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anyone who says policy should be left out of. politics and. the passion and the politics of liverpool f.c. the defined giant. part of the fans who make football series on al-jazeera. israeli airstrikes continue to one bought gaza 84 palestinians have been killed in the worst violence since 20147 have died in israel. a live adrian figure and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming out. fighting spreads in israel's ethnically mixed towns and cities with one man
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likening it to a civil war. it is overwhelmed hospitals start using drugs for coronavirus patients against the advice of the world health organization. violence in recent weeks afghanistan is in the islamic aid holiday with a 3 day ceasefire. israel is continuing its aerial bombardment of gaza palestinians mark the end of the muslim holy month of ramadan it's the worst outbreak of violence in the play of since 2014 with no resolution insights $84.00 palestinians including 17 children have been killed since the strikes began on monday at least 7 people in israel have been killed and the violence is spreading into communal fighting on a scale not seen in decades broke out between palestinian israelis and jewish
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residents in several cities. u.s. president joe biden announced that he'd spoken with israel's prime minister saying that he hopes the situation will deescalate soon but that israel has the right to defend itself the u.n. has already warned that the conflict is escalating towards a full scale war out syria's herefore said a study by force in southern israel that israeli artillery battery made a abraham is in ramallah in the occupied west bank but let's start in gaza with somebody abu salim who's a palestinian journalist and gaza resident sami the bombardment of gaza has continued throughout the morning. yes it has been continuous and the minutes go we have some exit. north of gaza in so find it in just a couple of minutes ago and also we have just seen. the rockets. moving in the sky another strike happened inside the shop if you.
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like. that's like a house goes to the house of. the head of hamas in a child the cam. they speared some of the gates and then maybe they do when were made that even the in in a statement that. i had in junior. engineers of manufacturing. he called them and. they have been. maybe 30 minutes ago and he. has more and more which mean which could be understood that in and there more ability to continue in this conflict. that there is no
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lines as long as there is that i.e. . to get petted seen and people. that is a bit thin now and also. among this and you can see that the gaza city. could be the scribe as a kid if you or something like that this my benefits they over the fees. by israel of gaza has continued what about going the other way you mentioned israel's defense system rockets being fired from gaza towards israel. yes it i mean and now when i'm talking to you i'm hearing explosions but it is not clear what is the sort of so far we have to verify but before this they thing about this are a tiny body thanks indeed let's go then to ramallah in the occupied west bank.
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abraham is what's the latest. 8 palestinians were injured after an is a group of israeli settlers attack the village of a 2 way it is near hebron in the south of the occupied west bank and locals of told us that 4 of them have needed to go to the hospital as a result of this attack now we need to remember that these attacks are not something many palestinians in the occupied west bank report that they face a lot of attacks while travelling from one palestinian city to another because of the illegal israeli settlements that are set out to the occupied west bank and that are making life so difficult for the palestinians because with each expansion of illegal israeli settlements comes more attacks by them and according to the u.n. more than $165.00 attacks have been documented since the beginning of this year and
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95 percent of these attacks go on in tight i mean dieted so that could tell you about the situation of impunity that the israeli settlers enjoy when it comes to their attacks against palestinians. abraham reporting live from ramallah in the occupied west bank hopefully we can go to what harry forces who is in southern israel. tillery site that that's been set up that harry how far away from the border are you what's that we can see behind you that. we're about 5 kilometers north of gaza here and yes you can see long range heavy guns that we saw brought in during the course of wednesday position then and they've since been dug in here not far away and they've been firing we heard
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them firing late last night. and we've seen it happening again during the course of thursday morning the israeli military has been saying a couple of things of note so far today one is that they have they say destroyed 4 separate anti-tank. operations by hamas inside gaza during the course of the morning they're also saying that they are preparing a plan for a ground offensive that doesn't mean that one is going to happen what they say is that they're preparing that plan that is going to be presented to the head of the army vehicle javi and it will then be passed on to the political echelon to make a decision on what is clear is that there is no apparent appetite from the israeli side for any cease fire any time soon a ground offensive of course would be a huge escalatory step not one that would go unanswered by hamas and the other
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fighting factions and not one really that israel would take lightly because of the attendant risks to its own soldiers of being inside gaza territory so i don't think we can immediately start talking about that as unlikely event however whether it be a show of force whether it be an option to be put on the table it is a plan that's being come up with at the moment and harry and i know you know you're some distance away from it but perhaps you can bring us up to speed with the latest information you have on the end to communal violence which has continued in some israeli towns and cities. that's right it really has erupted especially overnight people talking about this is something that they've never really seen before inside israel not just sort of occasional sparks of violence or or abuse between the 2 racial groups but that a real eruption of of common or violence what we have seen is well just give you
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a few instances we saw an arab owned business ripped apart in the town of back in the same town and man presumed to be arab was set upon by a jewish mob and beaten and kicked on the ground the police are saying that they've arrested 2 suspects in that case further north in acar we have had reports of a 37 year old jewish man who was out on the streets and set upon by an arab mob his family is saying that he was actually a teacher who went out to try and find his students and prevent them from getting involved in the the anti arab rioting in arca that night also in the city of la where a lot of this was focused in the early phases again in central israel close to tel aviv there was a report of 2 jewish people being shot and injured by an arab person and so they just spill on and on and on these these reports the israeli
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government is saying that it is trying to intervene and bring it to an end and to that end the defense minister benny gantz says that 10 reserve groups of the border patrol the sort of paramilitary border police they are being sent into central israel and other towns where this has been taking place for now he's saying that the at the israeli army that it will not be involved in what he calls still a policing matter al jazeera is harry forces reporting live from southern israel area for the moment many thanks. as the s. strikes continue said true does violence among palestinian israelis and jewish residents as you heard from harry that it's on a scale not seen in decades the tactics of israeli police also being called into question laura but natalie reports. was the was it was
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a chance of death to our obsessed anger and hate has spilled out into the streets in the coastal city of. palestinian israelis and jewish israelis living in close proximity turning on each other. the among many violent incidents on wednesday a palestinian man was tried from this car by dozens of jewish israelis who continued to beat them even after he lost consciousness as the video was broken on israeli television. 7 and close it to tell of the palestinian business is to run fact the wave of violence has hit dozens of cities and regions across israel it's the worst between communities living alongside each other in decades israeli officials say there are more violence than the protests that led steel axing to fatah in 2000 was
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was the tension came to a boiling point as a court prepared to rule on the force expulsion of palestinian families from the homes in the occupied east jerusalem shaikh acheron neighborhood israeli journalist yossi melman says he's worried about the children to groups inside israel running amok he says the headed to the abyss as a result of absence of governance and years of incitement and prime minister benjamin netanyahu has both sides to stop the attacks. in the attempt to quell the violence nessun yahoo ordered the emergency deployment of border forces but police tactics are under scrutiny after this video was shed on social media of officers storming a family home in the north the city of haifa they could be seen beating him on armed palestinian israeli man was. the un to the south of tel aviv the city of lot has been put under
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a state of emergency the 1st in an arab community since 966 it's been one of the worst hit by riots on tuesday night jewish cars in a synagogue was satellites a mosque was burned the next day and palestinian hassouna was shot dead by jewish residents during protests. even though the court has been spared the hearing unchecked gera many are now more worried about how to stop the violence caused by anger that's been simmering for much longer nor about among the al-jazeera. a writer and researcher at the occupied west bank she says the attacks have unified the palestinian people. palestinians with israeli citizenship are right now being met with brutal violence and it shows israel's discriminatory practices but more than this it reminds us that we are palestinians we are saying hey far.
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as one we are no longer saying it is divided the border lines that have been drawn for us are completely blurred by palestinians and the complete and violent repression of the israeli police in places like haiti is showing how no colonizer no colonizer will ever give equal rights or role ever give the rights of the people who are native to the land this is ongoing the next is ongoing is displacement hafe is displacement what israel is doing is trying to complete what it started in 1948 let's remember the palestinians that remained within the cities that is now considered israel are ones that have been fighting for their lives are treated as 2nd 3rd class citizens so next of is not going to be command maria did next was going to be confronted i think this year. we'll get a weather update. still to come though on a road to nowhere u.s.
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drivers stuck in a small maine thanks to a cyber attack on a major fuel supply. the perfect gin and. point cut some ways oh we do have the risk of flooding into southern parts of china so let me show you where this is we're getting some pretty good downpours along the yangtze river heavy rain for shanghai in the forecast on friday and because water levels are up in the yang sea we do have to watch for the risk of flooding now this batch of boisterous flings into south korea and key issue island on japan as we head toward saturday's so some soaking rain there and beijing getting into some downpours for the for you on saturday with a high of 23 degrees ok take you to the arabian sea now where we are starting to
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get a proper circulation on this disturbance very likely to form into a tropical cyclone over the next few days looks to impact go up to mumbai but it's our computer models are showing that it stays offshore for bangladesh some pretty intense thunderstorms in the forecast on friday so we're going to have to watch for intense lightning hail and those winds to whip up across areas of pakistan into raja stan and punjab state in india we do have to watch for some dust being kicked up so some hazy sunshine for new delhi in the forecast on friday and we've got plenty of heat across the middle east for the gulf up to a high of 42. sponsored pol qatar airways. in hebron boys breed and fly pigeons but in this occupied palestinian city boys are also close to watched by israeli forces a time slot on and off from the arrested. and delicately told tales filmed over 5
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years of a coming of age in a place where even a child's imagination is every restricted the skies above hebron a witness documentary on a 0. 00 get this is al-jazeera the main news this hour there spent another night of ass trikes in gaza as israeli jets bombed high rise buildings and other targets and in the past hour a bit more strikes on the city $84.00 palestinians including 17 children been killed. 7 people have been killed by strikes fired into israel by gaza's armed
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factions israel has found to continue its been a free campaign. violence has spread within israel as fighting on a scale not seen in decades broke out between palestinian israelis and jewish residents in several cities. india's hospitals have become so overwhelmed by coronavirus patients that some states ministering a drug against the advice of the world health organization go up and that are conned have announced plans to use the empty parasitic drug by the nekton to protect against severe covert by teen infections the w.h.o. recently said the evidence of the drug working is inconclusive and it recommends its use only in clinical trials probably the tell reports from new delhi. more than 360000 fresh cases were recorded on wednesday and more than 4000 deaths on the same day and you know both these numbers are severely undercounted so
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what we're seeing on the ground is ted to really struggling to contain the virus to meet the demand the medical demand in terms of beds oxygen and even medicines so now 2 states you know they're not actually defended this choice one of the states the state of go out has said that panels in the u.k. and japan italy and spain have found that this drug ivermectin which is an anti parasitic drug that is not an anti-viral is actually working and reduces mortality so they're going ahead and approved it but it's not just the w.h.o. which has problems with this that's warned against the use of the strug it's also the f.d.a. in the u.s. and the make us off this very drug it's also something to note is that the health minister of the country has come under severe criticism and in fact mockery for suggesting a cure all for the disease or always to be a boost immunity a few a while ago the engine medical association slammed him for promoting an indorsing
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a drug called coronel which he which the drug maker said cures cobra 19 and just a day ago he was mocked incessantly on social media for suggesting ways in which people could boost immunity and reduce stress one of his suggestions included consuming a 70 percent doc chocolate. greed in afghanistan as the holiday gets underway of the deal between the taliban government follows violence in recent weeks afghan officials say the taliban fighters captured the district near kabul. earlier in the week more than 80 people were killed in the bombing of a school the taleban is tonight claims by the government but it was behind a turk for contrary reports. this cease fire comes after an extremely violent month of ramadan here in afghanistan so even though like you mentioned it will be very short only 3 days it will be like
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a huge breath of air for all afghans who have been literally suffocating from all the violence that has been engulfing the country from what we've seen in past ceasefires even though it's still very early it has been in effect for only 12 hours since midnight local time last time it should hold according to past experience except for isolated incidents of violence has been really surging in afghanistan and we're not talking just about fighting between the taliban and government forces across the country we're fighting has been ongoing had been ongoing in several provinces it has been in the south where the provincial capital of helmand has been under siege from the taliban the government forces were able to push them away and if you mentioned yesterday in which is only 40 kilometers from from kabul according to local sources the taliban were able to capture the district of new york but according to the government and this is
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a quote they said that the afghan forces only made a tactical retreat on the taliban did not hold the district. a reporter who works for a nonprofit news agency in myanmar has been sentenced by a military court to 3 years in prison when you covered pro-democracy protests across the country there's been a major crackdown on dissent since the military seized power in her brief al-jazeera florence louis reports minya a journalist had been covering and protests in the town of pay northwest of yangon in early march when he was beaten up by the police and arrested now on wednesday a military court sentenced him to the maximum term in prison under a newly revised provision of the penal code which makes it a crime for anyone to among other things do things that damage the motivation or conduct of soldiers and civil servants the gentile has been trying to suppress independent news coverage of and hebrew protest since february it has banned
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several news outlets it has arrested dozens of journalists reports say around 40 are still being detained many of them under the same provision for which in your has been can now convicted now and some of the journalists fearing arrest have fled myanmar earlier this week 3 journalists also working for the same outlet as you know together with 2 activists were arrested in northern thailand for illegal entry and they could face deportation rights groups say if they are deported back into myanmar they will very likely be detained and charged amnesty international says menu's case highlights just how ruthless the jintao is and the risks journalists take in exposing the abuses made by military rule this and it has called for his conviction to be quashed and for him to be released immediately. a major oil pipeline of the u.s. has received operations after being forced offline by
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a cyber attack last week incident led to severe fuel shortages along the u.s. east coast forcing some states to to plan an emergency protocol have reports from washington. 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
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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 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 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
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liquid pipelines only voluntary suggestions infrastructure communities do historically lag other industries in terms of their spending on cybersecurity 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 perched per 1000000 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. one of the latest author republican party has been
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oust tense because of her refusal to say the plastic u.s. presidential election was rigged meanwhile donald trump's former defense secretary has been explaining to congress why more wasn't done to stop the capitol hill riots in january jabatan see reports from washington. ever since the capitol hill run out of early january several people actually hearing said i'm lies what exactly happens 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 school and why did it take so long to go 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 i'm home dress or the ransoms i want to remind you and the american public that during that time there are risks irresponsible commentary by the media about a possible military coup or that buys are the president are advocating the declaration of martial law we're going to the capitol and then the house contents
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of the trumps 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 my 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 threats yet money and results is a fund and step into surveilling and arresting racial minorities and those fighting for civil liberties the biting ministration has promised a recalibration is a story or assessment of what is the purpose extremists are the most lethal threat . with jason harmon today. mr chairman i do believe that
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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 status but i can see that it will be used to expand curtains that already allow for 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 black and brown communities and there is not going to be a prioritized asian. of white nationalist violence in the 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 of the riots
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that ensued will now be used as a pretext for even deeper supervision of the views of all u.s. citizens town see al-jazeera capital. european football's governing body has confirmed that portugal will host this year's champions league final the game between manchester city and chelsea was moved from istanbul because turkey was put on the u.k.'s read travel list meaning that players and fans would have to quarantine for 10 days in a hotel upon their return the final will now be played in porto on may 29th. it's good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera israel has renewed its aerial bombardment of gaza with raids on several locations 84 palestinians including 17 children have been killed since monday.
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