we're going to news and current of fails that matter to a year in a. at least 20 palestinians killed by israeli airstrikes in gaza as hamas fires rockets towards jerusalem. i'm sam is a the and this is our just live from doha also coming out israeli security forces storm a lock some mosque again injuring hundreds of palestinians attending prayer services at one of his hands holding the signs. it's very high stakes that is to be deescalate the situation. the u.s.

secretary of state joins international calls for calm u.s. regulators approved the fire as a covert vaccine for children as young as 12. tensions have been running high in the palestinian territory after days of protests and now the anger and violence this fred from occupied east jerusalem to garza at least 20 palestinians have been killed after israeli airstrikes hit gaza earlier a mass fired a barrel of rockets from the strip towards jerusalem how mass launched that attack what it called israeli aggression and the locks a compound herefore so reports from occupied east jerusalem. for days the question is hung over the simmering city would monday jerusalem day 2 israelis marking the

start of israel's occupation of east jerusalem be the day of definitive violent eruption as the hours tick by the answer came repeatedly grimly in the affirmative at 6 o'clock am stressed and hamas launched a long range rocket attack on jerusalem's outskirts. and by nightfall it was counting a growing number of dead including children as the israeli military struck gaza one blast in the northern city of beit hanoun killed 9 people including 3 children in the side let it out that the children 8 months old were killed mohammad who is getting married 5 days after eat was killed how is this a children's fault girls between the ages of 7 and 9 have died how is this their fault we were just sitting outside the house waiting for the call to prayer from us military sources told us they believed israel was targeting a palestinian islamic jihad fighter who they said had earlier fired an anti-tank missile at an israeli jeep narrowly missing its civilian owner.

have that attack coincided with the hamas rocket strike on jerusalem 7 missiles fired one intercepted 6 falling in open ground israel's prime minister said that crossed a red line requiring a forceful response on his born to colonel we will not tolerate harm to our territory to our capital tossed citizens or to our soldiers here attacks as will pay a heavier price. the numa. i tell you citizens of israel the current confrontation the last for a while we didn't want to scale ation but here chose to escalate well phil are on strike. and i said earlier blamed israel for crossing the line with the actions of its security forces in the al aqsa mosque compound known to jews as the temple mount. they moved in in large numbers using tear gas rubber coated steel bullets

batons and stun grenades for a 2nd time in 3 days the inside of the mosque became a scene of battle. so it was. in jerusalem a red line whoever bears all the consequences of this dangerous sign is aggression is the israeli occupation this is why the situation is exploiting. israeli officials said palestinians triggered the violence with stone throwing palestinian witnesses blamed the israelis for firing rubber coated steel bullets from long range injuries quickly mounted into the hundreds the palestinian red crescent said its own medics were among them in the neighborhood of shakespeare are where palestinian families face eviction palestinian israeli members of parliament faced off against representatives of far right israeli parties israeli jerusalem day march was called off after the government barred the usual route through the muslim quarter of the old city citing the risk of violence but through the day into the

night that violence came anyway. and that with violence just now and. then holding on that began here simmering tensions has spread those tensions spreading into truly dangerous territory now deep into the night waves of rockets continued to be fired from gaza at the locks a mosque the confrontations flared again setting a tree alight a violent day over dangerous days still ahead very force it occupied east jerusalem . oh there's been widespread international condemnation of the fighting and there are calls for the escalation between both sides the u.s. and the e.u. say violence will stop immediately gabler's on the reports now from washington d.c. . u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken met with jordan's foreign minister iman safadi in washington on monday in a pre-planned meeting both urged deescalation and committed to

a 2 state solution but it's imperative that that all sides take steps to deescalate and calm the situation again i'm deeply concerned about the rocket attacks even as all sides take steps to be escalated israeli forces as a right to defend its feet want to start or from the attacks maintaining peace and stability in jerusalem to be more than our focus right now on ensuring that the. skin is installed and for that to happen we do believe that all illegal to follow the measures against either in the illegal of the. shift around or in the terms of the violations until i have must stop the status quo needs to be preserved and the rights of the palestinians need to be respected around the world protests in solidarity with palestinians from beirut to the u.k. and outside the israeli consulate in toronto they waved palestinian flags pro

palestinian protest erupted in turkey to thousands taking to the streets to denounce israeli aggression seen in occupied east jerusalem over the weekend. and in amman jordan police blocked protesters from reaching the israeli embassy where demonstrators called for the ouster of israel's ambassador said it not just to monitor our message today is clear continue the public pressure on the government in order to close the embassy of the zionist entity in our beloved capital amman and deport the criminal investor who desecrates our capitol in washington a growing number of democrats in congress are pressuring biden to be more engaged and even the u.s. domestic politics are fascinating because some democrats in the senate and even more so in the house of representatives are very much against what the israelis are doing and are saying so the oakley's is going to be a very difficult balancing act for the kind of ministration president biden had

hoped to keep his focus in the early months of his presidency on domestic affairs things such as the rollout of the coven 1000 vaccine and the economy but it's becoming increasingly clear that he now could be facing his biggest foreign policy crisis of his presidency and might not be able to keep the u.s. on the sidelines much longer gabriels and oh how does it go washington 100 ice is a political analyst and researcher who specializes in the u.s. and middle east he joins us on skype from washington d.c. good to have you with us so how much of a coherent policy do you think the biden and ministration has at this point in how to tackle these very palestinian issue is not coherent policy that we need to talk about but the lopsided policies of all the u.s. administrations from one until today. israeli occupied palestinian land still occupying and the next in palestinian land killing palestinians they signed

a peace deal with the palestinians in 1993 and nothing worse implement that from it and israel continued your annex palestinian land and occupying palestinian homes the latest was. a. situation where the israelis were great but replace the palestinian. residents or cheered by with the new settlers who are coming over their homes so i mean the us policy is not very well norman and nothing has changed since 948 even 30 the us government refused to allow it for the security council condemning the israeli actions in and palestine let me jump in here and bring in these really narrative they say the bad having to impose a more order situation because palestinian protesters are throwing stones.

yes now we are talking about the chicken and the egg. israeli occupation is the cause of all evil if it's not the palestinian presence on their own land and brain the goal to create a more square of is the e.u. forces are settlers and courage to accept those who want to come and disagree. somewhat so yes the palestinians are protecting their holy s. shrine and the 1st mosque in islam was the i love somewhat. so who is the aggressor here it is israel is so cute actually forces and the protection that is that really forces and israeli government gives to be settlers that may not accept less who are learned how to keep things from developed since

you know with our actions and without even right out. so are you today in that if only for what little assumption but the truth and the reality of this stuff it's very clear for all of us for the palestinians or i am no exult it is the day you'll get beaten i'm going to fiji and i have been there if you see all of my life because of israel you come back to me and actually the victim. leave the board what happened let's come back to the us situation a gallup poll in march of this year found 2 interesting dynamics the majority of americans continue to sympathize more with israel than the palestinians but a majority of democrats for the 1st time some 53 percent now favor the u.s. pressuring israel more than pressuring the palestinians is the by the ministration corporate tween these 2 dynamics do you think. no the is still my do

not mistake him to school between 2 dynamics domestically in the united states so the the left and the left of left and the extreme right wing and they make the left the middle right it is a strong belief for who is going through all govern and not a republicans and democrats but assange has nothing to do with this if it. wants to i feel for whole thought of the white house yes i'm not here. belittling what bernie sanders and the left wing in the united states democratic party is they are all about human rights and civil rights but the majority if you put the majority which is. much european plus the left say one 3rd thought 40 percent of the democrats will stand with israel then it gives them an overwhelming majority in the state. the course by. i mean

ignoring the sunni and rights and ignoring the good action limited by the israelis against the palestinians and what we heard there from the secretary of state of the 1st word up of a smart israel have the right to protect it so what about the palestinians who are and i hope your patient who is don't to protect them they are defending themselves look stones israeli government is killing palestinians with f. 15 s and f. 16 s and f. $35.00 sweet and america ok we cannot if wait be the leader like him with the. rhythm of our thank you so much mohammad away. thank you. u.s. coast guard ship has fired warning shots of 13 boats belonging to the iranian revolutionary guard came close to american navy vessels in the strait of hormuz this is the 2nd such incident in less than a month after washington has accused iran of unsafe behavior all this comes as

world powers seek to bring to iran and washington back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal. still ahead on al-jazeera a cyber attack on a major all pipelines supplying fuel to much of the u.s. east coast highlights the severe vulnerabilities in american infrastructure. and a report from sudan on how people smuggling is flourished since conflict broke out today bringing theo here. that weather has been very unsettled across southern parts of the u.s. recently more thundery downpours coming in as we go on through the next couple of days actually all linked to this very active cold front possibility of some tornadoes as this system continues to just drag its way further eastwards across

those southern states texas louisiana mississippi alabama all seeing some very heavy rain we'll see that western weather gradually pushing across towards georgia as well that's going to be down towards the deep south to choose to where we're going to see the worst of the weather still some mountain snow just sliding off the rockies you notice it brightens up here as we go on through wednesday you pushed out into the south there we go more heavy downpours and we are light it to see some localized flooding as a result of this very very wet weather up into the northeast it's fine and dry lovely weather there new york half a day c. 1718 celsius in northern border will get in a 17 therefore ottawa down into the caribbean sunshine we have got a few showers just around the eastern side of the caribbean but i think that we feel and further between as we go through the next day i also have your showers into the western side of the region side nick iraq you are costa rica sinks and lively showers from time to time elsewhere as you can see most of lovely tropical sunshine.

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palestinians have been killed after israeli air strikes hit gaza israel struck targets across the city after hamas fired a barrel of rockets from the gaza strip into jerusalem that happened after israeli forces fired rubber coated steel bullets tear gas and stun grenades at more than $300.00 palestinian worshippers the no azza mosque for a 2nd time this week. has been widespread international condemnation of the ongoing fighting in the world calls for the escalation the u.s. and the e.u. say the violence needs to stop immediately. u.s. regulators have approved pfizer biome tax krone virus vaccine to be used on children as young as 12 most covert 19 vaccines worldwide of only be no authorized for use on adults the head of the european medicines agency has also said the job could be approved for 12 to 15 year olds as early as this month. well remarked that

is chief strategy officer at the university of washington school of medicine he joins us via skype from seattle good to have you with us so children usually there are in the groups which are ranked is the lowest risk in terms of being harmed by covert 19 are is the move to vaccinate kids now to protect them or to protect others the sort of herd immunity. to protect them for the 1st and dick did not seem to my son sort of down the track over 19 of course you need to do there are a lot worse and also to look at that as a sole need to reach an immunity and a model of vaccinated than we are so if it's partly for herd immunity i mean how much of a change is this in the approach to vaccines because usually the focus is solely on protecting the individual is is there a shift of thinking here. now that's wasn't always the case with back since we want

to ensure the immunity for even man measles for example because not every child can get a bad scene between immunity or as a promise so we need to vaccinate a lot of people in order to take away from the minus a chance for circulating in the community and herd immunity is always a desire for us in that nation ok so it's always a desire doing though if herd immunity exists for curve of 19 it seems to be a lot of back and forth. we don't know what good immunity is acquired put up an idea as a new virus but if we look at viruses that have acted like it it's about 85 percent of the population that needs to be vaccinated and factor in the combination of the 2 will give us a good reality if you look asian do we know how long vaccines last for even at this point. no we know for sure right now they last more than 7 months because that's

the trials and they have been ongoing but we don't know if they will last forever or it is like the flu vaccine need to be of the last seen on the yearly basis so could we be looking at a situation where people even kids will be told to come back every 7 months and revaccinated and is that sustainable is it possible i mean logistically. it's possible that yes we would need to be seen every year like the flu so a seasonal vaccine before winter or in every location one or 2 isn't possible in terms of producing enough vaccine for everybody not in the short time but on the long term yes and eventually we reach a place where we can deal with this bias so that we do as a bias and we don't have to shut down and not have to order 100 hospitals correct me if i'm wrong this is a little bit different from the flu vaccine because we don't attempt to create

a herd immunity for flu right very to we don't because not all of us are susceptible for the flu we've been having flu for a long time this is the 1st time we have this virus and all of us are susceptible to. what about the move to vaccinate children in the developed world while many adults in the developing world remain unvaccinated do you think this is going to increase the sort of 2 world scenario the haves and the vaccine have nots. of course right now if you look at the vaccine distribution the rich countries have all the vaccines they need and they have hesitancy among their own population their movement seems the people who need to come and get the bad seed whereas countries poor countries if you look at india and others they have it and they search and they see more than anybody and so yes it will create problems and quickly and yes we will have. a disparity in terms of ability of vaccine to poor people.

thanks so much good to have you on the show. thank you. infections in sri lanka's 3rd wave their peak with almost 2000 reported each day the island is facing restricted vaccine supply from india as cases surge there sri lanka is relying on donations of the sin of farm jobs from china the country started administering the vaccine on saturday after it was approved by the world health organization british prime minister barak johnson has announced the further relaxing of coronavirus restrictions in england from next monday people will be allowed to meet in groups of up to 30 outdoors restaurants and pubs will reopen for indoor dining scotland wales and northern ireland decide their own covert 90 roles. the afghan government and taliban say they'll both observe a 3 day ses 5 of the muslim holiday of later this week that comes after

a deadly weekend topped off a surge in violence across the country the latest explosion killed 11 people traveling on the bass the sub province of zabul charlotte ballasts 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 no one of recovery and no ice regional hospital the latest casualties 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 selves. 2 more bomb blasts followed one in power one that killed 2 passengers another targeted soldiers in western 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 has are 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. for killing innocent people and when these are against our border because our bullets practic are 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 form a 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 shape. 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 and television 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. protesters in the colombian city of cali are accusing police of aiding armed

civilians who shot at them. 8 people were injured at a roadblock staged by a group of indigenous nasser demonstrators they say so-called vigilantes fired at them from their s.u.v.s cali has seen some of the worst violence during recent anti-government protests saudi arabia's crown prince is welcomed cutter's amir shift i mean been hammered and fanny to gender it's the latest sign of improving relations between the 2 neighbors this is the emmys 1st visit there since gulf arab leaders signed a declaration in january to end a 3 and a half year dispute with the blockade was imposed on carter in 2017 but has since been lifted the united states special envoy for the horn of africa is in ethiopia he's meeting with prime minister abu ahmed and the african union to discuss that a great conflict among other issues fighting between ethiopian military and

fighters of the 2 great people's liberation front is now in its 6 month aid organizations say they're still struggling to reach those affected more than 63000 to grain refugees and fled to neighboring sudan other serious who are morgan talks to some of the refugees and get out of near the border with ethiopia. for months now fatima has been struggling to live with the physical scars of what she went through in her hometown of home after a refugee camp in sudan's got out of state says she was about to give birth when her soldiers raided the hospital she says all the health workers fled even those in critical conditions like herself to deal with the soldiers how. the doctors were preparing to do a c section on me but when i woke up i found a wound bigger than a normal sereno my belly and amara soldiers were around when i asked about my child they said they taken it and asked me to leave or die more than 63000 refugees have

now fled to sudan to get out of and neighboring states the conflict integrate started in early november when they few can government launched a military campaign against the regional to great people's liberation front it came after an attack on a government military base following months of tension between the 2 sides while the number of refugees coming into sudan has seen little increase over the past few weeks aid organizations say once in a 1000000 are internally displaced inside to grey the u.n. says aid convoys to the region are being blocked as fighting continues between the 2 sides despite the government claiming victory over the tigra people's liberation front in late november. the un says 4500000 people in the region are in need of relief with hundreds of thousands facing severe malnutrition it's described what's happening in too great an unfolding full scale humanitarian crisis in a video smuggled out of the ethiopian capital last month the head of the ethiopian orthodox church

a native to gray and became the most senior voice to call what's happening in the region at genocide it followed a u.s. government report describing the conflict as an ethnic cleansing of to graham's. i'm not sure what did 2 great people did wrong what their crimes are i'm not clear why they want to declare genocide on the people have to agree i don't know why they want to why. the people of to grade from the surface of the earth the whole world should know this if your peers government has rejected the claims saying that it's ready to work with international human rights experts to investigate any claim of rights violations the pope has called on the parties to the conflict to stop the violence and protect civilians but many in the region say his appeals are likely to be unheard. but nobody will listen to him because he could be an iraqi really just but they don't they don't at 15. they don't like the way you do.

they don't believe it they don't believe in being very very very good looking with any giving into. those who can are fleeing to sudan those inside to great can only wait for aid and for the conflict and thousands of people have already been killed directly by the conflict aid organizations were in fact with their access blocked thousands more could die from starvation people morgan al-jazeera but out of state . springing up to speed with the headlines now more than 20 palestinians have been killed after israeli air strikes hit gaza israel struck targets across the city after hamas fired a barrel rockets from gaza.