and israeliimilitaries folkestone blamed hamas -- spokesman lame ttomas appeared -- blamed hamas. >> hey had the attention of hitting israeli -- intervention -pof hitting israeli civilians d the idf cannot tolerate that. from gaza but most it unpopulated area but two fell in a border town. including near this playground. u.s. state department defended israel and said it had a right to respond to attacks on its united nations aad egyptian mediators continue to push for a long-term truce between tte feuding sidds. has more on the truce deal. >> this is a short-term truce, the egyptians brokered an end to this face of fighting but not something larger. from an israeli point of view, thaa burn the israeli fields. the palestinians want something much larger, they want pplestinians not to be killed at weekly protests by israeli fire and an improvement in the conditions in gaza. electricity,ty, and imppovements in the quality of life.% does that or will it possibly be what we have seen for the past you weekk. -- few weeks. we have to see what happens this aaternoon, if we go on the past 200

delegation what can you tell us about their meetings with hamas. we have to understand that this is the stella geisha in representing the united nations special coordinator on the peace process was here in gaza meeting hamas officials nicholai mlodinow off the u.n. envoy himself was supposed to come last week but because of that escalation in violence that meeting between himself and hamas never happened now these meetings have happened on a regular basis in the last few weeks when we've seen these escalations in violence desperate efforts by the u.n. envoy to try and forge try and maintain some sort of last thing cease fire now the majority of these meetings as was the case today are all behind closed doors obviously an indication of just how sensitive they are this late cease truce we know that was called for we understand by hamas was not actually recognized by israel and when you put it in the context of today's events for example two drone strikes two israeli drone strikes against what israel say were people trying to launch these incendiary b

the israeli border town of the rot and in response israel launched a series of air strikes targeting hamas positions andrew symonds has the latest from gaza. the attacks may be more in cements and and less intense but the fighting is going on as strikes some shelling from the sea from the israeli navy hitting gaza panic in the streets and on the israeli side panic that to run across the southern communities of israel and what next it's unclear this is my report. deep into the night intense bombardments the flash of outgoing rockets from gaza. israel's iron dome air defense system knocked out several of the missiles but the majority got through it in response came the blasts and claims from israeli air strikes. this is how it started here a rocket unlike most of them finding its targets the israeli town of iraq has people fleeing in all directions in the panic towns right across southern israel under attack. the response was fast. as strikes right across the gaza strip up to twenty mostly bases of the al qassam brigade the military wing of hamas. it released a statement saying in retaliatio

in trying to pursue both sides to call a truce much rest now on the real intentions of israel and hamas to warn or both really intend to break down the ceasefire talks and nicholai madden of the un special envoy has been here before not so serious but he mediated and succeeded in stopping the fighting a month ago his words our collective efforts have prevented an explosion until now we will work hard to ensure gaza steps back from the brink. camelot and of and egyptian mediators bring gaza back from the brink again gazan people are in fear tonight that he may not succeed there are more questions than answers right now could this be a tactical pro youth of violence ahead of signing any agreement to get more damage done on how fast as far as israel is concerned and hamas to rally its faithful with a show of force possible but everything rests now with the israeli response it seems and the israeli security cabinet is meeting later on thursday we may know more that. colombia's new president says he'll review decision by his predecessor to recognize the state of palestine the former leader o

let's move on to other news now and hamas the palestinian group which controls the gaza strip has told al-jazeera that a truce has been agreed to stop the violence but is raising media suggesting that the israeli government is denying that an agreement has been reached a flare up in cross border violence has seen three palestinians killed in israeli airstrikes and hamas rockets fired into southern israel and or summons has the nation. an israeli air strike on a five story building it's a cultural center and it's destroyed it happened as israel was deliberately its next step up to schools and strikes on gaza yet even as ambulances rushed the injured to hospital and was in negotiations for a truce. nearly five hours have passed without any israeli attacks off to the asteroid on the cultural center how many said it statements of al-jazeera that this was a truce would be imposed at twenty forty g.m.t. not a full ceasefire god had words there and they said that the united nations and egypt had been involved in mediation earlier a senior official from hamas had hinted that they could stop fi

protests along the gaza israeli border israel has warned hamas against for the escalation. and for the very latest i'm joined now by our middle east correspondent don there in jerusalem john it was an age as you can tell us about this incident. it was a situation seems to have quieted down in the past hour or so but it's not yet clear where this is going. we've seen such escalations in the past month or so already several times so it's always said i don't have an interest to take it any further but i think only the next hour will tell according to the israeli army about a hundred and eighty protect telesur fired from gaza into southern israel. about thirty of them were intercepted by the israeli defense system. and there's very obvious says they have targeted over one hundred fifty sites and locations in the gaza strip since yesterday three people there in the gaza strip where killed according to house official stare and people on both sides. and shouting you've just been in the palestinian territories let's first look at your report which shows the situation for the people

funerals have been held for two members of hamas and killed by israeli tank fire in the gaza strip they were members of the al qassam brigades the military wing of hamas israeli army said it was retaliating after its soldiers were fired upon u.n. and egypt are trying to mediate a longer term truce between israel and hamas to end a four month upsurge of violence along the israel gaza border. at least twenty three people most of them young girls have been rescued from an alleged prostitution ring in northern india they were found in a privately run shelter in utah pradesh state after one of the girls escaped and complained to police and to thomas reports now from new delhi. these are some of the girls rescued from police say was forced prostitution their home in northern india had been a charitable shelter for children without stable families but last year its owners lost their lives since the shelter should have closed it didn't instead say police its owners kept girls captive renting them out for six. we conducted raids at three or four places in two hours in rescue nearly twenty four g

nearly five hours have passed without any israeli attacks off to the strike on the cultural center hamas said it statements of al-jazeera that this was a truce would be imposed at twenty forty g.m.t. not a full ceasefire god had words there and they said that the united nations and egypt had been involved in mediation earlier a senior official from hamas had hinted that they could stop firing rockets something of this novel for go for this and. six i was going to four hours after that to stop i think that the equation of the confrontation always was not so i think both sides are not involved we are not interested now now to support of the wide gulf on station or a war we've tried to avoid that wednesday's fighting had been sporadic but one of the last actions of hamas before it relented with rocket strikes was the launch of a grad missile the first time it had use the weapon since the twenty fourteen war. at times on wednesday night civilians said the intensity of the bombardment seemed reminiscent of the last three wars this house and barrel about i was struck by an israeli aircraft a p

and fresh protests are taking place on the gaza israel border testing and on reached between hamas and israel on thursday the palestinian health ministry says a medic has been killed by israeli fire. now the dog is about president. has been delayed until an opposition challenge could be heard in court earlier lawyers of the movement for democratic change elian's father paperwork at the supreme court in harare they said they have mammoth evidence of fraud and election rigging we could go to joins us live from hierarchy so how can you give us more details of what's being filed in court and whether it will get a few fair hearing given that it's challenging the ruling party that's been charge for decades. well the m.d.c. alliance say they want the election result overturned this is some of the evidence they have they say shows forms that have been tampered with figures change here in there and they're going to present that in the courts the judges could meet quickly if they think the evidence is weak they could throw the case out fairly fast they could also decide that they need time to go

to end the civil war and protect the lives of yemeni citizens let's move on to other news now and hamas the palestinian group which controls the gaza strip has told al-jazeera that a truce has been agreed to with israel as really government as yet to comment a flare up an across the border violence has seen three palestinians killed in israeli airstrikes and how mosques rockets fired into southern israel andrew symonds reports from gaza an israeli airstrike on a five story building it's a cultural center and it's destroyed it happened as israel was deliberating its next step after school strikes on gaza yet even as ambulances rushed the injured to hospital and i was in negotiations for a truce. nearly five hours have passed without any israeli attacks off to the strike on the cultural center hamas said its statement of al-jazeera that this was a truce would be imposed at twenty forty g.m.t. not a full ceasefire god had words there and they said that the united nations and egypt had been involved in mediation earlier a senior official from hamas had hinted that they could stop firing roc

let's move on to other news now and hamas the palestinian group which controls the gaza strip has told al-jazeera that a truce has been agreed with israel the israeli government is yet to comment on wednesday and thursday a flare up and cross border violence or three palestinians killed in israeli airstrikes and hamas rockets fired into southern israel anderson's has the latest from gaza an israeli airstrike on a five story building it's a cultural center and it's destroyed it happened as israel was deliberating its next step of the schools as. yet even as ambulances rushed the injured to hospital and i was in negotiations for a truce. nearly five hours have passed without any israeli attacks off to the strike on the cultural center house said its statement of al-jazeera that this was a truce would be imposed at twenty forty g.m.t. not a full ceasefire god had words there and they said that the united nations and egypt had been involved in mediation earlier a senior official from hamas had hinted that they could stop firing rockets i think that no the resistance send a very strong mess

ok on to some other important news now and hamas affair. shells in gaza say restoring calm is up to israel and they won't escalate the conflict any further talks of more than one hundred forty sites and intense air strikes on besieged gaza strip for a palestinians have been killed including a pregnant woman and her eighteen month old daughter as well as the military action came after rockets were fired from gaza on wednesday night united nations says it is deeply alarmed by the violence warning x. could lead to war under sevens has more from gaza. deep into the night intense bombardments the flash of outgoing rockets from gaza. israel's iron dome air defense system knocked out several of the missiles but the majority got through it in response came the blasts and claims from israeli air strikes. this is how it started here a rocket unlike most of them finding its targets the israeli town of detroit people fleeing in all directions in the panic towns right across southern israel under attack. the response was fast. as strikes right across th

so there you have it i've also had a briefing with an english speaking member of hamas a senior member of hamas who has been involved in negotiations he said much the same thing then for size that the reason for the rockets being fired into israel was that attack israel made on to how massed fighters who were on the border in a training camp as israel accepted that they weren't being shot at their house regards that as accident or otherwise it wasn't acceptable and wanted to avenge those deaths but what's revenge was it well it just was absolutely huge you know through thursday night you couldn't hear yourself think in gaza city for the the bangs from from missiles from bombs from going rocket fire the rocket fire in fact at times was as loud as the bombing went on right the way through the light but what we've seen since dorm is something of a lifting of the tension to a degree that there have been some more attacks a number of them without any casualties it has to be said casualties overall have been low but that does not. dilute the seriousness of what's happening here by any means

israeli airstrikes on gaza turned deadly after hamas fires rockets across the border fence. alone down jordan this is down to zero on live from doha also coming up. canada will always speak strongly clearly in private in public on questions of human rights refusing to back down canada's growing diplomatic dispute with saudi arabia plus. emotive rallies over a controversial vote argentina looks at legalizing abortions within the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy plus. passionate support for a powerful politician and we reaction to the release from jail of the woman known as the i am lady upon every coast. the united nations is warning of devastating consequences if an explosive exchange between israel and gaza gets worse at least four palestinians have been killed in israeli air strikes which have targeted several homicides the israeli military says they would respond to thirty six rockets being fired from gaza in the past few hours it managed to intercept several of the rockets israeli media says six people have been injured by shrapnel in the border town of steroid. well th

much rest now on the real intentions of israel and hamas to warn or both really intend to break down the cease fire talks and nicholai madden of the un special envoy has been here before not so serious but he mediated and succeeded in stopping the fighting a month ago his words our collective efforts have prevented an explosion until now we will work hard to ensure garza steps back from the brink. camelot and of and egyptian mediators bring gaza back from the brink again council people are in fear tonight that he may not succeed there are more questions than answers right now could this be a tactical pro-u. the violence head of signing any agreement to get more damage done or how mass as far as israel is concerned and hamas to rally its faithful with a show of force possible but everything rests now with the israeli response it seems and the israeli security cabinet is meeting later on thursday we may know more that columbia's new president says hill review a decision by his predecessor to recognize the state of palestine formally the one man while santos made the decision in the fin

and more protests are taking place on the gaza israel border testing on easy reach between hamas and israel on thursday the palestinian health ministry says a medic has been killed by israeli far. as a moderate president in my god has had his inauguration delayed because of a legal challenge to his electoral victory earlier lawyers lawyers for the movement for democratic change alliance while their case of the supreme court and harare and they said they had a mammoth evidence of fraud and election rigging. joins me live from harare. what sort of case is the opposition hoping to build. well it's a first time in zimbabwe as history and inauguration has been stopped the m.d.c. alliance say they want the election results overturned they say they have evidence they have forms which they say show that some of the results have been tampered with the judges could meet quickly if they think this evidence is weak they could throw the case out if they think that the more time to go through the evidence that could take a couple of days if they don't meet over the weekend monday and tuesday here

post with tank fire killing two hamas militants.amic jihad led a response and we saw that response up until today. the israeli air force targeted a multicultural center in gaza. just before that, militants in gaza had fired a rocket at the southern israeli city of al sheeba, indicating it may have been a larger more powerful rocket. that immediately dashed hopes of an immediate cease fire. that all started wednesday night. israel says hamas fired -- according to the palestinian ministry of health, three palestinians have been killed including a young mother and her 18-month-old daughter. wolf? >> bad situation indeed, are we seeing that yet, is there anything going on? >> reporter: absolutely. united nations leaders here as well as egypt have been working with israel talking to israel and to hamas, essentially mediating between the two sides because they won't talk to each other, trying to find some sort of common ground for a cease fire. those efforts have been ongoing since last night and are ongoing at the moment. meanwhile ma'hm

yemen for more than three years now israeli tank fire in the gaza strip has killed two members of hamas and wounded others those killed were reportedly members of the al qassam brigades the military wing of hamas the israeli army says it retaliated against gunfire aimed at its troops under simmons's in gaza with more. the attack took place in the north of the gaza strip on a watchtower man but they all could sprigg aid which is the military wing of hamas now military spokesman for israel has posted a video on twitter which shows he says fire coming from that watch tower in response a tank also opened fire and it was a direct hit and i says two of their fighters are dead two twenty three year olds and six people were injured now how mouse has made no reference to any preemptive action it has to be said but this does cause concern about possible retaliation from the hamas military wing there is a flurry of activity to activity politically right now because the talks over a long term cease fire are to critical stage with israel mentioning no would really about its response but clearly it s

in the last decade, hamas andou israelt three wars. for now, both sides have pulled back from a fourth. foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin begins his story in gaza city, on a tense rning. (explosion) schifrin: in one of the densest places on the planet, an israeli airstrike hits a single building. on a busy gaza citstreet, massive bombs dropped by u.s.-e made jets shakthe ground. since yesterday,chsrael's launed more than 150 strikes on gaza. as hamas militants release video of rockets they fire from gaza to israel. hamas has fired more than 18of the often crude rockets aimed toward nearby israeli towns. it's been four years, e last gaza war, since the area has been this tense. in israel, the sound of those rockets, andhe israelis firing back, can be terrifying. fearful families wedge themselves behind dumpsters, and try to reassure frightened children. in sderot, one of the israeli towns closest to the gaza border, a city worker cleans up a sidewalk hit by a hamas rocket. another left pockmarks on the wall of this apartment c

will israel confirmed it has launched strikes targeting twelve hamas sites israel's military says thirty six walk it's of been fired into israel in the past few hours that it's managed to intercept several of them one hundred simmons's live in gaza for us and there and just give us everything that we know so far. it's quite a lot to go through all be brief as i can julie basically. all started with the launching of rockets fired into israel and sid roth was one of the targets we saw quite clearly the results there in pictures and there was a least two people injured a number of other words taken to hospital with shock and then a whole sequence an array of rocket fire from hamas was wasn't long before we saw the reaction and it was a very furious reaction and accurate precision bombing it seems on a number of military targets will described as military targets no doubt a lot of damage was done we can assess that now but it's not safe to go out on the streets and we know that the casualty numbers are low for the reason that fight has always take cover evacuate their bases when rocket attac

and hamas called for a deescalation of the confrontation after every night air strikes by israel left three palestinians dead the strikes were in response to hamas rocket fire into southern israel under simmons is in gaza for a sander we were talking about the possibility of deescalation with these as a strike that's not looking likely is it. well certainly not in the immediate future it would seem the events certainly proves that fifteen israeli as strikes that's according to sources in hamas and these airstrikes five of them were here in gaza city there was a really heavy strike on the cultural building here in the center not far from here and that was devastated it destroyed the building we hear that there are a total of eighteen injured no wood about their condition all their background but they all said to be civilians however the israeli forces. suggest that ham ass uses this building for certain purposes what they did not say but it has to be said that this was could be described as a civilian target now we're not sure whether the actual building was evacuated or whether or not

in the last half hour a palestinian official has said israel and hamas have agreed on a truce to end a flare up in violence in gaza the truce is due to come into effect in less than fifteen minutes time at twenty forty five g.m.t. it comes after israeli aircraft struck more than one hundred fifty targets in gaza on wednesday night and thursday and hamas fighters fired scores of rockets including a long range missile deep into israel the scene is an opposition figure tendai biti has been charged with inciting violence and unlawfully announcing election results it's called appearance came a day after he was denied asylum by zambia and handed over to zimbabwean security forces the u.s. says it is deeply concerned by zambia's cooperation as well as reports of a government crackdown following the july thirtieth vote. russia's stock market in its currency the ruble have fallen after the u.s. announced new sanctions washington imposed the measures after accusing moscow of being responsible for the nerve agent poisoning of russian double agents argus cripple and his daughter in march the kre

delegation is in gaza to sit down with hamas their visit is part of ongoing efforts to lower tensions with israel the talks are expected to focus on a ceasefire proposal meanwhile funerals have been held for the three palestinians killed by israeli forces during the twentieth friday of protests that took place at the gaza border one of the people killed was a medic who was attending to the injured more than three hundred others were hurt since the protests started in march israel has killed around one hundred and sixty four palestinians right now forty to fifty boats are heading towards a restricted area off of gaza's coast towards a maritime boundary but the israeli navy stops palestinians from crossing and last month israel's defense minister restricted gaza's fishing boundaries from six logical miles so just three nautical miles off the coast the israeli navy intercept ships attempting to breach the naval blockade to deliver aid and often fires on fishermen who cross into restricted areas like the troll stratford he's joining us from and that is in northern gaza to tell us if you w

it says "israel and hamas agree on a truce to end gaza flare—up." in the past few days. after a night of rocket attacks on israel and air strikes on gaza, the violence continued today. this is the moment israel struck a building in gaza city, wounding at least 18 palestinians. locals said the strike hit a building that housed a cultural centre and other offices in the middle of the city. this is the same strike filmed from street level. israel's military has not yet commented. that air strike followed a rocket attack, fired from the gaza strip, that hit open ground near the city of beersheba, deep inside israel. it caused no damage or injuries. overnight a pregnant mother and her one—year—old daughter were killed in the gaza strip by an israeli airstike, which was launched in retaliation for a rocket and mortar attack by palestinian militants. most of the 180 rockets and mortars fired in the attack landed in open areas, but at least two hit the israeli town of sderot, next to the border with gaza. sirens sounded throughout the night and into the mor

also this hour israel and hamas militants reached a tentative ceasefire agreement after israel retaliates against dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip. and the legacy of terror we hear from families in southern russia desperate for news of loved ones who went to join the islamic state terror many how young children who are also missing. will hold that it will be ok that somehow it will be ok i just feel so sort of for the children it's so difficult when you don't know where exactly children are. this is art international bringing you your live news update this hour welcome to the program we start with breaking news from canada where police have confirmed at least four people have been killed in a shooting in the northeast province of new brunswick the incident is still ongoing and the authorities are working to close a perm perimeter they say more details will be given when available meantime locals have been told to lock their doors and avoid the area in the city of fredericton the incident took place and a largely residential area. in other world news a further tightening of u.s.

blames how full the violence and full these protests israel saying that hamas is basically keeping the people of gaza hostage and exploiting them trying to get international attention on a political level those reconciliation efforts between hamas and fatah remain at a standstill we know that house accepted the latest the gyptian proposal put forward a couple of weeks ago and has handed that file on to the palestinian president. still waiting to hear his response with respect to that but of course such a big escalation of violence. and expect more protests here today the situation is very tense in gaza for the moment we'll leave it there charles and monitor events for the through the day thank you. now the u.n. security council will be holding a closed door meeting later on friday to discuss the saudi admiralty coalition airstrikes that hit a bus full of school children in yemen fifty people were killed including the children some of them as young as ten now the un general secretary until you could terrorists has called for a product an independent investigation the u.s. state departme

reportedly members of the for gates the military wing of hamas that is the israeli army says it had retaliated against gunfire and that its troops interest cements is in gaza with more. military spokesman for israel has posted a video on twitter which shows he says fire coming from that watch tower in response a tank also opened fire and it was a direct hit and i says two of their fighters are dead two twenty three year olds and six people were injured now how mouse has made no reference to any preemptive action it has to be said but this does cause concern about possible retaliation from the hamas military wing there is a flurry of activity to activity politically right now because the talks over a long term cease fire at a critical stage with israel mentioning no would really about its response but clearly it seems amyas on not entirely happy they've said that they want a full lifting of the blockade of gaza and there has been no further word on that but too early to tell whether there is disruption of the talks at all there is always a question of posturing on both sides and it w

also this hour israel and hamas militants reached a tentative cease fire agreement after israel retaliates against dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip. and the legacy of terror we hear from families in southern russia desperate for news of loved ones who went to join the islamic state terror group many young children who are also missing. will hold that it will be ok it's true. i just feel so sort of for the children it's so difficult when you don't know right exactly children are. this is our team to national coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned two pm welcome to the program. for their tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia will be viewed as the start of an economic war that's how russian prime minister dmitry medvedev reacted to newly announced restrictions by the u.s. over the poisoning of former russian double agents are going to fall and his daughter in britain in march. if it comes to banning banking activities or certain currency use we will be able to call it a declaration of economic war and this will require a reaction by implementing either

fighter was also killed the israeli army launched the attacks after hamas militants fired more than one hundred and fifty rockets into israel injuring at least three israeli security situ. region has been tense since march when baddest indians began staging weekly protests along the gaza israeli border israel has warned hamas against further escalation. joining me now is middle east correspondent tanya crema she joins me from jerusalem john what is the latest you can tell us about this incident. well the situation seems to have quieted down in the past hour or so but we have to wait and see what the next hours will bring if they can agree again on a calm in the south because we've seen those days of military escalation several times in the past month now according to the israeli army a hundred and eighty rockets were launched from the gaza strip to southern communities and open fields in israel. thirty of them have been intercepted by the israeli defense system are in. israeli army says they have launched attacks from against one hundred fifty targets and sites in the gaza strip and

and israel and hamas militants reached a tentative cease fire agreement after israel retaliates against dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip. and the legacy of terror we hear from families in southern russia desperate for news of loved ones who went to join the islamic state terror group many had young children who are also missing or will hold this you'll be ok but some call it will only be ok i just feel so sort of for the children it's so difficult when you don't know exactly you children are. very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r.t. h.q. in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. described as the brink of a new economic war washington is seeking to further tighten sanctions on russia that's how russian prime minister dmitry medvedev has described the proposed move over accusations about the poisoning of former russian double agents and basically paul and his daughter in britain back in march. if it comes to banning banking activities or certain currency use we will be able to call it a declaration of economic war and this will require a reaction by impleme

israel and hamas militants reach a tentative cease fire agreement after israel retaliates against dozens of rockets from the gaza strip. to this friday lunchtime a special report a legacy of war we hear from families in southern russia desperate for news of loved ones who went to join the islamic state terror group many are young children were also missed. it will be ok. i just feel so sorry for the children it's so difficult to. children are. there this is out international with me very well welcome from. thanks for taking the time to join us today first than further tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia will be viewed as the start of an economic war that's how russian prime minister dmitri medvedev reacted to newly announced restrictions by the u.s. over the poisoning of former russian double agent sergei scriptural and his daughter in britain in march if it comes to banning banking activities or certain currency use we will be able to call it a declaration of economic war and this will require a reaction by implementing economic political or if necessary any other measures so these n

israeli tank fire in the gaza strip has killed two members of hamas and wounded others those killed of reportedly members of the brigades the military wing of hamas israeli army says it had retaliated against gunfire at its troops our andrew symonds joins us now from gaza so what else do we know enter. well what we know is this that yes the israeli military put the tweets out with video attached a showing it says is evidence of how mouse outpost a watched in which at least two soldiers were stationed and they say that they saw fire opening out a poem that they would sell the eight hundred in a separate video show it's a year where you see a tank shell landing on the outpost two members of hamas military wing dead about six others injured in this attack no word from hamas on any preemptive action but they confirm that two twenty three year old fights is all dead and now the israelis are saying that they're warning people living on the border areas of the gaza strip in the israel side to be very much aware and near as shelters in case of retaliation so again we're seeing a tense phase wo

israel and hamas militants richard tentative cease fire agreement after israel retaliates against dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip. and the legacy of terror we hear from families in southern russia that are desperate to contact loved ones who've been persuaded to fight for islamic state in syria. will hold that it will be ok that somehow it will all be ok i just feel so sorry for the children it's so difficult when you've done already exactly children are. good morning welcome to the program my name is kevin irwin this is r.t. live from h.q. here in moscow it's just turned eleven am now this friday the tenth of august first some headlines then further tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia will be viewed as the start of an economic war russian prime minister dmitri medvedev reacted to a newly announced restrictions by the u.s. over the poisoning of former russian double agents surrogates cripple and his daughter in britain in march. if it comes to banning banking activities or certain currency use we will be able to call it a declaration of economic war and this will require a

israel and hamas militants reach a tentative cease fire agreement after israel retaliates against dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip. and coming up to another special report on the legacy of terror we hear from families in southern russia desperate to contact loved ones who've been persuaded to fight for islamic state instead. he'll hold that it will be ok that somehow it will all be ok i just feel so sorry for the children it's so difficult when you. children are. very good afternoon just. of the tenth of august when you were watching r.t. international. first that in the headlines in more detail further tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia will be viewed as the start of an economic war that so the russian prime minister dmitri medvedev reacted to newly announced restrictions by the u.s. over the poisoning of former russian double agent sergei scriptural and his daughter in britain in march if it comes to banning banking activities or certain currency use we will be able to call it a declaration of economic war and this will require a reaction by implementing economic politic

another issue they're looking at is reconsideration efforts between hamas and fatah that have faded of the past and yes and another track would be to look at a plan to make the situation to address some of the hardships in gaza like the missing water problems and unemployment now with every military escalation of course the situation becomes more complex and we have to wait and see how this will play out donna kremer in jerusalem thank you authorities in bed a number of journalists on suspicion of illegally accessing information from the country's state run news agency among those detained is. a correspondent for the russian service is a partner in minsk was searched for two hours by police has launched a protest with the ambassador of the terrorists in berlin his arrest followed police raids on some of the country's largest independent media outlets look at rights groups say the detentions are part of a government drive to muscle the press. turning now to a story from inside the turkish purges the story of a former naval officer now branded a terrorist he was among the thousands of

protests take place on the gaza israel border the demonstrations attesting an uneasy traced between hamas and israel on thursday that ceasefire followed two days of intense violence but short least three palestinians killed by israeli astronauts rockets have been fired into southern israel as well as banning kites and balloons child strafford has more from gaza another friday of protests here in gaza all the armed factions including hamas calling people to come out and participate in these demonstrations now these latest protests the twenty is week in a row come off to the worst escalation of violence between hamas and israel since the two thousand and fourteen war and there are great fear is that these protests something that israel often calls a provocation could lead to a new escalation of violence of course hamas a saying that the people here have every right to continue to come out and protest against the twelve year long land and sea blockade by israel the israeli army earlier today saying that they had eased security restrictions on the towns in southern israel close to northern th

israeli air strikes hit the beach in gaza after hamas fires rockets across the border fence. not seeking a third term joseph kabila endorses a successor to compete in democratic republic of congo's presidential elections. no end in sight to the diplomatic spat between canada and saudi arabia but justin trudeau says the dialogue continues. canada will always speak strongly clearly in private in public on questions of human rights. and emotive protests as argentina's parliament discusses a controversial plan to legalize abortions when the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy. at least three palestinians including a mother and her toddler have been killed in the gaza strip in an explosive exchange between israel and hamas the israeli military says seventy rockets were fired from gaza several were intercepted israeli media says six people have been injured by shrapnel in the border town of steroids well in response israel has launched a series of it strikes targeting hamas positions meanwhile the u.n. special coordinator for the middle east peace process is alarmed at the escalation

al-jazeera at least four palestinians have been killed in an explosive exchange between israel and hamas the israeli military says thirty six rockets have been fired from gaza but it intercepted several of them israel or tally aided by targeting hamas sites in the territory with air strikes the u.n. special coordinator for the middle east peace process is alarmed at the escalation of violence make a limelight and of says collective efforts have prevented the situation from exploding until now if the current text escalation however is not contained immediately the situation can rapidly deteriorate with devastating consequences for all people under simmons as the latest from gaza. deep into the night in tents six changes of far from the factions here by rockets and from israel as strikes right across the strip up to twenty of them and precision targeting it would seem certainly the vast majority of the strikes were against what is described as military targets now because some brigades that's how my house made a statement joran all of the firing in fact you know during rockets going up not

fighters was also killed these really we launched the attacks after hamas militants fied more than one hundred fifty rockets into israel injuring at least three israelis the security situation in the region has been tense since march when palestinians began staging reeky protests along the gaza israel border israel has warned how mass against for the escalation and for the very latest i'm joined now by our middle east correspondent in jerusalem john what's the latest you can tell us about this incident. was the situation seems to have quiet down in the past hour or so but it's not yet clear where this is going. we've seen such as collations in the past month or so already several times so it's always said they don't have an interest to take it any further but i think only the next will tell according to the israeli army about a hundred and eighty protect was fired from gaza into southern israel. about thirty of them were intercepted by the israeli defense system. and this very young he says they have targeted over one hundred fifty sites and locations in the gaza strip since yesterday

studies what israel say well first of all it's not organized by hamas it's organized by a lot of busting in factions all of palestinian factions and it is representing the palestinian will go to the borders and to to clean the right of return to their homes which was a land which was taken from them in one hundred forty. other hand better students have nothing what do you mean by israeli have if sixteen if there are thirty five and they have tanks they have. everything and they have kites this is absolutely unmatch just tell me it's three men what your thoughts are not egypt has proposed a deal between israel and hamas previous attempts you well know have failed but there does appear to be at least some optimism this time around what has to happen on both sides for the latest attempt to succeed. well apparently the. option of trying to eat and a comprehensive kind of deal between the best authority hamas and the israelis at the same time in one hand. is a consolidation of between gaza and west bank and bring back the better scene of a key to gaza and that would ensure the security at lea

this is how the tweet reads and a lot of hamas statements on the evacuation of hamas outpost the southern command decided to reinforce the causative it there isn't and close several israeli roads in the area surrounding the gaza strip for security reasons or interests and it is in gaza so andrew what are some are saying about this. well how do you hire he's the deputy leader of hamas has made a statement he's in cairo now with the rest of the senior delegation. long time well just over a week here in intense talks in gaza and he's saying that egypt and the united nations have made progress with hamas towards some deal on a cease fire reaching a settlement to ease the sea now watch those words because just lately all hamas spokespeople have been saying that they want the siege lifted completely before they'll do a deal that is possibly a concession perhaps it's a question of of posturing previously but we see an optimistic tone to what's being said by hamas but it does say the palestinian people will continue their popular protests until their demands are met to end this twelve year old se

then it may not last of course hamas of valve that these protests that we see every friday along the border will continue to have been a lot less of these in send an incendiary kites launched in recent days of the cold so much damage so the israelis say across the border in burning crops and so all but yes you're right these easing of the restrictions in the opening of the of the border crossing keeping that open is all dependent on there not being another escalation of violence charles thanks very much charles traffic in gaza port. now turkey has upped the ante in its continuing dispute with the united states it severely increased the tariffs on some u.s. imports and it's calling for a boycott of american electronic goods the government says it is in retaliation to what he calls a deliberate economic attack the lira has fallen more than forty five percent against the dollar this year turkish president richard type of wine is now targeting cars where tariffs of raised to one hundred twenty percent he's also raised the charges against alcoholic drink it's two hundred forty percent and

tire ago and has been hosting the emir of qatar in the capital said media says the shake time in been hama fanny is trying to strengthen the existing strategic cooperation between the two countries. well the turkish leaders fall in more than forty five percent against the dollar this year but goes on in the states some of those gains due to central bank measures in retaliation to u.s. sanctions on ways in states turkey double taxes on a range of american imports including alcohol cars and tobacco said in kosovo has more now from istanbul the government's decision to increase tariffs on the us products is welcomed by the turkish media and welcomed by the turkish citizens when you look at the new science and the and the social media because there is a positive response on the support for the government through television against the us united states increasing tariffs for the turkish products or course this is mainly a psychological impact where the economists say that healthful finance the psychology and this is the governments began taking some measures again through the central bank and t

officials in a desperate bid to choice and to establish some sort of last sting truce a between hamas and israel now those meetings very much behind closed doors as we've seen before this is not the first time that mr madoff has come on him by himself or has been represented down here in gaza those efforts to try and forge the last thing troops continue. the tension here highlighted by the fact that there were two israeli drone strikes against what israel describes as protesters trying to launch those incendiary carts and balloons that israel says to cause so many crops and private so much private land to be burnt in israel meanwhile the protests was launched by the fishermen here in gaza as well the fishermen sailing their vessels around thirty vessels to the cause of border they say that they are trying to highlight the kind of problems that they have been suffering during the twelve years of israel's land and sea blockade very important they say when after twenty weeks now these protests continue on a on a weekly basis and friday on the land borders so a tense day here in gaza but

at overtax in counterattacks and with hamas saying it truce has been reached with israel. turkey's currency plunges to record lows concerning investors as inflation rises. and the edinburgh fringe festival of.

is deeply alarmed about the latest escalation of hostilities in the gaza strip between israel and hamas three palestinians died in an exchange of hundreds of mortars in air strikes overnight over a dozen more have been reportedly injured in israel israeli airstrikes today despite international attempts to mediate the funeral for two of those victims a pregnant woman and her one year old daughter was held in gaza this afternoon authorities say that a hamas fighter was also killed the u.n. envoy warned of devastating consequences if the current situation is not contained . the exchange of fire in gaza comes at a time when it is becoming increasingly difficult for gazans to live their daily lives that is in part due to cuts in u.s. funding for the united nations agency responsible for some five million palestinian refugees us president donald trump has questioned its value after the state department said that the agency known as the u.n. r w a needs reforms. tanya kramer reports from gaza. a sit in then on ross headquarters in gaza city a few employees have even started a hunger strike all

hamas launches rockets into an israeli city israel conducts at least ten strikes in gaza . are there i'm julie woodall of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up months of speculation and in the democratic republic of congo joseph could be a won't run for president in upcoming elections the red cross says sunday's deadly earthquake in indonesia was exceptionally destructive more than a hundred and fifty thousand are now left homeless. but. well that's the message from democrats to republicans in ohio we'll have the latest on the special election that's too close so call. a very well welcome to the program will begin with some breaking news of gaza we're hearing that there have been several explosions in the strip in the last hour and you're simmons is in gaza for us and you what's the situation just. quite tense indeed ten attacks no less than and they have been ranging from the majority being here in gaza only two kilometers from this position only a matter of what just twelve minutes ago an f. sixteen we could hear it in the sky and then it it attacked bombing

in trying to pursue both sides to call a truce much rest now on the real intentions of israel and hamas to warn or both really intend to break down the cease fire talks and nicholai madden of the un special envoy has been here before not so serious but he mediated and succeeded in stopping the fighting a month ago his words our collective efforts have prevented an explosion until now we will work hard to ensure garza's steps back from the brink. can not in of and egyptian mediators bring gaza back from the brink again people are in fear tonight that he may not succeed. a former russian double agent and as daughter are the center of a growing tension between the u.s. and russia washington is imposing sanctions on moscow for an attack on cigarettes triple and his daughter in britain the state department accuses rusher of using the nerve agent novacek to poison them in the city of seoul sprit russia has called the allegations far fetch more challenges following events for us in moscow they're saying a lot more at the kremlin are they not rory. yeah you get the impression the kremlin is pre