hamas which also have other groups inside the gaza strip let's say more radical groups and hamas has the call range the how does the car stop the rocket that sets of course is not only hamas that operate inside the ship it's a very complicated situation i think we're going to have to take so we see how the evening's going to develop what kind of negotiations behind going to go on to try and calm situation down but but again yes this is something that no one expected particularly just a couple of days all three. million dollars to the gold step with. the civil servants being paid per hour being let in and this is all part of the negotiation. and israel would have allowed that everyone sort of. with a question mark to see what exactly happened tonight and how it's going to unbolt all right thank you very much and now stephanie deca speaking to us. let's get the

latest now from mike hanna who is live in washington and mike as stephanie was explaining we have a situation here where elite israeli forces entered gaza the southern city of khan yunis she was saying that six palestinians have been killed but among them a senior hamas commander donald trump also in paris like the israeli prime minister but might we get some sort of reaction from the u.s. illness in the coming hours. well there's likely to be something from state department in the coming hours no formal statement from them as yet there is a senior u.s. official in israel at the moment brian who keeps a special representative for iran who travel to the region for talks on common pursuit against to the iranian government is also on his way the it is believed the special representative for the region jason greenblatt now he was in london earlier

this week and he was reportedly said that president trump's peace plan will be released in the coming days now back in september president trumpet said after a meeting with benjamin netanyahu that he would have his peace plan put together within the next two to four months separate put it round about the beginning of december but obviously what is happening in gaza now is going to have an impact on this and the instability within the region obviously makes any attempt to creativity kind of resolution that much more difficult it does and it does come at an interesting time when. millions of dollars of aid flowing into gaza and the aim was to pay salaries was to aid the crippling economic humanitarian blockade of the strip how might that potentially affect the sort of strategic thinking on the israeli side very interesting that it comes after that is taken place might there

be perhaps an need on the part of benjamin netanyahu to show that he isn't going soft on hamas. well it's very interesting that benjamin netanyahu made some statements while in paris about gaza among other things he said was that we have got to concentrate on humanitarian needs that was one thing he said but the not the thing he said that's very important is that there can be no political solution in gaza just as they cannot be a political solution with eisel now there he is co relating at the leadership in gaza with eisel itself so making very clear that the diplomatic or political route is not one that benjamin netanyahu is interested in he also said pariset forum that he attended there that israel came close to using what he said maximal force in dealing with gaza recently so there has been obviously a brewing background to all of what we are seeing at the moment it does appear very

much that this was a special forces incursion into the column eunice area with what reason we do not know at this particular stage but this was obviously not a retaliate tree action it would appear it was obviously some kind of strategic action undertaken by the israeli armed forces so what is going on at the moment is something that obviously is going to have a major impact on whatever resolution if any is ever reached with gaza but to get back to these so-called peace plan of president trump obviously stability in gaza would be absolutely essential to this but what is even more problematic for the framers of this peace plan as it is put is the fact that the palestinian leadership will have nothing to do with it that is because palestinians are still enraged by the u.s. decision to move its embassy to jerusalem which is regarded in international law as

it is against international law so certainly the whole idea of any attention to resuscitate the long dormant peace process. will be propped up against things like u.s. action under the trumpet ministration the palestinians viewing the trumpet ministration as totally pro israel the fact that the leadership the palestinian leadership will not engage in any peace talks alongside this you not have eruption of violence once again in gaza israeli incursions into that particular area so the whole situation any idea of a negotiated solution or a resuscitation of the negotiation process appears absolutely did in the water at this particular point in time all right for now thank you very much mike hanna with all the latest on washington will continue to stay across that story reports that six palestinians have been killed in the southern gaza city of han eunice after

israeli at leat forces entered the territory to target and mass conducting a security operation there but we'll continue to bring you more details as they come to us want to take you to the war in yemen now u.s. security of u.s. u.s. secretary of state might on peo as reacher rated his call for a secession of hostilities that this according to the state department is battles to retake his battles retake the port city of data have spilled into residential areas as thousands of civilians remain trapped by the violence a pro-government alliance backed by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. is trying to seize control of the city from the who sees at least sixty one fighters from both sides have been killed in the past twenty four hours thousands of civilians are trapped by the fighting one hundred ago has moved from djibouti. residents of the city are reporting heavy fighting on the streets of the residential areas and that is part of the control of schools these marking the

street by street fighting face off the bottom for the something that is causing harm of all the safety of the thousands of people who are still holed up in the city people who could not escape because of the huge number of roadblocks and checkpoints mounted by all the fighters of course the stakes are high here and all the fighters are so used to be putting up stiff resistance losing the day that is an option for them the files on it's of for government fighters who are fighting them supported by the sodium that are to coalition want to wrestle control of the city out of the hands of the who it is because they believe it's been a port which is there been using to themselves and also get supplies for them all from strongholds there's also a concern for the worry the humanitarian crisis in yemen this is a poll that humbles more than seventy percent of yemen's imports including much

needed aid and the aid community say any little disruption caused by the fighting to the operations on the port could become catastrophic for yemen hear secretary say my pair has reiterated to the saudi crown prince that america will hold accountable those involved in the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi meanwhile the white house has confirmed that u.s. president donald trump and the type of discussed how to respond if you talk during a dinner in paris to mark the end of world war one it's been revealed that ankara has shed or dear according relating to killing with world leaders want to share has more now from istanbul. sources close to the president's have told me that the cyclists lead over japan about one described his meeting with his american counterpart as a positive one albeit the turkish presidency has still not revealed the details of exactly what was discussed between trump and earth one however we do understand

obviously the central to those talks was the case of john kushal the now obviously this comes of the backdrop of turkey trying to generate this international consensus to get as much support as it can from western countries and its european allies in order to bring to a close this case which has gone on for several weeks now but because this case has so many different levels and layers to it it is proving a difficult task to say the least one of those consequential topics that's come as a result of the murder of democracy has been saudi arabia policy abroad for example the war on yemen we've seen that now countries and governments of talking about the possibility of the focus on saudi arabia being used now in order to bring an end to this war in fact there was a small but loud protests that took place outside the consulate earlier on sunday

it was organized by supporters of the forty minutes where they did hold up the picture of i'm ten minutes and forty and we see flags our first exhaust goes to show that there is at least some sort of momentum that seems built with the scrutiny being placed on top of your very good leadership and the deadly policies that it has been pursuing that has allowed others to make use of doubts now there were still room for the turkish authorities possibly to leak more information or more details with regards to the case of jamal especially we still haven't seen for example. proof of what kind of weapons or tools were used to kill jamal hussle see we are hearing possibly that they may be released at some point there is still talk about or questions being raised about the consul general why or where is he the key witness to this who was whisked away by the saudi authorities so all of that is still on the table. and you know time is reporting top saudi intelligence officials

close to the crown prince discussed using private companies to assassinate iranian enemies it says inquiries were made to a small group of businessmen last year or an in bergman is a staff writer for the new york times he joins us via skype from tel aviv what does this report you've obviously worked on what does it reveal about saudi policy both in the region and internationally well ma'am i think it's previous there as early as late two thousand and sixteen if not even before there is we watched the. huge rise to power of crown prince mohammed bin for. the saudi high authority as the intelligence and security seriously discussing changing the known policy of the saudis not to you gave the secret operation subject hours. cover it black august and it's

a salacious and take a far more aggressive line. what we gave if you're patrick marmoset give myself a revealing today the new york times. is than during that time from may two thousand and sixteen until mid two thousand and seventeen saudi intelligence operatives headed by general mohamad the sciri someone very close to the crunch prince and the deputy director of the saudi central intelligence organization where in discussions with a group of businessmen some of them american some of them israeli to create a private huge military intelligence infrastructure to cripple the iranian economy enjoying these discussions some of them in belgium some of them in new york some of them in riyadh saudi operatives keen to ask the businessmen do you also do kinetics meaning legal this is

a nation and when the group of businessmen asked what exactly are you hoping that we will do it said we will not we would like to you to take out the reunion officials in specific they mention the name of kassam saloon money the hand of the oil could force of the r.g.c. the original iranian revolutionary guard the group of businessmen hesitated they wanted to consult a lawyer their lawyer flatly rejected the plan and said we are not going to do that but one of them georgia native with leading the group said the saudis there's a group of former s.a.'s former british special forces in london who might take the initiative now we don't know what with the end of that connection but we but the fact that all the saudis high ranking officials. very close to to the crown please have discussed that pitch there or for that. project to private businessmen suggest

a total change of policy during the time of the crown prince we don't today the general a series took the heat for the murder of a multitude. of the saudi american journalist know to be. the regime the administration is now the saudi arabia rejecting him sending you know he worked a lot he was just trying to show off to crown prove bring it with something he could do but this was completely we do knowledge of the crown prince well according to how close were they how close were both of them to do the same george nader with leaving the group of this material. they had sort of it came to distant the general from crown prince. point out. all right walt thank you very much for shedding more light on that report for us appreciate it from tel aviv ronen bergman

speaking to us that and the new york times i just want to bring an update on our breaking news story this hour ports of a major operation carry on the way in gaza now according to the health ministry several people have been killed the ministry says that they were killed by israeli fire after a special forces operation was conducted in the southern city of khan yunis apparently targeting a senior amassed commander stefani deca is life first now in occupied east jerusalem stephanie any further details on this. and there at the moment not much we know from gaza which is that six palestinians have been killed in this operation including it seems as you mentioned there. a leader of the kasam brigade which is a massive military wing of course called nor but a thirty seven years old according to those reports we've had a statement from the israeli army that the army operated in the gaza strip so

that's an admission that it seems to have had soldiers inside the gaza strip and then according to the spokesperson that they are now back inside israel according to residents in gaza they were reporting large explosions in the southern area of the gaza strip also rockets have been launched so it remains an active situation mariam either or and have to wait and see how it plays out this evening it is incredibly unexpected everyone will tell you that this comes at a time i'm when active negotiations have been ongoing and they've borne some fruit when it comes to garden addressing the humanitarian situation things have been relatively quiet the last two border protests have been relatively quiet if you look at the bigger picture of how mass trying to stop people from poaching the border fence you've had fifteen million dollars go into gaza this weekend taken in by the qatari envoy to pay salaries of civil servants you've had an increase of

power. into gaza with people now enjoying over eight hours of original when before it was four and this is all because of these negotiations looking at a long term calm so everyone now is questioning what exactly happened tonight how things are going to unfold we have seen escalations in the past over the last year or so things always escalate can be to a severe extent and they are somehow always mediated down by egypt and also by the united nations whether they're going to be able to do that this time we're going to have to wait and see indeed as you say this is something that will come. it's a surprise given the timing just when we thought that tensions might be defused might be easing off just that little bit with aid going into this trip as well and that took a great deal of negotiating but given the fact that a senior hamas command from the brigade has been targeted in this attack this will raise his all of a response from hamas. absolutely and from what i understand from our producer in

gaza we may be expecting a press conference by how mass in the coming hours we haven't had an official statement from them so far i think yes i think we're going to have to wait and see what kind of retaliation they will undertake if any what kind of negotiations can happen behind the scenes to try and calm things down what really went on some people talking about you know a targeted assassination attempt of this leader by these special forces and then having been uncovered so to speak which is when the firefight ensued those are not confirmed reports but certainly room between the lines of the israeli army has confirmed that it had soldiers operating inside gaza they only would have been a special force if they were inside on foot and again yes as you mentioned the timing of this all very very bizarre and unexpected because headway was finally made something concrete because of course we've known about these talks for months

on end there's been intensive negotiations but we finally seen something concrete which is money going into the square district and also power being increased so i think it is a surprising development certainly and i think people are going to be watching very closely how this is going to unfold because we know the two sides don't have any trust just today the israeli prime minister is in paris at the moment he's being kept abreast of developments said that he was doing everything to prevent an unnecessary war but that there was no diplomatic solution when it came to how math and he equated that to the group eisel so gives an indication that of course there is you know no no love lost no trust between these two sides and i think again we're just going to have to see and see how the ground develops in the next coming hours and what can be achieved diplomatically if anything. all right well let's pick up on that point stephanie for now seventy deca that speak to diplomatic editor james bay he is. in paris at the moment and so james and stephanie decker

just talking there about a possible broader confrontation between israel and hamas as always you know official mechanism that exists to try and contain these tensions but. that will be some diplomacy under way there in paris because of course prime minister benjamin netanyahu is also in the french capital right now yes i think it's likely in the coming hours the focus of diplomacy may well be here in the french capital because as you know all the commemorations of well we've had a large group of global leaders here over seventy leaders here in this city at the same time actually some of them like president trump have made that way but others are still in the city and benjamin met netanyahu who clearly has been briefed on what's been going on in gaza i'm sure was fully briefed on this and it's

interesting to know whether he at any point when he spoke to president trump told him about any israeli plans well he is here in the city he's staying overnight in paris and that's because he has a meeting in the morning with emmanuel macro the french president so i'm sure this subject will come up this is something that the u.n. security council have been warned about which is fresh problem clicked breaking out in gaza and clearly is one of the problem members of the u.n. security council talking of the u.n. clearly the warnings about fresh public company climb out and all that was the u.n. special coordinator based in jerusalem and he was only ground for. the u.n. secretary general he is also overnighting in paris because he also has a meeting with president macro in the morning so i think and i can also tell you.

there's a palestinian representative here. in paris well not clear to me at this stage because obviously i've only had a chance to make some calls whether the palestinians also are here over in paris but clearly paris will be the focus i think to early morning meetings release a palace between the israeli prime minister and then one hour later the u.n. secretary general both for meetings with the french president ok well for now thank you very much the diplomatic editor joining in paris. well now i want to bring you another story we've been covering tonight agencies warning that the ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo could spread into neighboring countries this is the was the outbreak in the country's history with three hundred nineteen confirmed and probable cases and more than two hundred people killed by the disease this doesn't tell you how small. this is the tenth

ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo but this one is author the west and the wilds fast in a conflict zone. since twenty fourteen about two thousand people have been killed in northeast india in fighting between armed groups and now since august a record more than two hundred people that have died from the. demick in north kivu wanted to reprivatize has surpassed that of the first epidemic in b. or c. is history which occurred in one nine hundred seventy six in the in the province of a quarter to go with the health ministry says medical teams in the area are attacked on average three to four times a week an unprecedented level of violence compared with previous outbreaks to medical agents with the congolese army was shot dead three weeks ago. fifteen people were killed and a dozen children abducted in subsequent attacks around the town if any the world health organization says it's become the outbreak epicenter because of what it

calls a toxic mix of violence and community mistrust the outbreak is not under control and it's been. so large a number of haitian in the town of dany and we are very concerned about another town. where you have a million people and cases from tribal areas. and we are now worried that transmission will occur in that this he says is a window of opportunity. a vaccination program has already reached some twenty five thousand people that are going to choose it it will have a neighboring uganda has become the first in the well to administer a vaccine without an active outbreak targeting frontline health workers near the border really trying to harness the fact that many people as possible about potential exposure to a bowl of ours because the vaccine vaccines really seems to work the problem is

it's challenging to access people because of you believe you the area and it's hard to ensure that people who have had a possible bowl or worse actually got access. only for safety reasons and borders here are porous these roads like this one in south sudan lead across sovereign from tos and as people travel they give it the ability to travel with them tracing bin becomes something difficult but good enough to know you don't have any. kissel few boileau even. states but if. there is any kids that entity to be very challenging tracing those people who comes through what as as the death toll mounts in the d.r. see neighboring countries ching casey. al-jazeera. i want to bring you more on our breaking news story this hour reports of six palestinians killed off to israeli special forces entered the gaza strip they went

into the southern city of khan yunis and we understand that a senior hamas commander was killed in this operation a senior commander for the military will wing the brigade's mike hanna is live for us now in washington and mike you were saying that there might be some reaction from this from the state department but perhaps has it been any word of of any reaction they at. no reaction yet obviously is state department stuff down over the weekend so there has been no formal comment on what is happening there we do know that there is a u.s. representative in israel at present that's brian who keeps a special representative for iran he had traveled to the region for talks with his israeli counterparts on the next stages in the iran situation but we also understand that the special representative for the region jason green that was on

his way we are not sure whether he is in israel yet we do know that he was on his way there now this is totally unrelated and obviously organized before this current upsurge of violence he was on his way to continue discussing president trumps a grand peace plan his peace initiative which he's been saying will be introduced in some time this year back in september president trump said it would be two to four months before his new peace initiative was introduced to it that would now make it beginning of december that this plan would make an appearance jason green black himself reportedly told the meeting in london that the plan would be unveiled in coming days but all of this now completely on hold possibly the situation in gaza obviously impacting on whatever diplomatic initiatives may be under way before this current round of violence started mariyam. no that's right there has been talk of negotiations all of jerry cushion as plan for peace in the region.

and the clashes that were taking place on the frontier between gaza and israel and of course adding to that the p.a. and mahmoud abbas refusing to speak to the americans after they move their embassy to jerusalem which of course has also proved another great pressure point in a list. indeed the palestinian leadership will have nothing to do with any trauma based initiative at present because as you said of the move of the u.s. consulate to jerusalem but the issues even greater than that the palestinian leadership sees the trumpet ministration as being completely pro israel of not being in the position of being an independent arbiter between the parties so certainly from the leaders of the palestinian authority there is no possibility

they think that any initiative could work at this particular time and they will not play any part in the gosia ating or discussing any such initiative this has not phased president trump in any way he has stated repeatedly that the initiative is going to go ahead we haven't heard from jared kirshner widely believed to be the architect of whatever this plan is jason greenblatt is the person who has been shuttling backwards and forwards discussing things with the israeli leadership no talks that we know of between jason greenblatt and the palestinians so certainly the whole situation was fraught before hand because of the relationship or not relationship between the trumpet ministration and the palestinian authority now the upsurge of violence in gaza throwing yet another spoke in this particular diplomatic initiative or would be initiative so the whole situation now completely fraught everything as it were up in the air the violence in gaza being just yet

another stumbling block to any attempt to resuscitate the long dormant peace process mariyam all right thank you very much mike hanna there for us in washington we're joined on the line now by a senior hamas official in the south gaza strip ghazi hamad can you describe the situation there for us please. the. situation is very whole. thing someplace in gaza it's. like a war. because people think for something. so.

collision more uprising more tension i think to destroy all the. time. we have. on the ground. people are surprised by. accident i think israel will. miss how much can you tell us can you give us any more details on what killed because the report. commander has been identified as. along with four of the hamas members was reportedly killed in clashes is that

correct. there are also some. which. or some collaborators tried to escape to go to the. full. tried to cover. the president or the soldiers. striking. so i think it was. actually sent we have about six people were killed. some was. one

of them is one of the permanent. brigades. i think of. become and so then. there are the is as always. why did the confrontation between israel and hamas and of course whenever this happens it is always the people the civilians that. bad the greatest cost how might now respond. to the policy of such an order hamas you know that there's now what's called a common. position which includes all the policies and sections the military of all the. sections i think that will decide.