the scottish capital. over its seventy one year history the edinburgh festival has grown at breakneck speed during the month of august the city's population more than doubles to festivals take place civil taney asli the international festival showcasing well established acts and the edinburgh fringe where anyone could perform with any type of performance. while the other friends

really set up as a almost like an act of defiance there were it companies six local scottish companies then to english companies who wanted to participate in the first international festival in one nine hundred forty seven but when damed good enough. so they decided to perform anyway and really that was the genesis of their friends was this act of defiance. this is what the festival used to look like a few dozen acts a careful selection of big performances today there were more than three and a half thousand shows the struggle for space has led to rising rents and expensive performance licenses some performers believe the festivals become a victim of its own success. a growing number of artists want to recreate a sense of lost all things to city in small scale low budget experimental shows this performance space far from the noise and clamor of some of the biggest shows is about as intimate as it gets with room for only the tiniest of audiences on this

occasion just me time to still the mind and go somewhere very very different. people describe it as the being on the fringe of the friends and a lot of people like to find the news like that because it reminds them of maybe what the fringe used to be like before it became more commercial elsewhere in the city a team of local performers has spent weeks carefully building a hundred seater amphitheater from dozens of up cycle pianos deconstructing our understanding of what theater can be the roots of the festival are about experimentation. but unfortunately you know like many things the successful it's kind of built this whole. kind of load of collateral and things around it which are all about making a lot of money. you know it's sometimes quite hard now to find

a space where you can be creative and where it's not really expensive to do what you're doing. the edinburgh festival remains one of the most important places for performers to be able to take risks without the luxury of having a big budget and often without charging an entry fee as the first of all gross artists currently on the fringe of the fringe shaping the festivals future. the. edinburgh. taffeta take a look at the top stories here it out there this morning a pregnant mother and her toddler are among the three palestinians killed in an explosive exchange between israel and hamas the israeli military says seventy rockets were fired from gaza but that it intercepted most of them israel retaliated by targeting hamas sites in the territory with air strikes andrew symonds has more

from gusta. the attacks may be more intermittent and less intense but the fighting is going on strikes some shelling from the sea from the israeli navy hitting panic in the streets and on the israeli side panic there too right across the southern communities of israel canada's prime minister just intrude insists his country will always speaks strongly in favor of human rights saudi arabia froze ties and brand new trade deals after canada urged the release of jailed political activists the saudi foreign minister says canada is to blame for the deceit. argentinians have been protesting for and against legalizing abortion the senate is debating a bill that would allow terminations during the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy and result as it spotted within the coming hour. the government of the democratic

republic of congo has announced that president joseph kabila will not be standing in december's election instead hill the former interior minister emmanuel amazon the shit diary the former first lady of ivory coast has been freed from jail after being granted amnesty for have a role in the civil war simone bad husband long refused to accept electoral defeat in twenty ten and that triggered a conflict that killed three thousand people she was sentenced to twenty years in jail in turkey fifteen. the u.s. says it will impose sanctions against russia over an attack on a former spy in britain earlier this year the state department says russia used the never agent to try to poison gasquet pal and his daughter in souls very much a.j. eats commercial capital yangon is a symbol of its rapid economic growth but in its slums families struggle to survive

borrowing money from merciless loan sharks is their whole inside this cycle of debt one east on al-jazeera. record city on the cusp of the arctic circle and often called one of the most pristine graphically striking places on earth but beyond the class. liason intriguing story of survival that's beautifully captured in icelandic crissy. of society it brings us together traces our divergent histories and opens futures i'm on a journey to eat food lovers around.