under cover of reporting and for me, exclusive stories explosive results, al jazeera investigations, the muslim community in diana, living in a vibrant harvey in cal chat. this country we are blessed. we live in harmony with all the gym. al jazeera well to travel to south america for a guy, and he's ramadan is long ago the of late and they enjoy doing it. we have a rich country and thought of diversity, and that the something that we can celebrate. graham, at an in diana analysis era. ah, israeli as strikes own gun as a carry on till dawn off to rockets, a fired from the strip. israel also targets ponts of southern lebanon,

a di onto the biggest barrage of rocket, far into its territory since 2006. ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up to black counts democrats in the usa to tennessee or expelled to taking part in gun control protests after a school shooting. last month. the biden administration says prison and donald trump is to blame for the chaotic withdrawal of troops from afghanistan. ah, we begin in garza with fears of escalation, remain high after overnight it strikes by israel. and the last hour israel's iron

dome defense system was seen shooting down rockets being fired from garza. israel's military has been heading targets and the palestinian enclave overnight. ha moss has condemned what it calls an aggression the strikes come off to prime minister benjamin netanyahu early avow to respond to rocket attacks. israel says it's targeting her mass lillia. we spoke on the phone to bus him, name a member of hamas, and garza. i am talking to while i'm hugging my children here because we have no no place to hide or no place to secure safe shelter. we can expect that anytime that text to attacks high buildings like what we have done in all the previous additions. i'm kidding. that is, of civilians in one shot like what happened in $21.00 to $1.00. the yes. the people

here on the ground, a very kid. but at the same time they have no, no choice is other than 2 to support the choice of federal defense. we are only defending on so we are under continuous aggression 24 hours, 7 days a week. you can talk about 17 years of seo. you can know for to be to admissions. therefore, we have no choices of them to defend ourselves. it has always been a response to aggression, to continuous emissions on a daily basis. you can simply remember me, read the situation in the numbers and figures since the beginning of this year alone, 90 for the thing and have been killed, including around 20 children, the our homes and houses are demolished on holiest belief. is the

stormed on a daily basis. israel's military also carried out strikes in the south of lebanon. explosions have been reported in the coastal city of tier, is hurl says its hit, a mass targets in southern lebanon. it comes off to rockets for 5 from the area and israel earlier on thursday than a 100, joins us live in bay roots. and what we know about these latest strikes by israel at approximately, for a m local time, a series of israeli air strikes targeted the southern city of tire. there were no casualties as well. says it targeted hamas positions among the areas that were hit, a village where the rockets that were launched yesterday from southern lebanon toward northern israel was hit. but this is, these are all open spaces. there were no casualties which really suggests that

israel may not have wanted an escalation. and since those strikes there haven't been any further strikes. so another indication that their response as well response could be limited and they are not seeking to why then the scope of their operations. it is still too early to tell. but clearly, over the past 24 hours, it was the most serious escalation along the border since the 2006 war between israel and has the law. yes, over the years we have seen incidence cross border fire. but yesterday, the number of rockets that were fired were much, much higher. now there's been no claim of responsibility. israel is pointing the finger at the palestinian group from us and the lebanese army, which along with the un peacekeeping force, is investigating to determine who was responsible. you touched on the, but can you put this into context for us?

what lead up to this and what potentially might happen from here? well, usually when there are attentions in jerusalem, we notice that, you know, rockets are fired from southern lebanon, into northern israel, most often than not their political messages. they want to tell israel that they could face more than one front if they continue their attacks on palestinian worshippers or, or palestinians the message really from the so called axis of resistance. huh. and lebanon's has the law as well as other groups that are at war with israel. what they're telling them is that, you know, we can open more fronts. we can put more pressure on you. so they usually coincide with tensions in jerusalem, but also it coincides with a visit to lebanon. bite is miles from here. he's the head of this political bureau . he's 11 on, according to my sources on a private visit. but he is meeting has been officials and has been how much do not

hide their cooperation and cooperation. and now many security sources here will tell you, yes, maybe palestinian groups launched those rockets, but they couldn't have done it without as well as approval and backing. now there's also another angle to the story, and that is attention and neighboring syria where israel and iran are at war, where israel has stepped up its airstrikes against iranian targets, and iran vowing revenge. now, could this also be a message from the iranians to the israelis. so political message is being sent across the border, the lebanese government condemning the rocket fire saying that lebanon should not be used as a staging ground to launch attacks and operations in order not to the stabilize the securities of this country. okay, thank you so much. that is and hold for us in beverage or southern using the republican controlled tennessee house of representatives has voted to expel 2

democrats for the role and the gun control protest at the state house representatives. justin jones and justin pierson have called it a dark day in the states history. the demonstration happened 4 days after nashville school shooting, in which 6 people including 3 children, were killed. jones pearson and another democrat laid protest is onto the house floor to demand strict gun laws. my can has more on the story from washington d. c. well, we have had now the tennessee house objecting to democrats who had claimed lead protests in the house against the house rules. those 2 were african americans and there was a sufficient vote to get them expelled the expulsion requiring 2 thirds. however, with a 3rd democratic charge who happens to be white at the 2 foods majority was not achieved . so she was not objected from the house. but this is a situation where the,

those who have been thrown out of the house insist that this is anti democratic, a dog's day for democracy. they say they insist as well that they were speaking in cohesion and together with the relatives and friends of those who been killed in that shooting the week before. and they had just be in a statement issued by president biden. and all of this harshly critical of tennessee house republicans saying that today's expulsion of law makers who engaged in peaceful protests is shocking and democratic. and without precedent. he's also called on congress to revisit, to issuing strong good gun laws. put himself right behind those law makers in tennessee who have now been expelled. what happens next? well, within 30 days, special elections have be to be called to replace these 2 seats. the 2 who've been expelled can stand in those elections. david blog is

a national security consultant and a former staff for joe biden. when the president was sinister, he says the expulsions shall be should be taken very seriously. unfortunately, i think it will happen in other states. but this, it's a, it is a dark day as representative jones and pearson have mentioned. it's a calamity, it's, it's a us, a national embarrassment that this is happen. one of the main tenets of the united states government, not only federal or state, but all the entire government is the 1st amendment. and we have the right to peacefully assemble to peacefully us free speech ah, and a free press. so what's next? what is the tennessee the government going to do next to go after reporters who don't write a favorable stories about the governor or,

or the repub republican party. it's a, it's a terrible day and i think it's, it's something that done. unfortunately, we're going to see more of adulthood. franco is a republican strategist. he believes the tennessee house of representatives did the right thing by expelling the 2 democrats. this wasn't a demonstration. these were before people got were rioting, they were pushing police officers. they broke through lines. this wasn't anything, but as the legislature say, an insurrection. it's really ironic that when you talk about things that happened and there was a riot in the capital on january 6th, that's an insurrection. when people mob and storm the senate and overrun police officers, it's a peaceful demonstration, please. ah, so yes, these people, if you are talking about democracy and the standards that are not being said about a democratic a about insurrections, there so was tantamount to an insurrection. not a demonstration. had this been

a peaceful demonstration, you would have had police officers injured and the mob take to the floor of the tennessee senate. president joe biden's administration is blaming conditions created by his predecessor, donald trump, for the chaotic withdrawal of troops from afghanistan. there of you did acknowledge that the government should have started pulling out americans and africans. earlier . president jo bottom was widely criticized for the kale surrounding evacuations. as couple fell through the taliban. white house correspondent, kimberly healthcare has more. white house is not taking any responsibility for what many have characterized as a chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan instead passing the blame on the previous trumpet administration for not being more forthcoming. and the sharing of intelligence as well as preparations for withdrawal, saying that the by the ministration reached out repeatedly,

but attempts to communicate were not responded to. we should point out that this report that was prepared and will be shared with both the state department. the pentagon to members of congress was handed to reporters with just 10 minutes prior to the press briefing, giving us little chance to look it over in advance of asking questions of the national security council. but many report is referred to as a classic holiday news dumped. made it very difficult to sort of scrutinize, but oh, what there seems to be in terms of a conclusion that it is acknowledged within the report. is it the white house is admitting that nobody predicted that the african forces would collapse in just 9 days. in other words, acknowledging a massive intelligence failure on the part of u. s. agencies. and even though the picture showed people rushing to escape and crowding the evacuation flights and times even falling from the sky, john kirby,

the spokesperson for the national security council, says he says, for all the talk of chaos, he says he didn't see it. take a listen. the after action reviews are now being reviewed by members of congress from to well, things that could have gone better. nobody's saying that everything was perfect, but there was a lot that went right. and a lot of afghans are now living better lives in this country and other countries around the world because of the sacrifices in the work of so many american government officials. so yeah, there's a lot to be proud of. in fact, the 5 in white house saying that what it's most proud of is that now 124000 afghan people are now living in the united states. the countries were there starting new lives away from the scrutiny of the taliban. further, the white house saying that president biden is commander in chief of the u. s. military is enormously proud of that. what is not being acknowledged, however, is the fact that within that withdrawal was left behind 7000000000 in u. s. military hardware. so still ahead on al jazeera,

the french president urges the chinese later to make russia see reason and stop the fighting a new crime. and al jazeera investigative unit reveals, due buys, linked to gold smuggling operations in africa. ah tell i we got some bits and pieces of unsettled weather making the way across the middle east at the moment by large not too bad, but still a few shouts in stormy weather. there in 2 central parts of burst. saudi arabia over towards mac, after the south southern end of the red sea western party. yeah. but still seeing some love the storms from time to time, the wet weather and it was when she weather certainly over the high ground is reserved foot care. that's nodding a little farther east, which as we go through saturday, rolling across the caucasus,

i will see some wet weather coming back into our menia and georgia to want to showers there just straight across the southern parts of saudi arabia, even though hotel just try to pick up 33 celsius by the time we come saturday afternoon is what i'm a still for cairo. a warm weather here. so the temperature you the spect see around june july, ashley said, well above the average for the time of the year, some wet weather there just around northern parts of the sahara, northern areas of libya, seen some wet weather pushing up towards nicea. algeria could even see a shower or 2 just across the atlas mountains for time the usual showers now gathering across west africa, ivory coast in particular, seeing some rather wide spread showers. the showers stretch their way through the tropics, more big showers, coming through here over the next few days. somewhat drive to the south. ah. jump into the stream. hen percent of the population globally is responsible for about 15 percent of carbon emission joined the debate. people have already lost

their lives. people, how close to that culture of people health conditions. have your say. want to broaden this conversation by bringing more voices into it. live on you to people commenting. i want the whole world to know that traffic you for not headed strategies over the street in whitby. oh, we did this on the al jazeera. ah ah, watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories, the sour israel's eye and dumb defense system has shut down rockets, fired from cancer early this morning. israel's military has been hitting targets in

the palestinian enclave of a nice mouse, has condemned wooded coals and aggression. israel's military has also carried out strikes in the south of lebanon. explosions have been reported in the coastal city of tier. it comes off to rockets were fired from lebanon into israel earlier on thursday. and the republican controlled tennessee house of representatives has voted to expel to blank democrats for their role and a gun control protest after school shooting. last month, 6 people, including 3 children, died in that attack. the french president emanuel micron is urging chinese, laid a shing peg to reason with russia to help end the war, a new crime. a cron is on a 3 day state visit to china. rob mcbride reports french president emanuel macro being given the owner of a state visit. welcome by his chinese counterpart, she's in pain. one of your most influential leaders coming to ask china to exert

its influence on russia to bring an end to europe, worst conflict since world war 2. just to show who will keep you. i know that i can count on you to bring russia to reason and every one to the negotiating table. this was c g and paying visiting russian president vladimir putin last month since most goes invasion more than a year ago. they ging had stayed neutral and proposed a roadmap for a cease fire and peace talks. most west and leaders including macros have criticize the plan. but the french president has been one of the more conciliatory voices among nato heads of state. 2 weeks before russia's invasion, he met president, fled to me. putin in the kremlin, under spoken to him several times by phone over the past year. many and now watching to see if macaroni she together can provide a breakthrough where others have failed goals on kinship chairs, china insists on

a peaceful resolution and as willing to work with france to maintain the rationality of the international community and avoid actions that could further escalate the crisis or let things get out of control. in a show of european unity. macros accompanied by european commission president ursula on de leon who has taken a much tougher line on china's failure to condemn the russian invasion. the europeans are looking at the very least, to dissuade china from supplying russia with arms. we also count on china not to provide any military equipment directly or indirectly to russia. because we all know arming the aggressor would be against international law. and it would significantly harm our relationship, the signing of lucrative trade deals on this trip is seen as beijing's attempt to

maintain good european relations, even as ties with the us our. i hope china will tell press the micro on the one hand and then tell madam of the a on the other hand that it is absolutely important to have a european perspective which may or may not be exactly identical to that of the united states, chinese and european leaders hoping traditionally strong crate links can lead to a diplomatic breakthrough. robert pride al jazeera protest is in paris, had attacked one of printed microns favorite restaurants. as anger continues the controversial pension reforms. hundreds of thousands of people rallied on the 11th day of demonstrations on thursday. protest is again forward with police throwing stones bustles and paint union, so they'll keep fighting chrome for him to raise the retirement age by 2 years from 62 to 64. patasha butler has more from paris. the big picture is,

these are some of the big street protests that have been seen in, in decades. and since january france, trade unions really managed to mobilize hundreds of thousands of people again and again, nearly every week to demonstrate against the french president pension reform. and we've seen out again today we've seen a lease any way between. it's always difficult to tell the police and the trade unions have different figures anywhere between half a ww people in the street 100 demonstration all around problems including traction chances and schools not calling to say for the trade from trade union point of view. this is a movement which is still strong and even though the numbers can fluctuate from week to week, many people still support it. this is a form that it feel deeply unpopular if any boat still suggested some 2 thirds of french people want that reform to be scrap we have really been seeing in recent

weeks is a lot more anger, a little more violence in some of these versus what human rights groups, i've also been saying that the policy week is that the police are fueling some of these tensions because they often use excessive force and target. not just the troublemakers bought processes that have often been peaceful for the trade unions once is for the pension reform to be scrapped. what the prime minister says is that's just not going to happen. so we're in a state deadlock and stalemate. we have another day like we had today, where people have come out in the street to protest and we know the next week is going to be very much the same because the trade unions i've already called for another day protests next thursday. hundreds of protest as much through sedans, capital cow, to me on thursday, demanding the end of military rule. the head of sudan, tommy says he is committed to a plan for a transition towards elections. a final deal for the formation of civilian government was postponed for a 2nd time on wednesday. sudan has been myatt and political crisis since presidents

of my old. she was forced to sit down and 2019 was ne, uganda where people are struggling to access treatment for i diseases such as cataract and coma. i'll just hera heard from the 1st and only i doctor in the car emotional region. oh dr. glad is that a l and, and doctor looking in a hospital in this thing. again, this community is purely pastoralists. community then move from place to place. what is the per balinsa committee, endemic here? and so they suffer from a lot of tacoma, there. we see they work on this cases, then there was a cataract, which is the commonest cause. i'm blindness here and also in the world accessibility general to health care is so poor and is what affix that people here . and then those are believes given that this, the head to rec, area seems to be cut off. they have their own criteria believe. and so they prefer

to use traditional medicine before coming to that a hospital and must have them come with complications already. i have a qualified team of a co worker really fully trained. i have updated mcclintock officers. i have a felony nurse, there's a, have the attendant to have it off. they'll make equipment technician so that kind of, tim is willis palace specialist than i care. and those are the people i work with you would know what it means actually to see. so the impact of our say here is actually that the next day for patients for vendor going to say is if someone has gone been blind for 5 years and then you work on them. and the next day they can see. and for that, that is a kind of impact with the, the independent, someone comes, you know, and they're being guided by a child or some of that. and then, and then now they can work on that one will. let's bring you the latest from our

ongoing investigation into a money laundering and gold smuggling operation implicating seniors and barbara and diplomats and major south african banks. and the latest installment al jazeera investigative unit reveals the dubai connection. alexander james reports cumberland . putney isn't a tourist, go dealer, he lost his money using go that he sells into buy. he shows on the cover of horses earnings from one store does to cash. this is us dollar. rival gangs are competing to clean up what journalists posing as chinese gangsters say is $1200000000.00 of dirty cash for every day coming here everyday. the vision and the not like buying putney wants the reporters to join his existing money laundering setup. it's not like, you know, somebody can, but then it becomes a,

get him for the finished floor treatments like to know then you've been involved in what you want to buy. had set themselves up for being the middle of the gold trade . the key to being a money laundering haven is you have to have the financial infrastructure and they have box laws and no enforcement. allister matthias is also based in dubai. he uses gold to clean money for corrupt politicians. oh, is there any current? only included anyone who is much the one we're looking for the most part. he plans to clean the dirty cash through his gold refinery allies. hell, by the way, because we can do or can you, you literally, you can pay through the 5. well, play with the people,

how they can look like gold. you bet. angel is in baldwin ambassador, who is offered to launder money through gold. again, lex blog and he recently spoke to international delegates in dubai about investing in zimbabwe, free from corruption. i was in my office with no russian or any math. angel is asking for $200000.00 to arrange a meeting between zimbabwe, president emerson, mann and gaga, and out there is under cover team. that guy doesn't take bribes, or no. one is a big difference in appreciating somebody n drive. you know, he does live or people don't pregnant. there is somebody saying, i think of way within that, you are doing flaws and it didn't big difference. angel says president,

man and gaga can help with the money laundering for a fee. i think he's in this building struggle with good us and this is my you know somebody was nothing but money. so and somebody who had the money to spend on. oh yeah. do you give him 1000000 is like is living with communist party tonight involvement in any form of money laundering? and that also to deal with funds he knew originated from legal sources. allister matthias said that he had never laundered money or gold, nor offered to do such things. he said he had never owned any refineries in dubai. the other parties featured did not respond to our inquiries. alexander james out his era was unbearable as minister of information says, authorities are committed to upholding local and international laws on financial transactions. the trade of gold and other precious minerals. this is terry in here.

this is lee. this is bob with pro info cry 15. and you can watch the 3rd of the full pants series and the l g 0. investigation gold mafia. el dorado. on friday at $1200.00 to g. m t. for italy's, for the prime minister, silvio berlusconi is being treated for leukemia. the 86 year old was taken to hospital on wednesday with breathing problems. dr. say he is also suffering from a lung infection and has been an intensive care bill. scone was the longest serving prime minister obviously since the end of world war 2. ah.