many who want to assert their religious and cultural identity in the light of france's 2021 contentious so-called separatism laws we'll look at the recent history of muslim immigration to the country in the final episode of this 3 part see if it's muslims or from it's episode 30. a sense of unease hangs over occupied east jerusalem now israel's supreme court delays a decision on the eviction of 4 palestinian families. hello i'm daryn jordan this is on jazeera live from doha also coming up funerals are held for young students killed in bomb blasts outside a school in kabul. as india's coronavirus cases continue to spiral out of control

cools grow louder for a full nationwide lockdown. and after parliamentary elections in scotland the divisive issue of independence from england looms large once again. welcome to the program the palestinian fight to resist israeli occupation in east jerusalem has continued for a 4th day a shake gerar neighborhood makes up just a tiny part of the palestinian territory but the area has become a huge source of tension between israelis and palestinians who are being forced out to make way for jewish settlements well the united nations security council has called an emergency meeting after tensions between both sides escalated the u.s. and e.u. are calling for restraint well after days of violence there is an uneasy calm sunday night hasn't seen any major fighting palestinians though say they will remain defiant on sunday israel's supreme court delayed

a decision on forcibly evicted palestinians in shape by minister benjamin netanyahu says he's determined to push the plan through with harry force that joins us live now from damascus gate so harry what's been happening on the ground up tensions been calm a little bit. a little bit yes off the 2 nights of some of the highest tensions we've seen in this city for several years. on this night it was a little bit reduced what we've seen have been sporadic instances where palestinian youths have been approaching israeli positions and throwing water bottles occasionally throwing stones and pieces of wood but so far things have been relatively reduced the tactics used by the israelis have largely been firing skunk cannon mortar which is water laced with bows moving chemicals and also using

30 liberally using stun grenades as well but we haven't seen at least here around damascus gate the same kind of hand to hand physical scuffling where we saw several times on saturday night israeli police forcing people to the ground and beating them and then just sending them on their way although we have seen some images of that from from nearby ships jura what is key i think is the fact that the israeli supreme court at the behest of your israeli attorney general has decided to give him 30 days to review the appeal by 4 of those families whose plight has been so much of the reason for this escalation in protest and tensions suit to decide whether to hear that appeal or not there will be a date set within those 30 days and so that does give some breathing space potentially for things to calm down in the days and weeks ahead yeah and what does

this decision to delay the court hearing then mean for those residents. well what they say is that they need to have a hearing properly. appealed they have tried in the magistrates court in a district court to say that they have council deeds to this to this land this is land that the jewish applicants say was owned by jews before 948 before the creation the state of israel and the between 948 and 967 when jordan was in charge here in east jerusalem it gave some of this land to palestinian refugees from 9 $148.00 israel to to have homes and now that israel is as occupied and it ends in its estimation an extent the eastern half of jerusalem

that is the why the israeli courts say that this is now land that should go back to these jewish previous jewish claims owners i would that's not something that palestinians on this side can do in terms of their own land they lost in what is now israel and so there is this legal arguments that the lawyers want to have heard and it's not something that will necessarily be judged in the 1st hearing this was just to decide whether this he would even be heard so there's a potential for the evictions to happen pretty soon afterwards if that had been ruled against so we're not going to get that ruling in the immediate future what is happening in the immediate future some are indeed monday will be the jerusalem day marches of right wing religious nationalist jews through the old city through the muslim quarter that is what's supposed to happen anyway the question is whether israeli security forces will allow that to happen they're going to have

a security review at some stage on monday morning the police commissioner though saying that he hopes it will go ahead if it does if there are real face to face clashes between jewish israelis and palestinians here in occupied east jerusalem and that's another potentially very dangerous flashpoint all right to have a force that live in thank you. well let's bring in marine rabbani he is coeditor of juggling yeah that's an independent online magazine produced by the arab studies institute he joins us via skype from the hague in the netherlands going good to have you back so israel supreme court has delayed the hearing of this plan to fiction as harry was saying that all these palestinians from how significant is this isn't this just delaying the inevitable yes i mean i think when it comes to relations with the palestinians the israeli judiciary has always been subordinate to government policy and i think what's happened here is that they've seen the

gathering intensification of palestinian protests not only in jerusalem but very worryingly for the israeli government also extending to palestinian communities within israel as well also in the arab world and i think what they're hoping to do is to try to take the wind out of the sails of these growing demonstrations at the same time it really amounts to nothing more than a than a stay of execution because is the israeli government's policy with respect to east jerusalem is very clear that it is exclusively israeli territory it is a territory in which only israeli jews have rights and in which palestinians have not and that will be the operative principle moving forward yeah the u.n. security council be meeting to discuss this violence with we've seen around the al aqsa mosque how much does this add to the international chorus of condemnation against israel. well this is i think

a critical question the issue of the effectively the ethnic cleansing of shift as the 1st real test for the biden administration i think it's safe to assume that there's more going on behind the scenes and we're able to view publicly but at the same time you know if one looks for example that the public statements being made by the state department which attacks on israeli soldiers rather than by israeli soldiers who have basically been rioting against palestinians at the alok some mosque and elsewhere for the past several days it does give the indication that under current management washington still considers israeli impunity to be a sacred principle and so therefore it will be very interesting to see what if anything comes out of the session of the security council which is being called to

consider this question yes. just a final point here because the impending actions have become i guess a rallying cry for the palestinians how much is this case seen as a microcosm for the broader unresolved issue of the palestinians as you say a still on the israeli occupation and middle east peace is even further away than ever before. well i think it's very much a central issue i mean jerusalem is not only a palestinian but also and there are also a muslim christian issue and therefore i think you know if there is one thing that still capable of of mobilizing palestinians everywhere in the spike the best efforts of the current leadership of the palestinian authority it's very much jerusalem and i think the mobilization we've seen among palestinians in the past

several days very much attests that when rabbani great to get your thoughts thanks very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera thank you well israel's facing mounting international criticism over its heavy police response and those planned depictions in shocked people in the u.k. have gathered across london manchester and birmingham in solidarity with the palestinians they've been out on the streets calling for sanctions against israel mama bell curve is a writer and a poet the video of his sister confronting a jewish settler went viral this week speaking from a protest in nazareth he said palestinians are under constant attack. and i know everybody in the neighborhood continued. today in vegas our neighbor's house just how they did and how dogs of they had been in constant contact palestinian residents to day 5 minutes away from the neighborhood. near the hebrew the 1st city so we are under the constant threat of settler violence in jerusalem because that's what happens when you put somebody in

a palestinian neighborhood they abuse their indigenous people this is a very tiresome situation it's a very sleepy sleep was the situation but it's also i think you a sense that we have been 49 years in clinton 70. framing our lands. and we know that we must be persistent and we must be resilient because they're not the best happens in small doses and no matter how long you try to elongate this process for we're going to fight it because these are our home. protestors in iraq a city of kabul or are demanding answers after an anti government activist was shot dead in an apparent execution supporters of i wasn't the iranian consulate on fire iranian backed supporters a fight as i suspected of being behind the shooting i was in it was killed close to his home by gunmen in the early hours of sunday. well he's one of more than 30 heads of a skilled in iraq since the beginning of large scale anti-government protests in october 29th in a fault in reports nothing of. that agonizing wait for the body of

a loved one this is the family of a was in the a well known organizer in iraq's anti-government protest movement he was shot dead of the night before just outside his home in iraq's southern city of karbala he had his mother told al-jazeera he had received numerous threats from paramilitary groups backed by iran the militias are everywhere in the streets they have a list which includes the names of all the activists they will kill them one by one today they killed my son and soon they'll kill enough of the funeral procession arrived in the scorching afternoon heat their religious punctuated with desperate cries for survival. the parties are killing us screamed the man who once stood by you hop side in cabinets protest squares demanding change but is anyone listening inside the habs family said their final

goodbye their anger directed at both the killers and the government who failed to protect him are looked at with we don't trust the government and we don't trust this political process if there is to be justice there should be an international investigation he is want to 34 activists assassinated since protests 1st began in october 21000 according to iraq's human rights commission a 3rd were killed after a new government was formed in may 2020 promising to end impunity when prime minister mostafa out of kabul may came to power almost a year ago he promised the rain and on the ropes that acted outside of the state's control and to bring those responsible for the deaths of protesters and activists to account but only a handful of iran have been made and no one has been called. and so the killings and the funerals go on the protestors drove the haps body to catalyst central square once packed with crowds rallying for

a cause but after the movement crumbled amid brutal repression they mostly just gather to mourn those they lost few here dare to speak on camera in fear they might be next some expect violence to further flare ahead of october elections. these assassinations don't come out of nowhere they are organized it's linked to the elections that have been set for next october and all these politicians are scared and i think the october protesters will compete for their power to bring about change that's why they're targeting the activist and today have paid the price. the prime minister promised justice and ordered an inquiry but none of these investigations have borne fruit in the past leaving little hope for accountability in the future simona 14 al-jazeera caterpillar. time for a short break here and i'll just era when we come back street celebrations in spain as people enjoy some long awaited freedoms. and

a remarkable cave discovery reveals what life in europe may have been like 100000 years ago more on that stay with us. hello we have the threat of severe storms across the u.s. let me show you exactly where this threat is and where potentially it could spawn a tornado as we head toward texas louisiana mississippi arkansas rate through into alabama and the carolinas where we could see drenching rain and even hail as this system rolls across do you want to get in the story now for canada where temperatures are running below average virtually right across the country calgary 15 degrees vancouver you should be 18. just a few degrees below average but nonetheless cool temperatures low temperatures for this time of the year toronto a high of 12 on monday take you to central america right now where it is an early

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digital world looks back at the life of the late you'll find did he. show you the mind. just. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here this hour the u.n. security council has called an emergency meeting after the latest tensions between palestinians and israeli soldiers this anger over the attention of fiction the palestinians from the shake john neighborhood to make way for in the israelis. international reaction is mounting in the u.k. people have gathered in london manchester and birmingham to show solidarity with

the palestinians they're calling for sanctions against israel meanwhile the u.s. national security adviser jake sullivan has expressed serious concerns and a call to israeli officials over tensions. and protesters in the iraqi city of kabul are demanding answers after an anti-government activists were shot dead in an apparent execution for supporters of the how about was set the iranian consulate on fire fighters are suspected of being behind the shooting. now the taliban has announced a 3 day cease fire in afghanistan during the muslim festival of eat outfitter this week it comes just 2 days after the government blamed the group for an attack outside a school which killed more than 50 people have marks the end of the muslim fasting month of ramadan and the holiday begins according to the sighting of the new moon funerals have been held for the victims of the 3 explosions outside the school the attack happened in a predominantly shia neighborhood of the afghan capital just as people who are

leaving at the end of the day feel your country for you has more now from the capital. most of the debris is outside this girl's school may be gone but not the anger and grief among the people of. dozens of students mostly girls who were killed as they were leaving school 3 bomb blasts cutting their lives short. whoever comes in commits an act of terror should be prevented and punished and no other group conduct such kind of criminal activities in the future the security forces come to the scene after the attack and create more chaos that will never help prevent such brutal attacks witnesses say the attack appeared well coordinated and intended to kill as many children as possible this is the school's gate and the girls were coming out a car bomb and 2 id's exploded almost back to back in 3 different parts of the road outside the school the taliban has denied responsibility and

blamed. the government says the taliban is behind the attack there are more than 20 terrorist groups operating in afghanistan peace talks between the taliban and the afghan government are at an impasse and some analysts say even if they reach a peace deal stability in the country is not guaranteed now the time when the taliban are not blaming the responsibility for such attacks this means that the other actors involved in of on is the man who has the capacity of challenging the state and the stability and peace of his son which again means that the international community is leaving an unfinished chapter behind the attack was carried out as violence is rising across the country and foreign troops look to complete their withdrawal in the coming months has our ethnic minority lives in the neighborhood and has been repeatedly attacked in recent years its members have

called on the government to. has claimed several of the attacks. vesta gate and following the perpetrators working very hard to be brought to justice but justice has rarely been served to the victims of the many attacks. and so once more they bury their dead and pray for the carnage to end. for the 2nd day in a row more than 4000 people have died of covered 19 in india medical journal the lancet has warned the death toll could reach a 1000000 by august india is already suffering the 3rd highest amount of allergies in the world reports now from new delhi. mass cremations like this are becoming common in india these family members have been waiting for our was to say

their final goodbyes to their loved ones but in many ways didn't you think more than. he was my relative and his name was reject. he had covered 19 for the last 10 days and was admitted to a private hospital last evening he got a bed until hospital here he was 35 years old and has 2 young children and he passed away this morning his wife is 30 years old me no one pays such a tragedy ever accelerator many experts believe new strains of the virus are behind india's steep rise in infections and are worried about their potential impact on vaccines one that was 1st identified in india the big 1617 is likely to be a variant of concern because it has on your patients which increase transmission and which also potentially could make them resistant to antibodies that are generated by vaccination or by natural infection. some states

are imposing restrictions and curfews to arrest the spread of the virus but many people believe anything short of a national lockdown is in adequate. the situation is really bad the problem is that the lockdown is not strict enough if the lockdown was stricter we probably would have been able to bring the change which we're not able to do right now maharashtra was able to break the chain after months of lockdown. people ask rambling to get appointments to be vaccinated as states report doses. in short supply the government in new delhi has asked the central government for more vaccines think it too will run out of doses in the next 4 to 5 days and although cases are falling here the state has extended its lock down by another week per diem at the al-jazeera new jersey communities across spain that held impromptu street parties as the national cove in 1000 state of emergency ended spain is one

of the hardest hit countries in europe and like other nations it's putting its trust in the ongoing vaccination drive that in baba reports. the. partying into the night celebrating new freedoms crowds gathered on the streets of spanish cities in the early hours of sunday as the national state of emergency ended by. the it's really very moving i keep thinking wow how great to finally be able to connect to seek to have a good time to say hi it's an important moment. here in barcelona police had the strange tosk of moving people on after the last curfew began at 10 pm only to let them back up to midnight infection rates have fallen and vaccinations are speeding up now all except for of spain's regions have scrapped local curfews bans on travel between regions are also being lifted at madrid's main train station some were setting off to see family others waiting for loved ones to

arrive we didn't know if this woman says we have a family event or communion and it just happened to be the day the state of emergency ended we've not seen each other for 8 months asked how it feels. to pick . them up here she says very emotional. in italy 4 regions are having their coverage $1000.00 risk level downgraded from monday most of the country is now classed as yellow the lowest under the fortis system now the government. stressing the importance of the european union's planned green pass it would allow travel within the block for people with proven immunity for vaccinations or a negative coronavirus test and across the e.u. vaccination programs have been accelerating we have now delivered over 200000000 doses to the european people so we are on track to achieve our objective of enough doses being delivered in july to vaccinate 70 percent of the european adult

population the commission's confirmed its not renewing its order for astra zeneca has covered 19 vaccine beyond june it's already launched legal action against the manufacturer accusing it of not having a reliable plan to ensure timely deliveries but it has now signed a new contract with pfizer biome tech to receive 1800000000 vaccine doses by the end of 2023. al-jazeera scotland's 1st minister nicola sturgeon there is demanding a 2nd referendum on leaving the united kingdom pro independence parties won the majority in scottish parliamentary elections but the u.k. government remains firmly opposed to the move the renewed debate on independence could mean years of potential instability and that's particular the case along scotland's border with england journal reports there might be change coming down the track from edinburgh to london shaking the ties that have found scotland to the

united kingdom since the 1700s. in the border regions the scottish national party's electoral reach wanes here specially a vote for scottish independence would have profound consequences basically i think the the border and both sides of it is almost as one for people in this area separation is absolutely the last thing that people wants in my experience of talking to people locally and the idea of a hard border is completely unworkable. and i think scotland is so in twined this part of the u.k. . separation we just build some absolutely insurmountable problems there are questions about currency and travel but more concerning is trade england accounts for 60 percent of scottish exports the possibility of border controls and trade tariffs could do harm to the economy and there's disquiet on the english side of the border to where the ruins of berrick castle are testament to territory changing

hands at least 13 times during the late middle ages the walls of barrack upon tweed were built in the 14th century a great defensive structure for this town on the frontline of wars between scotland and england for hundreds of years now they'll never be that sort of conflict again of course but what may lie ahead for this border area for these 2 nations are new barriers new defenses are hard border perhaps with deeply uncertain consequences. in the fishing port of i mouth boat surtitles post breaks it rules limit seafood exports to major european union markets a border with england could make matters worse for some here there's only one solution i'm sure some day i'll come in a friend yes. and i think it should one contained in that order it's wash no when when when will what and direct it because it because we were still able. to export

. products no it's just it's just a name people walk and so forth and obviously the 1st thing they call us started it and she is just going to f. she go and dependence when we get back into europe. out of one union and back into another recognition perhaps the an independent scotland can't afford to be entirely alone the break up if it happens will be hard felt in this border region joe how al-jazeera the scottish border thousands of people are marching in cities across france demanding the government bring in ambitious measures to tackle climate change. they say a proposed climate law doesn't go far enough campaigners want any public funds used to support french industry to come with strict ecological conditions are pushing for the creation of thousands of jobs in the green economy. archeologists in italy

have unearthed the bones of 9 the undersells in a cave near rome the remains belong to 7 adult males one female and a young boy they were uncovered and son to kill and are shedding new light on how the italian peninsula was once populated elders' fossil dates back around 100290000 years ago an archaeologist believe most of the individuals were killed in this. part time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the u.s. national security advisor has expressed concern about the violent confrontations between israeli forces and palestinians in occupied east jerusalem an emergency meeting of the un security council is set to take place on monday over the potential evictions of palestinians from the shade gerar neighborhood to make way for illegal israeli settlers are a force that is that damascus gate. so things have been relatively reduced the

tactics used by the israelis have largely been.