taken from their homes and executed under pressure of business well as the defense minister vladimir by bremer said the armed forces were open 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. more israeli strikes in gaza $27.00 palestinians including children killed so far hamas fires rockets into israel as tensions escalate. you i'm on the inside with the world news on al jazeera live from doha also coming up. several students and a teacher killed after gunmen opened fire at

a school in russia's cousin city. u.s. regulators approved the fines the biotech over 1000 vaccine for use in children as young as 12. month gas because west drought in more than 40 years leaves and 1000000 people facing starvation. in the space of 24 hours the violence and unrest has switched from occupied east jerusalem to the gaza strip hamas military wing has just announced it has 5 a barrel of rockets towards ashkelon an asteroid in southern israel monday night and this morning israel conducted as strikes into the besieged gaza strip and more is yet to come as rails defense minister has approved more aerial attacks. and

called up about 5000 soldiers well there's really offensive has killed at least 27 palestinians so far 9 of them children with many funerals being held on tuesday morning as rail says it was retaliating to a barrel of rockets from hamas and its allied factions and giving rise to all of this was of course monday's violence in occupied east jerusalem when israeli forces stormed the mosque compound and hundreds of palestinians were wounded some of them hit by rubber bullets in their eyes. let's go straight to him who is live for us in ramallah in the occupied west bank things really starting to escalate on both sides bring us up to date. the latest we have is from brigades this is the hamas military wing and they say they far their largest barge. more than 70 rockets in less than 30 minutes 40 of them in one hit all in all we're talking

about more than $300.00 rockets that have been fired from the gaza strip towards israel since monday and that brings the latest death toll to 27 palestinians including 9 children and we know from local sources in gaza that the big this drone has hit the as a car in a neighborhood in gaza city so if that is to tell us anything it is that the it seems that this is the situation is heading towards an escalation of brigades has also issued a statement saying that since israel has passed all red lines when it comes to a mosque compound that is its duty to keep fighting the israelis and israel's defense minister also saying that it's approved more aerial attacks so presumably no sign to the end of violence. and the defense minister benny gantz has pulled

up more than $5000.00 troops and suspended a large military exercise that if it was going to happen it was going to be the largest in 30 years so we are definitely or probably at least as far as many observers here believe having 2 words an escalation and while things are calming down in occupied east jerusalem things tension is still flaring up in other cities on monday there has been the palestinian israeli man who was shot dead and the latest or at least some of our sources believe that he was shot to by an armed jewish israeli man so we are potentially looking at an escalating situation in israel and of course in gaza and throughout all this what have we heard from the palestinian authority has there been much involvement from them. they've been releasing statements condemning the attacks on the gaza strip and palestinian

president said that flags would be flying at half mast to could to mourn the death of palestinians who were killed in the gaza strip is said that all celebrations for at the would be cancelled but as many palestinians in the street would tell you this is not enough to calm the situation down and to fly the israelis we've seen many protesters on monday calling up. to respond to the latest is very violations there are many palestinians who believe that only israel would only understand the language of force of course there are those who believe that an uprising a popular uprising when that is not armed would be better because israel ultimately has the upper hand when it comes to military power but in general the palestinian authority has been calling for the united nations security council the arab league though to get into the shin of islamic cooperation to hold and to have more

condemning remarks and even we've talking to someone from the palestinian authority from the p.l.o. executive committee who says that the international community's condemnations we're a bit too soft on israel and they're not going to be deterring it from its actions so as far as the palestinian authority is concerned there have been and dealing with this diplomatically but many palestinians in the street they say they're being too soft many thanks for that correspond need for us live in ramallah and occupied west bank keeping across all the latest lines coming in from reach. 2 breaking news now coming in from russia where at least 8 people most of them students have been killed in a school shooting in the southwestern city of khazan at least 20 people have been wounded local media is reporting that one suspect a 19 year old has been arrested witnesses have described hearing explosions while

such attacks are rare in russia incidents have been rising usually involving students. well. there was one explosion or maybe 2 it was strong we jumped up and thought it was a truck and we heard a lot and ran out. let's go to andrew symonds been following developments for us from our london office andrey what bring us up to date what's the latest. well the latest is 8 dead one of those a teacher several of them students teenage students a cousin is the capital city of tatar stan the republic of tatarstan and the president many can of has been giving the official details he gave those numbers because earlier reports suggested 111 had died and he said it was a big tragedy and a lot of the disturbing images played out on social media. there were some children

who jumped out of windows of the school 2 of those reportedly died having jumped out of their ladders were put up by the emergency services to rescue some others the 19 year old suspect was pinned down on the steps in front of the school where he's apparently a registered gun owner up to 20 are injured a mixture of teachers and children now those some of them are really seriously ill so there are fears that the number dead could rise now there is no suggestion of what the motivation of this 19 year old was however he is reported to be a former student of the school and he is alleged to have posted on social media what he intended to do minutes before the attack so in light of that has there been

any action at all for authorities on this situation. well very quick action from the kremlin itself dmitri pest of the spokesperson for vladimir putin the president of russia said putin had ordered the appointment of. now he is the head of the national guard and he's going to be looking at the whole incident and also he's going to be recommending some new regulations on gun control right across russia because of the types of weapons of civilians use hunting rifles are said to be quite commonplace especially in rural areas there is a a regulation that you have to have one of those and as i said the 19 year old did have a certificate for it but there is some suggestion that assault rifle an assault rifle

was used in this attack possibly a 2nd weapon so this was hardly you know a randomly worked out plot with a with a pistol it was much more serious than that scenes that you would expect from the u.s. perhaps but not russia where they're gone the attacks like this comparatively quite rare yes the situation is serious there are a number still seriously ill and there is a lot of concern in russia right now about this attack many thanks for that andrew 7 reporting there from. 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. concerning. u.s.

officials accused the 13 iranian revolutionary guard boats of making unsafe maneuvers to as their navy ships it's the 2nd such incident in less than a month all this comes as weld powers try to bring teheran 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 ships horn bridge bridge radio transmissions and other ways of communicating the coast guard cutter maui u.s. coast guard cutter maui fired approximately 34 in shots from a 50 caliber machine gun after the 2nd round of warning shots the 13th fast attack crafts from the r.g.c. and broke contact meanwhile in iran registration has opened for potential

candidates in forthcoming presidential elections the june poll is happening at a time of high tension between tehran and the west the current president has on rouhani can't run again because of term limits so far no immediate favorite has emerged among the many remit candidates and those who do want to run must 1st be approved by iran's guardian council. still ahead on al-jazeera a slight dip in the official number of coronavirus cases in india but there's still concern. ethiopia contradicts witness testimony about a massacre in the world heritage its heritage city of. it's time for the perfect gentlemen who went sponsored point qatar airways.

we've got some very heavy rain moving towards the korean peninsula and japan over the next couple of days big lump of cloud just sliding out of that eastern side of china all associated with my by front bringing some very heavy rain in across the far south of japan than this we go on through where the steak you she's seeing some big downpours a little further north it's not too bad for tokyo temperatures around 22 celsius as we go on into worth stay hot for that wetter weather just sliding away maybe just clipping at least in the side of japan some very heavy rain coming through there but dry skies come back in behind more warm sunshine returning to the korean peninsula so at around 27 celsius in a similar temperature there too for beijing the seasonal raised my by front that continues to just drag its way in across the heart of china and you can stem that rain right the way down across northern parts of india china joining up with a very heavy showers that we have across the far north east of india bangladesh

seeing those big seasonal storms the cowboys shockey is around blowing away more of those as we go on through thursday will pass a bungler test and more to the east of in the single worst of the weather although down towards the southwest some big showers here and very hot between. qatar airways 100 years ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw a map. but what's worth the loss to the facts of this agreement there is a regional set to 6 because it's at those borders were drawn without consulting the people how to live with the. psych speak our minds in the sand on al-jazeera.

watching out of their minds of our top stories this hour hamas has fired a barrels of rockets towards southern israel while israel has conducted asteroid's into besieged gaza strip and more is yet to come as rolls defense minister has approved more aerial attacks and called up about 5000 was that soldiers'. funerals are being held for those killed in total israeli bombardments have killed $27.00 palestinians including 9 children. at least 8 people most of them students have been killed in the school shooting in the russian city of cousin at least 20 are wounded local media is reporting that one suspect a 19 year old has been arrested.

u.s. regulators have approved pfizer biotech's corona virus vaccine for use on children as young as 12 most kovan 1000 vaccines worldwide have only been authorized for adults the head of the european medicines agency has also said the job could be approved for 12 to 15 year olds as early as this month dr peter drawback is an infectious disease and global health specialist in oxford in the united kingdom he says minus side effects far outweigh the benefits of vaccinations in children. 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 cove it we still see about one percent of children this age group with kobe 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 amongst particularly older children rising we've seen outbreaks in schools and team sports in the 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 so we should 1st maybe try to differentiate the kind of milder minor side effects soreness of the arm 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 truly say so sure there are going to potentially be some side effects india has reported another drop in the official number of new coronavirus infections that have been 329000 new cases and more than 3800 deaths that is in comparison to more than 400000 cases and over 4000 deaths an ounce on sunday the indian government is facing severe criticism on how it's handling the pandemic and the vaccine rollout and if a problem has this morning tony. we know the numbers entre liable 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 warning me and others the entire south southern india is badly affected right now 13 not 13 sorry 11 of the 19 patients died in the southern city all fitted with the after they oxygen supply ran out not to put these in the state of entrepreneur and neighbor in tallinn gonna stop paying ambulances carrying coded 19 patients from coming into telling god i'm going to the hospitals in the capital which is. unless 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 quoted 19 patients died in hyderabad after their oxygen supply ran out cadillac 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 cared enough for their supplies. ethiopia

says the majority of those killed during a massacre in the wall hit a region last year were falling to civilians as reported by rights groups officials presented new findings on monday relating to a mass killing in the city of x. in late november they said neighboring eritrean forces killed 93 people the majority being fighters with the great people's liberation front the conflict has driven tens of thousands of people across the border into sudan. madagascar's worst droughts in more than 40 years have pushed its people to resort to extreme measures to survive the u.n. says more than 1000000 are facing acute hunger in the east african island nation aid agencies are reporting people eating termites and clay to survive this has resulted in acute malnutrition in children under 5 to almost double in the past 4 months with just half the usual harvest expected you to low rains the crisis could

prolong the u.n. has appealed for help as the humanitarian crisis rapidly to terry. we speak now it's a gem economy who's head of the regional office for southern eastern africa the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs she joins us on skype from nairobi in kenya. give us a bit more detail about the situation in madagascar because these reports of people being forced clay and termites just to stay alive just sounds absolutely incredible . thank you so much milan and thank you for having me as you just spoke about the situation is absolutely horrific so what we have seeing in madagascar is just one of the 5 countries in the world where we have what we refer to as i.p.c.c. phase 5 which is catastrophic food insecurity and the word catastrophe i think says it all we are talking about children who are severely malnourished in 2 of the

districts in the grand soup which is that fast south region of madagascar that you spoke about in 2 of those districts malnutrition rates and nearly double the imagines he threshold which means that we are facing an immediate threat to the life of those children and as i mentioned in one district in the grandstand region we are facing catastrophic food insecurity you spoke about people surviving off of clay the eating locusts the 80 anything that they can to survive this drought it's the 2nd severe drought 2 years in a row and people asked suffering tremendously it is a so horrendous to look at these pictures and to imagine that this sort of starvation is going on now in you know it can still go on these days i mean what has caused the situation to escalate because this is a notoriously poor country anyway. you're absolutely right it is here griffith to see this today but there are number of factors so the grand sort of

madagascar is chronically food insecure it is a region that faces a lot of challenges on top of that we've had as i mentioned 2 back to back drought so this is truly exceptional for the region it's not the annual challenges that they face it's to truly severe droughts and we have to look at this in the context as well as the global climate crisis this is one of the countries in the world that is most exposed to climate shocks and it's what we often refer to as being at the forefront of the climate crisis so these back to back drought to truly exceptional and they've driven this deterioration of the situation now at the same time of course the country is also grappling with codes that 19 this area that is particularly affected by this drought is very isolated it's really at the bottom of the country it's difficult to reach and again people have faced challenges to reach the services to reach the assistance that they need because of comfort 19 so it's really this accumulation of shocks that have hit people in this region and have

driven this particularly severe situation and what can be done to help these people is that more the government can do if they in a position to do so so why is this just down to the international community to intervene. so we as the united nations together with the government launched the flash appeal to respond to this crisis in january and the government is doing all that it can but this is one of those situations where that accumulation of shocks that i spoke about mean that we have to come in as the international community now what more can we do we are doing a lot more than 700000 people have been assisted with food and agricultural assistance since the beginning of this year but the appeal is desperately underfunded and we have to remember that madagascar is an island it takes time to bring supplies on to the island it takes time to me of supplies within the island

and so we need desperately more funding now in order to mobilize a far bigger response to this escalating crisis many thanks for your time gemma connell head of the regional office for southern in east africa the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs thank you thank you man and. china's population is growing at its slowest pace since the 1950 s. with falling birth and a rapidly aging population the results of a once in a decade census also reveal a population grew by more than 5 percent to 1400000000 people but as katrina you report from beijing experts predict that number will start to decline within 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 1925000000 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 gets to boost the best right but ending 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 a long term career are there is. really so sure arrangement. for women with children. and how their career should be rebooted the government is under pressure to abandon child limits all together some say it's too late populations in china's northeast are already shrinking beijing is focusing on what

it says are positive changes increased urbanization and high levels of education it's dismissed claims it's said to speak is are inaccurate one should accept that policy changes are coming but hopes workers like her will end up better and not worse off katrine e.u. al-jazeera beijing protesters in myanmar are marking $100.00 days since a military coup ousted elected later on sponsored she and resulted in a deadly crackdown. on this racist march through the streets of yangon and a protest against the february 1st coup all those 700 people have been killed in clashes between protesters and security forces others gathered not to protest but to queue outside of banks panic the banking system will collapse under the military has led to long lines for withdrawals from banks across the country 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'll stay there for the next 2 weeks more than 2000 people arrived on overcrowded fishing boats on sunday is the biggest number to come ashore there this year the island's holding centers only equipped for about a 1000 people. the future of the golden globes has been plunged into uncertainty after a u.s. television network n.b.c. announced it would not screen the awards show next year the hollywood foreign press association runs the annual film and television awards it's been on the fire for months following allegations of racism sexism bullying and corruption major hollywood studios and a number of movie stars have publicly denounced the organization. much more on this story and others on our web site the address for that easy al-jazeera don't call it.

says is al-jazeera these your top stories. is a bounce of rockets towards israel while israel has conducted strikes into the gaza strip and more is yet to come as rolls defense minister has approved more aerial attacks and called up about $5000.00 reserve soldiers funerals are being held for those killed in total israeli bombardments have killed $27.00 palestinians including 9 children in a abraham has the latest from amala in the occupied west bank we know from local sources in gaza that the big this drone has hit the as a car in a neighborhood in gaza city so if that is to tell us anything it is that the it seems that this is the situation is heading towards an escalation of kasam

brigades has also issued a statement saying that since israel has passed all red lines when.