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both of them in a moment but first this report from. explosions throughout the night in gaza as israel launched airstrikes. on neighbors told us that israeli intelligence had told them to recreate the building we fled and later it was hit was ourselves in 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 and ten a security and intelligence base in gaza. this included a multi-story building housing offices used by hamas leader ismail haniyeh as the as strikes followed the firing of a rocket the landed north of tel aviv hitting is ready for any 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 the 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 the egyptians and 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 close to vital border crossings into the gaza strip a lifeline the provides food a medical supplies to the coastal enclave laura baron manley al-jazeera stephanie decker joins us now live from west jerusalem so the israeli prime minister cut his trip short to get back to israel what's his agenda been like upon return. well he went straight to the defense ministry in tel aviv to convene a security cabinet where his members of cabinet would have been this team two senior military men discussing options in gaza scenarios and basically just briefing them on the situation as you know it's been relatively quiet this morning since dorn we are expecting to hear from prime minister netanyahu in the next fifteen minutes where he will be addressing apac the powerful jewish lobby group in

the united states via video link this of course the speech that he was meant to be holding in person before he cut that trip short so eventually to see whether he mentions anything it is of course also an important election platform for him he is under huge pressure at the moment sadly a lot of criticism here about the fact that he has lost control of let's say the to terence when it comes to hamas in gaza that he is too weak so again we'll have to wait and see if he's going to say anything about any results of that security cabinet meeting and if it gives any indication whether this cease fire is going to continue what they've decided to do and something more extensive or talking about something more extensive thanks stephanie let's go to the gaza border how it falls who joins us now live from there so is the calm still holding. well you have a situation here is that there continues to be an increased israeli military presence of the mobilization of those two brigades on monday in response to the

rocket attack northeast of tel aviv we've seen israeli armory in fields between trees around gaza and of course you saw what took place overnight even after that declaration of a cease fire by hamas officials which is meant to start at ten pm proceeding that there was a lot of rocket fire coming out of gaza after it there was a good deal of israeli airstrike activity that carried on and then there was another subsequent search around around three o'clock in the morning as well so he's really moved she says some sixty projectiles came out of gaza during the nighttime hours and that it struck more targets inside gaza after that schools have been closed here on the israeli side of the border universities people with non essential jobs have been told only to work if they are close to bomb shelters. life inside gaza is relatively normal according to our colleagues there

but obviously there is a great deal of concern as well so what we do know is that hamas has canceled a planned protest for today presumably a gesture towards deescalation the key question no as steph was just saying remains with the israeli political establishment and most importantly the decision of one man the prime minister and defense minister benjamin netanyahu or. harry forces there thanks so much for the update from the ground there. is a massive fish and he says unless things change in the gaza strip tensions with israel will continue. this is not the first round of confrontation i will not be the last one i think the seeds of the confrontation and conflict and clashes is still existed because of the it patient because of the the siege imposing gaza

so i have a good dump that this will last for a long time and list we. can believe ceasefire agreement. sieges lift and book kids live and people the joy he did of freedom did of prosperity opening the gates and the freedom of access i think that they will see you would witness another round of confrontation in gaza all policy and function all committed to the understanding have been the last night but now i am talking about the three shell ceasefire agreement truth was managed by the egyptians to mediate terms we expect that they will continue and use their talks because i said unless we have complete ceasefire agreement there is that this tension will continue in gaza so i think there is there and should understand that without resolving the problem with down to lifting the siege and the bookit in gaza there will be

a more rounds of tension more hours of confrontation. more and joining us now here in the studio is marwan bashar al jazeera senior political analyst good to have you with us so by all accounts of our correspondents that column is holding will this turn into a full blown war again for there are three possible options for prime minister netanyahu one is to let things be and to simply good joyce at the gifts that has been taken from president trump and try for two weeks to live on that and to show the israeli doing so because of the elections coming up exactly until the elections and after that he sees what his options are if there are any military the other one is that he does get involved more seriously and bombing various targets in gaza and perhaps moving into assassinations and so on and so forth but that will definitely lead to a major retaliation on the part of the palestinian resistance movement in gaza and

that could risk is election john chances the third possible option is that he goes full scale land invasion and as many of his partners in the coalition would basically reoccupy. gaza and as they would say klyn it up from hamas and jihad elements i don't think any of these options is great i think if these are three bad bad options but for the time being if he can get away with just living off trump for the next two weeks something elections he might do that it's quite risky what i mean israel has tried all of those in the past ultimately i think we still need to always remind ourselves of the basic problem here can there be peace and security at the border with out an end to the occupation without a situation where millions of human beings are living without the sort of

citizenship and basic rights which you and i take for granted in many of our viewers do. something i actually heard you asking this question because you really are looking for a serious answer. and to be honest with you. the israelis don't think so i mean i think the normal rational logical response would be of course you have to end the occupation people cannot live under occupation for ever and we've when people live under oppression then they are bound to resist and then violence is bound to break and the last occupiers could not live in peace the the israelis don't think that were asleep the israeli right specifically doesn't think that way the israeli right things you can have your cake and eat it too the israeli right believes on the basis of what trump just did last night. that by force you can occupied territories and then you can get away nicholas those territories

and that the united states will support you so let's let's let's just connect what happened yesterday with what would happen in gaza and the west bank because this is very important what president trump told prime minister netanyahu and his proclamation of the guard on being an israeli territory is that now prime minister netanyahu is bound to annex half of the west bank or even more next question given what's already happened with recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital on the part of the us the golan heights is there any reason to believe that wouldn't extend to other now occupied territories no i think it is definitely going to extend to other can fight there is i think prime minister netanyahu and his coalition partners have always been saying that any a c. which makes up about fifty some percent of the west bank will remain in the israeli hands at least security wise because they will that resolve the problem are one though or does this is you say you know this is my territory doesn't mean this to

a lot of people living there who don't want to to be under israeli sovereignty right there is really a minute there is really a mindset especially on the right so it goes as follows there are many peoples around the world like kurds like basques etc who don't have states and the palestinians are not exception but as soon as like many other people do not need a state they could have an expanded autonomy under israeli security and that the palestinians with gov money and the deal of the century will be even living but much better than the many arabs do if they accept israeli diktats and israeli control over historical palestine as well as of course as we know now the world lies so israeli right is convinced that no you don't need permanent peace you don't need to deal a q pipe palestinian territories and know the palestinian people don't need to be free in their own independent states in order for there to be peace and for there

to be security for israel and that. is the heart of the problem today one bashar thanks so much for coming in while the launch of the strikes on gaza came as the united states as we've been discussing with marwan officially recognized israel's claim to sovereignty over the occupied golan heights god trump signed the decree during a meeting with israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu in washington d.c. israel sees the strategically important area in one nine hundred sixty seven and has occupied it ever since controversial move reverses decades of u.s. policy. were golan heights decision has been described by syria as a blatant 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 says it's

a violation of international law our diplomatic editor james bays is at the united nations headquarters in new york and james i understand there was supposed to be a meeting anyway schedules they to discuss middle eastern issues how is this development going down. they have and always have a monthly meeting to discuss the situation was regard to israel and palestine that meeting happens to be taking place in about fifteen twenty minutes time in the security council so these two issues the ongoing conflict in garza and the recognition by the u.s. that a unilateral recognition of israeli sovereignty over the golan will be discussed when that meeting starts nicholai in loudon off who is the u.n. special coordinator for the middle east peace process the un's man based in

jerusalem will be giving his assessment of the current situation security council members i think will be listening very carefully they are deeply concerned about the situation in garza most of the security council i think privately very angry about the trunk decision on gaulin how far will they go publicly and what they say and i'm sure they will sir the fact that the security council has a clear position on go lion and that the u.s. declaration goes against security council resolutions and for that matter the u.n. charter whether they'll be a great deal of criticism of president trump is not clear that's not the only thing that's happening in the next few minutes on the way into that security council meeting we can already see props being set up at the podium at the stakeout here at the security council are about to speak to reporters in the next few moments dannie down on the israeli ambassador will be speaking to reporters there we already know

from press releases what he's going to say and that that israel wants a strong condemnation of hamas and its rocket that was fired so that will certainly be the israeli position that's not the only person that's coming to that stakeout in the next half an hour or so sami we're also going to hear from the secretary. rule of the united nations and tony terrace his comments we're told will be mainly on the site clone in southern africa but it's likely that he will probably get a question or two about the situation in angola so quite a lot taking place here in the next hour a lot of talk big question whether we any action. thanks so much james bays there diplomatic editor plenty more still ahead on the news hour including. it's time this is big for parliament to take control we ask want snacks for the u.k. after m.p.'s take charge of the braggs it's

a gender plus. that one nation official. basically sued to sell australia's gun laws to the highest bidders to a foreign body strain is prime minister reacts to an al-jazeera investigation exposing covert efforts by america's biggest gun lobby to influence politicians. in small to qualify for the european football championships is marred by race this chanting and they will be here with that story. in an unprecedented move and days in britain the voted to take control of the briggs's agenda from the government politicians say they want to make progress after the government was defeated by three hundred twenty nine votes to three hundred two on amendments to its regs agenda agreement rather on wednesday politicians will begin the process of deciding on a series of alternatives to

a prime minister to resign may's deal which has been rejected now twice. joins us live from outside the u.k. parliament in london so take us through what exactly are the different scenarios or alternatives they're going to start voting on. well just before i get there sammy we're expecting to hear from the leader of the house and you led some shortly in the commons but there was a cabinet meeting the smalling the prime minister is folks person remaining fairly tight lips but saying that the government would only bring back that deal to parliament when they were confident of the number so it's still being talked about as a possibility even though it was precisely the perception among many m.p.'s hit that series in may was stubbornly insisting on on a deal being the only option apart from leaving with no deal led to that defeat the on monday night here which now we'll see on wednesday those indicative votes start

to happen and so it could be a slow process firstly we think they'll just be all of those are options put to a yes or no vote things like the the withdrawal agreement plus staying in the customs union for example perhaps adding on membership of the single market but also some people call them the nuclear options of revoking article fifty or a second referendum so all of those things put to politicians we don't know when there will be a free vote but if in the next few days that doesn't lead to some kind of consensus then m.p.'s are demanding that the government take heed of that and if they don't they're threatening to introduce legislation to force them to do so but on wednesday we're hearing that the prime minister will meet a committee of backbench isn't there a lot of rumors going around now the that could be the time when perhaps she gives them a date for when she might resign something that many of the hard line breaks it is

want to hear before they'll lend their backing to this deal so it's up in the air at the moment. well the top of the caucus still taking nadeem. just because parliament may be having these indicative votes does that mean the e.u. is going to wait for that process to finish doesn't mean the u.k. can still just crash out great question the european commission or monday said it had finished its preparations for a no deal bricks it scenario but it issued a series of warnings about how no deal could affect u.k. citizens notably in terms of travelling to e.u. countries and that serves as a reminder to these m.p.'s here that they haven't got a long wait for the twelfth is the deadline now it's been pushed back. for presenting a plan b. if she's amazed deal doesn't get through parliament this week that's how tight it is so they have to come up with something they voted against no deal but that's not

good enough the default position is the u.k. will leave without a deal unless they coalesce around an idea whether that idea is a form of bricks it or whether it's stopping bricks it calling for a general election or calling for a new referendum a lot of these ideas are acceptable to the you some of them may not be it's not clear exactly what's what will be acceptable in terms of the you say yes she can have a longer extension that's something that many brought to tears really do fear whether that will bounce them into supporting trees or maize deal in the next few days if it comes back to parliament that's hard to say as well all right thanks so much to the mama bear now european leaders and china's president say they're working to put their power rivalries inside and cooperate more and trade in climate change she doing ping is in paris meeting with the leaders of france germany and the european commission the you is beijing's biggest trade partner and it's called for greater

access to china's domestic market. more than six hundred thousand people have signed an online petition calling for the impeachment of thailand's election commission it follows allegations of widespread irregularities during sunday's vote preliminary results point to a close race between the party backed by the military government and the main opposition party neither of which have managed to win a majority of seats it may be weeks before final results are released an international election observer group has labeled the vote deeply flawed the asian network for free elections says issues with ballot counting lead to confusion over the preliminary results on that relation and consideration of the results we said there were deeply flawed why because we don't have access would you really have an understanding of the process and that in itself is a flaw in a democratic process you may have the best manager election in the world if people

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 police stations and then ballots in results when the law. which point we lost sight of the process we were not informed and our friends from the media so the same thing we don't know the procedures flash flooding in southern iran is killed at least seventeen people dozens of others have been injured near the city of shiraz tens of thousands are affected by days of torrential rain close to two million people in mozambique have been affected by side clonie die that's according to the un survivors are trying to get their lives back to normal after last week's storm left a trail of destruction in southern africa zimbabwe malawi and the city of beirut mozambique were all hard hit. tony birth is seeing how the city's long running

support for the opposition may be affecting the government's recovery efforts. on the streets a view of the clean up of cycling even as destruction has begun it's a massive task volunteers are valid around to try and restore a sense of normality to this ravaged city. is the hands on met who gets up every day at five am to supervise the operation and try and restore hope we also are trying to tell the people there's no food. but we need to work we need to work off hours so we need to really build ourselves people are living in schools and on street corners it's a miserable existence even for families familiar with hardship before the psych loan struck this region had an unemployment rate of seventy percent with forty percent of those making 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 hard core opposition and has voted five times against the ruling for a 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 much 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 and here i want to get. only god can tell me that. i'm saying the same 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. funding is allocated regardless of which party is governing 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 they've 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. and did at least i had a home before the cycle of my life was a little normal even though i didn't have 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 this is an election year in mozambique for them life is about if and when they will next meet not when they'll vote. we did 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 cycling victims won't end until help arrives tony berkeley al-jazeera beera. apparently there's more side clones brewing not too far from africa right steph is that going to it's right some it's actually brewed it's ripe let's take a look at this one then that's just now working its way steadily south where it's moving very slowly but the little dots here the little locator i've put on as the island of rhodes regus which is home to around forty thousand people and it's almost directly in. storm well i have it is eighty three kilometers to the east at the moment unfortunately it's quite a compact system because within that center we are seeing sustained winds of two hundred five kilometers per hour with gusts up to two hundred fifty so incredibly powerful this storm and it's moving very slowly only around eleven kilometers per hour and that is not good news because it means for drag it is having a sustained impact from this system so what are we seen so far then over the last

two days we've seen one hundred eighty seven millimeters of rain which is a lot of wet weather but it's the winds that are really causing us more of a concern because the peak wind gusts that i've seen as one hundred sixty one kilometers per hour at the winds have been gusting over one hundred kilometers per hour for the last thirty three hours so it really has been with us for a long time and at the moment this storm is still strengthening because the the surface waters there are really quite quite warm so that storm it's gradually going to move away from us but during its time it's going to give us yet more rain and yet more very strong winds. thanks so much well still ahead here on al-jazeera and the attorney general of the state of new york is pretty powerfully antitrust may decide i want to test the legalities of indicting the president. the end of the model report could be just the beginning of donald trump's legal problems. on his way there in the dark again but who is the government lead in this

time for the power cuts and its broad simona halep stays on course to reclaim the world number one spot number. in africa's technological at the center affluence in group poverty to live side by

side. in its first episode life challenges kenyan up developers to help small scale farmers cultivate a new future that can mobile phones really be the seed of change it is putting people into because people took over life's silicon savannah on al-jazeera. welcome back time to recap our headlines and al-jazeera now israel's prime minister has returned home from the u.s. early to handle tensions with head of the elections strikes were launched by israel across the occupied gaza strip the last launched at least ten rockets into southern

israel attacks began on monday after a rocket attack north of tel aviv. has been worldwide condemnation after the us president formally recognized israel sovereignty over the of golan heights signed the decree during a meeting with israeli prime minister binyamin that's now in washington d.c. on monday. pays in britain a voted to take control of the briggs's agenda from the government on wednesday politicians will begin the process of deciding on a series of alternatives to the prime minister's deal which has been rejected twice . the pentagon's plans to spend a billion dollars reinforcing the border fence with mexico are expected to provoke questions in congress the 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 declared a national emergency last month in order to bypass congress and release eight

billion dollars for the war. let's go over that kimberly how could now she's done the byline for us in washington d.c. so how is own from getting paid to go money for this and how far will it go in building is wall ok let's look at these numbers so your member donald trump one of five point seven billion for his wall he asked congress for that instead they said no we're going to give you one point three billion and it's going to not be for the wall it's going to be for other security measures donald trump was unhappy so he declared a national emergency to get this money congress pushed back the house said no way even the democrats rather the republicans in the senate some of them are pretty uncomfortable with the presidential overreach or overreach of power so they also said no way the president then vetoed that measure to get his money and now he is spending it so this one billion that we're hearing from the pentagon that has been

moved from other projects things like repairs of fire stations barracks for soldiers that some that date back to the one nine hundred fifty s. even schools on military bases all that has been canceled now so the president can spend his money as you point out this is going to build just ninety two kilometers along the southern border of mexico sensually this could be a political risk for the president because these are a lot of his supporters that could be affected by some of the everyday things that they use in need now not getting constructed or repaired because the president has identified this border wall priority and is now spending the money while congress is trying again to overturn the veto it's not expected to succeed though if that happens when it is that leaves the declaration of emergency in his terms to take money for the war. right so the way things are looking right now and seven congress or at least the democrats in the house of representatives said almost immediately after the president veto that legislation to try and stop them from spending this

money they said look we're going to try and override it there is a mechanism in congress to do that but it's tricky and you need a majority a two thirds majority in the house of representatives that means that democrats well they did have about a dozen republicans join them in the last vote they need dozens maybe about four dozen republicans to join them this time and that is a pretty tall order so it doesn't look like this vote that's happening today to try and override the president's veto to stop them from spending this money like this is going to happen so this is largely symbolic the vote is going to take place democrats know this is likely to fail but what we heard from speaker nancy pelosi who is the top ranking democrat the house of representatives she said that she wants to be on record she has the house to be on record that it does not support donald trump's border wall even as he begins constructing and repairing sections of the fence that are already in place or i can believe how could there from washington d.c. thanks for that let's take you back now to the tensions along the gaza israel

border in the last few minutes israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has just addressed the annual gathering of the pro israel group apac through a video link he was in washington d.c. to attend that meeting but had to cut his visit short to return home to deal with the increasing tensions now i'm just coming from a meeting with our chief of staff and our senior commanders and i can tell you we are prepared to do more we will do what is this is to defend our people and to defend our state. of people in the occupied west bank are staging sit ins in solidarity with thousands of palestinians in israeli jails those prisoners are threatening to start hunger strikes on april seventh to protest worsening living conditions nido brahim has more from ramallah in the occupied west bank. families here fear for the lives of their loved ones in israeli jails

particularly after they leave this town of tension he said if sun has been in prison for the past fifteen years and she follows this news. we're concerned for their health these three prison service is ready to risk elite. we call upon human rights organizations to stand by them to pressure these three not to harm the prisoners. i. the current escalation started when israel prison service began installing signal jamming devices in prisons while they say it's an attempt to stop palestinian prisoners from using cellular phones. to isolate them further and cause cancer. the this issue is very close to the hearts of many palestinians hundreds of thousands of them have been imprisoned at some point in their lives in the past few decades and palestinian officials say that around five thousand five hundred palestinians are currently in jail. straightly is prime

minister says he's very concerned after an al-jazeera investigation revealed the 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 as one nation party on how to influence public opinion after a mass shooting under thomas reports. this is the sit down to something. for nothing more if you. tried to trade what started as an al-jazeera undercover investigation into the united states is national rifle association is now dominating australian news and the top of politics there we have reports that one nation officials. basically sought to sell australia's gun laws to the highest bidders to a foreign buyer and i find that apart one nation is

a far right anti immigration party that's growing in influence in australia its officials caught trying to get donations from the us gun lobby is big news that's because first for donations to political parties were recently made illegal in australia with one nation foremost among those calling for that ban and second because most australians are proud of their strict gun laws and a concern that any political party suggesting they could be watered down or changed that is particularly true right now in the aftermath of the horrific mosque attacks in neighboring new zealand earlier this month on tuesday the one nation officials caught on camera tried to turn the tables pointing at the undercover reporter of al-jazeera and never ever ever suspected him or wildest dreams that this guy was employed by a middle eastern country while just your own as an australian to you in a kind of politics this is skullduggery at its worst this is the very first time

a stralia has witnessed political interference from a foreign government but the al-jazeera program may care rejects that the evidence is on the video and the video is quite clear one nation says the al-jazeera documentary will seriously and fairly damage their election prospects in the meantime it's dominating australia's airwaves and online andrew thomas al-jazeera sydney. family and friends of recent mass shooting victims in the us attempt to piece together their lives some are confronted by new tragedies to survivors of the parks and shooting in florida have died in a parent's suicides within the span of a week community leaders are urging parents to speak to their children about the trauma that still haunts many of the students rob reynolds reports. and we are the parents of richmond jeremy richmond's daughter was one of twenty children and six adults murdered at the sandy hook school in newtown connecticut in twenty twelve he

and his wife jennifer hensel started a foundation in the name of their daughter of the l a dedicated to exploring brain science research and mental health treatment with this foundation is our hope our beautiful. and all the others have fallen to such sense of. violence. richmond was found dead in his office on monday he was forty nine police declined to give the cause or manner of his death other than saying it does not appear to be suspicious a police spokesman said this is a heartbreaking event for the richmond family and the newtown community as a whole in parkland florida the community is mourning nineteen year old sidney yellow she escaped the mass shooting that killed seventeen of her fellow students and teachers at marjorie stoneman douglas high school a little over a year ago i.l.s.

mother said the first year college student took her own life she had struggled with depression and anxiety one of i.l.o.'s best friends meadow pollack was killed in the high school shooting another teenage survivor of the mass murder a boy died in an apparent suicide on saturday florida police said the victim was not named the deaths focused attention on the severe effects of trauma on survivors of gun violence and their families every know they think it is sad right now we're grappling with a lot of mental health issues and come to the forefront as a result of a lot of these shootings according to statistics published by the national health council a group of health care providers pharmaceutical and health insurance companies and health related nonprofit organizations five million americans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder on an annual basis the council says seventy seven percent of children exposed to school shootings develop p.t.s.d.

a higher percentage than do veterans of the wars in afghanistan and iraq and it says more than sixty five percent of children exposed to traumatic events at tempt suicide at some point in their lives in despair and violence that lingers long after the shooting stops rob reynolds. zero. president trump is claiming complaints total exoneration in the reports but his legal water is far from over trump's family whose business is and is a noble committee or will remain the subject of several ongoing investigations al-jazeera as kristen salumi takes a closer look. of all the lawsuits and investigations hanging over the trump presidency experts say the biggest threat could be here at the federal court in manhattan southern district that's where trump had his campaign it's where most of his businesses are based and it's where many of his children live so they've got

direct oversight and jurisdiction over him second of all the southern district of new york is highly independent notoriously independent there the president's former lawyer pleaded guilty to making illegal campaign contributions and implicated the president testifying he made payments at the president's direction in an effort to silence an adult film star who claims she had an affair with him federal prosecutors have signed immunity deals with the trump organizations chief financial officer and the publisher of the national enquirer to obtain their cooperation and they've subpoenaed information from the president's inaugural committee that could be used to look at how it raised and spent a record one hundred seven million dollars more than twice as much as for any other inauguration. is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump that we haven't yet discussed today yes and michael cohen's

testimony before congress has respect you lation about a possible third line is an investigation related to the president's business dealings. the southern district a well known independence has earned the nickname the sovereign district but current justice department regulations prohibit federal investigators from indicting a sitting president state officials face no such restrictions however and they are currently looking into the president's foundation as well as his taxes and the attorney general of the state of new york who's pretty powerfully antitrust may decide i want to test the legalities of indicting the president they could indict lots of the president's associates and he has no pardon power over crimes in the state of new york federal prosecutors could wait until president trump is out of office to press charges either way the unresolved cases are likely to cloud next year's presidential election kristen salumi al jazeera new york the lights

have gone out much of venezuela for the second time this month is not clear what caused the latest electricity blackouts the information minister says the main hydroelectric dam was attacked former brazilian president michel has returned home after being freed from jail just days after his arrest on corruption charges he will still face charges but the judge who ordered to moes release said he poses no risk to the investigation while three prosecutors say he was bribed in exchange for awarding a construction contract to three companies as the nuclear facility denies the charges. brazil's president has ordered the armed forces to hold commemorations on sunday marking the anniversary of the nine hundred sixty four military coup was a narrow who's a former army captain says he admires the military dictatorship that ruled the country until nine hundred eighty five and he denies the ousting of the president

fifty five years ago amounted to a coup hundreds of people were tortured killed or disappeared during military rule if you question very cautiously a virgin human he believes that society as a whole perceiving the danger the country was experiencing was able that day to unite civilians and military to recover and return our country onto its course if that had not happened today we would have some kind of government that would not be good for anyone to. take you now live to the united nations security council which is now discussing middle east issues rockets from the gaza strip directly getting a house in central israel seven family members were injured including three children over the following twenty four hours at least one hundred three rockets and mortars were fired from gaza towards israel some of which were intercepted by their own dome system while others course material damage to how

a house and the road or hit an inhabited areas israeli air force conducted forty two strikes on various locations in gaza where some sixteen shells were fired by the i.d.f. and israeli navy towards the gaza strip according to local sources seven palestinians have been injured as a result of the strikes several buildings were destroyed including hamas offices and security buildings at six o'clock this morning local time a fragile calm seems to have taken hold in the past ten days there have been two rocket attacks from gaza targeting the toll we very. they represent a very serious escalation since the early hours of yesterday my team and i have been working intensely with egypt and all concerned parties to ensure that the situation does not spiral out of control as i have said many times in this council but i will repeat it here today again nobody has an interest in a full military confrontation in gaza

a new conflict will be devastating for the palestinian people it will have consequences for israelis who live in the vicinity of the gaza perimeter and it is likely to have regional repercussions this is why i ask you all today to join the united nations in condemning the continued indiscriminate firing of rockets towards israel such acts of provocation only dramatically increase the risk of escalation and ultimately damage our collective efforts to support the people of gaza and intra palestinian reconciliation we must also call on all sides to exercise maximum restraint as the situation remains extremely tense mr president returning to the report on the resolution two three three four i have to begin by saying that once again no steps have been taken by israel to i quote immediately and completely seize all settlement activity in the occupied palestinian territory including east jerusalem and called as called for by security council resolution two three three

four since the end of the reporting period the government has announced the construction of another eight hundred forty new units an area this decision was presented as a response to the attack to an attack on the seventeenth of march. demonstrations and seizures of palestinian known structures also continued across the occupied west bank including east jerusalem since the fifteenth of march an additional seven palestinian on structures were demolished or seized by israeli authorities this has resulted in the displacement of nine people a water cistern and sosia three structures belonging to communities in southern hebron and an elementary school building under construction the show for refugee camp in east jerusalem are among the buildings demolished mr president security council resolution two three three four also calls for i quote immediate steps to prevent all acts of violence against civilians however even the brief period since

the submission of this report as witnessed by recent events has been characterized by escalating violence beginning on fourteenth or fifteenth of march thousands of palestinians in gaza demonstrated under the slogan we want to live they protested the social economic circumstances in gaza and i called the injustices due to the palestinian division and hamas takeover of gaza by force and violence and quote although the protests were generally nonviolent come our security personnel violently dispersed participants and many including women children journalists and human rights activists were beaten of hospital and hospitalized tens of homes were raided in search of demonstrators local human rights monitors reported that over a thousand people including children were arrested with many reportedly beaten the crackdown was condemned by all palestinian factions. meanwhile protest of the gaza fence which had subsided for a couple of days also resumes at least eleven in syria devices were launched from

gaza towards israel since the fifteenth of march only in response the i.d.f. shelled and conducted their strikes against targets in gaza on four occasions causing no injuries this of course does not include the rockets fired in the escalation of the last forty eight hours mr president tensions in the occupied west bank also completed four palestinians were killed by israeli security forces and invariant in various security operations and other incidents while two israelis including one soldier and one civilian were killed by palestinians on the seventeenth of march a palestinian stabbed an israeli soldier near the aerial settlement took his rifle and shot him and an israeli civilian killing both and severely injuring another soldier in the subsequent search operations fifteen homes were raided a temporary security cordon was imposed in several villages and three and three of the suspects family members were arrested two days later the spot suspect was also

killed by the ice or in the village of a boy in another incident took place on the nineteenth of march when jewish worshipers accompanied by israeli security forces entered nablus on their way to visit joseph tomb joseph's tomb a monthly practice that is consistent with previous agreements between the parties while the details of the ensuring clashes remain disputed two palestinians were killed by the i.s.f. and at least twenty seven others have been injured and best we have on the twentieth of march a twenty six year old palestinian was shot and killed by the s.s. and another was injured while driving near a partial military checkpoint under disputed circumstances in beit sira a village near ramallah about a stain and man was similarly shot and injured near a checkpoint israel surratt east have launched investigations into both servants and the twenty fourth of march two israeli prison guards. apparently were stabbed by hamas inmates in the concealed prison in southern israel following this twelve

prisoners were reportedly injured in ensuring clashes between guards and inmates mr president security council resolution two three three four calls upon the parties to i quote refrain from provocative actions incitement in inflammatory rhetoric and fortunately such action and rhetorically has continued on march seventeenth both hamas and palestinian islamic jihad praised the attack near the settlement of arielle and called it a heroic operation while fatah social media pages praised the operator as a heroic martyr israeli politician political leaders have also continued to call the targeted assassinations of hamas palestinian islamic jihad officials and for the annexation of the west bank mr president resolution two three three four reiterated calls by the middle east quartet for affirmative steps to be taken immediately to reverse negative trends on the ground that are imperiling the two

state solution no such steps have been taken during the reporting period meanwhile the situation in jerusalem's holy sites continues to be tense on the seventeenth of march the jerusalem magistrate court reinstated for sixty days an order to close the building located at the bar or also known as mercy gate in the qur'an more sharif temple mount compound. which has been closed by the israeli authorities since two thousand and three on security grounds islamic and dominant the work echoed by palestinian and jordanian ministries of foreign affairs maintains clearly that the israeli courts lack jurisdiction over the holy site which lies in the territory occupied in one nine hundred sixty seven and warned against any changes to the historic and legal status quo israel however considers the establishment of a mosque at the mercy gate of violation of the status quo as of the twentieth of march the jerusalem magistrate court order has not been executed daily prayers

continue at the mercy gate area while discussions between israel and jordan are ongoing mr president the past few days have not also seen a resolution to the funding crisis created by israel's decision to withhold six percent of revenue it collects on behalf of the p.a. and the palestinian leaderships refusal to accept any clearance transfers unless the full amount is room stated the palestinian government has begun implementing extremely severe austerity measures these measures include a fifty percent salary cut for over fifty percent of palestinian government employees an overall ceiling on salary payments session of promotions appointments and bonuses purchase of property and cars and a twenty percent reduction in operational expenses across the board including reduced expenses on travel and fuel in addition the palestinian authority plans to borrow from the west it band between now and the month of july this will however

all have a very substantial impact on the palestinian economy resulting and reduced purchasing power and further reduction in the g.d.p. growth both in the west bank and gaza mr president in closing i would like to reiterate some of the observations concerning the implementation of the provisions of resolution two three three four. the expansion of israeli settlements in the occupied west bank including is jerusalem is continuing unabated the advancement approval or ten or tender of more than three thousand units in the occupied west bank which is reported in the written report which you have received is the largest batch since may two thousand and eighteen this includes the latest announcements of over eight hundred units in the settlement of ariel i reiterate that the establishment of settlements in the occupied palestinian territory including is true swim has no legal effect and constitutes a flagrant violation of international law are stated in resolution two two three

four it must seize immediately and completely the demolition and seizure of palestinian structures also continues demolition of structures linked to vital water connections in area c. of the west bank communities already suffering from water shortages is particularly troubling i'm concerned by the continued pressure being placed on palestinians and the west bank and east jerusalem such policies must be reversed and israel should abide by its obligations under international law i'm saddened by the persistent violence that continues to result in the tragic loss of palestinian and israeli lives recent incidents in the west bank and gaza highlights the mounting tensions across the occupied palestinian territory and the risk of a broader escalation of the conflict i call on the parties to reject violence and to work to reduce tensions there is no justification for terror and i call on all to join the united nations in condemning and unequivocally. i am concerned that we

may once again be facing another very dangerous escalation of violence in gaza with potentially catastrophic consequences the last two days have shown how precarious li calls we came to the brink of war once again the indiscriminate launching of rockets and mortars against towns and villages violates international law and places civilian lives at great risk the launching of in syria an explosive devices towards israel must also stop i remain gravely concerned by the number of deaths and injuries of palestinians along the gaza perimeter fence as well israeli security forces have the responsibility to exercise restraint and lethal force must be used only when strictly avoidable in order to protect life i strongly condemn the complain of arrests and violence inside gaza against protesters including women and children the brutal beating of journalists human rights workers and the raiding

of homes is particularly alarming the long suffering people of gaza have a right to protest without fear of reprisal i call on or member states to join the united nations in condemning such acts as i have repeatedly emphasized in gaza is untenable and the latest protests further highlight the need for the return of a unified palestinian government to gaza i call on all palestinian factions to engage in earnest with egypt in order to implement the two thousand and seventeen cairo agreement and end internal divisions or the united nations is continuing its efforts to deescalate the situation progress on the reconciliation track and the lifting of closures in gaza remains essential encourage member states to support these vital efforts the lack of resolution of the p.a.'s funding crisis threatens to further destabilize an already volatile situation both parties should continue to implement their bilateral agreements and no.