rockets were fired from there into southern israel this really say that the targets are linked to hamas and islamic jihad's the general security headquarters of hamas was also among those his israeli spokesman says the rocket fire was launched from gaza late on friday and continued into saturday morning islamic jihad has told them to syria that it's agreed to hold rocket fire after talks with a gyptian a geisha in the scope of the west routes in the most serious order i mean is that as we said all of these israeli strikes continued into saturday morning can we expect further tension when for the past few hours. seems to have been restored along that border now the question is will it last or not as you mentioned just now islamic jihad did issue a statement saying that it had agreed to a ceasefire brokered by the gyptian however we didn't hear from these raids yet we do know that the defense minister avigdor lieberman will be holding

a meeting with their security and military leadership later today probably late afternoon probably we'll hear more about that at the time but i think in general there is there is not such an appetite in israel to have. an all out war in gaza at the moment with all it's going on in the region why is israel holding hamas to account for the rockets that. we're told reportedly fired into southern israel by islamic jihad. well the idea is israel always holds hamas responsible as it is the governing power in the gaza strip now actually the israeli army had issued a statement earlier today saying explaining that more than eighty of the targets

hit overnight were actually hamas and only eight were from islamic jihad and they specifically said again it's because they hold responsible how muslim how much should be able to control all the different factions that are that are operating from big as it sit now israel actually went a little bit further distance it actually said it thinks that as leverage you had has acted under the orders of iran or the revolutionary guards or goods forces that are based in syria according to israel that could be simply because you have leadership of islamic jihad who are living in exile between lebanon syria and iran however israel didn't provide any proof of that islamic jihad on its side had said well there were tensions along the border you know the usual friday protests the long march of return that have been going on for the past thirty one weeks and five palestinian protesters were killed so islamic jihad made it sound that it was in

retaliation of that israel says no it's not that you're getting orders from syria and from iran and we will deal with that we will bear that in mind when dealing with considering our next step but as i said we haven't heard from the israeli leadership and that should happen maybe later today or sunday morning paula many thanks to donors a zero. in jerusalem. search and rescue efforts continue in jordan after flash flooding that killed twenty one people most of the victims were children elite two thousand military rescuers are still searching the shores of jordan's dead sea resort area but asheville flag has been lowered to half mast in mourning for the victims politicians have raised questions about the preparedness of the national emergency services in the country a weather update backstay on officer at them police in the u.s. charge a man suspected of sending mail bombs to

a high profile critics of president trump a quadrilateral summit it's the first one of its kind taking place in istanbul to try to find a political solution to syria's. also one brazil's far right can the baby losing support ahead of the presidential runoff vote. hello again we're here across the northern part of asia we are watching a fun about to make its way across the northern part of japan you can see that right there on the satellite image we are going to be seeing some snow in the forecast particularly behind this system and that's going to affecting the northern part of china as well as into the russian maritimes so thought of a stock it's going to be a chilly day for you only getting to about nine degrees there a genuine the rain is coming through you that will make its way down toward seoul

as well but over here towards tokyo twenty three degrees but we do expect by monday evening into tuesday we will be seeing some rain in your forecast well towards china we're looking at nice conditions for most of the regions a little bit more clouds of here towards the west but for joe twenty five degrees and a sunny day few nice for hong kong as well at twenty eight and even here towards vietnam we're seeing mostly dry conditions along much of that coastline and hanoi is going to be saying about twenty eight degrees in the forecast and then very quickly it is the philippines we're going to watch you over the next few days because we do have a typhoon that is out here in the pacific that is making its way towards the west and it is a very powerful storm so we're going to be watching what happens as it makes its way towards manila but we do in the meantime expect to see mostly cloudy conditions the you over the next few days and as we go towards monday winds coming out of the north very gusty with a temperature of thirty. he

was malaysia's prime minister. until the government was drawn down on the scandals and allegations of corruption in an exclusive interview. speaks with. again this is al jazeera the main news saudi arabia says that it will prosecute the suspects in the killing of jamal khashoggi turkey has demanded the extradition of

the eighteen men she was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul earlier this month saudi arabia's foreign minister. described the international response to the hysterical. the u.s. defense secretary says the murder of her show she is undermining regional stability speaking at a security summit back rein james mattis went on to say that washington would take additional measures against those responsible but stressed that the core relationship between washington and riyadh would not change and his radio strikes have hit more than eighty locations in gaza which the military says a link to hamas and islamic jihad but israeli spokesman says the rocket fire was launched from gaza late on friday and continued into saturday morning in the last hour or so islamic jihadists holed up to syria but it's agreed to hold rocket fire after talks with an egyptian delegation. the leaders of france germany turkey and russia are holding talks in istanbul to try to find

a solution to the conflict in syria it's the first summit to bring all four leaders together they're expected to back a russia and turkey agreed ceasefire in syria's northwestern provinces it did in september let's take you live out of istanbul. is that zeta turkey's defense minister met with his russian counterpart ahead of this summit the president of france and president putin have spoken by phone chancellor merkel spokesman said that germany backs a deescalation clearly a lot of talking has gone on even before the leaders sit down there in istanbul today. yes a lot of talking one on one meetings on the sidelines of this summit we've had many summits in the past on syria but this one like you mentioned is different because turkey and russia members of the so-called asked in a process they have brought the european union or european nations to the table so

the optics are good but at the end of the day what is going to be achieved moscow says don't expect much don't expect breakthroughs even france said just expect modest expectations we are very far away from a political solution to the syrian war but this summit this is about the deal in this summit was supposed to have taken place in september but it never happened because at the time the syrian government was threatening an all out offensive that would have created a humanitarian catastrophe hundreds of thousands of refugees even turkey's president warned those refugees could end up in europe and then we saw turkey and russia agree on a last minute deal to create this demilitarized zone what france and germany wants is for a lasting cease fire and that's why they're here they're here for guarantees now what does russia or turkey want out of this summit well they want money they want the european union to cough up cash so that the reconstruction of syria can begin because for russia they've already changed the battlefield now they want to win the

peace now they want to start this post war reconstruction but the stances and the statements made by french and german officials ahead of this conference shows really they're not any closer to that what there are demanding is for the syrian government to cooperate with the u.n. led political process and so far the syrian government is not not accepting really to cooperate so a lot of hard bargaining what we do know is that france and germany want that deal to stay in place and to translate into a permanent and lasting cease fire so you know i know we were speaking to you again but he will times in the hours to come but he thanks d. for the dogs there is in the hall the reporting live from istanbul. in the us a man has been charged with sending mail bombs to high profile critics of donald trump fifty six year old sale was arrested in florida on friday but the f.b.i. warns that there could be more devices that have not yet been discovered those target include former president barack obama's vice president joe biden and trump's

democratic opponent hillary clinton. because president suspended parliament a day off the second the prime minister in a surprise move president. citizens a sort of saying i'm sorry fired real work from seeing on friday and replaced him with the former president mahinda rajapaksa which i'm saying had earlier request a diversion see session of parliament to address the crisis the political turmoil follows the collapse of the governing coalition al-jazeera smell fine and as reports now from colombo. it's all happening here in sri lanka first thing in the morning we had the new prime minister mine the rajapaksa chairing a meeting of all the joint opposition parliamentarians now shortly after that we heard the former prime minister on a vicar missing her basically calling for an emergency session of parliament where we're told that he wrote to the speaker asking that parliament be convened for

especially mergence the session and speaking to the media he said that he would show the numbers the support he enjoys in parliament thereby legitimizing his role as the current prime minister he has said that the swearing in of my in the raja proxies unconstitutional and that it is illegal now within this even though has called for parliament to be essentially convened within that press conference literally as we sat down with the prime the former prime minister we heard news breaking that the president had suspended parliament now these things all not all groomed well for democratic processes the we a democracy is expected and seen to function the very fact that this entire sort of swearing in of mine the rajapaksa came as a bolt from the blue now the fact that parliament has been suspended with no one really knowing what is to unfold in the coming days in the coming weeks does not auger well for the people themselves are wondering what to expect in fact they

don't know quite frankly who their prime minister is. the remaining two presidential candidates in brazil have ended campaigning ahead of sunday's runoff so those polls suggest that the far right kind of the votes a lot of has seen his lead over rival for the four by six percentage points over the past week and that's funny hopes of a stunning turnaround for the leftist candidate among his supporters not us but accused of making sexist racist and homophobic remarks to raise a boat reports. we're hearing. at an event held by the workers' party on the how about the workers' party presidential candidate is currently in northeastern brazil trying to gather as many votes that they can that the stronghold of the workers' party there he attacked john yoo towards the nat'l saying the brazil doesn't deserve a president like him and that he's a threat to democracy on the other hand it was not extreme right candidate he's

here in rio de janeiro he has asked his followers to remain quiet until be election day but he also attacked by that on twitter saying that he's being run by a man that is currently in prison referring to former president we've seen as you laugh you are right now there's a twelve point difference between both candidates also matter has lost around six point five the last polled and in the last few days he has moderated in a way his discourse thing that for example there won't be a war with venezuela that he's ready to work with the united nations in the past he said that brazil would leave the organization saying that it feels that with communists both candidates were supposed to have a debate this friday but it was canceled because one photo said that he won't attend that this is the first time that something like this happened since brazil return to democracy in one nine hundred eighty five several thousand migrants and refugees heading north swards the u.s.

border have turned mexico's also for them to stay on friday president and rico pena nieto announced a plan for those who. apply for refugee status in mexico's two southernmost states more than one thousand seven hundred people have already applied but others rejected the offer and said they'd continue their trek northwards to the u.s. border. voting is on the way to afghanistan's kandahar province after parliamentary elections there were pushed back by a week delay came after a high level afghan general was killed in a taliban attack the day before polls were due to open the security situation in afghanistan has been tense following last weekend's parliamentary elections when the war in the country is forcing people from religious minorities to leave the country where they were born but not everyone can afford to escape persecution and seek a new life abroad on a serious hashanah reports from kabul. meet zob cement

of the last remaining jew in afghanistan his community left the country many years ago but he chose to stay experiencing the ups and downs of afghan political lie the years of religious intolerance the military coups and the root of the taliban. he cares for the bandon synagogue in kabul hoping that one day when. the jews who left will come back home. i'm an afghan i was born here i served in the afghan army paris london washington d.c. it's all the same thing living in afghanistan feels the same as being in israel this is my country i haven't encountered any problems and my relationship with my neighbors is excellent. these are difficult times for religious minorities in

afghanistan. not in sync comes every day to the go to the place of worship for sikhs. the community has shrunk from thousands to around twelve hundred. they there was on line about if people get a chance they will go forever we have been facing growing problems since two thousand and three our crematorium was confiscated by the authorities and our lands are also taken away from us we have no rights no homeland not in does father was among fourteen worshippers killed by a suicide bomb attack targeting a temple in jalalabad the explosion last july was blamed on i still despite his loss. won't leave. the morale of our people is long but this is our country i am not going anywhere i am staying here. the sikhs what a thriving community in afghanistan in the nineteen fifties and sixties but many

now think it's about time to go to india their spiritual homeland. officials here say religious freedoms are a shrine in the constitution and that it's the government's duty to protect minorities but with the increase in attacks targeting temples and shrines religious minorities are leaving their homeland or staying and facing an uncertain future as . kabul. to turkey with us everything in here in doha the top stories on al-jazeera saudi arabia says that it will prosecute the suspects in the killing of jamal khashoggi turkey had demanded the extradition of the eighteen men to show she was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul only this month saudi arabia's foreign minister i'll just bear described the international response to the murder as hysterical. on

the issue of the extradition of the individuals of saudi nationals to detained and sundry big investigation since had been and they will be prosecuted in saudi arabia while at the same forum the us defense secretary james mattis said the murder of her shows she is undermining regional stability the united states does not tolerate that kind of ruthless action to silence that ticket show good journalist through violence via the failure of any one nation to adhere to international norms and the rule of law undermine regional stability at a time when it is needed most as president trump noted we're going to get to the bottom of it israel has launched as strikes hitting more than eighty locations in gaza after it says rockets were fired from that into southern israel the israeli say the targets are linked to hamas and islamic jihad the general sector security headquarters of hamas was among the targets hit and israeli spokesman says the

rocket fire was launched from gaza late on friday and continued into saturday morning islamic jihadist told al jazeera that its agreed to hold rocket fire talks with an egyptian delegation the leaders of france germany turkey and russia holding talks in istanbul to try to find a solution to the conflict in syria it's the first summit to bring all four leaders together they're expected support the ceasefire agreed in september by turkey and russia in syria's northwestern province of italy the demilitarized zone that was largely held but syria's government threatened to retake the last rebel stronghold on friday. trying because president suspended parliament a day off to second the country's prime minister in a surprise move president sort of saina fired. from sitting on friday and replaced him with former president mahinda rajapaksa the political turmoil follows the collapse of the governing coalition. the headlines that he's continues after

inside story next. the united states says it's time to pull out of a nuclear arms pact with russia signed more than thirty years ago that helped end the cold war but president donald trump wants to rip it up why now and does it mean a return to the nuclear arms race and an increase in the risk of conflict this is inside story.

hello i'm wrong this is inside story from the united states in the old soviet union once on the brink of nuclear war they called it the cold war and it dragged on for decades but in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven u.s. president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev signed the into mediate range of nuclear forces or i.n.f. treaty defusing the arms race now there are more phase another one could be about to start because president donald trump wants out of the agreement we'll speak to our guests shortly but first let's take a look at what the i.n.f. treaty achieved. because hopeless reports from trondheim in norway. i'm here in norway as nato runs the largest war games it's held since the end of the cold war and as president trump threatens to pull out of the i.n.f. treaty both institutions with their origins in the cold war nato seeks to expand its role as the i.n.f. treaty is in danger of collapse so what is the treaty and why is it important with the i n f or intermediate nuclear forces treaty was signed in one thousand nine

hundred seven between the united states of america and the soviet union designed to stop one side from sneaking up on the other with missiles either have a short flying time or can fly under radar cover to attack high value targets essentially catching their adversary off guard and destroying them before they can defend themselves the treaty was designed as a confidence building measure to lower the risk of general nuclear war was based on the limitations the technological limitations of its day there was no provision for instance on sea based cruise missiles which both parties the united states and. russia have used extensively in conflicts since both sides accuse each other of violating the treaty the americans accuse the russians or designing missiles with more warheads than the treaty allows and also basing their cruise missiles on land the russians in turn accuse the americans of basing tomahawk cruise missiles in poland and romania both the united states and russia are unhappy with the

provisions of the treaty but it's the united states that seeks to withdraw from it unilaterally it feels that regional competitors like and north korea are not able to endanger both it and its allies and that it is constrained by an arms control agreement that was signed over thirty years ago and is now seen as increasingly obsolete. let's bring in our panel joining us in washington d.c. lawrence korb former u.s. assistant secretary of defense in moscow to be trained babbage political analyst at risk said you know and. london not fall down meant nuclear policy analyst at the british american security information council i don't pawson think tank which promotes debate on nuclear disarmament welcome to you all i'd like to begin with larry korb in washington d.c. why this agreement and why now well actually the russians have been violating it

since two thousand and fourteen the obama administration accused them of doing it and they have kept on violating it for the last last four years the real question is what do you do now i think it's important to keep in mind that trump that with helsinki and this you know one on one meeting did he bring it up then did he talk about how they might resolve it did he listen to what the russians claim the u.s. is doing with the a.b.m. anti-ballistic missile systems we're putting into poland and romania did they discuss the fact that president putin has offered to extend the new start agreement for five years which president don't trump you know did not did not respond to so it should be part of the whole package to deal with that or else as the iran upset we could start a new arms race let me bring in dimitri babbage in moscow hit august in washington

d.c. says the russians called the trusted they violated the agreement on several occasions what are your thoughts well first if you look at the agreement if you look at that that still of the treaty it doesn't break he bit research and development that brings keep its deployment that was absolutely no proof of that dross and deployed any intermediate range nuclear missiles in the areas where this deployment is behavior that by the treaty russia recently invited the united states to inspect all that was set about doing on their missile that is was. in the united states. larry is correct in his fact that actually president obama started to use in russia so it wasn't just drama but it was a bomber who wanted to get out of these are an f. treaty if we will get why the united states wants to get out of it i think it's primarily against china that they want to have more capability just because if you

look at their european situation it changed to russia's disadvantage in one thousand ages seven when the treaty was signed poor and czech republic. germany they were all part of the soviet walk and of course now these nations have governments which are very hostile to russia or they call russia horse nation we don't consider them hostile we never use that word but obviously a from a military point of view it would make sense for atia to have there are intermediate range missiles directed at these countries because for let me bring in let me bring in. on air which is one of the guy you're hearing there just what our guest is saying and almost so although obviously russia is interested in that you're hearing what our guest is saying in moscow that the troops are your. usual cover me to let you all have plenty of time we have to bring in all of the guess i'm really sorry about that but i just want to bring your point out with i didn't

finish my thought ok well let me bring in you can answer lawrence's point after this is which was what you were about to bring up lawrence you've heard it there that this isn't so much about the russians and the americans it's much more about the chinese threat which is a part of the earth and also north korea surely it's not time to pull out of the treaty but surely it's time to widen the treaty. well i agree with that the obama administration did not want to bring china and john bolton back as far as two thousand and eleven when he was when in government basically said the treaties obsolete because china is the vellum being these intermediate missiles and the united states need to deal with that now obviously he has come into government and he's been able to convince president trump to get out of it not only because of the violations but because they want to win valvo china i think it what we should do if

we want to bring china and they are a major power which they were not in one nine hundred eighty seven and if you want to have arms control agreements not just dealing with this but strict you know strategic weapons it would be good to get china involved and bring them to the table because they're key to what's happening as your guest in moscow said in north korea so i i agree with that but the fact of the fact of the matter is that you know russia trump i mean obama accused them and he believed that arms control he wanted to get down to one thousand strategic weapons he saw a new start so he was not trying to undermine the treaty to deal with china demeans you go to moscow what are your thoughts on the should the agreement be widened to include china you said it yourself this was the threat. well i think that the united states wants to threaten chad and i don't think china is

a threat to the united states it's enough to look at their potential to see what the juxtaposition of forces is in the pacific it's in the advantage of the united states of course. russia's official position is that we want to keep that treaty it may be widened it maybe we upgraded unfortunately it's that american position that they're going to pull out of their teeth you first how can you why didn't something that will will have been destroyed already as for europe this is of course a very bad development because i told you. now we have a different director position of also so we have british troops for example in a store near which is a bus drive two hours bus drive from st petersburg and of course if i never was dumped it is in russia's interest to have intermediate range missiles placed on our territory so that they could take the aim at the eastern europe and the

central europe where you have american troops you have nato troops you have a lot of hostile rhetoric coming from there so who will be at the disadvantage europe in the first place this is the reason why for example in germany there is a consensus and on all the parties involved to stock. the street you should be kept in that sense bourdin and moscow now look an eye to eye for the first time i think in since two thousand and fourteen let's bring in london head and max all down and you heard what other the two guests and had to say the americans are saying that the russians violated the treaty several times the russians are saying actually we haven't we've just developed weapons we haven't deployed them in the area that the treaty covers you want more arms control not less what worries you about this particular treaty and the threat to poland. the major thing that worries me. with the threat to pull out this treaty is that this could. relations between russia and

us era paraplegia and this could threaten the whole greater arms control regime and if the i.m.f. falls it will be incredibly difficult in terms of domestic politics for both the u.s. and russia to agree to extend new start and if new start goes in twenty twenty one it will be the first time the world has been left with mutually agreed capsule new u.s. and russian arsenal since one thousand nine hundred seventy two. i think there is also a wider threat to transatlantic relations here europeans despite having concerns over russian compliance over the years since two thousand and fourteen. approached the issue very differently and i think of wanted to keep the news open for cooperation to resolve compliance concerns between russia and the u.s. and just like trump's decision to withdraw from the j.c. period the iran deal you know notch really i think this represents another area where trump is going against the core interests of his european allies and walking

away from arms control let me bring in washington d.c. hey i will bring in moscow as well shortly but washington d.c. lawrence korb. you're bringing the world to another race if you pull out of this treaty is that true. well i think so and as your guest in u.k. pointed out if you don't extend neustar if i were back in government i would have said to the president look president putin has asked to extend new start which you can do for five years without even getting senate or duma approval say ok you'll do that but let us go find out let us inspect the see what you're doing in the i.n.f. treaty and the other thing is that if we want to deploy those type of weapons in europe we have to get the permission of the europeans and i was involved in trying to put them in back in the eighty's so before we could get.