we know one thing you know we can we know how to get a feel that others cannot fire and i'm going on the way they can tell that story is what can make a difference. israel warns its campaign on gaza could last for several days as palestinian factions fire more rockets into israel. welcoming peter dhabi you're watching else 0 live from doha also coming up israel deploys more troops to the gaza border as it weighs up a possible ground operation. as a strikes rained on gaza the u.s. blocks a call for the u.n. security council to meet to discuss the escalating conflict. also ahead india's overwhelmed hospitals start using the drug for coronavirus patients that goes

against the advice of the world health organization. israel plans to continue its aerial bombardment of gaza ignoring international calls for calm and a rapidly climbing death toll $809.00 palestinians including 18 children and at least 7 people in israel have been killed since monday there is some movement on the ground in southern israel our correspondent who's there harry forsett joins us live this half hour harry or is going on. since sunset for about the last hour there has been an intense artillery barrage from this area close to the gaza strip in the direction of the gaza strip obviously behind what has been fairly substantial tank movement you can hear that behind us right now it's the most obvious movement of military hardware apart from what we

saw coming in on the back of lorries that we've seen in our time here and as i say during more than an hour now the there's been a regular artillery barrage as well and this is coming on the day that the israeli military says that it is preparing a plan to give it to its political leadership for a potential ground operation now that doesn't mean and this doesn't mean that that ground operation is definitely going to happen it would be an enormous escalatory step if it did usually and certainly since 2014 israel under the government netanyahu as another artillery shell being fired has tried to avoid that and the attendant risks to israeli soldiers never mind the kind of damage that could inflict inside gaza as well of course so the idea that this represents. a

ground operation in preparation i don't think we can go that far yet but certainly this is a pretty significant movement it seems of military hardware in the region now benjamin netanyahu himself was down here a little earlier in the day he was visiting an iron dome and count meant talking to commanders. praising the work and also getting a pretty clear indication that israel was settling in for a long campaign. we're. going to lose a little the defense activity of better resists 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 defending our citizens it will take more time but with great firmness and off since as well as defense we will achieve our goal of bringing back come to the state of israel. so hairy compelling live pictures that you're showing us there from where you are in southern israel give us

an idea give us a sense or if you can of the the kind of the immediate geography of that area those tanks and what looks like personnel carriers armored personnel carriers perhaps are they now in effect heading in a straight line for the border or are they just being moved around the general vicinity. they are certainly moving in the direction or at least i can't tell you exactly where these ones are heading next but they were moving in a line towards the border and an early. collection of similar vehicles had crossed the road that we are close to and again was moving in a line towards god so i do want to say exactly where we are i mean presumably the dug in nature of the artillery encampment near us suggests that they are fairly confident that the the anti tank brigades on the other side don't have the location

but obviously for safety reasons we don't want to give too much away but but yes as you can see they're crossing a road down here and they are going to be crossing into another field it seems they're heading in the same direction as the contingent of tanks that was moving just a few minutes ago maybe 30 minutes ago when we 1st got here so as well as this i should tell you what else has been going on in terms of the latest sort of events in this escalating military situation the israelis say that they have destroyed an intelligence unit a building housing they say a large number of intelligence offices for hamas they've also attacked and they say they've killed a commander of the drone unit because of use of suicide drones or attack drones that was used earlier in the day as well and from the other side from inside . hamas has been launching again of long range rockets and indeed

it sent one which it says is a new type of rocket some 250 kilometers in the direction of the israeli airport of ramadan which is just outside the tourist and port town of el out on israel's very southern tip of the red sea it is to that airport that israel has said is going to be diverting airline arrivals to get them out of the firing line at ben-gurion airport between jerusalem and tel aviv so a clear deliberate attempt it seems by hamas to try to force israel potentially to close its airspace or at least for it to to have that concern and that calculation to make. thanks for that report and from southern israel as a force it. on the air strikes on gaza. gaza skyline unfair as they and new wave of israeli air strikes has targeted the

hamas police academy among other facilities israel says being used to launch missile attacks on its cities. the israeli bombardment house so far killing dozens of palestinians was israel says hamas has fired up to 1500 rockets into its territory over the past 3 days killing several people. sirens were had in northern israel and elsewhere warning of more hamas missiles. israel's iron dome defense system was seen in action over the border with the gaza strip to intercept palestinian rockets. incoming international flights to been good in airports near tel aviv or diverted to the southern part of that came under attack although easily of says rockets fell short was but in gaza and the west bank palestinian celebrated it did fit the festival marking the end of

the holy month of ramadan despite the bombings and on set and. think that all is good but it's just such situation because some people can feel happy and others god help them. it's hard for people in gaza west bank and elsewhere in the world to watch what is going on and keep silent i hope it will be good for all. i will celebrate the board money to buy new clothes for my son in order to challenge the situation and celebrate i want to make my son happy and i hope the next state i will take him to pray in el aqsa mosque and chant god the greatest. hundreds gathered at the compound early morning for 8 previous. days it was a scene of unprecedented raids by israeli forces from to the west vials in. as palestinians say those incidents meant israel had crossed what they described as

a headline i was the israeli airstrikes and the hamas rocket attacks continued there are no signs of either side agreeing to talk to us. israel has called up thousands of reservists and is mohsin to upset you the border with gaza in what's feel to be a preparation for an invasion how many are just. well the spokesman of hamas is military wing said in a video message the group's decision to strike israeli cities was easy but us that the decision to bomb tel of you jerusalem dimona ashkelon ashdod. and any cities before or after that from our occupied cities is easier for us than drinking water . well as the airstrikes continue so too does the violence among palestinian israelis and jewish residents is on the scale not seen in decades the tactics of israeli police are also being called into question laura but manley reports and a warning for you there are some strong images in her report from the beginning.

was the i was a chance of death to arabs anger and hatred spilled out into the streets in the coastal city of. palestinian israelis and jewish his ratings living in close proximity turning on each other. the among many find 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 is proconsul live on israeli television. us was 7 i close it to tell of the palestinian business is to run from the wave of violence is it dozens of cities and regions across israel it's the worst between communities

living alongside each other in decades 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 colonized at. all and you know people are colonized all and they have the right to resist they have the right to be free was the tension came to a boiling point is a court prepared to rule the force expulsion of palestinian families from the homes in the occupied east jerusalem shake a chair a neighborhood. israeli journalist yossi melman says he's worried about the 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 asked both sides to stop the attacks.

nothing justifies the lynching of arabs by jews and nothing justifies the lynching of jews by arabs it's unacceptable 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 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 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 card was satellites a mosque was the next day and palestinian mussa hassouna was shot dead by jewish residents during protests. even though the court has been spared the hearing

unchecked there are many and now more worried about how to stop the violence caused by anger that's been simmering for much longer nor about the money out as there are . still to come here on this program we meet the group of volunteers in senegal ensuring the growing number of coronavirus victims get a proper burial. and remembering their heritage we look back at the history of the aztec empire now called mexico city. 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 you to

word saturday it's still keeping it offshore but there is a circulation so 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.

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on the mark let's just update your top stories for you so far this half hour israel's aerial bombardment of gaza is continuing with raids on several locations $87.00 palestinians including 18 children have been killed since monday. palestinian factions have fired another 100 rockets into israel targeting televisa and elat where all international flights are being diverted and 7 people in israel have been killed including a 5 year old boy in the past few days. violence has also spread inside israel is fighting on a scale not seen in decades broke out between palestinian israelis and jewish residents in several cities. several countries including china and norway have asked for an open un security council meeting to discuss the israel palestine conflict but the u.s. is pushing back on that she has pretenses our correspondent following that story

for us out of washington so she has we have heard from mr by the u.s. president was he said. a difference of is a row and it's difficult not to see what the us is is doing at the united nations also as a defense of israeli actions. of the bombardment of gaza as you mentioned china norway and had asked for a 3rd meeting of the un security council thought emergency meeting of the un security council but this time an open session the previous 2 had been closed session and the us just in the last 45 minutes we understand we started reporting we got said no where you know we'll continue to work on this but this was a this is a process that's been going on since monday there have been 2 close sessions and each time a statement wasn't even able to be put out on the conflict 14 members of the security council each time said they wanted a statement to be released the u.s. each time it was the holdouts and now that the u.s.

doesn't even want to have a meeting on the situation in gaza or actually we did get some details as to what was in that drive straight to propose statement it called on israel to see settlement activities demolitions and evictions including in east jerusalem in line with its obligations under international humanitarian law and refrain from to do that steps that exacerbate tensions and undermine the viability of the 2 state solution this is a sort of language that was in the last proposed statement we understand what's good enough for the u.s. apparently in fact the u.s. official apparently told the other diplomats that the meeting itself was enough of a show of concern as to what was happening. on gaza and in the last few minutes as you mentioned joe biden was speaking and once again we heard not the usual the usual oh both sides to deescalate line that we've heard repeatedly from president u.s. presidents whatever israel bombards the civilian population of gaza with joe biden it's always slightly different. one of the things that. i have seen thus far

is that. there has not been a significant overreaction the question is how how we get to a point where they get to where there is a significant reduction in the attacks particularly the rocket attacks that are indiscriminately fired into population centers so much of this is in keeping with previous u.s. administrations there bobert ministration very much played the same role of giving israel cover to do whatever it wanted to do and 20122014 as a bombarded bombarded gaza but we know now though that at the time there barbara ministration thought it was part of a rail pull the teeth they wanted in iran nuclear deal and so on they felt it had to do with the difference with biden as we know from his 50 years of politics if he truly believes that israel has the right to do whatever it has to do it gaza he

said as much continually he said so on the campaign trail he said so as i was president in fact during one of the last incidents of israel and one of the last wars where israel created civilian casualties joe biden made an impassioned defense and said look israel has the right to do this israel's main problem is it has a public relations problem and there's no reason to think that joe biden has altered his opinion on what israel has the right to do and of course you have to add in them is a very close relationship with benjamin netanyahu so we do expect more of this that she had thanks very much. live for us this offer in washington. indian hospitals have become so overwhelmed with coronavirus patients that some states are now administering a drug against the advice of the world health organization go and order a com and have announced plans to use the anti parasitic drug ivermectin to protect

against severe qubit infections the world health organization recently said evidence of the drug working was inconclusive and recommended its use only in clinical trials the tao is in new delhi with more on india's vaccination campaign. the state of order for this has come out and said that it will be spending more than $1300000000.00 to import vaccines the state has said that it has been in touch with several companies including sputnik and pfizer for this order in all 10 states have now come out and said that they will be looking to float global tenders to import vaccines so they can accelerate the vaccination drive in the states the states include rogers thought on entrepreneur delhi and even maharashtra the more the government has come out and said that any vaccine that has been approved by the f.d.a. in the us and also by the w.h.o. will be allowed to be imported and that import licenses will be granted within 2

days this development comes as states have been scrambling for those as several of them over the last couple of days have actually halted vaccination drives especially for the 18 to 44 age group saying that they just don't have enough supplies you know the more the government has come under a lot of pressure by health experts and also by opposition parties now who are demanding that the government start a mass vaccination drive and do it for free. lebanon has imposed a nationwide locked friday to control any coronavirus spread over the muslim eat holiday restaurants and cafes are closed some places of worship are operating at around one 3rd of the normal capacity members of the public have to get permits if they want to go shopping all celebrations in rallies have also been banned over the 2 day period. the french interior minister asked police to plan a pro palestinian demonstration in paris this weekend police dispersed

a rally in the capital after protesters gathered next to the foreign ministry sheryl the man and cited fears could be repeats of clashes during similar protests in $24.00 team several demonstrations took place that year to learn. an israeli offensive on the gaza strip. health officials in senegal say a growing number of unclaimed bodies from coronavirus victims in hospitals nicholas hawk reports now from ts we met a group of volunteers giving them proper burials. from the morgues refrigerators the band and body of another baby when mark o'mara a history teacher carefully carries it away he's a volunteer for a small muslim charity in senegal organizing the funerals for the unidentified the abandoned or the unclaimed he says all of them whatever their race religion or gender deserve a dignified burial. a limited you can run in who english would be dumped

in moscow and does would be a good hafe seen the entire muslim community the dead to have rights the right to a bar a clean cloth a prayer and a dignified barrell in accordance to muslim rituals the charity says it has seen a 30 percent increase in unclaimed bodies since the beginning of the pandemic some are migrants who have drowned while trying to make it to europe others are street children and the homeless struck in traffic accidents and dying without identification. most of the bodies that they deal with are of children handed over to them by the hospitals because parents are unable to pay for medical fees and so they abandon their children the bodies are kept at the morgue here for 40 days with hospital staff hoping that a parent or relative will come and pick their children's body up but they rarely do

. hospital fees can range from $30.00 to $200.00 a small fortune for families already suffering from the economic fallout of the pandemic add to that the burial costs and a funeral becomes a luxury many cannot afford we tell families they can pay by installments to try and encourage them to take the bodies of bailout plans away but they don't without the welcome of the charities who would simply be overwhelmed that's why the state have given the charities a special status allowing them to bury the dead wood side the cemetery a final prayer with members of the public joining in to assist in the burial among them 13 year old man who quietly offers his words oh god forgive our living in our dead he says those who are present among us and those who are absent our young in our old our males in our females oh god whoever you keep

alive keep them alive in islam. nicholas hawke al-jazeera senegal. the president of afghanistan i'm certain it's time for the taliban to decide whether it wants priests or destruction the message was delivered at the beginning of a 3 day ceasefire to coincide with the muslim holiday agreed the deal between the taliban and the government follows a surge in violence in recent weeks officials say taliban fighters captured the key nerk district new kabul on weapons day contre 40 has more now 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 last call got 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 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. mexico is commemorating the 500th anniversary of the spanish conquest many and choosing to

all of those who defended their lands and celebrates an ancient city founded 200 he is before the europeans arrived reports now from the mexican capital. it's one of the world's busiest megacities but 5 centuries ago when mexico city was called mexico denotes cyclone it was perhaps the most advanced metropolis on earth archaeologists does says that when the spanish arrived they found a thriving society with a level of sophistication none of them could have imagined it. and what does her non-chord us find a very well planned city with an entire government structure as a city we know in its time was one of the largest in the world bigger than paris. this year marks the 500th anniversary of the fall of the nazi plan the famous capital of the ass take empire featured inventive engineering practices farming techniques and waterways that made it a marvel of human ingenuity but he cut them off to mexico tenors did learn was

a small island that grew over time but the continuous process of building over. which we can still see to this day in the southern part of the city in the summer of 1521 months after the arrival of cortez and the capture of the leader mark to summa tensions between the spanish and the native population reached a boiling point war broke out over control of the city but it was the spaniards who were forced to flee. that the notion of victory however was short lived cortez and his men would soon return with some 20000 indigenous allies sworn enemies of aspect rule and conquered the city all of this is she on. her toes makes the decision to build a new city and to do so destroys you know children. with those same materials to build the new city new palaces the homes of her name cortez and his captain's lands were divided and with the same stones in the same hands of the native people they built a new city that despite the destruction of mexico denotes the plan vestiges like

this aqueduct that once channeled water across the aged city still exist side by side with the towering metropolis that is the modern mexican capital. as mexican political leaders seek to commemorate the spanish conquest with a series of special events throughout 2021 the anniversary appears to have also sparked a renewed enthusiasm for pre-columbian heritage so look at what i feel remains today is a sense of grandeur there's a pride among the people of the city to be the descendants of that ancient then of . a recent poll found that more than half of residents in the mexican capital would be in favor of changing the city's name back to mexico.