the rock and palestine, awe inspiring human story of the road. the designer of the atomic cycle analogy 0. 0, i, i show a force the us carries out late nights and strikes, targeting iranian, but fighters on the iraq serial border. ah, hello, i'm town, jordan, this is they are alive and also coming up south africa becomes the latest country to reimpose lockdown measures to combat the rapid rise in cases of the delta various the protests in the occupied west bank. i

met with the death of a permanent critic on the rescue operation in florida. building collapse continues as teams work around the clock to pull any survivors from the rubble. ah, the us military has conducted air strikes and iraq and syria, against iranian back to militias. 2 locations in syria and one in iraq, but targeted both along the rock syria border. iraq's popular mobilization for says, for that members were killed in the attacks. the pentagon says president biden has been clear that he will act to protect us personnel, given the ongoing series of attacks by iranian back groups targeting us interest and iraq. the president directed further military action to disrupt and deter such attacks from washington d. c. his was enjoyed late on sunday, the paragon announced that at the orders of jo brighton, the us president,

the us military launched defensive precision air strikes against 3 targets, 2 in syria and one in iraq. the targets are, are ron backed militias, according to the pentagon groups that have been trying to launch drone attacks on us forces and bases inside or rock. the pentagon goes on to say that the president used his constitutional authority to order these airstrikes in order to protect us forces, who are in iraq, providing training and support to the rocky military for my. but i had joined us live now from the rocky capital. my food, so what more details are emerging than about these u. s. s strikes and how significant it will do. and they seem significant, especially with the response from the public mobilization force,

especially from the curve has blow, has beloved gauge and the brigades of seed alicia, they say that they will retaliate and they will attack american facilities, american military facilities with the missiles. in fact, the politicians affiliated with the public obliteration for have been treating. and they say that the united states understands only the, the language of force. we know that this, these are the groups ran back to groups. are accused of luncheon get taxed by jones and missiles, a talking to get military, a u. s. military facilities over the past few months, including the military base in barra province, and also the center of diplomatic support near the international

airport. now these groups say and many other websites affiliated with the public verbalization force have been posting comments about retaliation. and also we know that these groups are blaming the united states forces for not withdrawing and for not implementing the decision or the mandate by the iraqi house of representatives. but meanwhile, the american side says that there is ice sleeper cells, again on the rise and iraq. and they have an agreement with the government of iraq, which, which is not the government is not in normal terms with these are most mate groups . alright, or maxima up to why had their life for us in baghdad? mood, thank you. well, as he been reporting, this is the 2nd time that president joe biden has ordered military strikes in the region. the 1st was in february against some of the same iranian that groups and

that was in response to rocket attacks on us bases pending and says there were 5 joan attacks on us led coalition personnel in iraq since april. and that iran but militia, including kathy, has bella and kathy said out, sure who to use the facility that was attacked on sunday. let's bring in james patterson. he's a former american diplomat and join us via skype from washington. d. c. james, good job. you back. so how important been all these us as strikes along the rock syria border and how effective are likely to be against those iran that's malicious? but i think those are 2 very good questions. i think these are significant this, these are significant strikes as are the ones as are the ones in february. it shows that president biden understands that us personality facility, then iraq are targeted by these militia that are financed by and supported by

iran. and if that he wants these attacks to stop, he has to address a ran and a israel found itself in the same situation where the hamas and hezbollah in gaza. so i think what we're looking for now is that there's any provocation between has belie and hallmarks or a ran against a israel. and if this could escalate, hopefully there won't be any escalation, but that's what you have to look out for. so everyone there is on high alert and going into the 20th anniversary of the september 11th attacks in the united states . we must be on high alert also, especially with these events leading into the anniversary of september 11th pro james. how does this play out? but in terms of those talks over the iran nuclear deal, just because washington is in directly talking to iran,

doesn't mean it won't deal with iran malign behavior on the ground with that's right. and i think this is very significant in that respect. but i don't know how it's going to lead, ran to negotiations. it looks to me like it pushes negotiations or re entry to the jcp away, farther away. so in terms of negotiated settlement with the j. c. p. o, a. i think that that president biden has to listen to the israelis end to the other arab nations in the goal as to what their response should be and how, how the deal should be renegotiated, if in fact it can be re negotiated or i james, james patterson, good to get your thoughts. thank you very much. indeed the talking about 0. thank you. thank you for being with us. thank you. and in iraq,

isis have claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on an electrical power station. the attack happened in the city of some motto, iraq's ministry of electricity says the allowed dean power station suffered severe damage after it was hit by a to show rockets. now now a devastating 3rd wave of carbon 19 has prompted tougher restrictions in south africa. presidents 0, i'm a puerto address, the nation and set out new locked down measures for 2 weeks. all schools will close starting on wednesday night time courtesy has been extended and there's a band and all gatherings and the sale of alcohol. delta variant 1st detected in india as led to the recent surge and one of africa's worst hit countries. we are in the grid of a devastating wave that by all indications, seems like it would be worse than those that have preceded it. the

peak of this 3rd wave looked set to be higher than the previous 2 waves. the 1st wave. if we recall last that 15 weeks, the 2nd wave lasted nearly 9 weeks. we don't know how long this one will last, but indications that it could last longer. for hospitals are overwhelmed and are running out of oxygen, that's running smith reports from case all indications, right? now what we've been told is that this 3rd wave is going to be worse than what we experienced in the 2nd way. and this is no, but annex spec to government. or the same thing that the 3rd wave would actually hit us, not as hard as the 2nd wave did. and this was because they weren't expecting damper variance to come to valve africa. but now what we've heard is that the adult

variant that is most dominant in feel that forgot the moment you played that bite from the president. he went on to say that, you know, private, public confident, the bottling under the pressure. we are hearing reports of ambulances, killing outside of people being turned away for treatment, for admission into hospital of people being treated at home, but not having enough oxygen. uh, hospital beds, running or hospitals running out of space on oxygen as well. and what we also, you know, you've made it very clear that the current restrictions clearly are not working and people aren't doing them either. israel newly elected prime minister natalie bennett has chad a corona virus cabinet meeting. despite having one of the worlds fastest, faxing, rollouts, and indoor mast mandate has been reinstated, as new infections rise due to a localized outbreak of a delta variant. israel reported a 130 new cobit 900 cases on saturday because you know,

our request is very modest. where mosque i'm going to get vaccinated, especially i am addressing our youth. i know how much you want to have fun the summer and you will be able to, i have 4 children in this age group. we don't want to impose any restrictions, not on parties, on trips or anything like that. but specifically because of this, if you don't want restrictions, go and get vaccinated today, talk to your parents, get vaccinated, let them no time restrictions are coming into effect in bangkok and other type provinces for a month. construction sites are closed, indoor, dining and gatherings of more than 20 people are ban. let's get more from tony chang. you join us live now from bangkok, tony. so what more can you tell us about these latest restrictions and what they actually mean on the ground? was you mentioned the, the main ones or the restaurant dining is now going to be cancelled for a month construction sites where they've seen

a little self construction work is bringing over into the high capital saving shut down for a month groups of more than 20 people has been banned and i think the effect is going to be we were already under a semi lockdown at the moment. the effect i think is going to be on the ground. the people really see no end to this at the moment. pretty much since march we paid in this sort of rolling state of love. the government has tried lifting restrictions, but they've done so. infections have risen. in fact today they were over 5000. that's the trend we've seen over the last month. they moved from 2000 a day to 3000 a day. now, 5000. in addition to which the number of fatalities is rising to yesterday was 51. and put that into perspective. in the whole of 2020, the total number of fatalities has 961. so the government is fighting hard, not to lockdown, but i think it realizes it's going to try and get this on the control that needs to

increase the measures already in place. yeah, tony and thailand was scheduled to ease restrictions with the hope of bringing back the tourist. so ordinary people make of all this i think they're very frustrated outside. very well. we're going to see on july the 1st the opening, the book. now that's on the island, the tourists will be allowed to arrive. they weren't be forced to take the full day mandatory warranty and the foreigners to be for everyone coming at the time that has had to go through the last 1415 months. and i think the hope was that they would have brought the numbers down by now. and this would take the start of the reopening of time to terrorism, which is vitally important, particularly for places i check my moods, but it looks like not only they not getting very many bookings for foreign to to are still facing problems at home. but i think also people will be very limited to

restrictions are coming into play. not just moving around the country are going to place in, in all the provinces, if you move from the circle red areas over there. so i think that's a real problem. and really the answer is vaccination highlands government has been very slow with the vaccination policy, about 7 percent of people are vaccinated here, but the government's really gonna have to step up its game if it wants to get people back into the country. all right, i tony 10 live for the in bangkok county, thank you. time for a short break here now to 0, when we come back. the, the worst fighting in yemen in the week's rival force is battle for control of an old rich region in the north and predictions of a major setback for france as far right and regional elections for on that status. i.

i, it's time for the perfect journey to winter sponsored by capital airways. hello. it's good to be with you. here is an update on the southwest monsoon. we're going to start to see it picked back up in intensity. so by to go, we have some heavy rain right down to connecticut and careless states on mondays. but as we head toward the east in the northeast, it's going to back off a bit. so we get into a bit of a breather, but still concentrated rain for eastern sections of bungler dash and the bar on monday. okay, we have been keeping tabs on this tropical energy moving north up the pacific ocean . it steered further to the east, so it's not going to have a big impact on tokyo as we 1st thought. but our plum rains really get go in here out toward these chinese see. but i think the bulk of the activity will stay out toward the pacific, but there is still the chance. eastern areas of hon. you could see some rain on monday. ok, next, se, asia, we've seen some pretty heavy rain on java,

but here is long bulk in indonesia, 134 millimeters of rain. but unusual because it should be falling further to the north and we're getting into some spells of sunshine across into china. so bangkok and hope you've been city peaks of sun in the forecast for you, off to the philippines right now. and you know, we're really locked into this weather and high humidity that includes for devout 32 degrees. but it's going to feel about $43.00. as we had into monday, sponsor cut on airways over all which produced one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. they will take shots even when they should not. i believe that sometime what the saudi had been doing the story behind the deadly attack by the saudi led coalition forces on a school bus in yemen, which killed 40 children yemen. the soda bus bombing on al jazeera,

ah, ah, ah, welcome back. a quick reminder about top stories here this hour. the us military has conducted air strikes against iranian bus militia, 2 locations in syria, and one in iran were targeted. but it's along the border. iraq's popular mobilization for says for them was killed in the attacks a devastating 3rd wave of cobra. 1900 south africa has pumped a new restriction for 2 weeks, includes a closure spoof and extension of a nighttime curfew and a pan gathering. now the desk told, from a collapse by florida apartment tower 3 days ago, has risen to 952 people are still unaccounted for. the rescue workers recovered 4

more bodies from the daybreak on sunday. john henry reports now from safe side with a rising death toll in dwindling hopes of finding survivors in the sir side, building collapse rescue workers have been battling rain fire and the cloth. as rescuers rummaged through tons of rubble from above and beneath a structural engineer tells al jazeera the collapse seems to started in the buildings foundation and the thinking landfill. it was built on deck might be something to do with the foundation settlement. it might be something to do with deep is some of the columns that might be deteriorated over time. remember, this building is close to the shoreline and when you have structures, especially country sections that are close to shore line there, it's 40. it's forced to salty. see what that kind of exhilaration deterioration of the country. search and rescue teams cut

a deep trench through pancake concrete and mangled metal and made a grim discovery. we continued all night to build that, that trench. and as a result of that, we were able to recover for additional bodies in the rubble as well as additional human remains. first responders say this is still a rescue mission, noting survivors could live on in so called void spaces. so avoid space can be created by pretty much anything if a wall falls and hit your refrigerator. instead of coming down to the floor, maybe a piece of furniture. maybe someone could be in a bath tub with a piece of wall over them, and the back of itself is avoid space for any space that could sustain life, family members or donating dna to identify those last in the champlain towers, south. but the search has been hampered by fire and rain. there is another worry just north of the building. they came down. there is another building called

champlain tower north built at the same time with similar materials and residence there are being offered the chance to voluntarily acura way. over the next 30 days, miami dade county officials will be inspecting it and other older high rise buildings, hoping to avoid another catastrophe on this sinking sands of miami beach. the chances of finding survivors decreased by the hour and by the day that the refill scattered throughout and its compact is extremely compact. so it's a very slow process where we have to sure we have to stabilize the best we can as we're moving through. after the rescue come the forensic engineers gathering samples from the collapse concrete and steel and putting their findings into computer simulations, we will try to replicate disputed by different simulations and based on the loss you have in your computer environment, simulating the same type of failure. then you will have

a better understanding of what factor or factors cause this failure. but 1st rescue workers are toiling around the clock to ensure that anyone who is managed to survive within avoid in the rebel is discovered before time runs out. john henderson, al jazeera surfside, florida, fighting between yemen government forces and who the rebels is left dozens of people dead in marin, the oil which region is the government's last northern stronghold and has implications for peace talks. charlotte bellis explains just a warning. a report contains flashes, the dusk and matter of only illuminates the offensive on germany government forces . darkness has done nothing to stop their recent offences. after almost 7 years of war, merab is the front line. the area is the saudi batch, guffman la stronghold and northern human. it is rich and natural resources and both sides belief controlling merit means controlling peace, negotiation. the city has become a hub,

unlike an operational room for the o. d coalition to attack him. and so i, they think by clayton matted, this actually will, will clear all know that hundreds have been killed since fighting escalated in merit in february since this day to government says the iranian, but these have renewed their if it's attacking them from the north south and west, the u. s. is fighting and marriage is a serious threat to achieving a truth. what time did you estimate it when we thank god, our morals are high and the tribes are joining to support the battle on the front line. marrow used to be a relative safe haven. it attracted hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting and other parts of the country. the people fed up with the situation in march. 1000000 people found in his hands and people set up and the all one who backing the government under funding that bc's for them,

the only hope for truth and all the peace in yemen who cease fire to miss alt this petrol station and merab earlier this month filling up his car was tell who ferg. he'd taken his 2 year old daughter with him to a market that morning. they too had settled in merab after being displaced by fighting for the north ta here and lay again with 2 of 21. people killed any buffalo that had happened. she was such a fun child. she loved having fun, a lot and lights, joking around her dad adored her. he was enough with her. could you give me more loss surrounded by leon's favorite toys and a battle looming every louder. c fighting intensifying is the prospect of peace fuels the war shall at bellis o jazeera. at least 7 people have been killed and more than 50 injured in an

explosion in bangladesh. a 3 story building on a busy street in central deck, i was destroyed. the cause of the blast is still not known. saudi arabia has released to permanent human rights defenders from prison off a nearly 3 years behind bars last fema outside the summer, but we were among a dozen or so activists. most of them, women were rounded up in august 2018 that campaign for women's rights drive and an end to the mail guardianship system. both restrictions have since been lifted, amnesty international and human rights watch of call on the saudi government to go a step further. and remove the shovel bands on the 2 women and others who have been released in the west bank, the violence classes between rival of palestinian groups over the death of a prominent critic of the palestinian authority. these were the scenes in bethlehem where rightly you tear gas and stuff going to protest as it were, trying to stop people who gathering outside the city headquarters. and there were similar things in ramallah angus growing over the death of his banner,

who was arrested by palestinians forces on thursday. if somebody says he was dragged away and severely beaten, stephanie deca has more the chaos on the streets of it. among the group pro government supporters march down to where around a 100 protesters had gathered peacefully chanting slogans against the palestinian authority. protesters were beaten, and members of the media were aggressive. the targeted many se been a concert campaign against the cam records were forced to be removed and taken. a colleague had his camera smashed. we were surrounded by thugs who forced us to bring down the satellite antenna on our old hosting trucks. there are security members, you know, but with the civil clause, the related to different security groups, military intelligence and the which called the the president guards. also this is part of that. most of them, you know, they are not civilians,

the security numbers. it's the 4th day of protests following the death of palestinian authority. critic, these are burnett, according to his family, he was beaten in the middle of the night, entertained by members of the palestinian security forces last thursday. anger at the government here is rising. 84 percent of the palestinian people say impulse that the palestinian authority is corrupt. so that's the 1st issue. the 2nd issue is that the p a has become an authoritarian regime. they are arresting activists. they are beating people in the streets and left, but not least, most of the people want to for go for freedom, wants to struggle for justice. the supplements are expanding and we see the p a and the p. a role has been assisting the occupations preventing the post and instruct seems like this rarely seen here. a large number of security forces were stationed not far from this,

and did nothing. we reached out to various members of the government. no one has so far given us a response. the level of intimidation over the media over the last couple of days has been immense. female journalists have been beaten with sticks. we were severely intimidated, not to film to bring down our life capabilities. and they continue to watch us to the point where we couldn't even take out our mobile phones. and all this prompted by a protest of only around 100 or so people. stephanie decor, ultra 0 law in the occupied west back mainstream. political parties in france appear to have fought in the missions of both the far right and president emanuel macro in a 2nd round of regional elections. exit polls indicate the traditional center, right. conservatives have secured 7 regions, while the center left party looks to be on cost control $5.00, marine la pens, national rally as fail to when it's 1st have a region and it's strong holder on a nice amount of macros. republic on the move hasn't won any regions either with the exit polls pointing to

a poor performance. but turn out to the polls has been low. it's estimated that only around 34 percent of people constant balance. as the final total test before next year's presidential election, natasha butler has moved from paris. one of the end of this election, france was pretty much divided between the traditional left the socialist from the allies and the traditional rights. the conservatives and supported very good results for them. indeed, confirming what we saw in the 1st round of the selection. very disappointing result . so for the far right leader marine, the penn national rally policy failed to win any regions in the selection. she had really been hoping to win a region in the south of france, where i can say i've been in the lease, but in the end he was knocked out by for conservative candidates. she is claiming for facts to turn out was low. she says the selection was not well organized, but they will of course be question being off with an a party as to why they did so

badly. emmanuel micro, the french president, his policy republican move, also failing to win any region. they'll also be a very disappointed republic on the move as a young policy was created by my cross spring board for the presidency, but it is failed over the years. the capture him faces imagination to win any wider grass roots support. nevertheless, some are saying that the regional election could be an indication of what is to come next. here we have the presidential elections and in 2022, 2017 micro and le pen were the front runners on poll suggests that they could be the front one is in 2022, but no doubt they will have to draw some conclusions and learn some lessons from these regional polls. a coffee has been declared in benny and democratic republic of congo after 3 bomb attacks over the weekend. 2 people were wounded when an improvised bomb detonated in a church in the eastern city on sunday. it's the 1st such attack on

a catholic church in the area. a life threatening heat wave is sweeping across parts of west and north america. excessive heat warnings and watches are in place for all of oregon. and washington states. in the us city of portland temperature sword record high of 42 degrees celsius on saturday. that's in the state of oregon, which normally experiences mild weather. ah, a quick check of the headlines they are now just here at the us military has conducted strikes against iranian batch militia. 2 locations in syria and one in iraq were targeted both along the border. iraq's popular midlands ation forces, se for them members were killed and they have vowed to respond as much would be wide reports from baghdad. the curve has below his beloved gauge in the brigades of said, alicia,

they say that they will retaliate and they will attack american facilities. american military.