we cover all sides. no matter where it takes us a pretty familiar feeling serug out of miami. and power in pashto which tell your stories we are your voice your news your network al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm sam is a than this is the news hour live from coming up in the next 60 minutes. israeli air strikes continue on gaza 86 palestinians have been killed in the worst violence since 2014. another

rockets towards israel at least 7 people have been killed since monday. fighting spreads in israel's ethnically mixed towns and cities with a likening it to civil war. after a surge in violence in recent weeks afghanistan is indeed holiday with a 3 day ceasefire. this weekend chileans will select 155 people who will write their constitution for the 1st time in the world 50 percent of those delegates will have to be women. over the sports. champions league final will be held in portugal after european football's governing body moves it from its temple. israel is continuing its aerial bombardment of gaza as palestinians mark the end of

the most the month of ramadan $86.00 palestinians including 17 children have been killed since monday in the worst outbreak of violence in the enclave since 2014 well a short time ago palestinian factions fired more than 100 rockets into israel targeting tel aviv and they are all international flights have been diverted at least 7 people in israel have been killed including a 5 year old boy and the violence is. fighting on a scale not seen in decades has broken out between palestinian israelis and jewish israelis in several cities the defense minister is ordered massive reinforcements to control the internal violence. in ramallah in the occupied west bank where a force of the standing by for us in southern israel near an israeli artillery battery but 1st let's start with sami abu salim he's a palestinian journalist in gaza and sami we understand in the last hour and a half a new barash of rockets were fired from gaza are the palestinian factions stepping

up the rocket salvos after a night of heavy air strikes from israel. according to. sports some. have mass media their wing announced that and he mentioned or. including the last shooting there is. erakat it will be news specific ations which is called by $250.00 their name i mean. the palestinian. engineer. anything by is the name 1996 in gaza with trouble by actually he was known as one of the engineers who make bombs against israel anyway this this new rocket to head south to visit in an airport which means that it is

a significant change in this kill. which means that old saw with people in gaza things may develop more and more in this statement. and i wonder if one of the shooting i mean in the beginning he said that we have more and more things and then after about 30 minutes all i want to hear. because it is in the airline movement. according to. the international news that. flying in and. anyway 'd it is expected that the statement is a message to. his and then us to pressurise. to brush ally the government to stop attacks against. or against palestinians sanny you.

mentioned paralysis of movement then i'm wondering you know today's either one of the most important usual activities of ied is to go out and greet your family and friends and neighbors how. you know how much of that is really possible today in the midst of all of this. basically there is actually there is no need here minutes ago minutes ago we have here we have seen that and it's that i need in a cycle and. then i want to go in and you in the middle of does and in bed. you will have been killed and the god. is busy in burying given to the people for example the parents and man and his wife have been buried today in the morning and the 5 or 6 how massive commandos have

been also buried saw there is a grief in a city of happiness and best to be empty and there is no social visit visits between. neighborhoods or relatives busy or something like this even the kids there is not an action. no playing no games nothing maybe some of them just go over there where their homes. to shore they are in new clothes to be proud with their deployed this for the for the children but suddenly this cave to their busy home is because all. right thanks so much. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has visited one of the defensive missile systems known as the i and he reiterated his runs resolve to continue bombardments . are going to ask for a missile of the defense activity of better reasons giving us an offensive space in

the israeli defense forces have already attacked hundreds of targets who will soon pass 1000 targets we continue striking hamas will defeat me i'll sit ins we will take more time but with great firmness and off since as well as different we will achieve our goal of bringing back come to the state of israel let's bring in now kerry 40 joins us from southern israel harry we were just talking to sami abu salim and he was talking about the rockets which were launched aimed at southern israel and the ram on what did it look like when those rockets landed. well i mean we didn't see them land we certainly saw them come out and we heard and saw a good deal of interceptions close to us with those iron dome interceptors that you know i was just talking about in that clip as somebody was saying that i think the long range of that rocket that landed close to an open field it still showing that

it was in range of the roman airport the new airport just north of the the tourist and port city of lot that will give some pause for thought because ben-gurion airport the main airport the main port way into israel for huge majority of everybody coming in is now closed and planes diverted to ramón if that is also within range or if that's the calculation that the israelis make then they will have to think about whether they want to appear to be forced to close their skies or not as far as the military operation on the israeli side is concerned i think the key words there from benjamin netanyahu was for some time. i'm here to be no indications of any willingness to accept a cease fire that was a message coming out of the security cabinet meeting on monday there have been more and more airstrikes going on through the morning we've seen artillery being fired

as well from a position close to us and the israeli army says that it is preparing a ground offensive plan to put up the chain of the command all the way up to the political echelon that sometime today doesn't mean it's going to happen it has huge attendant risks for israel as well as the escalatory nature of such an operation inside gaza but that is something that they want to publicly communicate that they are considering talking about risks there's also the risk of communal violence which we've been seeing playing out how is that shaping up today. it's continuing there are all sorts of depressing new videos and information flying around social media one showing a group of young palestinian men attacking a jewish person close to the damascus gate area in occupied east jerusalem there are reports as well of jewish far right groups calling for more

attacks throughout the day and into tonight so it's something that has really erupted in an extremely worrying way for the vast majority of palestinian israelis and jewish israelis however the numbers are large and the frequency is still pretty constant and so it is something that the government is very much focused on as it continues to wage this this war in the south the defense minister benny gantz has called up a large number of border force reservists already some are being redeployed from the occupied west bank to israel itself more on the way he said he's not going to use the israeli army or the people's army as he called it to police but he is going to use these paramilitary forces in much greater number they're trying to get a hold on this but it is really. out of control so far burning rage of into

common all racist violence people being attacked for nothing other than a race in his next dream lee worrying development all right thanks now we're going to take it to the occupied west bank but i am joins us now from ramallah started with a lot of tension in the west bank with the top of the al aqsa mosque compound today's prayers the prayers fairly peaceful is that a good sign of things coming down or is this another calm before the storm. it could be another car before the storm. because we've seen in the past in the occupied west bank palestinians who conduct lone wolf attacks they're not. organized by anyone and it's is could be conducted by palestinians from all ages and from old and different backgrounds and cities and economy background so we could be seeing palestinians we're seeing images from the besieged gaza strip and

wanting to do what they can to fight the israeli occupation so it's hard to be able to assess what's going to happen but we know that the west bank this is living with frustration and anger we're supposed to have the 1st palestinian elections in 15 years by the end of this month with the palestinian president have delayed those elections because he said that israel didn't give a positive to the palestinians when it comes to palestinians in east jerusalem casting their ballots so he canceled them all together so you have to put it to the frustration by people who feel like they don't have and the leadership that they elect and you have the economy frustration the deteriorating economy situation that this has been also aggravated by belief this surge of corporate 19 and the closures that you have an israeli occupation whose measures on the ground are still going when it comes to land confiscation to the ongoing illegal settlement expansion and

the violence against palestinians just last night we've seen in the early hours of the morning we've seen confrontations between palestinians and the the israeli army that left 35 palestinians injured and the majority of those would hits by live ammunition which is that they get exceptionally high number and high use of force by the israeli army which could mean that the situation could ask even for their all right thanks so much and. well as they are strikes continue so too does the violence among palestinian israelis and jewish residents so on a scale not saying in decades the tactics of israeli police are also being called into question laura manley reports. was the was 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 dragged from his car by dozens of jewish israelis who continued to beat even after he lost consciousness the video was brokaw's live on israeli television. was one closer to tell of a policy of businesses to run from the wave of violence has hit dozens of cities and regions across israel it's been worse between communities living alongside each other in decades israeli officials say they're more violent than the protests that led steel axing to fatah in 2000 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 jarrah neighborhood israeli journalist yossi melman says he's worried about the challenge to groups inside israel running amok he says they're 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 netanyahu 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 northern city of haifa they could be seen beating him on a palestinian israeli man was. the and to the south of tel aviv the city of lot has been put under 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 the satellite

a mosque was the next day and palestinian. was shot dead by jewish residents during protests. even though the court is the hearing unchecked era many are now more worried about how to stop the violence caused by anger that's been simmering for much. more about a man the al-jazeera. well asuna is a palestinian activist in haifa one of the ferde largest cities in israel joins us now by skype good to have you with us what is the sentiment like now in haifa. but i guess 1st before talking about the sentiment in him but i think we need to put something on the record straight this is not a civil war we palestinians palestinians so called israel today palestine 48 are colonized people this started in 148 with the establishment of the israeli state

and the connotation and so it's not correct to describe it as a as a civil war it's a continuation of a process that started long time ago and it's manifesting itself now in particular kind of ways. in. cities in palestine 4048 the situation is. tense there's quite a bit of fear but a lot of peer among honest and in communities because at the moment we're not only facing the kind of the violence and structured bidens by the israelis by its police institutions or by its police like in its military forces in the lead but we're also seeing how it is armed mobs of zion as organized as groups that are roaming the streets looking for palestinians to attack them to

harm them they're backing the institutions this is the attack that you talked about in but it's more like a. modern day lynching artist in the ins by israeli settlers by jewish israeli citizens so the situation is tense because the community is not only facing organized violence it's also facing none are going to it's violence that is free in protective by the state so yesterday. and while they were attacking roaming around the streets looking for palestinians to act they were being protected by the police after they finished their attacks in the streets. the police themselves were going into people's homes tackling them viciously and violently in ways that we haven't probably seen since military riot let me let me jump in here and tell you what what a police official told me a short while ago he said that the police were simply trying to keep

a lid on violence he put it down to power we have of course seen pictures of mobs attacking people they think are palestinians we've seen mosques burnt but as he put it to me this is after the palestinians attacked a synagogue this is after we've seen palestinians go out and attack in and what the israelis are the scribing mob violence to. well i think we have to go back again to the structural roots and the roots of what is happening today it is wrong to look at what is happening only from through the lens of the past few days again israel is a settler colony that has color lines palestinian land all malice and young people are colonized people and they have the right to resist they have a right to be free and we are not free palestinian 48 of course we carry the israeli ideals because it was imposed upon us but our living conditions are living reality is not one of freedom we are still

a colonized people even at this very minute 3 doesn't grow in the streets it is the israeli police that rose the streets and attacked. in very very simple day ways but that response included the targeting of places of worship for example like a synagogue how do palestinians sorry about that should should that the palestinian reaction that you're describing to the colonization of the occupation should that include targeting places of worship like synagogues and civilians not here to justify anything and i'm not a speaker in the name of anybody people can speak for their own self them for their own actions so i'm not going to really engage with kind of. nations or acceptance i think we just have to look at the bigger picture here of what is going on and why people are resisting in the way that they are resisting because actually you have it structured biden's institutionalized violence that they're facing and they have to resist in any way the impossible and now what is taking place is that people

have no house and it's a protection the only way for palestinians citizens of israel to protect themselves is to self organize and that is what has been happening in the neighborhood and the neighborhood you see people coming out protecting themselves because they have nobody else to protect them that this is what was happening yesterday right in this nason head but this is what was happening in the neighborhood and this hour and at best it. other syrians who had to come out predominately palestinian youth who had to come out in defense of themselves because there was nobody else that was going to defend them this was very similar during the demonstrations that we saw in the past few days when demonstrators were attacked by the police riot excessive i mean there was no medical care but the protestors it is we that have yourself organized and the level of medical care for everybody that was injured. during those protesters other than the critically injured people who were sent to hospital ambulances were coming hours in in the day and many people were taken to prison

over 100 people have been arrested over the past few days and hara that by the police after their arrest at least in the police stations on their way to police stations are ok and the only way to defend them what communities are organizing are right we are running out i'm sorry going to have to leave it there thanks so much for your thoughts on that and you and your new jeremy bob is an intelligence analyst he joins us from more the in by skype good to have you with us so we've seen a number of dynamics that kind of different this time around in this cycle of conflict let's start with the palestinian rocket attacks are they proving more disruptive more deadly than in the past. yes they are come out have figured out how to fire a long range rocket at tel aviv in central israel up to

a 100 or $130.00 rockets in a matter of minutes and while the iron dome the missile defense the stop these rockets bill shooting most of them down more of them have gotten through it now than in 2014 or 2012 and that's why you see more israeli civilians have been killed by these rockets than in the past so this is a problem that israel has to take into account as a society you know what is it going to do here what balance of military and diplomatic means is it going to do to try to restore or deterrence and try to restore the understanding that existed you know a week or so ago how much of this was a surprise do you think for these re the well at least these very policy makers if not the military and intelligence. so look the capabilities of hamas were known we've known that they had a certain level of rocket. and israeli intelligence is very strong in terms of following more developments that have happened in 2019 there were some flare ups

and israel got to see a small bit for a couple of days of what hamas and islamic jihad which is iran's proxy can do the surprise is that hamas and islamic jihad wanted to have a bigger fight now and i think there's all sorts of reasons the palestinians weren't able to put together their election come out the old way they're not getting attention from the rest of the world because of the abraham accords and all of the other things going on in the world and they're trying to get attention with certain incidents that have been happening in east jerusalem and that surprised israel in the i.d.f. they didn't expect the math to make such a stance at the particular point in time how significant is it that we see now flights diverted from tel aviv to romana and holt in the south of israel only for a mom then to be targeted could israel reach a position why it has to shut down all international flights completely. well it's very interesting in 2014 there were 48 hours where flights were stuck down but now

we've lived through the coronavirus and then the coronavirus there was a lot longer stuff down so i think if places do get sucked down and they're not completely shut down yet they are sending incoming plane through different airports but even if there is a shut down for a couple of days it will be a lot less than what has been during the coronavirus and you'll you'll see that if this lasts more than a couple of big then there could be a ground invasion once the idea of the ground invasion it will significantly impact come out and islamic jihad capabilities continue their long range rocket fire now these israeli policy makers have seemed to make different count kill ations perhaps different intelligence calculations as well because of the communal violence the level of communal violence which we haven't always seen in previous rounds of confrontations. right the last time we saw anything like this was in october 2000 there were some serious incident is really north and i think like that

time there were big mistake by the police i don't think this is the entire israeli government the police really are at a weak point in israel whether it's dealing with right wing extremists whether it's the going with writers in the arab sector or whether it's going with already ultra-orthodox during the coronavirus there needs to be reform of the police it's not really an israeli palestinian israeli arab issue it's a problem with the police in general the please do seem to be getting more of a hold on by alliance both from the arab side and from the drift extremist side and loads and another city of i think you'll see within a few days that will be much more under control and the bigger issue will be will come out stop firing rockets at tel aviv in central israel or will is all need to go to a ground invasion. good to get your analysis on but you know jeremy ball thank you. kenyan police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters who gathered in the

capital in support of palestinians police arrested a number of people this find them inspiration being launched the peaceful and sometimes taken to the streets in nairobi following need tries in a show of solidarity for future prime minister barak johnston says israel and palestine must work towards deescalating to violence. i think i think everybody is very concerned and certainly we in the u.k. are very sad to see what is happening and the cycle of violence that now seems to be taking place and i think it's important we break that cycle and we end this idea of reprisals and i think that what everybody wants to see is urgent urgent deescalation and that's what don robb has been saying to his counterparts both in the israel and in the in the palestinian authority u.s. president joe biden has spoken with the israeli prime minister and he says he hopes

they'll be a conclusion soon that israel has the right to defend itself let's cross over to our white house correspondent kimberly how think so kimberly how is the position by the by their ministration going down in the u.s. . well it's being criticized by both republicans on capitol hill and also members of the president's own democratic party in fact 25 democrats in the house of representatives have sent a letter to the administration urging the president to instruct his team to put in place even more forceful diplomatic pressure to stop the displacement of palestinians from occupied east jerusalem but what they're also looking for is accountability for what many are alleging are human rights violations by a u.s. ally namely israel in fact one of the more vocal members of the president's party. alexandria cassio cortez

a progressive member of the democratic party is saying that the president's statement really has refused to acknowledge the rights of palestinians and reinforces in her view a false idea that palestinians instigated this violence now republicans not surprisingly are also criticizing the president's comments and strategy thus far but for different reasons in fact there were a large number dozens in fact republicans who sent a letter to the administration as well basically saying that what needs to happen right now is that the administration needs to cut off negotiations taking place in vienna to try and bring iran into sort of back into the agreement to limit its nuclear program essentially what they're saying is these rockets that are being fired by hamas are being funded by iran and as a result this means that there should be no negotiation and further there should be no entertainment of sanctions relief for iran so as you can see members on capitol

hill not happy with the by the administration strategy thus far. it seems with my ministration is counting on a quick end to this war is the plan if it doesn't wrap up soon. well you're right they are counting on a quick wrapping up of this but there are no guarantees right now the administration has had a flurry of high level calls with counterparts as we've been reporting here on al-jazeera very high level diplomat is headed to the region in order to speak with israeli as well as palestinian leaders and the feeling of the president is this can and soon as well we know that. the united states is leading on partners and allies in the region including jordan and egypt and qatar in order to try and bring about a truce but the obstacles remain and the outcry not just outside the united states

but also in the united states is growing ever louder including again as i've mentioned those calls from within the president's own democratic party really pressuring this administration to take a more active role too to exert more diplomatic pressure and the concern in all of this is that palestinians are being dehumanised in fact what the feeling is is that the united states as there have been accusations for so many decades is turning a blind eye to human rights violations and that is not sitting well with many americans right thanks so much. it's time for weather now here's jeff. hello let's get you up to speed with that disturbance in the arabian sea rate now we're starting to see some proper circulation on it and the area of concern really will be as we head toward go up through mumbai our computer model if i take it towards saturday it's still keeping it off shore but there is a circulation so it could certainly develop into

a tropical cyclone over the next little bit give you a wider look right now at the middle east not a whole lot going on we do have some mountain showers for southern iran but high temperatures here kuwait 43 doha 42 but will dial that temperature up in doha on saturday up to 44 degrees ok off we go to south africa where temperatures and conditions are pleasant now capetown 21 degrees stress by 20 but we do have a big push of moisture for the western cape and this is certainly not good news almost a week after we dealt with intense flooding towards stress by but i think the worst of it will impact cape town so i show you the 3 day forecast so friday will squeeze one more nice day but by saturday 75 millimeters of rain that is more than a month's worth of rain in 24 hours so the very real risk of flooding is here. still ahead on al-jazeera on a road to nowhere here us drivers stuck in the slow lane thanks to us cyber attack

on a major fuel supply are not backing down hand to government protesters in colombia continue their campaign against police brutality. no bag your garbage stretches his quarter final record of the row moscow's bats in sport coming up with theo. the 1st to european country to ban the food free spirit and public places it's home to more than 6000000 followers of islam many who want to assert their religious and cultural identity in the light of france's 2021 contentious so-called separatism law as we look at the recent history of muslim immigration to the country in the final episode of this report see its muslims of fronts episode 3. a unique form of protest by a palestinian artist using

a symbol of national identity to create postage and passport stamps. allows for some burglaries in us free danny. can fly anywhere sending a message of resistance about the arab israeli conflict out of a sort of come to palestine. palestine sun but a stamp of defiance on al-jazeera. we will lose. we're watching out to syria time to recap our headlines now. israeli aerial bombardment of gaza is continuing with raids on several locations $86.00

palestinians including 17 children have been killed a short time ago palestinian factions fired more than $100.00 rockets into israel targeting tell of even a light for all international flights have been diverted at least 7 people in israel killed including a 5 year old boy. violence is also spread within israel is fighting on a scale not seen in decades broke out between palestinian israelis and jewish residents in several cities. afghanistan's president says it's time for the taliban to decide whether it wants peace or destruction the message was delivered at the beginning of a 3 day ceasefire to coincide with the muslim holiday the deal between the taliban and the government follows a surge in violence in recent weeks afghan officials say taliban fighters captured the district near kabul on wednesday. can yet we have the national consensus to finding out the will of the taliban it is time for

the taliban to show their will if they want peace or destruction this is not war it's destruction failure contraflow already has more from kabul. this ceasefire 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 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 that has been in the south where lask agartha

prevention 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 wired dot 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 a quote they said that the afghan forces only made a tactical retreat of the taliban did not hold the district. india's hospitals have become so overwhelmed by coronavirus patients that some states are now administrating administering rather a drug against the advice of the world health organization. plans to use the anti parasitic drug ever missed in to protect against severe coated 19 infections w.h.o. recently said evidence of the drug working is in kong clue suv it recommends its use only in clinical trials of the mattel has more 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 under counted so what we're seeing on 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 to states you know they actually defended this choice one of the states the state of go on has said that panels in the u.k. and japan and 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've gone 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 this drug it's also the f.d.a. in the u.s.

and the makers of 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 boost immunity a few awhile ago the engine medical association slammed him for promoting an indorsing 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 muslims in pakistan are marking the ied holiday in mosques and open fields as cases of care with 19 continue to search prime minister a man can send a message to worshippers on twitter asking them to celebrate responsibly mosques have been urged to ensure social distancing partial lockdown was introduced last

week to prevent people from travelling ahead of the holiday the government says the next few weeks are critical. lebanon's imposing a nationwide lockdown on thursday and friday to control any coronavirus spread over the muslim meat holiday restaurants and cafes will be closed and places of worship will operate as around a 3rd of their capacity members of the public will have to get permits if they want to go shopping or celebrations and rallies have been banned over the 2 day period a south african report says the number of people who died from corona virus could be more than double official figures authorities say around 55000 people have died but the study by south africa's medical research council has revealed there have been more than 157000 accessed deaths in the past year it estimates 85 percent of those are caused by corona virus. the u.s. state of ohio is giving people who get vaccinated a chance to win

a $1000000.00 the weekly lottery prize along with draws for college scholarships are the latest attempt by governor mike de wine to boost the state's vaccination rate all ohio residents over the age of 18 are eligible to take part as long as they've received at least one dose of a code with 19 vaccine. mass demonstrations against colombia's government are entering their 3rd week thousands of people have been calling for an end to police brutality also demanding economic support during the covert 19 pandemic. reports from the capital bogota. 2 weeks of the rallies have yet to excise the energy of anti-government protesters in colombia as thousands took to the streets again on wednesday. 0 1 rally in downtown bogota featured union members teachers and other workers on tuesday president 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 promise to get rid of tuition but only 12 percent students have access to it the same with health reform the truth is the government wants to fully privatized health in the country was limiters away in another part of town another massive rally here to majority or taxi drivers and students the focus ending the brutal police response to the protests was. deficient bet all of the past 2 weeks rose past 40 but dozens more are missing and i got the i will 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 bigger than the fear we have. idea after noon 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 is now also feared the gatherings are increasing coby 19 infections as restrictions have become one forcible with daily massive gathering cities across the country are now bracing for a longer than expected 3rd. 19 infections more than 90 percent of intensive care units are for here in the capital and the mayor fears a possible hospital collapse but 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 main crease if the crowds continue. but

with government still resisting negotiating the root causes of economic inequality and refusing to condemn police by elaine's demonstrators promised they will continue to protest rallies in the n.b.a. and as you know with. chileans head to the polls later this week to elect a group of people who will draft a new constitution women have been at the forefront of the push to change the current one and as are latin america and it's a new one reports from santiago half of the new delegates mostly women. 86 year old psychiatry's funny people yes or no has been a fighter most of her life. in the 1980 s. during chile's military dictatorship she co-founded the women from life movement. that's when she said she discovered the value of being a feminist that further we need more liberally we brought together politics with

the feminist perspective which meant democracy in the country and in the home. more than 3 decades later women in chile have come a long way they've led the charge not only for chile to draft a new constitution but for women for the 1st time anywhere to be represented equally in a constitutional convention. yet only believes gender parity will make all the difference. women are more closely tied to life perhaps because we are much more capable of joining intellect with the heart with the soul women find it easier to work collectively which is vital at a time when there's a need for a new paradigm of building a democracy in which no one is excluded. it's been a long time coming chilean women only won the right to vote in 1949 the current constitution written in 1800 the pinochet dictatorship doesn't even mention the word women historian my idea. is one of the candidates she believes the new

constitution will spell the beginning of the end of chile's patriarchal society like that with you in a lovely institutions constitutions and laws generate a practice that becomes a happy if a constitution is able to mean women and demand that the state takes responsibility for promoting nondiscrimination it gives society a mandate to resolve the problem that women have long suffered along. not everyone is happy about applying affirmative action to this unprecedented election ironically some of the conservative female candidates were opposed to the gender parity mechanism saying that it was undemocratic but the winning argument was that sometimes cultural changes that are necessary have to be forced so that eventually they will become so natural that you won't need a special law. but it's not just about creating

a legal framework for gender equality rather ensuring that women have an boys drafting a document that will likely shape this country's destiny for the foreseeable future . we see in human al-jazeera something. how my joel pipeline in the u.s. is now resumed operations also being forced offline by a cyber attack last week the incident led to severe fuel shortages along the u.s. east coast forcing some states to declare an emergency public 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 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 collage. matters of oil natural gas or hazardous 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. well still ahead and after the longest layoff of his career james harden is back on the basketball cold job be here with the action in school. internship.

all right sports fans time to get back into the game with joe very thank you 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 red travel list meaning fans. have to quarantine for 10 days in a hotel upon their return the portuguese government paved the way for porto to be named as the new host after proving the return of supporters to stadiums there porto's a studier to go will host the match on may the 29th and you have to say they'll allocate $6000.00 tickets to each team for firms to attend. but before the final chelsea have their premier league season to finish they missed a chance to almost guarantee a top 4 spots for losing to also at stamford bridge and we'll smith throw school the only goal of the game after a mistake from joe genius the wind keeps chelsea 4th and maintains arsenal slim hopes of qualifying for european football next season.

mathematically possibly we keep saying that so we have to give ourselves the best chance of the last game to see if that's what you get punished for because you cannot be naive in this race for top 4 so we suffer more from another defeat it's hard to swallow hard to accept but there's no other way. in the italian study are you ventus is struggling to qualify for next year's champions league with just 2 games to go they are currently outside the top 4 places on wednesday they swallow 313 and rob you christiane are an elder and paolo di barlow with the goals for you it's not been the best season after winning the italian a 9 seasons in a row they've lost the crown to enter and find themselves in the race to play in the champions league 2. elsewhere to find themselves in 2nd place with just 2 games to go they won their game in hand against relegation threatened benevento to no lewis moody else open the scoring in the 1st half before 2nd half strike by mario

a person which wrapped up the win benevento are in trouble very. good points from safety. and also had a great result on the night they hammered to reno 70 it was 2 no i have time but in the 2nd half milan run riot and to rub it had a night to remember the crowd helped himself to perhaps trick the 3 goals coming in the space of just 12 minutes in the 2nd half to land a 3rd in saudia and on track to play in the champions league next season. and into man have already secured the league title but that doesn't mean antonio contests men not looking to finish in style they took care of roma 31 mile solo for a sausage mathias a c. note scored for the new italian champions in the 1st half and also right up for one back from a little cocky made sure of the victory with a late goal. spain is allowing fans to return to football stadiums that a maximum of 30 percent capacity or up to $5000.00 people but only in certain areas

where the current virus is under control meanwhile atletico madrid defeated rail sociedad 21 on one side to move 4 points clear falso and with only 2 games to go well would have a game in hand on atletico royal play granada later on thursday if they fail to win atletico can win the. a title on saturday by beating also cena i am a democrat and i bet we knew that we had to win we got ahead in the game and we would doing things well so i really pressure was really good and we took it to no lead we had enough chances to have a wider school line at the end of the season winning is very important. to rome now where world tennis number one of djokovic has extended his quarterfinal record the 5 time champion beat out a 100 for keno 6261 to reach the last 8 in the italian capital a perfect time for facing its seed and not to call the masters champion stephanos

it's a past next. in the women's tournament american teenager coker golf ended the spectacular winning streak of arena lanka a 17 year old beat the reigning madrid champion 7564 to reach her 4th quarter fine of the year she'll face world no one ash barty next 6 of the top 10 players have already been to the tournament in right. after more than a month out with a hamstring strain james harden returned to the basketball court for the brooklyn nets on wednesday harden had sat out the last 18 games that is the longest playoff in his career brought him star god had quite a good return as he contributed 18 points 11 assists the nets going on to beat san antonio spurs 128 to 116. to the game with that signal to be sure to give. somebody garden fans an arena it was basically a rehab and you know like the way. the felt just to get marty

you know. encouraged me you know again i'm going. but it wasn't a great night for harden's old team in the houston rockets they are bottom of the western conference but looked like they were about to earn a surprise win against the champions the l.a. lakers however with less than 7 seconds on the clock chris my broke their hearts and a winning 124222. and there was a little bit of history in major league baseball for the l.a. angels to a star show hey tony on thursday against the houston astros a tony batted leadoff that means he batted 1st in the angels lineup the night before he was a starting pitcher is the 1st time since $116.00 that a player has done that didn't go too well for tony though as he struck out twice. right that is all useful for now i'll have more free later tommy franks some fancy it for me sammy's

a down to this news hour but i'm back in the moment it's another flu shot so i have to stay with us on al-jazeera. in the midst of war a generation grew up in exile more than 13000000 syrians that tough the pre-war population remain displaced inside and outside the country and as the conflict enters its 2nd decade with no political settlement in sight there could be further displacement home for many has been informal camps like this in neighboring countries in lebanon's bekaa valley life has been one of poverty and uncertainty. syria's economy is collapsing and international aid organizations are warning it is pushing millions deeper into poverty many are jobless and hungry the united nations says 60 percent or $12400000.00 syrians don't have regular access to enough food

despite the battlefield being largely quiet for a year aid agencies say the daily suffering of syrians is worse than it has been a nearly any point throughout the conflict and the hardship has not stopped at syria's borders. and southern england where 2 farmers turned safari park pioneers of that's the tract is in the driving seat i was just absolutely astonishing the life that poor back even the very 1st so much and i mean. one by you here in companies revolutionizing the district funds and artificially billions here inside you have science you have the knowledge you surprise on al-jazeera a day like no other we will never give up we will never be good shook us politics to its core you reacted. for klein's examines the fallout i don't know what the

hell happened to the republican party and asks what next for the ground 0 party everything is anger everything is clean and this is trump's party will the fire overtake the party will overtake the country faultlines capital and track the republican party off to trump on al-jazeera. israeli airstrikes continue on gaza 86 palestinians have been killed in the worst violence since 2014. i'm sam is a band this is al jazeera live from coming up gaza's armed factions fired another barrage of rockets towards israel at least 7 people.