situation of the indian government set up a new commission to monitor success of and pollution across 5 north of the state's health experts and bob mentioned had been warning for months that the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in who should have the impact that would have on those the core of the 19. 20 people including children are killed in an explosion in gaza as israel responds to rocket attacks on jerusalem hundreds of palestinian wash up as were injured when israeli security forces stormed the a lock someone else. below i mariam demise ina and watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program the bus ride that turned deadly for passengers in afghanistan as the security situation in

the country continues to deteriorate. and an attack on indigenous demonstrators in colombia victims accuse the police of conspiring with the gunman. welcome to the program we begin in gaza where at least 20 palestinians have been killed in israeli as strikes in response to rocket attacks on jerusalem just hours earlier hamas to threaten the escalation in violence unless israeli security forces leave the compound it was there on monday morning that more than 300 palestinians were injured when israeli forces stormed the site for the 2nd time in just a few days israeli forces fired rubber coated steel bullets tear gas and sound bombs at palestinian worship as tensions have been running high really throughout the. muslim holy month of ramadan made worse by the planned evictions of several

palestinian families from a neighborhood in east jerusalem sheff jarrah so let's now speak dari force it is standing by for us at damascus gate in occupied east jerusalem and harry any further any further information or detail on israel's planned response now after these ass strikes in gaza. yes we are getting some indications from the israeli government we heard from the military spokesman a little bit earlier in the evening he was talking about preparation for several days worth of fighting whether that be. in the air or even a ground operation we've also heard from the prime minister benjamin netanyahu promising a forceful response saying that israel did not seek escalation but that anyone who did seek escalation would feel israel's might. and talking about the fact that

israeli soldiers israeli civilians and jerusalem itself and its surrounds had come under attack if people were wondering and they were about the fate of this monday the potential for this to be the day that things really blew up after that these weeks of simmering disturbances and tensions in jerusalem the answer is come and it's been pretty grim and has been a very violent day not violence felt most so far inside gaza tonight the death toll there is going up to 20 the last figures coming from the palestinian health ministry the 9 of those dead said to be children there was one instance where those are an explosion in beit hanoun there was some confusion about exactly what was responsible for it is around the same time that the israeli military were talking about a successful targeting of a terrorist cell and we have been hearing directly from sources within the hamas military wing saying that. it had been

a member of the palestinian islamic jihad who had fired an anti-tank missile at an israeli civilian jeep at the beginning of this escalation coming from gaza that he had been tracked and that he was the source and the target of this strike we've asked the israeli military a confirmation of that so far none has been forthcoming so there remains a lot of activity in and around gaza rockets coming out israeli airstrikes going in and the promise from israel from its government and its military of more to come we've also seen the situation in shacks gerar the neighborhood where there are palestinian refugees threatened with eviction more tension there today as israeli politicians from both sides of the argument were scuffling we've seen the cancellation of the jerusalem day march which looked liable to really create potential violence and dangerous scenes between the 2 communities here that was

canceled after the scenes that began the day on the al aqsa mosque compound where israeli troops israeli forces moved in in great numbers with great force and we saw them using stun grenades rubber coated steel bullets battens tear gas against palestinians who uses rocks and pieces of furniture to fight them and so it's been a day when really the tipping point has been reached and we're in very dangerous territory now. thank you very much gary force in the streets and now let's speak in a day and plan in ramallah and saying that obviously the atmosphere now very volatile and what's interesting is how we are seeing people take to the streets and other locations or elsewhere in solidarity with protesters in east jerusalem tell us about that. in fact there is one told us that this is happening right now in our squid and our camera man joseph to pan to some of the protesters

that we're seeing here in downtown and some of them have started marching throughout the city but we are seeing a part that is still in the main square chanting slogans some of the things we've heard them say is that they are saluting of course some brigades for the rocket attacks that were launched from the gaza strip and we've heard them chanting slogans calling for freedom to palestinians those a rock and those who are in. this some of these protesters have told who are going to confrontation points with israeli military remember that we are living in an occupied territories that are lost a lot of israeli military checkpoints in that west bank which is why some of these protesters are calling for palestinians to go there and voice their anger miriam did weary of using the word solidarity because they say that they are one people

they have one cause and that although they cannot go to occupied east jerusalem because it's they are disconnected from it by the israeli military checkpoints to have to have permits to enter and bought they want to show that they are one people and they have the same cause and that they are fighting the same is waiting violations i should note that there is some sort of a split in the streets while you were hearing these palestinians chanting in support of the rocket attacks we've seen some palestinians also show media saying that when it comes to military. power that the power between israel and the palestinians they cannot really beat israel it has the upper hand and they believe that this kind of escalation. it's going to be harming further more palestinians and they want to see more of a popular resistance and like the scenes we've seen in occupied east jerusalem if

you ask the protesters here they would tell you that the palestinian authority isn't doing much but when it comes to palestinian officials they would tell you that they are studying what options they have they have called upon the international community to intervene and the arab league but there is some sort of a disappointment we've heard from one palestinian official he is at the he's a member of the executive committee of the palestinian a petition organization and he says the international community is condemnations is not enough to curb israel and he also believes that this is netanyahu as we ask elating the situation to win more right when foods and to kind of exports his political figures to form a government and kind of law these right wing in case he goes for more over another cycle of elections so the mood here is that of a good crust ration but some were telling us that they were hopeful that the acts

of palestinians in east jerusalem were able to quell the israelis they would able to delay the hearing of that depiction of shift neighborhoods so there is some source of hope but still there is a lot of anger and frustration thank you very much need to abram reporting to us from ramallah thank you so let's go to the u.s. now because our white house correspondent can standing by there and so hearing can be about really a number of different events coming together those. reda now as strikes in gaza there is international concern about a wider conflict what is the white house saying then. at the white house as well as the state department and the pentagon all talking about the escalation in recent hours the state department taking the lead for now saying that the united states is remaining gaged it is urging calm and recognizes the situation on the

ground is fluid and rapidly changing there are concerns in the u.s. about extended violence and that's why the white house is continuing to monitor the situation white house press secretary jen psaki saying that the number one goal of the united states right now is for there to be deescalation we are continuing to closely monitor the violence in israel we have serious concerns about the situation including violent confrontations that we've seen over the last few days as you noted as you noted an escalation earlier today you also noted that in a call over the weekend with his israeli counterpart or national security adviser jake sullivan reiterated concerns about the potential of fictions of palestinian families from their homes and they agreed that the launching of rocket attacks intended incendiary balloons from gaza towards israel is unacceptable and must be

condemned so this is something that our national security team is closely monitoring obviously across government certainly the president is kept abreast and is watching closely as well. now the biden administration is not ruling out in the long term that it may take a more active mediating role but in the short term it says that it is looking to promote calm in jerusalem having said that to that end as you heard there the white house press secretary john psaki noting that it is the view of the united states that the rocket attacks from gaza into israel are in their words unacceptable and to that end the pentagon spokesperson saying in just the last hour or so that it is the goal of the united states to continue to ensure that israel has all of what it needs in order to defend itself from those attacks thank you very much from the white house can really help. on out in terms of the international reaction once actually general spokesperson says that until you get terrorises parties to

exercise restraint but specifically condemned rockets launched into israel from gaza the secretary general is following with deep concern the latest security developments which risk triggering yet another dangerous escalation leading to further violence and loss of lives he condemns in the strongest terms the launching of rockets from gaza into israel which have reportedly been claimed by hamas particularly the targeting a civilian population centers he urges all parties to exercise maximum restraint the special coordinator midst of on his lawn is working closely with all concerned parties to restore calm his office is monitoring the situation closely. almost to her back her tears a sector general of the palestinian national in the initiative and former palestinian information minister joins us via skype from occupied east jerusalem you are getting a flavor of the international reaction just there how urgent is some sort of

international leadership or. initiative right now to prevent any further escalation in the situation or is it perhaps too late for that. no it's not and it's veto june 3rd a long time the problem is that we do not need those who will come and equipped with all of the occupiers but we cannot accept only those who cannot sue you are equally guilty and equipped between the occupier and the dr certain the 1st what we need is an international intervention with closers are accountable for its crimes that this conducting are going to against the palestinian people we need an intervention which that happens is that it would boycott divestment and sanctions as long as it continues to look at bishan and the system will social discrimination

and up to this practice against understood means including acts of the clues you. know you can chipchura by evicting people to the idea of wants for the 2nd time after they have been its nuclear looms in 1913. and in the absence of those measures that you mention what then. well in my opinion we have found what we're and we'll sort of systems and the we'll start over and i think we are there by the thing now for a long long illusion or slow process we have the hawks we are in an agreement that i love as it is to increase. the number of settlers some 100 of them 175-0000 the loudest to the worst both in 224 small islands and vehicles and to move it to america has ceased to go.

live just open prison and do work this has to change and i think group of students at shaw and those will is our ability to conduct peaceful nonviolent resistance and the simple be able to defend ourselves when we know that back there we have had 600 interested in the last 2 days of that and existed and 6 people have lost their eyes and of course you know that there's no attack in gaza that will get people killed about 9 of them much of them but that will not stop them it is a student i think what we have found in the people of the insulin is something that defines us of the struggles mark tindall's that. in the united states will just ask you the night mr barghouti can i pick up on that point they are making there because we were hearing from our correspondent in east jerusalem but also reports from ramallah there and people taking part in protests in a number of different places a gaza nazareth how then would you describe this momentum what are we

seeing emerging across palestinian society now. what you see is probably only with the top i mean popular uprising against injustice sunday against occupation and it gets persecution and oppression and then there's this is the most fun part about it which is considered by international law as crimes crimes against humanity and it's an act of the distance against an excessive fees to which is illegal by international law and which most of the countries of the would consider that so this is a new passport but i know we have we have acted finds and at home are getting out apologies for interrupting you but we're just going to hear now from u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken speaking of the families of these for a conversation with allies particularly at this very very critical situation or

trying to with time can be extremely dangerous situation and enjoys that and he said in jordan that was saying that it is very dry down. maintaining peace and stability in jerusalem. and our focus right now on shoring. is going to fall for that to happen we do believe that all of the all of the measures against either the defense or the. shift or in terms of the by nations into our last star status quo needs to be preserved and the rights of the palestinians need to be respected so that we can we can create the political horizon for the both of us would have to see towards lasting comments of peace sit down with the president right or he goes on the basis of the state solution so the day prior to start the escalation maybe that nothing was respected rights of palestinians

roughly what your plans are upheld the status quo is preserved move forward we've got political rights the united states has the. leading gordon to appear as the go to plead and product in terms of trying to bring about the peace and stability that we would want we want to believe in he's a strategic choice nobody doing anybody to pave the way but it will be for peace it's all for all we know the formula of the 2 state solution is the one that will get us there again to look forward to be leadership of united states of this effort because this is something that is a common objective for all of us as the secretary said to jordan and the united states enjoyed it tremendously strong historical partnership this is a partnership of which you're proud is mostly king abdullah is looking forward to. coming here again with the president as well impressed with the station on how we can move forward not just in the interest of the border for the country but also be abreast of peace stability prosperity in the region we're proud of this

relationship and we do look forward to what i know will be extremely useful and important discussions with a set of 3 on again addressing the challenges and dangerous situation that was conducive going on but was going just a bit easier we have a lot of good word to do together part of the ferrers into supporting the stability of iraq in poor there's to be a political solution to the crisis in syria libya yemen and again one of the woodwork partners we see a simple jirga with the interview working together so again sir thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity on behalf of his minister on behalf of all of us and would have a big thank you to get out states who are determined to support their interests want to keep up with the repeal are still trying to deal with the many challenges that we are facing the good of which are in a very troubled part of the world because oftentimes you mean going carry him back or you know he's you actually just hearing that from jordan's foreign minister shimon safadi speaking alongside the u.s.

secretary of state anthony blinken and he was just speaking about the situation it's been playing out in the palestinian territories. in israel he said that the rocket attacks on israel should stop now and all sides need to take steps to deescalate the situation obviously there is concern about that being a further violence and more tension there in gaza 20 palestinians were killed in israeli strikes those as strikes in response to rocket attacks fired against israel and then earlier on the israeli security forces and to the al aqsa mosque compound again for the 2nd time in the space of a few days the palestinian red crescent saying that more than $300.00 palestinians were injured when the site was stormed.

but we just want to turn to some other stories now on the afghan government and the taliban say they will both observe a rare 3 day cease fire for the muslim holiday of aid later this week it comes after a deadly weekend topped off a surge in violence across the country the latest explosion killed 11 people traveling on a bus in the southern province of zabul charlotte ballasts reports. traveling in a bus through southern afghanistan these passengers were approaching a chick point around midnight when the bus drove over a mine the journey no one of recovery and mu ice regional hospital the latest casualty in an increasingly insecure country was still not for the good. when i approached a checkpoint a bomb exploded many people were killed and injured i saw people's hands and feet hurt for luke the grown there were not them selfs. 2 more bomb blasts followed one

in power one that killed 2 passengers another targeted soldiers in weston far province killing several in afghanistan this was a bloody weekend. on monday health side and 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 goal because out of all it's practical. or the common people are poor. national

project best we have announced the rise in casualties has coincided with the final pullout of foreign troops may 1 was the former deadline 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 short. 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 of a key goal in u.s. and nato negotiations with afghan intel a ban 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 ballasts al-jazeera. iran's foreign ministry has strongly condemned an attack around its consulate in the city of karbala on sunday protestors in the iraqi city targeted iran after an anti-government activists was shot dead in an apparent execution supporters of a was any set fires around the iranian culture that they suspect that iran backed fighters were behind his shooting so mona falls and has the latest on the protests . just last night there was another attempt at the killing of a local journalist who is now in critical condition in a hospital being treated for those injuries so there is a general outrage at the government for failing to bring those killers to account

for failing to rein in these armed groups that are backed by iran that operate with complete impunity and if we look to similar assassinations that have happened in the past it's extremely difficult for the state institutions to really identify the perpetrators because 1st of all the ones who actually carry out the killings are usually low level operatives and even if there are arrested it's very difficult to establish a link with whoever came gave the order and then there is the 2nd reading that these armed groups have actually not just they're not just operating in this environment of impunity but they have also to some extent penetrated state institutions they have penetrated the security apparatus of the judiciary which means that it's very difficult for the state even with the best of intentions to bring these killers to account the investigators who are charged with looking into these cases may receive threats themselves. now to another story we've been

following protesters in the colombian city of cali are accusing the police of aiding armed civilians who shot at them. a group of indigenous nasser demonstrators say so-called vigilantes fired at them from s.u.v.s 9 people were injured to cali has become the epicenter of violent demonstrations over poverty and police brutality 11 people have died in the western colombian city cheering the ongoing process or president of iran duke a is meeting with protest leaders for the 1st time these strikes began in opposition to a now council tax reform bill rights groups say 47 people have died in violence between protesters and police nationwide. live for us in bogota 1st of all bring us up to speed with what's been happening in the city of cali in the response to sunday's violence. yes marian

well it has been another day of violence and chaos in colombia 3rd largest city which has become the epicenter of these protests that have been ongoing now for 13 days against originally against a fiscal reform and now they have become a larger protest against poverty inequality and police violence in the country in cali what we're seeing more and more are these private citizens coming out with weapons and shooting on protesters to try and lift the roadblocks try in this case has happened on saturday trying to block demonstrators from reaching the city of cali obviously the situation is out of control there the police and the army have not been able to stop this kind of violence from happening and increased pressure from all sides really president even look at traveled to

cali not so much insistence but he did so in the dead of the night arriving there around 11 pm and holding a security meeting with the authorities in the military and the police from 11 pm to 3 am and then flying back to. the mayor and local oh tory's these they're asking for more to be done if you start negotiations with all the different realities that are now creating the violence in this city some of the road blocks were lifted earlier today to facilitate a humanitarian corridor to reach this city that has been lacking food and gasoline so very very complicated situation there in the meantime president took a here in bogota is now meeting with the leaders of what is called a national strike here the question is if these talks will have. but calm the

situation or move at least or change at least the situation on the ground where protests in their mystery shows continue on at very early basis it will be complicated though because the government is insisting on all the roadblocks to be lifted for the negotiations to continue while the leaders of the protests say that the 1st stop for the 1st thing to do is to demilitarize their police response to the protests all right thank you very much. well now more on our top story mounting international concern about a wider conflict further escalation in israel and the occupied territories u.s. actually say and lincoln was making some remarks little area. all sides need to use the way to reduce tension take the steps to calm things down. which is all the stuff we see in the last of the last 24 hours to move forward to

reach. the putting off its original elections but it's a very little slice of the steps to. deescalate the situation. and so this is the gaza skyline right now there have been as strikes conducted by israel in the strip 20 palestinians there have been killed but we'll bring you a bit more detail on that a couple of seconds. according to gaza's health ministry 20 palestinians were killed in israeli airstrikes in response to rocket attacks on jerusalem just hours earlier how massive threatened an escalation in violence unless israeli security forces left the al aqsa mosque compound on monday morning more than 300 palestinians were injured when israeli forces stormed islam's.