the world in commercial could really the limelight. would have been realized. but getting old ok bring us the very latest from djibouti thanks very much for that . and i want to some other news and officials in gaza say they will not escalate the conflict any further and restore calm restoring calm is up to israel the message comes after as strikes and shelling killed three including a pregnant mother and her child funerals have been held in the past few hours in gaza israel hit more than one hundred forty sites across the perceived strip. those well says its targets were military compounds tunnels and a training camp rockets were fired from gaza on wednesday night the united nations says it is deeply alarmed by the violence warning it could lead to war. well andrew symonds is at the house. where the pregnant mother and her child were killed so

undergo actually at the sites where those israeli strikes hit. that's right so really pointed out most of the targets were military and there was an. innumerable number of strikes right the way across the gaza strip various estimates the israelis at one point was saying they'd hit a hundred targets now whether or not there was that much remains to be seen but let me just take you through what's happened here there was a family staying in this house and i ask samir to walk through you'll see what has happened here they were sitting right here a pregnant woman and her baby eighteen months old sitting here we're not quite exactly sure where the father is he is critically ill now he is a member was of the police so that's why this was on the target list one would assume but it does highlight once again the danger of casualties who are not

necessarily connected the family well you work that out for yourself that's spot there is where the first missile struck from. israeli warplane and then what you can see is the result basically now what is happening is that house is really pushing the message of that there can be some sort of lull in the fighting that could be a cease fire possibly temporary but they want to forewarn and they want to lift lifting of the blockade the israelis say in response that nearly two hundred rockets were fired but we're now waiting to hear what the full response will be from the israelis put back a cabinet meeting of the security officials and also ministers senior ministers that will now take place later on this afternoon and we expect a result from that one way or another either to agree that there should be

a truce temporary or otherwise and then to march on with this rather complex and hugely important long term ceasefire agreement is indeed because gaza faces a rather put the ball back in israel's court and they saying from their side the escalation is over. well yes indeed now whether that's tactical or not remains to be seen this is what ham us have to say. heard the news release of broken armistice and start to question escalation of what's been done by the resistance came with international duty is the normal reaction to stop such aggression and defend the palestinian people force the israelis to respect the armistice that israel has to be blamed completely and to be held responsible for this escalation of the decision makers in the region and the international community also have to interfere and course israel to stop its aggression and to respect the armistice in gaza. so there you have it i've also had a briefing with an english speaking member of hamas

a senior member of hamas who has been involved in negotiations he said much the same thing then for size that the reason for the rockets being fired into israel was that attack israel made on to how massed fighters who were on the border in a training camp as israel accepted that they weren't being shot at their house regards that as accident or otherwise it wasn't acceptable and wanted to avenge those deaths but what's revenge was it well it just was absolutely huge you know through thursday night you couldn't hear yourself think in gaza city for the the bangs from from missiles from bombs from going rocket fire the rocket fire in fact at times was as loud as the bombing went on right the way through the light but what we've seen since dorm is something of a lifting of the tension to

a degree that there have been some more attacks a number of them without any casualties it has to be said casualties overall have been low but that does not. dilute the seriousness of what's happening here by any means so very much focus now on egypt where the mediators have don't have done their work while doing their work and also nickel i'm letting off the u.n. special envoy who spoke. once again overnight emphasizing the girls who was on the brink of war everyone must pull back right away let's see what the israelis have to say in the coming hours ok thanks andrea let's go live now to stephanie decker use in west jerusalem for an idea of what's happening there on the sides and as andrew was saying the staff there was the security cabinet meeting due at this time but it's been delayed that is correct as you heard andrew mention there we were expecting it to happen now it's the second security cabinet in

a week it is now been delayed by two hours so let's wait and see what they have to say these hours are crucial we have heard reports of rocket sirens just in the last hour or so called into the israeli police spokesperson he's saying rockets were fired at best share of our and they're looking for them an open field and why could that be significant because bush never lies forty kilometers east of gaza so if that is confirmed it will be the further stay have been launched since the two thousand and fourteen conflict so again there are sensitive times it can still lead to an escalation we're going to have to wait and see what comes out of that security cabinet meeting absolutely and in the meantime what's happening on the diplomatic front. well you heard andrew mention there it's been frantic it's been frantic over the last couple of weeks we had about almost a month ago now we had one day it was a saturday where similar escalations overnight in fact israel continued to bombard

gaza during the day it was the worst escalation since two thousand and fourteen you then have. shuttle in between all sides trying to just almost firefight get the tensions to deescalate to try and give the diplomatic track a chance while those talks have been ongoing there have been simmering tensions on and off we are now again at a crucial stage at a time when these talks have been going on you have mahmoud abbas in doha and they claim that novels in doha two days ago you have the senior hamas political leadership in cairo talking to the egyptians right now so you have all this happening however the question is what is israel going to say have they had enough is one hundred eighty rockets overnight going to prompt them to say we need to do something even though it might be a limited offensive i think it's very hard to tell these things are very difficult to predict no one wants a conflict but again we're going to have to wait and see what happens in the next couple of hours recently well as you say the security cabinet meeting convening in

about a couple of hours from now we'll certainly keep an eye on proceedings that stephanie thanks very much for the update. the months of national debate in argentina have ended with politicians voting against legalizing elective abortion the final vote followed more than seventeen hours of discussion impala meant it was close ending thirty eight to thirty one against the bill pro-abortion rights protesters for police who used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds thousands of people mostly women had been waiting on a cold rainy night toss the votes are being counted in america as this in human reports from buenos aires. since early morning thousands of supporters and opponents had filled downtown with no side is as the senate debated whether or not to approve a landmark build to legalize abortion. the influence of the catholic church and its

argentine born pope could not be underestimated. unlike last month when the less conservative lower house now really passed the bill this time zone and had good reason to be optimistic they head back to the night this is the final stretch to decide whether or not there will be legal abortion and we're here to support the senators who we believe will vote against a killing of an a born child. on the other side of the senate building pro-abortion activists wearing their emblematic brinker just tried to keep their spirits up. sooner or later it will be legal because we have launched a on a social revolution yes there are different points of view but we have achieved so far is incredible. the debate went long into the night while the vigil continued under the pouring rain when the bill was finally defeated and many could not be consoled after what they describe as an epic battle i feel really sad about it

because this look at it's raining it's really cold and we're still fighting for it because. girls are dying girls of every age are dying. although there are no hard statistics it's estimated that between three hundred and five hundred thousand can destine abortions are practiced in argentina every year for the color green many here are carrying one of these this is a metal coathanger which too many women insert in their uterus to provoke a miscarriage the procedure explains why an unsafe and illegal abortions here in argentina the number one cause of maternal deaths in the midst of abortions say there are other ways to deal with unwanted pregnancy such as adoption by law a new bill cannot be submitted to congress until next year at the earliest washing campaigners insist they're already preparing for the next battle. she in human

al-jazeera when a site is. indonesia's lombok island has been hit by a powerful aftershock as it struggles with rescue efforts after sunday's quake have been no reports of injuries or casualties from thursday's tremor but more buildings have collapsed rescue teams say they don't have enough proper equipment for sunday quake killed nearly two hundred and sixty people that speak to step on this on the line has just returned from lombok and is now back in jakarta says that another huge aftershock are we expecting the death toll to keep rising. here's exactly what he used to fix going to arkansas in the book and then they teach you the church if you do that that two people died after that aftershock because they were in a shop that was already damaged by the earthquake and then completely collapsed so this aftershock also along twenty four people at least have been injured because of

aftershocks you can imagine the panic people have had a huge earthquake the last two weeks and this aftershock was a very long one took people already very traumatized going on to the streets that it had been staying outside in the last couple of days just too afraid to go indoors for what they had been experiencing again if we do have two weeks you would just that end on book seven and it has covered many natural disasters in indonesia what's been the response like it's been disappointing leitz no i have to say compared to other disaster relief operations i have witnessed in the recent years there was a lack of coordination and only now in the last stage just two adults have picked up and that's why also the death toll has been adjust to this once more bodies have been retrieved from under the rubble but i think they're going to be honest more lives could have been saved if these rescue off efforts would have been done

earlier in the first twenty four to forty eight hours hardly anyone has seen that we call them from the rubble alive but also a lot of people are packing for food on the streets because there's simply not enough a coming in we can see now in the last twenty four hours more aid is coming to the area but also there's a lack of coordination the talk people mass a lot and all the tests nothing at all and in terms of before the quake that what warnings like before the big quake and indeed through all of these very strong aftershocks that they are is been feeling. yes of course it's a huge problem for them because they have three large quakes in the last two weeks so people really get postpone any anything any help that they can get from from the national government but also from the government also because regional government has been very slow in there with the problem at the moment is in the region is going through a political season an election we're going to focus seems to be completely out

where and not at the disaster region at the moment. is the latest from jakarta on the situation and lombok and indonesia thanks very much. rusher is under new pressure of the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in the u.k. is imposing sanctions on moscow over the attack on so i guess. the state department accuses russia of using the nerve agent novacek to poison them in the city of seoul is free russia has called the allegations far fetched for a challenge possible from moscow. well the kremlin response is that this is categorically unacceptable illegal under international law they say they've claimed again that they had nothing to do with the poisoning of the script and these new sanctions are essentially inconsistent with the atmosphere of corporation that they felt they got from donald trump of the helsinki summit with running with putin some weeks ago now where they're saying that washington is an unpredictable actor on the

international stage and they don't know yet what they're going to do to respond because the kremlin says it doesn't have enough information about what these u.s. sanctions actually are. however this is in concert with another package of sanctions that looks to be shaping up in washington d.c. has rattles russian markets the ruble has fallen to its lowest level in twenty months and russian stocks and shares are being here to the script how sanctions come into bundles the first bundle comes into play on august the twenty second and involves limits on the exports of u.s. goods that washington considers to be of national security importance then if the d.c. does not get the assurance from moscow that is demanding that it won't use chemical weapons again a new round of sanctions comes in in ninety days time and that will be as they put

it more draconian then this separate package of sanctions that is being. cooked up in washington d.c. could further hit russia's oil and gas sector banks and look into the assets of president vladimir putin all of this shows i think really that whatever donald trump says to resume putin there is a large and powerful establishment in washington d.c. that does not like what trump is doing with regard to russia and obviously does not trust vladimir putin and is trying to protect itself from the activities of these two men which it feels may not be in the united states' best interest. now it's typhoon season and rob is head to tell us what is coming. yes shamshad the one that just glanced through japan but

a quiet there is one more tropical storm i'm sure we'll see more of sean shannon today yes was focusing on heading straight to tokyo and surprised me from several hundred kilometers away just diverted a little bit to the right so there was that having turkey itself was wet and windy weather windy enough to do some minor damage i mean knocking of a box probably took some scaffolding down as well but as far as i know nothing at all serious they were big cities obviously big cities came in i think it's a separate me two waves at one stage but here is the storm is it's warmed up through the coast of honshu so this is when you borrowed an hour the amount of rain that fell out of it in the one that much in tokyo we had about one hundred fifty millimeters typically inland so it was neither too windy or too with it was and typhoon boats are actually hit land it's current conditions are it's almost sub typhoon status waves are still big but for the next day or so it's just going to wander off to sea and take it for a minute but the will of course be some rain still to come on the coast of honshu and talk back to some significant rain i think the whole current are they at least

behind quiet weather now you remember we could two ago we actually all summer we've had haunt weather in japan and at the moment thirty eight degrees no go it's just to off the record so it's still pretty warm but no more immediate typhus. rob thanks very much still ahead here on al-jazeera all at sea as shipload of soybeans is cycling in the pacific as china and the u.s. trade tariffs. canada will always be strongly clearly private in public on questions of human rights having now coming in from canada and the dispute with saudi arabia over human rights. three. and on cloud nine the harlem globetrotters process pushed the boundaries of basketball yet again it's coming up with peter it's ball.

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all. witness on al-jazeera. now again you're watching and is there as a reminder of our top stories this hour dozens have been killed in a saudi ambassador led airstrikes which hit a school bus in the north killing mostly children and happened inside a province a stronghold north of the capital the red cross says the bus came under attack as it was driving near a crowded markets. politicians in argentina voted against legalizing elective abortion after months of national debate on a marathon session in the senate on this broke out between police and the angry pro

abortion rights protesters following the votes. and hamas officials in gaza said they won't escalate the conflict any further and restoring calm is up to israel message comes off the astronauts and shelling killed three including a pregnant mother and her child funerals have been held in the past few hours in gaza israel hit more than one hundred forty sites across the besieged strip the dilemma is a retired the town colonel and former spokesman for the israeli army joins us now live from from tel aviv via skype thanks very much for being with us. in her back in june where you said i hope israel is not going to have another war with gaza in light of this recent escalation do you still hope that to be true. thank you the other half of the article or actually related to what we've seen that was going on the last three months. trying to reach some sort of agreement to stabilize the security situation while our old about. was that if we don't find

a way to create a better security situation. on the other hand a better. military it's got. you know if you or. us. trying so there's. a lot of the balls twenty four ounce grit i'm certain. it's what's on. its roll. good luck to you friends talk that's right it's just route. unfortunately we are having problems we're having a few problems just hearing me but we're going to push on regardless apologies to our viewers for the quality of the call but i do want to ask you with all of israel's sophisticated weaponry and extensive intelligence when it does strike

these hundred fifty targets in gaza which of course is a very densely populated area and it has has been noted that the casualties figures were very low but still a pregnant woman and her eighteen month old daughter were killed in the overnight strikes i mean is that acceptable. so of fortune that they've got is a situation that you know since the dollar was so billions are all caught up in gold but reality goes to show as you rightly pointed out you know very extensive striking plan on behalf of the idea of taking out strategic assets i must degrading their operational capability in order to send a clear message but also by doing that so doing it with a minimum of adjectives unnecessary i think you know the. reality of today but you know what we've seen is unfortunately at the keep in mind that i must

do the exact opposite while israel and its clients minimize civilian civilian casualties i ask this through everything in its power supply targets for predicate with but anyway i see on the ground is of course that hamas is not killing israelis and injured eleven and on the other side again i'm saying that a pregnant lady and her eighteen month old daughter were killed. oh that's absolutely accurate how must not look because lack of trying but if a bit shot you know one hundred ninety rockets and missiles and mortars at israeli communities around thirty of those been intercepted those that were intercepted were also brilliant communities and they were going to beat your throat and we had israeli casualties so it could have been so you it would suggest don't check out simply because they might be a plant does that is ludicrous the reality on the ground how much must cease fire and rockets and how civilians must act you know what i'm asking for just ten days

other than that the response is disproportionate and i want to actually take it take you for a little bit to tomorrow to friday to this situation where we've got these recurring weekly protests and we have israeli snipers lining up targeting people who are protesting and those people include unarmed make decks they include journalists including some of our own and they include children what order is being given to those snipers to target these unarmed people like they were there's a lot of target on people for short you know the orders are clear on the ground from my experience and from my understanding of what's going on on the ground the idea is to target people who are involved in the violence on the ground but unfortunately it is a very kind of a sniper confuse somebody throwing an incendiary weapon and a medic and i honestly what i would say is you can't sit in the seat

of a sniper until you've been there and from my experience the. chaos that takes place . right on the ground is very challenging my understand of not letting each shot requires an order from above. each so each shot no not necessarily depends on the scenario and on the well being but i think what's important to remember you have the ability to think what is really important now. what we have despite the huge amounts of rockets being fired in one hand and the strikes on the other hand what we've seen is an attempt to try and again deescalate the situation i think there is the opportunity and we do see that both sides are active trying to limit and not take it further biggest problem is we don't know why and sort of wait to increase the security on israel's perspective and on the other hand you're going to certain situation it's just going to come again in your fight between you in a few weeks time and so peter what's happening. well indeed we certainly will

welcome that opportunity how should israel take this opportunity of hamas saying as part of its concern the escalation is over how should israel now approach and deal with hamas there after they make their announcement actually more rockets towards parachinar and so we have to take what they're saying with a grain of salt and i think their actions are more important. israel will determine when it is suitable for it to cease its operational activities and i guess we'll have to see in the coming hours out what actually develops ok we will indeed be to learn a thanks very much for joining us good to speak to you. now want to zimbabwe's leading opposition figures is about to appear in court after they're deported him back to harare despite a court order allowing him to seek asylum tendai biti of the movement for democratic change will face charges for inciting post election violence the m.d.c.

was defeated in last week's fate which it says was rigged in favor of the ruling zanu p.f. party which has a find us live from her eyes to what is the latest on tendai biti. well as we say that he's at harare intro police station where he's being processed but until we see here we can confirm that what will happen is if you has been arrested yes appear in court and apply for bail there's no guarantee that's going to happen today the police say they want to talk to him they want to question them it has to do with the protests we saw last week we think people were killed. and in the meantime we're expecting the opposition m.d.c. alliance filed papers in course they get to challenge the election results that they say are rigged or we're going to see them filing those papers. they haven't yet found those papers but they have until friday to do so they think they have evidence enough evidence to show that the election was rigged and to stop the

inauguration which is meant to happen on sunday officials rulings on pay particular i'm concerned about the evidence as far as they're concerned the very thought of practicing rehearsing for the inauguration and some presidents have really confirmed they will be attending the inauguration which is expected to happen on sunday in the meantime the situation on the streets post this election. it is calm i mean harare way or the violence happens all the shops are open people are walking about and really busy you wouldn't think there's a problem of course people are concerned what could happen afterwards if for example the inauguration of stocks could be more violent on the streets but right now it's calm people are hoping for the best because ultimately it's about the economy people want that to prove to improve and for that to happen internationally means you have to elections you know gratian have to go ahead so the country can move forward. bring us the latest from harare thanks very much. canada's prime

minister justin trudeau insists his country will always speak strongly on human rights and is responding to an escalating diplomatic dispute with saudi arabia we have has cut new trade investment and educational agreements off to canada called for the release of jailed political activists kristen 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 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 this to doe promise to continue to engage with the saudis and their allies but 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 if you don't do something is no need for mediation

kind of them made a big mistake and has to fix it understands what's required from its 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 a gold candidate for 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 a 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. this signal to the world that it's not going to accept international criticism particularly western criticism of its domestic policies and i think the chiller fact has worked because we have seen pretty much no western european country including the united states as well in terms of supporting cameras so it 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 hard in 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 a cargo ship loaded with soybeans is stranded off china

a victim of the trade war between china and the us arrived off the coast on july the six just after beijing imposed a twenty five percent tariff on soybeans from the u.s. ships owners haven't decided what to do next the chinese levies were a response to u.s. tariffs with thirty four billion dollars from beijing adrian brown has more well this vessel the peak pegasus has now been at sea for two months it left the united states in early june with the aim of trying to beat the deadline for the start of the trade war between china and the united states that trade war of course began on july the six and that was the day that this vessel arrived in the port of dolly and it seems that it literally missed the deadline by just a few hours the owners decided not to offload the cargo because if they did they would face levies from chinese customs of some six million dollars ever since then the vessel has been circling somewhere in.