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from there around the world all these demonstrates that change your mind the british government without any new laws designed to cattails people's rights of assembly damage the country's democracy. at least 20 palestinians are killed by israeli airstrikes in gaza a mass fires rockets towards jerusalem. and sami say that this is out to syria live from the holes are coming out israeli security forces storm a large sum mosque again injuring hundreds of palestinians attending prayers. it's
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a very nice day steps to. deescalate the situation the u.s. secretary of state joins international calls for calm. and u.s. regulators approved the fire as a covert vaccine for children as young as 12. tensions have been running high after days of protests in occupied east jerusalem and now it's flaring in gaza more than 20 palestinians have been killed after israeli air strikes hit gaza earlier a mass fired a barrel of rockets from the strip towards jerusalem and i asked lawrence that attack over what it called israeli aggression in the al aqsa compound herefore says reports from occupy the east jerusalem. for days the question is hung over the simmering city would monday jerusalem day to israelis marking the start of israel's
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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 and assad 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 that 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. ah
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ah 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. 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 numero. no 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 it will fill our own 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
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batons and stun grenades for a 2nd time in 3 days the inside of the mosque became a scene of battle. was. alex and 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
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night that violence came anyway. and that with violence just now and. women holding on that began here with 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 harry force it occupied east jerusalem. has been widespread international condemnation of the fighting and calls for the escalation the u.s. and the e.u. say the violence must stop immediately on the reports from washington d.c. . u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken met with jordan's foreign minister iman surprise in washington on monday in a pre-planned meeting both urged deescalation and committed to
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a 2 state solution but it's imperative that all sides stay 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 people on its territory from these attacks maintaining peace and stability in jerusalem to be our focus right now and ensuring that he. is going to install and for that to happen we do believe that all illegal to follow the measures against either in the evenings or the. ship general or in the terms of the violations into our house 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
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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 to stimuli 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 that and mr president biden had hoped to keep his focus in the early months of his presidency on domestic affairs things such as
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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 mohamed weiss is a political analyst and researcher who specializes in the u.s. and middle east he says the u.s. government needs to revise its policy on tackling these failed palestine issue. it's. palestinian land still occupying an annex in palestinian land killing palestinians they signed a peace deal with the palestinians in 1993 and nothing was implemented from it and israel continued to and that palestinian land and occupying palestinian homes the latest was a. situation where the israelis were thanks sort of place the palestinian.
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president. but with the new settlers who are coming to take over their homes so i mean the u.s. policy if is known very well known and nothing has changed since 9. 11. the u.s. government refused to allow a vote at the security council condemning the israeli action israeli occupation is the cause of all evil it is not the palestinian presence on their own land and frank. prayed at the mosque where. forces are protesting and parents of settlers who want to come and then dissipate the someone. so yes if elected yes protecting their holy shrine and the 1st mosque in islam was a lot someone. so who is the aggressor here it is israel itself your question your
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base your forces and the. protection that the forces and the israeli government give will be settlers criminal settlers who learned how to take things from the palestinians without their professions and without the right. u.s. coast guard ship has fired warning shots as 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 washington is accusing toronto of unsafe behavior all this comes as world powers seek to bring to herat and washington back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal this group of fast attack books boats approached the u.s. formation at high speed closing in as close as 150 yards after
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following all the appropriate and established procedures involving ship's horn blast bridge beach radio transmissions and other ways of communicating the coast guard cutter maui u.s. coast guard fired approximately 30 warning shots from a 50 caliber machine gun after the 2nd round of warning shots the 13th fast attack craft from the book contact the afghan government and taliban say they are both observe a 3 day cease fire for the muslim holiday of eve later this week 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 their journey no one of recovery and new ice regional hospital the latest
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casualty in an increasingly insecure country was that. when our vehicle approached a checkpoint a bomb exploded many people were killed and injured i saw people's hands and feet hit the ground they were not themselves. 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 health side in western 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 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
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the taliban blamed eisel and afghan intelligence services these are not. 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 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 shrek 2. 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
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negotiations reach a conclusion of a key goal and 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 arnie the 3rd break in fighting in nearly 3 years a brief reprieve for those caught in the middle chelate ballasts al-jazeera. also ahead an al-jazeera cyber attack on a major oil pipeline 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 in neighboring ethiopia.
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it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored point qatar airways however the weather's hot and dry across the middle east and normal weather has been received they've even though it is actually a little warmer than we would expect at this time of the year chelsea one or 2 showers up towards the black sea towards the caspian sea i just catch a rush hour there to northern parts of iran still some shabby rain there into more than areas of afghanistan a westerly disturbance for to make is went to northern pakistan as we go through the next day or so brightest guys come back in behind it are the temperatures we are getting up into the forty's for baghdad and for kuwait and even here in we could touch 40 degrees celsius as we go through wet and stay off knowing that dry weather that stretches down across southern parts of the arabian peninsula maybe one or 2 showers just around the gulf of aden jump to the showers will be a little further south pushing down into uganda some heavy showers just surround the african rif they will see some heavy rain there as you can see just making its
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way around lake victoria further south the showers as per usual there running across central areas of africa to the south of that not see much in the way of cloud or any right although we will see some showers for a time it's a central parts of mozambique and then making well little further north as we go on through the week. qatar airways. killing the debate you don't see this action and amplify your voice you're only giving a sort of narrative the media will miss when true story no topic is off the table why in the world when we humanize an individual domestic terrorist this was an illegal occupation of a country what they're doing is they're removing or just historical truth in this in the street where a global audience becomes a global community on al-jazeera. back
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you want to count to 0 time to recap our headlines now more than 20 palestinians have been killed after israeli airstrikes hit gaza israel struck targets across the city after the last 5 a barrel of rockets from gaza into jerusalem that happened after israeli forces fired rubber coated steel bullets tear gas and stun grenades at all than $300.00 palestinian worshippers in the rocks a mosque for a 2nd time this week has been widespread international condemnation of the ongoing fighting and calls for deescalation the u.s. and e.u. say the violence needs to stop immediately. u.s. regulators have approved pfizer biotech's corona virus vaccine to be used on
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children as young as 12 most covert 900 vaccines worldwide are only been authorized for use a level tz the head of the european medicines agency is also said the jab could be approved for 12 to 15 year olds as early as this month that is chief strategy officer at the university of washington school of medicine he says extending the vaccine to 12 year olds is a good step towards herd immunity. of course you need to protect on will do they are they know where this and also to put that causes so we need to return to unity and the more we are vaccinated the better we are we want to reach earth immunity for even met measles for example because not every child can get the vaccine due to immunity are other problems so we need to vaccinate a lot of people in order to take away from the bias a chance for circulating in the community and herd immunity this form is a desire for us in vaccination we don't know what herd immunity is
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a quiet put cooper 19 it's 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 in fact that the combination of that tool will give us a herd immunity if you know creation. when the government has asked the supreme court not to interfere with its vaccine policies that some made mounting criticism of how the country's handled that spiraling coronavirus outbreak in banks in rollouts elizabeth purana reports from new delhi. the southern state of karnataka is the new epicenter of the corona virus in india as people wait for hours to cremate their loved ones migrant workers are leaving its capital of bengal due to the i t hub is one of india's richest cities attracting workers from all over the country but a strict lockdown means daily wage earners have lost their livelihoods. is going to
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be a lot down here in bangalore so i'm going home to be difficult to find work as a maison during. my current and daily wage workers like some of the most vulnerable to car the 19 and have the least access to vaccinations. as an auto rickshaw driver comes into contact with strangers every day but he doesn't have any electronic devices needed to bed just online for the vaccine but with not having a smartphone. and those who don't they're asking their neighbors or they're not getting vaccinated if they don't register they can get vaccine it. delivers food for a living and says he can't afford to take time off work. companies offering vaccinations but we don't know where to go or what to do do we earn money or do we get vaccinated there's hardly any work so it's not possible for us to go get vaccinated . even those who are able to make an appointment have to wait in line for hours the
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government expanded the vaccination program to include everyone above the age of 18 but there aren't enough doses. it's asking the world trade organization to remove intellectual property rights on covert vaccines so that it can manufacture them at no cost but health experts say the indian government can do a lot more to increase production including removing the patient on an indigenous biotech vaccine i see tomorrow also for medical research which has supported by the biotech in this product. is hoping to make royalties on the product rather than ensure that everybody gets it so the incentive for it is to make huge royalties which means higher prices. india is the world's biggest vaccine manufacturer but only 10 percent of adults have received a 1st jab as india's coronavirus cases remain high and the number of vaccinations
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go down the supreme court will this week continue its hearing into the government's policy that includes allow the vaccine manufacturers to charge different prices to the central government day and private hospital elizabeth warren i'm al jazeera new delhi. infections in sri lanka's 3rd wave are out there pig with almost 2000 reported each day the island is facing restricted vaccine supply from india as cases surge there shrank or is relying on donations now in a farm jab from china the country started ministering 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 and restaurants and pubs will reopen for indoor dining scotland wales and northern
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ireland decide their own coven 19 roles 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 used to do for a long time so let's protect these games by continuing to exercise caution and common sense protesters in the colombian city of cali are accusing police of aiding armed civilians who shot at them and. 8 people were injured as a roadblock staged by a group of indigenous nasser demonstrators they say so-called vigilantes fire 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 welcome cut is a mere shift i mean but 100008 ejector is the latest sign of improving relations
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between the 2 this is the emir's 1st visit there since gulf arab leaders signed a declaration in january to end a 3 and a half year dispute with a blockade was imposed on carter in 2017 but has since been lifted hundreds of migrants on the italian island of lampedusa are being transferred to a quarantine ship due to concerns about the spread of coronavirus stay there for the next 2 weeks more than 2100 migrants arrived on overcrowded boats on sunday the migrant holding center on the island was already full. united states special envoy for the horn of africa resume ethiopia is meeting with prime minister and the african union to discuss the 2 great conflicts amongst all the issues fighting between ethiopian military and 5 years of the 2 great people's liberation front is now in its 6 month organizations say they're still struggling to reach those in
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need of the 63000 degree refugees of fled to neighboring sudan al-jazeera said what morgan talks to some of the refugees and near the border with you here. 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. you know the doctors were preparing to see 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 the if you can government launched
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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 this government claiming victory over the take rate people's liberation front in late november. the u.n. says 4500000 people in the region are in need of relief with hundreds of thousands facing severe malnutrition. describe what's happening integrate 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 a genocide it followed a u.s. government report describing the conflict as an ethnic cleansing of to gray and.
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i'm not sure what the great people did wrong what their crimes are i'm not clear why they want to declare genocide on the people look to agree you don't know why they want to wipe the people of to great from the surface of the earth the whole world should know this if you please 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 early years but they don't. get their way. they don't believe it they don't believe in that dream very very very good looking with him hearing. those who can are fleeing to sudan those inside to great can only
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wait for aid and for the conflict and thousands of people have already been killed directly by the conflict aid organizations weren't bad with their access blocked thousands more could die from starvation people morgan al-jazeera got out of state a cyber attack targeting the systems which can all pipeline has raised the price of petrol in the futures market that could now push the price up for consumers across the u.s. colonial pipeline shutdown systems to stem the damage has the story. it's the kind of attack cybersecurity experts have been worried about this is the biggest tat that involve vital infrastructure colonial pipeline a private company operates a pipeline that moves 45 percent of the east coast diesel gas and jet fuel from texas all the way up to new jersey oh most 10000000 liters a day but they shut down the nearly 9000 kilometer pipeline on friday saying
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they've been the target of a ransomware attack a group called dark side is believed to be behind the attack it's demanding money to hand back intro of the systems it suggested russian criminals may again be involved at the end of last year multiple u.s. companies were hacked in an operation called solar winds the criminal gangs may have gained information during that hack the company said it was trying to contain the damage but there are questions as to whether the hackers gained access to the control systems that could cause a major accident the implications for this for national security cannot be overstated the federal government is investigating the department of energy is working directly with colonial to get the pipelines back on line and operate at full capacity as quickly as safely as possible. the f.b.i. also gay's to assess the blue dress attack they've ease restrictions on moving fuel
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across the country by other means but experts say it could have a huge impact depending on how long it stays shut down because colonial the low growth of these terminals every 5 days one can bet on big 4 or 5 of a colonial out but we could see a much greater widespread impact through ward areas throughout the middle way i think in the south east. by demonstration was expected to unveil new cyber security requirements in the coming days now real world proof of just how much it is needed to call him al-jazeera washington. time sam is they that with a look at the headlines here now just there are now 20 palestinians have been killed after israeli asteroids hit gaza israel struck targets across the city after hamas fired.

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