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overtake the party will overtake the country faultlines capital attack the republican party after trump on al-jazeera. from the favelas of caracas to the battlefields around also i would job is to get to the truth and empower people through knowledge. more than 20 palestinians are killed by israeli airstrikes in gaza and fires rockets towards jerusalem. sam is this is al jazeera live from coming out israeli security forces stormed the mosque again injuring hundreds of palestinians attending prayers. it's imperative
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that the lives that serves 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 now it's flaring in gaza more than 20 palestinians have been killed after israeli air strikes hit gaza earlier in the barrel of rockets from the strip towards jerusalem a mass launch that attack over what it called israeli aggression in the compound how a force that reports from occupied east jerusalem. for days the question is hung over this simmering city would monday jerusalem. day 2 israelis marking the start of
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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 hour 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 the saudi 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 numa. 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 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 eastern. there's been widespread international condemnation of the fighting and calls for deescalation the us in the usa the violence must stop immediately as 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
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a 2 state solution but it's imperative that all sides take steps to deescalate the situation again i'm deeply concerned about the rocket attacks even as all sides take steps to the escalate israeli forces as a right to defend its people its territory from these attacks maintaining peace and stability in jerusalem to be our focus right now and ensuring that the. skin to install and for that to happen we do believe that all in the balance of measures against. the influence over the. shift for independence of the by nations 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
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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 decided not cuddly on this committee 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 in bassett or 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 key 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 still vocalise it's going to be a very difficult balancing act for the final ministration president biden had hoped to keep his focus in the early months of his presidency on domestic affairs things
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such as the roll out of the covert $1000.00 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 andro al-jazeera washington some of the ways is a political analyst a researcher who specializes in the u.s. the middle east he says the u.s. government needs to revise its policy on tackling the israel 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 continues to annex palestinian land and occupying palestinian homes the latest was a. situation where the israelis were frank sort of place the palestinian.
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president. with the new settlers who are coming to take over their homes so i mean the u.s. policy if it's 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. at the mosque where that really forces are protesting and parents of settlers who want to come and then dissipate the someone. so yes. protecting their holy shrine and the 1st mosque in islam was a lot someone. so who is the aggressor here it is israeli.
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forces and the. protection that the forces and the israeli government gives to be settlers criminal settlers who learned how to take things from the palestinians without the questions and without the right. u.s. coast guard ship has fired warning shots this 13 boats belonging to the arabian 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 to her run of unsafe behavior all of this comes as world powers seek to bring to her and washington back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal. u.s. regulators have approved pfizer beyond tax credit virus vaccine to be used on children as young as 12 years old most cope with 19 vaccines worldwide of only been
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authorized for use on adults the head of the european medicine agency yours also said the job could be approved for 12 to 15 year olds as early as this month. that is chief strategy officer of the university of washington school of medicine he says extending the vaccine to 12 to 15 year olds is a good step towards herd immunity. of course you need to pat down will do they are the law in the us and also look at that as a sole need to reach early munity and i'm only vaccinated the better and we are we want to be sure that immunity for even match measles for example because not every child can get a bad scene between munity are as a problems so you need to vaccinate a lot of people in order to take away from the virus a chance for circulating in the community and really immunity is always a desire for us in the vaccination we don't know what herd immunity is a quiet forgotten idea is a new virus but if we look at viruses that have acted like it is about 85 percent
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of the population that needs to be vaccinated and factor in the combination of the 2 will give us a good immunity and if you look asian. still at al-jazeera georgia takes a big step towards resolving a long running political crisis and a cyber attack on a major oil pipeline supplying fueled the u.s. east coast highlights vulnerabilities in american infrastructure. however the weather hot and dry across the middle east and normal weather has been received. it is actually a little warmer than we would expect at this time of the year char so one or 2 showers up towards the black sea towards the caspian sea i just catch
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a roach over there from northern parts of iran still some shabby rain there into northern areas of afghanistan a westerly disturbance for to make is wet and. well the pakistan as we go through the next day or so i brought this guy's come back in behind it of the time because 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 wednesday off knowing that dry weather that stretches down across southern parts of the arabian peninsula maybe one of 2 showers just around the gulf of aden jump to the showers will be a little further south pushing down into uganda and heavy showers just surround the stafford and riff they will see some heavy rain there as you can see just making its way around the lake victoria further south the showers as per usual they are running across the central areas of africa to the south of that not see much in the way of cloud or any right to where 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
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through the week. hero and humanitarian. treatment and will criminal. you know me to know who defriended sorry a vote against attack by some forces. how does your old world looks back to the life of the late you find to be a. saudi a for mine i. want to just. move . forward.
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i'm back here watching al-jazeera time to recap the headlines now more than 20 palestinians have been killed after israeli airstrikes hit garza israel struck targets across the city after hamas fired the barracks of rockets from gaza into jerusalem. all that happened after israeli forces fired rubber coated steel bullets tear gas and stun grenades at more than $300.00 palestinian worshipers in a once a mosque for a 2nd time this week. it's 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. the number of covert 19 in factions in india has fallen once again at least according to official figures on monday the indian government has asked the supreme court not to interfere with its vaccine policies amid mounting criticism of how the country's handled its krone
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virus outbreak in vaccine rollout it was withdrawn and reports from new delhi. the southern state of cannot occur as the new epicenter of the covering of 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 a lot of money is going to be a lot down here in bangalore so i'm going home to be difficult to find work is amazing during lockdown. migrant and daily wage workers like a 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 register online for the
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vaccine but with a smartphone. and those who were born there are seeing 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. means offering vaccinations but we don't know where to go or what to do. we get vaccinated there's hardly anyone 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 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 via its uncovered 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 its indigenous biotech vaccine. also for medical research which supported by the biotech in this
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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 go down the supreme court will this week continue its hearing into the government's policy that includes allowing vaccine manufacturers to charge different prices to the central government day and private hospital elizabeth who run an al-jazeera new delhi. town now joins us live from india's capital on poverty as i said for a 2nd day in a row the number of new cases below 400000 is it to get too optimistic though.
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well the optimism depends on how you look at it if you compare it to the numbers we've been seeing over the last few days which is india breaching the 400000 mark in fresh cases for 4 straight days yes the numbers are significantly lower nearly 330000 cases recorded on monday even the death toll is a tad lower compared to the 4000 mark india was breaching a few days ago and the numbers on monday suggest that nearly 3800 people succumb to the virus still a high number but as we've been reporting experts do believe that the numbers are severely undercounted because of testing issues and also the fact that deaths especially at home are not being counted as covert deaths what we are seeing as a trend is that the covert hotspots a really shifting to the southern half of the country you know states like carolina and tom allowed 2 states which actually held elections last month and you are
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seeing them respond with fresh lockdowns of the same time health institutions still struggling with medical supplies we were talking about oxygen to vaccines right. yes as we've been reporting you know delhi had been experiencing a lot of oxygen crisis that seems to have gotten a little better but overnight 11 people in the southern in a hospital in southern india died because of oxygen issues so obviously that issue still persists in some parts of the country the other issue is that of vaccinations as of now india has barely vaccinated 2 to 3 percent of its population i mean fully vaccinated barely 2 to 3 percent of its vaccine for its population and at this rate experts predict that it would take a couple of years for inject to fully vaccinate its entire $1.00 population the big issue is the chaos and confusion on ground states saying they do
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not have enough doses there's been a lot of confusion because of a change of policy by the central government which has come under fire for this policy changes so what we're seeing is centers saying we do not have vaccinations for more than 2 or 3 days struggling to even or not possible point moments. thanks so much. now george's opposition leader has been freed from prison after a court ordered his release on bail and he can many years release is being seen as a main just step forward in a new bank plan to end the stalemate robin forester walker imports from a starving prison near the capital tbilisi where malaya was being held. relief the nicam area and his supporters after 3 months of incarceration the leader of georgia's largest opposition party the united national movement walked free from
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pretrial detention in restudy prison and was engulfed by the media he said his release was a victory for democracy and a scattering. of the population. realize that either we have all the gardening regime or we have the bama cracky are all concerned that merely as a rest appeared politically motivated european diplomats played a role in negotiating his freedom because merely his release has been made possible thanks to the european union which posted his bail money worth almost $12000.00 but it's only been the latest in a string of interventions by the european union to try to resolve georgia's longstanding political crisis really it was arrested in february in a dramatic raid on his party offices wanted in connection with his role in anti-government protests that turned violent 2 years ago his arrest exacerbated
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a political stalemate in georgia the opposition had been refusing to enter parliament claiming fraudulent elections last october. but weeks of talks mediated by the european council ended with a deal last month the government has promised electoral and judicial reforms in exchange for opposition politicians returning to parliament. most opposition parties have signed the agreement but not the united national movement do you think it's time now for your party to get back into power personally i mean yes i think that we have to continue our and heading into the political the mouth a little different from the problem and in this great progress so i mean you know it's like the political process that could mean the end finally of georgia's political deadlock basically have it with everything that we have in there we're
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really working at this 1st to overcome this crisis with the business you currently . existing feel free to. must now decide whether it's time for his party to take its place again in georgian democracy robin 1st year walker al-jazeera restaffing united states special envoy for the horn of africa is in ethiopia he's meeting with prime minister the african union to discuss the tigre a conflict fighting between the military and fighters of the to great people's liberation front is now in its 6 months more than 63000 refugees have fled to neighboring sudan al-jazeera is here morgan talks to some of the refugees and get out of 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 a refugee camp in sudan's got out of state says she was about to give birth when
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her soldiers raided the hospital she says all the health workers fled leaving those in critical conditions like herself to deal with the soldiers how to ghana 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 because latif 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 more than 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
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2 sides despite this government claiming victory over the take rate 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 capita 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 that to 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 wipe the people of to great 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
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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 only just but they don't. get all the way if. they don't believe it they don't believe in that ring very very very good looking with any hearing aid 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 of out of state. saudi arabia's crown prince has welcomed cutter's amir shift to mean been hammered and fanning to jeddah it's the latest
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sign of improving relations between the 2 neighbors this is the emir is 1st visit there since gulf arab leaders signed a declaration in january to end the 3 and a half year dispute with doha a blockade was imposed on in 2017 but since been lifted a cyber attack targeting the systems which manage an american oil pipeline is raise the price of petrol on the futures market that could now push the price up for consumers colonial pipeline shut down its systems to stem the damage particle higher 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
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a day but they shut down the nearly 9000 kilometer pipeline on friday saying 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 engaged to assess the who address this attack they've ease restrictions on
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moving fuel 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 is that we could see a much greater widespread impact through ward areas throughout the middle way i think in the south the east. the 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. let's take a look at some of those headlines now more than 20 palestinians have been killed after israeli asteroids hit gaza israel struck to.

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