prime minister has ordered the immediate cocksure of a key economic lifeline into gaza the carom abu salim crossing is a vital access point for supplies in the besieged territory humanitarian aid medical supplies and food will still be allowed in but israeli authorities are also stepping are also stopping fishing boats from operating more than six miles off the coast it's in response to palestinians launching incendiary kites into israel. be that your general should go to hamas we will immediately use a heavy hand against hamas in the gaza strip in a significant step we will today close it getting so long crossing there will be more steps but i will not elaborate. so i have for you on the program president john prepares to reveal his pick for the u.s. supreme court in a prime time announcement. and the search goes on for the container of a deadly nerve agent which fatally poisoned a woman in an english town. how are we still have plenty of warm sunshine across western prosecutable lovely weather continuing here looking good for wimbledon i suspect it should stay dry throughout the tourname

and israel has shut down the carom abu salim crossing into gaza it's a major economic lifeline and vital access point for supplies into the besieged territory. when all the stories we're following six civilians including four children have been killed in an as strike by the saudi and the coalition in yemen happening a tie is in the southwest of the country coalition as supports is being used to back government forces in the fight against the fusees in yemen. well some news from syria where the rebels of confirm that government forces of surrounded opposition held parts of daraa city this is despite a russian brokered ceasefire agreed on friday for dare our province the united nations is calling for unrestricted access to the southwest province to deliver aid to tens of thousands of people it says it desperately in need fighting has displaced more than three hundred thousand civilians in the past two weeks that's the largest exodus of the seventy a war. and about seventy percent of their our province has now been recaptured by government forces overall including the main border crossing w

restricting the flow of goods into the territory it's planning to ban all fuel imports through the abu salim crossing while food and medicine will need permission to go through them as the sole commercial crossing into gaza it is vital for the flow of fuel necessary for people who only get up to six hours of electricity a day well let's get more on this our correspondent stephanie decker's following the story from west jerusalem stephanie why is israel imposing even more restrictions on a territory already under siege and what impact is it going to have. this is all part of israel's strategy campaign against what it calls terror kites we've seen these these makeshift kites and balloons as part of these protests have been going on for over two months now sent over the fence you know they're very sort of basically made attached to them is a flaming rabble the consequence of that is certainly no deaths but it is burnt acres thousands of acres of land on the israeli side now israelis are very concerned about this the prime minister is under a lot of pressure of course the palestinians will tell

in gaza by further restricting the flow of goods into the territory and banning all fuel imposed abu salim crossing the fishing zone opened to boats from gaza has also been half to three nautical miles chance traffic reports. trunks gather at the column border post it's the only official crossing for goods and fuel into gaza from israel but the israeli government has now all but closed it it says it will let food and medicine in on a case by case basis but is not a fuel essential for powering gaza's basic services many of the almost two million people here only get electricity for four to six hours a day and half a minute for the most serious then you know this fuel blockade doesn't last because it will cause hundreds of problems and life will stop sewage and rubbish will pile up and other projects will come to an end people will not be able to go to work the ministry of health will not be able to treat patients and official in gaza city will say tells us that gaza needs around seven hundred thousand liters of gasoline and diesel every day just to meet its basic needs now with these new re

says it will impose even stricter border measures on any cargo destined to go through the car and abu salim crossing to gaza is set to ban all fuel in pulls into the area until sunday food and medicine will need permission to go through the southern crossing last week israel said it would halt exports of produce from gaza in response to what it described as continued aggression from hamas. european leaders have warned china of the united states and russia against a trade war as they met chinese counterparts in beijing the international monetary fund meanwhile says the terrorists to attack the began last week could end up damaging the entire global economy including the u.s. from washington cripple. the i.m.f. says booming economies in the united states and china continue to keep the global economy on track but warned it could be to rail if an all out global trade war breaks out between the u.s. and its trading partners these are substantial hits to growth and in an environment where. you know for many wage earners. incomes have been very slow to rise and this is a source of political pressu

so the friday protests continue despite israel's decision to close the carom abu salim crossing that's the main crossing for industrial goods into gaza israel did it he said because it wanted the protesters to stop sending over in same three burning balloons they float over the border and they end up in some israeli feel some setting fire to israeli crops israeli snipers have been trying to shoot them out of the skies of the balloons are still going over today but they've not been having much success these reilley snipers and in the meanwhile officials from hamas and other groups in gaza have been in cairo for talks with egyptian security officials have said those talks are some of the most successful they have had with the egyptians addressing the humanitarian concerns in gaza didn't give any more details than that though another group islamic jihad it says that egypt has agreed to increase electricity supplied into gaza and that egypt will also keep the rougher crossing open for the soup's foreseeable future that's the main crossing between egypt and gaza vital lifeline really for pe

gaza that provides an economic lifeline to its residents has been shut down by israel the carom abu salim crossing was the only place between gaza and israel where goods could pass humanitarian aid medical supplies and food will still be allowed through but commercial and industrial products will be blocked israel says it's in response to palestinians launching in century cuts into israel might be due to a demolition going to hamas we will immediately use a heavy hand against hamas in the gaza strip in a significant step we will today close it getting along crossing it will be more steps but i will not elaborate hamas has called israel's decision a crime against the palestinian people and has violence to continue protests. blocking. the israeli government's decision to close the only terminal leading to the gaza strip is a war crime against our people it will deepen the humanitarian crisis that the people of gaza live shows how the israeli occupation fails in dealing with peaceful marches it also shows how when you mean netanyahu is only able to understand the palestinians you may try to

in other news israel says it will shut down a key economic lifeline into the gaza strip the karim abu salim crossing is a vital access point for supplies in the besieged territory israeli authorities are also stopping fishing boats from operating more than six miles off the coast. of going to hamas we will immediately use a heavy hand against hamas in the gaza strip in a significant step we will today close it kitty a long crossing it will be more steps but i will not elaborate harry force it has more now from west jerusalem. this measure from the israeli government has come as something of a surprise given all the talk there had been in recent weeks and months about trying to improve the situation humanitarian economic situation inside gaza for security reasons that have been the argument of the israeli army it has been the argument we understand of jason green blatt and jarred cushion of the u.s. envoys who were here recently trying to get some international and israeli support for some sort of restructuring inside gaza economic assistance to try and stave off this security problems and i

shut down a key economic lifeline into the gaza strip a move hamas has branded a war crime carom abu salimcrossing is a vital access point for supplies in the besieged territory israel's prime minister says it's in response to palestinian protests is sending incendiary kites over the border to burn fields rescue workers in japan is searching for dozens of people still missing off to tarantula rain on the east floods and landslides in southwestern areas of the country one hundred twenty six people have died and millions for been forced from their homes more than eleven thousand homes are without power and hundreds of thousands of people have no access to running water and syrian rebels in daraa say government forces have surrounded the opposition stronghold this is despite a russian brokered cease fire that we too on friday the united nations is calling for unrestricted access to the area to deliver aid to tens of thousands of people the fighting has displaced more than three hundred thousand civilians in the past two weeks. well those are the top stories i'm going to bring you much more in

into israel on humanitarian aid and medical supplies and food are being allowed through the cademy abu salim crossing how the faucet reports. a day after the israeli government decision and the effect was clear a substantial reduction in the traffic coming into gaza from the cargo crossing with his. rael the lorries we saw were mainly carrying animal feed which along with medicine livestock fuel and food bishops' a cost as humanitarian goods exempted from the closure but that means no raw materials for businesses like this textile firm in gaza city the closure also means no chance to export the finished product to the occupied west bank which accounts for forty percent of the business gaza's economic decline has already seen production hard here in the last year staff cut by a third that was the most fun but this decision means it's more likely that i'll have to close my factory fifty to sixty workers will lose their jobs i won't be able to fill my orders from the west bank or produce for the local market so the decision for us for the whole of the gaza strip is catastrophic. israel's prime

reports say as as a vital means of trying to maintain this cease fire we've spoken to the director of abu salim crossing and he says certainly he's had no indication so far from the israelis as to whether those restrictions will be lifted it's also vital to mention the sea pull the fisherman as well those restrictions put on by israel last week also included further reducing the area that fisherman can can operate can fish in from six kilometers sorry six nautical miles to three nautical miles so as i say we hope to hear whether the israelis are going to lift those restrictions or not in the coming hours of course gas fuel cooking gas is vital here. so many thousands of households rely on generators full their electricity generators for powering their water pumps without cooking gas people can't cook as well so there's a lot of anticipation as to whether this blockade these new restrictions will be lifted with israel if indeed the cease fire holds john's many thanks john strafford in gaza well four boats loaded with aid are on their way to gaza from the italian port of palermo the freedom floti

so the broader protests continue despite israel's decision to close the carom abu salim crossing off the main crossing core industrial goods into gaza israel did it he said because it wanted the protesters to stop sending over in same three burning balloons they float over the border and they end up in some israeli feel some setting fire to israeli crops israeli snipers have been trying to shoot them out of the skies of the balloons are still going over today but they've not been having much success the israeli snipers and in the meanwhile officials from hamas and other groups in gaza have been in cairo for talks with egyptian security officials hamas said those talks are some of the most successful they've had with the egyptians addressing the humanitarian concerns in gaza didn't give any more details than that though another group islamic jihad it says that egypt has agreed to increase electricity supply into gaza and that egypt will also keep the rougher crossing open for the super foreseeable future that's the main crossing between egypt and gaza a vital lifeline really for peopl

on al-jazeera israel says it will shut down a key economic lifeline into the gaza strip the care abu salim crossing is a vital access point for supplies into the besieged territory israeli authorities are also stopping fishing boats from operating more than six miles off the coast and now israel's defense minister has signed an order declaring the hamas affiliate channel that operates from lebanon on a terrorist organization let's bring in our correspondent gary fossett who is in a western islam hero harry let's start with the crossing that's being shut down this is a main commercial crossing into gaza why is the israeli government taking this action now especially when they recently talked about improving the humanitarian situation in gaza what's the objective. that's right i think this is what's taken so many people by surprise we just had the u.s. envoy is jason green blatt in the region by all accounts trying to drum up both israeli and international support for some kind of intervention in gaza some sort of restructuring in gaza in return for a long term cease fire the palestinian aut