algis you know. where every. palestinians bury the victims of israeli strikes as a ceasefire puts an end to days of violence. and sam is a this is our desire alive coming up. turkey orders a rerun for stumbles my old election after the president's party loses to the opposition. and anybody else did that would be considered a crime us democrats prepared to find attorney general william in contempt for

failing to give the full report on russian collusion. and the situation has to be controlled through. not true emotion which calls for calm in sri lanka after the muslim community is targeted in a communal clash. so when the fighting in gaza and southern israel appears to be holding the situation is still tense israel is warning the campaign isn't over i mr benjamin netanyahu says all options remain on the table by my my one introduction with the neutral in the past days we have renewed up policy of assassinating terrorist commanders we killed dozens of hamas and islamic jihad terrorists and we toppled terra towers we have changed the rules of the game and hamas understands this well at the same time it's clear that this is not the end of the campaign and therefore i have instructed

the military to be prepared going forward. well the palestinian prime minister is appealing to the u.n. to intervene you walked out lochan or what have you will do more for you we are hoping that this will lead to an end to the tragedy against our people and preserve their lives we call upon the united nations to stop the israeli aggression against our people and to provide international protection to our people in the gaza strip . meanwhile has pledged four hundred eighty million dollars to support palestinians in gaza and the west bank helped broker the cease fire deal along with colorado twenty five palestinians and four israelis were killed in the cross border fighting with russia one day as more. palestinian and israeli families continue to bury their dead as the ceasefire took a fact on monday morning. almost thirty people were killed during the worst cycle

of violence between hamas and israel since the gaza war in two thousand and fourteen. those killed include a four month old baby a man running for cover at a senior hamas commander in london. headed on the scene was a horrible dust was everywhere it was so dark you couldn't see your own hands i was shocked to see a woman laying on the ground and her limbs were everywhere fighters in gaza launched more than six hundred rockets into israel for its part israel launched air strikes hitting three hundred fifty targets in heavily populated areas of gaza a targeted strike killed a hamas commander in his car. get hamas and israel seemed eager to deescalate the situation quickly. monday was the start of the a sonic fasting month of ramadan this week israeli celebrate their national day and

next week people from around the world will travel to tel aviv to see the euro vision music competition. some israelis living near the gaza fence and opposition leaders criticize prime minister benjamin netanyahu for agreeing to the cease fire if you look at the legal i think that a cease fire at this moment is a terrible mistake i think that when we have the upper hand we need once and for all finish the terror because this will repeat itself and will not stop. gazans returning to the rubble of their homes hit by israeli airstrikes were really there was a pause in the violence however temporary the laskar mission between hamas and israel was an april. moment have been killed and we hope the war and because enough destruction enough people are losing their lives in these wars israelis don't distinguish between the civilians and not civilians in the last several years there has been a periodic cycle of violence followed by egyptian mediators negotiating

a cease fire and then what's called a return to call how long this call will last will likely depend on israel's willingness to ease the humanitarian situation in gaza and whether hamas abides by its commitment to see these attacks natasha going aim. along the israel gaza border . some breaking news now into reuters journalists who were jailed in me and ma have been released as part of a larger amnesty they were convicted in december in a case that drew international condemnation they were sentenced to seven years in prison over their investigation into me and rango crisis now to wane in bangkok so bring us up to speed with what happened. first of all prisoner amnesty said this time of the year issued by the president

himself not unusual they happened around this time. to mark the new year celebrations we had a very large one last month more than nine thousand people were freed as part of this amnesty there was hope that while lone and short the two reuters journalists as you say were arrested in december two thousand and seventeen would be among that group they were not then we heard that there would be another amnesty happening this morning on tuesday morning numbering more than six thousand again hopes will raise that they would be among the more than six thousand to be released and then just in the last few moments we. reports that in fact they were walking free from insein prison which is located in yang gone just on the outskirts of yangon on the largest city in myanmar so at last these two reuters journalists have been freed after spending seventeen months in jail on charges of violating this colonial era

state secrets act after they were arrested in december twenty seventh two thousand and seventeen for investigating a message of bringing muslims in the west of the country the trial itself was a farce and has to be said there was very little evidence of any presented by the prosecution they appealed twice once to the high court in yang gone and then more recently to the supreme court in the capital naypyidaw both of those courts through the case the appeal out there was a an opportunity for them according to their lawyers to appeal again to the supreme court but they said that they had lost faith in the judicial system and me and mom but they hadn't lost hope that they would be freed they said that they would instead of going through the court process again rely on the possibility the hope that they would be freed in some sort of prisoner amnesty or by seeking a pardon so they have been freed in an amnesty so while alone and have walked free

from prison and me and mom and that's obviously good news but just put it into context for us in terms of the situation the journalists continue to face there as well as the story they were covering during good muslims. yes well obviously the rohingya story in the west of the country in reclined state has seen hundreds of thousands of rohingya flee the country to neighboring bangladesh because they face persecution and violence murder rape other forms of abuse at the hands of the security forces in me and mum this is been a story that has been at the forefront of this country for many years now and a lot of pressure has come on the state council on sun suu kyi who is effectively the leader of the country someone who once championed democracy freedom of speech human rights in that country to really do something and she has failed to act on

that story so these two were investigating the story investigating one particular massacre of rigging year in state when they were arrested in yang gone they said that they were framed that they were set up that these secret documents that they were allegedly in position of were given to them by the police just moments before they were arrested and in fact a policeman who was at the scene when they were arrested testified to that extent he said that they were framed that he was told by his superiors that they should be framed the this pier for what they were investigating again the pressure came along son sujit to do something about this to intervene she refused she said that they were not arrested for being journalists that they were arrested for breaking the law or so really that is pretty much all she has said throughout the course of this case but as you point out this pair are not alone there are other journalists in the country facing similar accusations going through the court system not just for

the state secrets act but also for criminal different definition which carries a jail sentence and me and so there are huge problems facing this government this country as it emerges from more than fifty years of military rule or thanks so much wayne hey there. now turkey's election authority has cancelled the results of the stumbles may oral election officials have ordered a rerun of the vote after the candidates of the main opposition party joe had paid became the mayor at the end of march president roger tired of the once party had controlled the commercial capital for fifteen years the decision to reverse the results calls quite a bit of anger hundreds of turkish citizens marched through the streets in istanbul chanting and banging pots and pans roses and now expected to return to the polls on the twenty third of june. my fellow citizens they try to take away the

elections we won on the evening of march thirty first they have tried to steal away our hard work. a spokesman for turkey's president has called the rerun a victory for democracy freedom corps salmo has more from istanbul turkey sorry rick turold board said that the decision behind the and moment of a stumble mayoral elections is that some of the ballot box officers were not civil servants according to turkey's electoral law about past officers should be civil servants and also the electoral board stated that balloting committees some of their actions were against the regulation that's why they filed a criminal complaint against the balloting committee however the main opposition and some law experts say that the ballot box officers names all those names are listed three months prior to the elections in turkey and the names are listed. publicly so the names are approved by the electoral district voiced political

parties and the names go through security background check by the security officials in turkey so they now argue why the electoral board had such a decision right now is stumble mayor rahm emanuel the main opposition candidate his mandate has been canceled immediately after high addict or board's decision for the a moment and then he made a speech he was he was called more than expected he said that he won the elections he earned the elections with a sporty and as long as he has the support with from the people from the citizens he will continue and he said that the ruling party wants a fight but they will deal with it through embracing everyone he seemed confident that he would win on the other hand the ruling party also confident that they will they will win when the election is done over in june twenty three.

still ahead on al-jazeera. a part of syria very. it was supposed to be a safe zone and it seemed the was followed some more than six months. hello may is the stormiest month in the u.s. in the point of view of potential tornadoes hail and huge downpours that are thunderstorms and this is the latest trend that's been moving slowly eastwards and this is the typical move and they start up in some of the texas and oklahoma and just east as well as the picture for tuesday a massive cloud but the potential of the storms probably realise near the coast of texas we just over the border in mexico west of this is looking fine a shower too seems likely anywhere in the cascades possibly the rockies as well as a lot of right you'll notice not in snow to still cold enough in the prairies for

a little bit of snow and occasionally on the ground at the west but you notice the movement has been steadily east was but not rapidly so so we're feeding a lot of moisture out of the plain states that this is a potential for a big shout i think thunderstorms during wednesday stretching out towards the midwest so she cargo and beyond the east coast warm and sunny and the whole dry now at least now if we go through florida bahamas into mexico there's a greater chance of seeing some overland showers bible and i mean really mix carol anywhere else el salvador has been the focus within the next two days more in mexico rather few as over the bahamas in cuba but you go to the east hispania it's cloudy. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. other

stories. providing the temps into someone else's well. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers i'm at the front lines i feel like i know if i have the data to prove a. witness on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching our. top stories this hour. when the fighting between armed groups in gaza and the israeli military appears to be holding the warnings from israel's prime minister the campaign isn't over twenty five palestinians and

four israelis were killed in cross border attacks. two reuters journalists who were jailed in me and been released by a presidential pardon they were convicted in this case drew international condemnation it was sentenced to seven years in prison. and to me in crisis. so he's electoral board is ordering a rerun of the stumbles may all the election which president. once party now only lost the main opposition has branded the decision plain dictatorship. syrian activists say at least ten civilians have been killed in airstrikes on the provinces of. a week ago the syrian government and its russian allies began a new campaign against fighters in neighboring province that's killed dozens of civilians and forced thousands of people to flee towards the turkish border so to

hold the reports from beirut. it's been a week since the military escalation began russian air power is supporting pro syrian government troops in what has been a relentless campaign hundreds of air and artillery strikes are targeting villages across northern and southern. civilians many women and children are being killed in the worst escalation since the cease fire came into force in september hospitals that were preemptively evacuated have been destroyed so have gas stations homes schools destroying facilities has been a tactic in previous offensives it is to make life unbearable for the people. about the aims to depopulate the area force people to leave that's the first step so that their regime can advance on the ground but they don't have a helmet other than the area under fire is within what was supposed to be a demilitarized zone agreed between russia and turkey as part of the cease fire

deal the offensive does not appear to be a full assault across the rebel held province the focus seems to be on controlling the m four and m five international highways that connect the provinces of law to hammer and aleppo. the roads pass through it lib mainly the towns of just the show who are so dark and modern norman to achieve that goal pro-government forces need to advance north into the planned buffer zone where the turkish military has observation posts was all this area turkey's. just overlooked so there's going to be a lot of thoughts even now and. then russia if the turks join us and us and russia if everybody will stay in this area the way there are right now. works a lot more costs in france or behind. this is how serious

stakeholders have negotiated in the past two years military pressure has and continues to be used fighting is escalating but at the same time turkish officials say they are in talks with russia concerning the deployment of their forces in syria turkey wants russia's approval to move into areas under the control of the kurdish y p g not just in northern aleppo but east of the euphrates as well russia for its part wants its allies to use the highways and lead to revive trade. moscow into baskets describe the assault as a fight against terrorism but it is causing immense suffering the united nations says three hundred thousand syrians who live in the area of hostilities large numbers have already made their way north towards the border with turkey how many more will be made homeless may depend on the outcome of the latest round of bargaining santa who their beirut. the pilot of the russian aeroflot plane that

crash landed sunday killing forty one people says lightning damaged its communication instruments the so holy superjet one hundred aircraft burst into flames during the emergency landing and moscow's sheremetyevo airport a vigil has been held there for the victims of the crash the flight data recorders been recovered libya's u.n. backed government is accusing the u.a.e. of directly supporting warlords start in his offensive to take the capital this is the first time it's named the united arab emirates as a backer of half the world health organization says more than four hundred people have been killed and thousands injured in his month long campaign for tripoli fighting has continue during ramadan this bright u.n. calls for a ceasefire unfortunately the truce has so far not been observed in fighting

continues on the outskirts of tripoli the u.n. mission renews its call to all parties to abide by the truce and allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to those in need and to ensure the freedom of movement of civilians over the weekend the u.n. mission also called on all sides in libya to focus efforts on combating terrorism their common enemy during the terrorist groups will seek to exploit the ongoing fighting in tripoli expand their presence in libya u.s. secretary of state mike pompei or says the deployment of extra warships to the middle east is in response to actions by iran but he didn't specify what those actions are the aircraft carrier the u.s.s. abraham lincoln is part of the flotilla heading to the region spoke in finland where he met his russian counterpart sergey lavrov. we have continued to see every that leads us to believe that there's escalation that may be taking place and so we're taking all the appropriate actions both from

a security perspective and well as. our ability to make sure that the president has a wide range of options in the event that something should actually take place. has been following reaction from iran. they've certainly taken their time and that in the past has been seen as a signal of trying to lessen the significance of u.s. moves being taken against them now that we do have a statement it seems to be a personal attack on john bolton the spokesman for the supreme national security council cave on coast. issued a statement now we should keep in mind that the iranian president hassan rouhani is the head of this council and so it is very much a statement being made under his administration in the statement it reads that bolton lacks military and security understanding his comments are mostly for show based on the accurate monitoring of iran's armed forces the aircraft carrier abraham lincoln entered the mediterranean sea twenty one days ago and his statement is just for psychological war it goes on to say that it is unlikely the commanders

of the u.s. armed forces want to test the capabilities of iran's armed forces now there's a couple of things happening here the iranians see this move as purely psychological not an actual military decision to make some sort of action against iran and they're calling the united states out on it saying this is psychological warfare and they're sending a message to the iranian people in this statement suggesting at the end of it that not even american commanders have faith in the u.s. national security adviser so ronnie and people don't have to worry about what is simply a move for symbolic purposes and is pure psychological warfare. the u.s. is accusing china of bag tracking on its promises a day all of the president said impose new tariffs on chinese goods the u.s. will raise tariffs by twenty five percent on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products on friday the announcement came to days before representatives

from both countries are scheduled to resume trade talks get out of zone that has more from washington d.c. . the trade talks between the u.s. and china the world's two biggest economies seem to be reaching a big. nag at this was a time that many people were thinking that after successful talks last week in china and the talks this week in the u.s. could be concluding with a successful trade deal but something apparently went very wrong over the weekend and now there is a real risk that these trade talks could be derailed completely according to u.s. trade representative robert lighthouse or in u.s. treasury secretary steve minutiae in the two men that are leading the u.s. side of the trade delegation they said something went terribly wrong over the weekend they said that they chinese are every need every nigga on trade talk commitments that have been made the u.s. would not give any specifics on exactly where the problems apparently have come up

but they did say that they are substantive and substantial now this is important to point out that these are just not tariff threats that the u.s. certain is now making these are real because according to light hauser in the u.s. side they're going to start filing the paperwork on tuesday that would increase the tariffs from ten to twenty five percent on more than two hundred billion dollars in chinese goods imported to the u.s. and those tariffs would go into effect at midnight friday morning u.s. time here on the east coast of the u.s. and this means that thursday is going to be a critical day because that's when lou he the vice premier of china and their lead trade representative will be in washington with dozens of chinese trade negotiators and on thursday they are planning to sit down with the american side to try to hammer out some sort of agreement but if they don't these tariffs could kick in on

friday between the world's two biggest economies. religious leaders in sri lanka paving for calm and restraint the shops of the houses belonging to muslims would target. in the town of negaunee just north of the capital colombo this comes just weeks after attacks on easter sunday which killed two hundred fifty people catholic leaders of the members of the muslim community to reassure them. that the situation has to be controlled through intelligence not through emotions people sometimes you need become emotional they don't understand what is really happening they get lost by their foolishness. all the. we have to we have to be cardinal nation not to react with emotional we used to. calm the situation. with good quality.

going to be started with the creation we must have to be very patient especially the young and we have to work together and we have total confidence. between the two trees they will. at least fifty eight people have been killed and dozens injured in a fuel tanker explosion in the air people had been siphoning gasoline from the truck when it burst into flames on sunday night it happened on the highway linking the jazz international airport to the capsule. u.s. democrats say they'll vote on wednesday whether to hold the attorney general in contempt for not providing the formal report was refused a request by cole was to turn over and it's a version of the report that looked into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election. has more. u.s.

president donald trump has said he believes he won the debate over whether his campaign worked with moscow during the twenty sixth election and it's time to move on. over. his democratic opponents in congress disagree with a monday deadline for u.s. attorney general william barr to turn over an unproductive copy of special counsel robert muller's report came and went democrats and now their next step resident travis told congress wednesday the house judiciary committee will vote on whether to hold bar in contempt of congress a criminal offense he lied to congress and anybody else did that it would be considered a crime a blacked out muller report was released last month it concluded no one from the trunk campaign committed a crime when they met with russians during the two thousand and sixteen election campaign however muller wrote well this report does not conclude that the president

committed a crime it also does not exonerate him. democrats want to see the whole report something bar has refused even skipping a hearing last week democrats believe barr is protecting trumped by covering up evidence of misconduct they argue they have a constitutional obligation to investigate the president for alleged corruption and obstruction of justice republicans are accusing democrats of political theater designed to hurt trump's reelection in two thousand and twenty the vote will when republicans controlled the house of representatives. in twenty twelve they did the same thing holding democratic attorney general eric holder in contempt for also refusing to turn over documents to congress if on wednesday democrats vote to hold the attorney general in contempt it still must go to the broader house of representatives for

a vote democrats could also choose to take the issue to the courts where the matter could take years to resolve kimberly hellcat al-jazeera the white house golfing champion tiger woods has received the presidential medal of freedom from donald trump the u.s. president is an avid golfer himself he made the forty three year old woods one of the youngest golfing athletes to receive the civilian honor. and let's take you through some of the headlines here on al-jazeera now to reuters journalists who were jailed in have been released by a presidential amnesty they were convicted in december in a case that drew international condemnation they were sentenced to seven years in prison over their investigation into me and miles from crisis wednesday has more from bangkok. prisoner amnesty said this time of the year issued by the president

himself are not unusual they happen around this time usually to mark the new year celebrations we had a very large one last month more than nine thousand people were freed as part of this amnesty there was hope that while lone and short the two reuters journalists as you say were arrested in december two thousand and seventeen would be among that group they were not then we heard that there would be another amnesty happening this morning on tuesday morning numbering more than six thousand again hopes will raise that they would be among the more than six thousand to be released and then just in the last few moments we heard reports that in fact they were walking free a cease fire to end the fighting between armed groups in gaza and the israeli military appears to be holding but there are warnings from israel's prime minister the campaign isn't over twenty five palestinians and four israelis were killed in

cross border attacks since saturday libya's un bags government is accusing the u.a.e. of directly supporting warlords who for huffed are in these offensive to take the capital tripoli this is the first time it's named the united arab emirates as a backer of have the world health organization meanwhile says more than four hundred people have been killed and thousands injured in his month long campaign for the capital so he's electoral board is ordering a rerun of his stumbles mayall election president of the un's party now only lost that whole main opposition is branded the decision plain dictatorship. it's witnessed now stay with us. i mean this is different i said whether someone is going for someone is very red it doesn't matter when it's trying to get there it's how you approach an official and that's it is a certain way of doing it you can't just barge in and get

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