just 0. and die fast range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of the network's janet's. explosions as israeli warplanes attack guards or in the worst violence since 2014. you're watching the news hour live from doha also coming up. a building housing media offices and homes is flattened in violence that's now killed $69.00 palestinians including children. also fighting the ropes in israel's

next palestinian israeli towns and cities with one lightning into a civil war. and other news not backing down anti-government protesters in colombia continue their campaign against police brutality. welcome to the program an aerial bombardment of garza by israeli jets has continued overnight now these are live pictures of the skyline where it's just past 6 o'clock 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 eliot explosions were also heard in gaza just as our correspondent was on.

an interior security building with no word yet on any casualties suffered 2 times this update on the situation in gaza. in the fighting just. targeted the same place for the perfect time that we have here during one of the live shots so this. started get our code into our understanding of what we learned belongs to the national security shake the buildings here not near our office our in addition to our office of course and. of course those who were trying to leave most of gaza now it's a week because of this huge explosions really actively in the largest the last 1015 minutes just the ability of lee but from time to time we could hear some explosions across the border and now we could see maybe under cover of the lighting

long turned to have been. fired by the israeli army along the border the. could be from spic tinged maybe. something near the border the. lighting has never. stopped for the last 5 or 6 hours we could see them clearly. $69.00 palestinians including 17 children have been killed in israel 7 people were killed in attacks launched from the gaza strip there's also been more fighting between palestinian israelis and jewish residents in several cities across the country how the full sort of pull from southern israel. in 3 separate strikes israel again showed what it can do at will to gaza's skyline the tower contains shops offices and homes and all its top floor the hamas

affiliated to t.v. . occupants had been told by israel to leave. seconds after the attack began the building silhouette replaced by smoke and dust. of the was across gaza a cloud of grief is spreading. taking hold of families just infecting a new generation. as the deaths mount so does the feeling that this is just the beginning they need to leave my daughter in law and my grandson died and my granddaughter is missing without any trace the jews target women and children my son's wife was 5 months pregnant this is terrorism. less than an hour after the

building was brought down another rocket barrage began. again israel's iron dome interceptors trying to deal with a huge number of targets. hamas said it fired $130.00 rockets several got through to the town of steroids a 6 year old boy killed in one direct hit on a building. others exploding in the coastal town of ashkelon. earlier israel killed 6 senior hamas commanders close to the head of the military wing and involved in intelligence and rocket production a multi at the mall. a short while ago we eliminated top commanders of the hamas general staff including the gaza city brigade commander and other commanders and this is just the beginning it will hit them like they never dreamed possible. but there is another growing crisis for benjamin netanyahu and his government away from this excel orating military escalation in and around gaza across israel from town

to town there is an eruption of communal violence between jews and arabs despite their own pledge to bring it to an end with an iron fist. on tuesday night jewish cars at a synagogue were torched on wednesday it was a mosque that burned. elsewhere arab businesses were ransacked jewish crowd chanted death to arabs. communities used to living close to each other doing business with each other riven by violence and hatred israel facing a social and security crisis on its streets as it wages an escalating conflict with gaza's fighting factions are a force that al-jazeera southern israel. korea is the director of global engagement on the american university of beirut joins me now via skype from boston in the u.s. ms currie always good to have you on the program we see this huge that surge rarely of a communal violence which carry mentioned in his report between jewish and arab communities

across parts of israel that we would never have heard of before how much of a game changer is this now. i don't know if enter communal violence is the best way to describe it is predominately israeli's private sector gangs are often protected by the police attacking the palestinians and then after a while the palestinians start fighting back so the pattern is that the israeli government and. the gangs of 4 young men have been working for years and years to try to judea as most of palestine as much as they can they can judaizing at all because there's several $1000000.00 about $5000000.00 palestinians living west of the jordan river and the occupied territories and israel proper but the plan under the israelis their actions are always us have been to slowly push out palestinians . like sharecropper are using. legal means like a military actions that destroyed homes and people try to get people to flee either

out of fear or simply out of not being able to live normally an m.r.i. and then the 3rd one a student side local fear and violence among small groups of people maybe one family maybe a neighborhood and get the palestinians to go out the striking thing about this is that this has been the pattern since around 1920 this is not just last week or so and 67 morrison's 48 this is how the palestinian israeli the zionist arab east conflict started way back in the 1920 s. small groups of jews organized and planned after the balfour declaration and 1917 plan to create a jewish homeland on a jewish state and to do that they had to push out as many palestinians as possible this has been documented by israeli scholars international agencies lot of people the so this is the context in which we're seeing this violence now the palestinians

fight back in any way they can but their way outnumbered and outgunned. by the israeli government and the private firms so this is what you end up with so it's around me in the here and now then how do you think the israeli authorities are going to deal with these clashes between arabs and israeli jews. i say west of the jordan river in places. like haifa started a lot these clashes these clashes very much serve the interests of the ruling right wing majority including that narrow right now and in fact many of these groups that carry out these factions belong to parties that are among the right wing a militant coalitions coalition group so the israeli government will make noises about protecting vala citizens but they will just let the violence continue and the

government itself conducts much of the violence either through military actions or through the legal system so i don't think you're going to see an a short term serious action by the israeli government to turin reign in these gangs who go around beating up arabs or killing them or breaking into their houses they want to continue this has been the tool of choice violence terrorizing frightening tormenting families and neighborhoods to gradually increase the jewish population and decrease the palestinian population and they will stop it for a week or 2 maybe with a talk on the white house phone call and then the little resume when it resumes by legal means and military means and political means and private violent men so this is the real problem that the palestinians face that have this powerful israeli side supported at the beginning of this process

a century ago by the united kingdom and france a little bit now supported by the united states so there's no way that the palestinians can fight back against this and then a serious where so their solution is a political resolution that's the only solution really that we should aim for which they what does happen it's always good to get your insight rami khouri thanks so much for joining us from boston thank you. you know but no press hard being held. in is true after days of violent confrontations between israeli forces and palestinian we can take you there of course to live pictures of the many thousands that are gathered there for the end of ramadan of course the beginning of the muslim celebration of that hundreds of worshippers of course arrived to attend those early morning prayers that islam's 3rd holiest sites religious leaders are calling for calm on the day that marks the end of ramadan as i just mentioned for many millions of muslims around the world what plans to fix some palestinian families from shaikh sherif in east jerusalem triggered the ongoing unrest that

we've seen for the past few days the u.s. president joe biden has spoken to israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu about the ongoing conflict he said he was optimistic that 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 lined indeed your territory but i had a conversation for a while with with the prime minister of israel and i think could do it. my hope is that we'll see this coming to a conclusion shooting later. michaela has more from washington d.c. . well president biden saying that his administration is constantly engaging with various parties from various sides in this conflict saying as well but it's not

only that his officers are talking to israelis and palestinians they are also talking to other countries in the region such as cutter and egypt which have particular influence in an area in gaza in particular but president biden clearly walking a tightrope war here he has said he wants to recalibrate the u.s. relationship with israel given the exceedingly close relationship that evolved under the previous administration as yet though he has not done so his administration continuing to look at ways in which it is going to reestablish the relationship and those changes that were made under the trump administration still in place for example the u.s. embassy remains in jerusalem having been moved from tel aviv so a president biden clearly saying he wants to recalibrate the relationship at the same time using the phrase used by u.s.

politicians for decades and that is that israel has a right to defend himself that is a statement being made by politicians in congress on both sides of the aisle. well still ahead here on al-jazeera no response for india as the number of cases in deaths from coronavirus goes up again. on the road to nowhere we'll tell you why drivers in the us having problems filling up the fuel telling us. how low this storm threat for the u.s. once again around the gulf states but it's pushed further east really impacting georgia into florida for your thursday and tapping now into some land take moisture just off the coast of the carolinas as well make it clipped with some of this wet

weather when it take you to the southwest right now where more than a dozen wildfires are burning across arizona this is in globe arizona just a few days ago just incredible dry tinder dry conditions and the state of california has expanded its emergency drought now to cover 30 percent of the population lots of sunshine continues no rain to be had and an area of concern for this wildfire season is northern california where already this season has gotten off to an early start for the fires that were seen in arizona ok across mexico some downpours in and around mexico city the risk of flooding is here just because so much of the country has been dealing with drought conditions that ground is solid and just cannot absorb all of that rain off to south america and for the northern portion of the continent our usual cluster of storms that we're dealing with popping up in bogota thursday.

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looking back and watching all deservedly so ho robin a reminder of our top stories an internal security building in gaza has been hit by an israeli air strike the israeli air force continue to bomb the strip for a 3rd day at least $69.00 palestinians have been killed including 17 children. the armed wing of the palestinian group hamas has launched more rockets at israel it was in response to the killing of several hamas commanders 7 people who died in israel as a result of the attacks from gaza and it was a tense situation on the streets of israel's mix palestinian israeli towns and neighborhoods riots broke out of the city of but there tel of the shops owned by palestinian israelis have been targeted. i thought one of the leaders of the republican party in the us has been ousted because of her refusal to say last presidential election was rigged meanwhile donald trump's former defense secretary has been explaining to coalesce why more wasn't done to stop the top of the hill riot in january she had returned to the reports. ever since the

capitol hill run out of early january several people actually hearing said i'm lies 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 schooled and why did it take so long to comb through the deployment of the national guns on wednesday donald trump's defense secretary suggested he was worried that if troops were called then there'd be confusion as to which side they were in congress or the rattus i want to remind you and the american public that during that time the wrist irresponsible commentary by the media about a possible military coup or their eyes or the president or advocating the declaration of martial law were going to the capitol and then the house contents of the trump election fraud claims did contribute to the rent yet elsewhere on capitol hill the number 3 republican in the house liz cheney was being kicked out of a leadership position by members of the party for her 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 capital has focused attention on the threat of white supremacy in the u.s. for years federal agencies and warned that it was right wing groups that pose the biggest domestic terror threat yet money and results is a fund and step into surveilling and arresting racial minorities and those fighting for civil liberties the bite the ministration has promised a recalibration as a story or assessment of what its purpose extremists are the most lethal threat. with jason harmon today mr chairman i do believe that the intelligence reflects the fact that indeed that is the case 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 harrington's that already allows a widespread surveillance of u.s. citizens and to create new domestic terrorism designations 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 prioritization. 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 capitol hill

a report on league lobel covert 19 response describes february 2020 as a last month those countries took a wait and see approach to the spread of the virus independent world health organization analyst stan the failure to react to early warnings allowed the virus to spread into a catastrophic pandemic now the panel is recommending a new global response system to be set up that wasted month of february meant that health systems became overwhelmed as the scene spread rapidly time had run out for many countries to avert 19 having a major impact on the. there was also a global winner takes all scramble to secure the personal protective equipment therapeutics and other supplies required to many countries including some of the wealthiest devalued the emerging science where india saw its deadliest of the credit virus pandemic on wednesday with more than 4200 people succumbing to the

virus the number of new infections is also risen india's now recorded more than 23000000 cases since the pandemic began on india correspondent elizabeth problem has more from new delhi. a modified look sits on his mother's grave as it's being prepared he's not yet ready to say goodbye his story of mourning is one of thousands around the country every day. as india streets empty because of localized lockdowns burial grounds and predatory and continue to work day and night. and and india's poorest states with their pradesh and be had $100.00 bodies of suspected car the 19 victims have been found floating in the ganges river. our official said at the scene and investigating we are trying to find out where did these with dead bodies come from how did they get here and their numbers. with kramatorsk around

the country struggling to deal with a huge increase in bodies residents of gaza report an author they say they informed the local administration about a shortage of what for cremations. we told the administration that the dead are being thrown in the water because of the shortage of war bodies from around the world about 13 villages have been thrown in the water. they are government denies reports of what shortages it says it's carrying out post-mortems on the bodies to determine the causes of death. elsewhere and the patient to continue to die because of oxygen shortages 26 in the southern state of goa. yesterday we had a requirement of $1207.00 we got only $400.00 there was interrupted oxygen supply from 2 am to 6 am which caused a lot of deaths. cases are increasing in southern india where 18 people also died from oxygen shortages this week in the states of. and telling donna despite the

number of cases dropping in about half of india's states including the worst affected regions of maharashtra and delhi one in 5 people testing for co the 19 gets a positive result and that's because the virus has simply spread to other areas most notably the 5 states where regional elections were held in april elizabeth problem al jazeera. thousands of anti-government protesters have been marching in colombia as demonstrations into the 3rd week now they're calling for police brutality economic support during the covert 19 pandemic. possible from the capital. 2 weeks of daily rallies have yet to exhaust the energy of anti-government protesters in colombia the thousands took to the streets again on wednesday was one rally in downtown bogota featured union members teachers and other workers on tuesday president even ducat offered further concessions to lessen people's outrage

promising free tuition for poor and working class students at public universities next semester. but protesters here say changes have to be permanent and remain skeptical of the government promises. we don't trust the government they said the same thing many times last year they promised to get rid of tuition but only 12 percent of course you didn't have access to it the same with health reform the truth is the government wants to fully privatized health in the country. limiters away in another part of town another massive rally here the majority are taxi drivers and students the focus and being the brutal police response to the protests was. the official death toll of the past 2 weeks rose past 40 but doesn't snore or missing the hour tell you know the truth is it's scary to come out and protest but our desire for justice to know the truth of the disappeared the responsibility for

the deaths is big of much better than the fear we have. by the afternoon several rallies and roadblocks paralyzed most of all but the mayor tweeted a map of the city's public transport system black highlights showing where service was suspended. and how to eat is now also feared to gatherings are increasing coby 19 infections as restrictions have become one forcible with daily massive gatherings cities across the country are now bracing for a longer than expected 3rd the peak of a covert 19 infections more than 90 percent of intensive care units are for here in the capital and the mayor fears a possible hospital collapse we are concerned about the crowds at the marches and protests we ask the government and the leaders of the strike to negotiate quickly why to avoid further transmission of the virus we are facing

a serious public health problem mortality mind greece if the crowds continue. now with the government still resisting negotiating the root causes of economic inequality and refusing to condemn police by alliance demonstrators promised they will continue to protest at least in the n.b.a. and as you know with that. major oil pipeline in the u.s. that was forced off line by a cyber attack last week has now resumed operations but the incident led to severe fuel shortages along the u.s. east coast forcing some states to declare an emergency particle he reports. a chorus of apologies and anger on the east coast of the united states i mean look 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 $350000000.00 in losses that 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 intil 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 the hacker changed the sodium hydroxide from about $100.00 perched per $1000000.00 211100 parts per 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 petty calling al-jazeera washington. the reminder of our top stories an internal security building in garza has been hit by an israeli airstrike overnight israeli air force continued to bomb the strip for a 3rd day at least 69 palestinians have been killed including 17 children the armed wing of the palestinian group hamas launched more rockets at israel and said it was in response to the killing of several home ass commanders 7 people have died in israel as a result of the attacks from gaza suffered reports now from gaza this

is the 2nd actually big of a wave of rockets being fired. into.