liverpool f.c. defined joint. part of the fun to make football series on al-jazeera. play an important role. ringback in israeli as strikes hit a residential block in the heart of gaza at least $32.00 palestinians have now been killed this includes 10 children. and throughout the day rockets have also been fired at israel from gaza with some reaching tel aviv at least 3 women have now been killed.

i'm maryam namazie in london the watching al-jazeera and so coming up on the program. a teenager opens fire at a school in the russian city of killing at least 9 people most of them students. and dozens of dead bodies float down the ganges river as india's coronavirus crisis rages on. a welcome to the program have been calls international calls for deescalation but both israel and palestinian armed groups of rum topped their attacks on each other the most intense exchange of fires since 2014. and israeli as brought down a residential tower block in gaza city the israeli army says it informed residents

of the 100 nadi tower to evacuate before it was targeted it said hamas has an office in the building and this was the view on the ground as the tower fell. the. rescue workers are searching for survivors by flashlight now that it's nighttime in gaza no word yet on casualties but across the strip gaza's health ministry saying at least 32 palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours this includes 10 children more than $220.00 people have suffered injuries al-jazeera is gallio how much spoke to us earlier from the site where that building collapsed in gaza. what. israel bombed this tower block and it was completely flattened off to being bombed it has been turned into a heap of rubble as you can see this doesn't mean that the israeli attack on gaza has stopped they are still continuing and of course civilians and families are the

ones that suffer in north gaza there has been a bombardment of the police headquarters and most of the injured people all of them were civilians they included a woman and children and they have been taken to the indonesian hospital in the north of the gaza strip. well gaza has been under fire from israeli as strikes for out the day israel says it sent jets to gaza are and tanks have also massed close to the fence dividing this trip from israel funerals of also been held for some of the victims this includes an 11 year old boy who was killed on monday. bought the. 2 rockets from a drone hit the top of my home 15 to 2 minutes later the barracks nearest were good after that were done bombing the barracks the israeli army told me to go back home . they kill and there was no want to make the amounts of for it the whole world is watching 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. well palestinian groups have been firing hundreds of rockets at israel hamas says it fired $130.00 towards tel aviv israel 2nd largest city and its economic capital. sort of cause a lot of. this is the moment one of those rockets hit a bus and hole on one of the city's southern suburbs one woman was killed and air raid sirens have been ringing out across the city with residents taking cover and then there were developments early warning the day when 2 women were killed in the israeli city of ashkelon just north of gaza so in a moment we'll cross to harry forsett who is monitoring developments in southern israel 1st let's beat isaf what hoot in gaza and now we were speaking software to about the residential tower which came down and now there's been

a great deal of focus on a number a lot which is just 20 meters from where you are what have you been seeing there. well it's still the same we are awaiting to see. and of this building because israel is there for 3 warning caracas at the top of this building called joe hart building where there are many international and local media groups including newspapers and t.v. . we could see. some journalists protesting just nearby the building because you know they have their offices inside this building still tens of. who were used to live in one of the building they found themselves in the hour at the end up in the streets waiting for a solution for the recent problem now we are the end of ramadan the holy month of

fasting and about to start the feast that follows ramadan so people the things of families in addition to other families they are they found themselves being up in the streets this will more crises to do with the ongoing crisis of the gazans including the collapse of adjudication of health and other humanitarian infrastructure in gaza we could hear from the top of our building from our office. explosions. in many places in gaza city the last one was a few minutes ago when the israeli air strikes hit a building that belongs to the interior ministry in gaza city the ministry of health say is that the number of casualties or the distal increased to $32.00 people including. 10 children and a woman and the number of injured people to more than 200.

palestinian factions or the palestinian armed groups they are still firing their rockets. we could hear from time to time. the short range rockets fired into towards southern israel and we could hear the explosions over the. defense system trying to intercept these rockets early on the military wing of hamas and islamic jihad also they have promised in retaliation to the destruction of the one of the building they promised to hit tel aviv at 9 o'clock local they fired the biggest. awards. which is the biggest attack by the public you know group since. the war or there's really war in gaza in 2014. the humanitarian crisis are increasing since also the israelis decided to shut down

the only commercial crossing between gaza and israel. which is the only the only way to supply gaza with essential elements including cooking gaza including food and other material the sea is also closed for a for a least 3 days for sure but fishermen are also bund from fishing. goggles off what can i ask you i know that you've been been obviously looking at the we speaking about these warning strikes that take place and. i suppose it enables people to to leave the area or to leave the building but if people residence inside that place where what do they do where do they go. that's the chorus is that that's the problem that we have talking about that then

the family is the only one choice either to mock the doors of other realty. to stay with or someone have some money he can rent some private apartment but mostly you know the poor the policy doesn't go that they suffer from a canonical crisis which which make it more difficult for them to find alternatives . it's really early to talk about. immediate solutions for these for the things of families who lost lost their homes in the last attack that . the building and 2014 the war 2014 to talk policy is used to rebuild their homes. or apartments that were destroyed by the israelis which means. those people will suffer a lot until they managed to find alternative or to get help to rebuild order in your new apartments all right thank you very much stuff what they're

reporting to us from the gaza strip thank you well earlier on we're hearing from these very promising benjamin netanyahu speaking alongside benny gantz and he was saying that that the militants in the gaza strip will pay a very heavy price this of course after we've seen an escalation in asked reich's and rocket fire hamas just hamas and the islamic jihad will pay a heavy price for their aggressiveness the blood is on their hands we're standing united against he said to me and we pray for the safety of those who got hurt and stand behind he's ready to fight its forces and security forces. well let's go live now to harry false it is in southern israel near gaza and how the indication from netanyahu was that we could see a protracted campaign he vowed to crack down on those inside gaza

militants he said what signs of you seen of this on the border. well i mean we've been hearing the israeli airstrikes going over i mean not of course in the same way that software has but we heard the planes and that the crunch is coming from gaza which is about 5 kilometers behind us we've also seen those very heavy rocket barrages coming out of gars or twice during the course of the day once heading towards ashkelon which is quite close to us and the 2nd more significant in many ways mass launch a rockets on central israel the area in and around tel aviv we've also seen movement of heavy military hardware here as well tanks and other tracked vehicles coming in on the back of lorries heading closer to the gaza area that

doesn't necessarily mean that there is an imminent ground invasion this is what usually does happen when there are escalations that there is a show of force that there are these preparations made usually the bias is towards continuing airstrikes and that is what has been the tactic so far and it is what is being promised as it was reporting that there are other major buildings within gaza that are being warned the risk of imminent destruction from israeli airstrikes you heard from the israeli prime minister you heard from the defense minister in that news conference as well and the israeli internal security chief the head of the shin bet agency so this is obviously a major development that there has been this decision to attack this large residential building inside gaza followed by this enormous barash. causing at least one fatality in tel aviv as well and so there are real prospects of further

escalation in the hours ahead. that's right seems there's a both sides are a lot in this escalatory cycle probably we're going to see a continuation of that in the coming hours and days harry and so tell us more about what's been happening in southern israel and last firing of $100.00 rockets into the area tell us more about the casualties and measures people are taking. well yes there have been 2 casualties or 2 fatalities at least in the town of ashkelon they were both females killed. in direct hits as again it seems that there was an overwhelming concentration that got through the defenses of the iron dome interception system that was a tactic used again in the attack on central israel or around tel of eve. people in israel generally live in houses either with strong rooms bomb shelters effectively

inside the structures themselves or within a pretty short distance away and so there are. you know off to reversed and off to experienced instances where people are required to seek shelter there is something else going on in israel as well though which i think is really important to talk about and that is the into communist violence that we're starting to see especially in mixed jewish arab towns now in the central town of lod just to the east of tel aviv on monday. there were disturbances protests a jewish man shot dead palestinian israeli man during the course of that there was a huge funeral for that man in that town earlier on tuesday and in the last couple of hours things have really erupted there there have been stones thrown from palestinians at a jewish car drivers the same thing happening in reverse and cars set alight

reports of a synagogue attacked and certain light too as well the mayor of lloyd appealing on live television for a state of emergency to be called by the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and for the troops to be sent in because he said that the police there had lost control of the city. you know has responded to that by sending in border patrol forces that are usually stationed in the occupied west bank platoons of those going in to lloyd and a state of emergency being called there so the the the sort of sparks that of violence that have been flickering for this whole month of ramadan as another tank is taken past opposition here towards. towards closer towards the gaza area those sparks have really literally caught flame and that fire is spreading not just here in gaza but within israel to these are these are very dangerous days thank you very much

for set in southern israel thank you harry well we're hearing from. earlier on a senior leader of the mass vowing that his group will continue to defend jerusalem and the al aqsa mosque. a lot problems in our confrontation with the enemy we achieved victory in the battle of jerusalem and the defense of jerusalem when our people said no to the attack on all aqsa mosque by the settlers we have forced the occupation forces to push their extremists away from alex a mosque well has been some international reaction coming in as well the united nations security council saying that it will meet privately on wednesday to discuss what's happening and it tore wednesday in the united nations special coordinator for the middle east peace process but into pale saying stop the fire immediately we are escalating towards a full scale war he does on all sides have to take the responsibility of deescalation the cost of war in gaza is devastating and is being paid by ordinary

people the u.n. is working with all sides to restore calm. and then the u.s. state department has condemned the exchange of fire as secretary of state anthony blinken has spoken with israel's foreign minister to to reiterate a message of deescalation israel has the right to defend itself and to respond to rocket attacks the palestinian people also have the right to safety and security just as israelis do we are also deeply concerned about the reported loss of life in gaza and israel including the deaths of children as well as many innocent civilians injured similarly in jerusalem where they reportedly have been hundreds of palestinian palestinians injured as well as israeli police we call on all sides to exercise restraint and to exercise calm mike hanna joins us live now from washington and mike i suppose this is the 1st significant crisis between israel and the palestinians that biden administration is now having to deal with what the

white house been saying. well it comes at a very difficult time for the biden administration because since president biden took office he's been attempting to recalibrate the relationship between the u.s. and israel moving it away from that extremely close relationship that was forged by the trump administration which was reached essentially by excluding the palestinian from any form of negotiation process the palestinians themselves walking away after then president trump moved the u.s. embassy to jerusalem so the biden administration in recent months we understand his people have been in touch with israeli officials pointing out for example that hope that the actions that the destruction of homes is not conducive to creating a climate in which negotiations towards a 2 state solution can begin to take place but at the same time as you heard there from state department there's

a careful balancing act at the moment on the one hand the white house has been condemning the hamas for its bombing attacks its missile attacks on israel on the other hand it is saying that the palestinians also have a right to peace and security so it's a very careful balancing act on the part of the biden administration and as you correctly state it's a 1st time they're having to deal with this type of crisis what we do know is that president biden is receiving continual briefings from his national security staff as this crisis continues and mike as you say the former administration really cultivated a very close relationship closer than the past with the israelis now what has donald trump been saying. well as we know donald trump is banned from social media but he has issued a statement in which he says that biden's lack of support for israel as he puts it

is encouraging israel's enemies to attack it this is a very strong statement but also what best one gook at here is that donald trump's main claim to fame as he put it to him self in his presidency was that he was what he calls the president of peace now this is referring to the putative peace deal that was signed between israel and south for its neighbors. and bahrain the abraham accords it was called a but this current crisis at the moment is placing even this putative peace agreement and immense pressure very difficult for countries like bahrain and other diaby to continue any form of relationship with israel while this type of crisis is underway and while you've had a welter of criticism from the organization of african unity for example from the

e.u. and of course from arab nations as well so that particular piece a call that president proud of clearly going to be and immense pressure and may not exist after this current crisis concludes thank you very much from washington mike hanna. in terms of reaction you seem to these developments elsewhere hundreds of demonstrators have been marching through the streets of cape town to show their solidarity with the palestinians the march was led by members of the palestine solidarity campaign which is the south african parliament to adopt to boycott and sanctions been against israel south africa's ruling a.n.c. and the opposition a.f.f. party of condemned israeli attacks on the palestinians and then the palestine solidarity campaign has also been organizing demonstrations here in london support has rallied outside the british prime minister's official residence in whitehall neve barker is that. it is far far too simple to see what's going on in the middle

east as being concentrated simply in israel and palestine because here in london where around 2000 people also gathered on one hall there was a sense all burning injustice at the eviction of palestinian families in east jerusalem and a huge amount of concern about the upsurge in violence in the region as well the british government hasn't remained silent the u.k. together and france germany spain and italy have israel to reverse settlement building saying that it threatens the setting up of a viable palestinian state don't rob britain's foreign secretary though has condemned the farming of rockets from gaza towards through flamin all the targets in israel and all of these european nations both sides of the divide to come back to the negotiating table people who have gathered here in london say this isn't just a case of clashes this isn't just about one group against another this is about in

their words the occupier versus al capone i thought what we have here is israel as the aggressor i'm the oppressor. 2 illegally evicting 1st of all palestinians from their homes it's your job then you have the the the abhorrence the type of peaceful worshippers in the locks on mosques in one of the holiest months of the calendar from the seams on one of the holiest nights of the town in the foremost and not only did they attack peaceful worshipers but they desecrate the sites sanctity of one of the most holiest sites in islam. we see on this that the turbulence we're seeing 2 in the middle east has its roots or in the lines drawn about spying the way its allies decades ago and many of these protests is now feel that the united kingdom has a pivotal role to play in bringing peace to that part of the world and making sure that. both this right is overall a serious of a prayer right for

a priest why we. want to move on to some other stories now on people in the russian city of have been paying tribute to 9 people most of them children who were killed in a school shooting residents have laid flowers and left candles to remember them one suspect a 19 year old has been arrested and police have opened a criminal investigation he said of attacks are rare in russia as anderson stan explains to. us the 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 $75.00 unsurprisingly there was panic some of the students had brought in for cover the teachers had slammed doors shot. at least

2 students had jumped out of windows others were able to wait until emergency teams rescued. 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 isn't clear whether the noise was action being taken by the security forces or the attacker but there was daybreak both inside and outside the building scenes of school shootings maybe 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 the school that didn't even have any security is being investigated and drew simmons. the bodies of 6 suspected coronavirus victims have been washing up along india's ganges river sparking fears they could spread the virus further. pradesh's reported about 100 bodies along the river sunlight on the banks for up to 2 days after people alerted the authorities in neighboring bihar stay another 2 dozen bodies washed ashore some medical experts are why the virus can be spread through contaminated water. can both these situations are very dangerous we have heard that corona virus has spread from one floor to another through the system in multi-story buildings and this is documented although there

is no global research into how the virus may spread through did bodies in the water i strongly believe that the water is now polluted it is not with drinking anymore and when these bodies rot it will be even more dangerous. the administration should take cognisance of these bodies as soon as possible and promote the bodies were over they have filmed immediately. now some news from china the population there is growing at its slowest pace since the 1950 s. with falling births in a rapidly aging population the results of a once in a decade census reveal that the population grew by more than 5 percent to 1400000000 people but as katrina a year reports from beijing experts are predicting that number will start to decline in 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 19 eighties 24000000 babies were born every year last year the figure was 12000000 even if you believe is 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 laborous by the slowing that's right families i haven't seen with children despite government gets to boost the birthright but ending the one top post what's still the rising cost of living is one but not the only reason women are having fewer children there are. actually the long term career are there is. really so sure arrangement or governments. or women with children. and how their career should be rebooted the government is under pressure to a bad child limits together some say it's too late populations in china's northeast are already shrinking 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 one should accept that policy changes are coming but hopes workers like her will end up better and not worse off katrine e.u. al-jazeera beijing. a look at our main story this hour have been international calls for deescalation has been a 2nd day of israeli airstrikes on gaza and rocket attacks on israel by armed palestinian groups it's the most intense exchange of fire since 2014. and israeli as strike brought down a residential tower block in gaza city earlier the israeli army said it.