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a mouse and palestinian on the group's far what they're calling the biggest power of rockets 2 women are killed in southern israel. the. tragedy of a school in russia several students and a teacher killed after a gunman opened fire in a city. at u.s. regulators approve the fire as a bio and tech coded 19 vaccine for use in children as young as 12. and it's for manchester united have stepped up security ahead of their upcoming game found protests against the club's owners forced to postpone months of their last home fixture. here. we begin this. with the most intense exchange of fire between israel and gaza in

years gaza's health ministry says that at least $27.00 palestinians have been killed including 9 children chills are being held for some of those victims including an 11 year old boy who was killed on monday a massive military wing and palestinian armed groups have been firing hundreds of rockets into southern israel israel says the 2 women were killed in the city of ashkelon prime minister benjamin netanyahu has vowed to step up israeli attacks in gaza and the whole be too much and. we are in the midst of a campaign since yesterday the i.d.f. has been striking hamas and islamic jihad in gaza we eliminated commanders we hit a lot of the quality targets the conclusion of the meeting is to increase even more the force of the strikes and also the right of the strikes hamas will now receive blows that it did not expect escalation comes after monday's violence in occupied east jerusalem when israeli forces stormed the al aqsa mosque compound hundreds of palestinians were injured some of them hit by rubber bullets in the way is we have

correspondents across israel in the occupied palestinian territory in a moment we'll hear from neda abraham who's in ramallah sorry force that is standing by for us in southern israel but 1st let's go straight to gaza al-jazeera software all that is for us a prius up to speed with the with what's happening right there in right now there in gaza. we were in the seas ourselves for the feast of god almost empty because people are staying calm of course because of the intensive fire of the sense of. being carried by the israelis at this time of the year especially end of ramadan. the markets and the streets are overcrowded because people are trying to buy the needs of a. gun under any. other hand the minister of health sees done 28 people

killed including 2 women 10 children on board 100 more than 120 injured in the ongoing israeli attacks. we could see the exchange of fire between israelis and the palestinian fighting groups the last one just was a few seconds ago before going on the net we could see that the strength of the fire from both sides was also increasing hamas. said that they will. read life they will intensify in the fire. they will also extend that angel of their fire and the last one was. fired was when they hit and got on with a big number of those which was the biggest of rockets that fired by the military wing of hamas brigades. suffered we can see just this week

we came to there was a cloud of smoke and in the sky behind you how frequently a missiles being fired out of gaza and how often is there an israeli response. i don't stop stop every every 5 minutes or every minute of thought than do you have a 1000000 you have. you have a look it's fired from gaza into israel there are no. limits for sedition when and how. the government is waiting to death that is an explosion right behind me. and in the north of gaza sent. out all over the gaza and made the same dog. fighting for them all the border areas from everywhere to decode most most of the.

middle and the longest one was. just today or a tough one for the moment many thanks indeed let's go to southern israel an area al-jazeera. is the harry where are you what's happening there. oh we're about 5 kilometers north of the border fence separating israeli territory from gaza or it's as close as we've been able to get because of an israeli police checkpoint that prevented us getting any further and throughout the afternoon there have been as software has been saying constant rocket fire coming over and also we're hearing israeli military jets going the other way. very frequent interceptions and again a soft what was saying there was this barrage that came from the gaza strip earlier in the day hamas saying it was their biggest ever nearly 140 rockets in 5 minutes that's what they are saying we haven't had that confirmed or denied by the israeli

military but whatever it was it was enough to get through the israeli air defenses the iron dome system ashkelon was very much the target of that it seemed and serious damage done to several buildings including a school in ashkelon and as you were saying earlier 2 women were killed the israeli government and military is saying that it will press ahead indeed benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister saying that it will increase the intensity and the rate of the attacks the defense minister benny gantz saying that for every day of attacks coming out of gaza they will set how mass back years so there appears to be no imminent prospect of a deescalation anytime soon there are reports coming out of gaza that the egyptian attempts to mediate so far have gone nowhere and at the moment both sides continue to wrap things up and are you say are about 5 kilometers away from the border with the gaza strip these projectiles that are coming out of gaza are they are they

being targeted anywhere in particular in israel or is it just indiscriminate fire that they could land anywhere. well i mean they are being targeted at israeli cities and as i say in that one very strong barrage it seemed very clear that they were trying to concentrate their fire on this one coastal town of ashdod and you know when it's been swamping so many rockets at once in that way it seemed that they have found a way to try to overcome the iron dome interceptor system how long they can maintain that sort of intensity of fire is of course another question so yes cities are being targeted but beyond that few believe there is any real. targeting system . and indeed i mean these are these are residential civilian cities that are being targeted so it's impossible to know where these things will land in the case of at

least one of the women killed it's being reported that she was no the woman who couldn't get to her bomb shelter which was some distance from her actual home and and that was the reason that when her home was struck she was inside it and she died i was there as her aforesaid reporting live from southern israel for the moment harry many thanks indeed let's go to ramallah then. abraham is there for a sunday what's happening there what's the palestinian leadership saying about all of this. new palestinian leadership has received an interesting message u.s. president joe biden has sent to the palestinian president discussing the latest escalation and the current situation reported by. now the agency didn't specify more about the contents of this letter but it comes at an interesting time it seems that the americans are having more involvement and it could show that there is

a warming up in relations between the 2 we know that we had 4 years of president trump where the past 10 years have stopped talking to the americans saying that they are. completely biased to israel allowing the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to keep and continue his illegal settlement building in the occupied west bank. them as well as declaring jerusalem as the capital of moving them to see from tel aviv to jerusalem it seems that we are looking at a new era palestinians where the new officials were a bit concerned that the domestic affairs in the united states would be taking the highest importance of the issue with the left of the side so that might be one of the positive let's say outcomes of this message all unknowns of palestinians in this 3 to have been taking up 2 points with the israeli army do not believe that the palestinian authority is doing much to counter the israeli measures they say

that the palestinian authority is taking a soft position of possibly and officials would say that they are trying with that diplomatic means including pushing to have harsher. is that now we've heard from the palestinian government spokesperson who says that condemnations are not enough they want more political and financial support from these arab states when it comes to supporting the palestinians but for palestinians on the street they would tell you that they don't care about the other thing and they have lost faith that the arabs would be supporting them and they feel that they've been left alone fighting israel. abraham reporting live from ramallah let's pick up on board were saying about u.s. involvement in all of this let's go live to our white house correspondent kelly how could the white house saying here bill. no confirmation of any letter that

has been sent by the president but that doesn't mean it's not true what we do know is that in fact there has been active engagement by this white house on many levels publicly privately phone calls briefings in order to try and stay actively engaged in the events in and around israel now what we do know is that the latest we are hearing here at the white house is that the white house press secretaries daily briefing has been delayed not once but twice and now we are really kind of unsure of what time it will officially begins that only that it is going to be pushed back somewhat potentially so that the white house can continue to monitor the events as they are unfolding what i can tell you is that this is a real conundrum for a u.s. president that wanted to stay focused on domestic issues but now has been because

of a historical involvement by the united states are often in terms of billions of dollars of aid to israel whether he likes it or not he is involved in this conflict and may be called on including here in washington many are calling on him to take a more active mediating role in order to try and bring about at least a temporary peace i once house correspondent kelly how could reporting live there from washington for the moment kimberly thanks. the arab league is holding an emergency meeting to discuss the escalating violence jordan's foreign minister told the virtual session that israel's aggression and its violation of international law will only fuel the conflicts and push it to explosion causes foreign minister up to chair the session says the israeli bombing of gaza is a condemned and unacceptable criminal attack on the arab league's secretary general a bull gates has asked the un security council to acts of what he called the blatant israeli violation of international resolutions let's bring an al-jazeera

small one bashara a senior political analyst who joins us now live via skype from here in doha ball and let's start with the arab league apart from the wringing of hands and the the issuing of condom nature e statements what really can the arab league do here. you know it could do. a lot. as it were if there is a will and there is a way and certainly the arab world you know is no a geek in industry in fact is there the sound of by some 20 plus and a country. and some of them have diplomatic relations some of them in recent months and they have leverage some of them have diplomatically bridge some of them up strategic you have rich some of them have had wanted nothing as you know through the united states or european union and some software so they definitely have to

mean to put pressure on israel to stop the escalation of violence against the palestinians the question is whether there is will whether there is unity against our bottom line statement with some teeth to it that remains to be seen moment stay with us for just a 2nd just want to be put in some some background here the escalation between israel and the palestinians comes at a time of political limbo in israel last week benjamin netanyahu lost his mandate after he missed a deadline to form a coalition the pressure the president has now chosen yallop pede netanyahu strongest rival to form a new government the country's gone through 4 inconclusive elections in 2 years so now 120 extent does this crisis play politically into the hands of benjamin netanyahu. what i would go

a bit further adrian i would say is there an invisible hand behind the generation 'd of this escalation not only whether it's results were playing into his hands because if you would ask the question why now. i would say that the meow of course that studies and why now there is escalation in jerusalem and even worse escalation with the palestinians in gaza needing to death destruction and man because clearly as we all know by now the largely discredited israeli prime minister admit that no is desperate because he could not form a government as you said the israelis have conducted free elections within 2 years and that the now is still unable to maintain power and if he doesn't meant power then is a good chance that he goes to jail right because again as most people know he's

under a he's on trial on corruption charges of fraud and other and other and other charges and clearly like his predecessor it would all of our evolution he might as well just go to prison if he doesn't meant they in power so in so many ways it he and the israeli prime minister was able to. organize unite and entered into alliance with the most logical fanatic israelis the so-called zionist party in israel. that is behind much of the instigation of violence and mayhem in jerusalem those very fanatic radicals that online with by mr netanyahu will continue to escalate the situation i doubt that the neo to pick up the pieces as have maoists in gaza has jumped on to put its own

reasons to escalate the situation on jerusalem and now what can we have is the possibility i'm not saying eventually that the but the possibility that prime minister netanyahu will win for that escalate this thing you know not even going green it beyond. the call of duty if you will in order to maintain power under some group recall an emergency a national unity government what anything of that nature if yallop aid is able to form a government ahead of the deadline despite what you what you say the one of the days being touted for prime minister is nothing bennett to what extent is he going to be even worse as far as the palestinians are concerned than benjamin netanyahu. that's a very good question i think he has a tendency to be worse he's not as good of us and a charismatic robot leader as not that you know he's not as experienced as now but if you logically is to that right of not the now but again and again i think what's

interesting about the dynamics that are seen over the last what you're for. is that that there's not going you know it's but it papering. the atmosphere if you will of the security emergency type atmosphere in israel whereby it's very difficult for you. to form a coalition government that has a number of parties on the left and need an event on an at a party to form a coalition why all of this is going on so i think that the nano is being again in a quite the manipulator drying do you lose the security question trying to use the escalation of the violence and demand in order to hold onto power and it's preventing the likes of you even quote forming a government i think it's going to be an uphill battle even more difficult today than it was yesterday for you to establish a government and if he does as you said. the candidate for prime minister mr bennett well there's not much matter. al-jazeera senior political analyst mel and

bashar. it was great to talk to you many thanks indeed. live pictures from gaza where the skyline for the moment appears fairly quiet the military wing of hamas al qassam brigades said that it fired its biggest of rockets towards the cities of ashkelon ashdod in southern israel. and israel has been responding with targeted attacks on gaza and it's been pretty constant for the last few hours but that's the situation out right on gaza any updates course we will of course bring them to you a service we know about them here on al-jazeera. announced the rest of the day's news at least 9 people most of them students of been killed

in a school shooting in the southwestern russian city of cazan local media is reporting that one suspect a 19 year old has been arrested while such attacks are rare in russia incidents happen on the rise of late andrew symonds reports. shock and disbelief outside a school inside a lone teenager had run no more shooting indiscriminately the reality had shattered a normal teaching day in the building known simply as school 175 unsurprisingly there was panic some of the students had run for cover teachers had slammed doors shot. at least 2 students had jumped out of windows others were able to wait until emergency teams rescued them the security forces heavily armed and in large numbers arrived quickly and arrested the suspected killer he's reported to be 19 years old and

a registered gun owner it's uncle. what motive he had for the attack some eyewitnesses say it wasn't only gunshots that they heard i think. it 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 it isn't clear whether the noise was action being taken by the security forces all the attacker but there was day breed both inside and outside the building scenes of school shootings may be almost commonplace in the united states in russia they're rare and shortly after the attack came a statement from the kremlin president vladimir putin had appointed the head of the national guard to immediately look at imposing new stricter controls over the types of weapons in use by civilians how and why such an attack happened in a school that didn't even have any security is being investigated and drew simmons

al-jazeera india has reported another drop in the official number of new corona virus infections have been 329000 new cases and more than 3000 $800.00 deaths in the last 24 hours compare that go to more than 400000 cases and over $4000.00 deaths on sunday the indian government is facing severe criticism of the how its handling of the how it's handled the pandemic and vaccine rollout elizabeth product reports now 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 1119

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 catalogue 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 cad enough for their supplies in france medical staff treating cope with 19 patients of all the job so demand better pay and

working conditions. the intensive care unit now says say the pandemic or 2nd the mental and physical health they're asking president to call to provide special training to stall and increase the number of beds in hospitals. u.s. regulators have approved pfizer biotechs corona virus vaccine for emergency use on children as young as 12 most cope with 19 vaccines worldwide have only been authorized for adults headed. the european medicines agency has said that the job could be approved for 12 to 15 year olds as early as this month dr peter dr batch is an infectious diseases and global health specialist in oxford in the u.k. he says the benefits of vaccinations in children far outweigh minus side affects. 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 that's needed children that should reduce the risk of onward transmission and even though children have a low risk of dying from cohabit 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 6 dreamily say so sure there are going to potentially be some side effects a human issus a meeting in brussels in an effort to finalize a travel certificate that would allow people to move freely around europe this summer residence with get a certificate if they've been vaccinated his test negative for the virus or comparable of they've recovered from it they hope to run it out next month in time for europe's summer travel season from guns house locking up a 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 future it is important for all of us because it has a very important symbol that we are able to act that we stand together and it is a clear signal for freedom of movement to form ability in the european union. we're

approaching the midway point in this news hour we'll get a weather update next then election season begins in iran with the registration of candidates for the next president who could shape the nation's future and the wider region. a resurgence of the refugee crisis in europe more than 2000 people alive from the italian island of lampedusa but in sports portugal in the running to host the all english champions league final and be here with us at the rest of the day's action overlays. 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 just pick up one or 2 showers into northern parts of

iran as we go through wednesday want to shout into northern areas of afghanistan but little hate getting into the forty's now for kuwait for baghdad and also here in doha could well touch a 42 celsius in doha as we go on through thursday warm enough around the events as well we'll see temperatures skating up into the mid twenty's for beirut and also for drew slim damascus is about 34 degrees lossie clear skies down across the arabian peninsula want to see 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 amman maybe into pakistan could see some very heavy rains this system gathers and moves further north was for the whole of africa for now is lossy find a dry want to showers down across the rift valley through lake victoria in fact to

the south of that is lossy fine settled dry and sunny. well the protest by a palestinian artist using a symbol of national identity to create postage and passport steps. allows for the sumburgh there is enough freedom to your life there are people that can fly anywhere sending a message of resistance about the arab israeli conflict a lot of positive way come to palestine. palestine sunbed a stamp of defiance on al-jazeera. the world of high frequency shared trading exposed by those engine that was basically trading a kind of last $30000000.00 it was a terrifying experience how artificial intelligence was raised the stakes and risks on the money markets those markets go faster and faster and we're opening up the

possibility for instability for no. money bonds coming soon on al-jazeera. hello again adrian for going to here in doha with the news hour from al-jazeera the headlines garces health but history says at least 28 palestinians have been killed by israeli airstrikes funerals are being held for some of those victims including an 11 year old boy who was killed on monday a mass us military wing of palestinian armed groups have been firing hundreds of rockets into southern israel israel says the 2 women were killed in the city of

ashkelon. at israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the frequency added. strikes in gaza would increase he spoke after holding meetings with the tree this. warning shots have been fired by u.s. ships off of what they say was a close encounter with on the radio and vessels at the stories of holes disguised. once turning in. the u.s. officials accuse the 13 iranian revolutionary guard boats of making unsafe maneuvers towards the navy vessels it's the 2nd such incident in less than a month comes as the world powers as war powers rather try to bring to washington back into compliance with a 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 blast bridge beach radio transmissions and other ways of communicating the coast guard cutter maui u.s. coast guard cutter maui fired approximately 30 forming 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. a former iranian defense minister has announced his candidacy candidacy for the forthcoming presidential election hossein degen is a member of the revolutionary guard at a served as a military advisor to supreme leader ayatollah ali how many current president hassan rouhani can't run again due to term limits no clear favorite to succeed him as emerged yet the poll will be held in june. well it's the 1st day all for just ration for presidential hopefuls but before they can run they must 1st

be approved by iran's guardian council the council oversees elections and consists of 12 members 6 islamic law experts are appointed by the supreme leader while 6 constitutional law experts abominated by the head of the judiciary and voted in by parliament the guardian council assesses presidential nominees based on qualifications listed in iran's constitution the kind that must be shia must be between the ages of 40 and 75 with no criminal record the final approved list will be announced by the guardian council on may 27th joining us now live via skype from tehran is. a senior research fellow for the center for middle east strategic studies good to have you with us president rouhani has criticized a sudden narrowing of the eligibility criteria for those hoping to succeed him and has insisted that the guardian council has no legal authority to impose new more

restrictive try to or is he right. well there are arguments in the country that the body that can legally put a man rules is the parliament not the guardian council and if they want to exit kid a yellow they have to go through the president you know to communicate that they eat their ministry and we have been hearing about this issue maybe in the previous round the elections in their country and most specifically the reformists they have been arguing that the guardian council needs to be somehow let's say giving more space to further candidates in order to be a bill to raam and they believe that this can increase the level of turn out that have been arguments for against this decision by by the guardian council in order to have some that say a framework for those who want to register as

a candidate that. the president seems to be arguing against the council so the council has great power on that they supervising the elections and they have said that those that say the. rules they have set they need to be observed i think. at the end of the day we have to wait and see that will happen but the guardian council has i mean great they say scope aren't very probing the candidates who want to. run for the election putting this age bahrain disallowing anyone under the age of 40 from running immediately blocks the minister of communications and information technology who happens to be $39.00. is is this the system that's imposed that basically meant to deny anyone that the supreme leader

dislikes or disagrees with running. well i heard that they might backtrack from this let's say age limitation and changing from 40 to 38 i was waiting for the come from a shim but this might happen but on the 2nd hand i can say that the communication minister who will let's say turned 40 next year is not much likely to win if he is ever again it proved by the let's say gaudy council there are other candidates a specific me at the moment the conservatives the head of the judiciary has a concept but the figure he is most likely to run for president according to the polls is higher in level of popularity comparing the moderates to farmers than other conservatives so even though i think if the communication minutes say he was a pro he couldn't i think he didn't have much chance to be in the

uniform of some moderates are what working again focus the other candidates can choose as their main candidate that one final question no woman has ever stood for president in the islamic republic and they barred from running. again this is an issue which has been discussed according i think to what has happened so far they have not had any men or female candidates a bit by the council at the previous towns and they have not been able to run however this is not that's a stump some of them in order to register as a candidate but the at the end of the day they have not been approached by the council all right good to talk about slightly that in tehran thank you for having. ethiopia says the majority of those killed in a massacre in the wall hit to drive region last year were fighters and not

civilians as reported by rights groups officials presented new findings on monday relating to a mass killing in the city of oxen in late november they said that neighboring eritrean forces killed 93 people the majority being fights is with the guy people's liberation front the conflict has driven tens of thousands of people across the border into sudan al-jazeera civil morgan reports now from got a reef in sudan where many of those refugees are now living. 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 a 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 the retraining troops went on door to door rampages killing people and treated differently based on the ethnicity of going 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 unlike 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. more than 2000 migrants have arrived on the italian lot of lampedusa on several overcrowded fishing boats that's the largest number of migrants landing the this year and it's putting pressure on european leaders to revise the immigration policies. in force. up until a few days ago this migrant shelter on lampedusa was empty now it's overcrowded with people sleeping outside its doors more than 2000 migrants have arrived on the italian island after and during one of the most dangerous journeys between the north african coast and europe that you. were hoping for calmer winds here on the island are kept in or dock a quarantine ship for about $800.00 migrants then they will be transferred they have already been tested recovered 19. more than 11000 migrants have landed on

lampedusa so far this year a significant jump from the same period in 2021 there were about 4000 and experts believe more are on the way the european union is bracing for a rise in my right numbers and it's calling on member states to help several boats coming but we're talking about manageable numbers to be rational and agreed mechanised this would be very manageable in our opinion. thousands of people are fleeing poverty and carthage in their own countries but they are not always welcomed here than a tale salvini leader of italy's right wing league party says italy can't cope with the influx selvi any who is facing trial in sicily for refusing to allow migrants to disembark in 2019 is demanding a meeting with prime minister mario draghi to discuss migration policies. italy is

a main entry point for europe bound migrants the sesame to the more than half a 1000000 people have a rives and 2015 the thousands have died on the way with the international organization for migrants estimating more than $600.00 in the mediterranean this year so far i've. had the chance to talk to some of those who have arrived in the last hour as they show signs of torture words fractious what they enjoy during the journey is terrible inhuman unacceptable this can't be the way for them to come. they hope for a better life in europe but for these migrants their journey appears to be far from over. al-jazeera. madagascar's worst droughts in more than 40 is this push people to resort to extreme measures in order to survive the u.n. says that more than a 1000000 facing acute hunger in the east african island nation aid agencies are reporting that people are eating termites and clay to survive acute malnutrition in

children under the age of 5 has almost doubled in the past 4 months with just half the usual harvest expected due to low rains the crisis could worsen gemma connell is the un humanitarian chief in east and southern africa she says they desperately need more funding. 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 ground 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 code 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. protesters simiane law a mocking $100.00 days since

a military coup ousted elected leader aung san suu kyi and resulted in a deadly crackdown. demonstrators marched through the streets of yangon and a protest against the february 1st coup more than 700 people have been killed in clashes between protesters and security forces others gathered not to protest but to queue outside banks panic that the banking system will collapse on the military rule as lead to long lines for withdrawing cash wise across the country. a court in thailand has granted bail to 2 high profile leaders of an anti government protest movement products and child born. have spent weeks in pretrial trial detention on charges of insulting the king that bail was granted on the condition that they stay in thailand and take part in activities that quote create armrest the 2 men have been denied bail several times on charges relating to protests calling for reform of the monarchy 2 chinese coders have pleaded guilty to stirring up trouble

and picking quarrels posting a website with government sense that articles on his forum allows users to discuss the banned content anonymously prosecutors say the website was responsible for insulting the government families of the 2 men believe that articles criticizing the official response to corona virus got them into trouble the case highlights a growing crackdown on online activity in china china's population is growing at its slowest pace since the fifty's thanks to falling birth rates at a rapidly aging population the result of a once in a decade since is also revealed the population grew by more than 5 percent to 1410000000 people but as katrina you reports from beijing experts predict that bumba will begin to decline within the next 5 years. one surely it is $44.00 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 efforts to boost the birth right and the one top post what's still the rising cost of living is one but not the only reason women are having fewer children their real problem is actually the long term career are there is. really so sure arrangement. for women with children. and how their careers. the government is under pressure to abandon child limits altogether 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 that census figures are inaccurate. and accept that policy changes are coming but hopes workers like her will end up better and not worse off katrin e.u. al-jazeera beijing. just ahead here all that is in sports could we finally have a time and place for what boxing's biggest ever fights andy here with us next.

hour again time for sport here's andy thank you so much as you know munched denies it of steps of security ahead of the upcoming league games protests against the club's owners feels that the spokesman's of the last time fixture we knighted by leicester all traffic lights from this shews day with the rearrangement she has little set for thursday the american glazer family has on that same since 2005 many supporters though unhappy with their recent push to join the ill fated european super league the club is also a move that hoff a $1000000000.00 in debt. our security measures are. being looked at of course and i hope that we can heat the protests if if there are protests keep them down to. loud voices nothing violent no we want to listen the players want to play the game we play liverpool we want to of course we want to

beat liverpool we wouldn't beat less the so we're going to do everything we can for our fans to celebrate what we're doing on the pitch now coach who is being discussed as a new location for this month's european champions league final talks on going to move the game between chelsea and manchester united out of turkey kauto stadium is an option for the all english title decider with lisbon also a possibility quarter an illegal action on monday securing a fiber win here over i won't say. much could still be played of england's wembley stadium but solomons organizers believe portugal is an easier country for sponsors and broadcasters to access at the moment he stumbles at a certain stadium no longer appears to be viable after the u.k. government told english friends 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 the whole is not have not until next week or

state just i would suggest a bigger perspective we explore as a country so hard to look as eccentric setter to take $10000.00 official support up there plus africa supporters it just could catastrophe a public health perspective it needs very that's the u.k. both both english hades. now 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 their fast during games are required assistance wesley farfan a given a chance to just touch on this game against south. we start saying professor clinch m.r.e. from catalyst a sports all sports hospital about the importance of players talking publicly about their approach to fasting wesley 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 better i'm not one of the players taking a break to replenish and it was a side of the pitch eating and drinking this took him 20 to 30 seconds not a big deal in this some muslim minority countries even the coaches and the doctors around the players don't know basic things about your garden so when you are a technical staff when you're a medical staff. supporting the athletes and the players you get 1st washoe your words because us could have a jessica effect on the players if you say oh you know in 2 weeks ramadan will come

so what what will we do with the whole group if there were peace fasting or what will we do with karim and i lee and and paul who are fasting you know already launching negative effects. now anthony joshua's promotes as the heavyweight unification fights against tyson fury will take place in saudi arabia this august joshua owns 3 versions of the world title beat and the reason saudis regain most belts in 29 same unbeaten w.b.c. champion fury though yet see confirm if he's actually agreed to that deal. aggressively. especially rosberg because he paved the way. for guns i must. endure douche bags and ray would learn where he was able to. do that and still be assured. magistad you. guys like musto

guys. yes it is me to be to be able to pass and i just want to thank you because. you see a producer during my probably will be doing some of the remainder you know and sacrifice and we'll see if you're going as well but it's was russell westbrook talking about his m.b.a. record we'll get some more clarity on that in the next news are they consecutively when he holds the found the drugs test is in baltimore ahead of the preakness stakes then spirits when early this month guy trying to get a record 7th win in kentucky buffet's is appealing against the driving charge is not yet clear if his horse will be allowed to run in saturday's race. ok that is i suppose looking for now everybody thinks indeed finally a houseboat that it indeed administered kashmir has found a solution for the sick and isolated residents of dol lake. pop lou has converted this boat into a water ambulance to help cover 19 patients who struggled to get to hospital the

makeshift emergency vessel includes its own oxygen supply india the business of kashmir is facing a surge of infections with over 200000 cases recorded so far that studies i'll be back with more of the day's news in just a few. frank assessments. taking place you don't like to be. informed opinions is the u.s. with. positioning in. the middle east wasn't just

a simple act of reorganizing ministry assets this is a message to the reader the united states is rethinking its military posture in-depth analysis of the day school ople headlines inside story on al-jazeera. from the al-jazeera london broadcast center to people in thoughtful conversation the story of the world is that the global size developed the global wealth and continues to do that with no host and no limitations. but we also the economic justice full. studio be unscripted. it's the u.k.'s biggest hospital with the eventual capacity for 4000 covert 19 patients built inside a london conference center it took just 9 days to construct with the help of engine is dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar sites on

the way the actual numbers could be much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone saw. more israeli airstrikes hit gaza $28.00 palestinians including children killed promised a veteran netanyahu. attacks. factions of. biggest rockets 2 women have been killed in southern israel.