on al jazeera, thousands of migrants set out from the city of dublin, chula, in the early hours of monday. there's numerous nationalities among them, but the vast majority, or from venice when, 0, one to reach the united states. it's already been a long and difficult journey for most. there are many of us migrants here. we need help. i just like this woman. i many people died in the jungle on our way here. it's the largest migrant care band to set out from southern mexico. this year they'll rest for now, but the plan is to take to the road again after midnight and make it as far as they can before the heat sets in once again. ah, ah, serious as israel has attacked support of tartarus and the countryside near damascus, 3 soldiers are believed to have died. ah,

lo, i'm mary. i'm no mozy in london. you're watching alger 0 also coming up on the program . a fire in a stampede in a coptic christian church in the egyptian city of gazer, dozens of dead. many of them children rescue as dick through the rubble by hand after an explosion he'll buy fireworks, has through buildings in the armenian capital. and in france, rivers run dry and fields go on water as the country experiences is worse, drought since records began. ah, well now we begin with developments in syria where there have been attacks on targets in the port city of tattoos and also in the countryside near the capital damascus series, military says 3 soldiers have been killed. military officials claim israel was bind

the attacks and syrian ad defenses were deployed are also reports that israeli fighter jazz launched missiles towards syria, from lebanese aerospace cartoon, where a cargo ship carrying grain exports from ukraine is due to arrive shortly. i'll just arizona hodder has more on this now from beirut. well here yet stay television is reporting attacks on targets in the code to city of talk to us and the damascus countryside. it didn't say what the targets were, but it is saying that 3 soldiers were killed him, 2 were injured and blaming as well for those strikes. now this will not be the 1st time they blame israel for such an attack. it's not the 1st time syria reports such an attack and the it's where the response has been. no comment is waiting. military usually doesn't comment on these individual operations,

but it's really politicians have acknowledge time. and again, over recent years, really that they've been targeting basis of iranian allied groups, groups like the, the 11 it has been which, which operates in syria. and in recent months, they have even targeted the port in the coastal city of lots of kia and damascus airport. in fact, the runway said damascus airport, we're deemed unusual, unusable for weeks. now israel does not hide the fact that it's cold in syria is to prevent it from entrenching itself apparently. and it won't tolerate any iranian presence on the border, and it also wants to stop any weapons transfers sophisticated weapons to has been neighboring 11 on this. all comes and it's heightening tensions in the region between iran and israel. such attacks usually are confined but the risk

of further escalation is there for israel is really that the biggest goal is to prevent iran from creating a base on its border in syria. the way that it's been on has the law now has a very strong position. while now investigators looking into the possibility that an electrical fault was behind, one of egypt was fires in recent years. at least $41.00 people died when the fire broke out during the sunday service and gazer. many of them were children, named bas raleigh has more. the dozens dead and dozens injured after a fire caused a stampede among worshippers at a cop to christian church in the egyptian city of diesel. the incident happened as thousands gathered for morning most at the abusive theme. church were not very, i saw people jumping from the floor, suffocation suffocation. all of them did so many did,

and there are children. we didn't know how to get to them. we didn't know who some this is or whose daughter that is this possible. jesus sits at the southern edge of the greater cairo area. one of the most densely populated places in the world. dilapidated infrastructure means accidental fires are common, made more likely due to the record high temperatures across the region. some of the fire and booster fin church thought to have been caused by a faulty air conditioner. but not to go up. we started to see from the outside. the smoke was getting bigger and people were wanting to jump from the upper floor of the building of the church to the next one. then we went inside and found the children and we started to take the bodies out. in the aftermath of the incident, the president of the father of cc announced the mobilization of quote, all states services to ensure that all measures are taken. the prosecutor's office has also opened an investigation. where can i conveyed the president's condolences

and my condolences to the religious leaders of the church, the families of the dead and injured people. we need them to know that we're standing with them and standing by them. i. some of the injured were firefighters, the blaze blocked in exit trapping churchgoers and causing the stampede. according to witnesses, most of those killed were children, zane basra, avi algebra, sorry, carries the founder and director of the european north african center for such. the fire was in one of the poor communities where she says, public safety is not a priority. the safety measures are not so good if you actually take a look on the location of the chairs, it's in a very small, it's what that's why i mentioned it's one of the oldest neighborhoods in k row because it's a very small st. safety measure is none, unfortunately, and the building is not supposed to be packed with a lot of

a citizens in such a way with lack of safety measures. of course, we are in summer vacations and lots of children and families and each. busy to, you know, families in egypt are religious by nature. either most of them are christians, they sent their children to the church in the morning just for a little quite to her environment in the house. and that's why it was packed with children, unfortunately. and it's, it's, it's one of the neighborhoods of the poor neighborhoods as well with that. that's why the tragedy is even bigger and well, sorry to hear have run through the accident place corps because such fires or anything related to the church is all with huge importance. in cairo, because uh, we've had instance of terrorism before and so on, but unfortunately it was an electricity accident and there are still fire

men there, the national security course revising, camera and everything, and investigating and so far, authorities have declared that accident as such rescue work as a searching for people trapped under rubble after a blast through the market in the armenian capital yerevan, at least 2 people were killed and scores injured. building had been used to store fireworks high force at reports. a major fire and a busy market about to get much worse. the building, local, say, had been used to store fireworks. the on a clear sunny day, this piece of smoke was visible across the armenian capital. emergency crews were soon battling to extinguish the flames. volunteers using debris to clear more of it from the sight. survivors carefully brought to safety. why do

things like fireworks and smoke everything shafted in a 2nd? their warehouses, technical rooms. it's like fireworks fireworks, fireworks. everything happened in one minute. people could not get out of the stores. the mess office in yerevan said an unknown number of people had been left trapped under the rebel. the sheer scale of this disaster becoming clear to all as desperate rescue efforts continued its been utter shock. this is the 1st time in my memory that such an explosion such a tragedy has happened in the capital city. everybody is glued to social media networks into the news to try and find out what's happening. rescuers have been hampered by more fi with explosions. as crews tried to make the area safe. the by late afternoon, heavy vehicles were clearing parts of the last zone. elsewhere,

rescuers were using their hands to search for any one trapped and stood alive. hurtful sit al jazeera. ah, ah, frances engineering is jaya sandersons records of began with most of the country now facing water restrictions crops, a withering and nuclear power plants operating reduce capacity, rivers are running dry and is there is banners smith was now until louis in the country southwest. i was originally shami of you. i've never seen the river as low as this is stephane marty tells me. he's a fisheries officer. in a normal year, the level of the garon here would be above our heads. the river cuts through to lose. it's the cities life blood, providing drinking water, irrigating farmland, and cooling a nuclear plant. stefan has had to take fish out of the river and put them into special tanks because the water is too warm. they're going to give us some food.

who did you, where they are, it's complicated, everything is connected. there will be less snow in the mountains. the glaciers will melt sooner. this year there has been much less snow, so less water in the mountain lakes. so pumping of the lakes is lower to keep the water longer. over 3 weeks, 40 percent of the water held in reserve in hydro electric dams, in the pyrenees. mountains has been released into the garron to keep it flowing just heat waves in europe are increasing at a faster rate than almost anywhere else on the planet. and global warming increases the likelihood of drought drying out soils and vegetation blade running fine la her minimum. so sunday medium, a couple flop hungry soil. after a morsel, we need 60 millimeters of rainfall to be able to replant the soil. crystal carpentier tells me, the forecast is for 3 millimeters this week. it's not enough. no. the corn harvest across france is expected to be 18 and a half percent lower this year than last. there's already

a global shortage because of the war in ukraine. even the sunflower of turned away from the scorching sun where there is access to water. there isn't enough to go around. crystal says she'll lose more than 30 percent of a crop this year soon. apostrophe is among gold. if we don't get enough water in this region, there will be no viable agriculture. even today, the cattle farmers here have no grass on their fields to day we on a land where it's crucial to develop irrigation. if only to be able to achieve minimum profitability. francis, worst route, since records began in 1958 has affected so many aspects of how people live here. i think we, when we reward or not we, we love train good cake and we reward because there is not enough waterfall for the fortune in july rainfall across france was down 84 percent compared to normal. according to the french weather service, the summer isn't over yet. bernard smith,

al jazeera to lose southwest france and narrow warnings at war travels on the rhine river, which stretches from switzerland to the netherlands, could reach critically low point to one of europe's most important trade routes. with container ships usually winding their way around its approximately 1232 kilometers of looping bands. the rhine is now so low that commercial shipping is unsustainable, making increasingly difficult to transport goods as drought and an energy crisis. quick europe, expert se levels at one of the river's main bottlenecks, at the germantown of cub a fall into about 40 centimeters. those levels are forecasts therefore, even further. officials are saying that a large fire in northeast spain as grow rapidly forcing the evacuation of 8 villages and 1500 people for his phone. zaragoza province developed her 50 kilometer perimeter in less than 24 hours. hundreds of fire fighters are working to

protect homes and put out the flames. 30, say the outlook for controlling the fire depends on the weather with strong gusty winds. forecast for sunday. watching out there a life from london. still head on the program. a baby is among 8 people injured when a gun goes on the rampaging occupied east jerusalem. family housing, the opera, and even dance parties and keys all while the country is at war. calling it ah, let's go with your world's weather update. hi there, thanks for joining in. we'll begin in asia pacific and we've got to break down a lot that's going on here. so 1st we had that tropical storm race away from tokyo

. so much dryer conditions are high. 34 will come back to that in a sec, but because this slug of rain for the korean peninsula, certainly could see some further flooding in sol. and it's making its way into northern honshu, where northern in central portions of a 100 not that long ago we had flooding there as well. and more than half a 1000000 people were displaced from their homes. ok, focusing on tokyo right now because it dries off in its sun, comes back out that it allows your temperature to hit 36 degrees. so could be your 16th 17th day so far this year above $35.00 degrees further solidifying that record . now for se, asia, we've got these waves of rain moving across southern mantra, rate through java, into borneo as well. and down with rain for southern sections of vietnam and thailand, down under it's been windy for tasmania state. still seen those winds whip around on monday, but not as intense as they have been here. we are on tuesday. next weather maker pulls into w a, spreading some rain and wind and land off in new zealand. a mess coming across that

has been see, that's going to be in the forecast on tuesday season. ah, abandoned by the state, social collectors are occupying spaces among the people, a militant architect working on the edge of the law. in the 1st episode of rebel law, protect santiago. feudal however, drove out just got into the realm of self building in the space gorilla architect on 00. ah ah,

i'll come back watching al jazeera life from london. the main stories now exposures have been reported in the syrian port. city of tar two's military is saying that israel attack targets in the area they were intercepted by syrian ad defenses. are also reports. the israeli fighter jets launched missiles towards syria, from lebanese as space. military says, 3 soldiers have been killed. investigators looking into possibility electrical fall was buying, one of egypt was fires in recent years. at least $41.00 people died and the fire broke out during sunday service in a church. and visa, many of them were children and rescue workers is searching for people trapped under rubble after a bloss ripped through a market in the immediate capital yerevan. at least 2 people were killed in scores injured building had been used to store firewall or 8 people,

including a baby was shot and injured in occupied east jerusalem early on sunday morning. lisa suspect has done himself in and confessed to the attack as i should go name reports the calm of the old city in the middle of the night shifted to the chaos of an attack on sunday. police say a man ambushed a bus in a parking lot. you're the western wall at about 1 30 in the morning. to be below, i see 40 toys i was bleeding. the driver says he tried to pull away, but was unable to because the wheelchair ramp was lowered simply limit of 2 of the wounded are in a serious condition. a pregnant woman in her thirties with an abdominal injury is still in the operating room, a very complex injury and a man in his sixties with injuries to the neck and had also a gunshot wound and is now in the intensive care unit. a 6 hour manhunt followed

police cordoned off the area, set up checkpoints to search people and cars and rated homes. in sil won, the palestinian neighborhood has previously been the site of violent protests against illegal demolitions of homes, with allegations that the israelis are pushing out families, police a i 24 year old palestinian man eventually turned himself in and confessed, came into boldly before gab will did this is alone attacker, a resident of the city with a criminal record must. there is one conclusion from this event, as from the previous events, whether hom, the citizens of israel, will have nowhere to run. who will hunt them down. and we will deal with them with full force of the law. amass which controls the gaza strip and the arm grew palestinian islamic. she had praised the attack saying it's a continuation of palestinian resistance to the israeli occupation. the attack

happened one week after egypt negotiated a ceasefire between israel and the islamic jihad. on august, 5th, israeli military lodged a 3 day operation against the group in gaza, killing nearly 50 palestinians, including 17 children. there have been concerns the cease fire would collapse because this limit jihad is lobbying for the release of 2 prisoners is really interim prime minister year le pete promised to restore calm and security to jerusalem. sunday's attack is a reminder that it's virtually impossible to ensure that it will last natasha named l 0. occupied east jerusalem. grain is being loaded onto the fuzzy nights and nations chanted vessel and ukraine. the 1st aid called cargo bound for drought affected east africa since russia's invasion in february, or then 16 merchant vessels of left you quiet in the past 2 weeks after

a deal was broken by the un in turkey, along with russia and ukraine. the you any monitoring coordinator and ukraine says the shipment will bring relief to drown regions this shipment and w b will say more about it is the 1st that will help many shipments to come to countries that are suffering great difficulties. there are at least 5 who are already in famine like conditions. and another 20 that are on the what we call the watch list for famine. so these shipments are going to be hugely important to those population. warn you, crying has been raging finale 6 months now and fighting, but take any severe on the eastern and sullen funds to the country. but to in the capital case, there is a sense that civilian life is starting to come back, but not quite to how it was john 100 explains now from keith in key, there is

a defiant celebration. residents are out unafraid and active. call it the new normal months ago, people hidden bomb shelters fearing the russian invasion, but ukraine's troops pushed them back. and now the battle lines are far away. to normal life, slowly coming back to cave, we open right now, much more restaurants. go for it, sir. the business colon baggins this slowly starting to walk. but her, it's allusion blue sky, sunshine, summer and through a we have no forget the scope of congress. canada's eastern key. if it's hell is big boggle where our buttress defend our country. the cities famous opera house is open, but no one has forgotten that this is a country at war and not far off. we're not your caregiver should be under,

shall we never day. we're not like you dunbar somewhere. so me yet? no, like we're not scared. he's not tourist from the other parts of ukraine have returned to their capital. this might be a war zone, but it doesn't have to feel like wine. and that's the point. these people are out despite the occupation is difficult as it is the residence of keeps a life goes on. it had to flee to other counties because it was too scary to stay in ukraine. but though i'm back and it's still spooky every day when we have air res everson has changed, but we need to move forward and to leave ah, for the youth, the key, the raved parties downtown, go on though they now start at 5 p. m. in order to end in time for curfew,

ah, amid the fog of war, the celebration, the defiant insistence on living, something like normal life continues. john henderson, al jazeera keith, a u. s. congressional delegation as arrived in taiwan for a 2 day visit as military tensions between the island and china remain high. delegation will discuss issues including us, taiwan relations, and global supply chains. china has say several minutes ago, expressive anger at this my vivid fire tape. i view as healthy from nancy pelosi us as china overreacted to the visit and called the military drills destabilizing focused on is mocking. 75 years of independence. a ceremony was held in karachi at the memorial for the country sound, and mohammed ali gena. but his colonial will ended in $947.00 with the petition of india,

and the formation of pakistan out there is come all heiner is in the city of the horn, has more on the independent celebrations that people are gross buggers gone out in a festive mood, they want to forget their problems. they said one day read the whole nature comes together. despite the political differences, they can all make difficulties and various prizes that are buried by their country . edward at the stroke of midnight 75 years ago that this became an independent nature and for the muslim, the occasion was celebrated reply was display across the country with a $31.00 gun salute and a federal capital or 21 gun salute. and a provincial gap or dose all around the country that people have come out in large numbers with their families, our, the national flag, and of gods reading their badges. some of them even dressed in green and white with

the budget on the national gallery. go to modern day job or learn more people like to forget their problems, particularly when it comes to independence day. the buckets on a prime miniature barger dave hoisting the flag in the federal cabra girl, was just hard to do. rekey, celebrating the 75th anniversary of pakistan's independence. i congratulate all pakistan these within and outside the country from the core of my heart. and in the meantime, emerald con rallying at the border in a large draw for the city of la haul, which was ordered by den go toggle freeborn the 3rd there did not get the broader but also a celebration commemorated budget on 75th golden jubilee. the country of god get north 1st more political uncertainty, but in de brenda did an occasion for everyone to come together. all the agent for

a kind of a salman rushdie says his injuries are severe, but that his condition is improving. and he's on the road to recovery. on sunday, the author was taken off a ventilator nearly 2 days off to being stabbed. 75 year old was attacked while on stage at an event in new york state. the man charged over the tank pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and has been remanded in custody. hardy matters accused of stabbing, wished he several times in the neck and the stomach, the author's face, years of death threats. his novel, the satanic verses are stories about identity and belonging are always plentiful at the edinburgh aunt's festival. and this is no different the worn ukraine is providing a rich you seem of material for performers. at the fringes out there is john hall discovered disposable to me. sammy, that was oh, boy,

glean items like identity was of edinburgh festival. to renew with shows, with plenty about migration and refugees. safety below me. never more so than in a year old war. someone comes along nancy, nancy, now you saw it. all right? you know who the he's, he's been call when you think of russia, the imperial delusion cost to shadow across the post soviet optic in like land, a psychological thriller about russia and the rise of what happened decades later. the russians invasion of ukraine is the fabric of checking cranium, circus. dom fact boom. i show you the resilience to the face of adversity. it goes, but it's a portion of young energy. also, they have a lot of physicians in,

in the show check in your brain traditions pretty much it's about like freedom. their journey tails across landed borders of discovery and self awareness. the ultimate audience journey though, is simply deciding what to watch in the wilderness see a choice. then you come across a guy who's a british irish palestinian working doctor, who's also a comedian and a cloud. my dream is to be able to make a show that will make anyone anywhere in the world love. that's really what i want . i kind of want to do, explore my own identity a little bit. and that identity is very complicated. you want to see a show for me with a 1st hand experience of how far the, the people who make up anyway. well,

i don't think it's unique to the people being british. i think it's just something that people are familiar with and not to be expected. and so my job is to bridge the gap and to sort of say, hey guys, come come on this journey with me. i know it's, i'm unfamiliar. i know it's a bit different, but come on this journey with me. it'll be worth it. i go to the jo l 20. edinburgh was worn. everything we're covering right here, al jazeera dot com, find plenty of articles i take you behind the headlines as well. ah quick look at the main stories we're following. the sound have been explosions, reports in the syrian port, city of tar two's military says that israel attacked targets in the area. they were intercepted by syrian ad.