join me. from my guest from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and big issues here on al-jazeera. after spending more than five hundred days in jail to reuters journalists freed in me and. i'm sam is a this is al jazeera live from coming up. palestinians bury the victims of israeli strikes as the cease fire puts an end to days of violence. turkey orders a rerun of the stumbles my all of the action after the president's party loses to the opposition. i'm done. one hundred years after the

presence of the former first lady eva peron can still be found all over argentina. we start with some breaking news into reuters journalists jailed in me and have been released under a presidential amnesty they were convicted in december in a case that drew international condemnation it was sentenced to seven years in prison with the investigation into me and a crisis but immediately after his release thank people around the world who lobbied for his release. later said thank you. really have. i can with my user. let's go live now to wayne hay in bangkok so no doubt the families will be very happy this morning.

yes no doubt this has been a very trying time of course over the course of the past seventeen months for the family members of while lone and sure they are both young fathers that made it particularly difficult for them and i think quite fitting there in that sound bite that you just played from while alone that he said that he couldn't wait to see his family but also get back to the news room so these two very much true journalists i guess you could say and that made this case even worse they were of course as you mentioned arrested in december two thousand and seventeen for investigating while they were investigating the message of reading your muslims they said this was a set up that they were given these top secret sensitive documents that the prosecution put their whole case on given them those documents by the police at a checkpoint moments before they were arrested and throughout the course of the trial the prosecution other than that really presented very little in the way of

concrete evidence nonetheless they were convicted sentenced to seven years in jail and twice they took this case back to court to appeal the sentence once to the high court and yank on the second time to the supreme court in the capital naypyidaw and both times they were thrown out with the judges giving very brief statements about it and really not going into any further details so finally we are seeing that the two reuters journalists walking free as good as this is for those journalists go away and of course they're not the only ones who are in jail right. know they're not in this is really shown a light on some of these old laws in. this particular case centered around the colonial era official secrets act and again it was all about these documents that allegedly violated that official secrets act and this has been used against. other

journalists also rights campaigners as well and we've seen really no sign that this government which we have to remember is led by our own son suchi herself once a prisoner of the previous military government detained and under house arrest for fifteen years she was a campaigner for freedom of speech for human rights for democracy and now that she's the leader of the country and in a position to change some of these laws we've seen no sign that she's willing to do that throughout this whole case she said very little about it refused to speak up in defense of the pier she initially said well she could not intervene in the judicial process she had to let it run its course but she did not express any dismay about the fact that the peer had been arrested she could have intervened very early on in fact when they were arrested but she refused to do so so if there is any positive to take out of this case is that it is again shining a light on some of these laws on some of the treatment of the media in myanmar and

of course of rights workers as well and wait just for a mindless of the case that they were investigating or why it was so sensitive to authorities there. well of course it centered around the massacre of muslims in the west of the country in state which you know broadly speaking is an extremely sensitive issue because it's it's about the military it's about the security forces being involved in this campaign against that if nic minority group which is not regarded as an official ethnic minority group of me and they are seen as illegal immigrants from bangladesh we have to remember that the military is still the most powerful political force in the country despite the fact that they've given away to giving way to a democratic process which is allowed to cheese party to form the government so they were investigating a particular message here which subsequently by the way resulted in soldiers being

convicted of that mess you're in going to do. well. you know it's basically a very sensitive issue broadly speaking this particular case you know involve them digging into some places that clearly the security forces didn't want them to go to the judiciary itself in me and is widely believed to be compromised judges basically do what military generals tell them to do so it was a very difficult case for them to win in the first place i think everyone would agree all right thanks so much why in hay there. a ceasefire to end the fighting in gaza and southern israel appears to be holding but the situation is still tense israel is warning 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've 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 the palestinian prime minister is appealing to the un now 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 has pledged four hundred eighty million dollars to support palestinians in gaza and the west bank helped broker the cease fire deal along with cairo twenty five palestinians and four israelis were killed in the cross border fighting has 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 and then the. head and 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 this political scene 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 laskar mission between hamas and israel was an april. one had 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 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 to aim. along the israel gaza border. turkey's election and he has canceled the results of his stumbles my all election officials have ordered a rerun of the vote after the candidates of the main opposition party that you have paid became mayor in march president projectile to the lines of control the commercial capital for the last fifteen years well that decision to reverse the results is triggered anger hundreds of turkish citizens marched through the streets of istanbul they chanted and banged pots and pans voters are now expected to return

to the polls on the twenty third of june a spokesman for turkey's president has called the rerun a victory for democracy so the course although has more from istanbul. turkey cyrix 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 box 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 higher addict or voice 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 as with this party and as long as he has the support with from 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 an al-jazeera. part of syria that was supposed to be a safe zone has seen its worst violence move in six months how corruption scandals are made. he difficult for south africa's ruling party to extend its grip on power . 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 on to key and funnel to syria and as still a chance of a couple of those on tuesday the greater the size is cloud and it's not really doing much to reduce the tension now this is john the wind temps 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 great northern saudi but look at the tempest decide not the low forty's now from mecca high thirty's to doha as an example in london a man read about the 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 to watch it so humid. temperatures are rising this is approaching proper hot couple of months of summer. in southern africa has been reason require recently can't stay that way for long cape town's sydney creasing clad in occasional showers but to the east you look all right.

on counting the cost this week trump gambles the world economy all shutting down iran's ability to sell oil an indestructible phone screen of chinese tech giants of the f.b.i. sting. the inventor who suspects his technology was stolen counting the cost. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap the headlines now to reuters journalists jailed in myanmar have been released under

a presidential pardon 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 in the crisis. a ceasefire to end the fighting between armed groups in gaza and the israeli military appears to be holding but israel is warning the campaign isn't over yet twenty five palestinians and four israelis were killed in cross border attacks since saturday turkey's electoral board is ordering a rerun of the stumbles may all election. day ones party now only last fall the main opposition is branded a decision plain dictatorship. libya's un backed government is directly accusing the u.s. of directly supporting war time for hafter and his offensive to take the capsule it's the first time it's named the united arab emirates as a backer of have start world health organization says more than four hundred people have been killed and thousands injured in the month long campaign to take tripoli

the fighting has continued during ramadan despite the u.n. calls for a cease fire. unfortunately the truce has so far not been observed and fighting continues on the outskirts of tripoli the un mission renews it's 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 during the terrorist groups will seek to exploit the ongoing fighting in tripoli expand their presence in libya syrian activists say at least ten civilians have been killed in airstrikes on the provinces of lib and aleppo a week ago the government and its russian allies be gather new campaign against fighters in a live in 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 hama 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. 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 either but 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 hama and aleppo the roads pass through it lib mainly the towns of just the show who are. no man to achieve that goal pro-government forces need to advance north into the planned buffer zone where the turkish military has observation posts he was told this area turkey. just overlook so there's going to be a lot of costs even there are. three churches in russia the church and u.s. it's in u.s. and russia if everybody will stay in this area the way they're there right now.

works a lot more toss in france or behind. 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 senate. beirut. now the pilot 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 of flight data recorders have been recovered u.s. secretary of state mike pompei as says the deployment of extra warships to the middle east is a response to actions by iran however he didn't specify what those actions were 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. the u.s. is accusing china of backtracking on its promises a day after president donald trump said he'd impose new tariffs on chinese goods

the u.s. will raise tariffs to twenty five percent on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products on friday the announcement came two days before representatives from both countries are scheduled to resume trade talks more than fifty million dollars m. bezels from a malaysian state funded been returned by the united states as part of a global anti corruption operation american assets linked to the malaysian one n.d.b. fund of been sold by the us department of justice totaling fifty seven million dollars the money had been linked to the step son of former malaysian prime minister najib razak who founded the fund us officials say it's just the first installment to be returned with almost one hundred forty million dollars being processed. religious leaders ensure lank are appealing for calm and restraint after shops and houses belonging to muslims were attacked in the town of the gumbo that

happened just weeks after attacks on easter sunday which killed two hundred fifty people catholic leaders have met 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 bullishness. we have to we have to be. not to react emotional we. would probably be. going to be rotten for creation we have to be very patient especially. we have to work together and we have total confidence. between.

south africa's president is promising to fight corruption as he seeks reelection on wednesday a series of scandals in recent years has dented the popularity of the ruling african national congress one of them involves a mental health facility welcome web reports from johannesburg. elizabeth pang says her brother christopher didn't have to die he had epilepsy and lived in a mental health care facility he then asked for two and took off in 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 money. i. don't really. want to have to.

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 specially in the last ten years it's made it increasingly difficult for the a.n.c. to retain. the worst scandals surfaced under former president jacob zuma treasury says billions of dollars of public money was stolen presidency will run opposer took over just over a year ago has launched a number of inquiries into the corruption scandals referred to some are still running there's a complete 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 very broad for what we know to m.p.'s as especially. on issues which are based on

commissions to ensure that where possible they can investigate it as a trial in the proper sanctions given to those who are in conflict with the law. bring in series expected to win wednesday's general election polls suggest it'll have the smallest majority it's ever had came to power in one thousand nine hundred four the end of white minority party. from oppose the 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 to send 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 more sincere undertaking 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 web al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. the former first lady of argentina ever perowne was born one hundred years ago as she was popularly known died of cancer just thirty three years old but their memory her inspiration her image lives on the news of calls and in art and in the kitchen reports from one of cyrus on the tributes marking the special occasion. she once said her greatest fear in life was to be forgotten one hundred years after her birth one hundred of it is marked in the center with osiris to ensure that they've appeared on is remembered last week that said her whole life as a young beautiful woman and actress. she was an example of what a woman can be. the name in the image of the former first lady still shine in all

corners of argentina books a story written about schools hospitals and restaurants are named after this dessert concocted in her honor but i read there were incorporating the image the figure of the values she represented the sensibility her main value was her sensibility which is necessary to overcome the difficult times are facing now david walker he was born in the seventh of may one thousand nine hundred nineteen in the argentine countryside a wealthy father abandoned the family to poverty aged fifteen she sought and found fame and fortune as an actress in one osiris there she met the rising politician then labor minister. at a function to raise money for earthquake victims the rest as they say is history instead of being a woman fighting for social justice for equality she was taken into the hearts of the argentine people and aspired to the universal story and today everyone here in argentina remembers her the couple married in one nine hundred forty five and the

following year he became president of argentina a plane skinny girl with prominent teeth transformed herself into a glamour icon both revered and despised she was something of an enigma while she was alive a champion of the poor wearing fur was a fighter for women's rights in a man's world a showpiece superstar ahead of a time sixty seven years after her death that attraction that influence remains just as strong. former president improbable candidate in this year's elections cristina fernandez. describes her as an inspiration in a way i think that inspires the new struggles and today you can see that many of those movements many of these stretched industry you have young people with addition we divvied. a sign we still think about it. still

emulated sometimes denigrated to put on one hundred years after her birth has very clearly not been forgotten. there al-jazeera one of cyrus. let's take you through some of the headlines here in al-jazeera now to reuters journalists who were jailed in me and have been released under a presidential amnesty they were convicted in december in a case that drew international condemnation it was sentenced to seven years in prison over the investigation into me and in crisis for haiti is the me and. the streets of nashville she says the threats against journalists in myanmar need to and 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 l.d.r. real erosion in the space for freedom of expression in the country at the moment

the myanmar military is launching a massive offensive. 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. so when the fighting between the armed groups in gaza and the israeli military appears to be holding but israel is warning the campaign isn't over twenty five palestinians and four israelis were killed in cross border attacks. libya's u.n. backed government is accusing the u.a.e. of directly supporting warlords are in his offensive to take the capital it's the first time it's named the united arab emirates as a backer of have to our world health organization says more than four hundred

people have been killed and thousands injured in his month long campaign for tripoli. so his electoral board is ordering a rerun of the stumbles mail election president roger tired of the ones party now only last that poll the main opposition has branded the decision plane of the tape issue. religious leaders in sri lanka are appealing for calm and restraint after shops and houses belonging to muslims were targeted in the town of negaunee bow that's just weeks after attacks on easter sunday which killed two hundred fifty people. those are your headlines the news continues here now does era after counting the cost you can keep up to date of course with all the news if you had over to our website. when your fiancee leaves behind bars. the engagement also becomes a life sentence. zero world hears

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