the industry did not make money how many people would be and how it's cultivated the contentious debate public interest in the public safety is definitely not taking precedent and 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 thousands of 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.

again on come on santa maria here in doha with that story and the rest of the world news from al-jazeera several students and a teacher killed after a gunman opened fire at a school in russia's cousin city. u.s. regulators approve the files of biotech cope with 19 vaccine for use in children as young as 12. and madagascar's at worst drought in more than 40 years needs a 1000000 people facing starvation. it's about 5 pm in gaza right now and there is more escalation in the israeli palestinian conflict look at the live pictures from gaza now we've been seeing this for the last 20 minutes or so that blacks might smoke rising as the result of an israeli air strike having got confirmation. exactly of what was hit

but we have seen such black smoke coming out from various targets across the strip in the last few hours so far at least $27.00 people have been killed including 9 children that number from a few hours ago may well have changed actually but prime minister the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said the intensity and the frequency of these attacks will increase his defense ministers already called up about 5000 reserve soldiers and approved more strikes. 2 rockets from a drone to the top of my home 15 or 10 minutes later the barracks near us will hit after they were done bombing the barracks the israeli army told me to go back home . they kill and there was no want to make the amount of for it the whole world is watching and it doesn't matter if they kill a child or a woman there is no want to hold them accountable for it therefore it doesn't matter if they kill a child. we've also seen. and palestinian armed groups

in gaza firing hundreds of rockets into southern israel. pictures here of people sheltering in fact 2 women were killed in the israeli city of ashkelon as well so the team covering this for us need to bring him in ramallah in the occupied west bank will be with you know moment later harry forsett 1st of all in southern israel near the gaza barrier fence what are you looking at there harry. just more noise in the skies above sounds like an aircraft going over but there have been a lot over the last hour or so a lot of rocket fire and a lot of intersections pretty close to this junction that we're standing on which is as close as the israeli police are allowing us to get to the gaza border but the real intensity of the attacks coming out of gaza towards israel has been targeted on the coastal city of ashkelon which is a little bit north of us and it is there where as you were reporting those 2 women

were killed in a strike on a house by a rocket that came out of gaza the reports are that it was an elderly woman and her helper more than 80 people injured inside that israeli city as well inside gaza as you are saying the death toll is now up to $27.00 including 9 children the israeli military has been talking about one of the strikes that it carried out earlier in the day that was on a building inside the center of gaza city in which it says and palestinian islamic jihad confirms 3 palestinian islamic jihad fighters were killed including one senior rocket firing commander and the barrier that came pretty soon after that was extremely intense hamas says that some $137.00 rockets were all fired within the space of about 5 minutes that is not confirmed by the israeli military but that's what is coming out of hamas and that is potentially why it was

able to overcome the iron dome defenses and the interceptor rockets and inflict such heavy damage in ashkelon harry thank you ther now just as we've been talking to harry and just before i go to neda just been watching the live shot on garzon a black smoke there again just watch as the camera goes around because it is it is spotting new air strikes as they happened this is going back to the the main big one which we saw earlier but earlier the camera was whipping around to other new strikes you. you're seeing them happen in real time there is an intensity to these strikes at the moment as you say getting into the early evening in gaza we're going to go to ramallah vo where our correspondent well actually no hold and look you can see the white smoke as well there those are the signs of. palestinian rockets heading out of gaza and kind of tells the story in one shot the rockets going out of the white trails the black smoke from the israeli airstrikes right now to

ramallah abraham tell us more and what you've been hearing from the palestinian factions. this is the latest we are getting from the palestinian official news agency there is a news line that says that the president of the house and president mahmoud abbas has received a letter from the u.s. president joe biden and the they don't specify they say they've talked about the latest political developments the current situation and the bilateral relations now all in all it's important to remember that relations between the palestinians and that americans are somehow going to how they were to the pretrial era the palestinians of the past in officials as well have said that trump administration was giving the israeli government one gift at another so they're hoping that this u.s. administration would be able to put its weights and try and pressure israel to calm down the situation now in regards to the gaza strip we've been speaking to

our colleagues in. gaza they were telling us that some of those rocket attacks sorry the air strikes are hitting populated areas one strike hit 400 meters away from al jazeera office in addition to more attacks that have been targeted targeting also a populated area so it is a tense situation over there really is thank you need abraham keeping us up to date with what's coming out of gaza and the palestinian officials. more of course as it happens but we will look at a developing story from russia as well over at least 9 people most of them students have been killed in a school shooting in the southwestern city of these 20 people wounded local media reporting one suspect a 19 year old's been arrested witnesses have described hearing explosions.

it 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. his andrew symonds. keeping an eye on this story. told that such attacks are actually rare in russia that these sorts of things are on the rise as well and this is maybe an example of that. quite patchy it would seem from all the reports we've heard this is a rarity this extent of a shooting mass shooting the motivation is unclear the 19 year old suspect who was held on the ground by the security forces after an operation and then brought through to the custody suites now he is 19 or suta we now here was using a pump action shotgun there are now 9 dead 7 of them

students and one teacher and on and cloying of the school is job not specified out there are also a number of injured 6 of them children seriously injured and an investigation is going on now that has been a whole swathe of panic in the area around the school it was the start of the working day when the shooter approached the school there's very little security if any at all in the surrounds of a school and he was able to walk in and start shooting indiscriminately children try from the ages of 7 upwards trying to take cover teachers were slamming doors shut locking them if they could 2 students jumped through windows at 4 into the ground and and reportedly dying on the floor and then there were they

arrival of the emergency services ladders were put up when those other children rescued but this is certainly a standout incident of the last in russia the last major shooting was a school in the annexed crimea and that was in 2018 so this is not like the united states where there are there are so many. mass shootings in schools and also the action after it with the kremlin taking action is unusual as well. and you're simmons bringing us that update on the school shooting in russia thank you andrew. in. india has reported on the drop in the official number of new corona virus infections 329000 new cases send more than 3800 deaths which

compares to more than 400000 cases and over 4000 deaths on sunday but the indian government is still facing severe criticism over how it is handling the pandemic and indeed the vaccine rollout elizabeth piron i'm with this update from new delhi . 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 and some of the previously worst affected places like maharashtra are 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 call the 19 patients died in the southern city off with the today oxygen supply ran out not to put these in the state of entrepreneurs and neighboring thailand ghana is stopping 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 carolina 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 time and not an entrepreneur which we're relying on care enough for their supplies. or some other kind of news fronts 1st of all the medical staff treating patients a blocked off the job to demand better pay and working conditions. the intensive care unit nurses say the pandemic has taken a toll on their mental and physical health they are asking president emanuel mccrum to provide special training for stalls and to increase the number of beds in

hospitals hong kong has dropped plans to make foreign domestic workers have the vaccines are widespread backlash the mandatory policy was criticised as discriminatory. and kongs leader kerry lamb now ordered a 2nd round of mandatory tests for over 370000 people employed in the industry after a domestic worker tested positive last month was tests begin on saturday. and u.s. regulators have approved the fines a biotech coronavirus vaccine for use on children as young as 12 must have a 1000 vaccines well why they have been authorized only for adults at the head of the european medicines agency has also said the job could be approved for 12 to 15 year olds there is only and this month but the pedro back is an infectious disease and global health specialist who we spoke to he says the benefits of vaccinations in children far outweigh the minus side effects 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 throughout 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 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 amongst particularly older children rising we've seen outbreaks in schools and team sports 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 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 16 lay say so sure there are going to potentially be some side effects. final note on covert 19 e.u. ministers are meeting in brussels as they try to finalize a travels that if get to allow people to move freely around europe this summer here residents would get the certificate if they have been vaccinated if they test negative for the virus or they can prove they have recovered from it having a rolled out next month in time for the european summer travel season from guns house clogging up the door to the so-called digital green certificate as 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. in the news ahead ethiopia contradicts witness testimony about a massacre in the world heritage city of axum. china's demographic crisis the latest census shows the slowest population growth in decades. however we're seeing some very heavy rain is the central parts of china recently the my you front you can see that line of cloud there just pushing over towards southern parts of japan bringing more heavy downpours and it's going to stay that way as we go on through the next couple of days so the chance to some heavy rain is to southern parts of q shoes southern areas of honshu the north of that it shouldn't be too bad actually largely dry tokyo at around 22 celsius want to see

showers around the korean peninsula there in the process of easing off 27 celsius in seoul as we go through thursday could touch 27 in beijing as well by that stage and notice how it does brighten up for japan southern parts of china also a little dry a little brighter by the chance of one or 2 showers but that area of cloud and rain will persist across central areas of the country some of those showers just draping their way down into northern parts of indochina some heavy showers too for a time into the philippines who feel a little drive into borneo but the showers never really too far away and that has been the case too just around smarter and the mill a potential for the showers that we have across southern parts of india towards strong lanka carol arkansas cosine some very heavy rain some heavy rain too into the northeast of india and more big downpours coming across much about the. killing the debate. and amplify your voice your only. in

a certain narrative the media will miss in true story no topic is off the table why in the world what was humanize an individual domestic terrorist this was an illegal occupation of a country what they're doing is they're removing all of just historical fiction is this strain where a global audience becomes a global community on al-jazeera. you found a 0 of the top stories this hour more israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip and now at least $27.00 palestinians killed including 9 children and israel's prime

minister benjamin netanyahu says the intensity and the frequency of these attacks on gaza will increase it's. how some palestinian groups in gaza have also been firing hundreds of rockets into southern israel 2 women were killed in the city of ashkelon. spoke to hassan is on not who is the palestinian ambassador to the united kingdom he says the government there in london has failed to condemn israel's actions inside about some mosque in occupied east jerusalem. our own brothers and sisters are up for a very real test this isn't the conflict in gaza this is a conflict at the heart of the arab world at the heart of civilization that is real so that it's not that the service really pull it in it's very clear there's a. plan it's very clear ethnic cleansing that the other way zation of the muslims and it's live on t.v. and this has been happening in our own tire but this time was very different this time. it was those unifying the palestinian people as you saw in the streets of

gaza on the streets of most of them before in the streets all palestinians in this inside 148 last night all of the palestinian people are going to the big fight and therefore really if the discourse those not near it and does not rise to the occasion i believe the region would have so much to lose however if the regime stands up no this is why when it is facing a great deal of international criticism an increasing international realisation of the bit injustices and they will question that has happened to sizing the you'll get government for rather quickly condemning. rockets but failing to condemn the brooklyn exemption of our people who are over the last few weeks and in the long term and also failing to condemn the israeli aggression. injuring hundreds of peaceful worshippers. now 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. sterling and. u.s. officials accuse the 13 iranian revolutionary guard boats of making unsafe maneuvers towards the navy ships this is the 2nd such incident in less than a month at the same time as world powers try to bring terror out of washington back into compliance with the 25th a nuclear deal this group of fast attack boats 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 blast bridges radio transmissions and other ways of communicating the coast guard cutter maui u.s. coast guard fired approximately 30 forming 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 contact him a former iranian defense minister has announced his candidacy for the presidential election are saying there is a member of the revolutionary guard has served as a military advisor to the supreme leader ayatollah ali how many current president hassan rouhani can run in this election because of term limits a poll that will be held in june. ethiopia says the majority of those killed during a massacre in the wall hit a region last year were find is not civilians as reported by rights groups officials presented new findings on monday related to a mass killing in the city of them in late november they say neighboring eritrean forces killed 93 people but the majority were fighters from the people's liberation front the conflict is driven tens of thousands of people across the border into

sudan morgan has more from got a reef in neighboring sudan. a report from the attorney general says that before there was fierce fighting which was started by the to great people's liberation front and that the root of 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 survivors and witnesses as well as used 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 contradictions there are few contradictions between the reports that was that was is issued by the attorney general which says that there was fear is fighting and the rights groups reports would say that they're retreating troops went on door to door rampages killing people and treated differently based on their

ethnicity hoping to gray and what the tour of but 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 report of the attorney general which says that they were mostly fighters loyal to the t.p.m. left but not in uniform now we also spoke to some refugees here eritrean refugees who if you can refugee story 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 has appointed by the prime minister has launched a campaign against a to great people's liberation front so they were not expecting there to any turmoil to side with the rights groups and say that they were korean soldiers who are fighting on the side of the few can government to be guilty of killing civilians. madagascar's worst drought in more than 40 years has pushed people to resort to some extreme measures just to survive the u.n.

says more than a 1000000 of facing acute hunger in the east african island nation. reporting people even eating termites and clay to survive. so not surprisingly acute malnutrition in children under 5 has almost doubled in the past 4 months some with just half the usual harvest expect to due to low runs the crisis would only get worse as gemma connell the u.n. humanitarian chief for east and southern africa talking about the deepening humanitarian crisis 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 work 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 asked suffering tremendously this same time of course the country is also grappling with cope at 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 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. protesters in me in mar are marking $100.00 days since the military coup which ousted elected leader and son suchi and has resulted in a deadly crackdown. inside is through the streets of yangon in a protest against the february 1st coup more than 700 people have been killed since them in clashes between protesters and security forces. a court in thailand has granted bail to 2 high profile leaders of an anti-government protest movement part it would rock and mourn forgive me on there has been spending weeks in pretrial detention on charges of insulting the king was granted on the condition they stay in thailand and don't participate in activities that create unrest. and now china where the population is growing at its slowest pace

since the 1950 s. thanks to forming births in a rapidly aging population the results of a once in a decade census also reveal the population grew more than 5 percent to 1410000000 people but as katrina you reports experts predict that number will actually start to decline just within the next 5 years. surely and 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 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 but it's slowing 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 $1.00 but not the only reason women are having fewer children there are. actually a long term career are there is. really social arrangements or governments. or women with children. and how their careers. the government is under pressure to a bad and 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's said to speak is are inaccurate. except 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.