from the electronic intifada which is the new site thank you thank you at least one hundred eighty nine people have been injured during protests on gaza's border with israel the demonstrations are called the great march of return then they've been going on for months there's really government accuses some of the demonstrators of being terrorists who want to cross into israel and carry out attacks stratford sent this from the gaza israel border this is the twenty second week in a row that we've seen these protests on friday along the gaza israel we've seen a lot of gas fired in the last couple of hours will it sounds like live ammunition as well i think it's fair to say though that there are less people here this week than we have seen in recent weeks how massa says that the protesters have every right to continue these demonstrations and will continue them. until israel's need twelve year land and sea blockade is lifted now so many people here we've been

speaking to the speculation that one of the reasons why the protests the protests have been less this week is because we are expecting a resumption of these talks being mediated by the egyptians in cairo between hamas the armed factions and israel israel denies that there is any direct conversation going on between them and how mass but we do know that the egyptians have been very keen i've been working very hard to get both parties to. agree to some sort of last thing ceasefire we also understand that fatah will be sending a delegation from ramallah to participate in those talks as well there are concerns that anything that is seen by either side as being a provocation could initiate another escalation in violence between hamas and israel and of course that would seriously jeopardize those talks in carro. the international rescue committee says it's horrified by reports of dozens of civilians being killed in air strikes in yemen at least thirty one people died

inside the led airstrikes near her data on thursday that's according to the rebels the u.n. says twenty two of those killed were children it's renewed its demand for an independent investigation into attacks on civilians in yemen ok plenty more still to come this news hour. still john morrison this with. a straight gets yes i'm now their prime minister after all concerned bull becomes the latest victim of the cutthroat world of australian politics. nigeria's busiest bridge a shut down for general paris you look at the impact will have on drivers in lagos . and in sports in the us hosting of the asian games half the country dreaming of the olympics will tell us more later. zimbabwe's president emerson a man of god was calling for unity after the country's top court confirmed his

disputed election when as main opposition rival nelson chamisa challenge the results it was saying that the july thirtieth election was rigged in favor of money but that was rejected. the details from harare. supporters from zimbabwe's rulings on still a great fight is constitutional court ruling. he said the main opposition leader nelson chamisa has no case. that is to list before. the. rich sufficient. and could do. their duty. to the election approaches much. existed. there was no proof.

of irregularities as a matter of fact lawyers representing the opposition m.d.c. alliance believed it wasn't a fair judgement so ultimately they had spoken. the proceedings. to come up with. but b. is a serious. story here the election board admits it made some. errors that. was initial total of votes he won from fifty point eight to fifty point six seven percent they insist this did not change the outcome of the whole according to the constitution the winner has to be sworn in within forty eight hours that means present when and god was in operation will be on sunday opposition leaders insist election was rigged and they say they'll carry on fighting the course decision is final there is no room for an appeal we are going to it within

the law whatever we are going to do we are going to do these things within the law we we have convened we are going to convene sort of the national council of the. on wednesday. with their way for what violence shortly after voting day itself had raised tensions the army shot at protesters who are unhappy with the delay in releasing the results six people were killed the main opposition leader nelson chamisa says his supporters are still being systematically targeted. by a narrow margin political analysts say he now has a child tonight a deeply divided country he also needs to turn around some of the struggling economy and need outside help to do the. ecuador says it's opened a humanitarian corridor carrying hundreds of venezuelans to reach. before it imposes restrictions on saturday. comes as the u.n.

compares the mass exodus of migrants from venezuela so the refugee crisis in the mediterranean in recent days there's been a sharp increase in the numbers fleeing economic meltdown and political turmoil of venezuela. has more from that's on the border crossing between colombia ecuador. this temporary humanitarian corridor came as a total surprise as the ecuadorian government sent thirty two buses to pick up practically all the venezuelan migrants that were still stranded here at the border between and they're using the buses to cross and help these migrants reach the next point in their journey which is the border with so while the situation here to build here has at this appear we'll probably see a new critical situation forming at the border with their peruvian government says they're expecting twenty five thousand migrants to arrive there in the coming hours

just before new immigration restrictions take effect there starting at midnight on saturday but in the meantime let's look at what the situation was here until a few hours ago. one bitterly cold morning these venezuelan migrants are trying to catch a ride to the dorian border they've been traveling for two weeks some food or in the back of trucks hoping to reach their final destination before new immigration restrictions take effect on saturday. for law student says the restrictions should be lifted but. we are not regular immigrants who are displaced by the dictatorship that is kidnapped country kids are dying of hunger the elderly for lack of medicine and the young who should be the main engine of the country leaving penniless. yet so. american countries are making it harder for them

entering say in their countries in early august first declared a state of emergency when twenty thousand migrants arrived to its border in four days then began requiring a passport to let them in this is left many stranded. and made it to the border with her husband and five year old daughter but unlike bears her passport is about to expire. they told me i can't process it knocked me down how can my husband and daughter leave without me what am i to do i tried to renew my passport for two years before we left it wasn't possible. says she filed a challenge to ecuador's decision. demanding protective measures for these people based on our constitution and humanitarian law crime and we hope the judge will decision. for those stuck here there is some help provide free shots for children

in need of scenes there are tents to spend the night in even a day care. but most migrants are deciding to continue their journey despite measures arrivals at this former crossing have gone down from forty five hundred a day to less than five hundred and while some might be remaining in the great majority or taking the risk of crossing illegally while hundreds are now walking through ecuador others get stop trying. if there's no other way we'll have to pass illegally we can't stay here and we can't go back there's no life left in venezuela none no but with no end in sight to the economic crisis back home will continue to migrate while the countries in the region will need better solutions to cope with this ever worsening crisis. group. several migrants stuck on an italian coast guard ship for more than a week have gone on

a hunger strike as italy and the e.u. clashed over who should take them in one hundred fifty people are being held off the coast of sicily italy's far right interior minister says he won't let them on to italy and soil deputy prime minister luigi luigi the mio says he'll hold withhold twenty three billion dollars of eve funds unless other member countries take them in the european commission says it will not bow to italy's threats and prosecutors in sicily have opened an investigation into whether the migrants are being held against their will. but as surely as a new prime minister it's the fifth in five years scott morrison was sworn in after malcolm turnbull was forced out of a job in a leadership challenge from his own party morrison is an evangelizer jellicoe christian who voted against same sex marriage and he's also the architect of australia's hardline policy on refugees kathy novak has more from sydney australia john morris and this is with australia is introduced to another new prime minister

brought to power not in a popular vote but rather installed by colleagues in the party ballot facing a tough job to ensure that we not only bring their party back together which has been bruised and battered this week traditional grandson here is that malcolm turnbull became prime minister when he pushed out his predecessor tony abbott in twenty fifteen now turnbull is the latest australian leader to leave before the end of his term the strike will be just dumbstruck. and so appalled by the conduct of the last week he blames a campaign of what he calls insurgents within his party and outside it who wanted to see the moderate prime minister replaced with a more conservative peter dutton as minister for immigration a dozen was known for his hard line in foresman of the country's policy of sending asylum seekers to overseas prison camps he first challenge turnbull in

a leadership contest on choose day and lost he then demanded another vote on friday saying this time he had the support to win and turnbull didn't run as a candidate how the insurgents were not rewarded by electing just a dot for example but instead the successor who i wish the very best of course scott morrison a very loyal and effective treasurer goals like that in mars and was once immigration minister in charge of controversial asylum policies he had backed turnbull to remain prime minister before friday's vote has been a lot of talk this week. about he saw people around in this building. and what just annoyed me to tell you. is the new generation of liberal leadership. is we are on your side australians are generally unhappy with what they see as a revolving door system of leadership scott morrison now faces the difficult task

of uniting his party before facing the australian public in a federal election in less than a year before that barzan government which has a majority of just one seat is likely to have another electoral test. malcolm turnbull says he'll leave parliament soon triggering a byelection for his electorate kathy novak al jazeera sydney. nigeria shut down its busiest bridge for vital maintenance. the third mainland branch links lagos island that's a city of nearly twenty million people but the mainland i met address looks at efforts to repair the aging beds and the disruption its closure costs. for just the third time in this forty year history nigeria's busiest bridge is shut to traffic and this is why. cracks and damage in the structure

a source of concern for motorists who say they awarded by the recent bridge collapse in italy that killed several people ask rock. what was on the beach and there is a gullible warming. not to be vocal on it which is noise lol. it will remain closed for three days as engineers conduct a variety of tests this is a typical day on this bridge an important road connecting lagos financial and commercial centers an average of one hundred thousand cars cross the name of her friend margaret every day they love one thousand eight hundred meter structure is nigeria's longest and resist bridge dimension as one being carried out is by far the biggest was not. realized despite already getting bad and the need to be changed and this there is also if you remove.

the arctic rose replacement divers sent in to investigate also discover damage caused by pollution to sections of the bridge under water some of this aggressive chemical. at least. horse. little problems that are in there which needs to be taking care of engineers explained that despite the evident faults the bridge does not have any major safety issues for now. if you don't spring. because of the brain. fart. for a city already struggling with congestion the bridge closure has led to further destruction in certain parts of lagos island. the repair work is expected to start informant it will last for more than two years and that could mean more traffic for a city of twenty million people. lagos nigeria

still to come this hour i'll tell you about the artist honoring the memory of immigrants who died making the dangerous desert crossing between mexico and the u.s. . ukraine's military puts on a show of force even more soldiers in the ongoing battle for the east. of the sport formula one of the. head of the belgian grand prix. hello there it definitely is turning cooler across europe now it's all thanks to this weather front here it's pulling in some far fresh air the leading edge is bringing us a fair amount of wet weather and that's gradually edging its way eastwards so as we

head through the day on saturday then many of us in the northwest will have some cool fresh air with plenty of showers around as well that leading edge of a wet weather will be working its way across parts of poland and into the eastern parts there as we head through sunday it's got a real dramatic change to the weather on it warsaw instead of thirty degrees which is what we saw on friday will only be getting to fifteen by the time we get to sunday further south it's still hot for us here bucharest thirty three degrees for symmetry it will also be at thirty three across the other side of the mediterranean plenty of fine fettle weather to be found here there's a bit more cloud here and that could just graze the north coast of libya maybe bring us one or two showers but i think for most of us it should be dry a top temperature in chuen is around thirty one or thirty two degrees as we head through the next couple of days this central belt of africa is where most of the showers are and that's usual for this time of year they will gradually rattle their way towards the west but some of them a quarter long way north now you can see them over the northern part and working just into the southern parts of our cheerio as well.

and nine hundred seventy eight. disappeared after boarding a plane to libya. for over thirty s. his disappearance remain in mystery. but after colonel gadhafi his downfall in two thousand and eleven new evidence came to light. al-jazeera world investigates the case of the vanished in. and out to syria. challenge your perception ethiopia's economy has grown at a faster rate than any other african country fearless journalism like that sirens were heard here is that gives an indication of just how close the fighting is groundbreaking documentary debates and discussions just six months ago we were at the brink of a halt al-jazeera shell was willing fro grahams take you on

a journey around the globe. on al-jazeera. hello again here is your mind there are top stories on the. us media says prosecutors have granted immunity to allen weisel burke the longtime chief financial officer of the trump organization it is part of the inquiry into press and donald trump's former lawyer of michael cohen who pleaded guilty on tuesday to campaign finance violations. zimbabwe's president emerson my god was calling for unity after the country's top court could be firm to selection when the main

opposition party had to challenge the results saying the july thirtieth election was rigged. and ecuador says it's open to humanitarian corridors or to help in israel and reach proof before it introduces new entry restrictions on saturday. all right let's talk more about donald trump's latest legal worries and joining me from austin texas is matt macchio back he's a former campaign manager for the republican house of representatives member bill florus thank you very much for talking to us great to have you on my first question would be how significant is it that the court has given. immunity does that give any indication of the gravity of the situation or the gravity of the information he has to offer. well i think why so far is a more significant figure than michael cohen is a c.f.o. the chief financial officer of the trump organization he would have been familiar with a much broader scope of business deals what money was coming in what money was going

out what the purpose was of things that money that was spent that said all we know right now is that why superman was likely given immunity to ensure that the prosecutors had enough information to charge and convict michael cohen which is ultimately what brought him to the table for a plea deal so we know he was part of the yser immunity was part of that we don't know if i support was given immunity for other things that's one of the big questions going forward and i don't know that we're going there yes or anytime soon why do you think a man in such such a position has been with the family for the past four decades why would he agree to this kind of a deal and woods he. give information that can be potentially damning to. yes hard to know without knowing the individual without knowing the relationship between him and now president trump the leader of the trump organization at the time or the time that we're looking at. obviously if if he was part of

these hush payments and if they indeed. constituted illegal campaign finance contributions then he would have had legal liability himself as chief financial officer so oftentimes you see this where prosecutors go after individuals up the ladder to try to get the person at the very top and they turn people below them against them so it's possible it's look it is possible that this was narrow that they went to why suburban said listen michael cohen is not cooperating we want to be able to prove us money payments for a little campaign finance violation we need your cooperation to do that and we'll give you immunity it's possible as a narrow deal it's also possible was a lot broader than that he's cooperating in a much deeper level and that other potential information that could be far more damaging to the president personally could be coming out or even to at least two of his children eric trump and don trump jr who both been very senior figures of the trump organization over the years what about this whole idea using

a corporation to fund campaign that we spoke to a former attorney general deputy attorney general who said that definitely would be an act of criminality. well i don't know that it's fair to say that corporate money was being used to fund campaigns in this case trump was using apparently using corporate funds or perhaps personal funds i guess will we'll know more soon but presumably corporate funds to settle with the with the woman that you had with two women i guess that he had affairs with the argument that it was meant to advantage the campaign is because of the timing of this is being done two or three weeks before the election now the trump legal team is making your argument to trump would have done this had he been in the campaign or not to protect his family to protect his reputation i cetera that these kinds of things are actually fairly common for wealthy individuals so. we'll see exactly whether this ultimately results in a serious felony campaign finance violation or not i think there's probably

a legal battle on both sides ahead on that question. and every day there is some new tidbit of information and a new surprise thank you very much matt mccovey acca former campaign manager for republican house of representatives thank you thank you the family of us republican senator john mccain says he's topping all treatments for brain cancer mccain announced that he had the disease last year and his family says he's quote surpassed expectations for his survival the eighty one year old arizona senator has been a vocal opponent of u.s. president donald trump he's also a military veteran who spent years as a prisoner of war in vietnam. the united states border patrol is hugely under reporting the number of migrant deaths in the state to paris that's according to a new investigation activists and officials in arizona have spent years compiling a so-called death map their data is being used to help identify the many a side trying to cross the us mexico border from tucson add the surrounding desert

and the gallagher reports. head north we're going to head this site for years alvarado enciso has been scouring the sonoran desert with one goal in mind a colombian born artist wants to expose its secrets by honoring the dead along with a team of volunteers alvarez planted six hundred crosses each represents a life lost on a deadly frontier. when the families see that because there's somebody here that cares in this to sort of give them a little bit of a voice to the casualties to the fallen heroes you know that the me they are fallen heroes do come all the way from there to leave everything behind the to look for a better life here it's it's quite a journey that should be. then aerated in some way alvarez works inspired by arizona's so-called death map it's a joint project between state officials and activists that shows close to three

thousand people have died in the last fifteen years this does it covers an area of more than a quarter of a million square kilometers in the summertime temperatures exceed one hundred degrees at night it gets very cold and yet those seeking a better life continue to try and cross and they continue to lose their lives what's happening here in the borderlands of arizona is nothing short of a humanitarian crisis you can see we have some of the long bones from the lower extremities and we have portions of the power of us around one in three of those found to go unidentified corner gregory heads who helped develop the map wants to change that you have somebody is missing and people are looking for them clearly that provide can provide a sense of closure if they are found even if it is kind of tragic but it also provides us a sense of satisfaction to try to answer those questions for families activists say was the number of illegal crossings has fallen migrants are being forced to take bigger risks this is the consequence of paramilitary techniques being used over

fifteen years of death mapping what we see people are dying closer to the international line and farther from towns and roads we're literally pushing people to their death their sonoran desert has a secret three thousand people have died here two thousand missing over a will continue to plant crosses in the desert but says he doesn't have enough to pay tribute to those who lost their lives. and you go across zero tucson arizona. and federal authorities in arizona have discovered a drug smuggling tunnel running from mexico into an abandoned k.f.c. fast food restaurant acting on a tip off police arrested the owner of the restaurant which is just around two hundred meters north of the border they found a sophisticated tunnel large enough to walk through as well as a stash of drugs including cocaine heroin and crystal methamphetamine border agents say tunnels are expensive to build but there's been a significant increase since border security was increased how many

health officials have warned people to stay out of parts of the ocean because of contamination from sewers as hurrican lane lashes the u.s. state with terentia will rain the storm has cost cesspools and manholes to overflow something pesticides dead animals and other flood debris into the sea people in honolulu have also been warned to expect flooding and landslides but hurricanes been downgraded but it's still packing winds of up to one hundred ninety five kilometers an hour. u.s. president donald trump's national security advisor john bolton says american sanctions against russia will remain in place until bosco changes its behavior bolton was in kiev as ukraine celebrated the anniversary of its independence from the soviet union with a military parade the u.s. imposed sanctions against russia over its twenty fourteen atic station of crimea support for pro russian rebels in eastern ukraine and meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election which moscow denies is now on thursday five soldiers

were killed in eastern ukraine and president petro poroshenko apologized for promising in twenty fourteen of the conflict would be over within hours more than ten thousand people have died in the war john herbst is the director of the center of the atlantic council and he's also a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine he says russia remains heavily involved in the military militarily in eastern ukraine what is vital is that russia is committing aggression in europe it tried to change borders in georgia by war in two thousand and eight it is doing it now again in ukraine since two thousand and fourteen this is a very serious danger to european security and the russians need to be defeated in ukraine was going on don't bosses the local separatists it's a russian led financed a war russian soldiers are fighting russian officers are in charge russian money russian weapons or the root of it and if moscow thing can get away with aggression

in ukraine as it got away with aggression in georgia we will see russian aggression elsewhere. since government has passed a decree that paves the way for the former dictator francisco franco remains to be removed franco is buried in a muslim in madrid which the government wants it turned into a memorial for those killed in the spanish civil war is opponents say is to me is the only remaining one human to a fascist leader in europe tens of thousands of people were killed and imprisoned in a crackdown on dissent during franco's rule from one thousand nine hundred six to one nine hundred seventy five firefighters in germany are battling a major forest fire fifty kilometers southwest of berlin with the added hazard of exploding ammunition the forest is scattered with shells and bombs believed to date back to soviet live fire exercises in the former east germany and some explosions have been heard more than five hundred people have been evacuated and berlin residents have been told to close their windows to keep out the smoke. it is

friday night here in london and many people will be reaching for a glass or glasses of wine or beer to kick off the weekend but there is bad news from researchers they say the only way to avoid health risks associated the alcohol is just to stop drinking it all together here are some facts around the globe one in three people that's two point four billion people drink alcohol but a new study by the university of washington says even the occasional drink can cause problems alcohol led to two point eight million premise for deaths worldwide and twenty sixteen the study says an average of two drinks per day causes seven percent rise in disease and injury and that's pikes to thirty seven percent for those who have five that might sound like a lot of booze but people do drink more than you think romanian men and women drink eight point two and four point two drinks per day on average and the countries with the lowest number of drinkers are pakistan and bangladesh where less than one

percent of the people say they consume alcohol. well let's fix it emmanuelle got to do she's a professor of global health at the institute of health metrics and evaluation at the university of washington so you know we constantly have conflicting reports about alcohol one glass it's ok for us maybe just in moderation but then recurring absolutely none is better for you that outweighs all the risk so. where is that coming from is it that our body just cannot handle alcohol full stop thank you for having me on your program i am not a physician so i would prefer not to speak to the biological mechanisms but i can tell you when you pull together all the available evidence and always the

benefits that alcohol has and that those have some benefits but also has a lot of risks at the end of the day the conclusion we come to is that it is better overall for the consumption to be zero and how likely is it that people who well i guess it has it's hard to say how much people would actually entirely stop drinking but given that is there an argument for alcohol in moderation it's seven percent you say the health risk and set the very low levels of consumption so for people on average consume one drink per day they increase their risk of how lost is very small that's the point half of the percentage point so less than one percent their risk does go up with consumption so the last people can drink the better it will be for them so if you had to sum up this the findings of this report aside from saying absolutely stay out from away

from alcohol what would your general summary be. and the general summary would be drink less drink less than you normally do their ideal would be zero but we fully understand that that is not feasible for everybody and then global guidelines such as those shared by the world health organization or international policy guidelines two words drinking may want to be eerie advised to lower away accommodations to the general public are emanuel i got to do professor of global health at the institute of health metrics and evaluation at university of washington great to get your thoughts and great to speak to you thank you thank you very much.