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it should be billions here inside you have scientists you have the knowledge to pass the broadest onal just 0. strikes by israel on the gaza strip 25 palestinians killed so far and hamas fires rockets into israel injuring 6. that follows monday's anger and violence in occupied east jerusalem where israeli forces stormed the hour. my money inside this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up this is the see now in the east jerusalem palestinian worshippers have performed the door in prayer at lax that without the confrontations as israel appears to limit police numbers at
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the compound. and also ahead of the 19 fact scenes will be available to children as young as 12 of the u.s. regulators approve it. israel has 5 more missiles into gaza overnight strikes killed $25.00 palestinians including 9 children israel says it was highly ated to a barrel of rockets from hamas and other groups in gaza and says 15 of those killed in the strikes were fighting about rockets fired into israel injured 6 civilians hamas has also been firing more rockets at israel in the past few hours. all this follows monday's violence in occupied east jerusalem hari forsett rounds that up.
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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 as threatened 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 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
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a palestinian islamic jihad fighter who they said had earlier fired an anti-tank missile at an israeli jeep narrowly missing its civilian owner. the have that attack coincided with a 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
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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. was. alex and jerusalem a red line whoever bears all the consequences of this dangerous sinus aggression is the israeli occupation this is why the situation is exploiting. israeli official 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
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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 doing and. then holding not 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 harry forces out a 0 occupied eastern. is a co-founder of election like intifada he says israel's unjustified use of force at the al aqsa mosque has backfired horrific to see israel once again deciding to try to. redeem its humiliation in jerusalem by killing
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palestinians particularly children more than 9 report 9 children among 24 dead in gaza due to israeli attacks targeting residential homes among many other sites and let's recall what happened that israel thought that it could impose its will on the people of occupied east jerusalem by mounting an unprovoked assault on the worshippers at the lock some mosque. in order to crush palestinian resistance in the city and allow settlers to force their way through occupied east jerusalem as they often do chanting death to the arabs and muhammad is dead but what happened yesterday in jerusalem was israel suffered a humiliating defeat when palestinian popular resistance without the support of any governments without the support of the palestinian authority condemned by the
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world. defeated israel forced them to counsel the settler macho and is continuing to resist the ethnic cleansing in chip shop i think what have mass and the other resistance factions were trying to say to israel is do not think you can attack jerusalem and attack palestinians in the west bank and count on the resistance not to respond to you so that was a major strategic miscalculation by israel. well powers have called for calm western capitals hit out at hamas for its rocket attacks while turkey said it would mobilize global action against what it cold as rightly tara and jordan reiterated that it regards occupied east jerusalem as a redline gabrielle and is on their reports now from washington d.c. u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken met with jordan's foreign minister iman
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surprised he in washington on monday in a pre-planned meeting both urged deescalation and committed to 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 be escalated israeli forces as a right to defend its people its territory from the attacks maintaining peace and stability in jerusalem. and our focus right now on ensuring that he. is going to stop and for that to happen we do believe that all illegal along with measures against either be the result of the. shift around or in terms of the by nations into our must stop 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.
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and outside the israeli consulate in toronto they waved palestinian flags pro palestinian protests 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 me 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 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 so vocally so it's going to be a very difficult balancing act for the biden ministration president biden had hoped
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to keep his focus in the early months of his presidency on domestic affairs things such as the roll out of the cove in 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 i ways is a political analyst and with specializes in the u.s. in the middle east he says washington has much more work to do in revising how it deals with the israeli palestinian conflict. 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
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latest was a. situation where the israelis were thanks sort of place the palestinian. residents here 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's happened changed since 1940 even. the us government refused to allow a vote at the security council condemning the israeli action the israeli occupation is the cause of all evil it is not the palestinian presence on their own land and frank. at their mosque where really forces are protecting and kurds 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
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a lot someone. so who is the aggressor here it is israeli. forces and the. protection that the forces and israeli government gives to be settlers criminal settlers who learned how to take things from the palestinians without the questions and without the right. coming up in the program a slight dip in the number of reported coronavirus cases in india but there is still concern. and we look at what's reshaping china's demographics and slamming the brakes some population writes. it's time for the perfect jenny. went sponsored point qatar airways
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we've got an early taste of summer into parts of central europe lots of warm air around underneath these class skies that we have of tools used inside of the concert but that's about to change because this weather system which will make its way further east which as we go through the next day also bring some rather unsettled weather bit ahead of that look at these temperatures 29 celsius in berlin a 29 in vienna and in the in between prague could touch 30 celsius on shoes day afternoon we've got the wet weather pushing in from the west though sliding across the low countries through germany significant amount of snowfall coming in across the alps so still a taste of winter for some head lol the possibility seeing some very heavy rain could see some flash flooding there red warnings in falls for more than italy as the system continues to make its way further east was and by wednesday temperatures could struggle to reach 900 products a big change coming in for you as that wetter and cooler air makes its way in
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across the region whether over towards the west or some sunshine further east or sort of around $25.00 celsius fun is right across the good parts of the mediterranean in that dry weather stretching across a good part of northern africa maybe just wanted to see how to be in the fall north of algeria and then plenty of showers right along the gulf of guinea. sponsored by qatar airways. killing the debate dunk. the fiction and amplify your voice you're only giving mr merrett the media well mr bin 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 history where a global audience becomes a global community on al-jazeera. you're
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watching out is there a mind of our top stories this hour israel has fired more missiles into gaza $25.00 palestinians have been killed so far including 9 children israel says it were tolerated to bar hours of rockets from hamas and other armed groups in gaza. and weeks of tension paved places 5 rubber coated steel bullets tear gas and stun grenades at palestinians in al aqsa mosque on monday. well leaders have been calling for an immediate end to the violence the u.s. and the e.u. are among the growing number of nations calling for a deescalation from both sides. i want to bring you some
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breaking news because at least 9 people have been killed in a school shooting in casm which is in southwest russia this news just coming in dozens more are thought to be wounded local media is from her saying that police killed one of the suspects and detained another off to storming the building witnesses have described hearing explosions in the school now we know attacks like this are rare in russia but incidents have been rising usually involving stevens we will of course for you more on the story as soon as we have it. hundreds of refugees and migrants are being transferred from the italian island of lampedusa to a quarantine ship due to concerns about the spread of covert 19 they expected to stay there for the next 2 weeks more than 2000 people arrived on overcrowded fishing boats on sunday and said biggest number to come ashore there this year the islands holding centers are only equipped for about
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a 1000 people. warning shots have been fired by u.s. ships after what they say was a close encounter with armed iranian vessels in the strait of hormuz. wants to. go. u.s. officials accuse the 13 iranian revolutionary guard boats of making unsafe maneuvers 2 words that navy ships it's the 2nd such incident in less than a month all this comes as well powers trying to bring to iran and washington back into compliance with the 2050 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 following all the appropriate and established procedures involving ship's horn bus bridge bridge radio transmissions and other ways of communicating the coast guard
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cutter melly u.s. coast guard cutter fired approximately 34 in shots from a 50 caliber machine gun after the 2nd round of warning shots the 13th fast attack craft from the r.g.c. and broke contact. as india which has reported another drop in the number of new corona virus infections still though the situation there remains die at least 11 patients died after the supply medical oxygen was disrupted at a government run hospital on monday elizabeth promise reports from new delhi. the southern state of cannot occur is the new epicenter of the cavatina virus in india as people wait for hours to could make their loved ones migrant workers and leaving its capital. is one of india's richest cities attracting workers from all over the
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country but a strict lockdown means daily wage earners have lost their livelihoods. is going to be a lot down here in bangalore so i'm going home to be difficult to find work as a maison during the. migrant and daily wage workers like some of the most vulnerable to that 19 and have the least access to vaccinations. as an author victual driver comes into contact with strangers every day but he doesn't have any electronic devices needed to register online for the vaccine but with 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. means offering vaccinations but we don't know where to go or what to do. or do we get vaccinated there's hardly
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any 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 trade organization to remove intellectual property rights on covered vaccines so that it can manufacture them at no cost but health says the indian government can do a lot more to increase production including removing the patient on its indigenous biotech vaccine. also for medical reasons which are supported by the buyer 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
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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. let's get more on this with a new delhi me how accurate are these numbers. well as we've been saying health experts have been saying that the numbers both in terms of the case count as well as the death down count are under reported because of the no per capita testing in the country but still even if you were to compare the data that we have from the government because is have dropped significantly a few days ago india was recording more than 400000 fresh cases
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a day monday's numbers show that they are in the 330000 around that even the death toll is down by a few 100 to around 3800 in terms of the broader trend we're seeing hotspots emerge in the southern half of the country so cities like bengaluru have emerged as the big hotspot and states like carolina and thumb a lot of which has elections in april are seeing a massive surge and so as a response we're seeing states in the southern part of the country announce fresh lockdowns for the next 2 weeks and where is india now in terms of its infrastructure challenges of people still struggling to get access to oxygen hospital beds and so on so even with the significant drop i mean these numbers are still staggering and they have 7 continued to put pressure on medical supplies so overnight 11 patients in
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a hospital in southern india died because of oxygen destruction the other place we're seeing supply issues is in vaccinations now as of today india has barely vaccinated 3 percent fully vaccinated 3 percent of its population on the ground what we're seeing is chaos and confusion over a change of policy you know states that scrambling to get hold of doses many vaccination centers are turning people away saying the doses have run out ok many thanks for the putney metal there for us with the very latest on the corona situation in india. u.s. regulators have approved pfizer biotech's corona virus vaccine for use on children as young as 12 almost kovan 1000 vaccines worldwide have only been authorized for adults the head of the european medicines agency has also said that the job could be approved for 12 to 15 year olds as early as this month.
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china's population growth is getting closer to 0 that's one of the findings of its 10 years' census the population rose by 72000000 over the past decade bringing it to 1400000000 in 2020 that's an average annual growth rate of just over half a percent the ruling communist party has eased birth restrictions but couples are still hesitant due to high costs and the squeeze on housing. there is katrina us in beijing and says the government will have to confront demographic demographic challenges sooner than expected. china's population is aging were rapidly at the moment about 20 percent of all chinese over the age of 60 and over the next 5 years about 35000000 people are expected to age out of the workforce that's 35000000 people it helped to grow china's economy over the past few decades and at the same time we have 300000000 people expected to be eligible to retire at 300000000 but
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almost the entire population of the us so this is expected to put in the pressure on china's health and pension system and the 2nd problem is that there are not enough babies being born to replace these workers on aging out of the labor force and this is even after china ended its one child policy in 2016 in an effort to boost the number of births taking place so all of this means that this is going to really impact on his economic worth in the future and its ability to compete with other countries and there are a few policies that it's going to put in place to cushion the blow but it's not going to be able to reverse the trend so something is that it's thinking of doing is for example potentially ending birth limits altogether raising the retirement age also putting in place that is social benefits to help families who are struggling with the rising cost of living and also policies in put some policies in place that will help women to stay in the workforce after they have children currently there are quite high levels of discrimination against women who have
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children and they're not able to continue their career the united states special envoy for the horn of africa is in the region for talks on ethiopia's contentious dam on the long running conflict in its north fighting between its european military and fighters of the people's liberation front is now in its 6 months more than $60000.00 to grey and refugees have fled to neighboring sudan. talks to some of the refugees in gaza refn of 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 they you know the doctors were preparing to do a c. section on me but when i woke up i found a wound bigger than
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a normal sereno my belly and amora 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 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
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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 of degree 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 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 on
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really just but they don't. get all the way if. you don't believe it they don't believe in that ring very very very good looking with any hearing 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. the future of the golden globes is uncertain after a u.s. t.v. network n.b.c. announced it won't screen the ward show next year the hollywood foreign press association runs the annual film and television awards it's been under fire for allegations of racism sexism bullying and corruption hollywood studios and prominent activists have publicly denounced the organization lafayette square park
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across from the white house has reopened federal authorities shut the public out almost a year ago at the height of nationwide protests of the police killing of the black man george floyd though much of the fencing remains and she ways are now a. this is al jazeera these are your top stories israel has fired more missiles into gaza 25 palestinians have been killed so far including 9 children israel says it was highly ated to a barrel of rockets from harm.
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