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seek asylum he leaves behind a country in political turmoil. spain's 2 left wing parties reach a deal to form a government after the socialists for short term a majority in the election. follow israeli airstrikes on gaza have killed 5 palestinians including a senior islamic jihad commander triggering the worst cross border violence in months funerals have been held for a lot though and his wife who died in the targeted strike on their home overnight israeli airstrikes have also hit apartment buildings and how much facility in the territory of fighters in gaza have retaliated firing more than 50 rockets into israel one exploded on a busy highway now really missing cars and buses a factory in there or was also hit setting it on fire israeli prime minister

benjamin netanyahu said the overnight strike was approved by his security cabinet 10 days ago. how many reports. in the sky above israeli cities israel's defense system attempted to intercept palestinian rockets. and damage on the ground can be seen there is a state of alert some schools have been closed and transportation services disrupted as islamic jihad fighters fired rockets in retaliation for the assassination of one of their senior leaders in gaza early on monday and israeli fighter jets targeted senior islamic jihad leader. at his home he was killed along with his wife some of his children were also injured the part of the building where he was lodging has been entirely destroyed extensive damage was also caused in the immediate area he's vowed a quick and unlimited event said that have we will make the enemy pay

a heavy price and his simplest and soldiers will pay a heavy price for the crime of assessing knighting and destroying the harm of ellida. and his wife and assess and i don't know what al of jury and his family at the site on after the firing of the 1st rockets from gaza the israeli military shot all the border crossings into gaza and sirens were heard in several towns in central israel israel says of all i was the mastermind of recent attacks against its territory. the action to thwart him was recommended by the chief of staff the head of the ship back and security officials it was discussed in the cabinet in a row of in-depth discussions over the past few months the final decision was unanimously agreed on in the cabinet 10 days ago and the cabinet gave me authority to implemented at a time that would be suggested by the i.d.f. and the shabak the i.d.f. in the shabak indeed recognize a time to recognize the window of opportunity to carry out the operation under the best conditions with a maximum chance of success and minimum impact on bystanders. on tuesday to israeli

jets or saw launched raids on the syrian capital damascus the target was another islamic jihad. member identified as a common our duty to survive the raid but his son was killed. palestinian islamic jihad is the 2nd largest armed group in gaza it allegedly has strong ties with iran and the hardline stance against israel. the new escalation threatens to upset a fragile truce between hamas and israel are dizzy a. force it is only israel guard a gaza border for us he has the latest from there. well into the evening now and rocket fire has continued to come out of the gaza strip being intercepted by the iron dome as it has throughout the day since the targeted assassination by israel of one of islamic jihad's most senior figures by her. whom israel blames for a spate of rocket attacks into israeli territory from gaza over recent months the

israeli military saying that he was planning further attacks on israel that they had warned islamic jihad about his conduct about his plans and that he continued with those activities and that is why they took the decision to kill him of course killing his wife as well in that attack on their home the israeli prime minister has very much been saying this was a military and intelligence led operation this comes at a time when benjamin netanyahu is under immense pressure having gone through a 2nd inconclusive election once again trying to form a unity government with his main rival the former army chief benny gantz and at the same time looking down the barrel of an imminent decision by the attorney general of israel on whether or not to prosecute him to charge him with 3 separate corruption cases netanyahu says that this was very much a recommendation coming from the military and from the intelligence that cabinet signed off on this operation 10 days ago it was up to the professionals to decide

when the best window of opportunity was and it was deemed to have been in the early hours of tuesday morning the consequences though everybody understands could be very grave the stakes are extremely high israel says it doesn't want to see an escalation and yet islamic jihad is promising a much bigger response that we've seen in recent months how mass is also saying that it will stand with its rival faction inside gaza so much depends on how the night hours play out as to whether this really does descend into a much bigger conflict in the coming days. in hong kong police fired tear gas to force back hundreds of protesters targeting the city's major universities more protests continue in the central business district demonstrations started in june against the plan to around allow extradition of suspects to mainland china that bill was withdrawn but activists are demanding greater democracy now and police accountability in hong kong let's get the latest now from gopalan who joins us on

the phone now from hong kong so david what is happening there on the streets. that's right has in many parts of hong kong are involved in chaos protesters setting up blockades running battles with police it's happening in 'd this particular thing the what we've seen the custom a cat and mouse game to sleep in protesters then taking away protests there some areas with tear gas. turning up somewhere else the december seeing an escalating in its collation of the violence the confrontation between the police and protesters and one of the focal points of today's protests is the chinese university of hong kong students had barricaded themselves inside the university trying to stop from coming in to the university that started earlier in the day but please if you protesters throwing bricks from a bridge that connected the university to a railway station and then followed protesters or students into the university and

then started chasing them hitting them with the but also trying to arrest them as created throughout the day into a major confrontation into the evening with even the vice chancellor trying to intervene and getting sarah gas eventually poachers filing petrol firing petrol bomb setting up sara caves tally aping with what you can and tear gas and we're hearing even a rubber bullets and it seems that it just it just has escalated deescalated and meanwhile protesters are calling for reinforcements in social media with more people joining so it seems like both sides are digging their heels in at the moment already if i so that there be a gopal alive there on the phone from coal. now former bolivian president evo morales is about to arrive in mexico city after the government there offered him asylum morales resigned on sunday after weeks of protests following his

disputed reelection the country he led for 13 years though is bracing for more violence as thousands of his supporters marched toward the bolivian capital in a moment we'll speak to theresa bo who's in mirali a stronghold of a loud toll but 1st let's go to mary on the sanchez who is in la paz for us so money on in the power vacuum left by more or less what happens next do we know anything about who's taking over. well hasn't the situation right now is very uncertain around $2521.00 g.m.t. there should be a session in the at the national assembly to swear in the new interim president but there are several problems arising now to begin with they need to have 50 percent plus one legislators in order for the session to be illegal and illegitimate that

is unlikely we're not sure that will happen because we understand that members of the must party the party. you ever met on this is party in. the they have the seats for 2 thirds of all. 4 of the seats in the house so what happens is that they are insane that legislators from members of the must party are calling on their legislators to resign and not attend the session the session the session right now is mandatory but if if there is no quorum there is no vote but if there is a quorum then what happens is that to begin with they have to accept officially the resignation of former president they will borderless after that happens it is unclear if there will be a vote for the interim president we already know her name she is i knew she's

a senator the next in line to take over but it is unclear if she would be sworn in today or perhaps that would be moved on to tomorrow that means the power vacuum here continues and the political instability continues. all right marianna thanks for that matter on the sanchez lifeforce in the believe you and captain let's go now to tonight's about who is live from. stronghold as we said there so tonight. gone as president and gone from bolivia where does that leave his supporters. well we're here in a little this is district 8 from as you can see there's thousands and thousands of people that are coming here and they're saying that the going to march towards past towards class have leisure that's where people are gathering people here are get doing assemblies they're coming from different towns all of bolivia and what they say is that they won't recognize any new government they're saying that joining an

years who's supposed to be sworn in later today won't be there precedent they're saying that they will what ellis needs to come back to live via what's in. all right as you just saw there looks like we've lost our connection to. their apology apologies for that we'll move on still ahead on that can a prisoner swap in afghanistan contribute to a lasting peace deal with the taliban. and out of control bushfires now threatening australia's largest city. have a smell the change of seasons now over china the northeast monsoon should be what we're looking for and despite the fact the cloud is still coming out of the high

ground producing rain every now and again in for example sichuan that comes further inland if you clear that half of the way which is i think the trend it will feel cooler still low humidities or shanghai as it succeed in hong kong at $26.00 degrees in the south china sea meaning the coast of vietnam get some rain but there's precious little else the monsoon troughs gone from india so a few showers in kerala or sri lanka seem to be the thing and temps around about the 30 mark is typical but still the still cold and i do mean cold compare with the average over places the north of new delhi up in srinagar jammu kashmir is more rain and snow showers are even possible down the middle of pakistan which is an unusual sight for this time of the year. there was rain on sunday in qatar significant rain and in the u.a.e. it's gone now so to signify as to change our season skies are clear now the breeze isn't particularly strong anywhere but by day the highest temperature doe has an

example is 28 it's still about 30 in the western side he was 34 in mecca. dreams johnson and entertainments await the people to rise above the violence around them so it's my role to give these girls a different idea that they can leave the wards of this community 3 short films show how performance creates a home and family and gives hope and opportunity i agee selects on al-jazeera.

hello again you're watching i j a reminder of our top stories this hour 5 people including a palestinian islamic jihad commander have been killed and at least 20 injured in israeli airstrikes on gaza the targeted killing about high in gaza triggered a wave of rocket attacks from rebel fighters israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the strike was approved 10 days ago by the security cabinet. and hong kong police fired tear gas to force back hundreds of protesters targeting the city's major university more protests continue in the central business district they're burning tires thank clashing with police. for bolivian president evo morales will arrive in mexico city after the government there are fed him asylum well it's resigned on sunday after weeks of protests following his disputed reelection in bolivia. spain's acting prime minister has agreed in principle to

form a government paid the last century's socialists got the most of the got the most votes rather in sunday's election but not enough to form a majority he is now signing a coalition deal with the far left party leaders put damus but the 2 parties are still short of a majority in parliament and say they will hold talks with other parties about getting their support. has more now from kara near the border with france. this is the beginning of the road that could lead to a political breakthrough but several things need to happen before that the 1st one is that the king of spain needs to mandate pederasts and just to try to form a government then pedro century or so the head of the socialist party with now his counterpart the head of the. party to put forward their agreement. parliament and in each you try to get $176.00 votes that is

the out majority at the moment they have to get or secured a $158.00 so the 18 sure now will they get that out right majority most unlikely so then they will have to make some political dealings with other parties maybe the basque parties but then still they would be short of that majority so maybe at that point they will have to reach out to at least one of the poor independence party is clear of oblique and i would say the left leaning but that would not happen unless the that. the catalan party gets something in the richardson there's a still a lot of trading that needs to happen a lot of negotiations that need to happen but you do get a sense that really the socialist and put they most this time are standing together to counter that rise of the far right party vox that fared really well

dubbed more than doubling its number of seats compared to the elections at half an earlier this year i mean it was these 2 men pedro centers and the air there for them was that were not able to agree after the april elections and that led to these past elections that happened a few days ago this time they're standing together still they need to convince others to join them. all right let's get back to our story in bolivia where president abel morales has resigned and is on his way to mexico to seek asylum theresa bo joins us live from el al to once again the morales stronghold hopefully we fixed the technical issues we had there earlier so today so what is the mood there are mung with all its supporters. well people

are extremely angry we've seen thousands and thousands of people who are coming through one main road and they're carrying out assemblies and then they're getting together and getting ready to march towards fill out some leisure that's right in the capital. is a stronghold for abel morales and people are saying that they feel offended they feel offended because in the past few days they have seen what is this is their indigenous traditional flag it's called the with hala they say that they've seen burn in bolivia and this is something that worries them very much because they fear that there is going to be coming back over here is that the country let's not forget what it will want to lift the chief lawyer who was in office over 13 years in power a time when people saw themselves dignified where they saw their rights they saw their lives improved so they have been discriminated for generations and that's why they're demanding a comeback over more or less they're also saying that even though a new president could be sworn in later today in bolivia of

a they won't acknowledge it that they will continue protesting and demanding their rights fighting against racism levy at this point is extremely polarized is extremely i mean extremely dangerous situation mostly because of the differences in this country on one side you've got some fact lucilla sierra where people have been opposing able not alison's basically took office and this people who they say able to who they say able what they were dignified by able more or less presidency when you talk to many many people they're saying that they respect what alice presidency some are very critical of the way he handled this past months not respecting a referendum for example that did not authorize him to run again others are saying that he committed fraud but for this people here he changed their lives. that i saw both live for us there in a lot of your face through this. the afghan government says it is releasing 3

senior taliban leaders in exchange for 2 foreign professes american kevin king an australian timothy weeks were kidnapped outside the american university in kabul 3 years ago the taliban prisoners include anas hakani the older brother of the group's deputy leader seized in 2014 president of lani says the decision was made in his words in the interests of the afghan people. duck is a national security analyst in afghanistan he joins us now from kabul thanks very much for being with us so the afghan president presumably making reference there to the fact that this was not an easy decision on their part but he has to look at the bigger picture here in terms of of reaching some type of a lasting settlement with with the taliban what does this prisoner swap do towards cheating that. well i think this is

a perfect. sign of trying to build a confidence building measures between the taliban the united states of america and also the afghan government we also know that the president trumps 2 tweets basically destructed the whole peace process that had gained momentum. exchange of these prisoners that includes professors from the american university of understand and the taliban prisoners that includes a nasir conny brother of the taliban icon the son said on his brother is a good confidence building measure to what really who fought is that this would be we've is is glad a part for an interim african dialogue where the african government the africans are large and the taliban could sit now i don't dictate but it and sort of talk about if you chirpy sort of understand indications that we might have these into african dialogue happen in china things are still not very pled but it's

just like you said it was a difficult decision for the african government because there were a lot of people who would have demanding the execution of an us economy but like i always say. this war in conflict would not get us anywhere and you think god has and getting us for that in negotiations is a is a positive step and should be a positive sign for the future of afghanistan what do you say then to those people who are not happy about about the release of the taliban prisoners who don't trust the taliban a group that up until now still doesn't fully recognize the afghan government and sensually sees them as an american puppet so what does all of that do towards achieving any any lasting peace in the country. well obviously you would you would have people in. afghan government and also among taliban who still

favors war listed favors conflict because they have vested interests in conflicts and anything that is deemed to end this conflict it will not serve their interests so they will oppose it and the lines that they are sending is that the taliban have indulged in suicide attacks they have good afghans and now we have one of their a brother of their leaders who was responsible for their finances in our custody how could you let him out he should be executed but this is not going to solve the . and the future of afghans as far as this whole peace process is concerned this is a good confidence building measure and africans the taliban the afghan government the afghan people should be happy about it because i think if this ultimately leads to an introduction dialogue and negotiations between the taliban and and the afghan

government why not good to get your perspective on this one of them thanks very much for being. our fire chiefs in australia say the bushfires they're sweeping across parts of the country have reached catastrophic levels strong winds and high temperatures are fanning the flames close to sydney and forecasters say weather conditions this week could make the situation even worse andrew thomas reports. australia's fire service chiefs have described conditions as catastrophic high temperatures strong winds and dry conditions are making bushfires travel fast and people are being warned to prepare themselves for evacuate complacency kills we cannot afford for people to be complacent the fact that the catastrophic writing is the that's that's the highest level risk of all about dozens of fires a blazing in the state of new south wales and there are more in queensland to the

north and in western australia and many have come close to cities this one just 18 kilometers northwest of sydney's famous harbor bridge but firefighters were able to contain it got home from work and then heard sirens ok up front were 345 trucks on the straight line of cars the trees. everyone is running right now another fire took hold in sydney's western suburbs they spot fighters or hosing down the last of the smouldering trees here but authorities are saying that this is the exception rather than the rule in these catastrophic conditions they can't hope to get on top of every fire. emergency alerts have been issued some by phone and some people warned it was too late to leave their homes and they were safe inside although that doesn't mean it's safe. many fires are out of control and with more strong winds and high temperatures forecast for the end of this week they're likely to spread.

al-jazeera sydney. cambodian opposition politician has met germany's ambassador a day after his release from house arrest cam so her welcomed christian berger to his home in phnom penh he still faces treason charges and his family and from politics cambodian government has been facing increasing international pressure over its crackdown on the opposition and another opposition figure cambodian national rescue party acting leader sam rainsy says he'll stay in exile in malaysia you know we will find another way to go back to. i will be staying in the region because the situation can change very quickly and i will go back in cambodia. when they say much yearly physical possibility to do so with my colleagues and. the u.s.

supreme court will hear 2 cases on president trump's crackdown on immigration it's hearing arguments to decide whether the trumpet ministrations cancellation of the so-called backup program that affected $700000.00 people was unlawful the obama era law prevented the deportation of undocumented migrants who came to the u.s. as children separately the court will hear the case of a 15 year old boy killed in mexico by a bullet fired from across the border by a u.s. patrol agent in texas 9 years ago judges will rule if said joe fernandez parents can see the border agent for their son's death the verdicts for these cases are expected in june next year how do you know castro is outside the supreme court in washington these are young undocumented immigrants who were educated in the united states many have college degrees and some have even served honorably in the u.s. military in 2012 president rock obama gave them the opportunity to come out of the

shadows by offering them temporary protection from view for patient and work permit but after president trump took trump took office he tried to rescind the government program known as dhaka however a lower court has been siding with these young immigrants saying that they do offer a significant contribution to the country and in fact holding shows that the american public has sympathy for dr recipients as well president trump has gone back and forth on the matter at times saying that he wants to help utilize the status of these young immigrants but this morning on twitter having only harsh words writing many of the people in dhaka no longer very young are far from angels some are very tough hardened criminals in fact none of the doctor recipients have serious criminal records that's a factor that would have disqualified them from the government program in the 1st place and now these. 800000 young immigrants are taking their fight to the u.s.

supreme court. a former u.s. president jimmy carter is recovering from surgery after being admitted to hospital in atlanta the operation was to relieve pressure on the 95 year old's brain after aids after he'd had a series of falls carter was us president from 1977 to 1981. dollar let's get a round up of the top stories now on al jazeera 5 people including a palestinian slamming jihad commander have been killed at least 30 injured in israeli airstrikes on gaza the targeted killing of a lot in gaza triggered a wave of rocket attacks from rebel fighters israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the strike was approved 10 days ago by the security cabinet harry

force that has more from the israel gaza border well into the evening now and rocket fire has continued to come out of the gaza strip being intercepted by the iron dome as it has throughout the day since the targeted assassination by israel of one of islamic jihad's most senior figures. whom israel blames for a spate of rocket attacks into israeli territory from gaza over recent months the israeli military saying that he was planning further attacks on israel that they had warned islamic jihad about his conduct about his plans and that he continued with those activities and that is why they took the decision to kill him of course killing his wife as well in that attack. in hong kong police to fire tear gas to force back hundreds of protesters targeting major university demonstrators burned tires and forward police in the business district of central. former bolivian president evo morales will arrive in mexico city after

a government they offered him asylum rallies resigned on sunday after weeks of protests from his disputed reelection spain's acting prime minister has agreed in principle to form a government pedro sanchez socialists got the most votes in sunday's election but not enough to form a majority he's now signing a coalition deal with the far left party need us but they must the afghan government says it's releasing 3 senior taliban leaders in exchange for 2 foreign professes american kevin king an australian timothy weeks were kidnapped outside the american university in kabul 3 years ago the taliban prisoners include the older brother of the group's deputy leader seized in 2014 those are the headlines we're back in half an hour.

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