by hamas personnel against. suspected salafi is those who adhered to isis so al qaeda like ideology. and we can expect that we've heard that there have already been arrests that have made we can expect a pretty wide ranging crackdown hamas does monitor these groups extremely closely for the prospect of something like this happening or indeed of some sort of freelance operation against israeli interests which hamas might want to monitor and potentially prevent if it decided that it was a bad time for that kind of thing to be going on and so for this to happen i think has come as a big shock and a big surprise and we can expect a pretty major response from hamas because as you say harry they monitor those groups extremely closely and in the past they have cracked down on been extremely quickly. indeed and i think today is a day when when that will be going on there will be a large number of arrests and the that the source of this will be will be sorted out pretty stringent as your previous guest was saying. there

the syrian army has moved into the area around the turkish observation post in northern hama stay divvy is reporting the government forces are meters away from turkish troops and mortar after capturing towns and villages in the northern hama countryside turkey's foreign minister says the attacks must stop in order to allow for talks. with the regime is active around our observation posts we are discussing this issue with russia and iran we start the process to have a political solution that's why these a constitutional committee. under the regime has to be loyal to vote this is not apparent arabs of asian post but the future of syria that's why our negotiations with russia still go on let's stop the attacks and the tears as soon as possible and focus on the main process. martin smith has this update now for us from untucked. syrian government forces are now essentially in control of all of the towns and villages in the countryside of the province to the south that leaves it countryside and the city of idlib itself still in rebel hands but clearly would be the next target for assad's for

law the leader of hamas in the gaza strip hamas and the egyptians to get at the services signed their fist security coordination in june 27th in which has led to of further security cooperation and as a result of the hand mass was a bill to block the entrance of some of this between girls on sinai and as a result of that i believe that many salafist when i handed to the egyptian security services in egypt and also had us blocked the into of many side effects from sinai into gaza as a result of that we have seen over the past 2 years a lot of tension a lot of. bad relationship between had us on the ice india and gaza in which many some of this were rounded up over the past 2 years even we have seen incidents in which a son of his tried to explode themselves in an us members or even engine of our markets in gaza but generally speaking as we are seeing right now that is our high security that again live by our him wished on who is a member of how must political butyl he has been visiting egypt for the past 2 days and maybe there are a fair that understanding between us and the egyptians

given that i say linked groups have been calling for attacks like this against hamas and hamas security personnel. actually those people you know remember 2 years ago me behind massive crackdown on many of those salafist jihadist they put them in jail hoping that they will discipline them and release them again one of those people actually who will be in jail being released according to one of the security information that the guy who been listed and being released he that the one who committed this was bombing unfortunately those people whenever they have been. exist and they cause a trouble to any country and this this kind of the silence if you have this committing suicide bombing and terrorism causing all the trouble wherever they have been exist unfortunately and that is try to deal with them because fully and just try to analyze them. but had actually fail in the result mr yousef has had mass failed in dealing with these people and these groups who have been operating on some. and have you know once again carried out attacks killing 3 police officers. i'm as they have everything w

seeing further tension between hamas , as wel, and bloodshed saw last night.on't think this will be the last incident. >> this month has seen and with rockets fired into israel and attempts by armed men to breach a border fence. a source of internal instability has been made fatally clear. how must insists it will maintain security and -- hamas insists it will maintain security and prevent attacks. >> still to come, report from the amazon, where scientists are taking stock of the devastating fires. health workers in the largest are struggling to provide care to women giving birth. >> we have -- [indiscernible] dryn melbourne, should stay for the next couple days. sydney, 12 degrees celsius. perth is warm. by friday, a rain chance. 17 degegrees celsius. sunshine in brisbane, 21 degrees and friday, showers and sydney with a high of 14. in the south island of new the nextgood for couple days. a system coming in lingers and keeps rain off shore. 16 in christchurch thursday with a shower, then dry and clear friday. 11 degrees at best in christchurch. in japan, we h

now hamas has declared a state of alert in gaza. after 3 police officers were killed in 2 separate silverside attacks the 1st blast at a police checkpoint where 2 officers died and less than an hour later there was a 2nd explosion at another checkpoint in the city killing a 3rd officer as thought the attacks were carried out by groups linked to i saw. the most of these events only serve the israeli occupation which tried to stab the palestinian resistance in the back what the occupation could not achieve by launching walls on gaza not be achieved by such bombings. very force that has the latest from gaza. well this is the funeral procession for 2 of the 3 hamas police but policemen who were killed in a double attack late on tuesday night are reporting suggests that one attacker came with an explosives laden motorcycle he left out of one checkpoint just an agent remotely killing 2 policemen he then went on with explosives attached to himself and designated himself in those explosives killing a 3rd policeman this is an assad which has

in recent years hamas has been collaborating with egyptian security and you people are making it harder to get across the border there was an attack such as this and 2017 in southern gaza this attack has come right in the center of gaza city so we understand there have been arrests and asked does monitor the activities of these groups it stream we closely so the fact that this is not in the midst tamas a shock to hamas and to the people there the syrian government forces have attacked a turkish military observation post in the northwestern countryside of hama province it's unclear whether this monitoring point was hit by an airstrike or by artillery shells but earlier the turkish president rather tired bedouin held talks with his russian counterpart vladimir putin on ending violence in italy province neighbors how my province president wanted to make sure that turkish troops aren't targeted in the so-called deescalation zones to yemen now the un recognized government has launched an attack against u.s. backed southern separatists in aden where they've taken control of the international

opposed to what has been going on in the south of gaza in terms of hamas is cooperation with. security egypt is trying to crack down on this movement in the sinai peninsula and recent in recent years hamas has been collaborating with egyptian security kind of people over there making it harder to get across the border there was an attack such as this in 2017 and in southern gaza this is a time has come right in the center of gaza city so we understand there have been arrests made a mass does monitor the activity of these groups extremely closely so the fact that this is not didn't just come as a shock close to hamas or mind to the people here. the united states has imposed sanctions on 2 networks it says are linked to iran's government and military the us treasury department says the overseas based front companies were used to evade sanctions and by restrictive materials washington interesting sanctions to increase economic pressure on tehran over its nuclear program there been protests in hong kong for 12 consecutive wakin this time the focus was on alleged sexual abuse of fe

hamas has declared a state of alert in gaza after 3 police officers were killed in 2 separate suicide attacks eisel fighters and sympathizers are being blamed mass arrests have taken place as a mosque says it won't tolerate attempts to destabilize the territory from within a facet of ports from gaza. at a cemetery northeast of gaza city to hamas policemen killed in tuesday night's attacks brought for burial in all 3 policemen were killed in 2 separate blasts hamas says garza police chief was here to mourn his men and promised a strong reaction. we heard he made arrests and we are investigating people to assure good to anyone who could be responsible for the attacks but things are under control and the security status is good daily life is back to the horrible. garza's interior ministry says 2 suicide bombers carried out the coordinated attacks on 2 checkpoints 2 policemen were killed in a bystander injured in the 1st explosion the 3rd policeman died in the 2nd blast minutes later. by day police were back on duty where their colleagues had died reinforcements stationed on streets throu

hamas policemen are buried after being killed in gaza suicide attacks blamed on isilon that supporters. plus column address can determine a life span we look at the gap between rich and poor. in the us. being called a constitutional outrage and the political coup the u.k. prime minister bars johnson is suspending parliament until the middle of october this would leave his opponents very little time to prevent the threat of a no deal breakers it but johnson supporters say it's a decisive move that respects the referendum verdict 3 years ago lawrence lee reports from london bricks it was is and remains an idea about the british parliament taking back control of the agenda setting its own laws and making its own rules so what to make of the decision by the new prime minister to block it from sitting at all for a 5 week period at the most crucial moments in the entire process. with one eye on a very possible national election johnson insists it's about setting out his new government's plans and that m.p.'s are not being frozen out of having their say over bricks it will be time on both sid

in all 3 policemen were killed in 2 separate blasts hamas says gaza police chief was here to mourn his men and promised a strong reaction. we have made arrests and we are investigating people to assure good to anyone who could be responsible for the attacks but things are under control and the security status is good daily life is berta the horrible. garza's interior ministry says 2 suicide bombers carried out the coordinated attacks on 2 checkpoints 2 policemen were killed in a bystander injured in the 1st explosion the 3rd policeman died in the 2nd blast minutes later. by day police were back on duty where their colleagues had died reinforcements stationed on streets throughout the city amassed announcing a general alert brawly instability and violence the people of gaza have had to get used to in recent years these attacks are still sent a ripple ishant around the territory targeting the very institution that is supposed to provide internal security and right here in the heart of gaza city. the attacks are widely believed here to be the work of salafi groups with links to eisele in

we're certainly hamas have been talking about a return to some of the previous measures that we've seen at these protests in months past such is the use of incendiary devices potentially getting closer to the fence and so on they've been talking in that language earlier this week now that this payment has gone through this $11000000.00 which is destined for some of the poorest families inside gaza the committee which organizes these protests in which of course hamas has an extremely large voice it came out at 3 o'clock this morning saying that it wanted to ensure that people stayed back from the fence that we know such use of incentive devices and that's why they wanted a large turnout because this is to mark the 50th anniversary this process is to mark the 50th anniversary of the fire that was set in side the mosque in jerusalem by an australian christian who believes he was trying to bring on that the 2nd coming of jesus christ they want large numbers but they don't want to see major confrontations today and that seems to be how things are playing out certainly there are large numbers

at a cemetery northeast of gaza city 2 hamas policemen killed in tuesday night's attacks brought for burial in all 3 policemen were killed in 2 separate blasts hamas says gaza police chief was here to mourn his men and promised a strong reaction from the area and the court will look we have made arrests and we are investigating people to assure good to anyone who could be responsible for the attacks but things are under control and the security status is good daily life is back to the horrible. guns his interior ministry says 2 suicide bombers carried out the coordinated attacks on 2 checkpoints 2 policemen were killed in a bystander injured in the 1st explosion the 3rd policeman died in the 2nd blast minutes later. by day police were back on duty where their colleagues had died reinforcements stationed on streets throughout the city thomas announcing a general alert truly instability and violence the people of gaza had to get used to in recent years these attacks are still sent a ripple effect around the territory targeting the very institutions that are supposed to provide internal

at a cemetery northeast of gaza city 2 hamas policemen killed in tuesday night's attacks brought for burial in all 3 policemen were killed in 2 separate blasts hamas says garza police chief was here to mourn his men and promised a strong reaction from here and that will work we have made arrests and we are investigating people to assure good to anyone who could be responsible for the attacks but things are under control and the security status is good daily life is back to the horrible. garza's interior ministry says 2 suicide bombers carried out the coordinated attacks on 2 checkpoints 2 policemen were killed in a bystander injured in the 1st explosion the 3rd policeman died in the 2nd blast minutes later. by day police were back on duty where their colleagues had died reinforcements stationed on streets throughout the city hamas announcing a general alert truly instability and violence the people of gaza have had to get used to in recent years these attacks are still sent a ripple of shock around the territory targeting the very institution that is supposed to provide internal secu

foothold in hama. earliest days of the war then the holder has this from beirut. a major blow to the opposition they have lost significant ground what we understand is that rebel forces have withdrawn from the strategic town of and in southern that town was close to collapse saying the rebels have been also forced to withdraw from towns further south in the northern countryside because losing. would mean they would be besieged in northern how much so the syrian government and its allies taking control really of a large chunk of territory in the past 2 weeks we've seen the syrian government and its allies advance they've taken more ground than they have in the past 3 months it's not clear why what has changed has the rebel morale been weakened they have lost hundreds of men in this fight or has the government employed new tactics like concentrating their firepower and airstrikes closer to the front line targeting rebel supply lines in the past 3 months we've seen them target indiscriminately across sout

hamas has declared a state of alert ingles after 3 police officers were killed in 2 separate suicide attacks the 1st blast hit the police checkpoint where 2 officers died less than an hour later there was another it's the. at another checkpoint killing a fellow officer it's the attacks were carried out by groups linked to i think. most of these events only serve the israeli occupation which tried to stab the palestinian resistance in the back what the occupation could not achieve by launching walls on gaza not be achieved by such bombings and well i've been speaking to abu sada he's a professor of political science at al as a university he says i feel is most likely behind these suicide attacks the incident which happened last night is still under investigation and the security services have been conducting a severe investigation and they have rounded up hundreds of icily have in the gaza strip overnight and this morning to try to investigate who was responsible for the bombing or the suicide bombing which killed 3 members of hamas police last night most indications indicate that it'

sources that these were 2 islamic jihad members and one member of hamas but that they weren't acting in some kind of coordinated sanctioned way that this was some kind of a freelance individual operation and that has been the narrative coming from hamas which is in control of the gaza strip a number of these sorts of incidents that we've seen in recent weeks just last weekend there were 4 armed men who were killed in a similar area near the border fence by israeli fire on or was the 1st there was a man who got inside israeli territory and fired on israeli soldiers injuring 3 of them he too was shot dead in the narrative coming from hamas has been that this is a case of angry armed men who are acting by themselves out of a sense of anger and frustration with the current situation inside the gaza strip now as well as this incident last night we saw 3 rockets being fired out of the gaza strip to those a deceptive one of those falling inside israeli territory that's the 2nd night in succession that we have seen rocket fire coming out of gaza so there is a sense of a worsening security si

no claim of responsibility but the blasts were reminiscent of previous rounds of infighting between hamas and other islamists. we had to italy now where it is crunch time for the n.t. a stab at 5 star movement and the center left democratic party they have to agree on a coalition deal or risk fresh elections the president. is currently meeting with leaders of the main parties on tuesday both 5 star and the democratic party expressed optimism after agreeing to keep just that it conked a who is an independent ally of 5 stars prime minister a coalition deal would shout out far right leader mikhail salvini who triggered the crisis when he withdrew his lead party from the governing coalition. of bringing now journalists francesco who is at the parliament in rome and joins us now just walk us through what exactly is happening. well we are in the crucial moment right now that goes need the dedication of the mccarthy just went to meet president not that a lot they could do now on it which is the office of the president of the republic and they say that they have teacher to form a government suppo

air attacks monday on what the israeli military says was a hamas compound. israel launched the air raid in response to cross-border rocket fire, though hamas denied any involvement. in britain, prime minister boris johnson is expected to ask the queen to suspend parliament, increasing the likelihood of a no-deal brexit. johnson will reportedly request parliament be closed from mid-september to mid-october, meaning lawmakers who oppose a no-deal exit would have very limited time to pass legislation supporting any other measures. the u.k. is scheduled to leave the european union on october 31. back in the united states accusers of deceased financier , 16 jeffrey epstein appeared in city federal court tuesday to describe their experiences of sexual abuse at epstein's hands. jeffrey epstein was represented by an empty chchair next to thre of his lawyers.. epstein was found dead in his manhattan n jail celell earliers month of an apparent suicide, and prosecutors requested charges against him be dropped but u.s. district judge richard berman decided to allow surv

do accept that we do accept that however tim the thing is when you were describing the actions of hamas you gave yourself the liberty of the scribing this as terrorism but when i asked you about what the israeli occupation is doing i construed that in and women you shine away from describing this as try to talk to this really is about what they are doing and that's what i am i am talk had i am talking to you about your position or numbs for and i serve the these people around us enough but the agree that there needs i'm not here to agree or disagree i'm going to answer to the us your question i totally understand but once again should there be a unified definition of terrorism that is acceptable internationally then maybe it should not be based on double it and it's not that difficult cambridge dictionary defines it as violent action for political purposes that's it as that's it nuff than should be applicable on both parties we're talking about hamas here and you're the israeli the fact is your anti terrorist credentials have been further put in your government's readiness to allow hate

word games in fact supporting the palestinian group hamas but insisting on calling them a resistance organization and denying the terrorists your counter terrorism envoy mood like al qatar me said in washington april last year hamas is not a terrorist organization and it stopped sending suicide bombers to blow up buses killing civilians women and children sending rockets discriminate indiscriminately over civilian areas has not terrorism there isn't a single arab country that doesn't mean have mass as a terrorist organization where you know there are no we're not going to not unique in that position we are not unique in that position as a matter of fact there are many are not aware of unique or not that's not the issue many sending suicide bombers to blow up buses with women in general men is that not terrorism any we don't approve of any of those i reason we don't approve of any of those. while nations however many european countries don't designate acts if it's not terrorism what would you call it to them and blowing up civilians on buses what would you call them and. alcatel and c

terrorists your counter terrorism envoy mood like al kut timely said in washington april last year hamas is not a terrorist organization and a start so sending suicide bombers to blow up buses killing civilians women and children sending rockets discriminate indiscriminately over civilian areas has not terrorism there isn't a single arab country that designates hemis as a terrorist organization where you know there are no one or going not unique in that position we are not unique in that position as a matter of fact there are many are not aware of you unique or not that's of the issue of many sending suicide bombers to blow up buses with women and children on men is that not terrorism any we don't approve of any of those i reason we don't approve of any of those violations however many european countries don't designate that if it's not terrorism what would you call it to them allowing up civilians on buses what would. you called and. i'll cut him and call him it's a magical it's on it's violence that's not acceptable against this is a terrorism you want to call it terrorism fair enough

used in at least one instance instance by israeli forces those attempts have been talked about by hamas is sort of rogue elements of frustrated young men who've been trying this without official sanction however there have also been rockets fired from gaza towards and into israeli territory in the last few days israeli army is blaming that on on islamic jihad another of the armed groups here inside gaza saying that hamas has a responsibility to try to control the behavior of islamic jihad but certainly with the israeli elections also underway and it in previous occasions we have seen hamas try to increase the pressure on the government of benjamin netanyahu in the run up to elections and other important political events there is a concern that potentially that might happen however we have seen this money come in from qatar the qatari envoy hamas is demanding that israel go through with other commitments that it understands israel made after the last round of escalation so a lot depends on how those talks continue and and whether hamas becomes satisfied in its terms of the polls on septe

critics of hamas work. he was. talking about when we did man. the took a madrassa look into her heart to see a woman came up to lose a lot of kids. my emotional home i don't like. whoa. my niece asked me a record i was really insured by an explosion. i was in charge. it was a car bomb by the syrian army on the 13th of october 1900 journal and i went to watch remove the prince of presidency. and so syrian army enters a presidential palace. and took morse areas and they kidnapped and arrested joerg men it's a syrian army also answer to our fear that somebody. during that time my prancercise meat and tornadic emigrated to sri then but they still live like many lebanese people syrian army was to or from lebanon in 2005 but the word memories have never disappeared from our lifes. so war in syria is a great strength and. the security of lebanon is the trees as the number of the syrian refugees here is a huge. specially some of them served here and fought us and know what they are back. of course many of them have been forced to leave their homes in c.

at a cemetery northeast of gaza city to hamas policemen killed in tuesday night's attacks abroad for burial in all 3 policemen were killed in 2 separate blasts hamas says garza police chief was here to mourn his men and promised a strong reaction probably around the corner luck we heard who made arrests and we are investigating people to assure good to anyone who could be responsible for the attacks but things are under control and the security status is good daily life is berta the horrible. garza's interior ministry says 2 suicide bombers carried out the coordinated attacks on 2 checkpoints 2 policemen were killed in a bystander injured in the 1st explosion the 3rd policeman died in the 2nd blast minutes later. by day police we're back. on duty with their colleagues who died reinforcements stationed on streets throughout the city amassed announcing a general alert brawly instability and violence the people of gaza have had to get used to in recent years these attacks are still sent a ripple of shock around the territory targeting the very institution that is supposed to provide int

sources that these were 2 islamic jihad members and one member of hamas but that they weren't acting in some kind of coordinated sanctioned way that this was some kind of a freelance individual operation and that has been the narrative coming from hamas which is in control of the gaza strip a number of these sorts of incidents that we've seen in recent weeks just last weekend there were 4 armed men who were killed in a similar area near the border fence by israeli fire on or was the 1st there was a man who got inside israeli territory and fired on israeli soldiers injuring 3 of them he too was shot dead in the narrative coming from hamas has been that this is a case of angry armed men who are acting by themselves out of a sense of anger and frustration with the current situation inside the gaza strip now as well as this incident last night we saw 3 rockets being fired out of the gaza strip to those a deceptive one of those falling inside israeli territory that's the 2nd night in succession that we have seen rocket fire coming out of gaza so there is a sense of a worsening security si

last rebel stronghold of italy a province the syrian regime now controls all of the countryside in hama province south of it live after taking over with the russian help the last villages and towns that had been in rebel hands it's all happened under the noses of turkish soldiers they're behind this wall in one of a dozen observation posts a stop wish to monitor what is supposed to be deescalation zone. museum or that you don't know the little miss muffet the our observation posts are not besieged b. and nobody can besiege out troops or observation posts i want to clarify it yes there are attacks in the region of adlib the regime is active around our observation posts we are discussing this issue with russia and iran turkey is also worried that regime advances to push more than a half a 1000000 syrians to exporter. and the guy said how to best. taking everything they're giving us a kicking 36 helicopters over our heads forced us to leave almihdhar was bombed being checking on that our legs turkey's president has told his russian counterpart that syrian military attacks in northwestern s

at a cemetery northeast of gaza city 2 hamas policemen killed in tuesday night's attacks were brought for burial in all 3 policemen were killed in 2 separate blasts hamas says gaza police chief was here to mourn his men and promised a strong reaction here and that will work we have made arrests and we are investigating people to assure good to anyone who could be responsible for the attacks but things are under control and the security status is good daily life is back to the horrible. gaza's interior ministry says 2 suicide bombers carried out the coordinated attacks on 2 checkpoints 2 policemen were killed in a bystander injured in the 1st explosion the 3rd policeman.

hez and hamas, as well as to try to destabilize other countries and fund insurgent groups.he u.s. says that because he works hand in glove with the supreme leader's office, that he was of course a prime target under the terms of the new executive order recently issued by the president donald trump. they also say that more specifically because he is considered a trusted confidant of the ayatollah khomeini, that it is -- it would be untenable for the u.s. to continue to watch javed's arif fly around the world, serve as a spokesperson for the iranian government, and not be held accountable for the actions that either he himself has carried out, or those who work for his ministry have carried out, again at the behest of the supreme leader's office. sanctions areese being imposed. it is also intended to send a message that the u.s. is simply not going to allow iran to try to develop any nuclear weapons, even though the iranian government has said repeatedly that it has been abiding by the terms of the 2015 iran nuclear mostment, a deal which will recall, the united states pulled

have taken part in the funeral procession of 3 policeman killed in 2 bomb blasts in gaza city the hamas controlled interior ministry has declared a state of emergency there has been the claim of responsibility but the blast will remain this had a previous rounds of infighting between hamas and other is the best. britain's queen elizabeth gave her approval today to a request by prime minister boris johnson to suspend parliament it will be closed for 5 weeks in september and october just before the u.k. is scheduled to leave the european union johnson says this is benjamin is overdue and totally legal but opponents call the move undemocratic they say it will give lawmakers less time to try to stop a new deal breaks it. it dropped like a bombshell in a letter to m.p.'s boris johnson explained that he wanted to suspend parliament until just 2 weeks before the u.k. is set to leave the e.u. that severely limits the time opponents would need to try to stop regs it johnson denies it's a clever move to silence them there will be ample time on both sides of that crucial october 17th summit ample

at a cemetery northeast of gaza city to hamas policeman key. building tuesday night's attacks brought for burial in all 3 policemen were killed in 2 separate blasts hamas says gaza police chief was here to mourn his men and promised a strong reaction here and that yeah we have made arrests and we are investigating people to assure good to anyone who could be responsible for the attacks but things are under control and the security status is good daily life is back to the horrible. gaza's interior ministry says 2 suicide bombers carried out the coordinated attacks on 2 checkpoints 2 policemen were killed in a bystander injured in the 1st explosion the 3rd policeman died in the 2nd blast minutes later. by day police were back on duty with their colleagues had died reinforcements stationed on streets throughout the city hamas announcing a general alert for all the instability and violence the people of gaza have had to get used to in recent years these attacks are still sent a ripple of around the territory targeting the very institution that is s

no claim of responsibility but the blasts were reminiscent of previous rounds of infighting between hamas and other is the most. 1st they are on opposing sides in the war in syria but turkish president wretch of type one met with russian president vladimir putin on tuesday both insisting they want to defuse tensions in syria's northern province russian backed syrian forces have stepped up their campaign against rebels their. position forces holding it reportedly lost at least 50 combatants recently the new offensive has also forced thousands of civilians to flee. abdu nestles keep trying and he's family are finally safe all 7 of them beneath a top hole and in a big room in the extreme heat but anything is better than a life surrounded by falling bomb. the family fled to the north of syria from the south of. their house had collapsed in the attack at deuce leg was injured one of his daughters was killed. imagine your child dying in front of your eyes and you can't do anything you can't carry her away i can't describe what kind of feelings 1st. since the end of april syrian forces have bomb

no claim of responsibility but the blasts were reminiscent of previous rounds of infighting between hamas and other islamists. a couple in russia are at risk of having their son taken away from them after taking him to an opposition rally in moscow. prosecutors claim the couple put the infant's life in danger the demonstration was pushing for the registration of independent candidates to upcoming moscow parliament elections in september it was a rally that was not officially authorized the couple's case is set to go on trial on monday. and dimitri prac cause of could lose everything prosecutors are pushing to take away custody of the youngest of their 2 children. shooting mostly we love our children. and we just hope this won't break our family apart we. should little the family's lawyer says the case against her clients seems to have been put together very quickly. this is a case where they're trying to take away parental rights from people who have 2 children and who have always been exemplary parents it's hard to understand not just the rush but also this attempt to meddle in family bu

no claim of responsibility but the blasts were reminiscent of previous rounds of infighting between hamas and other islamists. in mexico at least 23 people have been killed and 13 badly injured in an arson attack on a bar in the south eastern city of kota called course local media have reported that shots were fired before the bar was torched with molotov cocktails the country's president. has blames the fire on organized crime. and a spokesperson for brazil's government said the country would accept foreign aid to help fight the fires currently raging in the amazon as long as the government controls that catch that comes after president both sonata originally turned down aid from g 7 countries saying the money came with strings attached. after 14 days that sees swedish climate change activists gratitude and barack has successfully cross the atlantic in a 0 emission sailboat earlier on wednesday arrived in new york waters and is expected to soon step on dry land to lower manhattan she is headed to several un climate summits and refused to take a plane in order to evolve avoid be a mission

province their foothold in hama dated back to the. days of the war let's go live now to santa holder our correspondent who's monitoring these developments from beirut in saying that so this significant withdrawal then by rebel forces will handshake whom represents an important victory for the syrian government forces how does it change the situation on the ground. well like you mentioned. it is a strategic town simply because of its location it lies along an international highway which was once a vital commercial route really for the syrian government that connects the north of the country to the south of the country it has been one of the main immediate military objectives of the syrian government since it launched its campaign in late april it wants to control this highway in order to connect the cities under its control and revive trade no taking can change when you're taking a stretch of that highway and rebel forces south of who are in towns in the north and how much countryside have also been forced to withdraw because if they s

having been displaced several times to have a family from hama only arrived to day. load just came and told us to move shell a pitch my tent on the road we are displaced left everything behind tell me know what care we do. the latest regime operations in northern ham are putting health facilities under pressure hospitals are short of supplies and stuff humanitarian aid is urgently needed. it's a desperate wait for many including up to have me wondering whether the war will catch up with them again c.n.n. crew saw a little elvis era at live northwestern syria. so the state media is reporting that its coalition forces of intercepted 6 ballistic missiles fired towards the city of jism that's near the border with yemen they added that the missiles targeted military camps and the city's military airport a spokesperson for yemen's hooty rebels described the operation as the largest attack with mid range ballistic missile since the war began 2015 they claim 10 missiles were launched saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are formed a joint committee aimed at stabilizing

and israeli tank targeted a hamas military post in khan yunis in gaza in retaliation. a new video has circulated by china's army appears to be a warning to protesters in hong kong beijing has been relatively quiet about the unrest in the semi autonomous region and thomas has more on this from hong kong. this video has been released by the hong kong garrison of china's people's liberation army and given the timing in the context it's clearly a of those thinking of taking part in further protests it starts with a zoom in from space directly down on to hong kong. and then it plays out like an action film full of pumping music quick cut edits and dramatic shots of soldiers training explosions guns but a big section in the middle of this 3 minute video focuses in on how the army would deal with protests and riots. a soldier shouts out all consequences are at your own risk and then you see soldiers with riot shields marching down the street clearing a protest involved tanks or a water cannons used as well so far china's army the military has not gotten involved in any of the

government forces have attacked a turkish military observation post in the northwest countryside of hama it's unclear whether the monitoring post was hit by the airstrike or artillery shells that comes after turkish president. held talks with his russian counterpart vladimir putin to make sure that turkish troops aren't targeted in so-called deescalation zones. now yemen's u.n. recognized government has launched an attack against u.s. backed southern separatists in aden where the taken control of the international airport all flights at the airport were suspended and workers evacuated due to the fighting the u.n. says at least 40 people have been killed in several days of fighting and hundreds more have been injured. now protesters in hong kong are turning their anger towards airline cathay pacific demonstrators are gathering in the central financial district after more than 20 of the carrier's staff were fired for protesting it follows a weekend of violent marchers with petrol bombs and bricks were hurled at riot police beijing has demanded the airline suspend staff involved in or suppo

syria's army has moved into the area around a turkish observation post in northern hama state t.v. is reporting government forces are meters away from turkish troops in mordechai after capturing towns and villages in the countryside his foreign minister says the attacks must stop to allow for talks. the regime is active around our observation posts we are discussing this issue with russia and iran we start the process to have a political solution that's why these constitutional committee. the regime has to be loyal to vo this is not about our observation post but the future of syria that's why our negotiations with russia still go on let's stop the attacks and it is as soon as possible and focus on the main process. bernard smith has more from un takio. syrian government forces are now essentially in control of all of the towns and villages in the countryside of the province to the south of italy that leaves it countryside and the city of idlib itself still in rebel hands but clearly would be the next target for assad's forces and in the process of this takeover of this territory t

groups now they have long been opposed to what has been going on in the south of gaza in terms of hamas is cooperation with egyptian security egypt is trying to crack down on this movement in the sinai peninsula and recent in recent years hamas has been cooperating with gyptian security kind of people over making it harder to get across the border there was an attack such as this in 2017 and in southern gaza and this attack has come right in the center of gaza city so we understand there have been arrests made a mass does monitor the activity of these groups extremely closely and so the fact that this is happening has come as a shock to hamas around to the people here. still ahead on the bulletin. agrees to accept international aid to find the amazon forest fires but insists it's for decide how to use the money plus. we've been going everywhere to the shelters in every place trying to find somewhere to live. child poverty in one of the wealthier states and america. welcome back we're here cross the south china sea we are watching trouble storm making its way towards the west now did bri