the gaza border and since. early yesterday morning we've been going through a very rough time i'm going rockets coming into gaza and we hear also the blasts in gaza from israel. can you describe for us the sort of protocol that ensues the emergency measures that come into action when the sirens sound from rocket fire. well over here we don't have sirens we have a what we call a red alert so it's it's a loud speaker saying the words red alert. and as soon as we hear that since we are very close to the gaza border we have up to fifteen seconds. go into hiding story of if there is a safe room or a shelter nearby then we run into that shelter if there isn't a shelter then we just need to lie flat on the ground and that's what happens if you're out in the street or in the supermarket or and where not your us shelter.

and how does it affect life that then for schools businesses and deal so have general ability to get around and do things. now so so since. all of today everything was shut down and. in the city in the town. yesterday it was saturday so things were usually quiet on saturday but because of the ongoing rocket firing it was very loud and it's been it's been very loud ever since. basically today there were structured by local authorities to shut down all the stores schools no kids went to school not go for the most part to work. people are not allowed to gather in central places weddings and celebrations were called off. trains were stopped there

were most of the buses in the normal traffic it was shut down and some of the some of the roads were actually shut down those that are near the gaza border. and we know that some of the casualties or injuries are also acknowledge these were near these places that were eventually shut down. well thank you for your time eric caroline joining us there from said drought thank you oh and hi mara massada joins us now from gaza he is a political scientist who lives in the strip with his wife and children now we have seen obviously an escalation in hostilities and rocket fire but then israel responding with tank fire and as strikes how have these astronauts affected you and your family. well the past forty eight hours i have been

my candy and the girls are stronger as were the husband about the many civilian buildings many civilian infrastructure which is not very far away from where i live . some of the bombing that took place over the past forty eight hours is about one hundred meters from our apartment building life is little bit normal here and that there are those to shut off. my family my wife and kids have been locked inside the apartment all day long as a result of these very good bombing and. i loaned us. personally i have been able to drive them around the city to do the interview was to just check out what is happening around us. about almost everything is closed their own supposed to be undergoing hostilities between gaza and israel and. i'm not sure all

how many children you have all what their ages are it must be quite difficult being stuck inside an apartment when that is a minute she activity like this but what is that what is that response to it when they hear the ass strikes today do they understand what is happening. i have four children here with me in the apartment and just as my views all those are. we hearing now that we have no shelters we have no public shelters or built in the building we have. most of the time we just enough to run through some of those when one of it is a bombing near us the bombing very much affects my little daughter more than anybody else she is and she is very young gosh screens are allowed to go to

a bombing zone around us and every everyone has their wrist every one of those is what it that the next bombing will be an extraordinary building some of the crowd is worried the intelligence services call out people on their them about the bombing where it's going to hit but as we don't witnessed tonight some buildings were hit with out pay a notice which led to the default something of a stimulus to billions and that is the scary part of what is happening right now that we are very much afraid that. our neighbors or about our next door building can be targeted without playing unnoticed and that is making everybody and every constituency and you know right now. that all reports of a possible cease fire how how consigned would you be how worried would you be if hostilities watcher continue on on this the eve of ramadan.

we very much are welcome to news about a possible cease fire between the master and israel but on tell now there are no country in the air force about a cease fire up until this moment i sensed would be very much in the interest of posts like the palestinian and israelis as you just indicated we are approaching the month of ramadan tomorrow or monday would be the fairest dail phenomenon and it would be. just a very. abnormal situation as we are approaching ahmed on fasting and under intense israeli bombardment all over the gaza strip and whether there would be a cease fire tomorrow or not it would be stupid but we personally speaking everyone here in gaza especially the civilian population are looking forward for an end to the estimate is. an immediate cease fire between hamas and israel.

i'm not i'm assad that joining us from gaza thank you my pleasure to be with. well as much more still to come for you on this news hour from london trump announces a sharp jump in tariffs on chinese goods saying trade negotiations are going too slowly twenty five years after the end of apartheid we meet the white south africans who say they're the ones now facing racial discrimination and another tournaments another bizarre display by this australian tennis player. the details on a story much more we have. at least forty one people have died in russia after a plane made an emergency landing in flames the air flow jet had just taken off from sheremetyevo airport. when

a fire broke out the pilots had to turn around and make an emergency landing with the plane and gulf in flames seventy eight people were on board thirty seven survived. an aerospace engineer and head of aviation at university of west london he says the s s j a hundred airliner that caught fire is actually a very modern design with up to date safety standards. only aircraft was certified a couple years back as part of certification process the manufacturer has to prove that the aircraft can be evacuated and with this particular aircraft it demonstrated that it could be evacuated within seventy three seconds with next them capacity which is about ninety five passengers so with slightly less passengers it's perfectly possible for all the passengers to evacuate within a minute or two from the aircraft that the challenge here is that with an aircraft on fire usually isn't the fire that is the issue is the smoke that fills up within

the cabin very very quickly. the the the reality is that the flight data recorders will be taken from the aircraft they will be analyzed hopefully that the fire has taken place is not damaged the flight data recorders that it will be able to figure out the course very very quickly. it's unlikely that human error would have caused something like this it's more likely that it might have been mechanical failure. but it's difficult to assess at this stage what would be the cause but it does appear that the pilots were aware of the incident and that they they did their best to get the aircraft back onto the ground and to the airport which is what they did . and of course you know to evacuate the aircraft would have been their priority as soon as the aircraft landed. at least ten people were killed and ninety injured on sunday and rebel held northwest syria which continues to be bombed by government forces and russian warplanes and volunteer with the white helmet rescuers also died

this weekend then air strike on a village an eleven which has now been under attack for six days. and an underground hospital was hit by an airstrike knocking it out of service in the upsurge in violence comes despite a rush a techie deal to stave off a government offensive dozens of people have been killed and thousands of fled the bombing. at least twenty members of the security forces have been killed and dozens of them wounded in a car bombing in northern afghanistan officials say armed fighters belonging to the taliban entered a police headquarters after the blast and opened fire on security forces in the city of put a hole in the taliban a stepped up attacks on police and troops even as it health director is with the u.s. to end the seventeen year war in afghanistan. the un's world food program says it's gained access to vital food aid at the red sea males in yemen sports city of data a team will now remain at the grain storage site in preparation for milling and for the eventual distribution of wheat. the mission had been delayed for security

reasons but the u.n. agency accusing who think rebels of blocking access to the site fifty one thousand tons of weight had been stored at the warehouse to feed millions of people the mill is situated in the southern part of the latest city and that is right next to our front line area which is hose the big challenge to us to gain access we must have unimpeded access to this mill so that we can get this who'd out and get it to the people who need it most and believe that the food assistance that's been provided. last year and continuing this year has been critical in terms of helping to avert a famine and now we are scaling up to twelve million people a month so every bit of green that we can get and support is vitally needed at this time. sri lanka's government has reimposed

a ban on social media after violence erupted in the city of new gone by where one of the easter sunday bombings took place the curfew has been imposed until seven am local time after several people were injured in clashes between muslim and christian groups. i still claim to have been behind last month's bombings which killed more than two hundred fifty people. cyclon funny is now known to have killed more than forty people after battering first india and then bangladesh a huge cleanup operation is underway in india's edition state which was particularly badly hit scott hina reports from where there's growing concern about what lies ahead for the hundreds of thousands now left homeless. sanyo rani part nyuk has lived in poorly for thirty years making a living selling souvenirs to tourists visiting this hindu holy city when cycled funny slammed ashore her life changed forever. we lost everything we

don't have money to build a house to even feed our family people have come to look at our house but no help we just want someone to help us rebuild. not far away in the village of nima part a two thousand people were brought to this school complex for shelter before the storm they were promised food in a place to stay for fifteen days. in the her own we are in big trouble we don't have a place to stay i'm staying with my family here they gave us food for two days and now want us to leave where will we go they should at least let us stay until we can build our own shelter. and that concern about what comes next in the wake of the cycle and it is shared by many others the indian government has been congratulated on its pre storm planning preventing a large number of casualties but local communities here important are very frustrated because the lack of post storm services setting up several roadblocks on the main road in the town already got a bit better we just finished elections be fooled. cyclon hit and we lost so much

the houses in the farmers lost crops there's no help from the government no visits by offices that is why we are blocking the road. at about two hours away the bustle of a decent state capital bhubaneshwar has partly returned but worry over fuel supplies created long lines at fuel stations underlining the challenges ahead. life in no discernible take months if not years to completely return to normal most people are well aware of that but there's early concern over how equally the funding and the rebuilding will be distributed it's got harder al-jazeera puti india. tonight has announced that it will not enforce the death penalty for gay sex adultery or rape and is significant about turn on laws introduced last month for nice old and has announced the move in a speech ahead of the start of ramadan a small southeast asian country sparked international outrage when it rolled out its interpretation of islamic laws punishing those crimes with death including by

stoning. u.s. president donald trump is stepping up the pressure on china to reach a long sought trade deal announcing he'll increase tariffs on certain chinese goods john hendren has more on this now from washington. president donald trump made some substantive news on twitter on sunday when it comes to china trade he said he will be raising terrorist from ten percent to twenty five percent on two hundred billion dollars of chinese goods and he says he will initiate new tariffs on three hundred twenty five billion dollars of chinese goods that are not currently subject to tariffs why is he doing this the u.s. and china are working out a trade pact and trump says that pact is moving too slowly so this is his effort to force the chinese to come to an agreement the president says he's not satisfied with the pace of negotiations with china in the coming week china's top negotiator will come to washington and to hammer out

a trade agreement the white house spokeswoman sara sanders says she believes that eventually paying of china and trump will be able to come to an agreement but the president is remaining unpredictable right now raising those tariffs which were postponed from march first to see whether we have an agreement by the end of the week. ahead for you on the program sudan's ruling military says it will present its under the country should move forward as it tries to break the deadlock with the opposition. grief and anger six children mourn the loss of them mother who was killed in thursday's brutal military crackdown and then install a thrilling performance in spain put the ride back on top of the well.

we got some lively showers it's a sense of these two pots if you have a moment longer spells of loss of cloud showing up in clear skies i was towards the west towards difference a year this time last year we see temperatures getting up into the. upper twenty's across the northwest in positive few a plunge in paris for example for the next couple of days we're struggling to get to thirteen degrees about a cold northerly wind rattling in showers rolling in from an all say down across at least the side of england it's northern areas of france through the low countries some warmth into the south madrid at twenty six degrees celsius some warm slaves in the east side of the med to athens at around twenty three below the cloud right as you can see that pushes right up into that western side on this way further eastwards ukraine seen some heavy downpours kiev looking pretty unsettled for choose day sixteen sale system eleven twelve degrees there into central pasta tad warmer i was towards the west as we go through tuesday before the next system just pushes in from the atlantic through the middle to latter part of the ways a quite

a mobile set up going on there's a little quasi meanwhile across northern parts of africa twenty two celsius there for a bats and for algeria's one there in cairo thirty six celsius some cloud in the rain will make its way through the. choose day. russia has jeopardized the united states security interest we know what you are doing and you will not succeed perceptions from the outside you can. watch the picture from the inside. i think russia's foreign policy is too soft. russian goals here retreat not peace in. russia coming soon on all jews in. in two thousand and eight al-jazeera documented

a groundbreaking skiing. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the skiing and helping change the face of india. super thirty announces they are. ilaiyaraaja . welcome back just a quick look at the top story this hour israeli warplanes have struck some three hundred twenty targets in the gaza strip after days of cross border attacks threaten to escalate into an all out conflict at least twenty four palestinians

have died including a senior hamas official meanwhile six hundred rockets were launched from the palestinian territory into israel killing at least four people there israeli media say the u.n. catherine egypt have presented a cease fire agreement to both sides. and our other headline this hour at least forty one people are now known to have died after a russian air force plane caught fire just after takeoff was forced to make an emergency landing in moscow. i want to bring you more on our top story now the recent outbreak of tension between israel and gaza i'm joined in the studio by. a professor of international relations at regents university here in london and so we have seen this periodic outbreak of hostilities between the two sides but is this more serious what we're seeing now if you sue is because if you look at the less than forty eight hours that a lot of on seven hundred talk it's for weezer early. twenty maybe more

palestinians killed including civilians so did they know who was this collusion but maybe let's the hopeful that's what we hear about the ceasefire is going to open neither of the sides is actually interested in an all out to all because they know they become the in control if you can go get completely out of print be the country in anything so what they do is from the hamas point of view to keep it in the news the public is issue paying attention but the don't want to escalate it beyond this you know so it doesn't serve you know with kind of baits also mean some . the ramadan is just beginning the holy month so former don't think that makes a ceasefire more likely i think so because and then celebrates independence day in a matter of two three days the your vision song called is that no one wants to to to cancel it in people's throats even for these and this is

a big deal in israel where do we want you to or not so i think you know there are certain issues that no one needs in this collation nittany always in the middle of correlation talks to form former government did militaries differently not interested in the war differently or the rationale and the logic would dictate that a further escalation should not unfold but i suppose we have seen a particularly high death toll with this latest round of tensions and possibly puts also pressure on both sides to continue and this that everyone's reality is that sometimes is getting out of hand because the threat for parts creates pressure we feen both societies you know who files last who is the last words who actually come on top in the reality. but at least to be seen but to the same time that's the reason that you would they would like to see egyptian cut the and the united nation intervene and intervene quickly before it's getting in

a situation similar to twenty four three and the just to remind the viewers and that in in more than fourteen hundred palestinian lead in this is all situation that we've got of course the problem is that even if we do see another cease fire. the situation my quieten in southern israel and that while rockets fired or as many rockets fired but then you know from the perspective of the palestinians israel doesn't live up to its obligations the very serious economic humanitarian crisis and collapse in gaza is never addressed this is further is not the solution as it implies it's a ceasefire you should create a space for dealing with the. because there's two million people living in the biggest open prison will always lead to violence relates to no good letting you know more humanitarian aid go into gaza alone fisherman to to actually to extend the fishing areas to let all more goods entering into gaza

allowing people to go in will be creating some economic activity dealing also be for population that is suffers from collective term this is a long process but it needs leadership from. hamas. the palestinian authority we feel in the region that's really cool actively address it it's not going to work and by government certainly i don't see this leadership actually appeal so anyway it's also the unity among the palestinians so if you look at all these probably we'll get the system but. unfortunately probably will live the same discussion in a matter of weeks or months unless the international community at some point say enough is enough you'll see michael back thank you thank you. well now to see don let the military council is saying it will publish a comprehensive plan for the country's transition towards democracy on monday it

also says it will continue to negotiate with the opposition over how to move sit down forwards the talks between the two sides follow weeks of protests demanding an immediate transition to a civilian government while the ousted president a model the shares are reportedly been a question of a suspected money laundering and tariff financing. security forces are out in strength and largest city and economic capital could turn you off to two days of election related protests there on thursday soldiers broke up demonstrations with gunfire killing at least one protester the opposition are calling for the announcement of last sunday's parliamentary election which only two parties loyal to president patrice talent were allowed to take part in nicolas hack reports from qatar knew and a warning that you might find the first images disturbing. the moment after shots were fired outside former president yeah you go and he's home on the ground his mother of six prudence i'm assuming she died soon after with us were two of her

daughters her eldest grace and their nine month old son the greys saw a military commander take out a pistol and shoot her mother in the back and said. what can i do it all happened so quickly he will never go to jail and we never have a mother. grace and her five siblings are now orphans the fifteen year old girl is now in charge of the family the military continues to patrol the commercial capital cotonou and they don't want to be filmed we've avoided several military checkpoints and now we're on the streets where young lives he's made no public statements since his press conference where he called the parliamentary election an electoral coupe i would side bernie's home supporters perform a ritual for those killed and to protect those still fighting for change among them . really what he shows us where prudence amas who was killed says look there's

blood everywhere he says that this would be this is our country too if they want to kill us they can come and get us and kill us we're not going anywhere while the military reinforces its presence around the former president's house inside bernie another former president missing for so glow in leading members of the opposition meet there calling for an international mediation but he will not make any more statements his entourage fears for his security after the arrest of other opposition members in the streets. there cannot be democratic elections without an opposition it makes no sense and their people have come out like the people of sudan and algeria we will continue to protest the world is watching us the opposition say they will not good. for the push for a new direction in been but for people like greece the fight has already changed their future because hawke al-jazeera. south africa's ruling party has held its

final rally before wednesday's general election which is expected to be its toughest test since the party rose to power presidents are all wrong a poster told tens of thousands of supporters in johannesburg he would kick start the economy and punish those guilty of stealing public money the african national congress has been damaged by allegations of corruption it's facing a challenge from the democratic alliance as well as the economic freedom fighters party. well divisions over race in south africa are still very much alive twenty five years after the end of apartheid now some members of the former ruling white minority say they are the ones facing discrimination there is for me to measure has more from the eureka settlement in northern cape province. it's in this dry dusty and dissolute part of the northern cape province that a group of white south africans say they've found refuge they call this place utica only white afrikaans 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. with affirmative action. it made it increasingly difficult. for us as white people to get jobs jobs and also job security you really really sure when you might just we've not been given permission to film in utica instead we speak to the founder of the new vote at his home nearby the school is only on a foot or first but you don't know which. or spun in 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 a pallet he 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 blacks organization let us be clear accept white people the party sentiments resonate with some in a country many consider to be one of the most unequal in the world its been accused of exercising discrimination and taken to court the wrong of this country is and to

black hole you couldn't exist in. the media projection of let problems is anti black. we're going to the uk parliament definitely presented your voice of for people to bring a broad let democracy in tempe while the apartheid system and its policies based on race may have been abolished twenty five years ago many years 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 for me the rest of africa we go to venezuela now where a vigil is getting underway in the capital caracas for opposition supporters killed after the failed uprising on tuesday there is to raise a bow is there and joins us live now what's happening there at the vigil tereza. well slowly people are starting to arrive or to this days are holding candles some leaflets with the name of those who died during the protests that have taken place

earlier this week when opposition leader why though attempted a military uprise also went to a military base not far away from where we are right outside with the support of around fifty or sixty a soldiers and members of security forces and said that the government of the call last mother would or was over well that did not happen to call up mode or continues to be in power in venezuela so when you talk to people here you sense lots of sadness of frustration they tell you that they continue to support what they refer to as operation freedom operation freedom because they believe that nicolas maduro made it to power and was elected as president in what they called a fraudulent elections and they're also condemning the excessive use of form of force by the venezuelan government five people lost their lives in the protests that happened on tuesday and wednesday earlier this week dozens of people were injured and others detained we also know that the supreme court here has issued

arrest warrants against eighteen people involved in those protests on. that happened earlier this week also and the constituent assembly the president of the constituent assembly a very powerful man here in venezuela. has already said that that assembly that is right now in a way replacing the national assembly in this country that's controlled by the opposition the government is saying that that national assembly congress here is in contempt and that's why they have created another body while that body is going to be voting to get it to strip off a muni to the lawmakers involved in the uprising earlier this week among those lawmakers is obviously why the opposition why though and many say that to the government could try to arrest him later later this week and that's been a threat to own risk for a long time his position is quite difficult right now what are your positions.