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all forms so we need to rebuild tell us what's coming up after a cycle in a dialogue some survivors in mozambique are accusing the government of forgetting about the. prime minister is expected back home shortly after cutting short his visit to the us border plane after the israeli army launched strikes into gaza hitting several hamas targets the group then head back with rockets and gyptian brokered cease fire is now in place between hamas and israel decorous and west jerusalem for us harry fawcett us on the israeli gaza border will be speaking to them in a moment first though this report from lord manley. explosions throughout the night in gaza as israel launched air strikes.

neighbors told us that israeli intelligence had told them to quit the building we fled and later it was hit. by the first rockets which was a warning was fired then the second and third were fired to the north and east of the building five minutes later the whole building was hit and we didn't know where to go israel says it was targeting hamas internal security and an intelligence base in gaza. this included a multi-story building housing offices used by hamas leader ismail haniya. the air strikes followed the firing of a rocket the landed north of tel aviv hitting his radio family home and injuring seven people that attack prompted prime minister benjamin netanyahu to cut short his visit to washington and return to israel he promised a forceful reaction israel will not tolerate this i will not tolerate this

and as we speak as i told you mr president just now israel is responding forcefully to this wanton aggression the israeli army also deployed more troops to the gaza border it reported more rockets being fired from gaza into israel many were intercepted the rest fell in rural areas netanyahu is in the midst of an election campaign where he's been criticized by his main rival army chief benny gantz for not being able to contain the situation in gaza there are no good options at this point in time for prime minister nasser now i think he's ignored this for a long time he played lots of games with gyptian is on the palestinians over the last several months and he couldn't reach a long term ceasefire as it was expected with egyptian assistance. israel has also closed two vital border crossings into the gaza strip a lifeline the provides food a medical supplies to the kurds to lengthen a neurosurgeon monley al-jazeera. or

a faucet joins us from the border fence between israel and gaza so what are you hearing about reinforcements about a troop buildup here. well certainly there is still a major military presence around gaza after the announcement yesterday that there would be two extra brigades being sent in and we saw ourselves a big group of israeli army tanks certainly perhaps a.p.c.'s as well we couldn't quite see through the trees but there are there is a large larger than usual presence on the israeli side of the gaza border here still a lot of uncertainty though about the exact nature of this cease fire that was announced by hamas officials yesterday evening around the same time as there was a big barrels of rocket fire that came out of gaza and even after the ten pm starting point suppose

a starting point for that cease fire continued to be israeli airstrikes throughout the gaza strip and then there was a second behravesh around three am in the morning as well the israeli military says some sixty projectiles came out of gaza in entirety over the course of the night and so if this is a cease fire it has been far from a watertight one and there are indications that the situation is not yet fully deescalated israeli schools have been shut in southern israel is really universities people with non-essential jobs being only told to go to work if they are very close to a bomb shelter inside gaza we're told by our colleagues there that something approaching normal life is continuing the streets aren't as full as usual people are going about their business the schools may officially be open but very few if any people are sending their children to school today all of this now rests the next phase of this rests on

a political decision at the top in israel ok and to discuss that thank you kerry to discuss that let's go to stepan decker joins us live from. stephanie on the prime minister benjamin netanyahu is expected home shortly and there's an election sound there's a lot of things going on at the same time what type of pressure is the ender. he's under a huge amount of pressure this is the last thing he needed as he was signing with donald trump the recognition a huge victory a political victory for netanyahu recognizing the occupied golan heights as israeli really the media here was focused on his ratings heading to bomb shelters as that minute you can't pay that israel of the took against gaza took place so he's going to be landing here in a couple of hours he's going to be going straight to tel aviv to the defense ministry to meet with his security cabinet to figure out a way to move forward as you heard from harry there there is a very fragile cease fire in place well already questions are being asked of the prime minister accusing him of looking weak you have one of his main opponents i'm

in the paul certainly enough to be bennett saying well you can't bomb empty buildings and then feel that you have implemented to terence to terence's a word that is used a lot here the feeling that israel has lost the power of deterrence when it comes to have mass but as you mentioned two weeks before the elections what are his options either he continues with this cease fire and he is going to be honest hard questions as to why he seems to be capitulating so to speak to have mass or do you know and a wider scale campaign inside gaza which will probably more than likely especially if you use ground troops see israeli soldiers coming home in coffins which is a red line for the israeli public and will most certainly see him losing votes so a lot of pressure on the shoulders of prime minister benjamin netanyahu going to have to wait and see what he says when he lands back here later today in the next couple of hours all right stephanie decker live for us in leicester as some thank you stephanie the launch of the air strikes came as the united states officially

recognized israel's claim to sovereignty over the occupied golan heights that's in violation of international law and united nations resolution israel says a strategic lee important area in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven our diplomatic editor james bays reports. the u.n. secretary general here in new york is watching the situation in gaza with great concern. he's long warned of the dangers of a new conflict a new conflict now underway the secretary general is gravely concerned by the latest developments regarding gaza today's firing of a rocket from gaza towards israel is a serious and unacceptable violation were also where of the latest reports of firing on gaza in a monitoring events we urge all sides to exercise maximum restraint this very moment the secretary general spokesman was briefing reporters president trump was signing his declaration recognizing israel's sovereignty over the golan

a direct challenge to the international consensus on the issue for the secretary general it is clear that the status of golan has not changed the u.s. policy on the golan is reflected in the relevant rizzle lucian's of the security council you may notice a reticence to criticize president trump even though there's little doubt his proclamation is in breach of international law this will be a difficult issue too for the u.s. is close allies on the u.n. security council which meets to discuss israel palestine on choose day since the start of the trumpet ministration the council has allowed the u.s. to lead diplomacy on this file but there is growing unease among diplomats on gaza don't expect any action other than council members adding their voices to the calls for restraint on golan don't expect any action a tall other council members of very unhappy about president trump's decision but even if they wanted to come up with a statement condemning it the u.s.

would block it james pays out his era of the united nations syria describes transposition a supply an attack on its sovereignty and territorial integrity damascus says it has a right to reclaim the territory russia warned the move would further deteriorate the situation in the region turkey called the decision unacceptable and plans to take action against the move and saudi arabia said it's a violation of international law. australia's prime minister says he is very concerned after an al-jazeera investigation reveal links between the us gun lobby and an australian political party officials from the n.r.a. were filmed by al-jazeera as investigative unit advising australia's one nation party how to deal with public opinion in the wake of a mass shooting peter charlie reports. on a visit to washington last september a team from pauline hanson's one nation party sold help from the n.r.a. in order to changes trillions strict gun control laws of the country where you're going on the civil liberties. in

a series of meetings one nation was given advice on how best to prepare a stranger for a change to its laws i think very beneficial you are all it takes steps in the right direction to start providing protection to people and again that helps us because it's over i would get from a look at australia astray severely restricted the sale of semiautomatic and automatic guns following a message in the tasmanian town of port arthur in one thousand nine hundred six. thirty five people were murdered by a gunman using an fifteen assault rifle six hundred fifty thousand weapons were confiscated and destroyed you probably don't really have to go to the point about a national gun ban and we're not talking about if you can we're on the market what they're going to say to improve the lives of going on a daily basis it does demonstrate that we begin tonight in the kids hope you can start making a difference in

a break down the narrative so that people who need to react to going to use it make it. history is strict gun control laws are problematic for the n.r.a. is officials have said they feel its success could be used to limit gun ownership in america if the left wing anti gun owners who literally point to australia as this shining model as to why we need gun bans and gun confiscation in the run up to the port arthur massacre destroyed or was tracking on the liberal and right now shootings as the americans since not having any six their brain zero mass shootings people would not mind to be silent in stride if. one nation was coached on how to react if soft a gun was a village to another measure in a strenuous n.r.a. officials suggested to one nation that they smear advocates of gun control for exploiting the massacre there used to raise children but for.

them to go on if your policy isn't good enough to stand out so there you go for. the really good that's a gravel pit on the in a raised playbook also included planting articles there's a lot of times we'll be right down for like a local sheriff in wisconsin or whatever and we'll drop dead or she will have to strap it will do a lot of the leg work because these people are busy and this is our job so we'll help them and then they'll submit it with their name on it so that it looks organic you know that it's coming from that community we will have we're all behind this piece of charlie al-jazeera sydney philip alpers as director of gun policy dot org and professor at the school of public health at the university of sydney who joins us via skype from there first to store reaction was any of this surprising to you. and not very being watching the national rifle association for

a couple of decades now i've tracked them as they visited new zealand australia south africa canada europe brazil all in an attempt to explore the second amendment that the united states of course is the only country in the world that has the second amendment and in an attempt to establish the n.r.a. right around the world and to to make a global in our right so do you think that all these tactics that they're trying with this with this political party role will actually work because as she said the u.s. does have the second amendment it's not the same in other countries that's right and they've pulled back quite a lot since they made those early attempts because they realize they were failing in most countries in most countries the n.r.a. has no appeal the toll in fact we look at the united states and we think that quite mad about guns and so the n.r.a. is trying all sorts of other tactics now and by the sound of it they're considering

running a sort of putin asc interference in a foreign election coming up and in. very soon in australia using a local islamophobia. anti immigration right wing very right wing party called one nation and that party often holds the balance of power in some electorates some houses of parliament around the country and so it's quite important that we resist here in australia we resist these attempts by foreign powers to do much what putin as is alleged to have done to the american election is that about educating the electorate. they don't need much educating. very solidly behind the gun laws it's only a very tiny minority that. that trying to wind back the gun laws

but they're they're dedicated bunch the gun lobby especially when they take their instruction will they take their inspiration from the right of the national rifle association of america and they're there a genuine straight every day of the week in that they're always trying to wind back the gun laws that have been very effectively put into place in australia and now in new zealand you zealand is now the new hot spot for in our a well for gun lobby interference and delaying tactics philip alpers thank you so much for joining us from sydney we appreciate it you're welcome and you can watch the full program from algiers investigative unit how to sell a massacre that's on tuesday at twelve g.m.t. . still ahead on al-jazeera a bit as well as in the dark again that was the government blaming this time for the power cut.

and there we've got lots of showers over the southeastern parts of asia at the moment quite a few of them over parts of borneo and across java but also want to roll the live you ones every part of thailand as well we've caught a few in bangkok for the philippines we're also watching some showers make their way towards us those will mostly be in the eastern policy as we head through wednesday they are spreading and by thursday that we push it a bit further towards the west now this is good news actually because in the philippines we do need some rain we are in a drought to the moment before the towards the south and we've watched all storm veronica fade out towards the northwest there's not really a great deal left to it tool now instead we've got this huge area of cloud that stretches all the way down towards new zealand now within this of the remains of all storm trevor it's really in hans the rains here and for some of us in queensland it's going to be incredibly wet over the next couple of days and we all

know why it spread flooding this region could see around three hundred millimeters of rain that will cause this is significant problems so lots of what weather here that on wednesday it just naturally works its way eastwards as we head into the day still giving us some heavy falls there for the south and force in melbourne we're looking at around twenty six a fairly pleasant temperature wise here i'm not far off the temperatures we're expecting in perth we should be up to around twenty seven on this day. and that's because technological at the center but not fluids and loop over to live side by side. in its. life ups challenges kenya up developers to help small scale farmers cultivate a new future but can mobile phones really be the seed of change it was politically because it's all over the board people took

a look outside silicon savannah for knowledge and say you know. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories right now israel's prime minister is returning home early to handle tensions with gaza ahead of elections airstrikes were launched by israel across the strip a mosque launched at least ten rockets into southern israel attacks began on monday after a rocket attack north of tel of the. world leaders have condemned donald trump's decision to recognize israeli control of the occupied golan heights syria calls it a blanket attack on its sovereignty while russia turkey and saudi arabia also oppose the move. australia's prime minister says he is very concerned after an

al-jazeera investigation revealed links between the us gun lobby and an australian political party officials from the n.r.a. were filmed by our investigative unit advising australia's one nation party about how to influence public opinion after a mass shooting. in britain have voted to take control of the bracks agenda from the government on wednesday politicians will begin the process of deciding on a series of alternatives to prime minister trace a maze deal which has been voted down twice. in parker has more. defining the breaks in battle ground and piece of dealt another blow to the british prime minister by voting in favor of changes to to reserve base next to break six steps many of those m.p.'s before may's own party three junior ministers have resigned after voting against the government ties to the right three hundred twenty now i

know the nose to the left three hundred two m.p.'s have decided to debate and vote on wednesday on alternative ways forward a process referred to as indicative votes m.p.'s will now decide on a range of bricks and scenarios including a possible softer breaks it with greater alignment to the e.u.'s customs union and single market they could decide to revoke article fifty altogether or back another referendum the list goes on the aim is to test the will of parliament in the search for an alternative plan to to resume a stalled deal earlier the prime minister acknowledged there isn't currently enough support to push a bracks it deal through parliament for the third time but laid out the options available unless this house agrees to it no deal would not happen no bricks it must not happen and this no breaks it which extends article fifty beyond the twenty second of may force is the british people to take part in european elections and

gives up control of any of our borders laws money or trade is not a correct sit that will bring the british people together the leader of the opposition responded calling the government's approach to brics it a national embarrassment after two years of failure broken promises after broken promises the prime minister finally accepted the inevitable last week and voted to extend article fifty and went to brussels to negotiate last week's summit represented another negotiating failure for the prime minister her proposals were rejected. a new terms were imposed on her if may's deal doesn't pass by april the twelve no deal is still the default position for the united kingdom but to resume a could still find a way out of this impasse if m.p.'s do decide to back a much softer version of bracks it's an indicative votes of wednesday it could in theory play into the prime minister's hands spruiking hardline brick cities within

the ranks that have so far rejected a deal into now backing it but all of this could mean that two reason may might bring the plan back to parliament for another go before the end of the week but it's a big gamble is being defeated twice already a third defeat could be devastating for to resume a's leadership the u.k.'s already in extra time a maze under huge pressure from probe conservatives to set a quick timetable for her departure the withdrawal agreement was supposed to be the easy part of brics it talks of the future trading relationship haven't even begun. westminster and six hundred thousand people have signed an online petition calling for the impeachment of thailand's election commission this fall as allegations of widespread irregularities during sunday's vote results point to a close race between the party backed by the military government and the main opposition party neither has managed to win

a majority of seats and international action observer group has labelled the vote deeply flawed the asian network of free election says issues with ballot counting lead to confusion over the elementary results. relation and conservation of the results we said they were deeply flawed. because we didn't have access would you really have an understanding of the process and that in itself is a flaw in the democratic process you may have the best manager election in the world if people can't see it and don't believe in it it's not a perfect election so in this case what happened was we trusted what we saw in front of us which was the counting process of putting stations and them but the results. which when we lost sight of the process we were not informed and our friends from the media said the same thing we don't know the procedures close to two million people in mozambique have been affected by cycling

to die that's according to the us survivors are trying to get their lives back to normal after last week's storm left a trail of destruction in southern africa. in the city and all hit hard tony partly as saying how the city's long running support for the opposition may be affecting the government's recovery effort. on the streets of where the cleanup of cycling destruction has begun it's a massive task volunteers a very ground to try and restore a sense of normality to this ravaged city. is the hands on mayor who gets up every day of five am to supervise the operation and try and restore hope. to the people. but. when. people are living in schools and on street corners it's

a miserable existence even for families familiar with hardship. before the cyclon struck this region had an unemployment rate of seventy percent with forty percent of those making a living on the streets the majority of big companies that employ most a beer is full time work force have been devastated by it i many have gone bust and getting the economy back up and running is now one of the top priorities it's been a climatic battleground here but also a political one there has been hardcore opposition and it's voted five times against the ruling for lemo government in parliamentary and presidential elections and some people here believe they're paying a price for that opposition critics accuse government leaders in the capital murder of previously failing to invest in infrastructure including schools and hospitals and of not doing enough to help victims of the disaster there so question i asked grogs god why are you breaking cycle. i want to get. only

god can tell me that. i'm saving to say that all of the central government can't that's what i do a lot giving us government supporters maintaining all it can with limited funds and that if funding is allocated regardless of which party is governing and all provinces what is important is the direction of the country and not the party. but politics is a game that few of mozambique's poor and destitute play their lives have always been a struggle to has been unemployed for twenty five years he lived in a shack and survived a lot of jobs the cycle only left him with nothing. either and did you at least i had a home before the cycle of my life was a little normal even though i didn't help much but now i have lost everything it's not just me sleeping here the streets are full of families with children. many of beer is new street well as don't know what even care that this is an election year in mozambique for them life is about if and when they will next eat not when

they'll vote i don't think we did as i don't care about politics we just need help there's nothing to eat and we don't have medication we don't even have pots and plates. the misery for many of mozambique's psych loan victims won't end until help arrives tony berkeley al-jazeera beera. the pentagon's plans to spend a billion dollars for enforcing the border fence with mexico are expected to provoke questions and congress the acting defense secretary and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff are due to testify after the u.s. army was given the go ahead to build ninety two kilometers of fencing president trump declared a national emergency last month in order to bypass congress and release a billion dollars or has all. the lights have gone out in much of venezuela for the second time this month and it's not clear what caused this latest blackout information minister says the main hydroelectric dam was attacked. he's following

the story from neighboring colombia. the capital caracas and at least half of them in this well in states suffered another major blackout on monday this was started around one thirty pm it continued through the afternoon and at the beginning of the evening just serve as people were trying to go back home metro system was down in caracas in another number of cities many stores closed fearing the looting and the kind of chaos that we've seen two weeks ago in venezuela when the country was paralyzed by the longest blackout in its history and just like two weeks ago the government of president nicolas maduro blamed the opposition and their allies starting with the united states as being behind an attack on. the largest and most important hydroelectric plant in the country this serves most of the swelling in the meantime also the political international confrontation surrounding the

government of the. continued to military to russian military airplane landed in qatar because over the weekend with troops the u.s. is now calling that a reckless escalation of the situation in venezuela promising some type of retaliation so as we can see both inside and internationally that confrontation continues for the future of the country. let's take a look at the headlines now on al jazeera israel's prime minister is returning home early to handle tensions with the concept head of elections airstrikes were launched by israel across the gaza strip amoss launched at least ten rockets into southern israel this all began on monday after a rocket attack north of tel of the world leaders have condemned donald trump's

decision to recognize israeli control of the occupied golan heights syria's calling it a blatant attack on its sovereignty while russia turkey and saudi arabia also oppose the move australia's prime minister says he is very concerned after an al-jazeera investigation orville links between the us gun lobby and an australian political party officials from the n.r.a. were filmed by our investigative unit advising australia's one nation party on how to influence public opinion after a mass shooting in peace in britain has voted to take control of the bracks agenda from the government on wednesday politicians will begin the process of deciding on a series of alternatives to prime minister to resign may's deal which has been rejected twice more than six hundred thousand people have signed an online petition calling for the impeachment of thailand's election commission that follows allegations of widespread irregularities during sunday's vote eleven area results point to a close race between the party backed by the military government and the main

opposition party the pentagon's plans to spend a billion dollars reinforcing the border fence with mexico are expected to provoke questions in congress acting defense secretary and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff are due to testify after the us army was given the go ahead to build ninety two kilometers of fencing president trouble cleared a national emergency last month in order to bypass congress and release eight billion dollars for his wall plan. the lights have gone out for the second time this month it's clear what calls the latest electricity blackouts but the information minister says the electorate was attacked as are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more to come up next life. on savannah. africa's most populous nation. as a youth unemployment in a bid to control. everyone

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