played an important role in. early morning explosions as israeli warplanes keep pounding the gaza strip in the worst outbreak of fallen since 24 to. jordan this is al jazeera live from doha coming up. the moment a building housing media offices and homes is flattened in violence that's now

killed $67.00 palestinians including children. protests and curfews in israel's makes palestinian israeli towns and cities with one man likening it to a civil war. on the investigation into the donald trump filled capitol hill riots looks at the threat posed by far right groups. an aerial bombardment of gaza by israeli jets is going deep into the night these are live pictures of the skyline where it's just pos 3 am in the morning israeli airstrikes have demolished more high rise buildings and hundreds of palestinian rockets have been fired into israel is the worst outbreak of violence since 2014 with no resolution in sight. well just over an hour ago big explosions were heard in gaza just as our correspondent there was on air.

and interior security if there's no word yet on casualties. well earlier israeli jets 1st partially bombed a 14 story building housing media offices and homes it was then completely flattened after another hit half an hour later at least $67.00 palestinians have been killed in the gaza strip since monday including 16 children and 3 women more than $380.00 people have been injured while the armed wing of the palestinian group hamas launched another barrage of rockets at israel from gaza it said it was in response to the killing of several senior hamas commanders including its military chief israeli media say a 6 year old girl who was injured in a rocket strike on an apartment building in the city of steroids has now died and that would take the total israeli death toll to 6 where palestinian president

mahmoud abbas chaired an executive committee meeting of the p.l.o. and called for an end to israeli aggression. our people have spoken in the world and we. are without occupation aggression. without accepting lives and settlements. grisha days really gratian have exceeded all limits and has. done and violated all treaties. and. so let's bring in al-jazeera stuff what our kaluta joins us on the phone from gaza suffer so just bring us up to date with the latest situation on the ground where you are. yes. for now israeli airstrikes are concentrating on the north of the gaza strip we heard from.

israeli fighting jets on drones have been hitting civet all targets. security bases including go watched. one of the tax or the irish strikes hit a civilian house. they managed to or they found the body of a woman under the rubble of a house in a state of health ses that the number of. people increased up to 38. $68.00 including 7 women and 17 children. or dangerous people. is now 390 or more than 390 people and so from time to time we could hear also the start of the big barge the big 2nd but i

was more than one hour to go by utica some brigades the military wing of hamas the water. the water. could. tell of you now most of the rockets are fired towards israel and to show train general gets which means that these look at. strikes the more the israeli airstrikes are strong the more the fighting grooves extend the range of the iraqi it's now we can see. the light. in the sky of the north of the gaza strip because. again fighters try to preach defense is a key in which is. nora. gaza strip but. there's only said they managed to stop this operation so the that's why we can see now.

the lighting in the sky of the north of the gaza strip so again yes most of the strikes are concentrating in the north of gaza strip but this is the majority of the current strike but there are some others in the south of guy in place but mainly. from the top of building in the north of gaza and south what how are gaza's emergency services like the hospitals coping with the number of people who've been killed and injured. yes we we we met with dr ablow still mia the head of shifa hospital today at the biggest hospital in gaza he told us that the hospital had been receiving a big number of. injured people because of the israeli

airstrikes he said that health system in gaza is not a bill to. treat with such big number of injured people of well it is he told us that he. hospital most of the injured people arriving to the hospital. ordinary people see. many of them out of children and women he said after 15 years of israeli siege on gaza. 19 crises in one year also it. did more crisis to the health system system in got off so he left the hospital the health system in dogma is that sheaffer hospital the main one in god or other. minister of health hospitals will not be

able to deal with more waves of injured people or because well it is. expected according to him if the israelis continue. the waves of their skill ation or the way of all the strife. that i. have been carrying out some from time to time intensive strikes by fighting jets as we heard in previous live shots. some of the explosions. off strong to destroy the thought to get even a nearby apartment. before that the israelis have been hitting also 'd big it eventually building including. including the building. hundreds of people to leave the building. in the street. there updating us from

gaza somewhat thank you stay safe no tension has spilled onto the streets of israel's mixed palestinian israeli towns and neighborhoods. they have been riots in the city of baton that's near tel aviv shops owned by palestinian israelis have been targeted it's the worst mixed community violence that israel has seen in years. and several mosques were attacked and lived where the israeli government has declared a state of emergency about a 3rd of the population palestinian israelis a palestinian man was shot dead in a synagogue and dozens of vehicles were set on fire the mayor has likened it to a civil war when earlier our correspondent gary foresaid gave us this update from southern israel. people are talking about it as if they can't really put a finger on any time that they know of where the entire country seemed to erupt in this sort of really personal on the streets and community to community racial

violence and not just in in one place sparked by one thing but all across the country we've seen these similar images of jews and arabs facing off in the streets earlier there was in the city of bad what looked like an attempted public lynching of a man who was just thrown to the floor and beaten repeatedly in front of television cameras they thought he was an arab it turned out he was a jew and this is been happening up and down the country so the prime minister benjamin netanyahu had called for an iron fist to deal with this he's put out a recorded message in which he said that what is happening in the country is unbearable it's an icky indeed that is it with a lot of people abusing an icky because of the overwhelming of the police presence and the decision to bring in military forces instead and he's calling for unity and to succumb to the previous status quo together

but at the moment it's an extremely worrying development at the same time as israel is dealing as you can here with this continuing escalation. where u.n. secretary general antonio tatar says restarting the peace process is needed to bring an end to the violence. international law applies to everybody without exception all member states are supposed to abide by the resolutions namely the resolutions really council and obviously the unity of the city council is the extremely important instrument the recent incidents demonstrate how important it is to restart effectively the peace process because it's the only way i would true believer that we need to promote a 2 state solution living in peace and harmony between the 2 and with normalized relations with the region and the full participation of the countries of the region of the international community as a whole in creating the conditions for this peace process to move forward meanwhile the united nations security council has held another closed door meeting to discuss

the escalating violence questions to me has more now from the u.n. in new york. the security council has held 2 closed door meetings over the course of 48 hours and got 2 briefings from torah venice latin the u.n. special coordinator for the middle east peace process where he warned of a rapidly deteriorating situation but despite much concern and much engagement on the part of the security council members no statement has been issued we're told by diplomats that the united states objected to efforts to do so saying that they felt it would be quote counter productive as a result for members of the council estonia norway ireland and france issued their own statement calling for an end to the violence but also for adherence to international law we condemn the firing of rockets from gaza against civilian population that is grown which is totally unacceptable and must stop immediately

the large numbers of civilian casualties including children from israeli air strikes in gaza and of israeli. from rockets launched from from gaza are both warry and unacceptable. why don't we recognize israel's right to self-defense against such attacks we call for the israeli security forces exercise maximum restraint in order to protect civilians in line with international humanitarian law the un's middle east coordinator has publicly warned of the possibility of full scale war and called on all parties to the conflict to do their part to deescalate the situation the un says a unified statement from the security council would have been helpful in that regard but they're not giving up hope just yet what demonstrations in support of

palestinians in the occupied territories continue around the world these are the scenes in neighboring jordan where people rallied outside the israeli embassy in the capital. that demanding an end to jordan's peace treaty with israel. in greece police fought with pro palestinian protesters during a rally outside the israeli embassy in the capital athens hundreds of demonstrators chanted and burned an israeli flag before being dispersed by police with tear gas. time for a short break here now just when we come back we're not only international reaction to what's been happening joe biden has spoken about the violence we'll bring you those comments. and on a road to nowhere we'll tell you why drivers in the u.s. have been problems coming up against tons more that stay with us.

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sea right now and we are seeing these pulses of energy this could form into a tropical cyclone could head toward oman or pakistan so do check back with us over the next few days as we nail out where it's going to steer cross the middle east high temperatures for the gulf states up to a high of $42.00. support qatar airways. a unique form of protest by a palestinian artist using a symbol of national identity to create postage and passport stamps. but as for some burglaries are not free during your life there to be a good come fly anywhere sending a message of resistance about the arab israeli conflict out of all sort of come to palestine. palestine sunbed a stamp of defiance on al-jazeera.

welcome back i'm out of our top stories here at this hour an internal security building in gaza has been hit by an israeli air strike israeli air force continued to bomb the gaza strip for a 3rd day at least 67 palestinians have been killed including 16 children. and the armed wing of the palestinian group hamas has launched more rockets at israel it said it was in response to the killing of several hamas commanders israeli media say a 6 year old who was injured in a rocket strike in the city of steroids has now died and that would take the total israeli death toll to 6. attention a spill on to the streets of israel's mixed palestinian israeli towns and neighborhoods they have been riots the city of but the television shops owned by

palestinian israelis have been targeted. by u.s. president joe biden has spoken to israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu about the ongoing conflict he said he was optimistic the violence won't last much longer . my expectation hope is that. this will be. closing down sooner than later but israel has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets flying in to your territory but i had a conversation from one always with the. prime minister of israel and i think. my hope is that we'll see this coming to a conclusion sooner than later well let's bring in vali nasr he's a professor of middle east and international affairs and a former senior advisor to the state department and joins us via skype from washington d.c. valli good to have you with us so we finally heard from u.s. president joe biden he spoke pretty much to condemn hamas and support israel's on

a wavering right to defend itself as he calls it it does seem though that he that the u.s. administration was caught completely off guard by the speed of this conflict. he was caught off guard by even the 1st phase of the call which was the expulsion of palestinians from their homes in jerusalem which led to conflict in that city which led to an and israeli attack on the locks on mosques that then. led to this current current crisis and it was caught off guard and he was caught playing catch up every step of the way and currently i don't know what privately president biden might have said and heard from prime minister netanyahu and what gives them hope but publicly the u.s. is playing its old card it's supporting israel and it doesn't have seem to have any leverage that would actually dictate what israel will decide to do in gaza and in terms of the politics volleyed we know that democratic lawmakers a ging the biden administration to put pressure on israel to stop those forced

evictions from sake durand in occupied east jerusalem that you just mentioned is not like today in any political traction do you think. or what i think in time when what we are seeing is that there is now a progressive wing of the democratic party which has a very different view of social justice issues that are in the bears were saying like lives matter movement demands for social justice for the for better police behavior in the united states translating into sympathy for the palestinians but that as of yet is not reflected in american foreign policy i think the administration is more concerned with that we brought the center of gravity in the united states between republican democrats is which is strong support for israel and it's also not taking into consideration that the attack on a lack some mosque and the scenes that we're saying gaza is playing very badly in the add on board and the muslim world that's a whole and that would complicate things for the u.s.

and particularly it will even complicated for america's arab allies who just signed easily get straight to the abraham accords and are not caught in a situation where they have to base. answer for the fact that they have no leverage with. prime minister netanyahu despite that and that the palestinians were relaxed toward these kinds of circumstances despite that yeah and vali we're hearing also president biden wants to recalibrate the u.s. relationship with israel and unpick donald trump's legacy of this unwavering support for netanyahu what format is this recalibration likely to take do you think . i think it's very difficult for the by going at michoud to doing this because right now it's prime minister netanyahu isn't the drivers he decides to escalate in jerusalem he decides to respond to hamas attacks with overwhelming force and the u.s. is left to play catch up so it doesn't look like president biden is in

a position to actually cut influence israeli policy and therefore you know way he may claim to be moving back from the trump administration but the rules of the game still remain those that were written during the trump theory and just a final thought you value because you mention this issue about arab states normalizing ties with israel that's not likely to bring peace between the israelis and the palestinians any time soon so how critical is it that the biden administration get off its hands now and start to engage proactively and put pressure on all sides to deescalate. it's very imperative is not about the palestinians it's about iran it's about turkey what we're seeing in the region is that there are more where iran was the only problem in the region and out of that israelis could coalesce around that and see iranian agenda is breaking apart is that the right now on the mood on the street as your show showed for instance in demonstrations in jordan and is not about iran it's about israel and if this

continues the abraham accords are going to lose steam and we're going to be back to a time period where out of his ready tensions are going to escalate iranian and turkish influence and out on board is going to increase i'm going to have the kinds of conflicts that by going to administration was hoping to leave behind as it focuses on china and other sets of global issues so he has to take charge of deciding how this conflict and rather than president biden just sank he hopes that the israelis will actually end this sooner or later he actually has to house to play that role of the global leader that ends this conflict rather than just try to sort of persuade the protagonists to to guess going to vali nasr really good to get your thoughts thank you very much indeed suffer talking to voters there i thank you thank you. now one of the leaders of the republican party in the u.s.

has been ousted because of her refusal to say last year's presidential election that was rigged meanwhile donald trump's former defense secretary has been expanding to congress why more was not done to stop the capitol hill riot in general jabatan see reports. ever since the capitol hill riots of january several committee hearings have been analyzing what exactly happened and what happened to the security that had been assumed to be in place one of the many questions once it was clear the capitol was being stormed why did it take so long to call for the deployment of the national guard on wednesday don't trump defense secretary suggested he was worried that if troops were called in they would be confusion as to which side they were room congress or the rioters i want to remind you the american public during that time there was irresponsible commentary by the media about a possible military coup or their eyes or the president. a ration of martial law we're going to the capital miller contends that trumps election fraud claims contributed to the riots yet elsewhere on capitol hill the number 3 republican in

the house liz cheney was being kicked out of her leadership position by members of our party for a failure to back exactly that claim she vowed revenge i will do everything i can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the oval office the storming of the capitol has focused attention on the threat for years federal agencies have warned that it was right wing groups that posed the biggest domestic terror threat money and resources were funneled into surveilling and arresting racial minorities and those fighting for civil rights by did ministration is promising a recalibration this is still your assessment of what the previous extremists are the most lethal threat we face in the home today. mr chairman i do believe that the intelligence reflects the fact that indeed that is the case and you agree i do and that's the most recent assessment of the f.b.i.

civil rights groups welcome the change of focus but are concerned that it will be used to expand current laws that already allow for widespread surveillance of u.s. citizens and create new domestic terrorism doesn't nations and databases were worried that their reaction is going to entrenched frameworks that have been used against lakin around communities and there is not going to be a prioritized nation. of white nationalist violence in a way that we think is necessary for the trump supporters were planning something significant on capitol hill had been telegraphed for weeks if not months on social media there was no need for any extra domestic surveillance yet civil liberties groups fear that the riots that ensued will now be used as a pretext for even deeper supervision of the views of all u.s. citizens hansie al-jazeera capital. an oil pipeline that was forced off.

last week has now resumed operations but the instant lead to severe fewer shortages along the u.s. east coast forcing some states to declare an emergency bicycle he reports. for a chorus of apologies and anger on the east coast of the united states i've been waiting here for 45 minutes just to get us growing gas shortages after the pipeline that distributes almost half of the gas diesel and jet fuel to the east coast was shut down the f.b.i. says a group calling itself darkseid believed to be based in the former soviet union broke into the colonial pipeline computer network demanding ransom so the company shut the pipeline down with prices rising as a result 4 states have now declared a state of emergency in order to relax rules for transporting fuel on land and a government agency felt compelled to warn panic buyers not to put gas in

a plastic bag or to port near an open flame complete with a video demonstration still the incident is raising questions about how vulnerable u.s. companies are to cyber attacks more than 350000000 dollars in losses are attributable to ransomware just this year an over 300 percent increase. over the last year. we have the capability to address and the dedication to address border security cyber security threats. the security. of our homeland in all dimensions but a government audit in 2001000 found the agency that is supposed to evaluate the security of those systems is severely understaffed it had just one employee in 2014 and just 6 in till 2018 and the united states does not have any cyber security requirements to protect the 4300000 kilometers of oil natural gas. or hazardous

liquid pipelines only voluntary suggestions infrastructure communities do historically lag other industries in terms of their spending on cyber security that was clear in february when hackers broke into a city's water treatment system in florida and sent a burst of a trading chemical into the water supply but the hacker changed the sodium hydroxide from about 100 purchase from 1000000 211100 1000000 it was caught before it caused a risk but in washington d.c. right now another example of the threat hackers have started releasing the personal information of police officers on the web the city is negotiating a ransom afraid that confidential informants could be next the by demonstration is expected to soon release new cyber security guidelines but that could take a lot of time and the nation's vulnerability is right now unclear display patty calling al-jazeera washington uganda's president you are in

a 70 has been sworn in for his 6th term as president at the same time police surrounded the home of his main opposition rival bobby wine the ceremony follows the bloodiest pre-election crackdown in years and widespread allegations of fraud wine as cold the inauguration a shot on the u.n. says repression has continued since the election. part of a quick check of the top stories here on al-jazeera an internal security building in gaza is the latest to be hit by an israeli air strike the air force is bombing the gaza strip for a 3rd day. at least $67.00 palestinians have been killed including 16 children well the armed wing of the palestinian group hamas as well as more rockets on israel it says it's in response to the killing of several hamas commanders.