oh well he's watching. al-jazeera. after spending more than five hundred days in jail to reuters journalists free than me and. i mean this is al-jazeera live from coming up. palestinians bury the victims of israeli strikes as a ceasefire puts an end to days of violence. turkey orders a rerun of the stumbles my all election after the president's party loses to the opposition. visits by sports stars to the white house of becoming controversial

of the president trump. let's start with some breaking news to reuters journalists jailed in me and all have been released under a presidential amnesty they were convicted in december in a case that drew international condemnation and was sentenced to seven years in prison over their investigation into myanmar crisis and immediately after his release. people around the world. like to say thank you must be really happy. that i can with all my used. laura hay is the research of amnesty international joins us now live from bangkok are you celebrating today. yet this is wonderful news

for you and their families are they being imprisoned for over five hundred days five hundred days too many ultimately they should never have been in prison in the first place and this was a pretty shocking case actually about how the how the myanmar authorities treat journalists who try to try to report on military abuses by obviously yes we're very happy today for them but of course bring us up to speed with the general situation though in journalists they're not the only ones in jail correct. well the situation for journalists in myanmar and actually freedom of expression more generally is is really worrying i think we've seen in recent months and indeed years under the l.d.r. real erosion in the space of freedom of expression in the country at the moment the myanmar military is launching a massive offensive in raw and state against the arak an army and journalists reporting on the situation there are facing death threats being threatened in

relation to their reporting and i think what all of this underlines is the fact that the military when people want to report on the military when people try to document military abuses they face threats intimidation and this has to stop and of course they were reporting on the condition of the remaining good refugees give us an idea of where human rights for its. well the situation for their enjoy remains very bleak obviously almost a million of them remain in bangladesh after being expelled from their homes in myanmar and there is very little prospect for their return the myanmar government has done very little to make the situation in iraq conducive for them to return and of course there is military soldiers that committed these atrocities rapes killings the burning of hiram's the have not faced accountability they have not faced justice so for their agenda their situation remains very bleak indeed or oh thank

you so much for coming in laura from amnesty international a ceasefire to end the fighting in the gaza strip and sudden this row appears to be holding but the situation is still tense israel is warning that the campaign isn't over prime minister binyamin netanyahu says all options remain on the table. and the neutral in the past days we have renewed our policy of assassinating terrorist commanders we killed dozens of hamas and islamic jihad terrorists and we toppled terror towers we have changed the rules of the game and hamas understands this will 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. the palestinian prime minister is appealing to the u.n. to intervene. what. 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 these really aggression against our people and to provide international protection to our people in the gaza strip. meanwhile qatar has pledged four hundred eighty million dollars to support the palestinians in gaza and the west bank held broker the scenes deal along with cairo twenty five palestinians and four israelis were killed in the cross border fighting attached to her name has more. palestinian and israeli families continue to bury their dead as the cease fire took effect 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. 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 him us 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 it look if 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 relieved there was a pause in the violence however temporary the last between hamas and israel was an april. moment have been killed and we hope the war ends 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 ceasefire 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 to aim. along the israel gaza border. turkey's election authority is canceled the results of the stumbles may or election officials ordered a rerun of the vote for the candidate of the main opposition party would you have paid became mayor in march president i just tired of the ones party controlled the commercial capital for fifteen years that decision to reverse the results. hundreds of turkish citizens march through the streets of istanbul chanting and banging pots and pans votes is a now expected to return to the polls on the twenty third of june. journey of 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 cinema course all know has more from istanbul. turkey's

higher turold board said that the decision behind the and moment of his 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 low 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 cancelled immediately after they were boys 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 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 libya's u.n. banks government is accusing the u.a.e. of directly support soon warlords before half there in his offensive the capsule this is the first time it's named the united arab emirates as a backer of hof to the world health organization says more than four hundred people

have been killed and thousands injured in these month long campaign to gain tripoli . the fighting has continued during ramadan despite the 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 un mission also called on all sides in libya to focus efforts on combating terrorism their common enemy noting that terrorist groups will seek to exploit the ongoing fighting in tripoli expand their presence in libya well still ahead on al-jazeera. out of syria that was supposed to be a safe zone as seen the worst violence in more than six months how corruption

scandals are making it difficult for south africa's ruling party to extend its grip on how. hello surprisingly still some fairly active weather that runs across the levant and iraq and into iran uses just picking up sand and number occasional showers still possible they've been focusing more all to see and funnel to syria and there's still a chance of a couple of those on tuesday the greater size is cloud and it's not really doing much to reduce the tension this is a time when temperatures should be rising so thirty five in baghdad is hardly a surprise reproaching got into iran as well largely sunny pictures a great cloud though it's got the potential to spark

a shower too seems unlikely so to do in the next day or so and over the arabian peninsula therefore make the skies gray northern side look at the tempest the south up to the low forty's now from mecca high thirty's to doha as an example in and in amman rather forty mark as well and a hint of the breeze coming in from the southwest now you're notice this isn't the monsoon coming in but that's what you would look for to have to watch it so humidity is relatively high now temperatures are rising this is approaching proper hot complements of summer in southern africa has been reason require recently can't stay that way for long cape town's singing creasing clad in occasional showers but to the east you look all right. sponsored. i mean you want to get down to the nitty gritty of reality whether online and you have a male chauvinist and that is clashed with in our global federation and it is really hard to get

a piece of that or if you join at sunset. they can speak up their mind this is a dialogue everyone has a voice to talk to us and i live you to chat and you too can be a mystery join the conversation on how to zero. your watching i'll just remind our of our top stories this hour two reuters journalists jailed in the been released under a presidential pardon they were convicted in december in a case that drew international condemnation and sentenced to seven years in prison over the first a geisha than two million dollars for when the crisis. to end the fighting between

armed groups in gaza and the israeli military appears to be holding the warnings from israel's prime minister the campaign is over twenty five palestinians and four israelis were killed in cross border attacks since saturday. he's electoral board is ordering a rerun of the stumbles my all action president the rise of type of the once party now only last poll the main opposition has branded the decision plane big pay to ship. syrian activists say at least ten civilians have been killed in airstrikes on the provinces of it live in the last a week ago the said government and its russian allies began a new campaign against. the campaign targeted neighboring hama 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 hummer and southern. civilians many women and children are being killed in the worst escalation since the ceasefire 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 the 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 latter. 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 armored just overlook so there's going to be a lot of. evil now in the future between turkey and russia if the church join us it's an us and russia if everybody will stay in this area the way they're there right now. works a lot more costs in france or behind you. this is how serious stakeholders have negotiated in the past 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 massacres 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 sent her there elisha's here to beirut. for pilots of the russian aeroflot plane that crash landed on sunday killing forty one people says lightning

damaged its communication instruments. superjet one hundred aircraft burst into flames during the emergency landing at moscow's sheremetyevo airport a vigil is being held there for the victims of the crash flight data recorders have been recovered says the investigative group and the representatives of the interstate aviation committee have taken out all fragments of the line from the runway and place them into a hangar for studying the investigators and the specialists of the interstate aviation committee are sorting that equipment out the flight recorder and the examination of data u.s. secretary of state mike pompei it says the deployment of extra warships to the middle east is a 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 pompei a spoke in finland where he met his russian counterpart sergey lavrov we have

continued to see actually every that leads us to believe that there is 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 present has a wide range of options in the medicine should actually take place zain by the 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. 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 this 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 advisor people don't have to worry about what is simply a move for symbolic purposes and is pure psychological warfare. and lavrov also discuss the situation in venezuela once again warned moscow against supporting embattled president nicolas maduro. said u.s. support for the opposition is illegal under international law. this isn't your

service you support could only be sanctioned by the un security council or force can be used in response to aggression against a sovereign state we can't see anything like this in venezuela my contacts with american european and lend american colleagues i can't find any to support a reckless milt. a solution i hope that this understanding that everyone has will turn into practical policies and that there won't be any military solution because it would be catastrophic the u.s. is accusing china of bank tracking all its promise is a day after president said he'd impose new terrorists on chinese goods the u.s. will raise tariffs by twenty five percent on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products on friday. came two days before representatives from both countries are scheduled to resume trade talks religious leaders in sri lanka are appealing for calm and restraint that's after the shops and houses belonging to muslims were attacked in the town of the gumble just north of the capital colombo

this comes just weeks after attacks on easter sunday which killed two hundred fifty people catholic leaders about members of the muslim community to reassure them 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. to we had to be. not to react emotional we. would probably be. going to be. for creation we have to be really patient. we have to work together we have

total confidence. between what. at least fifty eight people have been killed and dozens injured after a fuel tanker exploded in. people had been siphoning gasoline from the overturned truck when it burst into flames on sunday night it happened on a road linking the international airport to the capsule the army. south africa's president is promising a fight against corruption as the seeks reelection on wednesday a series of scandals in recent years of dented the popularity of the ruling african national congress one of them evolve a mental health facility welcome where reports from. elizabeth says her brother christopher didn't have to die he had epilepsy and lived in a mental health care facility in the last. three years ago she says health officials moved him to an unregistered on licensed and ill equipped building he was

among more than a thousand patients taken out of care at the time weeks later he was dead it's manly cleanness. get enrolled really. what it would have to do anything. along with christopher more than a hundred and forty patients died nearly sixty are still missing campaigners say the officials responsible were stealing public health care funds that the officials deny it but it's just one of dozens of corruption scandals here in south africa that lighted the ruling african national congress especially in the last ten years it's made it increasingly difficult for the a.n.c. to retain votes. the worst scandal surfaced on the former president jacob zuma treasury says billions of dollars of public money was stolen

presidency around opposer took over just over a year ago launched a number of inquiries into the corruption scandals to refer to some are still running others a complete but the national prosecuting authority hasn't yet sent anyone to jail. i asked the a.n.c. spokesman why so far most of us this is a lot for what. is especially when i just follow up on issues which are based commissions to ensure that where possible they can investigate it was a trial in the proper sanctions given the bulls were in conflict with the law. when series expected to win wednesday's general election polls suggest it'll have the smallest majority it's ever had since he came to power in one thousand nine hundred four the end of white minority rule. from opposes stays in office south africans are waiting to see how far his fight against corruption will go i hope that it

won't just be that none of that this isn't just about the politics of survival the appetite the correct signals to the public to the international community and to potential voters to potential investors i would hope that this is a much deeper. and the taking than that but i'm not sure an inquiry into the health care scandal that killed christopher. hasn't led to any prosecutions yet elizabeth and her mother say they won't find peace until they know what happened and who was responsible malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. golfing champion tiger woods's received the presidential medal of freedom from donald trump the u.s. president is an avid golfer he made forty three year old boards one of the youngest golfing athletes to receive the civilian honor woods has won eighty one p.g.a. tour victories and last month made a dramatic comeback at the all this national golf club his visit to the white house

comes as more athletes are declining invitations to the white house and fisher explains why. it's wonderful to have you here it's been a tradition at the white house for years when u.s. sports teams talk off their celebrations with a visit to the president but like many other things it's different under trump the patriots are an incredible organization of the twenty teams that have won major titles only ten have gone to the white house the rest have either not been invited or more unusually have declined the invite our current president is a very divisive. you know individual he's someone who you know people don't unite around even in these things that are supposed to be political or partisan he's such a divisive figure such a polarizing figure that it causes people to make a political choice donald trump has often said athletes should stay out of politics but he doesn't mind winning in one sports he was hugely critical of black american

football stars who knelt during the playing of the national anthem in protest at police violence and he's picked fights on twitter with african-american athletes like basketball stars steph curry and le bron james. the philadelphia eagles won the super bowl last year american football's top trophy they were invited to the white house but when a number of top stars said they were. wouldn't be going because of the president the invitation was quickly rescinded one of the biggest things about our friends politics is he supports who supports donald trump it's not necessarily about an ideological position i don't even think i think it's he loves who loves donald trump just in the last few days the manager of baseball's title winning boston red sox says he won't be joining his team in washington in protest at the u.s. government's failure to do more to help his native puerto rico after being hammered by a hurricane since it's very tough you know to go celebrate when where and where we . are and i go sports stars turning down

a presidential invite isn't new but it's become more common with donald trump in the white house it used to be about respecting the office even if you didn't respect the man no more athletes me will stage their own boycotts no matter who is in the white house alan fischer i'll just you know washington. this is and these are headlines now to reuters journalists who were jailed in me and have been released under a presidential amnesty they were convicted in december and a case that drew international condemnation they were sentenced to seven years in prison over their investigation into me in. crisis laura hay is the researcher for amnesty international she says the threats against journalists in myanmar need to end. the situation for journalists in myanmar and actually freedom of expression

more generally is really worrying i think we've seen in recent months and indeed years under the real erosion in the space for freedom of expression in the country at the moment the myanmar military is launching a massive offensive in state against the arak an army and journalists reporting on the situation there are facing death threats being threatened in relation to their reporting and i think what all of this underlines is the fact that the military when people want to report on the military when people try to document military abuses they face threats intimidation and this has to stop a ceasefire to end the fighting between armed groups in gaza israeli military appears to be holding but israel is warning the campaign isn't over twenty five palestinians and israelis were killed in cross border attacks today libya's u.n. banks government is accusing the u.a.e. of directly supporting warlords started his offensive to take the capital this is

the first time it's named the united arab emirates as a backer of hard start the world health organization meanwhile says more than four hundred people have been killed thousands of been injured in this month long campaign for tripoli. so accuse electoral board is ordering a rerun of the. election. of the ones party now only last that whole the main opposition has branded the decision plain dictatorship. religious leaders in sri lanka are appealing for calm and restraint after shops and houses belonging to muslims were attacks in the town of new gun bow this comes just weeks after attacks on easter sunday which killed two hundred fifty people it's the story next stay with us. talk to al-jazeera. you're just back from yemen what was the glimpse of the country that go we listen that children are deeply

affected because of war we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter just zero. i for me ok and you know in the stream today what challenges does ramadan pose for muslims with eating disorders that about the games will take a look at how those who are struggling can best be supported and imo they could be this time of year can be difficult for muslims struggling with or recovering from eating disorders and related mental health issues millions of muslims around the world pass for thirty days from dawn to sunset and it's a time of spiritual discipline contemplation and enhanced connection to god and the end of each day is celebrated with family and friends as the fast is broken over food before we go any further we would like to give a warning to the u.s. on today's program we will discuss anything disorder.