now the un envoy for the middle east peace process nicholai phase in gaza he'll meet with hamas officials on is expected to discuss a ceasefire proposal at least three palestinians have been killed by israeli forces during a twenty friday of protests 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 fifty nine palestinians under seven from gaza. there's a truce but just here on gaza's border with israel there's no such thing as calm anger soon followed by live sniper rounds. finding their targets schools of life changing injuries mainly young people. here those wanting to express themselves with words not actions families with children risking their lives mixing with activists do they believe that the fighting can end it would be to use a truce hold for long the protesters have an objective until they get what they want there's going to be no call in. a cease fire called last because we have learned here the occupation has taken land by f

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 balloons and kites two people injured in those attacks on the back of yesterday's protests you really get a sense of just how tense the situation is here and of course how importan

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 final days of his leadership saying p

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 pretty mad about this the spokesperson dmitri peskov has said this is categorical

so excuse me mr not in of nicholai blood not in all of it was a delegation that was sent because we understand that not not himself could not come in this week because of that escalation of violence now we've seen not enough here on countless occasions in the last few months as i say in these desperate attempts to try and forge some sort of last sting ceasefire between hamas and israel these meetings largely the majority of them are largely behind closed doors but today the softer knew they were to report it is ready drone strikes in gaza least two people wounded in those strikes we understand that the israeli. drones which targeting people trying to launch those who send an incendiary kites so it's instances like this off to such a big scale ation the highlight just how important these efforts by the u.n. special coordinator for the middle east peace process to come say here in gaza and to talk to hamas whether it be behind closed doors will not because the situation here is so tense right charles ferd's thank you now the german owner is off chemical maker monsanto are insisting that it's we

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 have 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 ceasefire antigovernment protests as a rallying for a second day in romania after more than four hundred demonstrators were injured in violence with police on friday many of the protesters in the capital bucharest all remain in migrants who have returned home to demonstrate against corruption police have denied that they used excessive force on friday when they deployed to gas and water cannon to disperse the protesters and turkey's president has vowed to defy what he describes as u.s. attempts to undermine the country's economy. but on wrote an opinion piece in the new york times warning the u.s. must respect the sovereignty of their p

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 garza steps back from the brink. can not and of and egyptian mediators bring gaza back from the brink again gazan people are in fear tonight that he may not succeed andrew symonds al-jazeera gaza city or stuffing to his following events for us in west jerusalem and stuff all sort of reaction are you seeing now that the sun has risen because the dust really hasn't settled where you are. that's right nothing has been resolved it remains a tense situation having said that in the last couple of hours there's been no rockets fired out of gaza there's been no army activity but certainly as you mentioned earlier those numbers an intensive night over one hundred forty how massed targets military groups inside gaza hit by the army having said that yes you mentioned

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 of one man while santos made a decision in the final days of his leadership sa

warning of devastating consequences for all people if the israel gaza conflict continues to escalate nicholai warned that the situation could rapidly deteriorate. the u.s. state department spokesperson faced a barrage of questions about the new anti russia sanctions announced on wednesday over the poisoning of the former double agent sergey screwball in the u.k. but korea isn't a great example sanctions as a result you want to get rid of their nuclear program again. a list of twelve things venezuela you've got sort of a clear list of trying to understand what your policy is with russia you've got a variety of myriad no sanctions what's your goal well i think the president has addressed this and so has secretary pompei o we'd like to have a better relationship with the russian government recognizing that we have a lot of areas of mutual concern. really are washington accused russia of using biological and chemical weapons against in the script and he said he discussed the claims and the way the u.s. has justified the sanctions with my colleague. the united states. two thousand and eighteen det

nicholai in michigan state health director is being accused of failing to alert the public to flynn's water crisis why in phases involuntary manslaughter charges in the deaths of two men who died from a legionnaires disease outbreak in flint he also faces charges on misconduct in office and the willful neglect of duty lyons is denying any wrongdoing however judge david goggins says these deaths could have been prevented if the outbreak had been publicly known despite lyons pending trial michigan governor rick snyder is sticking by him snyder issued a statement saying he has quote full faith and confidence and will remain on duty. as unless convicted of a crime after a full trial by a jury of his peers snyder and lyon announced the outbreak in january twenty sixth team although lyon knew there were legionnaires he says being reported months earlier experts say the outbreak was caused by the flint water crisis back in two thousand and fourteen however attorneys for alliance say there isn't enough evidence linking the christ says to the legionnaires outbreak the crisis began on april twe

the next thirty minutes or so we'll see what else comes out of that meeting between at john bolton nicholai patrushev all right let's get a check on what else we're covering this news hour here in r.t. international facebook has upped the ante in its crusade against fake news it's not bound hundreds of pages it claims are linked to a round in russia for allegedly trying to sway political opinion here so you. thanks for joining us by millions of franco with your latest news in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts spewing fakes and propaganda from iran the troll factories not only after the minds of the americans but users all over the world it's claimed to be run by iran's government media. not us at this by. some of them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian balls and trolls how many trolls does it take to incite i've evolution scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook some stories never seem to die well this facebook slash twitter online police raid is an actual news story t

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. i am not in of and egyptian mediators bring gaza back from the brink again dance and people are in fear tonight that he may not succeed andrew simmons al-jazeera gaza city. or for the very latest we can join our correspondent stephanie decker he's live for us in west jerusalem of course the situation is very volatile the dust has not settled. absolutely however in the last couple of hours or so it's been relatively quiet all eyes now on what happens next particularly here in israel right now from what we understand in tel aviv the prime minister is meeting with his defense minister avigdor lieberman in about four hours time from now we will have an israeli security cabinet meeting convene also at army headquarters in tel av

secretary of russia's security council nicholai patricia fisk errantly meeting is american counterpart john bolton there in geneva or it comes at a time when relations between the two countries are especially fraught interesting meeting when our europe correspondent peter all of us look forward to it hi there significant meeting isn't it or can we expect from it hallo. right well they've been talking just behind me in the u.s. mission here in geneva for just over an hour right now would be keenly looking to see what comes out of that meeting that the groundwork for this get together was laid last month when presidents trump and putin met in helsinki however that meeting was really overshadowed by all of the the hysteria at the fact that they were meeting in the first place so these type of the things between national security advisers and the likes of mr partnership in his role as secretary of the security council in russia this is supposed to be where the the actual work gets done and people move forward on issues presidential meetings more often than not a handshake and a signature o

special envoy in nicholai martin of has been engaged in shuttling to cairo garza and indeed israel right now there will be consideration of a potential deal which will be apparently step by step but when details will come through on this remains to be seen. european aircraft manufacturers are rushing to deliver planes to iran before u.s. sanctions are introduced on monday iran has received thirteen of the twenty planes it bought from the european for. iran's as the sanctions endanger the lives of at travelers because they stop airlines from buying new planes and parts. russia has given turkey until a summit for september seventh to settle the conflict syria's in libya province and stop the government carrying out a military offensive that any renewed fighting would trigger a humanitarian crisis and lead to the collapse of the so-called a start up process so i know how to reports from beirut. president bashar assad says it live is the syrian army's next target the opposition controlled northwestern province is home to almost three million people at least half displaced from other rebel ar

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. can not and of and egyptian mediators bring gaza back from the brink again gazan people are in fear tonight that he may not succeed andrew simmons al-jazeera of gaza city. and she joins us from west jerusalem say stuff you've got the guns are officials saying that from their side this escalation is what we're hearing from the israelis. well they're currently meeting the senior political leadership in tel aviv in about two hours from now there will be these ready security cabinet convening in tel aviv as well in army headquarters that has the prime minister the minister of defense the chief of staff of the army and other senior official that they will be deciding how to move forward on this just referring back to that statem

devastating consequences for all people if the israeli palestinian conflict does continue to escalate nicholai mlodinow added that the situation can quote rapidly deteriorating. that's how the new just looking so far the savings just coming up to seven thirty here in moscow move from us and no. one else seems wrong. wrong just don't call. me. yet to shape our. active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she says to look for common ground. very building never great responded on the rapes in the murder. nothing changed so we said in. response to these situations that we're dealing with. people get shot every day she is just people kill each other blood for the killing children. there was just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down by law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with why this is the reason i have to ride like this is the reason. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the lin

necessary it hasn't given and they're playing their cards close to their chests i wave had no word from nicholai rather than all he's got on the scene right now but you could be sure that there is a big move on to keep these talks alive to keep them moving there were positive signs some time back here in gaza that these talks were progressing the egyptians are playing a bigger role than ever right now in keeping things as quiet as is feasible to try to get to a stage whereby peace can be achieved but no real guide on those talks lots of speculation positive and negative lots of of posturing going on about how mass right now are in talks here in gaza city as to what sort of response is going to be made there expected to go to egypt in person to discuss further moves so on hold right now there but in terms of the military position events are always unpredictable in the gaza strip so we'll have to wait and see anderson is live for us in gaza thanks andrea. rights groups are demanding the release of journalists arrested for covering student protests and bangladesh photographer and journalist was det

at getting some sort of cease fire long term cease fire deal between hamas and the israelis and nicholai not enough the u.n. special envoy who's been in egypt who are also involved in this the sponsors of this whole attempted a deal is has really completed a phase of work which is now on the table off the security cabinet which is a separate entity to the regular cabinet that's about to wrap up that the security cabinet will be discussing with intelligence officials high level generals right across the board security will be the primary issue and benjamin netanyahu has canceled an overseas trip because he knows that this situation is growing bigger we will see in the coming hours if the israelis have anything to say on the whole deal is it on is it off well wait and see it definitely isn't likely to have a firm conclusion on sunday but something is definitely going on whether it's positive or negative is unclear and thanks a lot. plenty more news still to come for you here on this half hour also including the story scrambling to protect their leader panic at a military parade in venezuel

nicholai mlodinow of the un envoy himself was supposed to come last week but because of that escalation in violence that meeting between himself and i have never happened now these meetings have happened on a regular basis in the last few weeks when we've seen these escalations in violence despite efforts by the u.n. envoy to try and foolish try and maintain some sort of last thing ceasefire. the un special envoy to yemen says talks between warring parties next month will focus on disarmament international criticism has been growing over an airstrike by the saudi embassy coalition which hit a bus full of school children and the northern province many of the remains have yet to be identified yemen's who the rebels say at least fifty one people were killed in thursday's strike including forty children turkey's president has vowed to defy what he describes as u.s. attempts to undermine his country's economy. on roads an opinion piece in the new york times warning the u.s. must respect turkey's sovereignty or their partnership could be in jeopardy u.s. president of trump announced this week

intentions of israel and hamas to warn or both really intend to break down the ceasefire talks and nicholai modern 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. of and egyptian mediators bring gaza back from the brink again people are in fear tonight that he may not succeed andrew simmons al-jazeera gaza city well stuff they call correspondent is following events for us from west jerusalem and stuff we have to monitor really the reaction from both sides because the dust really hasn't settled yet that's right there's a lot of rhetoric on both sides to hell and the attacks continue this morning airstrikes and some rocket fire but again reading between the lines of these escalations and they do come in goes to hell is this is that israel is striking multiple had mass and other military targets inside gaza but they haven't struck any areas where there are a gathering of actually members

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 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 knock successor and there are more questions than answers right now and they continue to reverberate as far as modern job is concerned it is a huge mountain to climb however could this be the israelis pushing forward to damage how massed further before suing for some sort of temporary peace i'm going to be how mass intent on destroying the talks or the latter is unlikely hamas were talking quite optimistic leigh only twelve hours before all this began so it's something of a an unusual state of affairs about they would seem very much ready to launch this very large attack on israel right across the strip usi

sunday to discuss this a long term deal you mention of course the united nations special envoy in nicholai and lot of has been really busy trying to get some momentum on these talks with with hamas and also with the egyptians involved now what is on the table isn't confirmed we've got a number of issues being speculated over but there is has to be said on the garza side and the egyptian side some optimism it seems that this deal could be a go or so a lot of optimism there whether the israelis see it that way we may hear later on sunday when this security cabinet finishes andrew thanks very much now unrest is continuing in ethiopia where government forces moved in to arrest regional leaders in the somali region located in the east of the country federal troops took control of the capital of that region jigger after being met with resistance by paramilitary forces loyal to the local government reports of looting rioting and the burning of churches in the province has been plagued by violence for thirty years after a bid for session in the region mohammed atta is in djibouti. there is a tense

nicholai in michigan state health director is being accused of failing to alert the public to flynn'swater crisis why in phases involuntary manslaughter charges in the deaths of two men who died from a legionnaires disease outbreak in flint he also faces charges on misconduct in office and the willful neglect of duty lyons is denying any wrongdoing however judge david gergen says these deaths could have been prevented if the outbreak had been publicly known despite lyons pending trial michigan governor rick snyder is sticking by him snyder issued a statement saying he has quote full faith and confidence and will remain on duty. as unless convicted of a crime after a full trial by a jury of his peers snyder and lyon announced the outbreak in january twenty sixth team although lyon knew there were legionnaires he says being reported months earlier experts say the outbreak was caused by the flint water crisis back in two thousand and fourteen however attorneys for alliance say there isn't enough evidence linking look christ says to the legionnaires outbreak the crisis began on april twen