and thousands were rioting in cities across the land. after some protesters started throwing stones at letting off fireworks police on horseback moved in to clear the area. if you want to help save the world. a mass says that it's fired rockets from gaza after its deadline for israeli security forces to withdraw from the al aqsa mosque compound comes into effect. hello again this is live from doha i'm adrian finighan with our continuing coverage

of violence in the occupied territories. stun grenades. tear gas were fired it's inside and it's a mosque compound as israeli forces broke up a sit in the palestinian leadership. really love. this little. 10 seem to shake the occupied east jerusalem neighborhood where palestinian families are fighting against forced evictions. and international pressure mounting in response the un security council has discussed the situation in a closed door session. so we begin this hour with the latest escalation in the israeli palestinian conflict the armed wing of the palestinian group hamas says that it's launched rocket attacks against israel it says it's a response to his ready crimes and. against palestinians there are reports that

israel has retaliated with missile strikes in gaza. earlier al aqsa mosque compound islam's 3rd holiest site was the scene of a violent israeli court crackdown these pictures from inside the mosque israeli forces firing rubber coated steel bullets tear gas and sound fall for study and worshippers and that's the 2nd time it is ready forces have stormed a mosque since last week. then these pictures from in that around the compound which houses the mosque israeli security forces targeted palestinian protesters who were standing. there exist almost from the palestinian red crescent all that more than 330 people have been injured that includes journalists activists say that some protesters have been hit in that eyes and heads with rubber bullets i.

told was meanwhile organizers of an israeli march to commemorate the 1967 occupation of east jerusalem with canceled their rally have however been smaller groups of setlist right wing activists gathering on the streets but the beta march involving thousands of people has been called off. but it shakes out a labor hood at the heart of the college of rest between israelis and palestinians that arguments and confrontations between members of the israeli knesset wifely activists and palestinian protesters centers on whether so full powers to be a family as they will be forcibly evicted from their homes after living there for generations is great playful is right next to lose. and i've been actually the shot been out of the one about to finish i can imagine my situation i built my house brick by brick and stone by stone and in it i raised my children i lived here with my husband for 17 years. suddenly they came and cleaned my house has become there

is soon they will come to remove us by force as they did in the family soon go on vehicles will come to bring people out of their homes naked and barefoot it's an unjust on me and it is a dirty occupation. abraham as in ramallah in the occupied west bank refers let's speak to hurry for cities outside the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem harry when we spoke to you an hour ago crowds behind you of being dispersed by sound bombs we could hear air raid sirens and distant explosions what's happening there now. well yes that is the that is the last thing to happen really essentially here the. the the air raid sirens that came in and those explosions we we now know that what took place was 7 rockets fired from gaza towards true slim and the surrounding area only one of

those was intercepted by the iron dome anti-missile system 6 of them falling in open ground israeli government is now saying that we're also hearing reports out of gaza of pretty big explosion in beit hanoun i just had a message from a colleague inside the gaza strip that it was an explosion that was initially potentially attributed to an israeli incoming ordinance of some kind now it's being talked about as a localized exposure explosion potentially a problem with some kind of missile that they were trying to fire out of that area the reports are pretty terrible that the 3 children are among 10 who are reported by the ministry of health to have been killed in that incident what is i think the key question now going forward in terms of this israel versus hamas situation is exactly what the israeli response will generally will be to this very rare launching of missiles on jerusalem itself as you heard from hamas they're saying

they're responding to what israel has been doing inside use them they gave them a 6 pm deadline to withdraw israeli forces from the area around the locks a mosque compound the temple mount to jews also withdraw them from where this eviction dispute has been going on and also to release those who may have been or who did that israel had arrested israeli forces been arresting during the course of the day very shortly after 6 o'clock it just seconds after 6 o'clock local time that's when those rockets came in were on the verge of a potentially big escalation now. now a lot depends on the next coming hours the jerusalem day march that was supposed to work to happen earlier was canceled has that gone any way to diffusing tension there in east jerusalem. yes i locally i think it definitely has what we had here in the area around damascus gate

was a large group of palestinian largely young men who were here ready to confront the 10s of thousands of jewish usually religious nationalist right wing jewish israelis who come with flags they dance they sing the have a triumphal celebration of the beginning of the israeli occupation in 167 of east jerusalem something they call the rediff occasion of jerusalem the israeli security establishment seemed to be flip flopping through the day as to whether they would allow that to happen in its full form in the end at the last possible moment i think they decided that the risk was simply too great and they barred access to the muslim culture of the old city allowing them theoretically to go elsewhere in the old city but the organizers under some pressure potentially have called the entire thing off so there are 2 things which i think were just attempts to deescalate the situation one before the alex and most violence we saw earlier and one after they

canceled a court hearing in which the supreme court could potentially have rules to enforce the evictions and searched and they've canceled the jerusalem day marches however hamas has certainly upped the ante in a particularly dangerous way with the these rocket launches and now we wait to see how things will progress from here al-jazeera scary for that reporting live from east ryssdal i'm speaking earlier israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu praised police for supporting what he called a just. but upholding law and order and. it was a long struggle this taking place in the heart of jerusalem this is not a new struggle this is a struggle between intolerance and tolerance between lawbreaking and violence and law and order the struggle is not new because it has transpired over jerusalem and the heart of jerusalem for centuries since the rise of the monotheistic religions

for years one side ruled and excluded the 2 others and sometimes they changed and the same thing happened you can say that in the long history of jerusalem only under israeli sovereignty since 1967 we are witnessing and continuous and stable secure period in which we are working to ensure freedom of worship and tolerance for all. the palestinian leadership has also been reacting to the high tensions that's bringing out serious need every him then there is in ramallah in the occupied west bank what's the leadership have to say today. we heard from the palestinian president spokesperson dana who said that israel is this regarding the us administration in its efforts to calm down the situation and and also its disregarding the international community and on that remark we have spoken to also to the p.l.o. executive committee member but mr ladley who says he believes the international

community is reactions aren't enough they're not being strong enough to help calm the situation down or to force israel to not escape the situation in occupied east jerusalem he also said that he believes that the current situation in jerusalem is due to the fact that netanyahu has failed to form a government and he's trying to export his political failure and crises outside by escalating the situation in jerusalem and we've also heard from a top aide to president abbas who said that they do to. i did and he said that the palestinian leadership is going to be meeting and study what options they have to move forward of course this remark has 'd been met with a lot of criticism in the street because a reaction has indeed come from the gaza strip while the palestinian authority as far as these people on social media were saying they are still studying what the answers are going to be but of course they've been saying that they are in contact

with they you one and the other of the organization of islamic cooperation so hold meetings and condemn israel the palestinian prime minister and how much has condemned the recent escalation and this is what he had to say at the beginning of the government meeting. and then you are committed. i hold the israeli government fully responsible for what the worshipers were exposed to in the blessed mosque and i warn of the consequences that will result from such incursions as well as attempts to evacuate the people of shaikh the original owners of the land from their homes why did mr maher don't i called on the international community to intervene immediately to stop these horrific violations and to provide protection to the citizens of the palestinian territories especially in the city of jerusalem

which is undergoing ethnic cleansing today jerusalem is restoring the glow of the coals. people. think about what's happening elsewhere in the occupied territory. they have been organizing protests here and there in the occupied west bank in different cities but there are also some spontaneous protests that we've seen in different cities including one from a law where protesters were chanting against that also of course this is the deal that brought the palestinian authority to some sort of a self governance that eventually ended with israel reoccupying the palestinian territory and eventually for palestinians this is seen as a figure that they want the palestinian authority to do more which is why they were chanting against the courts they also were chanting slogans demanding freedom for are poor. and many have been calling for palestinians to

go to confrontation points because not many palestinians are able to be inside occupied east jerusalem because they occupied west bank is disconnected from occupied east jerusalem by israeli military checkpoints that demand that palestinians have it military permits before they can go inside jerusalem so this is why they want to get and show that they are with their fellow citizens in palestinians in occupied east jerusalem even if they can't be there with them physically. abraham reporting live from ramallah in the occupied west bank. the weather next here on al-jazeera the world health organization to close the covert 19 strain spreading in india a variant of global. political turmoil in the poll in the midst of a pandemic the prime minister loses

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it's not an option. but when most people. are again this is al jazeera the main news this hour the armed wing of the palestinian group hamas has fired several rockets from gaza towards children setting off air raid sirens throughout the city al qassam brigades had issued a deadline for israeli forces to withdraw from the al aqsa compound or face attack . more than 330 people were wounded earlier when israeli forces stormed the compound in occupied east jerusalem

they fired tear gas and stun grenades palestinian protesters who hoped stones but other objects. smaller groups of israeli settlers have defied organizers by continuing to march in parts of occupied east jerusalem the main event involving thousands of people was called off. iran's foreign ministry has strongly condemned an attack around its consumers in karbala on sunday protestors in the iraqi city targeted iran after an anti government activist was shot dead in an apparent execution supporters of the ones they set fires around the arabian consulate they suspect iranian backed fighters are being behind the shooting a wednesday was killed close to his home by unknown gunmen in the early hours of sunday. on meet on. the islamic republic of iran strongly condemns the raid on its diplomatic posts in iraq it hopes that within the framework of the $961.00

convention iraq carefully fulfills its commitments regarding the protection of iran's diplomatic locations last night the iranian foreign ministry submitted a letter of protest to the iraqi embassy in tehran the afghan government and taliban have agreed to a 3 day ceasefire for the muslim holiday of eat later this week it comes amid a surge in violence across afghanistan the latest explosion killed 11 people who were traveling on a bus in the southern province of zabul shown the palace reports. travelling in a bus through southern afghanistan these passengers were approaching a chick point around midnight when the bus drove over a mine their journey now one of recovery a new ice regional hospital the latest casualty in an increasingly insecure country but still not the one that when our vehicle approached a checkpoint a bomb exploded many people were killed and injured i saw people's hands and feet had fallen to the ground they were not them selfs. 2 more bomb blasts followed one

in power one that killed 2 passages another targeted soldiers in west and far province killing several in afghanistan this was a bloody weekend. on monday a health side in west in kabul was scored with dozens of fresh grapes teenage girls were targeted as they live school on saturday with 3 separate bombs it was the deadliest attack in more than a year in targeted members of the hazaar if knit group a shia minority. according to the new york times in the week starting april 30th $140.00 government forces and over 40 civilians were killed across afghanistan the highest death toll in a single week since october the afghan government said the taliban were responsible the taliban blamed eisel and afghan intelligence services these are not. killing innocent people and won't these are against our border because out of all it's

practical. for the common people. national project best we have announced the rise in casualties has coincided with the final pullout of foreign troops may 1 was the former did line for the withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan u.s. president joe biden push that back to september 11th the nato allies will leave then also e.u. foreign ministers met on monday the withdrawal from afghanistan at the forefront of discussions not in. the lead some time after the terrible attacks in the recent days it's all the more important for the e.u. to make very clear that afghanistan and the afghan government can continue to count on europe support we'll do everything we can to ensure the ongoing peace negotiations reach a conclusion or a key goal in u.s. and nato negotiations with afghan untellable on representatives has always been a reduction in violence and after and horrific weekend some progress the taliban

announced a rare 3 day ceasefire for the muslim eat holidays will be only the 3rd break in fighting in nearly 3 years a brief reprieve for those caught in the middle chelate bellus al-jazeera. 4 people have been killed in antique who protest semiannual monitoring groups say the total civilian death toll so far as close to $800.00. was. but they don't. instructions of continued despite the military crackdown in da way in the south protesters marched wearing white l g b t q activists qur'an youths teachers and students joined what they're calling a purification strike meanwhile the table leader aung san suu kyi will appear in court for the 1st time on may 24th she's been charged with various offenses that include violating a colonial era official secrets act could see her imprisoned for 14 years

a judge has ruled that she will now be able to meet her legal team face to face for the 1st time. in it is not possible to get instruction from her and at that point i asked the question that yet to make that. happen 90. percent. and they then daus and he. told us that he was great forward to the lawyers and we can redound. to a point very grateful to serve. to take you back to the situation in occupied east jerusalem and the occupied territories reports out of gaza suggest the health ministry is reporting that 9 palestinians have been killed

in israeli airstrikes. or the military wing of hamas which runs the gaza strip fired at least 7 projectiles into central israel a deadline for is ready forces to withdraw from the al aqsa mosque compound had expired more on that when we get it. prime minister boris johnson in the u.k. has announced further relaxing of coronavirus restrictions from next monday people will be allowed to meet in groups of up to 30 out doors and restaurants and pubs or reopen for indoor dining and drinking the other u.k. country scotland wales and northern ireland the side of it by rules today we are announcing the single biggest step on our road map and it will allow us to do many of the things that we've yearned to do for

a long time so let's protect these games by continuing to exercise caution and common sense the world health organization is classified the covert 19 strain 1st identified in india as a variant of global concern the official daily number of infections in india has fallen below 400000 for the 1st time in 4 days health officials have recorded a further 3700 deaths from minister narendra modi is facing growing calls to announce a nationwide lockdown as al-jazeera the honeyed reports. a grim scene that has come to represent the country in the grip of a major health crisis. if fires at cremation grounds are constantly burning as bodies of those who died from 1000 keep coming this one pradesh one of the states worst hit by india's 2nd wave. we used

to get up to 10 bodies a day now it has risen to 40 or 50 a day. nationwide the number of new cases has exceeded 400-0044 consecutive days bringing the total number of confirmed infections at over $22000000.00 about 15 percent of the cases worldwide some say those numbers are undercounted. hospitals have been able to cope with the crisis a lack of oxygen and beds continues to cripple their health care system that's making it difficult for many people to get much needed care priam couldn't get treatment in his hometown so sick as he is made his way to the capital new delhi why really no one told the students all the hospitals are pretty bad you know they really appreciate her i'm lucky fortunately i just bought a bed on one shot the government has recruited hundreds of former army medics to help but it's coming under intense public criticism for its handling of the

situation so far many wondering why a country wide lockdown has not been imposed like and early stages of depend demick leaving local governments to impose their own restrictions new delhi has announced its lockdown will be extended for a 2nd time now to may 17th. the metro has been suspended and people are only allowed out doors for basic necessities i decided to return home a 1000 kilometers away from the capital. i work for a financial company that is now shut down because of the pandemic i have no choice but to go back to my village here the situation is very bad we will be safer there that's the main reason we're going back. india is the world's leading producer of vaccines yet most people are unable to get a shot prime minister narendra modi is also under pressure to production so more

doses can be made available in the country even though some experts say they can soon become ineffective against the indian variant of 1000. the polls prime minister ali has lost a confidence vote in parliament is put in charge of a minority government since a coalition party withdrew its support the poor has been in a political crisis since december after only asked president bhandari to dissolve parliament and call elections joining us now carrick money to access who's in cap on do in the poor he's a journalist and author joins us. with the prime minister has lost his foes of confidence what happens now. well 1st. is that in. pandemic and a political crisis are peaking simultaneously we've had to double the amount of

debt we had last week. chart is even steeper further than india's which you've been talking about in the previous program as far as the politics caused the parliament is fractured we've had political crisis for more than a year now and it had to peak at this very moment when not only did we get. the prime minister voted out with a knock on which he went to the parliament for a confidence vote he did not get it. what this means is that. we have now many days of direction let's this while in a fractured parliament various parties try to get together to cobble together. a coalition to be able to go to the president to see we can form a government but it does not at this point look very clear very likely that

any 2 parties will be able to get a majority that is the numbers game he do so we're looking down a political at this and base as we speak so what are the chances of the sending up in an election or do you think that some sort of political machinations will go on to allow the prime minister to remain on the his your valley is still the biggest party in parliament am i right. yes but that the constitution the new constitution of nepal has a step by step process that lead to stewart's elections which ultimately in my view have to happen but it's not that easy because of the political issue man against of the past the prime minister is him didn't from calling elections when he wants to and now we have already gone into a no confidence motion that has been successful and the prime minister is caretaker prime minister what might happen is one of 2 scenarios either mr shared by the deal

of the net by the congress most likely. if he can muster support and get the numbers he could be the prime minister almost to keep you all to himself who is still the largest party in parliament he could become prime minister but even that will not be. a long lived. long lived prime ministership because in a month's time they have to get a confidence vote and they may not get it so at that point the door will be open for elections according to our constitution what i personally believe might happen is that we will have elections in in the fall sometime and because none of this permutations and combinations will work and if that is the case they would be elections the tragedy is that. we already had poor governance and we have a band to make that is actually reading the commit dorian's and the commission

rounds of our burning here to ok as it is out we are we are in a.