leaders in abu dhabi of riyadh and other places who want investments who have a mission about two thousand and thirty and greeting this new part of dice on earth in the region in the desert those who want to create a new nato arab nato in the region are definitely not setting a good example in yemen over what the future looks like for the region and for their countries and for the economies mohnish are thank you very much indeed and it would of course have more on that this is a story later on in the program and meantime to attacks are continuing on both sides of the gaza israel frontier with at least seven people injured on thursday. and hamas called for a deescalation of the confrontation after every night air strikes by israel left three palestinians dead the strikes were in response to hamas rocket fire into southern israel under simmons is in gaza for a sander we were talking about the possibility of deescalation with these as

a strike that's not looking likely is it. well certainly not in the immediate future it would seem the events certainly proves that fifteen israeli as strikes that's according to sources in hamas and these airstrikes five of them were here in gaza city there was a really heavy strike on the cultural building here in the center not far from here and that was devastated it destroyed the building we hear that there are a total of eighteen injured no wood about their condition all their background but they all said to be civilians however the israeli forces. suggest that ham ass uses this building for certain purposes what they did not say but it has to be said that this was could be described as a civilian target now we're not sure whether the actual building was evacuated or

whether or not these people who have been injured were in the vicinity of the building when the strike happened there were a number of drone attacks in the vicinity ahead of the asteroid they actually at the f. sixteen strike with bombs so that was the scenario as far as the whole situation goes in gaza right now the people here are in absolute fear a fear they've grown used to perhaps over the years but it has to be said that the onslaught on wednesday night which was colossal compared with today's strikes was reminiscent to twenty fourteen no doubt about that well so ever and that really is the situation i don't see how mass a saying about and his violence. well despite nearly two hundred rockets being fired despite scores of israeli strikes here in gaza they are now saying that they want a cease fire they want

a truce with israel having said that. there have been more and more rocket attacks did indeed mortar attacks and that is in fact right now with this another incident this being dealt with you probably have the will of a siren that well of ambulance sirens here in this gaza city and the well of warning sirens in southern israel over rockets landing this is what a senior official from hamas had to say to me. the message is very clear that is that i should disturb it so that aggression and military attacks again this gaza and gaza is not open area full open to go in for israel to target and in time i knew where and to strike here or there i think that no the resistance sent a very strong message that we could stop you we can make kind of the terrorists and we can also act for your crimes against our citizens having guns i know that it's difficult for us know there was someone but i think also we have to give

a listen to israel has said that we are not. you cannot swallow gaza easily you cannot get the police and you cannot get people and after that you go back to the well of evil go to other with you have to pay the price. and so the message from the hamas leader who in fact does have talks with nicholas with the whole number of egyptian officials and that is the official translation negotiator for hamas he also said that he feels that could be a ceasefire it could be feasible despite what's happened despite this very large volley of exchange fire bombing and rocket fire that you hear possibly the on time being deployed is still going on loan from a distance now at this moment but who knows what is going to happen next and so we have other news anderson thank you very much stephanie decade is in west jerusalem

for us stephanie these ready security cabinet has been meeting on gaza what's what's the outcome of that. well it seems they're still meeting their meeting in tel aviv in the army headquarters you have the prime minister there the minister of defense the chief of staff senior members of this government the security establishment trying to figure out what the best way forward is that we don't always get statements out of this cabinet it is the second time they meet in a week the first time on sunday there was a statement saying basically simply that the army is ready for any scenario this is something that we've heard throughout this i think yes as you heard and you there mention it remains tense you have rockets going out air strikes coming in and it's interesting the target of that cultural center is an escalation of sorts in terms of a show of force the fact that israel targeted a civilian building it did warn residents in the area this is why also you have many people who actually caught the actual demolition proper strike on camera and

phone cameras because they were waiting for it because you had these various drone strikes happening beforehand but it is a very strong message saying that we can also target civilian centers in the middle of a populated area so again these are messages on both sides law and i think if we still read between the lines israel still taking somewhat of care not to kill let's say members of any of the miniature has a sions on the ground the rockets have been going out yes but that also still hasn't killed and israelis these are real red lines factors that can escalate this we know both sides don't want this we know there are intensive diplomatic efforts underway to deescalate again we're going to have to wait and see the ground is what's going to tell us indicate where this is going to go stephanie tick and thank you very much. what to me out is there are news hour from london oh there's much more to come on the program including we look at what's next for argentina's pro-choice activists after the senate rejects a proposal to legalize abortion. russian ruble tumbles to

a two year low on the back of new u.s. sanctions that moscow is slamming as illegal. rafael nadal continues his fine return to the rogers cup details later in school. seniors in barwon opposition figure tendai biti has been charged with inciting public violence and honor all fully announcing election results its court appearance came a day after he was denied asylum by zambia and handed over to zimbabwean security forces causing fear is to grow about a government crackdown following the july thirtieth which has more from harare. tendai biti has been charged with breaking the electoral law he gave a press conference where he announced nelson chamisa the main opposition leader had won the elections and the zimbabwean only electoral commission can announce results he's also been charged with causing public violence last week during protests it's

alleged that he told opposition supporters to burn cars and destroy property in an allegation he denies the judge has also told him that he cannot address press conferences or ellys until the matter is finished in court the charges i think are worrisome on the face of it we will continue to follow this case closely and we will continue to insist that mr beattie's physical integrity human rights and constitutional rights in the constitution of zimbabwe are respected the main opposition m.d.c. alliance age is going to file papers in court to try and challenge the election results which they say were rigged they haven't done that yet they have until friday they say they have enough evidence to stop the inauguration from taking place. which is scheduled on sunday but officials in the rulings on a tea party say they are confident whatever evidence that the opposition says they have is not strong enough they are planning ahead with the still gratian order to her sing and some presidents have confirmed it will attend the inauguration

ceremony on sunday. months of national debate in argentina have ended with politicians voting against legalizing abortion the final vote followed more than seventeen hours of argument in parliament and it was close thirty eight to thirty one against the bill pro-abortion rights campaigners say they may have lost the battle but the war is not over we're going out or large our correspondent in human who's in buenos aires what next for the pro-abortion movement. indeed there on the war is not over the pro abortion advocates and there are millions of them here in argentina are already preparing to take to the streets again to continue to campaign to increase the pressure if you like on the government on legislators they one of the interesting things is that the government has actually sort of come back with a kind of a conciliatory gesture president modi still mockery has said that he will now change the penal code so that people for have illegal abortions in argentina don't

have to face prison sentences of course that is unlikely to satisfy those who argue that free and absolutely. restricted abortion is the only way to go in this country where as we've said many times over and over the number one cause of maternal deaths in argentina are illegal and unsafe abortions and those who lost the argument here who do they blame for not managing to achieve this legalization of abortion. well you know that's another very interesting point and i was out on the streets yesterday all day and all through the night and over and over i kept hearing something that that and that i really hadn't realized i had created such a strong feeling and that is anger at the catholic church anger and pope francis whom as you know is arjun tined and who did all he could to influence that vote he called some senators we understand the catholic church was extremely active they

were holding masses in the cathedral up until the last minute and so people were saying to me i'm not a catholic i don't believe in the dogma why should we have to suffer because of the rules of a religion which is not my own also the fact that the state subsidizes the catholic church in argentina has started a new debate as to whether that should happen in a society where at least on paper state and church are separate so all of that as well as well as of course blaming the more conservative senators who in the end we're the ones whose votes swayed the no victory you see in human thank you very much. south sudan's president salva kiir has granted amnesty to former vice-president rick machar and all rebel fighters involved in the five year civil war a power sharing agreement was signed earlier this week and gives kira and his former deputy machar eight months to form a transitional government south sudan's opposition is criticize the amnesty announcement saying here first needed to answer the atrocities committed by his

troops tens of thousands have been killed in the war that began after south sudan gained its independence in twenty thirteen. but rico's government has acknowledged that american maría killed one thousand four hundred people that's more than twenty times efficient death toll the government made the new estimates in a report to the us congress where it's asking for one hundred thirty nine billion dollars to rebuild the island hurrican maria struck question rico last september causing widespread damage loss of power and flooding first of the deaths did not occur in the initial storm but in the weeks that followed as emergency services found it difficult to access parts of the island indonesian island of lombok has been shaken by a third big off the shop following sunday's earthquake a strong five point nine magnitude aftershock hit the northwest of the island on thursday sparking panic among survivors and evacuees or to say they've been three hundred fifty five aftershocks since sunday the number of people killed as now

going up to three hundred nineteen. video has emerged from switzerland of an explosive mudslide spattering modern rocks onto the streets of a village it happened. after a storm caused a river bed to expand and burst its banks so you're going to force. a terrifying rumble. a sudden deluge of. as the cascades crashes through. horrifying on look who's. used to seeing such events. this flash. town. residents of hosses by by complete surprise. torrent coming lava. the massive flow had been triggered by a storm which caused a nearby river bed to expand and burst its banks sweeping across roads everything

in its path as the hit with sudden violence and speed made by homes were evacuated . there was one major complaint for residents miraculously no one was hurt. and rocks. now there is the clear up and reminder of the devastating effect of such a powerful and destructive natural phenomenon. al-jazeera. stay with us on the news hour still to come on the program the ship out of soybeans that stranded at sea because of a trade war between china and the u.s. . endangered animals at risk of extinction because of a proposal by donald trump's administration. and england and india battle each other as well as the weather in the cricket field details and.

hello once again we've seen on the edges this chart in pakistan around the caucasus and decent showers but in the middle throughout iran in particular nothing a toe and tempers again have been hovering around the fifty mark just over the border from iraq this past of iran she's not a big surprise is just persistent the forecast for showers and around the caspian sea coast least the southern caspian is still there but lives reached around otherwise dry and dusty forty five is still a constant temperature in middle of iraq and the breezes still are suddenly quite dusty back on the coast lebanon for example beirut is thirty one sunny degrees dry ones as well it's not that humid indeed it has been humid recent they get as the wind dropped out around the gulf states qatar in particular and thirty nine

hints more of the same as does the cloud has been some big showers recently in the southwest of sorry and this hints at the potential for more showers of course the ferry is to existence in salalah and increasing breezes lots of dry things are making dusty renate temperatures in bahrain and in qatar and it also suggests well a few a showers around in saudi but they still potentially there in the southwest or in yemen. it's a story of survival. it's a story about how people could live in such remote. pretty cheap to the way it should be cheap and how that instinct help them recover from the financial crash continue as long as. this is a story about iceland. a jeep on al-jazeera.

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are killing fifty people i mean calls for an investigation but saudi arabia and the strikes were legitimate targets. attacks are continuing on both sides of the gaza israel more rockets have been fired into israel and at least seven people have been injured in an israeli airstrike on a cultural center in gaza. she is a mother an opposition figure tendai biti has been charged with inciting public violence and declaring unofficial election results he was taken into police custody after his bid for asylum in zambia was rejected and he was deported. the us e.u. and african union have praised joseph kabila as decision not to seek a third term as president of the democratic republic of congo can realize instead throwing his support behind his close ally emmanuel dari but there is still fear that he will remain a political force behind the scenes from contrasts or catherine sawyer reports when

president joseph kabila finally made it clear that he will not be seeking reelection and handed over the baton to man. it ended two years of speculation and anxiety characterized by partisan violent confrontations between police and demonstrators some of his critics like martin for you who wants to be president says could be less legacy is tainted. and his security the security is a big issue there is no priests are. scared to the county to bill or bigger says a poverty. we became. the president inherited a country that was just getting out of a civil war back in two thousand and one his father had been assassinated and he was thrust in the thick of the democratic republic of congo's complex politics he's

credited by some for unifying a country that was divided bringing a sense of normalcy reforming the military and starting an ambitious rebuilding program when puppy love became president got off you paid through the winds are not at all in many other parts of the country that has changed especially the coptic people but i'm used to build a network of world being in different parts of the country some people give up what he's done is not good enough. but he's advised to say he's done what he could in incredibly difficult times while doing that we are hearing all sorts of bad things about him but most think sunshines here suntrust their. wars but came from outside. the country so while fighting the war there will still be what i've just said that music infrastructure was destroyed corpse airports bridges you name it in marketplaces like this one in the heart of

kinshasa people say they want to lida who's going to make the lives of more bearable on the basics an end to corruption jobs for their children and to feel they are living in one of the most resource rich countries in the waltz years up by smart got there first. i want someone to stabilize the economy so i can take my children to school feed my family and even afford to buy a house. is forty seven years old a shrewd politician many people we've talked to say whatever his legacy the fact that he's agreed not to run for us that tom can only be a good thing for a country that has never seen a peaceful transition of power catherine saw al-jazeera kinshasa. turning now to our top story of the sound coalition air strike on a school bus which has killed dozens of children join me live now from washington is someone who's an analyst on yemen and a visiting fellow at georgetown university thanks for being with us so horrific

attack on all the. children who've been killed here do you think which is likely to be a turning point in yemen. that's hard to say no yemen's war has been going on for three years and these kind of targets are not unique just in this past week alone we've seen six targets where a lot of civilians have been hurt what's interesting about today is of course that the majority of those who died were children which is really devastating but we've had a lot of strikes and a lot of attacks on civilians on both sides and when it comes to the saudi coalition it seems that some would argue that they are trying to enter the future peace talks that are coming up from a position of power and so they're stepping up their airstrikes in the past week but when it comes to target so you know we've heard in the segment that they said that these targets are you know that they're targeting them accurately and that you know they have a specific host the target on the ground but what we've seen is

a lot of the sites that they target are in and around civilian areas and so this is not the first time that yemeni civilians and children pay the price this time directly but indirectly through the siege by the spread of cholera and you know through the lack of access to medication and through the inflation of the yemeni ryall definitely yemenis are suffering from this war that you mentioned just before the peace talks in september and the fact that perhaps people are positioning themselves trying to be in a position of strength before they get to the what took us through the kind of the positional agron of for instance the latest on how data which was such a big target for the saudi coalition and yet that seems to have kind of rumble to hold to what's happening there. so what happens usually is the arab led coalition usually denies these kind of attacks by saying you know till till now we still have a debate whether saudi arabia is going to take credit or claim the attack which they're not so far but it's easy to kind of track those there are mechanisms in

place to see who committed this crime and of course what we've seen is martin griffiths who's the yeah the special envoy for the u.n. to yemen has put a lot of pressure and has announced at the u.n. assembly in new york that he wants to take the talks forward and to take it in september to geneva and surprisingly what we've seen is that nikki haley and the u.s. and other countries have really backed and supported his efforts and so it's important now is for all sides including the saudis and the host these to kind of embrace this effort and to kind of go into these talks for the sake of yemeni people who continue to pay the price to this day and so you know from the american side i have been sensing that you know with you know a lot of senators putting. their kind of lens on yemen and kind of listening and retelling the stories of yemenis in the war and now with the american administration also saying that they would like to see peace in yemen it seems that

the time is really ripe to move forward with peace talks and is this is kind of the best opportunity to go on with that. thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you. the russian ruble tumbled to its lowest point in two years after the united states impose new sanctions over a chemical weapons attack on a russian double agent a criminal is rejected the sanctions as illegal and says it's begun working on return to tree measures for each other's reports 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 that 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 or 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 interests. the american cargo ship carrying soybeans has become a symbol of a trade war between the u.s. and china the vessel has been stranded off the chinese coast for more than a month it arrived on july the sixth just after beijing imposed

a twenty five percent tariff on soybeans from the u.s. age and brown has more from beijing. 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 darlie and it seems that it literally missed the deadline by just a few hours the owners decided not to offload their 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 the yellow sea while the owners decide what to do next they don't have many options though because of course soybean prices have been falling in the united states is now basically

a glut because china is the world's largest consumer of soybeans and it's no longer buying from the united states instead it's buying increasingly from brazil argentina and doing more to beef up its domestic soybean industry by offering subsidies to its farmers china currently produces soybeans that are consumed by about ten percent of the population meanwhile the trade war between china and the united states has been ratcheted up another notch china applying tariffs to some sixteen billion dollars worth of u.s. imports that of course was in response to what the united states did on wednesday analysts say that it's quite clear there is no sign of talks or of a truce to try to resolve this dispute and in fact the terrorists that are now in place could be there not just for weeks or months but potentially years. conservationists in the us a fighting a proposal to strip the endangered species act of major provisions they say the

trump ministrations decision will weaken an oil that protects endangered plants and animals were extinct. reports from us faddis in california a tiny and delicate creature the elsa good job blue butterfly has fluttered and danced on planet earth for tens of millions of years far longer than the human species has existed it is classified as an endangered species clinging to the outermost fringes of los angeles's sprawling metropolis its native habitat largely reduced to suburban mc mansions and strip malls and dulcie works to keep the elsa good job blue from vanishing forever there is a habitat here that was planted for the endangered elsa going to butterfly there are thirteen hundred threatened or endangered animals and plants in the united states including the mighty california condor or the elusive eastern red wolf and

the far ranging kemp's ridley sea turtle they are afforded special protection under a landmark law signed by president richard nixon in one thousand nine hundred seventy three it was intended to protect some or most impair own plants in animals from extinction. and it's been highly successful in doing that ninety nine percent of the plants and animals that are currently protected under the endangered species act are still around now the trumpet ministration has proposed changes in the endangered species act species already on the list would not be removed but rapidly declining species like the monarch butterfly could be in trouble threatened species would receive no special protection until they reach endangered status and are in danger of dying out the proposed changes to the endangered species act would make it easier for corporations to develop rare habitats drill for oil and gas cut

down forests and lay pipelines the trump administration has consistently sought to ease environmental regulations it claims inhibit economic growth and this is just another piece of that puzzle that shows their total disregard for. into logical processes and the world that we live in for and dulcie the survival of the elsa good job blue butterfly is a symbol of nature's beauty and far sighted legislation from a different era without the endangered species act we would behave working very aggressively on paving over paradise environmental organizations are planning a legal fight to derail the administration's proposed changes to the endangered species act rob reynolds al-jazeera palace verities california. there's you know not top story that saudi and iraqi coalition air strike that's hit her bus

full of school children in yemen and the attack happened in the hoofy held province of sada health ministry says fifty people have been killed the red cross has confirmed it received the bodies of twenty nine children all of them under the age of fifteen a saudi that coalition has released a statement saying strikes aimed at would just make targets we cannot speak to the surrounding who's the un humanitarian coordinator for yemen thank you very much indeed for being with us initially you're reaction to this latest casualty set of children who are being killed in yemen in this way. dozens of children have been killed and scores more have been mooted it's heartbreaking to see what is happening the un is shocked and we are outreach by today's events. what kind of effort saw there now to try to get both sides to agree to to a ceasefire that we don't have these scenes again as belligerence to the war all

parties to the conflict are obliged under international humanitarian law.