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 coronavirus of p. is wider than anyone. more israeli airstrikes hit gaza $28.00 palestinians including children killed promise of edge when netanyahu fowler's attacks. a massive palestinian armed factions of 5 what they're calling the biggest rockets 2 women have been killed in southern israel.

hello again i'm adrian finighan of and doha this is al jazeera also coming up. several students of a teacher killed off for a couple of opens fire at a school and russia's cousin says he. u.s. regulators approved the fire as a biotech covert 19 vaccine for use in children as young as 12 and china's demographic crisis the latest census shows the slowest population growth in decades . it is 1600 hours g.m.t. 7 pm in gaza where there's been more israeli strikes these are live pictures from at least $28.00 palestinians have been killed including 9 children funerals are being held for some of those victims including 11 year old boy who died on monday.

2 rockets from a drone hit the top of my home 15 or 10 minutes later the barracks nearest were hit after they were done bombing the barracks the israeli army told me to go back home . they kill and there was no one to make the amount of for it the whole world is watching it doesn't matter if they kill a child or a woman there is no one to hold them accountable for it therefore it doesn't matter if they kill a child a mass and palestinian armed groups in gaza have been firing hundreds of rockets into southern israel 2 women died in the city of ashkelon israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the intensity and frequency of those attacks will increase and the whole be too much and. now 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 we have correspondents in israel and gaza harry forces standing by for us in southern israel but 1st let's go to gaza al-jazeera stuff what is there for us software before we get to anything else there's a big pool of black smoke in the sky behind you there what's happening. so this is actually the most serious the most serious and dangerous development in gaza just we learned that. the i.d.f. have. told the residents of one of the buildings the high buildings and gaza city asking them to leave because they are going to destroy the building. we we called the people some of the people living there to confirm to us that somehow the cvs these phone calls therefore the neighbors of this building. tens of millions who live either in the building or in the nearby evacuated their homes and staying at

home waiting outside their homes waiting to see what is going to happen we are not sure 100 percent of this going to happen but this is the latest development in case this happened this will lead of course for more of. the palestinian group who will . extend the range of the fire on even the strength of the fire as we saw earlier to hamas the militant wing of hamas. accused. or the idea of crossing that it lines when they hit the residential areas they they fire out of the big barges the water. and. the minister of health that so far $28.00 palestinians killed including 2 women and to children more than $150.00 products even injured the streets of gaza now are on totally empty which are supposed to be for the crowd of people buying the needs of

ramadan. that follows this time of the year but people are staying home because of their own going. all over the gaza strip and return also we can see every 'd from time to time the palestinian armed groups firing the rockets towards southern israel so far of them. most serious. of rockets that were fired from gaza was towards. good but in case the israelis destroyed. the building which is near the sea of gaza we are expecting more of. the will extend the range of the fire we lived on egypt has been exerting looks of a force of good running contacts are all the directions either with the with the factions or with the israelis and to reach a. calmness but so far egypt failed to reach any kind of government or

to put. their own go english types. suffered many thanks indeed i was there are suffering in gaza says he let's bring in our a force then standing by for us in southern israel harry where are you what's happening there. oh we're about 5 kilometers away from the border area that the fence that separates israeli territory from the gaza strip there of being images that we can actually see with the naked eye as well of smoke coming from an area national on reports of large petrel or petroleum tanks being set alight by rocket fire coming out of gaza the israeli military is saying that it has recently carried out a strike killing the head of hamas says anti-tank missile unit cornet missiles and claiming that as a major achievement for these israeli strikes as well as that it's saying that

$600.00 rockets have come out of gaza so far in the course of this escalation that is that the biggest. number that we've seen since the 2014 war and as well as the israeli government and military saying that it will continue to escalate its own operations you heard that from benjamin netanyahu him self the prime minister of israel saying that the intensity and the rate of the israeli airstrikes both will increase that follows what we were reporting earlier the fact that 2 israeli women have been killed in the town of ashkelon in the strikes from gaza earlier on on tuesday are a force that they're reporting live from southern israel from other areas many thanks indeed. the arab league has been 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

conflict and push it to explosion qatar's foreign minister who chaired the session says there's really a bombing of gaza is a condemned and unacceptable criminal attack and the arab league's secretary general gates has asked the u.n. security council to acts of what he calls the blatant israeli violation of international resolutions iran has also condemned israel and pledged support for palestinians in. their criminal practices in actions that design is entity rick live violation of international laws conventions and charters here it has to be said there is only one just solution to the palestinian issue which is what we expressed in the united nations and the organization of islamic cooperation and that is resorting to a popular referendum that determines its future and fate the islamic republic of

iran will always remain by the side of palestinians supportive of their cause their demands and their legitimate resistance let's bring in. our senior political analyst he joins us now live via skype from doha apart from a sudden out of hand wringing and the issuing of statements of condemnation what more can the arab league do about the situation. well there certainly can do a lot and the end of the day we have 20 plus countries with the considerable wealth and strategic leverage that are within the region and they all are surrounding israel or internationally through the likes of the united states and the european union the question whether there is rude because if there is a will there is a way forward for them to be able to use that leverage against us or some of them ab diplomatic relations with israel for some 4 decades now some of them for 4

months but clearly both sides can use their diplomatic leverage or they can use their strategic leverage. either way any such pressure on the net that now government today would embarrass israel and would put political and strategic pressure on the israeli government in order to restrain itself at least but they would need to unite i'm talking about the arab countries that's been a very hard challenge for them unfortunately but they must unite not only in terms of statements but in terms of functional strategy for the way forward in how exactly they would go about protecting jerusalem not only this week but this decade and more on the escalation between israel and the palestinians comes at a time of political limbo in israel last week prime minister netanyahu lost his

mandate after missing a deadline to form a coalition the president has not chosen paid that the strongest rival to form a new government in the country has gone through as we know for inconclusive elections in 2 years at what extent has this this crisis played into prime minister netanyahu is hands politically well there's no doubt that he is manipulating it as we speak in order to strengthen his chances to remain in power. i would go even further than that adrian to say that there's a good argument or arguments for how he has been behind the scene the force behind the scene that led to the ongoing escalation both in jerusalem and gaza because that's all i remember that for the last several months he worked village and clearly worked hard in order to organize unite and his extreme to quit government

with the even more extreme fanatic zionists the so-called jewish zionist party that ended up with succeeds in the parliament and geese cannot pick racist some israelis call them neofascist israelis are the one who are behind the ongoing escalation in east jerusalem they are the ones behind the ongoing escalation and predominantly precious inhabited genera so cleanly reminiscent that i have used it to try to build a coalition but also to try to build the kind of tension on the streets of jerusalem that as we see in but i was 24 hours have led the kind of escalation that we've seen the kind of violence with guys with better 30 asians and gun toter at the nation that to my mind numbing. at the no he would definitely be using this 1st to deny the competitors if you will

be took a sword to for a more centrist the right israeli government and to in order to try to trump up the sentiments would in the country in order to form what he would like to call a national emergency government either way the cynicism of this benjamin at the narrow but we've seen over the past 70 years doing anything and everything possible in order to remain in power is really becoming quite reckless and dangerous for peace in the region. al jazeera senior political analyst mona bashara reporting live now on many thanks indeed for the moment just want to show you the latest pictures from. gaza. we saw just a few moments ago we were looking at we can just see the edge of it there a big pool of smoke it looks like there's some sort of oil storage facility that is on fire the moment causing they go that's

a better view point the risk causing all of that smoke you can also see. hoses being directed at the flames this will be the trying to tackle that but. it's clear that. that is the result of an israeli aerial attack that will keep across what's happening in gaza and in central and southern israel any further details we'll bring them to you here on al-jazeera coming up after the weather forecast a slight dip in the number of reported coronavirus cases in india but there is still concern will be right back. it's time for the perfect jenny. sponsored point qatar airways hello we've seen some very heavy right into central parts of china recently the my

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and again this is al jazeera the main news this hour gaza's health ministry says that at least $28.00 palestinians have been killed by israeli air strikes funerals are being held for some of those victims including an 11 year old boy who was killed on monday a mass this military wing of palestinian groups have been firing hundreds of rockets into southern israel israel says the 2 women were killed in the city of ashkelon. at least 9 people most of them students have been killed in a school shooting in the southwestern russian city of cazan this is a memorial service that is happening right now outside the school local media is reporting that one suspects a 19 year old has been arrested al-jazeera is under seven's 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 a building known simply as school 175 and surprisingly 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 unclear 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 bang we jumped up and thought it was

a truck and we heard a lot and ran out. it is unclear 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 coronavirus and factions there were 329000 new cases of more than 3800 deaths in the past

24 hours but compare that to more than 400000 cases and over 4000 it's on sunday india's government is facing severe criticism over how it's handled the pandemic vaccine rollout elizabeth forum reports 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 in often some of the previously worst affected places like maharashtra also here in delhi to visibly ease the pressure on the health care system but where they are coming down and 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 to look at the after they oxygen supply ran out not to put these in the state of on the put there 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 high the mess they have a hospital booking and that's because hospitals and high the body even though it's a very developed very well off city are completely full and under strain 7 quoted 19 patients died in hyderabad after they offered 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 coming not an entrepreneur which we're relying on cad enough for their supplies. in france medical staff treating covert 19 patients have walked off the job to demand better pay and walk in good working conditions. in the intensive care unit to say the pandemic has taken a toll on their mental and physical health they're asking president demonio mccall

to provide special training to stall for the increase the number of beds at hospitals. hong kong has dropped plans to make foreign domestic workers have covert 19 vaccines after widespread backlash the monetary policy was criticized as discriminatory hong kong's leader kerry lamb has ordered a 2nd round of monitor tests for over 370000 people employed in the industry after a domestic worker tested positive last month the tests will begin on saturday. us regular basis of approved fi's a bio and text corona virus vaccine for use on children as young as 12 most covered by teen vaccines world wide have only been overused for adults the head of 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 drawback is an infectious disease and global health specialist in oxford in the u.k. he says the benefits of vaccinations in children far outweigh mine

a 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 that's needed 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 coded 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 us 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 leigh say so sure there are going to potentially be some side effects. well than 2000 migrants arrived on the italian out of the on several overcrowded fishing boats it's the largest number of migrants landing that this year and is putting pressure on european leaders to revise the immigration policies. as long as war. up until a few days ago this migrant shelter on lampedusa was empty now it's overcrowded with people sleeping outside stores more than 2000 migrants have arrived on the

italian island after enduring one of the most dangerous journeys between the north african coast and europe. 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 through the rational and agreed mechanism this would be very manageable in our opinion. thousands of people are fleeing poverty and comfort 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 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 rival since 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. we had the chance to talk to some of those who have arrived in the last hour as they show signs of torture wounds fracture is 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. protesters and man law marking $100.00 days since a military coup ousted the elected government and resulted in a deadly crackdown the. demonstrators marched through the streets of yangon to protest against the february 1st coup more than 700 people have been killed 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 products sure what arc and child born a kiwi born upon have spent weeks in pretrial detention on charges of insulting the king that bail was granted on the condition that they stay in thailand and don't participate in activities that quote create unrest china's population is growing at its slowest pace since the fifty's thanks to falling births a rapidly aging population the results of a once in

a decade census also revealed that the population grew by more than 5 percent to 1410000000 people but as katrina reports now from beijing experts predict that will begin to decline within the next 5 years. one 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 19 eighties $24000000.00 babies were born every year last year the figure was $12000000.00 even if you believe as the member 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 $35000000.00 workers over the next 5 years people are also living longer putting immense pressure on china's pension and health system almost 20 percent of the population are over the age of 60 china's aging price is laborous by this moment that's right families are having still with children despite government efforts to boost the birth right and the one top post what's still the rising cost of living

is one but not the only reason women are having fewer children there are. actually the long term career are there is. really social arrangements. for women with children. and how their careers. the government is under pressure to a bad in child limits all together some say it's too late populations in china's northeast are already shrinking beijing is focusing on what it says all positive changes increased and high levels of education it's dismissed claims it's because 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. terry lewis.