because of all sides. no matter where it takes us a pretty familiar feeling syria get out of miami. and power and pasha will tell your stories we are your voice your news your network al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. 1300 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera hello i'm kemal santa maria welcome to the news hour. haneke on the streets of gaza as more israeli air strikes hit 27 people have been killed including 9 children.

and palestinian groups have also fired what they're calling their biggest barrel of rockets 2 women have been killed in southern israel also in the news several students and a teacher killed after a gunman opened fire at a school this is in russia's city i'm a country known for the one child policy now looks to encourage more births south to china's population growth slows to a trickle. and as for manchester united have stepped up security ahead of their upcoming game fun protest against the club's owners forced to postpone mint of the last time fixture. in the past 24 hours all the violence and unrest we saw in occupied east jerusalem has switched to gaza israel is continuing to hit the strip with airstrikes 27 of people have been killed including 9 children and israel's defense minister has

approved more attacks as well as the calling up of about 5000 reserve soldiers meanwhile hamas and palestinian armed groups have been firing hundreds of rockets themselves into southern israel 2 women killed in fact in the city of ashkelon in israel giving rise to all of this of course was monday's violence in occupied east jerusalem when israeli forces stormed the mosque compound hundreds of palestinians were wounded some of them hit by those rubber coated steel. bullets in the ice so our coverage team as they have been the last few days need it bring him in ramallah occupied west bank hairy force that has moved from occupied east jerusalem to southern israel this is i believe harry as close as you can get safely to the guards a barrier fence. for years as close as we can get for now the israeli police checkpoint on the main road here they didn't let us get any closer than this so were a couple of kilometers away from that border fence where south of ashkelon where

there and indeed ashdod where that very very large barrage was fired a little earlier on on tuesday that barrages hamas says consisted of 137 rockets fired within 5 minutes so that is a a major firing of of heavy ordnance at these 2 towns and it seems to have swarmed the iron dome symtom system to some extent because it said another interception in the distance there and we have now got these this confirmation that a house was hit in ashkelon and 2 women were killed as you say the airstrikes continue inside gaza as well that death toll now up to 27 including 9 children and the israeli military is talking about one strike in particular on an apartment building in the center of gaza city in which the palestinian islamic jihad faction

said 3 of its fighters were killed the israeli military and islamic jihad have both confirmed that one of them was a rocket fire commander summer. look and i think that in that preceded it a very big bear that came in the other direction they had hamas and the other factions promised to fire longer range rockets if residential areas were hit. and israel's air strikes on likely to let up if we go by what the israeli defense minister is saying. indeed i mean it is the israeli prime minister as well on monday night was saying that this was going to be a forceful response that it would take some time because as far as he was concerned hamas had crossed red lines in firing at long range rockets on jerusalem and that has been again backed up by the defense minister his political rival benny gantz who says that the military is calling up 5000 reservists we're also hearing that

a major military exercise that was shuttled for this week has now been postponed further so there is obviously preparation and indeed conducting of a major military operation there is after what took place in jerusalem where there were a few concessions made jews not allowed to get into the temple mount the cancellation and other interception above us the cancellation of the march of flag waving jewish nationalists through the old city. it would have been there is i think some political pressure on benjamin netanyahu to exact a pretty strong military response to what has been coming out of gaza from hamas and indeed we're seeing that borne out in the extensive nature of that military action and the number of deaths inside gaza including 9 children. reporting live from southern israel as we heard the interception of hamas rockets whilst harry was

on a will go to. him in the occupied west bank what are you hearing from inside and indeed from the likes of hamas and islamic jihad. they are going to continue. their borrow against israel. brigades that are hamas has made it to doing has issued a statement saying that israel has crossed all red lines when it comes to. what they said. mosque compound. there is a lot of palestinians here in the occupied west bank who are in support of these rocket attacks they say that the palestinian the palestinian response needs to be. force because israel only understands that language but also you have on the other hand those palestinians who would say that israel would ultimately how the upper hand when it comes to any military escalation on the ground they are more equipped

. with. airplanes and the latest military equipment so there is a split we can see in the street when it comes to how they are perceiving the rocket attacks from hamas which is really attacking civilians there what i'm about to ask you is quite fundamental to the whole story but i think it's worth reminding our viewers when we talk about strikes on the strip tell our viewers about what that means for people inside who can't go anywhere. they do not have any place to go to they don't have shelters and these attacks happen in inhabited areas we've seen some of the targets or some of the israeli. air strikes targeting open fields and also resistance. targets but also there are

civilians that are in or around the. military fields and such so there are really no places for them to go and they some of them were telling us that they have to open the windows because they can't afford having the glass shot that from the heavy sounds that are usually that usually follow the rockets hitting the ground so air strikes hitting the ground so it is really a dire situation and this is why many palestinians will tell you that it is the civilians in gaza who pay the price for any escalation even if it starts in occupied east jerusalem important for us to remember all of those facts they think you need abraham in ramallah. now we've got the arab league and we've got the organization of islamic cooperation or each hosting emergency meeting on tuesday to discuss the crisis the arab league has blamed israel for escalating the crisis the u.s.

and other western powers are calling on restraint from both sides the supporters from gabriel is on there in 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 all sides take steps to. deescalate the situation again i'm deeply concerned about the rocket attacks even as all sides take steps of us played 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 the. skin to install and for that to happen we do believe that all in the public that measures against either in the evenings or the. shift for independence of the by nations into our house must stop the status quo needs to be preserved and the

rights of the palestinians need to be inspected 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 clear on this demand 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 embassador 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 kind of ministration president biden had hoped to keep his focus in the early months of his presidency on domestic affairs things such as the rollout of the covert $1000.00 vaccine and the economy but it's becoming increasingly clear that he now could be facing his biggest foreign policy crisis of his presidency and might not be able to keep the u.s. on the sidelines much longer gabriel zonda al-jazeera washington let's expand on that what i what house correspondent kimberly how kit's good morning kimberly would you be expecting anything further from the by the ministrations today. there's no question that the biden administration has been monitoring this they've said as much for many days and that they have been working through not

just public statements but private meetings and phone calls behind the scenes in order to try and nudge israel to deescalate the tensions but the escalating violence in jerusalem is making this a much bigger problem for the biden administration that is gabriel reported there has been trying to focus on domestic issues but the problem is is that even as joe biden wants to potentially stand back there has been a history of u.s. involvement in the israeli palestinian conflict particularly given the billions of dollars in military aid that the u.s. has given to israel so we know that this is something that is being watched very carefully the u.s. because of that aid is involved whether it likes it or not and that's why we know the white house is weighing very carefully how to handle this with the media and whether there will be future statements coming kimberly we tend to of course we look at u.s. politics through the prism of red and blue republican and democrat i was interested

to see there is criticism from within the democrats themselves about the way the by the administration goes forward. there was something really interesting that happened at the state department on monday the question from reporters was as the u.s. continues to maintain that israel has the right to self defense the question was asked does do palestinians not have that same right and that was a question that was very difficult for the state department spokesman to answer but that is a question that is being asked by some members of the president's own democratic party progressives as there are no further left democrats who say that there is a responsibility for the united states to act that it had ignored the warning signs knowing that there would be potential violence at the end of ramadan also jerusalem day as so as a result there has been an outcry that is growing in congress with each new day of violence that there is a responsibility of this administration to act thank you kimberly how could our

white house correspondent more with iran. let's hear now from mohamed who is a political analyst and a researcher who 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 whole 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 continues to annex palestinian land and occupying palestinian homes the latest was a. situation where the israelis were frank sort of place the palestinian. residents. with the new settlers who are coming to take over their homes so i mean the u.s.

policy if it's known very well known and nothing's happened changed since 1940 even . the u.s. government refused to allow a vote at the security council condemning the israeli action israeli occupation is the cause of all evil it is not the palestinian presence on their own land and frank the goal to create a mosque where the israeli forces are protecting and kurds settlers who want to come and then dissipate the someone. so yes if elected yes are protecting their holy shrine and the 1st mosque in islam was a lot someone. so who is the aggressor here it is israel itself your question your basic forces and the. perception that the forces and israeli government give will be settlers criminal settlers who learned how to take things

from the palestinians without their professions and without the but right. coming up 16 minutes past the way keeping an eye on developments of course in gaza or in israel and the rest of the day's news getting a slight dip in the official number of coronavirus cases in india but still plenty of concern there. also madagascar's the worst drought in more than 40 years that leaves a 1000000 people facing starvation. and sport basketball star has broken an n.b.a. record its truthfulness 55 details 5 decades the details with andy a little later. there was been a developing story out of russia this tuesday were at least 9 people most of them students have been killed in a school shooting this is in the south within city of cousin at least 20 wounded as

well local media reporting one suspect and 19 year old has been arrested witnesses describing hearing explosions such attacks would be considered rare in russia though they have been on the rise. was caught before he was one explosion or maybe 2 it was strong we jumped up and thought it was a truck and we heard alarms and ran out andrew symonds in our london new center following the story today and bring us up today. yes that figure of dead now up to 97 of them were children this it all started at the stop at the beginning of the school working day when a 19 year old ran into the building opening fire indiscriminately now there's something like 20 injured some of them children are critical scenes of

chaos as children were running all over the building who are reported to have jumped from windows on the 3rd floor and unfortunately died there were also rescues taking place using ladders heavily armed security forces were on the scene quite rapidly. they thought to having gauged the gun man and certainly managed to arrest him holding him down in the steps in front of the building and he has been arrested now 19 years of age holding a gun license he is now in custody and there is no doubt that he the police say that he is responsible his motive appears to be unclear but he is reported to have been a former pupil at the school. andrew the official reaction coming out of russia you were telling me about this earlier it was interesting how quickly the

kremlin reacted. indeed now these sort of mass shootings in schools might be almost commonplace in the united states but in russia they're pretty rare and the kremlin did respond within a matter of hours with the kremlin spokesman saying that the president vladimir putin had ordered a review immediately on the regulations for civilians to have firearms now this school also didn't have any security reportedly but it did have a panic button which was used in the early stages which probably explains why the security forces were on the scene so quickly but awful scenes disturbing images which were on social media so many parents relatives in very large crowds waiting outside the school for a very long time before they found out the number dead and indeed some found out

the worst for my goodness thank you for that update andrew symonds in london. 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 accusing the 13 iranian revolutionary guard boats the making unsafe maneuvers towards their navy ships the 2nd such incident in less than a month all this of course at the same time as world powers try to bring terror on and washington back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal. this group of fast attack boats boats approached the us formation at high speed closing in as close as 150 yards after following all the appropriate and established procedures

involving ships horn blast bridge beach radio transmissions and other ways of communicating the coast guard cutter melly us coast guard fired approximately 30 warning shots from a 50 caliber machine gun after the 2nd round of warning shots the 13th fast attack craft from the r.g.c. en route contact registrations open for potential candidates in iran's forthcoming presidential election the june poll is happening at a time of high tension as we know between tehran and the west the current president hassan rouhani can't run again because of term limits and no immediate favorite is emerging among the many rumored candidates those who do want to run must 1st be approved by iran's guardian council. india's reported another drop in the official number of new corona virus infections

329000 new cases and more than 3800 deaths compared to more than 400000 cases and over 4000 deaths deaths announced on sunday the indian government facing a lot of criticism about how it's handling this pandemic and that same rollouts more with elizabeth piron i'm in new delhi on the face of it elizabeth you would say great numbers are coming down even though they are still very very high but there's a bit more nuanced than that. and that is because india has never conducted enough tests to know the real number of infections most public health experts put the number of infections as being around for torrens what the official tally is but what we do see is numbers have come down enough in some of the worst affected states like maharashtra and delhi for long enough that we know we can see the pressure being eased on the health care system but where they're

going up in some places going down rather than some places they are certainly going up and others the entire south india is really badly affected we had 11 people die in the southern city of. that's in the state of andhra pradesh and ambulances carrying clothing 19 patients from neighboring telling ghana being stopped not being allowed to go to its capital hi there which has a lot of hospitals good hospitals because they are so severely under strain 7 people died after their oxygen supply ran out in the city of hyderabad now the sudden surge of cattle has been sending oxygen to much of the south and it's said that it just doesn't have enough supplies it can't do this anymore and that's really going to affect places like famine not like on for the issues which have been relying on cattle are. loose but i wonder if i can ask you about something about reading a lot about this sort of looking for a bit more context and confirmation from be harder to produce stories of bodies being found floating in the ganges river. these

incredibly disturbing reports which have emerged in local media over the past 24 hours that started with reports come on reports of at least 40 bodies found floating in the ganges river in the state of bihar these were bodies that were partially burnt or cremated and they are bodies of suspected covert 19 victims now police have said that they are going to carry out a post-mortem before burying or cremation these bodies but many have been buried or cremated already we had another report today of tens more bodies being held at the station for the for there again the same thing now the district administration and be hard have said that this has nothing to do with the reports of a shortage of what fulcrum nations which has been reported all over northern india here in delhi in the heart and author for the there are there isn't enough wood for commissions because so many people are being cremated every day again police are

going to investigate this but it is extremely worrying for the many people who live on the banks of the ganges river and the young never ever to see these bodies floating down and this is not common in india astonishing stories and numbers coming out of india every day elizabeth thank you for that update to china with a population we've discovered is growing at its slowest pace since the $950.00 s. due to falling births in a rapidly aging population is the result of a once in a decade census which also revealed the population grew more than 5 percent to $1410000000.00 people but as katrina new reports 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 analysts 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 china'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 prices may burst pipes smoking that's right families are having still with children despite government efforts to boost the birthright 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 their real problem is actually the long term career are there is. really so sure arrangement 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 ageing is focusing on what it says are positive changes increased urbanization and higher levels of education it's dismissed claims that census speak is are an accurate. except that policy changes are coming but hopes workers like her will end up better and not worse off between e.u. al-jazeera beijing. before we take a break to check on the weather. how low it is hearts across the middle east and getting hotter for many of us we've got a few showers imply having said that and see some bits and pieces of cloud just around the caspian sea much as pick up one or 2 showers into northern parts of iran as we go through wednesday want to shout into northern areas of afghanistan little hate getting into the forty's now for kuwait for baghdad and also here in doha could well touch 42 celsius in doha as we go on through thursday warm enough around the events as well we'll see temperatures is getting up into the mid twenty's for

beirut and also for jerusalem damascus is around $34.00 degrees largely clear skies down across the arabian peninsula want to choose showers just around the southern end of the red sea but it's all show that we are now starting to show signs of concern little clutches storms brewing up here that may well develop into a tropical cycling as we go through the next few days certainly something to watch out for next week i think by the end of next week parts of a man maybe into pakistan could see some very heavy rains this system gathers and moves further north was for the whole of africa for now this last the far the dry want to showers down across the rift valley through lake victoria in fact to the south of that is largely fine settled dry and sunny. in the news their heads georgia takes a big step towards resolving a long running political crisis also we're looking at the factors behind what's being called a covert crime wave in the united states. and sport in the running to host the all english champions league final and we'll have that little bit later.

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to hear allegations of corruption by those in power and if you read a hari get your news in 2 minutes from al-jazeera news updates on home already. on the news here at al-jazeera these are the top stories funerals being held for those killed in gaza in total israeli bombardments have killed at least $27.00 palestinians including 9 children. at least 9 people most of them students have been killed in a school shooting this is in the russian city of cannes on at least 20 wounded as well local media reporting one suspect a 19 year old has been arrested. and dozens of bodies have been discovered on the

banks of the ganges river in northern india local media reporting they are suspected covert 19 victims but authorities have not confirmed this or indeed how they ended up in the war zone. let us return to the conflict in gaza we are getting some information from an emergency meeting of the arab league it's been chaired by qatar katas foreign ministers call for an effective arab position to stop attacks and violations palestine's representative has demanded urgent action to mobilize an international position to pressure israel let's put some of that to who sums or not who is the palestinian ambassador to the u.k. on skype from london thank you for your time can i just get your thoughts 1st of all on that and the position of the arab league and whether it can well i don't think it has a problem finding the unity but actually getting some concrete action out of it please i guess. well that's up to

a lot of who are really. very real to us this is a conflict in gaza this is a conflict at the heart of the world the heart of civilization the civil so that it's not the. issue is very clear. it's very clear and the players in the other ways ational jerusalem and it's live on t.v. and this has been happening for a long time but this time was very different this time. this is what was goes let me find the palestinian people as you saw in the streets of gaza and the streets of jerusalem before that in the streets of homs the instinct is inside 948 past right all the palestinian people are. under fall off really if the discourse those not merit and does not rise to the occasion i believe the region would have so much to lose however if the regime stands up now this is what it is facing a great deal of international. peace and international realisation of the

injustices and the will question the south and we have had 2 issues obviously inextricably linked but we had the. events at al aqsa mosque compound 1st and then it moved on to gaza now i just had a quick look at the u.k. foreign office website there was a quick condemnation about what happened at the luxor and a call for calm on all sides but i'm not saying anything about gallus that there do you and your position as a palestinian representative in the u.k. do you contact the u.k. government do you ask them where's the condemnation of what's happening now. of course the head of the bank office and the size of the you'll get government for rather quickly condemning. rockets but failing to condemn the brooklyn exemption of our people who are all part of the last few weeks and in the long term and also failing to condemn those are really aggression like some last minute. injuring

congress or of the peaceful remote worshippers and that we are working with the government we're working with the power just before starting with the other a so who is by the members of parliament from our side we are moving the pressure but the mob that would be many there was dishes going by the so who the society the spirit of the movement sort of the yes and they by us is money in clear the double standard of the international community including britain and there was a statement yesterday by really good to hear from the foreign secretary of the many grow up quickly condemning the rockets from gaza violence but failing to condemn violence from occupation which is the major source of wetlands and that he should have remembered that he's the success of buffalo but for who promise our land for another people without consulting us and therefore this looks more pressure on the young gay to deliver given it's more a responsibility it's historic responsibility and this really really come

a group of the main point is what is game his body will norm since its inception it's that the ethnic cleansing subtle or colonialism apartheid as part of the human rights watch report only a few days ago you know very well documented their game is not what they want to displace the thought i was the mean people to be muslims or christians just binds them as bundles and they want to enforce as you wish to to gloat over their dark area from that of a literacy that's flown under our current list and we have to also look on the other game is not the ones to. because of the charges this is going to go misfortunes and there are situations where we will know we have resisted and we should continue to exist so let's talk about the law is out of the international community this silence is not only affecting the palestinian people it is affecting the very international order the very international rules of the ambassador let me go let me ask you then seeing as you brought up the issue of resistance we can't

ignore the fact that $300.00 plus rockets have been fired from gaza into israel now the response from israel again we know and history teaches us that it is always a much stronger it is a big army going up against the rockets from from gaza it is part of the cycle is it not. nor it is not there is only one cycle there is only one side by the way this is part of the problem when we talk about 2 sides what do since there is only one side that is the occupier of the government is not of the seizure of gaza of course the last so many years will go to 15 years 2000000 people have been kids and the most you mean mother by the way i was born in nazar relatives in gaza not i have friends in gaza i know what they have gone through and therefore the act the act of this is causing such measures in gaza so let me put it a different way then i will answer. the most or let me interrupt you and let me put

it a different way then if. if you as i said history teaches us these things and all i'm saying here is that if rockets are fired out of gaza into israel then the people of gaza and hamas and all the groups there they do know what's coming don't they i'm not saying it's right but i do know that the response from israel will be as it has been every time so that's what i'm saying as being part of the cycle. there but this isn't this isn't about what's happened yes that this is about the ethnic cleansing this is about house of actions this is about speeding people's property for all these years including the last episode in shipped off this is about provoking people's religion in the uk some oestreich of the heart of problems right in the middle of the other when thousands tens of thousands of people praying needing this fall the last this is about also doing the same for person question only last night who was that they wanted the only far out there was the east not and you saw right part one t.v.

they actually beaten palestinian christians this isn't about those numbers isn't about it this is about palestinians and this is about a system inherently embedded in demick and it racism and demick and it. could go on and then land demick and a jewish supremacy so therefore i'm not interested in discussing the act and then this is the issue the issue of the world wouldn't let such stuff happens what say fun experience of being given the murder they say we call for god but when palestinians that act that are already equipped and condemning a lot of the action this is an oh this is an important we get to focus on gold gold to focus on the real issue the real issue is we as a people who have been subjugated to the most horrific human rights violations over the course of 74 years now this is a time when our people aphid bob my friend if you see them right it not only in the occupied territories and you're also going to the west bank and gaza but look at

haifa you have a back up more sort of at the last minute even our people and cited for to it by this time people have hobbit people's dignity is coming out people are done with the lights being denied people are done with their homes being taken their property being dick and the identity being challenged that religion being grandson act ok a washer. because not only are the ones who go to criminal charges because this is what i want to provoke this and then. i'm going to drop here only because i do have some other news to get to but i really appreciate your time and for coming on the news out today who is the palestinian back to the united kingdom on took over the news again u.s. regulators have approved the fines a biotech coronavirus vaccine for use on children as young as 12 most of in 1000 vaccines worldwide have only been authorized for adults the head of the european medicines agency also said that could be approved for 12 to 15 year olds as early

as this month e.u. ministers are meeting in brussels as they try to finalize a travel certificate that would allow people to move freely around europe this summer and your residence would get the certificate if they've been vaccinated if they test negative for the virus or can prove they've recovered from it to roll about next month in time for your summer travel season for advance our house the so-called digital green certificate is of paramount importance this is not only important for tourism countries it's not just important to a few it is important for all of us because it is a very important symbol that we are able to act that we stand together and it is a clear signal for freedom of movement for mobility in the european union. if you go here says the majority of those killed during a massacre in the war hit a region last year were fight is not civilians as reported by human rights groups officials presented new findings on monday relating to

a mass killing in the city of oxen in late november it said neighboring eritrean forces killed 93 people and the majority of them were fined is with the trigger people's liberation front the conflict is driven tens of thousands of people across the border into sudan. now madagascar is in its worst drought in more than 40 years and it's pushed people to resort to extreme measures just to survive we're hearing this from the united nations which says more than a 1000000 people are facing acute hunger in the east african island nation aid agencies are reporting people this is quite something resorting to eating termites and clay to survive acute malnutrition in children under 5 is almost doubled just in the past 4 months which is half the usual harvest expected due to low rains the crisis probably will only get worse. the situation is absolutely horrific so what we are 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 that eating locusts they're eating anything that they can to survive this drought it's the 2nd severe drought 2 years in iraq and people are suffering tremendously 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 so we as the united nations together with the government launched the flash appeal to respond to this crisis in january 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 severe supplies within the island and so we need desperately more funding now in order to mobilize a far bigger response to this escalating crisis. georgia's opposition leader has been freed from prison after a court ordered his release on bail make that many as arrest for his role in anti-government protests and 2900 at a political crisis and so his release is being seen as a major step forward in an e.u. backed plan to end the stalemate for a state walker has our report from the prison in the capital tbilisi. really for the nicam area and his supporters after 3 months of incarceration the leader of

georgia's largest opposition party the united national movement walked free from pretrial detention in restudy prison and was engulfed by the media he said his release was a victory for democracy in this country. of the whole nation. realize that either we have all the gardening regime or we have the bama party. concerned that merely as a rest appeared politically motivated european diplomats played a role in the goetia to his freedom because merely his release has been made possible thanks to the european union which posted his bail money worth almost $12000.00 but it's only been the latest in a string of interventions by the european union to try to resolve georgia's longstanding political crisis really it was arrested in february in a dramatic raid on his party offices 6 wanted in connection with his role in

anti-government protests that turned violent 2 years ago his arrest exacerbated a political stalemate in georgia the opposition had been refusing to enter parliament claiming fraudulent elections last october. but weeks of talks mediated by the european council ended with a deal last month the government has promised electoral and judicial reforms in exchange for opposition politicians returning to parliament most opposition parties have signed the agreement but not the united national movement do you think it's time now for your party to get back into power the 1st time yes i think that we have to continue our education and the putting the mouth a little different from the family i mean in this strange project so i mean you know it's like the political project that could mean the end finally of george's

political deadlock the basic reality of it with everything that we had in there were really walking distance to overcome this crisis was walking distance you currently say distance feel free to me. melia must now decide whether it's time for his party to take its place again in georgian democracy robyn for a steel walker al-jazeera restaffing. life in the united states is beginning to return to normal as the effects of the pandemic gradually subside and fortune that means crimes are returning to its usual level as well and in fact getting worse a spate of mass shootings over the past few days is fueling fears of a so-called covert crime wave and sandy gallacher 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 a pent populace that is combining with guns mental health and everything there 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 should accept as 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 hope 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. the sport is coming up in this news hour could we finally have a time and place one of the boxing boxing's biggest ever fights and he will do

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rule. than he does here which is thank you so much kemal much as you know it sort of stepped up security ahead of the upcoming league and found protests against the club's owners feels that the sponsor of the last time fixture united by leicester at old trafford the lights wrong with the rearranged match against blue. reports that 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 club also more than half a 1000000000 dollars in debt. our security measures are. being looked at of course and i hope that we can heap 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 less the so we're going to do everything we can for our fans to celebrate what we're doing on the pitch the approach calls being discussed as a new location for this month's european champions league final talks are ongoing to move the game between chelsea and manchester city out of turkey or port side stadium as an option for the all english title decider with lisbon also a possibility also were in league action here on monday securing a 51 win over her and say. the match could still be played in england's wembley

stadium but totems organizers believe portugal is an easy country for sponsors and broadcasters to access the stumbles ataturk stadium no longer appears to be viable after the u.k. government's holding wish fans not to travel to turkey due to new coronavirus restrictions lowly the whole point of the year period finalist going away but now didn't come direct and the fact that it's not have looked until next week or state just. perspective we explore as a country so hard to look as eccentric setter to take $10000.00 official supports up there plus africa supporters it just could catastrophe a public health perspective it needs very maybe that's the u.k. both both english hades. well throughout the muslim holy month of ramadan many athletes have to balance fasting with the demands of the sports english premier league has been encouraging match officials to allow players to break the fast during games required rest as well as they for fun have given the chance to do just

that sharing this game against southampton we spoke to professor cringer mari from catalyst a spitz our sports hospital about the importance of high profile players talking about their approach to fasting. for fun on this day this 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 fluids and 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 banner 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 your garden so when you are it they can go stuff when your medical stuff. supporting the athletes and the players get 1st washoe your words because us could have a jesica effect on the players if you say oh you know in 2 weeks ramadan will come so what what would we do with the whole group if there were rupees fasting or what will we do with the korean men and eilean and paul who are fasting you know ready launching negative effects. yeah and see joshua's prices says the heavyweights unification fights against tyson fury will take place in saudi arabia this august joshua 3 versions of the world title beat a new release in saudi to regain its belts in 29 c. and beats in delhi b.c. champion fury though yet see confirm if he's actually agreed to the deal.

basketball star russell westbrook is set a new n.b.a. record the washington wizards players just scored his 182nd career triple double westbrook 28 points 13 rebounds and 20 want to sists not politically oscar robertson for it's a 7 year old for hostile wizards so coming up short in this game against the atlanta hawks losing by a single points 12521424 hours but yes aggressive. especially because you paved the way. guys i must. endure douche bags when we were he was able to do that and still be a. magistrate you or guys like myself guys as it is me to be to be able to pass them on i just want to thank you because now.

they see able to regain my probably will be doing some of the remainder you know. now kind of security has become the latest high profile japanese sports star to express doubts about the circular lympics going ahead the former u.s. open finalist is competing at the it's how do you know open he says the sheer scale of the lympics will make it hard to organize safely occurring the thoughts of. how care is still under a state of emergency rise in cases of carving and saying. this is not a lake you know 100 people a pretty storm and you know it's. 10000 people. in the be late playing a tournament. i don't think is the specialty what's happening right now in japan it's not doing good. ok. andy thank you for that. just coming up 1400 hours g.m.t.

more coming up from gaza and southern israel in a moment as the air strikes and rockets continue. to change because. people believe in a purpose that is bigger than their. run to make a political muscle you know your arms they represented they put themselves out to make the changes. we should have taken. we have a disc culture to slosh to create new york areas we have to change this culture one of the fortunate ones. but all the people and the majority of the legal research

talk about just good hardworking people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are huge refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to. southern england where 2 farmers turn safari park pioneers of the tractors in the driving seat and just absolutely astonishing the life support back even not very much and i mean. one by you here in companies revolutionized. an artificial intelligence here inside you have science you have the knowledge you draw is on al-jazeera cultivating food is the foundation of human civilization but food today is a global. but if the industry did not make money how many people would be unworthy and how it's cultivated

a contentious debate public interest in the public safety is definitely not taking precedent an in-depth examination into our great business and the conflicting interests that play industry doesn't want any regulation interest want to put their products on the market the price of progress on al jazeera. more israeli airstrikes hit gaza $27.00 palestinians including children have been killed minister benjamin netanyahu 1000 times. hamas and palestinian factions have been firing what they have called their biggest barrier of rockets as well 2 women were killed in southern israel.