bentham prime minister should not be in power cuts he a llopis of a young al-jazeera a taliban fighters have attacked a police headquarters in northern afghanistan a suicide bomber blew his vehicle up in the city of poorly homebody in basel and province other fighters then opened fire on security forces. a rebel held areas in northwest syria being attacked for a sixth successive day by government forces and russian warplanes. at least one civilian was killed in the bombardment on sunday this raises the number of people killed so far in the offensive to twenty three people activists say around twenty five areas were targeted and how many provinces. are still ahead on al jazeera will it be him or her the runoff election for president is underway in a new leader named republic. saw firsthand the misery the duras created with the russians

in cuba. a mixed messages from the u.s. off to president donald trump downplays russia's involvement in venezuela. and we're seeing some very heavy downpours over the southeastern parts of china at the moment the satellite picture is showing the latest area of cloud that's working its way eastwards but it's just being replenished by yet more wet weather say for many of us as we head through the next couple of days that is the risk of seeing some heavy rains two or three days there's about a chance of seeing some dry bright weather here shanghai should be sitting pretty at around twenty degrees but just about everywhere else it's looking miserable with some very heavy showers making their way through parts of vietnam as well and of course across to india here's the remains of working its way out towards the northeast and dying as it does say we're going to go to a few residual showers left there as we head through monday or tuesday but don't be

fooled they don't look too impressive on these charts they all going to be giving us some very heavy downpours that could be giving some localized flooding and maybe triggering the old landslide as well away from there looking following and drawing just pretty hot now new delhi up at forty two pool all the way up forty three to. the west also here in doha it's all pretty hot now it is not completely sunny there is more in the way of cloud around and that cloud sticking with us as we head through the day on monday it does break up as we head through chews day and into wednesday the winds are we so winning down from the northwest and so at least the winds will be slightly fresh. i really want to get down to the nitty gritty of the reality whether on line when you have that male chauvinism that is planned with in our global federation it is really hard to get a piece of that or if you join us on sunday. to beat up their mind this is

a dialogue everyone has a voice to talk to us in our live youtube chat and you too can be in history and join the global conversation on al-jazeera. but again you're watching a reminder of our top stories this hour israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is watering the military to continue its attacks on gaza nine palestinians have been killed last thing in fighters fired hundreds of rockets into southern israel four people there was also killed. syrians have started burying those who died in

this latest flare up of violence israel has denied responsibility for the death of a pregnant woman and fourteen month old child. the youngest brother is ousted president is under arrest say the death was the effective ruler after his brother suffered a stroke six years ago. general election. the african national congress has been. democratic. has moved from. this is the final of south africa's early african. wednesdays an exit. strategy. will come in one thousand nine hundred forty one every election but it's

a. series of corruption scandals. that the livery of public service is. still considered. barger. some of. the opposition economic freedom fighters doesn't agree he was pushed out of the sea about six years ago his policies rapidly risen have a since the last election. for the state's involvement. to start proceedings to change the course of south african politics. for corruption

promising to nationalize south africa's. hundreds. of alone time for the first opponent and. movement i don't really know who's a just on duty right now we would never come back to. sound half. because the largest opposition party the democratic alliance held its final rally on saturday the last parliament are just over a fifth of the seats its vote share as has been steadily but slowly increasing but in spite of the ever growing criticisms of there and see disenfranchisement amongst many of its supporters are still many more who are strictly loyal in the opinion polls suggesting many south africans believe come wednesday's poll the a.n.c. will keep its majority with a smaller margin than ever before. some racial divisions in south africa

haven't gone away twenty five years since the end of apartheid millions of black south africans say they're still struggling to reap the benefits but some white south africans say they're now the ones facing discrimination for me to miller reports from the northern cape province. it's in this dry dusty and desolate part of the northern cape province that a group of white south africans say they're found refuge they call this place utica only white african speaking people are allowed to settle here but they say they're not racists orcutt's want to paul and his family moved here three months ago he says to protect and preserve the africana culture language and way of life we were all building on a dream. but i think for aggressively it got worse and it got more difficult and with affirmative action. it made it increasingly difficult. for

us as white people to get jobs jobs and also job security you would be reassured when you might be retrenched we've not been given permission to film in utica instead we speak to the founder are there any votes at his home nearby the school is only under foot or first in your assessment you don't wash. bernie the shoe is no on the other foot and now we are fighting against the racists how can we be racist when it is us who are being forced out of the country they sing against us kill the farmer so everything counts against the white race so who are the racists . so far twenty families live here and more homes are being built the local government went to court to stop people here from building any more houses the minutes apology says these homes were built without permission and contravene bolding regulations the court agreed but judges are also considering whether or not a town that allows only white afrikaner people to live there should be allowed to

exist in a democratic south africa one of the smaller and newly formed political parties black first land first has banned white south africans from joining it we have a black. letter. accept white people for the party sentiments resonate with some in a country many consider to be one of the most unequal in the world it's been accused of exercising discrimination and taken to court the law of this country is until. the whole economy system is under the media projection of let problems is on to black. we are going to the parliament therefore it will be presenting hear voices for people to bring a broad left democracy in a black country where the apartheid system and its policies based on race may have been abolished twenty five years ago many here say they have to live with its legacy and come election day the vote of many south africans will be influenced by

race and identity. al-jazeera south africa. or commanders of south korea's armed forces say they are concerned by the latest weapons tests over the border in the north state media say kim jong un watched rocket launches on saturday u.s. president donald trump tweeted that kim doesn't want to break his promise on denuclearization . now it is the traditional time of year to celebrate buddha's birthday a national holiday in south korea is emphasizing peace and harmony with the north despite the firing of more rockets from abroad reports from the capital seoul. at the end of what's been an eventful twelve months on the korean peninsula but as birthday seems like a timely moment for peaceful reflection. it is traditionally marked in south korea with elaborate lantern displays and this year's theme of world peace is especially

fitting. to use hold our own on the cutting way for a pair of this year's festival with the goal of peace on the korean peninsula and in the world by overcoming conflicts with a buddhist spirit of mercy. reconciliation between the two koreas has led to combined sports teams including for the olympics. train lines have been linked in the hope of running services the length of the korean peninsula and beyond but there have also been setbacks. during the year there have been quite remarkably sri into korean summits and to us north korea silence in between these milestones moments there have also been furious relative calm and this is one of those lulls between february's failed summit in hanoi and no clear way forward on restarting talks between the u.s. and north korea the truce village of pam and john separating the two careers has

a new look just reopened to visiting tall groups the soldiers from both sides no longer wear helmets or carry guns and i think that what you'll see here is a place that can foster trust building in confidence to hope we can spread across the korean peninsula the chance to stroll along the foot bridge where the leaders of the two careers met during their landmark first summit just over a year ago. and friendly waves from the tall groups on the northern side. but there's also a growing awareness that the attitude of the north korean leadership has recently become a lot cooler towards the south and that towards the u.s. there's been a return to some of the outright hostility of the past. that supported by saturday's weapons test with south korea calling on its northern neighbor to stop activities that could escalate military tensions. join into this

holiday is tainted with uneasiness about what's to come. robert bright al-jazeera so. of venezuela's opposition leader has made another appeal for soldiers to break ranks with president nicolas maduro that up to now they resisted calls from there is a bow has more from caracas. venezuela you are venezuela it's now or never that's the message from sanchez to this police officer easing back us. up but it sounds like a pretty from someone who is tired of the ongoing crisis in the country which. there's so much needed in our neighborhoods people cannot eat there's no medicine no security and they know it because they have family my husband died because we can find medicine quick look was from all across crack us small groups of people headed to the headquarters of the navy the army the police and the bolivarian

national guard responding to opposition leader one last call to go out and convince them to switch sides people have come here to hand in a document but also distributing leaflets like this one that talk about an amnesty dog that has been offered to those who rebel against the government of nicolette motor except those involved in human rights abuses a war crimes you're going to only get. security forces did not take the message well. the government is not taking challenged oppressive and. they deployed hundreds of security forces around the capital. state t.v. leading military exercises also showing the armed forces remain loyal to him. but look out

a handful of traitors can tarnish the owner union question an image of the bolivarian national forces in front of the people of the word no say no to traders out with the traitors and those in the fifth battalion. united states says it has been trying to negotiate. it with defense minister by the and others in government. they were supposed to be part of the uprising alongside but things did not work out as the opposition leader planned some say those negotiations were a trap carefully planned with the assistance of the cuban intelligence services. congressman winston florida says he will continue pressuring the government. forces are infiltrated by the cubans the russians and by intelligence agencies their relatives are persecuted there's a lot of pressure but we will continue to take our message to the families of the

armed forces and everyone else we need to. civilians asking for change. a message that resonates across. mostly because of the enormous economic crisis the country is now in. the united states is again sending mixed messages on venezuela president donald trump downplayed any russian involvement in caracas after speaking to president vladimir putin this week but the u.s. secretary of state seemed to have a different take on russia's influence. last month i visited there and saw firsthand the misery the murderers created with the russians and cubans help these same scenes of desperation are playing out all across venezuela the must and the time for transition is now or the runoff election for a new president is underway in the newly named republic of north macedonia

candidates from the governing social democrats and the opposition conservatives failed to win an outright majority in last month's election both parties have argued over the red recent name change aimed at ending the long running dispute with greece and its own province of macedonia. oh my our blood has been following developments for us from the capital scope here. we're expecting here for the fenians says the exit polls suggests very time presidential race both candidates today are university professors they will spend out of it is the candidate of the government coalition and he's saying that he will continue politiques of the government nato and e.u. integration under the new name of this country but from the other side the candidate of dog was the also university professor go to the nursery and oscar duck of a she is against the name deal with degrees and she's saying that she will keep this

question very high in core presidential again and she said the name changing was done against the constitution of this country and against international law so for this candidate is the question is not closed so the biggest question after the election will be respecting or better accepting the new name of the country as the outgoing president george given of never accepted a new name not a cydonia of thailand's king is making his public debut after being crowned on saturday. what good are long gone has been taking part in a seven kilometer per session from the clam palace towards the capital's mainly buddhist temples celebrations will last for three days.

all right let's get a round up now of our top stories israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has ordered the military to continue its attacks on gaza eleven palestinians have now been killed palestinian fighters fired hundreds of rockets into southern israel four people were killed there netanyahu says he has no plans to slow down the attacks on gaza. this morning i instructed the idea to continue its massive attack against terrorist elements in the gaza strip and i've also asked to buffer the forces around the gaza strip with armored forces artillery and infantry hamas bears responsibility not only port attacks and actions but also the activities of the islamic jihad and it pays a very heavy price and the reality inside gaza shows the impact of israeli attacks so. after prayer someone called me and said he is from the occupying israeli army he asked if any members of the media were in my building i told him yes he then

told me to document the building within half an hour then they came and hit the building with five rockets exactly half an hour later. area is safe and away from the borders and the military locations so we didn't expect to be told in fact during all wars people from everywhere lived their places and came to us what happened proves that all of gaza is not safe there is not a single safe area they used rockets and destroyed everything that iran is vying to bypass us sanctions on its major oil customers by using the so-called gray market legal but unofficial export methods iran's deputy minister says all resources are being mobilized to continue the exports after the u.s. lifted sanctions waivers on iranian oil importers including china and india commanders of south korea's armed forces say they're concerned about the latest

weapons tests over the border in the north north korean state media saying kim jong un watched rocket launches on saturday. we understand the different things. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to al-jazeera. headlines licensed by the chilling new thread a lot of. these are by offical think ok to show ok i'll. stop this public. and. that i think. i. hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated the reappearance on video of eyesores mysterious leader the majority

government not c.n.n. off the air as it tries to control the narrative on venezuela young reporters growing up in public journalism gets the reality t.v. treatment and. fox news talking points put to music eighty's stuff. it was a long time between on camera appearances the world's most wanted man the leader of eisel abu bakar al baghdadi has surfaced for the first time since two thousand and fourteen the last time the world saw him baghdad was triumphant he was crawling over the territory in iraq and syria that i still had captured his forces have since been routed thousands of his fighters are either locked up on the run or dead so the messaging has changed through a choreographed piece of video theater designed for two audiences for the outside world a reference to the easter sunday attacks in sri lanka the message i still can still

strike anywhere any time for i saw internal audience a signal to supporters and enemies alike. that baghdadi is alive and in control i suppose media output has been central to the movement those videos of beheadings and mass executions that the group put out back when it was at the height of its power was shocking and attracted mass coverage however times have changed for i saw and it's media output it's media messaging has changed to our starting point this week is the video and the reemergence of abu bakar al baghdadi. then. and now. and then. in two thousand and fourteen abu bakar al baghdadi was in mosul in northern iraq out in the open as the self-proclaimed caliph of the islamic state.

today he sits among his left tenants dressed in military his whereabouts unknown back then i saw controlled territory in syria and iraq the size of great britain today it is a scattered force with no territory to speak of. the times have changed and the messaging and imagery reflect that contrast with his last appearance in two thousand and fourteen is really remarkable then he's mounting a puppet to deliver on his strong he's performing to a real conversation as well. so it's very rhetorical a strong. like. this one in great contrast. doesn't move so much he's clearly aged it's

not clear with his wounded but he isn't as vigorous he has a gun next to him and this. send certain signals he is no longer a preacher to a real congregation he is going into the virtual space only this has turned into an insurgency not a territorial movement but. the video is set up in such a ways to convey the idea of the the warrior sculler this notion of the almost ascetic lifestyle that they are willing to make the sacrifices to be down with the commanders the other thing that we've seen in this video is that he's accepting pledges of allegiance or buy from brooklyn a faso from mali from afghanistan. as if he's planning operations that he's really in charge he's trying to convey

that you know the might look very dark now because they've lost the territorial caliphate but don't give up hope. the al baghdadi video first appeared on one of eyesores media platforms. and travelled from there spreading across global news sites many of which had reported between two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and seventeen that al baghdadi had been killed his appearance was proof positive that those reports based primarily on russian intelligence sources were wrong baghdad his message to the converted was much more complicated a harder sell that i sold it was in transition not retreat from its last caliph turning back into an insurgent group a borderless one with branches prepared to launch attacks like the ones in sri lanka in multiple countries there is an overlap to a degree between the messages to the into to the converted and also mess just the

external world audience is these conveying the point that no one is still alive but also to convert. but he's emphasizing that there are always going to be people will think it will be truly faithful and fight for the cause of the islamic state despite the loss of territory. that it received the warm reception especially from eiffel supporters on social media notably telegram which i salute relies on heavily many of seen in the video proof that i feel it's still operational and is able to conduct a long war of attrition we shouldn't forget the month of ramadan is upon us and this will see an increase in operations i believe will see an escalation of violence and astonish head on thought. having had its forces defeated in city after city province after province i saw still manages to get its post territorial

message out but al for calm is one of the few platforms remaining in its information arsenal at its height in two thousand and fourteen i still had dozens of media offices stretching beyond syria and iraq into saudi arabia yemen and libya and i saw as media machine was prolific producing up to forty or fifty pieces of propaganda per day in many languages what most international media audiences remember are the terror of eight years. hearing those horrific they were graphic and gory and the global media reflexively served as amplified but far more messaging was aimed internally through videos that were central to i saw a recruiting strategy one of the things that was most interesting at the height of the media campaign in two thousand and fourteen was eve greetings from the land of the. basically over video with all these foreign

fighters from southeast asia from europe from the united states from africa talking about how wonderful it was to live in the caliphate and they need. it's very clear not only was the caliphate a utopian society but you had to come and bring the kids right if your job did not get out and so this idea was that moving to rock in syria wasn't moving to a war zone where you were moving to a utopian society in which that's what as a muslim you had to do they had offices full of people dominating all the different platforms like they had people tweeting constantly they had. five things all of this did have a very physical presence the production companies being social media office says they were tied to having a state and so to some extent like a pest a has been degraded probably. before two thousand and fourteen eiffel's media output was produced by a single outlet when i feel expanded we through the emergence of several new media

outlets in multiple languages such as magazine in english. magazine and several other there was a weekly newspaper which is still running i threw still retains excellent media capacity the technical quality has not decreased even as the scale and volume have added into. one clear indication of the way eisel sees its media operations came from al baghdadi himself it's on the take. while. he rhymed off a list of me media specialists who have been among the countless i saw members killed in battle. which scholars who study the group say is consistent with the significance that deisel has always attached to its message and the resources it devotes to get its messages out i can't remember extremists in the past.

thanking communications officers and i mean i serial saying yes but. this fits in this commendation of the media fits in with a long pattern of walt of the zionist state's own messaging about the importance of media i mean they put out a whole publication sometime ago which was you are a. media persons a media personnel they contribute to the jihad of the islamic state as vital a part of it as as the fight is. how do barker al baghdadi is change of course his plan to build a global borderless caliphate comes with the caviar i still did not choose this path its fighters have been conquered and expelled from the lands they held its leader has gone from a public figure to a future of baghdad he can spin the story of isis post territorial rebranding its

return to its insurgent roots however he likes and he will because he knows that these days the message is one of the very few things that i saw still can control. discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers flow phillips flow on venezuela where the political power struggle continues we've seen those images of government forces squaring off with protesters on the streets what's happening on the media side of this story and on social media right so this past tuesday four am to be exact the opposition figure and self-proclaimed president. posted a video online in which he called for the military to join him in the final phase of what he calls operation freedom what the venezuelan president nicolas maduro caused an attempted coup and tweets of support came in not long after for members of the u.s.

administration the government started shutting down social media platforms face what's up twitter well into mitten the blocks by the state internet service can t.v. bought twenty men. it's before the doura was going on to do a live speech everything was restored just in time for him to call out be us in colombia for the support of the opposition and we have seen this before certain websites certain social media platforms being pulled down often in conjunction with why those public appearances and the majority government is also blocked the access that venezuelans have to certain international news channels they have and that was a direct result of this video a live feed of the venezuelan national guard in armed personnel carriers running over protesters after about a minute of that video going to various venezuelan cable companies got their orders from the government regulated qana tel to block cnn's output now c.n.n. said that its online service remained uninterrupted and people on social media

reported that they could easily access the internet live stream but b.b.c. spanish language service b.b.c. mundo was pulled down and the miami based radio crackers put out this tweet after eighty nine years of uninterrupted transmission the pioneer of venezuelan broadcasting was taken off the air c.n.n.'s chief washington correspondent jake tapper why was he trending on this story for a tweet that he put out but also the video that he posted with it here's the tweet c.n.n. live in venezuela as mature a government mo's down citizens in streets now the problem was that the video started with an image with army defectors joining the opposition but the combination of that video along with the chosen was that tapper used seemed to imply that the madeira government was in fact gunning down its own citizens not top of pulled the tweet but not before he'd taken some heat particularly from r t which is funded by the kremlin apparent allies of the majority government in what is fast

becoming a geo political standoff ok thanks for reality t.v. has a format a proven formula that works for aspiring singers dancers or chefs. then someone came up with an idea why not try it with young would be journalists take students from various journalism courses and have them compete see who can do the best investigative reporting we have a winner journalism reality t.v. shows are currently airing in three countries armenia kenya and bolivia they offer young reporters the practical training their studies may lack and they remind viewers at a time when trust in the media is at an all time low of the importance of investigative journalism in any democracy the listening posts johannah who's now on journalism reality t.v. . still beasts with needs to fill b.t.s. . inserts in the they'll be drawn kenya's top story. on my head

you can put a hearty another when i'm in ask journalistic capitals what he would get a cast of or it was but i doubt that it was in the report but it will stand by that livia primera plan of. reality t.v. or hard hitting investigative journalism in the beginning i think there was a lot of why you tried to bring us a reality t.v. show and dilute what journalism actually is really asking questions but when you think about it the reality to leave it goes behind the scenes and unpacks what it takes to put together a broadcaster. and she's given a salute and i think that's the excitement you're putting in a bit of color your you're making it a lot more fun this week the competition starts on the dash to get tested and we wanted to make this program accessible to people so you don't have to compete too hard we wanted to show them that it's possible to do to do some really serious

journalism to get over it will be able to follow and you know and understand. the basics he has found to be true. and that mix of journalism and reality entertainment for arcs for us works really well many societies in this world are not educated or superficial they are not interested in facts and solid information so if the audience requires for entertainment to pass them true and interesting and helpful information then i'm ready to do that even if we are criticized this is not serious. yes we are doing like american idol we are doing like voice but this is a voice of journalists and we are very proud that we can make something interesting

but also very useful. carrying under came up with the original idea. back in two thousand and six he partnered with the european journalism center e.j. c setting up a mentoring program for journalism students from armenian universities students would battle it out to produce the best piece of investigative journalism about mucked up crimes at this stage off the air. with the help of the e.j. see the competition was then exported to universities in bolivia and kenya where former b.b.c. africa editor joseph saul scope for a t.v. show. really three programs are no regular fixture is on that country's airwaves it's a format that has remained largely the same on air as it was off air with one big difference the stories of journalist are now tracking are no longer made up providing the students with real life experience they might not pick up in the classroom obviously it's extremely important that we have that space for

journalists to learn an academic approach but many young journalists tell me that their programs are not really skills orientated and that they welcome the opportunity to be mentored by working journalists was the first thing you see at the top of the story. headline but we hope that we're providing you know just a little bit extra that universities can get them before they really hit the news room the story made given where we're at with fake news it's really important to have a program like like like top story or a you know what i meant to ship scheme like that because these are the people we're relying on now on in the future to be able to know distinguish what is true on what is false. i would not. want to leave but you're a police officer and this is not going to go on and we really focus on some very key basic skills like interviewing skills how do you find the right people to interview how do you conduct your interview before you go to the last question is

there any form of proof of official that how do you do it professionally and ethically those are the skills the tops that i've been trying to impart on these journalists and also members of the audience. seems to be working for the students but also for the public study but e.j. c. found that kenya's top story the significant impact on the media literacy of tony improving public understanding of the crucial role investigative journalism can play in promoting accountability and good governance. some say it's also really helped open up the space for investigative journalism in countries where it had previously been limited to investigative journalism especially now is probably the most necessary type of journalism that we need given the levels of corruption and stories that need to be exposed i'm very hopeful that top story can open up as opposed to investigative journalism it's my concerns i think would be. it's

a little bit. shallow because it will continue to showcase we important of asking the tough questions of getting the answers that sometimes you don't even get from the newscast right now the people you like they're getting the answers that we need as and they will look to shows like top story and. then we'll feel a bit hopeful that ok at least we have an individual be able was not trying to be chummy with the people that were being accountable to actually trying to give us the answer that we have penguins deserve us generally to our immediate society and have a huge distrust in journalism in chords in many important institutions of democracy so showing the backstage of journalism showing the hard work of real journalism i think changed a lot in perception the attitude of the public. many people now in their main understand the importance of investigative journalism or fighting corruption and solving many other issues that we have in our country. another key in this bill to

focus public attention on stories step down and we get to the media mileage they deserve i don't know not all like a chip a hundred got a few i don't think it's going to go stories about corruption that are often true politically sensitive topics like health or development but the big question remains. what up problem in a global company in the in time soon stories that don't generate that many clicks on like that reporting the under-reported can come at a cost quite the show and those competing have found themselves in trouble when their reality t.v. experiment has come up against political reality top story has not been smooth sailing we've had some challenges we premiered it on the on the main channel owned by the government again a broken sting operation one time they called us up and said look we've previewed this episode which is talking about this particular governor very powerful person and the k b c said nope sorry we have to cut out this beat and i stood my ground

and eventually we had to move that whole top story to another station what a lot more bold work commercial but a good investigative chance and so there are some risks and there are some challenges like that. over in armenia it's worse journalistic battles currently airing on the public broadcaster hasn't yet been censored by at the tour your overseers but three contestants from season one are currently facing criminal charges over a story they investigated about hospital corruption. harder to know your notion of those development on a lot more about. the young professionals for. out of both huge corruption scheme and there was an immediate change in the management in this hospital in their services and in their payment system so we

showed not only the problem but whole the problem was solved during our show our entertainment kind of for a month. the show's producers say they're doing all they can to support the journalists in question and if anything rather than back off incidents like these actually important to program makers to keep fighting their journalistic battles it's a crucial part of society what we're trying to do as journalists why not show that we have a bit of fun doing it the audience because prove each year they can improve and make them more and more people want to be in the shows clearly we're doing something right and the audience seems to like it. finally president donald trump achieved a milestone of sorts this past week according to the washington post's fact checking page trump lied for the ten thousandth time since taking office the post says trump averages twelve point two lies or misleading statements per day or one

every two hours that is not an easy record to defend but fox news does the best it can tribe's favorite news channel is the subject of a new pop parody just put out by college humor dot com the producer nick lud scope of chattanooga tennessee wrote this eighty style track and he put together the video to as he says expose the hypocrisy of a network defending a guy who showed fake news all day we'll see you next time hear the listener. ulla.

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families bury their dead as the number killed in israeli strikes on gaza rises to eleven three israelis have been killed by palestinian rocket fire. meanwhile israel's prime minister orders no let up in the military offensive on gaza. south africa's racial divisions are out in the open in the run up to wednesday's general election. and some bad news for iraq is looking for a virtual escape while the government switching off a video game the players can't get enough. welcome to the program israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is ordering the israeli military to continue what he calls massive strikes on gaza israeli forces say they've carried out more than two hundred twenty year strikes since saturday as palestinian rockets fired into southern israel at least eleven palestinians in gaza

have been killed and some of their funerals have already been held israeli military says they have killed a senior hamas commander. meanwhile authorities in israel say at least three people have been killed from the rocket strikes fired from gaza across live now to harry for so he joins us from the israel israel gaza border how he so we're seeing a dangerous escalation in the attacks from both sides just bring us up to date with what's been happening on the ground. well yes and the escalation continues and continues to get more serious in the last few minutes we're hearing that as you say the official death toll on the gaza side stands at eleven but local media in gaza reporting that there have been a further three palestinian fighters killed in northern gaza gaza strip close to where we are in the last few minutes as well although that their bodies have yet to reach the hospitals and have yet to be added to the official confirmed death toll

on the israeli side we know that at least three israeli civilians have been killed the fifty eight year old man overnight and a woman who was in a vehicle which was struck by fire coming from gaza and there was a factory that was hit in ashkelon a direct strike on that factory as well and at least one person killed in that strike so this is the most serious i think we can say that now of the recent escalations in recent months each of those escalations has been deescalated again thanks to two things really un and egyptian mediation and a sense on both sides israeli and in and by hamas that neither really was in the mood to afford a full dissent towards war but with the kind of things that we've been seeing the mounting death tolls on both sides that gives both sides a reason to carry on fighting as well as it does a reason to try to step back yet her israel says it carried out

a targeted attack on a man they say was financing how mass does this represent a change of tactics perhaps by israel. well certainly it could represent that it's a targeted strike we've seen two things actually in the last couple of hours those a strike which leveled the house internal security building inside gaza now we have seen that kind of thing in recent months but we have also seen a strike on a car inside gaza city one of the occupants of that car was this man hama dari who israel says was a senior hamas commander and someone charged with bringing in money from iran to help finance various fighting factions within gaza now in years past we have seen senior leadership targeted and assassinations very specific assassinations being carried out of senior leadership this perhaps isn't quite to that level but it does

represent a difference from what we've seen in recent exchanges when israel has largely been limiting its strikes to what it knew would be evacuated bases and training camps and rocket storage depo and the like obviously there were killing was during that time as well but this is a very specific announced killing against what israel says was a senior commander so that could represent a difference in strategy and potentially a dangerous one artery for us at the helm the israel gaza border howry thank you for that well ghazi hamad is a senior hamas official he says palestinians will never surrender until israeli up israeli oppression ends. it's not is it that we can say that c. is for understanding will. resolve the problem now we have the bigger problem is called a corporation is called a seach and then look at in gaza maybe sometimes you have some kind of tactics his work tactic understanding but the from time to time the round of violence and round of confrontations come back again so i think if they if the palestinians in gaza

are not the free people are could not go freely people could export and import people could move freely have get free access i think this round cycle of violence will continue as it should understand that. the brother of gaza is political is not a committee or that it is not by is in the left the pool of people or they're just given for sale it is or open the crossings or including the fishing zone i think we have a policy now as we are looking to end the occupation and to put in for our treaty and to enjoy our freedom our debate that's by the otherwise the cycle of violence will continue so i think is right now the other side of this equation by their military forces they will achieve nothing they could not do anything in order to push the palestinians to rise the white flag so i think we will continue struggling bigger prize but by so i understand the hamas they will not accept the previous

equation that their ceasefire for this is fire come for cardinal this is not accepted as i should speak frankly and loudly they should disturb it secure patient and it's a policy of siege and the bargo and collective punishment against people in gaza well mr barak is a political analyst who was a spokesman for the former israeli president shimon peres and a speechwriter for the former israeli prime minister ariel sharon he said israel's air strikes on gaza unnecessary to defend itself. israel is responding to hundreds of rockets being fired into its civilian population yesterday and today meaning so israel has to stop that sopping that is hitting military targets i even heard in your report that the israeli military called up a building to make sure that there were civilians that were evacuated so there is concern that civilians are not caught in the crossfire but we know from past instances both with buildings and when the palestinian leadership their hamas

leadership is put twelve and thirteen and fourteen and fifteen year olds to charge the fence that they use children and sometimes women as human shields which is quite unfortunate and not fair to that population it's almost a double war crime if you look at who's been shot at the border and who goes up and you look at the pictures of twelve year olds on the fence throwing flaming molotov cocktails and flaming kites it is a little bit different but that's your perspective the u.s. the fact is is that the people are not drinking clean water there and there is israel is monitoring what goes in there simply because the thousands hundreds of thousands of tons of cement that have gone in in the past ten years are mostly used for bunkers for the calm us leadership where they're used to dig tunnels instead of using that a whether it's food whether it's cement whether it's money or other things to take care of the civilian population there which is in dire straits at this point there's no question that there is a humanitarian issues there the question is you know what does come os do with the

fifteen million dollars that they get it you know they pay themselves salaries and what are they doing for the people there and why are they taking all of the resources that are coming in and using them to fight israelis. well joining me now is marwan a couple and he's from the arab center for research and policy studies here in doha and. we're clearly seeing a dangerous escalation of attacks from both sides now in this conflict let's just throw it back a bit i mean why is this happening and so quickly well i think there is some unfinished business that is trying to finish because if you remember. a few weeks ago. like before days the elections last month there was like our end of another round of exchange for an exchange between the israelis and the palestinians in and guess what a dark time. he was under pressure because of the elections he did not want to the sort of exclusion that might have been back to. the election so i think now he

feels like more free better house in order to. on. in so i can believe that is that is their main issue let's stay with netanyahu for a second because he says he will keep up the airstrikes on hamas and the various armed groups like islamic jihad i mean how important is it to his domestic audience that he appears to be tough on security even as he attempts to form a new coalition government it is important but it's not as important as it was this let's say a few weeks ago because as i said he won the election he came he came out fierce amongst or there is likely parties and he's i mean he's the king of his like you're right now because he can easily form the government he doesn't really. have much if what's in order to exert in order to form this government but on the other hand you have the palestinians actually cannot really accept the continuation of this situation for whatever because this was imposed on gaza twelve years ago since

hamas took over in two thousand and seven and the palestinians they can't really take it anymore so let's stay with them and the armed groups i mean do they see this then perhaps as an opportunity to keep. the pressure on israel to commit to past agreements that they agreed to in the last ceasefire brokered by egypt in the un indeed i mean this is what how mars and the other policy factions are trying to do right now they believe that they might be at this point because what they are basically trying to do is to remind the whole ward that we are living in this big but isn't and which include something like two million palestinians. there is a total blockade by days. on gaza. and something must be done in order to break it i think this is what the palestinians with hamas is trying to do and they believe that this is better hopes that i've a paternity because is that you know has to do events when you meet and you are wanted to keep the peace and i now your vision competition for days like these it's

very important to have peace at this particular time because they believe. hundreds of thousands of tourists will be coming to his ally in order to win the eyes of the international world and on the other hand they are celebrating the seventy one and if you're a city of the establishment of the state in the middle of this month so this is why i believe this is a very kind of created this by i mean by the israelis also by hamas but let's touch quickly on reports of a targeted attack by israel a man that they say was financing hama i mean does this perhaps represent a change of tactics by israel because we haven't seen targeted attacks for quite some time yet that's very true i think this is something significant in my opinion because they're israelis over the past i mean the last time if you go to. that is the actually the they did actually attack but they were very careful actually not to target anybody who is really important from the we are.