into israeli territory nobody killed nobody injured in that rocket fire since then there's been a pause during which both sides of essentially adopted the same narrative that this was not an attempt by israel to go in and take out a particular hamas military figure rather it seems to be a botched intelligence operation of some kind and now after a security meeting or a meeting of various armed factions inside gaza we're seeing this response certainly there was a lot of coal jury in the funerals of these seven men for a significant response from gaza against israel to pay the price as one of the factions put it that israel must pay the price for this and it seems that that pressure on hamas may well have led to this barrage the key thing now is to appreciate exactly what has happened in the case of this bus and how that might prompt israeli response is going forward ok harry leave you there for now don't go

too far because i suspect we'll need to come back for an update with you shortly live pictures on the news group at the moment from gallons of the sun's gone down there about ten past six in the evening but we've been seeing smoke rising we have seen flashes in the night sky coming from various sources it seems there are rockets coming out of gaza into southern israel palestinian media reporting seventy rockets fired within twenty minutes at twenty different civilian towns in israeli territory so that is why these sirens are sounding in israel palestinian media also reporting five israelis reported injured thus far and ambulance services obviously increasing bear alerts this is after as harry was telling us a bus has been apparently hit by that rocket fire from gaza and there is an injury there looking at the israeli army's twitter feed just at the moment and they have just tweeted three minutes ago and. al fighter jets have started striking terror

targets throughout the gaza strip so an escalation i suspect we may be seeing a bit more in that live shot from gaza but that's what the israelis have just tweeted there about their fighter jets and i've got would hear from our teams about israeli helicopters hovering over gaza as well attempting to attack the rocket launches this is what they're firing against i'll just rewind this actually this is some of the rocket fire coming out of gaza a little bit earlier which the israelis are trying to intercept and we've had seventy rockets have come out of gaza in the last twenty to thirty minutes but ok so that's what's happening right now. and we're going to talk actually we're going to get away from them now until the i meet owen who is a commentator and on government and military affairs we were going to talk to you mr owen about the events overnight but they seem to be superceded just at the moment your reaction at this stage i mean i guess this is what we've come to expect as far as escalations when these types of things happen.

this is the second act in display and though was as your correspondents have been reporting there was some sixteen hour pause between the first act and what we are undergoing know and apparently these really military has correctly assessed the risk of allowing transportation indeed the roads around gaza because it has forbidden such transport it has canceled the train routes in one of the segments around this area and has told the education systems not to come to school today not because discos themselves are a danger they are forty five but going through buses to school is the most

dangerous spot and it has turned out to be correct this is the second time seven and a half years ago which by the way was the first successful intercept of the iran dome system on april the seventh twenty eleven a bus was hit by an anti-tank projectile this is probably what happened today to not necessarily a rocket which would be statistical but the anti-tank one can a man and one tank projectile from gaza and let it fly through the three or four kilometers and hit a big target such as a bus apparently the bus driver was wounded done no reports yet of passengers perhaps he was the only one on the bus in which case. it would be a locational to call but yes the israeli air strike was in response and the name of

the deadly game is brinkmanship the potties. dialogue by fire do not want to reach the threshold of war they want to remain below it they exchange blows but they want these blows to be very measured and they want to add virt diary scoff going into a full fledged campaign up to now they have managed to do it ok if you would stay with me mr owen i'm also told i've got my stuff about good tea with us on skype from ramallah he is of course the general secretary of the palestinian national initiative thank you for your time mr barghouti is this what you expected this sort of escalation this evening because initially it has to be said after the events last night there was only a limited response that came out of gaza. as expected it was expected because what we see today is a result of an israeli aggression that took place unfortunately what israel did

went unnoticed most media outlets in the world as you say that israel is create a bit of a creation and then the palestinians respond and it becomes like palestinian aggression and the reality is that there was a truce which was mediated by the egyptians we had come and nobody intended to escalate the situation at all and specially people in gaza who are in need in need . it will think the blockade on gaza and suddenly the israelis send their best. and most three and two groups to invade gaza and to assassinate people and of course if they were not discovered they would have caused horrible damage there was a clash and seven palestinians were killed by israeli invaders and by israeli planes which who but the police without discrimination that isn't is that seven palestinians are killed including will no one leaders and of course what you see

now as an escalation is i respond to the israeli aggression and attack in my opinion this is an early look at eclipse and irresponsible behavior it could lead the place into already a war we could see another huge military aggression against gaza gaza cannot tolerate that people are living in horrible humanitarian situation ninety five percent to forty is polluted or sullen it'd two million people living without sufficient electricity and without in a city so this is a very dangerous situation and it should be stopped in the immediate moment in the security situation now however obviously you can't control what israel does but what do you advise palestinians in gaza to do not just the people who live there but those who are also firing rockets out at the moment. they have responded they have despondent they're going to sion and to the attack and i hope that the egyptians will do their best now to be an idiot and come back nobody wants this is

coalition nobody wants this you know a new war to break down nobody wants sauza more palestinians killed in gaza so i hope that the egyptians can mediate and can also hold the israelis accountable so very lifting what existed as a total cease fire or total calm it has to be there has to be israeli assurances given to the egyptians again that they will not violate their agreement to sign on or die agreement to accept this israeli behavior it has to stop and we hope that the whole international community would also see it to prevent another massacre or another disaster that it does mr barghouti from the palestinian national initiative thank you for your time we still got amir and commentator and government and military affairs joining us from west to receive them do you think mr owen that the egyptians can be effective now and stop this before it gets any worse that's what mystifies barghouti was saying egyptians need to be able to step in now as

mediators. yes they can. egyptian president of the fatah c.c. has claimed all reclaimed the mantle of the leader of the arab world we chose to some extent. given up by president mubarak and obviously have a scenes was not taken up nasr inside out where the leaders of the arab world now wants to become one again and he can force come out to close the deal we see israel but regarding your conversation with mr but good to the palestinian authority is powerless to tell us what to do they are open and they have not been partners for the last year or so and there are reconsideration talks have broken down for several reasons and death for the gyptian is are probably de only

ones who can do it of course we know that qatari money was given to the gaza strip it was a shot in the arm for the population if it is being put to good use and did the prospects are for deescalation following this particular round but it is dependent on the question of casualties if the eighty rockets launched from gaza if any of those were to hit an israeli civilian targets was many casualties then the bet is off but up to now the iron dome system managed to intercept several rockets others probably fell harmlessly and perhaps by by tonight in israel time is an hour earlier it is now five fish rather than six ish perhaps by nightfall it will come down ok. i mean our own thank

you for joining us thank you for staying with us is the situation develops in the gaza strip i mean romans joining us from west jerusalem there let's keep up to date with some of the pictures and the developments in the last hour or so if you are just joining us rocket fire out of gaza and the iron dome system as it is known from israel which intercepts those rockets has been activated to stop that here are some of the latest. why would we have let me see actually i'm just getting an e-mail from our producer in jerusalem he's saying ace he launches of rockets identified from the gaza strip at israel and a number of them intercepted by i and. so these pictures they were not long ago it's pretty much not time now and see what else we've got coming up we've got some old we will have some pictures. to show you from gaza or do we have a live shot at the moment. let's just check the live shot and not too much to say

there are voters who say it has not for now coming up twenty five past sixty but occasionally you do see that flash in the sky as the missiles out of gaza are intercepted a lot of you on facebook live watching it facebook dot com slash al-jazeera asking for some clarity well we're getting it is quickly this is what happened on the ground it seems that one of the rockets out of gaza hit a bus in israel and as a nero it was telling us just then the driver apparently has been injured no wood on anyone else but that is what has prompted a response from israel israel on its twitter feed has been talking about fighter jet striking quote tara targets throughout the gaza strip israeli helicopters up there as well trying to intercept some of the rockets coming out of israel and as we now know about eighty rockets have come out in the last i would say forty five minutes or so just so you know where we're talking about i have got a map here to show you these were the earlier pictures from southern israel but

i've got the map here just to put this all in perspective gaza strip is down here and when we talk about rockets going into southern israel it's not so much the south right down here we're actually talking about places like steroids you can see the border line of guards that they're right in the middle of the screen there and then townships that a nearby you can see a whole lot of little is ready townships and the word out of palestinian media is that about twenty different targets have been. townships have been targeted out of probably the north of the gaza strip is where that rocket fire would come in on so that just puts it at least on the map for you harry for sit in west jerusalem i know i've just thrown a lot of stuff out there i wonder if you can sort of tie it together for us and for our viewers a little bit as they say they're looking for a little more clarity i guess the question is why is all this happening. well it's happening because of what took place last night this military incursion into gaza by

a group of israeli special operations forces now this is something that we don't know how often it happens when you know about it because it went so badly wrong the israeli military line on what happened last night was that this group was inside gaza territory trying to enhance the security of israel that's been interpreted largely as an intelligence gathering operation hamas saying that they were traveling in a civilian car and it seems they were stopped at a checkpoint suspicions were raised and a gun battle broke out during which roads of the senior commander of the hamas military wing the arcus on brigades in that area in southeastern gaza was killed in all seven palestinians were killed one israeli officer another israeli officer injured or the israelis withdrawing under cover during the course of what happened last night and there was this initial response of rocket fire some ten rockets

being fired from gaza into israeli territory that the crucial thing to really to to really understand here is the period in which all of this is happening we've seen in the last couple of weeks some really extremely positive positive developments in terms of the long term efforts to try to get a truce steel under way between hamas and the israelis there have been various actors in this most importantly the egyptians along with the un mediation and qatari money and attempts to try to quell the situation coming with the imprint and that's not just of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is talking up the prospects or at least defending his efforts in paris on sunday but also the hamas leader in gaza yassin was recently given an interview in which he said that. that hamas wasn't looking for a military escalation either so what is hard to understand is with both sides

saying that they don't want to military escalation why do we now appear to be on the verge of this well the fact that we've had these seven deaths inside gaza requiring according to many inside gaza some kind of military response we've had a meeting of what's called in the control room of the palestinian factions the operations room of the palestinian factions after this pause in hostilities that we've seen since last night now we have this launch this big barash as you say some eighty launches reported so far that is a sizable attack coming out of gaza we did see a few months ago in the course of one nights there were over one hundred launchers but to launch eighty within the space of half an hour or so that is a pretty major military operation as far as all of the factions are concerned and according to what we're hearing from gaza all of the factions are acting in concert here so the questions now are whether we will see an israeli military response

which is in some way calibrated both sides potentially calibrating their response is to do enough to satisfy their own political constituencies and satisfy the idea that they are responding in forceful enough measure. without going further towards an all out conflict or whether already with the bus attack with rockets reportedly hitting the israeli town of stare out which lies just on the northeastern tip of gaza whether we may already be spilling into that very dangerous own towards another war in gaza really i know it's a cliche but time can only tell us exactly how this will play out certainly this is another major military escalation the kind of which we have seen to some extent already over the last few months but this one does feel. particularly dangerous here ok thanks for now harry we'll talk to begin later on so you would just seeing as how he was talking again those sort of traces of light going up into the sky.

the way i would interpret it that those are the rockets being fired out of gaza as harry says all palestinian factions involved in this one and then i guess when we see them disappear that is a sign of the israeli defense system. stopping those rockets from getting any closer to places like stare out i'm also here in confirmed this stage. while in there i haven't got any more picture of this because we're looking at this part of gaza but there is talk about an israeli strike at the rougher border that's at the south that's the border between gaza and egypt so just waiting for more word on that one as well but again that suggests it is spreading it is an escalation from the israeli side of things as well we'll take a little break from these pictures and we'll check in with the healer now because really you're going to tell us anyway about the reaction that it started after overnight i guess it's only increased now yes we've gathered some pictures overnight and also what's happened in the last thirty minutes come all. at the moment what we do know is that there were israeli airstrikes after the secret

operation in gaza people there have been sharing footage of the strikes using the hash tag gaza under attack and they're also so using the hash tag right now also very also says that he's been hearing many of these explosions in the gaza strip at the moment many have also called what happened overnight quite terrible also show you some of the video right now sound of those israeli airstrikes and warplanes roaring can be heard in the sky some were shed these videos say that this is not an action movie this is our reality now what kind of city and posted this kept talking about what he was doing when the strike happened overnight. what has happened in the largo my city when i don't have. we were sitting here in this area in this room or. friends and colleagues talking to each other and. suddenly. there is lying sounds really in the area of

the surprise justin surprise it's as if your crimes again as well and once again. we waited. and waited six more there for the those are who is airstrikes it's a risk area in my city now many people in gaza are also sharing updates cheering that israeli strike one tweet from a gaza resident points out how he spent the night without electricity another posted a video of his garden saying he wished he could only enjoy the sound of birds but instead he says these rarely drowns discomfit me now others say that the latest attack will further impact peace negotiations between israelis and palestinians though the criminal operation of the israeli occupation in gaza yesterday raises

doubts among the palestinians about the extent of the occupation commitment. really i think the negotiations and lies the mom. now some also tweeting in support of the israeli government using the hash tag israel under attack also israel to fire at the israeli army and also the foreign ministry is posting regular updates as well using what they say are red alert sirens and overnights this picture was shared in memory of an officer who was killed and it says i quote the special operation was to strengthen israeli security or let us know what you think of the story he's the hash tag eighteen years ago to send us any updates you can message me directly as well and for him home it. thank you reveal i'm just keeping an eye as well on some of the updates coming out of the newsroom coming from our produces as well. is rade lee spokesperson talking about a report of a rocket which landed in stead i'm wondering if this was the one which actually hit

the bus paramedics treating in evacuating to a medical center three injured lightly from glass shrapnel there also the israeli army has just tweeted these pitches got them on the i pad here they called it roll footage the skies of southern israel right now and i'll just play that and you get an idea of the rockets coming in there but also as the light sort of disappear from the sky that is i would assume the iron dome system intercepting that rocket fire out of israel so that's what they've just been tweeting now i'm being told just hold on a moment we've got some new pictures coming in took me through this just asking my team in the. right so we've been told this is a house that has been hit in southern israel remember these areas i can't tell you exactly where this is but when we say southern israel we mean areas close to the gaza strip which is steadily as well which i i showed you that on the met before it's not far from the border from the gaza strip so escalations everywhere this

would be you would think rocket fire that's come out of gaza we heard about eighty rockets coming out in the last i guess that would be forty five minutes by now one of them hitting a bus with a bus driver has been injured we've been told and one of them apparently hitting a house in stead about as well. let's have a look at some of the pictures from a little bit earlier. this was the ambulance so the scene i believe where the ambulance was hit. sorry not the ambulance the bus was hit but the ambulance is in attendance there now an israeli forces on the scene as well so that was the first we heard of anyone being injured from the rockets that have been coming out of gaza so those pictures as well a little bit earlier is the darkness fell rockets heading out of gaza strip into southern israel and then you see them fall and are being intercepted by what is known as the i and daryn that is israel's defense system which intercepts these rockets just again on the map just very quickly show you where we're talking about

here as well and felt zoom out first of all to show you the whole area that's the gaza strip there and we're talking about northern areas of gaza firing into and we believe that house which you saw on fire is in this township called step out which as i say it's called southern israel not the southern tip further down but in this sort of part here close to the borders with the gaza strip so that's everything we're getting out just at the moment what we're going to do is grab a quick break and actually collect ourselves and also we will be getting on to some other news of the day as well in fact we're going to be looking at yemen coming up after the break the ongoing war there there's been an escalation of fighting there in yemen in the port city of the data of course remember which has been under attack from the saudi immorality coalition against the hutu rebels we will have a report on what's happened there the death toll now not at least one hundred fifty

. hello there we've got a lot of unsettled weather across the middle east at the moment we look at the satellite picture we can see plenty of cloud from the black sea all the way down into the northern parts of iran we're seeing a fair amount of rain out of this system and then there's another one further towards the east giving us wet weather through tell you could stand to kyrgyzstan and up into kazakstan as that system clears away we'll see things total cool a force here so on marty's maximum on choose day will only be minus five towards the west staying fairly unsettled force even as we head through tuesday and wednesday that wet weather beginning to pop up a bit further south now as well so for us in parts of syria and eastern turkey it will turn wet pretty cool as well before this was the south and of course we've had

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of gaza this hour about forty five minutes to an hour ago rocket fire began out of the gaza strip we've heard reports of about eighty rockets making their way from gaza into southern israel and what you see there is the interceptors the israeli army's iron dome defense system comes into play and stops some of those rockets from actually reaching israel some have reached out and we'll take you through some of those pictures from earlier this was the bus which was later there was a bus which was hit by a gallons a rocket and we were told that the driver was injured nothing more on that one but israeli forces on the scene pretty quickly there ambulance on the scene as well so that was the first instance we heard of an injury in islam then we have seen. this was the house instead out i believe that out not from the gaza border and these pictures only came in in the last ten minutes or so and you would suspect that has been where a rocket out of gaza has hit

a house instead it don't have any wood on exactly if anyone has been injured or killed in that again on the map for you just a few not familiar we will show you very very quickly when we look at the area here the gaza strip is there that is the northern part of the gaza strip stead out is the township that you see there now i've also seen on the twitter feed from the israeli army is that sirens have been sounding in the dead sea or near the dead sea as well so that's right over here as well again no confirmation on what's happening there perhaps i don't know if rockets have reached that or if they are just extending their warning further out there but right now we're focusing on what the area they call southern israel towns like stayed out close to the border with the gaza strip israeli jets and helicopters are in the air as well and they are intercepting some of those rockets out of gaza we have spoken to moustapha by goodies from the passion palestinian national. initiative who told us that this was

a retaliation from the palestinians in gaza from all factions we believe in gaza who have been firing rockets out in response to what happened overnight and that was these ready special forces team which infiltrated gaza seven palestinian killed and an israeli security officer or special forces officer killed in that raid that's about twenty four hours or less than twenty four hours ago now now we are seeing the response from that have we gotten more pictures to show just in a moment right so we're going to leave that they just phenomenon it falling there so the picture isn't so great out of gaza but we're keeping obviously a very very close eye on that i do want to deal with some other news though yemen where the u.s. and britain have renewed their calls for an end to hostilities there reports say at least one hundred fifty people have been killed in the past twenty. for hours street battles of two residential areas in once again that crucial city of the data thousands of civilians are trapped by the fighting as a pro-government alliance backed by the saudi

a mirage coalition tries to take control from the who the rebels we've got mohamad a don't he's over in djibouti across the red sea following events there mohammed bring us up to date with what you know at this stage. well have a fighting going on kemal on off list three different from us in is hired an outside of the city all of a pro-government slightest supported by so called lucian continuing all slaughter against the flight is and despite earlier promises by both of pro-government fighters and the sodium about equalisation not to carry out with bottles that face of the war is now tent and in some of the streets of the residential areas in the east of the city we saw pictures of bodies lying and said so many fighters have been killed by the relentless bombardment and asterix that have hit the day that in the past week or so of course there is concern for the

safety of the thousands of people who still living in this city also whole the opposition's off the port which is a lifeline for millions of yemenis across the country more than seventy plus percent of yemen's imports including u.n. aid which is needed by more than fourteen million people in order to survive us through these fall on the u.n. secretary general antonio guterres has said that any destruction to the port and its activities would see. yemen thrown into what he called a catastrophe so fighting still going on some civilian casualties also bank reported by medics and the pro-government alliance is saying that they will not stop until they took over the entire city while at the same time mohamad as i mentioned countries like the united states and britain now calling for an end to hostilities i mean a lot of people i'm sure would say that's a bit late coming given this was been going for three and

a hockey is what do you make of these diplomatic efforts now. well it seems for the first time that the world is losing its patience with the conflict in yemen and for the first time we are seeing some sort of consensus between the united states europe russia and also countries in the region saying the conflict must stop there must be a cease fire of course people fearing that the humanitarian situation in yemen which is really dire will get out of hand if the fighting continues but again there is very little trust on the side of the other side in the conflict all the flight is writing an op ed on the washington post just days ago manage them all through the needle of the supreme council supreme revolutionary council they call it of all he said at the top the calls coming from the united states and the united kingdom i just empty talk and that the united states if it was really willing to would have

stopped the war a long time ago but he said it has chosen to support its corrupt ally namely so dead serious fire to it and also the united kingdom whose secretary of state the foreign secretary had visited riyadh today and had talks with king solomon is also viewed as part of the problem because they have been selling arms together with the united states to the saudi democratic coalition thank you for the update mohammed. updating us on yemen there. just building on what he was saying that the u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt was meeting with the saudi arabia's king king solomon in riyadh to discuss where yemen but as well of the murder all of these saudi journalist jamal khashoggi jury his meeting jeremy hunt the saudis to cooperate with the investigation and to hold those responsible accountable foreign minister also called on riyadh as we said to end the war in yemen simon move on with us now

lecturer in international relations at lancaster university in the u.k. joining us on skype thank you for your time are we starting to see a bit of movement here a bit of injection here from the likes of jeremy hunt in the u.k. to actually make sure that the case doesn't get swept under the rug and actually get solved well i'm not sure we're going to see the flusher ji case getting solved as you put it but i think hopefully we're seeing a bit of movement certainly a lot of pressure being put on the saudi all the right cease from their traditional allies such as the united states such is the united kingdom and i think it's quite important that we've seen this pressure being put on them who went traditionally the u.k. in the us have been brother quiets of saudi behavior saudi domestic politics but we're seeing that increasingly both london and washington all being more or more outspoken. outspoken is one thing though it requires some sort of action in the end

doesn't it to actually put real pressure on what action might that show yeah it does and i think that's where it becomes rather difficult because as well in the u.k. where obviously dealing with that the frank said process and and a key plot of that is trade in the economy and we all know that that you can guess a great deal of money from saudi arabia in the sale of alms so i guess the question is then to what extent do we in the u.k. want to want to stand by our normative position the idea that it's a state our ally should not behave in such a way but jet sacrifice what is really important to the country i.e. the economy and the amounts of money coming in and also up use lead jobs i mean a part of the country that that is from my end on on the likes of be a systems for job creation and so any type of deal that that goes back on on arms deals with saudi arabia is going to have a massive hits on the economy simon my bun from lancaster university was

a pleasure talking to you thank you so much thank you. checking in on the events in gaza at the moment and with the sun now down coming on for seven o'clock we're starting to see some more of that light coming out there from well it could either be rockets coming out of gaza they could be intercepted out of gaza they could be landing in southern israel hard to tell at this point but generally when we see lights in the sky which we can see there often those are the ones you see being intercepted by the israeli army's eye and don't system not falling over gaza you can only imagine what it's like there when you're hearing rockets hitting out there is fighter jets in the air israeli fighter jets as well and there's that flash of the intercept when the rocket gets shot down by the israeli army and we've got a very full set with us we do have a full set in west jerusalem monitoring events take us through again just a quick update on what's been happening in the last hour. yes it was

a little under an hour ago that we first started getting reports of the sirens sounding of rocket barrages being fired out of gaza territory into israeli territory and the report of a bus being struck as you were saying the driver of that bus being injured a building in the israeli town of steroids being hit and three people in that instance being treated for injuries from shattered glass the key question really is now to what extent this continues to escalate what we've seen is an extremely large barrage eighty rockets fired at one point within about half an hour or so that is a lot of similar ten years firing it really is a showing a pretty major use of the capability by the factions inside gaza they are we're told or working together the various palestinian armed factions inside gaza of

course hamas is the senior most faction it rules gaza it controls gaza its military wing. brigades by far the most powerful of the armed groups inside gaza and all of this coming after a pause really which took place in the aftermath of the military confrontation that took place last night inside gaza territory just to just to remind viewers what happened then it was we are told by the israeli military a regular sort of covert operation one designed to enhance they say the security of israel it was by no means meant they say to target or kill anyone and in particular however that is how things turned out this group of israeli special forces which was traveling in a civilian car seems to have been stopped. and challenged by hamas military figures inside gaza in the southeastern area of gaza around khan yunis and in the ensuing firefight a relatively senior hamas military wing commander from that area was shot and

killed the israeli forces were pulled out under cover of strikes others apparently other israeli forces landed inside to to try to help them out one israeli soldier was killed one wounded seven palestinians killed we saw a pause during which time both the israelis and hamas was saying that this didn't seem to be an intended intended assassination attempt both sides invested in a truce however it shows you just how delicate the situation remains in gaza that things can very easily spin out of control as they appear to be doing right now both sides we will see if they're able to step back again from the brink of war as they've done on several occasions over the last few months more from harry forced it to come as the night progresses the live pictures from gaza the various things you see in the sky israeli rockets and sorry rockets out of gaza palestinian rockets some of them being intercepted by the israeli army some of them landing in

israeli townships like start we have seen a house and a bus that have been hit. we'll update you on the situation in gaza before we finish the grid there is one more story i want to deal with and that is the democratic republic of congo where voters will heading to the polls next month end of december in a country's presidential election but we've had some developments today the main opposition leaders have picked this man the veteran politician martin for you as their joint candidate in the vote he will have to beat emanuel who is the former interior minister and a loyalist to joseph kabila the current president who has been chosen by the ruling coalition remember he has been in power since his father died back in two thousand and one but he's hung on to power past his two terms and it caused some big problems there were demonstrations protestors were killed in those demonstrations if this election does go ahead with idiocies first peaceful change of power since independence from belgium in one thousand nine hundred sixty catherine soy has our report. after days of intense negotiations with the democratic republic of

congo's most prominent opposition politicians half baked this man martin failed to be their joint candidate in next month's election it was a compromise after those supporting felix to see candy the largest opposition party and the talk america who came in the twenty seven presidential election failed to come to an agreement so here in geneva in a show of solidarity they settled on the man regarded as a more neutral candidate nouveaux respected i didn't look at the can we must respect the rule of the democratic game we are democrats we want to establish democracy we must begin by leading by example and we will do it we will support martin he's now our common candidate we must support him. martin for you lew went into politics in the one thousand nine hundred and has also been in the corporate world he's a fierce critic of president joseph kabila and was involved in reasoned protestants

against the president stay in power beyond his time limits the election is much of what he spoke to al-jazeera in july about his vision of values. of i love my people i love my country. walk i'm a walk on i'm hard work of. integrity and never dodge the money of orders and makes videos of expedience we've been. in this war exxon mobil there are twenty one presidential candidates but the clear frontrunner is emanuel said dari president joseph kabila successor it will be a single round contest some critics say for you lou would be a tough sell he's not well known beyond the capital kinshasa where he was born sixty two years ago is expected to be presented to opposition supporters in the coming week their leaders hope the coalition will hold their choice candidates will lead them to the three catching saw. some real contender with us now africa

regional advisor transparency international we're going to have to be brave sami because of the breaking news but tell me first of all what you think about the opposition candidate who's been paid what sort of popularity might he have at the ballot box. well thanks firstly for having me i think it's a major development because you seem to fit for the first time as seems the resumption of that democratic process is elections in the us see that to date the opposition have come together to have one common candidate sort from observers and people on the ground what we know is that margin for you is not as well known or his party established as that of the u.t. p.s. or the un seat that said east to recoat nies unknown and in a long time defender of the coastal activists in the opposition so from that perspective you as a tribe great coat as a former member of the provincial legislature and even was until recently. a

member of the parliament because he resigned after twenty sixty and senators quickly without being tipped as a mistake are you do you feel confident these elections will happen because they've been postponed for a very long time. well oldest. hold it looked iraq operations it be going on well they have been trying g.'s we know that funding is still easy their logistics you know that us he'd like it is some twenty nine hundred stuff in terms of it sounds shady remains to be seen how all the literally equipment will be growing across the country and mind you it is only less than two months to go into thank you so much for your time i'm sorry we had to be brief but it has been a busy day here on the news grid if you've been with us you will have seen what's happening in gaza right now rockets fired out of the gaza strip ac we have heard in the last hour some of them have reached targets in southern israel some have been

there as these ones you're saying intercepted by the israeli army's iron dome defense system the ones that have landed have landed in a town called stead out a bus has been hit and the driver has been injured and also this house instead out we're waiting to hear about injuries or deaths from that more news that the tame in london in just a few moments. i think this is fun for make you think i'm having fun it.

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economy is opening up the latest on the trade war with the us counting the cost on al-jazeera. really understand the difference. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current of the matter to you al jazeera. an israeli boss is among targets hit as dozens of rockets are fired from gaza israel says it's now launching air strikes on the strip. to seven palestinians were killed along with one israeli soldier during an israeli undercover incursion.

although i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up versions foreign secretary meets the saudi king with saudi arabia under pressure over the war in yemen and the. at least six people are killed in the afghan capital kabul by a suicide bomber targeting protesters from the azhar a minority in california's deadliest wildfires on record have now killed thirty one people and driven a quarter of a million people from that. less than twenty four hours after a secret israeli military operation in gaza which left seven palestinians and one israeli dead a barrier of rockets has been fired from gaza into israel israeli officials say eighty rockets were fired overall from gaza many of them were intercepted by

israel's missile defenses one of the rockets did hit a bus and another hit a house in southern israel israel's military says it was carrying out. as strikes throughout the gaza strip in response to palestinians have been killed and well are a force that joins us now from west jerusalem harry first of all what do we know about the israeli astronauts in gaza and the particular areas being targeted but we know that they are extensive have been running from the rafa crossing the border with egypt towards the south to other areas further north we're getting reports one palestinian has been killed and two injured in the northern gaza strip as a result of israeli fire when not sure without strikes or or us or rebut still the that is the report that we're getting out of gaza and as you say this latest round

of military escalation beginning just over an hour ago with a big bear arms of rockets being fired out of gaza towards israeli territory one israeli bus struck and the driver reportedly wounded a building in stare up struck and glass shattering injuring three people there are reports of twelve israelis injured in total there are pictures on israeli television of a burning storage area of a supermarket in the town of steroids as well so this is a pretty major escalation from what we've seen in recent weeks and all of it following a pretty lengthy pause after what took place last night and just to recap what did take place last night it was a secret military operation some three kilometers inside gaza in the southeastern area of the gaza strip. the israeli military saying that it was an operation designed to enhance israeli security that has been read as potentially some kind of

intelligence gathering operation by the israeli media and that these forces who were traveling inside a civilian car were challenged by hamas military officials and a gunfight broke out during which a senior commander of the hamas military wing the office on brigades in southeastern gaza was shot and killed there were israeli airstrikes which came in as these men were evacuated back into israeli territory and by the end of it seven palestinians and overlit been killed and one israeli another israeli officer wounded six other palestinians wounded what has been extraordinary in the time since then is that both israel and hamas essentially adopted the same narrative israel saying that this was not a targeted assassination attempt which would have been extremely risky thing to do and a counter-intuitive thing to do at a time when both sides been trying to negotiate a long term truce deal rather it was a minute other kind of that went wrong hamas saying that yes it accept that

explanation and has been declaring victory in unmasking this operation and killing one of the people involved in it what has changed since all of that those that the palestinian factions have met the the joint operation room as it's called where all of the armed factions meet and discuss how to respond to such an event there been calls for a bigger military response from hamas than the ten plus rockets that were fired in the immediate aftermath of what took place last night and now we're seeing that and we're seeing a big israeli response to that in turn as you say there was rocket fire that came from gaza some eighty rockets in a relatively short space of time in one thousand year old israeli i think was wounded after that bus was hit in israel now we have israel launching as strikes in gaza does the information that we have so far suggests that these strikes are fairly limited that we haven't moved into an all out confrontation and now that is

something that. is not playing out. well i think always that remains the risk and we have been in this in similar situations before in the last few months where there has been a relatively large number of rockets fired out of gaza there has been. relatively big israeli response but both sides apparently able to calibrate things to the extent that it doesn't spin towards an all out war which both sides have said they don't want and the evidence that we've seen in the immediate aftermath of the operation last night would seem to to back up the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in paris on sunday saying that it was worth the political domestic political risk that he ran in terms of people viewing him as too soft on hamas by allowing qatari fuel and money into gaza as part of these negotiations that have

been mediated by the egyptians by the united nations towards some kind of truce deal yassin where the gaza leader of hamas coming out with an interview several weeks ago during which he said that hamas had no interest in a full military escalation either but these calculations as carefully as they may wish to be made they always run the risk of spinning further out of control i mean when you're firing rockets into israeli territory of course there is the that the chance of significant israeli casualties just as there are in palestinian casualties on the other side so if anything. descends towards major loss of life from what both sides may be trying to calibrate as enough to satisfy their political spin stitcher and seize domestically without spilling over to war it's very difficult to make those calculations once the metal

is in the air and once all of this is kicked off. all right thank you very much for now harry forsett in west jerusalem let's get a sense of what's happening in gaza at the moment joining us of the phone is sami abu salim a journalist who is based there can you describe for us what you've been seeing and hearing over the past hour or so now that night has fallen in gaza. yes actually. at least a report. to put it to me as being. have been just killed in an israeli strike in a town north of gaza mohammad twenty seven years old and mohamed odeh twenty two years old they have just been killed and the last airstrike on bit. about five other. five being on the that they have been evacuated by mistake and

seems to. north of gaza. in general tension. right now. or you hear a bombing about bombing them. because because a. bomb interrupts the palestinian men projectiles. during a. raid palestinian positions most. borderline with. the last two the last two raids. on gaza. international airport which has been hit with two rockets and the three rockets also. targeted the hamas both the border with egypt and always condition

that situation is. expected to be it's going to hit because. the spokesperson of the islamic jihad said on behalf of the joint operation chumba chumba means that all palestinian or most of the palestinian factions that they are working together they declared that their parents you know infection decided to retaliate the crime yesterday to realize that as long as the palestinian people in gaza. they do not enjoy security and safety. commission will not join it but there has been. sorry time has just got to say that before all of this started last night that had been a relative calm that had sort of prevailed for just a little while then you obviously had the security operation that took place now you have some eighty rockets going over the border into israel do you anticipate

that there will be a further response then from palestinian factions in gaza yes it's true actually soon after the operation yesterday there was a semi you can say that is simic ominous but today gration have been after that a senior faction joining. have done their. joint meetings and they decided because actually that is not a nowadays. and then an understanding that is not factional can't get a loan or. told. that they make something something like a consensus and all of them agreed. should they retaliate and they maybe they choose. this time. around one hundred projects that have been shot from gaza. and i think that there was some maybe waiting for any diplomatic

intervention but. we hear nothing about that from egypt from qatar from the united nations. not a real intervention so that's why the palestinian factions interrupted and it seems that both in the beginning soon after the. date of creation. is that both sides do not. interested in establishing. if there is no it's going to means that there is it is expected that there is to promote the movement or anything about the contact but the palestinian factions this if i had nothing. so no diplomatic contact no mediations me.