fridays come and go a political solution that benefits the people of gaza remains elusive stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza time for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back donald trump says he didn't know his top campaign officials at a meeting with the russians were offering dirt on hillary clinton but not all his former lawyer is telling a different story. and a rough day on wall street for twitter why one of the tech wells highest profile services loses so much money on that stay with us. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. how are sol fifty reported yesterday which is not a great surprise to be honest has been a cloud around but we seem tensions in the thirty's easily in the caucasus and you come down to the hottest part of the world really and i'm talking about the southwest of iran and central iraq just to the darker red in there very very late the temperature background nothing really happens here apart from the breeze and the temperature is cooler on the coast as it always is the on shore breeze proves our point but the hot and dusty air comes out of the mi

across the occupied golan heights after a request from the un and several western leaders al-jazeera stephanie decker reports. under the cover of darkness hundreds of white helmet volunteers and their families made their way across the israeli occupied golan heights to jordan it was a top secret multinational effort helped along by the un their exit was facilitated by israel after requests from the u.s. canada and others its army issued a statement saying it was an exceptional humanitarian gesture canada the u.k. and germany have agreed to resettle them the white helmets were founded in two thousand and fourteen to rescue civilians injured in attacks on rebel held territory the group has been backed by the u.s. and other western countries there was a fear what would happen to them once their area fell under government control but such a deal doesn't apply to the tens of thousands of civilians who fled the fighting and who remain behind closed borders their areas under opposition control for years now back in the hands of the syrian government and one of the latest deals rebels in syria's southwest re

heard emergency sirens going off let's go live now to the israeli occupied golan heights al-jazeera stephanie decker is the staff or so later just. yes those sirens went off where we were when we arrived we heard very close shelling and what was interesting is you know usually there's not much israeli army action along here we were told to move back from a base because because of the shelling was getting that close so there is more and more nerves i should say certain we've been witnessing it's gone quiet now a.j. and. actually there's an airstrike just behind us i'll just get out of shot and we've been seeing this happen throughout the morning intensive air campaign very close to the israeli side of the occupied golan heights and also a lot of tank shelling not just where we are which is this side of the area controlled by that islip the lated group but also the other side it's a pocket agent and it really is sort of the only pocket left of opposition control in this area and even though the government has been making deals with other rebel areas they will not be dealing with eisel so certainly a v

these efforts at trying to restore calm across the gaza strip seem to be holding and his al jazeera stephanie decker with more on what life is like for palestinians living under these really gaza. away from the politics and away from the military escalation between hamas and israel it really is about the almost two million people who are blockaded inside gaza life looks like it continues as normal it does continue as normal but everyone you speak to here will tell you the same thing that life has become increasingly more difficult for many people will tell you that what they're enduring here is not a life regression we can't live a maximum of three dollars a day isn't enough we ask him if he can make ends meet. i can't afford anything to work as a tailor in israel before the blockade i made around the thousand three hundred dollars a month of the moment i can't even make three hundred dollars a month exchanging money i work two shifts a day morning and night my that's the meaning of humanity is missing in gaza most people are educated but can't find work people are frustrated and to pressed people a

war but as one woman asked us what do we need to do to be able to live like everyone else stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza four boats loaded with aid are now on their way to gaza from the port of palermo the freedom for the coalition says its goal is to bring a peaceful end to the israeli book aid it's taking expected to take just over a week to reach israeli waters it will then hand over one boat to gaza fishermen. france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled. in syria russia has agreed to use one of its planes to make the delivery government forces read to her from rebels in april after a siege which lasted several years. protesters have returned to the streets of new . political unrest picks up more momentum and government demonstrators want president to step down and call fresh elections. dozens of wildfires are raging across sweden which is going through its worst drought for seventy four years it comes after months of high temperatures sweden is appealing for help from other european nations there's another ring of fire in the waters of hawaii in orange streams of la

another war but is one woman else what do we need to do to be able to live like everyone else stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza khaled a hindi is a fellow at the center for middle east policy at the brookings institution who says neither side is close to a peace process we used to talk about a failed peace process. for five years ago now there is no peace process whatsoever there is no international community or mechanism that can intervene and attempt to find a political resolution and a pathway out of this this crisis that simply doesn't exist and you also have a vacuum on the palestinian side the palestinian authority in government in ramallah is. pretty much completely disengaged from the situation in gaza they are bystanders for the most part but also i think complicit in the crisis the humanitarian crisis that exists there because of the sanctions imposed by mahmoud abbas and the new attempts begun to get around the gaza blockade for boats loaded with a don't know in their way to gaza from the italian port of palermo the freedom flotilla coalition says it wants to bring a peaceful end to the israeli

fridays come and go a political solution that benefits the people of gaza remains elusive stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza. meanwhile the gates of the compound in occupied east jerusalem of been reopened they were closed for three hours following clashes with palestinian. stun grenades and tear gas we used to disperse crowds gathered for friday pres all entry into the mosque which is one of his sites was prevented anderson and has this update from outside the al aqsa mosque in occupied east jerusalem. this is one of the main approaches to the al aqsa mosque compound and it was closed along with four others a five hour standoff with the security forces in which they actually surrounded this entire area with barricades and when they were lifted this was the scene right here so many protesters who've been praying outside the mosque here as a protest also and try to get past the holdens being manned by the israeli please it was a negotiated end to what had been a very tense atmosphere inside the compound there had been an attack because it was described by the custodian is all of this mosque complex that

seen jets in the sky it seems the government's final battle for southern syria is underway stephanie decker al-jazeera in the israeli occupied golan heights. campaigning for what's expected to be one of the most contentious pakistani general elections has been hit by more violence a candidate for the tariq insaaf party which is led by the former cricketer imran khan was killed in an attack in khan in the northwest of the country the candidate died of his injuries after his car was targeted by a suicide bomber he was a former agriculture minister three other people were injured and pakistani media reporting that twenty people have been hit been injured rather in a great attack at the. party's election office in question on sunday it's the second attack on the party in the past ten days security forces are searching for the attacker has been a sama is a journalist and filmmaker focusing on pakistan she says the attacks are meant to scare away voters. pakistan's elections are often been punctuated by violence the previous elections we had to present routine were also preceded by a lot of violence there's

war but as one woman asked us what do we need to do to be able to live like everyone else stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza. mohammed jim jhoom is in west jerusalem he has more for us on the israeli government's response israeli officials we've been speaking with are not calling it a ceasefire they are saying in fact that calm has been restored on israel's border with gaza they are saying that activities are returned to normal but they are not calling it a cease fire now hamas also wasn't going to cease fire when they were talking about this cease fire for all intents and purposes that's what it is but it is a very shaky truce at this point now we did hear about one incident that happened several hours ago in gaza the israeli army released a statement saying that a number of suspects infiltrated israel from the northern gaza strip the suspects then returned to the gaza strip in response an i.d.f. tank targeted a hamas military post but beyond that we've heard of no other incidents throughout the day as of now still calm but there is a lot of unease because people here very much aware that any little t

fridays come and go a political solution that benefits the people of gaza remains elusive stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza. well after years of silence and uncertainty thousands of syrian families are now being given official death to thickets for their missing relatives but the government hasn't released the bodies or provided any evidence of what caused their deaths are reports from beirut in neighboring lebanon. for years he knew nothing about her husband opposition activist best so hard to be until recently when the syrian government declared that he died in two thousand and fifteen he was among the more than eighty thousand people believed by rights groups to have been detained or forcibly disappeared since the uprising began in two thousand and eleven in recent weeks and after years of silence more and more families are being told their relatives are dead recently distracted to the fate of their beloved ones. that. the cause of. this is for heart attack. yeah and this is. very hard because they in some way the bush family is just hired to agree that he was not killed. as he says so far there ar

but as one woman analyst us what do we need to do to be able to live like everyone else stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza well mohammed in west jerusalem he has more on the israeli government's response israeli officials we've been speaking with are not calling it a ceasefire they are saying in fact that calm has been restored on israel's border with gaza they are saying that activities are returned to normal but they are not calling it a cease fire now hamas also wasn't going to cease fire when they were talking about this cease fire for all intents and purposes that's what it is but it is a very shaky truce at this point now we did hear about one incident that happened several hours ago in gaza the israeli army released a statement saying that a number of suspects infiltrated israel from the northern gaza strip the suspects then returned to the gaza strip in response an i.d.f. tank targeted a hamas military post but beyond that we've heard of no other incidents throughout the day as of now still calm but there is a lot of unease because people here very much aware that any little thing could could

apartheid turning what is already an act of policy of discrimination against them until stephanie decker al-jazeera them. senior political analyst joins me now in the studio to discuss this further i mean this bill incredibly controversial within israel itself within israeli jews so just tell us a little bit about what you think will actually change in israel after the passing of this bill because in a sense discrimination against israeli palestinians is nothing new you could say that this bill is the culmination. all the discrimination and the racism if you will in israel over the last seventy years put in one it's like almost. a thesis that's been put into the new constitution of israel that summarizes an experience of seventy years whereby there was a majority of jews minority of palestinians and that's the case by the way because most of the other palestinians who would have been citizens of the state where either deported were not allowed to return as refugees to their homelands within israel itself so this new basic law will give tools to the israeli governments and to the various ministries

reinforcements to this area one succeeds here it will be back in control of all of southwest syria stephanie decker al-jazeera in the israeli occupied golan heights. the number of people who have died in greece following wildfires naf and has risen to eighty after the death of a survivor in hospital rescue as a searching the sea and on land as they try to track down people who are still unaccounted for after the blazes they've bachar reports. lifeguards scour the sea where hundreds fled for their lives many people are still missing including children a relief efforts underway to get supplies to those in need two and a half thousand homes have been completely destroyed four thousand uninhabitable many survivors have been relocated to hotels in the capital as the search continues the death toll is expected to rise our estimation is that where he. didn't imagine that from mountain to the shore the time that the fire needed was about ten to fifteen minutes so it was not possible to. get. some locals have returned to a town they scarcely recognize this is where twenty six people died their bodies were found locked

to this area and one succeeds here it will be back in control of all of southwest syria stephanie decker al-jazeera in the israeli occupied golan heights and all the latest on the war in syria on al-jazeera dot com and i want to point you not to this great opinion piece published just today on our website on the death of a prominent syrian opposition figure an icon of the revolution just found dead at her apartment in paris earlier this week she was forty nine years old may skaf and in this article palestinian writer explains that form a scam the struggle against the assad regime and israel where the same struggle as the struggle to get for palestinians tributes from a scaf have been coming in from syrian actors and television personalities especially those who have joined the syrian opposition more on that on al jazeera dot com. now an update on a story we brought you on the news great yesterday about the mysterious attempt to hire actors for a fake protests during the emir of qatar visit to britain in an interview with al-jazeera casting agency at the center of a controversy said they received an

to this area and one succeeds here it will be back in control of all of southwest syria stephanie decker al-jazeera in the israeli occupied golan heights the united states and the european union have agreed to work together on lowering trade barriers u.s. president says he'll stop trade negotiations with the e.u. they'll aim to resolve disputes over tariffs on steel and other items in usman followed a meeting at the white house between trump and european commission president john claude young. of course is on the understanding that as long as the unless one party would stop the negotiations. for the tariffs and commuters reassessed existing tariffs on steel and aluminum this will open markets for farmers and workers increase investment and lead to greater prosperity in both the united states and the european union it will also make trade fairer and more research recall yes say says he's personally warned russia of severe consequences over alleged interference in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election. was being questioned by the senate foreign relations committee but also faced scathing critici

apartheid turning what is already an act of policy of discrimination against them until stephanie decker al-jazeera them well to syria now agreements have been reached between the government and opposition in the city of now why in the province of. the areas have faced intense aerial bombardment over the past two days of rebel fighters from. being taken to live been the north government troops will now return to the two thousand and eleven positions british detectives are reported to have identified russian suspects who poisoned a former double agent and his daughter the press association says police have security camera video of nerve agent being planted the kremlin denies involvement in attacking. a script of four months ago. i mean miles army has been accused of committing crimes that constitute genocide against the running a community and you report is calling on the international criminal court to arrest twenty two officials and meanwhile making extensive and systematic preparations ahead of the military crackdown on the rohingya in twenty seventy. members of the tiny football team trapped in

apartheid turning what is already an act of policy of discrimination against them into stephanie decker al-jazeera. let's bring in our gas from tel aviv by skype emmanuelle number one lecturer in international relations of the television a versity from gaza is a. professor of political science at all as i university and from was to asylum is jim hoffman chief political correspondent of the jerusalem post thank you all for joining us eman well the more defines the country as an exclusive feed jewish state netanyahu says this is a defining moment the policy and say this is apartheid regime and racism how do you respond to this first of all the world or not but it is as an exclusive no jewish the sunni second wave. below. translates into a wall the fact that israel is the nations of the jewish people five percent of the world's countries or nation states including twenty seven out of the twenty eight member of the european union and what the low debt is simply translated into neagle sure because unfortunately israel still does not have a written constitution it only their basic was it has basic laws

in years they won't be confronted with casualties of war so here's our guy for al-jazeera go live now to stephanie decker in the israeli occupied golan heights so vague maybe it out one assumes that a lot of people whose fates might still be in question though given their fears of the regime right. absolutely goes to show that it is possible certainly this was an international effort by the united nations as well various countries you know multi organizations and then as you said you know that request was made to israel and they facilitated their exit through the israeli occupied golan heights and into jordan but people don't have that luxury and they do remain trapped sami although i have to tell you where we are this is the only remaining pocket of so-called opposition in this southwestern area can nato which is a little further north of us there's an active proper reconciliation deal ongoing with rebels who don't agree being bussed to it live what is behind us is the isis controlled pocket this is the group in charge here is the been awhile lead brigade and basic what we've been witnessing here since

to this area and one succeeds here it will be back in control of all of southwest syria stephanie decker al-jazeerain the israeli occupied golan heights u.s. president donald trump has pushed back his proposed meeting with russian leader vladimir putin on u.s. soil until twenty nineteen the white house says the summit's been delayed because of the ongoing investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election trump invited into washington after their controversial talks in helsinki on july the sixteenth many members of congress had objected to the two leaders meeting again and said putin would be welcome. the u.s. secretary of state says he personally warned russia of severe consequences over alleged interference in the u.s. election in twenty sixteen my pompei was being questioned by the senate foreign relations committee he said president trump and made it clear to president putin that washington would not stand for any interference by moscow in its internal affairs but he also faced scathing criticism for the administration's flip flopping on russia the administration tells

apartheid turning what is already an act of policy of discrimination against them into stephanie decker al-jazeera now suffer on his head of hearts for news desk and he says a number of israelis will be happy with the legislation. it is a moment both of the right to realize what led to this legislation. they said before there was discrimination up until now we didn't change anything that our towns that only jews living in the. villages that the built for jews but now for seven do is up to the foundation of the state the reason they decided they have to anything the law what caused it i think that one of the main factors is the challenge to the defacto discrimination that was up until now the challenge comes from him oh active in the. palestinian public inside where would you do anything if you the demands more rights and i think with you. believe mold we could be good to you to be human nation so in order to sustain the status quo you have to change something that was the fact of discrimination to the you with discrimination let's move on to other news now to syria and agreements have been reached

reinforcements to this area one succeeds here it will be back in control of all of southwest syria stephanie decker al-jazeera in the israeli occupied golan heights. or the number of people who have died in greece following wildfires near athens has now risen to eighty after the death of a survivor in hospital rescuers and relatives of missing family members are carrying out house to house searches as they try to track down people who are still unaccounted for following the blazes is comes as the antiterrorist authorities investigate whether one of the fires were started in liberty. as residents of the areas devastated by the fires returned to try to salvage some of that belongings stories are also emerging of what they went through when trying to survive the blaze by swimming off the burning coast. looking at them we took our cars and drove down to the beach and we went into the sea to escape but there were people who did not make it we were holding each other by the hand and shouting each other's names because we could not see from the smoke we would don't car heads on to the water just trying to breathe in

reinforcements to this area one succeeds here it will be back in control of all of southwest syria stephanie decker al-jazeera in the israeli occupied golan heights. rescue is in greece searching both in the city for people still missing after this week's wildfire has eighty people. with authorities saying it's likely the death toll will rise for new barca has more from the seaside town of monte. lifeguards scour the sea where hundreds fled for their lives many people are still missing including children. a relief efforts underway to get supplies to those in need two and a half thousand homes have been completely destroyed four thousand uninhabitable many survivors have been relocated to hotels in the capital as the search continues the death toll is expected to rise our estimation is that where he. didn't imagine that from the shore the time that the fire needed was about ten to fifteen minutes so it was not possible to. get. some locals have returned to a town they scarcely recognize this is where twenty six people died their bodies were found locked together at the top of a cliff in a final embrace the own

seen jets in the sky it seems the government's final battle for southern syria is underway stephanie decker al-jazeera in these really occupied golan heights. well tensions have been rising in pakistan ahead of wednesday's general election account of it from the front runner imran khan's party has been killed in a suicide attack that also wounded four others. the poor was a candidates of the pakistan tough week and self-will p.t.i. party is vehicle was targeted in the northwestern province of khyber. as he was leaving a political meeting the buckets on the taliban said he carried out the attack for wednesday's election is promising to be the most unpredictable yet with allegations of media restrictions on poll rigging of a shattering the vote has always been reports from the whole. it wouldn't tell you this is the man considered a disruptor by pakistan's two main political parties until a few months ago but now polls suggest iran can stay a week in soft party is the frontrunner he's taken the lead from the washer if the former prime minister who's been jailed by an accountability for the rise of iran

apartheid turning what is already an act of policy of discrimination against them into look stephanie decker al-jazeera them so let's take a closer look at the breakdown of israel's population since the creation of the state of israel in one nine hundred forty eight and what palestinians call or the catastrophe its rails population has increased from eight hundred thousand to almost nine million people jews make up almost seventy five percent of the population among them forty four percent identify a secular eleven percent as religious and nine percent as ultra-orthodox meaning that they follow very strict interpretation of judaism more than twenty percent of the total population are israeli arabs more than four hundred thousand israelis identify as non arab christians or belong to other ethnic and religious groups. meanwhile israeli's prime minister binyamin netanyahu has welcomed his hundred garrion counterpart viktor orbán to jerusalem calling him a true friend of israel the hungary and leaders visit has drawn criticism has he's been accused of being anti semitic and netanyahu praised our ban for co

to this area and one succeeds here it will be back in control of all of southwest syria stephanie decker al-jazeerain the israeli occupied golan heights the number of people who died in greece following wildfires there africans has risen to eighty after the death of a survivor in the hospital rescue is also to see as they try to track down people who are still unaccounted for barker reports. lifeguards scour the sea where hundreds fled for their lives many people are still missing including children. a relief efforts underway to get supplies to those in need two and a half thousand homes have been completely destroyed four thousand uninhabitable many survivors have been relocated to hotels in the capital as the search continues the death toll is expected to rise our estimation is that where he. didn't imagine that from mountain to the shore the time that the fire needed was about ten to fifteen minutes so it was not possible to evacuate. the whole. only one hour. to get. some locals have returned to a town they scarcely recognize this is where twenty six people died their bodies were found locked t

apartheid turning what is already an act of policy of discrimination against them until stephanie decker al-jazeera. the palestine liberation organization says the law marginalizes israeli palestinians. this law establishes a system against the palestinian people and implements a policy of ethnic cleansing against them in order to expel palestinians especially when this law provides that this land is for the jews and a knowledge of historical facts about the existence of palestinians on this. post chief political correspondent and he disagrees with critics who say this bill is about israel promoting apartheid. well in apartheid you had no blacks serving in their parliament from one thousand nine hundred eight until one thousand nine hundred four in israel you of eighteen arabs in the parliament and to have had in every parliament we've had here this bill ends up not harming them at all you have arabic specifically protected in the bill there were attempts to add things that might have been considered racist they were not included in the final draft of the bill and it's now made sure they wouldn't b

seen jets in the sky it seems the government's final battle for southern syria is underway stephanie decker al-jazeera in these really occupied golan heights. all tensions are rising out of wednesday's general election in pakistan a candidate from the front on a imran khan's party has been killed in a certified attack that also wounded four others a gun the poor was a candidate of the pakistan to africa and suffer p.t.i. party is vehicle was targeted in the northwestern province of. as he was leaving a political meeting a pakistani taliban said it carried out the attack or wednesday's election is promising to be pakistan's most unpredictable yet with allegations of media restrictions and poll rigging overshadowing the vote zama binge of aid reports from lahore it's been a story this is the man considered a disruptor by pakistan's two main political parties until a few months ago but now suggest iran khan's the wrekin soft party is the frontrunner he's taken the lead from the washer if the former prime minister who was rejected by an accountability for the rise of iran hard in the fall of nationally is

war but as one woman asked us what do we need to do to be able to live like everyone else stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza. four boats loaded with a are on their way to gaza from the italian port of palermo the freedom flotilla coalition says it wants to bring a peaceful end to the israeli blockade of the palestinian territory it expects to take just over a week to reach israeli waters it will then hand over one of the boats to fishermen from gaza abdel moneim el amrani is in poland and spoke to one of the organizers. while i am here at palermo italy the ports of call animal in italy and behind me you can see allowed our boat and i do not make means return return to gaza return to palestine this is the main boat of the freedom flotilla which is about to be sail into what's gaza it's basically a fishing boat from norway that's been transformed for this trip and the people of the coalition of the freedom flotilla coalition they are aiming to reach gaza and give this fishing boat as a gift to the fisherman in gaza with me here is a lane she is the representative of the coalition on the allowed boat czar

they don't want to leave but they say israel is doing everything it can to change that stephanie decker al-jazeera. egypt's president now has the power to grant senior military officers immunity from investigation for certain crimes a new law applies to offenses committed between mohamed morsi is overthrown july twenty third teen president abdel fattah el-sisi is first day in office a year later that includes the rubber massacre of august twenty third that's when security forces raided two squares full of pro morsy supporters more than a thousand people were killed. senior members of nov knowledge republican movement have been trying to calm the community following several days of violence that included an attack on the home of the four machine fame leader gerry adams lawrence lee reports from belfast. keeping a lid on violence in or not it is always virtually impossible but here with the republican leadership calling for calm not between the two traditional sides in the conflict but inside its own community the points of the rally was an attempt by irish nationalists to prove they can police them

question now is will they stop and will the palestinians of gaza be getting anything in return stephanie decker al-jazeera jerusalem. at least ten people have died and fifteen others injured in a suicide blast in afghanistan's capital attack a blew himself up in front of a government ministry in kabul as workers were leaving their offices has been no immediate claim of responsibility but the latest attack came as the u.n. says the number of civilians killed in afghanistan has hit a record high at least one thousand six hundred ninety two people were killed in the first six months of this year most civilians were killed or injured by anti-government groups mainly i still and the taliban. at least fifteen people have been killed by a landslide it said jade mine in northern man ma dozens more people were injured in the accident in catchin state the bodies of fourteen men and one woman were recovered the search for more victims all survivors is being hampered by heavy rain accidents are common in myanmar as jade mining region where people scavenge for remnants and while it clashes have broken out in the us ci

question now is will they stop and will the palestinians of gaza be getting anything in return stephanie decker al-jazeerajerusalem the egyptian government has been accused of exploiting state or emergency laws to crack down on opposition a report by human rights watch found the laws were abused before and after the march presidential election it accuses the egyptian police and security forces of unjustly arresting journalists activists and critics of president of the sea one child under the age of five dies every two minutes from diarrhea caused by dirty drinking water that's according to a report by the nonprofit organization water aid it says the illnesses could be prevented if all countries met the u.n. goals for safe drinking water and decent toilets their report found eighty countries will not meet their target to provide all people with a basic safe water supply by the year twenty thirty one hundred six nations won't have access to decent toilets in the same period the projections are based on u.n. data which found that right now eight hundred forty four million people do not have access to clean w

reach gaza they say they will continue to try in order to raise awareness of israel seach stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza. to zimbabwe now where opposition leader nelson chamisa has been reported to the police for holding an unlawful press conference on the eve of monday's election when campaigning is not allowed. to received an endorsement from an unlikely source former president robert mugabe who said he was the only viable candidate son of p.f. leader and current president. has accused the pair of striking a deal from harare a remote tussle reports. it's the second time robert mugabe has spoken to reporters since he was forced from office last november his reappearance hours before monday's general election was a surprise so was what he said he says he won't be voting for the real exotic vs the party he laid for so long or endorse his taxes i am assuming that. it's. very him do you see. there's. going to remembrance of him or for really might. like to ease. i think it's. the leader of the main opposition nelson chamisa says he welcomes every vote he can get it is not made. going to choose what we

fridays come and go a political solution that benefits the people of gaza remains elusive stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza. on allegations of the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem have been reopened they were closed for three hours following clashes with palestinian worshippers. stun grenades and tear gas were used to disperse crowds who gathered for their friday prayers or entry into the mosque which is one of sites was prevented anderson ones as outside the al aqsa mosque in occupied east jerusalem. this is one of the main approaches to the al aqsa mosque compound and it was closed along with four others a five hour standoff with the security forces in which they actually surrounded this entire area with barricades and when they were lifted this was the scene right here so many protesters who've been praying outside the mosque here as a protest also and try to get past the holdens being managed by the israeli police it was a negotiated end to what had been a very tense atmosphere inside the compound there had been an attack because it was described by the custodian is all of this m

reach gaza they say they will continue to try in order to raise awareness of israel seach stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza. people have died as wildfires continue to sweep across the u.s. state of california more than thirty eight thousand people are still on the evacuation orders. reports. the entire community of keswick california has been turned to ash nothing remains a want slightly little town of about seven hundred people now resemble something like a far away planet from a science fiction movie the fire that roared through here was described as a tornado of flames there was nothing firefighters could do to stop it the way the front fire front was coming through it was going to do what it wanted to do we might be able to say one little spot here but the risk would have been real just announced to try and even be anywhere near there what remains are the remnants of people's lives there are small signs of life here like the burnt pages of this children's book it's silent there isn't a sound there's still a mandatory evacuation zone residents aren't being allowed back only the occasional emergency

war but as one woman asked us what do we need to do to be able to live like everyone else stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza. syrian rebels who surrendered in southwestern connecter have begun arriving in opposition held areas more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have reached the town of a broken west and hama province of fighters in their families were given safe passage in a surrender deal with the government syrian army forces have since entered the city of connect. meanwhile an ancient town in yemen is at risk of being destroyed by an offensive to take a city nearby zob it is a unesco world heritage site with thousands of historic homes religious institutes and mosques it's south of the dado which a coalition that by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. has been fighting to retake from who's the rebels. u.s. president has accused his former lawyer michael cohen of potentially acting illegally after it was reported that he secretly recorded donald trump discussing payments to a former playboy model a recording was seized during an f.b.i. raid on cohen's property earlier this year

fridays come and go a political solution that benefits the people of gaza remains elusive stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza israeli forces have reopened the gates of the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem after closing them for several hours on friday . soldiers fired tear gas and stun grenades palestinian worshipers there for friday prayers they say it was in response to items being thrown at them in the compound as one of his last holiest sites that is revered by jews as the temple mount. syrian government forces have recaptured the southern city of kut near the israeli occupied golan heights government troops entered the city for the first time in four years after weeks of fighting they've been trying to clear the surrounding provinces i saw and other opposition groups the remaining eisel fighters have agreed to leave for rebel held areas in northern syria after a deal brokered by russia. after years of silence thousands of syrian families are now being given official death certificates for missing relatives but the government hasn't released the bodies or provided any evidence of w

fridays come and go a political solution that benefits the people of gaza remains elusive stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza after years of silence and uncertainty thousands of syrian families are now being given official death certificates for their missing relatives but the government hasn't released the bodies or provided any evidence of what caused their deaths many of them have been detained or forcibly removed by bashar al assad's forces then a halt to reports from beirut and neighboring lebanon. for years he knew nothing about her husband opposition activist best so hard to be until recently when the syrian government declared that he died in two thousand and fifteen he was among the more than eighty thousand people believed by rights groups to have been detained or forcibly disappeared since the uprising began in two thousand and eleven in recent weeks and after years of silence more and more families are being told their relatives are dead recently distracted to the fate of their beloved ones . that cause of. this is a heart attack. yeah and this is. very hard because they some way they push f

to this area and one succeeds here it will be back in control of all of southwest syria stephanie decker al jazeera in the israeli occupied golan heights. the u.s. secretary of state says he personally warned russia of severe consequences over the last interference in the u.s. election in two thousand and sixteen my pompei i was being questioned by the senate foreign relations committee he said president trump and made it clear to russia's president vladimir putin that washington would not stand for any interference by moscow in its internal affairs but he also faced scathing criticism for the administration's flip flopping on russia the administration tells us don't worry be patient there's a strategy here but from where we set it appears that in a ready fire aim fashion the white house is waking up every morning and making it up as they go rosalynn jordan has more from washington d.c. . wednesday was the secretary of state like pales opportunity to try to explain exactly what happened between the russian president vladimir putin and u.s. president donald trump during their meeting in helsinki ear

question now is will they stop and will the palestinians of gaza be getting anything in return stephanie decker al-jazeera jerusalem. turkey has been marking the two year anniversary of the failed coup against its government president. started off commemorations by attending a qur'an recitation in ankara promising the families of the victims that they would not be forgotten on july two thousand and fifteen in july two thousand and fifteen factions within the turkish military tried to overthrow nearly two hundred ninety people were killed in the resulting clashes and hundreds more wounded. now the egyptian government has been accused of exploiting counter-terrorism and state of emergency laws to crack down on opposition or pork by human rights watch found the laws were especially abused in the run up to and after the march presidential election is accuses egyptian police and security forces of unjustly arresting journalists activists and critics of president until sisi to reuters journalists arrested in myanmar last year will go to trial on monday after more than six months of pretrial hearings the two men

reinforcements to this area one succeeds here it will be back in control of all of southwest syria stephanie decker al-jazeera in the israeli occupied golan heights. coming up on this news hour from london the families are stuck in limbo on the bridge between the u.s. and mexico. thousands waiting for rescue in laos some stranded on rooftops after a dam collapsed flooding their remote villages and how this player has found himself in the middle of a chance for a fight between two european rivals more coming up with joe. of a number of people who've died in greece following wildfires near athens has risen to eighty after the death of a survivor in hospital rescuers are searching the sea and on land as a trying to track down people who are still unaccounted for following the blazes barkha reports. lifeguards scour the sea where hundreds fled for their lives many people are still missing including children. a relief efforts underway to get supplies to those in need two and a half thousand homes have been completely destroyed four thousand uninhabitable many survivors have been relocated to hotels in the capital

fridays come and go a political solution that benefits the people of gaza remains elusive stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza meanwhile the gates of the compound in occupied east jerusalem have been reopened they were closed for three hours following clashes with palestinian wash. stun grenades and tear gas were used to disperse crowds had gathered for friday prayers or entry into the mosque which is one of islam's holiest sites was prevented under simmons' us this update from outside the al aqsa mosque and occupied east jerusalem. this is one of the main approaches to the al aqsa mosque compound and it was closed along with four others a five hour standoff with the security forces in which they actually surrounded this entire area with barricades and when they were lifted this was the scene right here so many protesters who've been praying outside the mosque here to protest also and try to get past the cauldron is being managed by the israeli please it was a negotiated end to what had been a very tense atmosphere inside the compound there had been an attack because it was described by the custodians of

question now is will they stop and will the palestinians of gaza be getting anything in return stephanie decker al-jazeera jerusalem. syrian rebels say government forces are widening their offensive in the south west government and russian allied jets fired more than eight hundred missiles at a stretch of opposition land in the countryside of out connla which is four kilometers from the israeli occupied golan heights government forces are also said to have advanced on a village there are the rebels have reportedly fought back killing several soldiers . meanwhile the first rebels and their families have been moved from their raw province in southern syria they were given safe passage to leave after russia brokered a cease fire between the government and the opposition fighters eight days ago syrian forces are now in control of most of that up. in the convoy of humanitarian aid has reached several towns in that our province where the three thousand food parcels were delivered to the towns of nessie been on my thing with jordan hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the government's offensive

to this area and one succeeds here it will be back in control of all of southwest syria stephanie decker al jazeera in the israeli occupied golan heights. plenty more ahead on the news hour including u.s. secretary of state michael is facing questions from senators about donald trump's recent meeting with vladimir putin. thousands wait for rescue in laos some stranded on rooftops after a dam collapsed flooding the remote villages plus. tested again assuming no williams claims she's being discriminated against by anti-doping officials it's coming up with joe sport. the u.s. secretary of state says he personally warned russia of severe consequences over the alleged interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election like compare was being questioned by the senate foreign relations committee but he also faced scathing criticism for the administration's changing position on russia our state department correspondent roslyn jordan reports when u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o entered the hearing room he knew what was coming criticism of president donald trump's recent closed door meeting with russian p

they don't want to leave but they say israel is doing everything it can to change that stephanie decker al-jazeera. former u.s. president barack obama urged kenya's leaders to calm ethnic tensions during his first visit to his father's birth country since leaving office is helping his half sister launch a sports and training center in their ancestral village of kogelo earlier obama met kenya's president hu kenyatta is heading to south africa next to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of nelson mandela after a five week football festival russia is now facing life without the world cup host nation played surprisingly well on the field and the russian people showed the world they could put on a party and the richardson report from moscow on the tournament legacy this is eagle the eagle newly named in honor of the soaring performances of russian goalkeeper eagle akon fay of the world cup and new york the number one attraction at moscow's do you lynn you were there with don strong well our team have never played like this and we wanted to celebrate our brilliant goalkeeper legal action fai

they don't want to leave but they say israel is doing everything it can to change that stephanie decker al jazeera. you can visit our web site at any time just click on al-jazeera dot com. let's get you up to speed to the top stories are an al-jazeera the leaders of the united states and russia have denied colluding in the twenty sixteen presidential elections donald trump over the may putin met for one on one talks in helsinki agreeing to cooperate on certain areas of mutual interest but they both family denied any form of collusion with trump insisting he won because he had the better campaign former cia director john brennan has described chants comments as treasonous while lawmakers say he missed an opportunity to help russia accountable it was no collusion with the campaign and every time you hear all of these twelve fourteen it's stuff that has nothing to do and frankly they admit these are not people involved in the campaign but to the average reader out there they're saying well maybe that does it doesn't and even the people involved some perhaps told me stories of the one case the f.b.i.

to this area and one succeeds here it will be back in control of all of southwest syria stephanie decker al-jazeera in the israeli occupied golan heights. you know at the news hour live from london much more still ahead thousands white for rescue in laos some stranded on rooftops off to a dam collapsed flooding very remote villages. and how this player has found himself in the middle of a transfer a fight between to you. european rivals. now the number of people known to have died in the wildfires in greece has risen to eighty rescuers are searching the say and on land as they try to track down dozens of people who are still missing eve barker reports from matty one of the west hit towns. lifeguards scour the sea where hundreds fled for their lives many people are still missing including children a relief efforts underway to get supplies to those in need two and a half thousand homes have been completely destroyed four thousand uninhabitable many survivors have been relocated to hotels in the capital as the search continues the death toll is expected to rise our estimation is that where he closed.