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a gunman opened fire at a school in russia's council on city u.s. regulators have approved the fines a buy and take over $1000.00 banks in for use in children as young as the age of 12 and china's demographic crisis the latest census shows the slowest population growth in decades. and it's for manchester united have it stepped up security had a very upcoming game found protests against the club owners falls to the spine months of the last home fixture. so in the space of 24 hours all the violence and unrest from occupied east jerusalem has switched to the gaza strip in fact in just the past few hours israel's been firing more rockets into the besieged palestinian on clive that will only likely continue as israel's defense minister has approved more air. attacks

and called up about 5000 reserve soldiers has also been firing more rockets into israel all up the israeli airstrikes and missile strikes sorry have killed at least 26 palestinians 9 children as well we've seen funerals being held this tuesday morning israel says it was retaliating to a barrage of rockets from hamas and its allied factions giving rise to all of this of course was monday's violence in occupied east jerusalem when israeli forces stormed the mosque compound and the mosque itself hundreds of palestinians were wounded some were hit by rubber bullets in the eyes so we're going to get an update on what's happening this tuesday we've got media bring him in ramallah in the occupied west bank we've got harry forsett in occupied east jerusalem i want to start though with harry's report on the overnight escalation. 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 that girls between the ages of 7 and 9 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. the

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. 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 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. 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 or 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 ing and.

women holding out 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. sorry for so what that report is not damascus gate in occupied jerusalem as you were last night harry it's just incredible to see how relatively normal it looks behind you now. yes i think here in occupied east jerusalem things definitely have diminished in intensity we're in the last day or 2 of ramadan we've seen these tensions building and building and building and now they seem to have switched very much to what we're seeing coming into and out of gaza in terms of what the israeli ordinance is

doing inside gaza we've had confirmation that 3 islamic jihad fighters have now been killed in the latest there strike in a very heavily residential built up area of gaza city palace an islamic jihad confirming that themselves we're also hearing from the factions that attacks on such residential areas will be met by an increase of range of the rockets that have been coming out in wave after wave through this morning from gaza most of them have been concentrating on the envelope around gaza itself the israeli areas around gaza $31.00 israelis injured in one barrage attacking the city of ashkelon and so there is a potential for more longer range rockets now and of course the longest range of all that we've seen in this escalation has been the initial barash on jerusalem

itself which has led to this very major military operation coming from israel and one that would only increase i think you said at the end of your report harry probably more violence that come in the days ahead and now the israeli defense minister is sort of making it official with this call up of up to 5000 soldiers. yes they are clear that this will be an intense day of fighting at least the israeli defense minister benny gantz says that yes an extra $5000.00 troops are being called up to be deployed there's also a continuing delay to what was going to be a major military exercise that was all points to israel wanting to carry out a major and extended military response to what took place emanating from gaza that hamas said was in response itself to the scenes that we saw on monday morning inside iraq so before we go away entirely from the

situation in israel and focus entirely on gaza it's also worth noting the kind of unrest that we've seen in palestinian israeli towns and mixed towns there was the death of one palestinian israeli man in demonstrations and protests last night it appears he may have been shot by a jewish residence in lourdes. and the israeli president driven rivlin has been appealing to what he calls israeli arabs saying that they should not be held captive neither jews nor arabs by the people he referred to as the terrorists involved in this escalation so there are concerns that this is a spread despite the relative calm in jerusalem today that this could be a spreading issue of unrest and violence across israel thank you very force that from damascus gate in occupied east jerusalem over to ramallah now need to abraham our correspondent there on the occupied west bank it is the same

cycle that we see every time needed the rockets from hamas the strike from israel which is always a bigger in proportion what does hamas say about keeping up the fire from its territory because this is the kind of thing which keeps the cycle going. yes and for hamas as far as they're concerned they were saying that israel has been besieged compound and they would not be remanded if they wouldn't be deterred unless they are met with force of course there are many palestinians who are arguing against that they say that always israel would have the upper hand when it comes to the military power and eventually lots and lots of casualties would be suffering from the palestinian side and not necessarily as much from the israeli side and this is why we've seen many palestinians calling for popular uprisings using stones or protesting near confrontation points in the occupied west bank to

kind of show to the world what injustices palestinians have been ongoing or living under so that there are more calls on tuesday by many palestinian protesters they want to go to court for the asian point already we've seen one person seriously injured and who are many of bethlehem in the confrontations i'm going with these great even to. what sort of position then. is the palestinian authority and where you are in ramallah because as soon as the focus which is to gaza it becomes a hamas issue doesn't it becomes a mouse versus israel is what is the palestinian authority doing and saying. in general the palestinian authority huge when it condemned the attacks on gaza on the firing of the rockets and it tries to kind of take a more diplomatic approach which is why the palestinian president has called for the arab league's meeting and the u.n. security council's meeting but if you asked people in the street they would tell

you that they don't believe that these meetings would yield any results if you ask people know and love for example they don't even know many might not even know that there is such a meeting that it's being held today a 1st for many palestinians they have stopped even asking where the arab leaders are because most would tell you they know that they are on their own but as far as the palestinian authority is concerned they are condemning these latest escalations and they're saying that this is netanyahu has a way of exploiting his political failure by escalating the situation in jerusalem the palestinian president has said that the flags will be flied at half mast mourning that those who were killed in gaza and that all celebrations forwarder and footage would be counseled ok that is neda made abraham live from ramallah in the occupied west bank cities me now later on tuesday we've got the arab league and the

organization of islamic cooperation each hosting emergency meetings to discuss this crisis the head of the arab league has condemned monday's violence saying israel is responsible for the dangerous escalation in jerusalem the u.s. has called for calm from both sides everyone is on board with the support 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 people its territory from the attacks maintaining peace and stability in jerusalem to be 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. ship genera or in the terms of the violations until our heart 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. 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. 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 still vocalise it's going to be a very difficult balancing act for the. president biden had hoped to keep his focus in the early months of his presidency on domestic affairs things such as the roll out of the cove in $1000.00 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. washington joining us today from occupied east jerusalem is. a palestinian israeli member of

the knesset leader of the party we thank you for your time today as i was saying to our correspondent in ramallah before this is the cycle isn't it this what is happening right now in gaza particularly is something that could have happened 51015 years ago do you see any way of ending it this time. well what's happening exactly now was. prime minister benjamin netanyahu to keep himself in power and sort of this serious political process he found himself in now and in order not to lose control not to lose his seat does the prime minister really is what is ready to do anything so all of this election that we are seeing here could leave political targets from it that he holds and he is ready to do everything himself work including all of this massacres that will go on you see in gaza in the west bank. that tax on the people praying in lock someone

imagine estate. tax its residents its citizens while they are. in a mosque so what's happening here is a clear political decision that he is not responsible for in order to serve for what is going to do all this just dilution this is part of the cycle then as well that a prime minister or particularly mr netanyahu makes himself look strong and the israeli. people respond positively to that. unfortunately because of the jewish society it is that it is such a minister and society anything when it gets to to security or what they view the security measures this stop thinking logically and then the sucking up about is ryan and thomas as if that was to metric size you know imagine the gaps empower between

a small organization like hamas and israel one of the most powerful states all over the world and it's rather not was attacking us up and talking all the time and there's a lot of the media as if that are 2 separate sides now what's happening now we are seeing in another time massacres in gaza. it's escalating so unfortunately we might see also this horrible scenes madly armed forces at that the palestinians all over like what happened yesterday for example inside the green light city where adults and jews are living together yesterday no but a city and that would suit their ears that went out to bring their voice loud i guess what's happening in jerusalem and against that that on gaza. jewish settlers and law decides to shoot for citizens and kills one of them shouted most isone a young palestinian man was shot but is set up in this city and now he is having

all the political support from all of that right wing pockets of the extreme right wing but it's as if this step that was defending himself. you would reasonably expect then that this will continue given that the israeli defense minister is approved they call up of more soldiers and said that the strikes can continue what could be done to stop it now to to to break the circuit here who usually helps intervene between hamas and israel can it happen again this time what should happen in my view is that all of the graphics don't have the international relations was this dead. should these do something when the palestinian people is being killed people are getting killed were they are right i think massacres in gaza massacres in the west bank the people the international. the.

israel the sexual behavior must stop by listing is going to give you all that suffering this israeli aggression and this is radio question what's happening is really unbelievable you are having. but the thing is are at the end but i'm there. everybody in the world is did it was just you know this is something natural i've taken for granted you patience is a good do your worst act of violence but i still have been suffering from this violence for decades and it must stop some of the head from the blood we appreciate your time thank you so much just a quick live look at gaza now 20 past one in the afternoon looks quiet stars in it but we have seen the telltale signs in the sky the white smoke of rockets being fired or coming. and as we said with these ready defense minister

saying or approving continued aerial strikes you could only imagine that will carry on we'll keep an eye on the live shot of gaza and bring you more updates from there and from jerusalem occupied east jerusalem throughout this broadcast. a developing story out of russia this tuesday at least 8 people most of them students have been killed in a school shooting in the southwestern city of cazan at least 20 wounded as well local media reporting one suspect a 19 year old has been arrested. because many witnesses it described hearing explosions as well such attacks are rare in russia but incidents have been rising usually involving students. there was one explosion maybe 2 it was strong we jumped up and thought it was a truck and we heard a lot and ran out keeping an eye on the situation from our london broadcast center

is andrew symonds bring us up to date. well this whole affair happened in cars around which is the capital of the tatarstan region it's about 725 kilometers from moscow now one person a 19 year old it's said attacked a school certainly had one rifle and another gun the scenes were really very dramatic disturbing images playing out on social media 2 of the children jumped from the 3rd floor of the 4 story building and we're getting a figure an official figure as you've already reported of 8 dead that's apparently one teacher and 7 children there obviously from the images you can see these children are young and they are they were they were running in total

panic it would appear that was automatic gunfire the 19 year old has been arrested on the scene he was apparently manhandled and held down now on social media he apparently announced this attack whether it was before or after is unclear a picture has been posted of an individual wearing a red mask apparently with a phone whether that's him or not it's unclear as i say social media reporting most of the facts although rostam many account of the governor of this state of this region has been giving the information earlier there were reports of 11 dead it is likely that the casualty figure could rise and what action has been taken by authorities there and are. well very quickly there was

a statement from dmitri peskov the spokes person for the kremlin and he is saying that the president has ordered the victor solitude of the national guard the head of the national guard to actually immediately look at new regulations governing the types of weapons that can be held by civilians because this 19 year old apparently hand a certificate to have a firearm now apparently this is used in these rural areas for hunting rifles but there was a specific reference in vladimir putin's order that he wants regulations on the types of rifle used assault rifles have to be absolutely banished some suggestion there that he had a look elsewhere that this 19 year old had 2 weapons one hunting gun possibly it could have been a kalashnikov it could have been an automatic rifle and another weapon so yes there

is a grave concern about how many guns are in circulation and certainly with the young people like this no motivation we've heard of whatsoever yet all of these as being called by the authorities a terrorist but don't read much into that no motivation however ok thank you andrew symonds in london we will continue the conversation with fred we're moscow correspondent for the christian science monitor just picking up on what andrew was talking about there fred that's interesting in an obvious self that the kremlin seems to have reacted so quickly i think when we hear of school shootings usually it's something out of the united states where nothing changes here the kremlin moves incredibly quickly. yeah well of course it's tremendously shocking events in russia there have been a few of them over the years but it's pretty rare and especially because this clearly seems to be now an american style mass shooting

because in russia we have had terrorism at school sieges who's motivations were ethnic or religious terrorism this apparently is not. such an event it seems to have been just one shooter even though there were earlier fairly confident reports that there had been 2 it's rather typical you know this kind of confusion. but there was one person former student of that school apparently so it seems to fit the profile of an american style shooting where. stressed or. mentally disturbed individual goes on a rampage for reasons that are not clear certainly not political ethnic or religious in their motivation. so. it's

pretty pretty serious thing it's all russians talk. you know the news programs are leading with it. and there's an awful lot of confused still confused reporting going on but i think that this is the sort of thing that's so rare in russia that it does provoke a lot of soul searching. which as you said in the united states so routine that people just almost shrug it off any significance sorry to interrupt you fred any anything in the you can tell us actually about the region i think you know russia such a huge country we don't hear much about places outside of moscow st petersburg what about cousin. because tucker stand it's a republic you know russia has 20 ethnic republics as well as about 60 regions and so the person who runs that republic is called the president. not the governor and he took our stand is

a mixed region. majority ethnic qatar who are sort of hmong goal derived people. just you could turkish language but there's a very high proportion of it but 40 percent russian population so it's a mixed place it has had nationalist tensions in the past but it's been peaceful i visited a few times in the last few years it's beautiful city because and overwhelmingly peaceful and calm so this sort of thing worse would come as a terrible shock. right there in the in in that we're public as well as in the whole country fred we have from the christian science monitor great to talk to you and get that sort of perspective thank you. still ahead for you on this news ethiopia contradicting witness testimony about a massacre in the world heritage city of acts and. also we will look at the factors

behind what's being called a covert crime wave in the united states and in support portugal in the running to host the poor english champions league final and he will have that story a little later. how i was there was a very hot weather across central and eastern parts of europe courtesy of this clara add that we have blue skies coming through here southerly winds drawing up some very very high temperatures temps have been touching the 30 degree celsius mark across parts of poland easing across into the eastern side of germany and down into austria and hungry but here's the cold air that's going to talk its way in from the west sliding in very active system this one breaking the heat with the

usual sundry downpours some big and heavy showers coming through he said but in falling back to around 16 cells just much closer to what it should be an 80 degrees there in vienna but it's $25.00 ahead of that in warsaw still woman off in moscow mind you around $23.00 degrees and a few showers over towards the western side of here has well across the british isles western areas of france saying some lively showers down towards the press peninsula easing across towards that he's out of france as we go on through thursday heavy the snow easing across the alps things turning out to dry as we go into the 2nd half of the wake of a few showers there sliding the way towards the east so fun to try across the mediterranean lots of pleasant sunshine dry too across much of northern africa the showers continue around the gulf of guinea across much of west africa. from. southern england where 2 farmers turned safari park pioneers their

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you're on the news hour here at al-jazeera these are the top stories israel firing more rockets into palestinian territory israel's defense minister is approved more aerial attacks as well and called up about $5000.00 reserve soldiers hamas has also been fired more rockets into israel funerals have been held for those killed as well in total israeli air and missile strikes have killed at least $26.00 palestinians including 9 children israel says it's retaliating for barrel of rockets from hamas and its ally factions and at least 8 people most of them students have been killed in a school shooting in the russian city of cousin least 20 wounded local media reporting one suspect a 19 year old has been arrested. in. india

has reported another drop in the official number of new corona virus infections 329000 new cases and more than 3800 deaths in comparison to more than 400000 cases and over 4000 deaths announced over the weekend the indian government is facing severe criticism on how it's handling the pandemic and vaccine rollout lizabeth piron i'm keeping an eye on things from new delhi elizabeth the numbers are often all we have what i want to get from you is the perspective i mean the amount of actual testing that is going on or not known fact isn't going on. we know the numbers aren't reliable because throughout this pandemic india has never conducted enough tests to know the real number of infections but what we are seeing is the numbers are coming down considerably enough in some of the previously

worst affected places like maharashtra also here in delhi to visibly ease the pressure on the health care system but where they are coming down in some places they are going up warring li and others the entire south southern india is badly affected right now 13 not 13 sorry 11 code 19 patients died in the southern city off with the after they oxygen supply route not to put these in the state of entrepreneur and neighbor intel and go on a stopping ambulances carrying coded 19 patients from coming into telling god i'm going to the hospitals and the capital which is hard to mess they have a hospital booking and that's because hospitals and high the body even though it's a very developed very well off city are completely full and under strain 7 cloven 19 patients died in hyderabad after their oxygen supply ran out kettler has said that it's no longer going to be able to share its oxygen send it to the other

states which is which is really going to impact places like come in not an entrepreneur which we're relying on care enough for their supplies. can i ask you about vaccinations as well. because again there's always this talk about how india is one of the largest vaccine produces in the world and yet it's going so slowly there must be calls for it to ramp things up. you know and it's slowing down even more even though the government said that everyone above the age of 18 was eligible for a vaccine from the start of may there just aren't enough doses which is why delis leader the chief minister arvind kejriwal is now asking the government to allow more companies to manufacture the 2 vaccines which have been approved for use and the other astra zeneca and also the indigenous part of biotech vaccines and which only 2 companies are making now you will know that india has been lobbying the world trade organization to remove patents intellectual property rights on other

vaccines like pfizer and astra zeneca so that it can produce them at a much lower cost but the indian government helped develop the bought a biotech vaccine and it hasn't shifted the patient for that without the manufacturers but it has huge capacity because it makes 60 percent of all the vaccines in the world which is why delis leader is asking the government to now open it up allow more manufacturers to make these 2 vaccines because at the current rate he said that it would take more than 2 years for all indians to be vaccinated strawberry thank you elizabeth per annum giving us that perspective on 2 and a virus from new delhi. some good news out of the u.s. where regulators have approved finds a biotech's corona virus vaccine for use on children as young as 12 most covered 19 banks seems worldwide have only been authorized for adults the head of the european medicines agency is also said the job could be approved for 12 to 15 year olds as

early as this month. well the world health organization says the elderly in those most at risk globally should be vaccinated before children that w h o director followed canada's authorization of the fines a biotech jab for all its citizens over the age of 12000000 the month in march mcdonough began a study in the united states with scientists trying to find out how safe and effective the in occupations are for children who rarely develop severe forms of code 19 and deaths from the disease are unusual a u.k. trial of the astra zeneca vaccine on children aged 6 to 17 was paused in april due to possible very rare links to blood clots but we're going to put all this in perspective with dr peter drawback now is an infectious disease global health specialist joining us from oxford in the u.k. today let's just start with the fact that this is really good news is the fact that and it's not just the united states as we said canada as well and i'm sure the europeans will follow suit as well this can be another major step for the whole

world really. that's right kemal thank you for having me this is really exciting news it comes on the back of a trial with about 2200 children 12 to 15 and if found results as we've been seeing with the pfizer vaccine through extremely safe extremely effective very strong immune response which suggests that vaccinated children that should reduce the risk of onward transmission and even though children have a low risk of dying from cobe it we still see about one percent of children this age group with copd who do get hospitalized there is the risk of long coated and up to one in 10 children and so there are still really important reasons to vaccinate children on top of that there's a massive potential population benefit as older adults have been vaccinated in the u.s. and in other countries we've started to see that the share of infections among particularly older children rising we've seen outbreaks in schools and it seems for us in camps

in so this is a really important next step in terms of the population level trying to reach herd immunity and further driving down infection rates great news then for schools potentially isn't it because the disruption for children not going to school because of as you said the risk of trans transmission i mean this has been something which unfortunately had to get used to. that's right i mean in the u.s. right now about one in 3 children of this age group are still not going to school and of course in many other settings schools abbreviated children are having to wear masks all of that stuff can go away and so you know children face tremendous stress reactions over the last year and a half in so this is an important step on the path back to normality what do you know. i don't know if this is something you cannot say but about the issue of side effects for children i'm just thinking about adults who've had. their shots but shots and have had you know any varying number of side effects some of them just had a little bit of a sore arm a lot of people felt really really ill for quite a few days now children coping with that is

a lot more difficult. yes so we should 1st maybe try to differentiate the kind of mild or minor side effects soreness of the armed fevers feeling out of sorts for a couple of days with flu like symptoms from the more severe side effects that we've heard about with some other vaccines and so particular with pfizer we've seen very very very rare severe adverse events and that was true also in this trial children 6 dreamily say so sure there are going to potentially be some side effects we have seen that actually amongst children and the rates of fever after vaccination is a little bit higher than that for adults and so that's something that needs to be factored in but those are not dangerous things those are inconveniences and still the benefits of vaccinations including for this age group far outweigh any risks that we're aware of just going to get them past the needle 1st of all don't shoot up to pay to try that joining us from outside today thank you thank you. well life in the united states is beginning to return to normal in some parts of the effects

of the pandemic gradually subside fortune that means crime is returning to its usual level as well and even getting worse a spate of mass shootings over the past few days is fueling fears of a so-called coded crime wave and again i reports from miami. there were 9 my shooting is over the weekend in the u.s. according to the gun violence archive that was split 6 dead at a family birthday party in colorado springs in new york's times square a 4 year old child was caught in crossfire as that city deals with the proliferation of weapons taking guns off the street new york city had it on the army great over the last 2 years and it's time now that we have lots of points about 2028 was a year dominated by the deadly covert $900.00 pandemic but despite lockdowns and less outdoor activity major cities soar spikes in murder rates places like los angeles chicago and new york all recorded surges of at least 30 percent and experts

say covert anxiety loss of jobs and fewer police on the streets are all factors you now have pent populace that is combining with guns mental health and everything or all of us went through last year and you're opening back up the demand for firearms last year led to 3000000 more guns being sold the normal according to the brookings institute many of those cells were driven by concerns over personal safety and the civil unrest following the death of george floyd at the hands of police i fear that we're going to see these things happen continually but i don't what i don't want is i don't want people to be desensitized to this normalcy we shouldn't accept this is part of our war no other country in the world as this nation begins its slow recovery from the pandemic the scars from a period that hit the disadvantaged hardest may continue during

a pandemic overall crime fell but it's a dramatic rise in shootings and murder that has many concerned it's hoped the vaccine rollout schools reopening and increased employment will help statistics at this stage are necessarily an indicator of future trends but it's clear the defeat of code 19 may be the best solution for now and the gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. ethiopia says the majority of those killed during a massacre in the region last year will find not civilians as reported by rights groups officials presented new findings on monday relating to a mass killing in the city of oxfam in late november they said neighboring or train forces killed 93 people the majority being fighters with the great people's liberation front this conflict is driven tens of thousands of people across the border into. morgan. in neighboring sudan where of course many of those refugees are now living and of course has covered this conflict since it started

here tell us more about this well it's a complete opposite isn't it. yes indeed now the report from the attorney general says that there was fierce fighting which was started by the take rate people's liberation front and that the report is the result of investigation by ethiopian law enforcement now rights groups such as human rights watch and amnesty say that they were able to talk to at least $41.00 survivors and witnesses as well as you satellite imagery to be able to produce the reports that they produced in february and march which says that forces went on door to door rampage killing people based on their ethnicity so there are a bit of contradiction there a few contradictions between the reports that was that was issued by the attorney general which says that there was fierce fighting and they rights groups reports would say that retraining troops went on door to door rampages killing people and.

usually based on the ethnicity of going to gray and what the tour of what the reports from the rights groups and the attorney general both agree on is that. era trained forces were involved in the killings rights groups however say that those who were killed were mostly civilians and like the reports of the attorney general which says that they were mostly fighters loyal to the last but not in uniform now we also spoke to some refugee. refugees. who fled from take rape and they say that they were not expecting the attorney general to side with the rights groups reports they say that the attorney general is appointed by the prime minister has launched a campaign against it to great people's liberation front so they were not expecting there to any general to side with the rights groups and say that soldiers who are fighting on the side of the government to be guilty of killing civilians. thank you for that update morgan in that in sudan china's

population is growing at its slowest pace since the 950 s. falling births in a rapidly aging population this is the result of a once in a decade census which also revealed the population grew by more than 5 percent to 1410000000 people but it's katrina new reports from beijing experts predict that number will start to decline and just in the next 5 years. wang surely it is 44 and looks forward to retiring at the age of 50 but she may need to wait a little longer the chinese government is set to raise the age of retirement by at least 5 years just one of the policy changes expected in response to the country's rapidly aging society. i couldn't accept a my retirement have been delayed much longer i was very concerned why i heard this news according to the results of a once in a decade census china's population is growing and growing at its slowest pace in decades since 2010 expanded by 5.38 percent to 1410000000 people

falling short of the government target of 1.42 adults say china is facing a demographic time bomb and the numbers may be lowered that caught it. in the 19 eighties 24000000 babies were born every year last year the figure was 12000000 even if you believe this number is less than half of what it was the workforce is declining quickly and china is losing its economic vitality the population is expected to shrink as early as 2022 this will impact china's ability to compete with other countries tyler's labor force will lose an estimated 35000000 workers over the next 5 years people are also living longer putting immense pressure on china's pension and health system almost 20 percent of the population are over the age of 60 china's aging price is laborous by this moment that's right families are having still with children despite government efforts to boost the birth right and

the one top post what's still the rising cost of living is one but not the only reason women are having fewer children there are. actually the long term career are there is. really social arrangements or governments. or women with children. and how their career should be rebooted the government is under pressure to a bad child limits together some say it's too late populations in china's northeast are already shrinking beijing is focusing on what it says all positive changes increased and high levels of education it's dismissed claims it said just because are inaccurate one should accept that policy changes are coming but hopes workers like her will end up better and not worse off to train e.u. al-jazeera beijing. your sports news is coming up on this news hour with andy and

there's another high profile japanese sports star is voicing concerns about the tell tale of the games if you.

will for. a little entertainment news before we get to sport the future of the golden globe awards is now uncertain after the u.s. television network n.b.c. announced it won't be screening the awards show next year the hollywood foreign press association runs the annual film and television awards and it's been under fire for months following allegations of racism sexism bullying and corruption

major hollywood studios and a number of movie stars such as tom cruise and scarlett johansson have publicly denounced the organization. as promised your sports news with mr andy richardson thank you so much kemal manchester united have stepped up security ahead of their upcoming league game fan protest against the club's owners force the postponements of their last time fixture united play leicester at old trafford later on this tuesday with the rearranged match against liverpool set the thursday the american glazer family has owned the team since 2005 many supporters unhappy with their recent push to join the ill fated european super league in the club is also more than half a $1000000000.00 in debt. security measures are. being looked at of course and i hope that we can heat the protests if if there are protests keep them down to. loud voices nothing violent no we want to listen

the players want to play the game we play liverpool we want to of course we want to beat liverpool we wouldn't beat leicester so we're going to do everything we can for our fans to celebrate what we're doing on the pitch now portugal is being discussed as a new location for this month so european champions league final talks are ongoing to move the game between chelsea and manchester city out of turkey stadium is an option for the all english title decider with lisbon also a possibility also here in league action on monday securing a $51.00 win over her and say. well the match could still be played in england's wembley stadium but it's one of its organizers believe portugal isn't easy a country for sponsors and broadcasters to access the stumbles ataturk stadium no longer appears to be viable after the u.k. government told english friends not to travel to turkey jeter new coronavirus restrictions locally the whole point of the year period finalist going away but now didn't come direct and the fact that it's terrible is not conduct until next week

or just it just i don't see just a bigger perspective before the country so whole through looked as eccentric setter to take 10000 official support up there plus africa supporters it just could catastrophe a particular aspect that needs very moved up the u.k. both both english to use now throughout the muslim holy month of ramadan many athletes have to balance fasting with the demands of their sports the english premier league has been encouraging match officials to allow players to break their fast during games as required lester's wesley for foreigner was given the chance to do that during this game versus southampton but we spoke to professor mari from a sports our sports hospital about the importance of high profile players talking publicly about their approach to fasting. wes if you find out the status on his social media said i was very happy that during the game the referee loaned me a few minutes to replenish with water and threw it at from that time there has been

a vivid reaction in the media's and i learned that the f.a.a. in england now is advising all the referees to just check before their games if they are muslim players when the game is played around sunset and discuss eventually to stop the game and allow the players to break their fast and 3 or 4 days ago i was watching english premier league because i'm a fan of football and i saw a better i'm not one of the players taking a break to replenish and it was a side of the pitch eating and drinking this took him 20 to 30 seconds not a big deal in this some muslim minority countries even the coaches and the doctors around the players don't know basic things about younger so when you are a technical staff when you're a medical stuff. supporting the athletes and the players you get 1st washoe your words because us could have a jessica effect on the players if you say oh you know in 2 weeks ramadan will

come so what what will we do with the whole group if there were peace fasting or what will we do with the korean men and i lee ann and paul who are fasting you know are ready launching negative effects now basketball star russell westbrook a set a new n.b.a. record the washington wizards plas coring a record setting 182nd career triple double westbrook 28 points 13 rebounds and 21 assists 36 triple double of the same isn't ranking oscar robeson's 47 year old rascal was it's well still coming up short because the lanza home is losing by single point 125 to 123 was. arrested. regional for a special roster. because he paved the way. for guns i must endure back and examine a real plan where he was able to do that and still be assured. not establishing.

guys like myself guys as it is me to be to be able to pass him on i just want to thank you because now him in d.c. able to regain my probably will be doing some of the remaining hour and sacrifice and games. tarnish korea has become the latest high profile japanese sport starts to express doubts about the so carolyn picks going ahead before us i can find list is competing at the it's how you know open he says the scale of the olympics will make it hard to organize safely echoing the thoughts of an army i soka tokyo is under a state of emergency queue to rise in cases of covered nights. this is not like you know 100 people like these tournaments you know it's 10000 people. in the be late and play in the tournament so i don't think it's easy especially what's

happening right now in japan it's not doing good. i'm a kentucky derby winning horse that failed a drugs test is in baltimore ahead of the preakness stakes naima spirits when earlier this month gave china buffet a record 7th win in kentucky buffets is a paling against doping charge and it's not yet clear if his source will be allowed to run in saturday's rice. ok that is how your sport is looking for thank you and he will see in the next news hour just a quick live look at gaza before we hit the top of the hour. trails of smoke again you can see well the rockets landing clearly in gaza right now we've already heard hamas' military wing saying it's fired its biggest barrier of rockets towards israel ashkelon and ashdod clearly the israeli response is on now as we have heard from the defense minister who said such aerial attacks would continue and that the

reservists would be on standby more with my name in just a moment. frank assessments. and taking photos he joins you might not be again informed opinions is the u.s. with thinking military positioning in the middle east or is it just to simply reorganize the ministry us and this is a message to the region the united states is rethink your its military posture

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pressure of business well as the defense minister vladimir by breena said the armed forces were lige to defend their country from the regular groups but added that human rights needed to be respected and that the events at the border would be investigated. for israeli strikes in gaza $27.00 palestinians including children killed so far hamas fires rockets into israel as tensions escalate. with the world news on al-jazeera live from doha also coming up. several students and a teacher.