a objective is to get basically to send it to the wall to show them what's going on exposing real world threats to objectivity often of on their part sounds from moscow earth 11000 people who were arrested the listening post covers the way the news is covered on a jersey about 'd. i read lentulus bombardment israel keeps pounding gaza forcing families to flee their homes. and fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha the threat of a ground assault as israel sends tanks and troops to its border with gaza dealing with the destruction of their homes the ordeal for gaza residents under attack. i'm

wearing the only. that i have. my hope. and also on the program americans are told they can now unmask if they're fully vaccinated against a coronavirus. my . thank you for joining us israel's bombarding gaza after another night ignoring international calls for calm and a rapidly rising number of deaths the un security council will hold emergency talks on sunday on the violence there's also the threat of a ground offensive now as israel who sits deployment of troops and tanks near the border with gaza hundreds of families are taking shelter in un run schools in the north to escape the israeli artillery fire 109 palestinians including 20 children have been killed since the israeli offensive began on monday israel's prime

minister benjamin netanyahu is adamant the attacks won't stop until peace returns or in a week moving in the hospital we will collect a very high price from hamas and the rest of the terrorist organizations and we will continue to do this with great force the last word has not been figured and this offensive will continue as needed in order to restore calm and safety to the state of israel. all palestinian factions also continue to fire wrong. it seemed to israel targeting tel aviv where all international flights have been diverted in the past few hours several rockets were seen in the sky above gaza at least 7 people in israel have died since the conflict escalated and that many security sources say rockets have also been launched from southern lebanon towards israel a spokesman of hamas says military wing says the group's decision to strike israeli cities was easy but. the decision to bomb to leave you jerusalem dimona.

and in the cities before or after that from our occupied cities is easier for us than drinking water well it is just past 2 in the morning now in gaza live to. loot for the very latest suffered sizzlin some confusion about whether israeli ground forces have ended guys out what is the situation right now. well from my side here i can confirm there are no israeli troops inside gaza we have been contacting our sources deployed living near the borders there is no any indication of israeli troops inside gaza even the israeli media have been reporting some foreign media have mis understood the huge wave of israeli. attacks that was carried out together. with

the aircraft forces the air forces the artillery the tanks all together all the sudden they opened fire along along the border line this normally from the military point of view is in preparation for a ground operation but in reality there is nothing on the ground except cleaning. sending messages to the palestinian fighting groups in case any of the fighters tries to infiltrate because also the israelis have been. an ally zinga analyzing the liberations of the spokesperson of the grooves when they say they have a lot of sort of prizes for the israelis so one of these sort of prizes could be. reaching the fans or going from under attack on a tunnel and kidnapping soldiers this these these procedures that israeli

attacks along the border those could be one of these preventive procedures to secure the borders a ground operation of course would be a major escalation and as you say it doesn't seem like we're quite there yet. just comparing the situation tonight stuff watch with the previous nights how would you describe it is it more intense for gaza residents is there now. look. the israelis have been out of different clip of us collision a few days ago or 2 days ago there have been targeting residential. buildings like 14 floor building and the one just behind us our media offices after that they start targeting the houses of fighters that belong to fight the fighting groups so we can see that there is

a systematic escalation and israeli bank of targets today there was suddenly a huge. huge wave of explosions and raids in the north of gaza strip before that another attacks or raids that targeted the houses in the north the south of gaza strip. and rafa looks like there is a plan there is a system where there is a map that they are following and return the palestinian fighters fighting groups also after every israeli collation. they fire their rockets either show short range or a longer range depending on the israeli it's a level of escalation so tonight we can we can say that for example yesterday there was there have been targeting gaza city the central area today they are focusing on borders the north and the south realty of lee we can say gaza city

itself is less has been attacked lish than other places comparing with yesterday for example right certainly asked in a very fluid situation and the civilians of course in gaza bearing the brunt of it all thank you very much for the moment of candor route correspondent in cause i think it will be with you of course as soon as you're in my dates from you. let's not speak to p.j. crowley who is a former u.s. state department official is joining us by skype from virginia thank you so much for being with us mr county as you heard our correspondents say the israel threatening a ground invasion that of course would be a huge escalation what's your reading right now the situation and do you think israel has the ability to attack whole that right now a ground offensive. the short answer is yes israel decides that the only

way to stop missiles from and rockets from being fired at israel proper is to invade gaza they will do it they've done it before. it will certainly be messy if that occurs there will certainly be simply a loss of life if that occurs but also hamas will will be punished severely should israel make that decision but as you say it's happened before and it doesn't seem to have achieved what israel at the time anyway and thinking back 2014 had wanted because hamas is still in power and selling position perhaps even more powerful than they were in 24 teens to what would that really achieve i mean given that it will be the civilians who will bear the brunt of any ground offensive. that certainly is true folly by the same token i think it is it bears reminding what clausewitz said that war is politics by other means and the challenge that we face right now is that politics both on the israeli side and on the palestinian side may

well be pushing both you know towards this conflict obviously benjamin netanyahu is hanging on for his political life and you know he may he has a political narrative his entire adult life has been fighting israel's enemies and he thinks this could perhaps change just political fortunes and we've had a situation where fatah has recently postponed a palestinian election and so you have hamas presenting itself as fighting for the palestinian cause so that it that's part of the dilemma here that that perhaps there are forces on both sides of the border that are telling the 2 sides towards a conflict that will will not necessarily achieve what either wants right the u.n. security council. made to discuss the violence on sunday that's what in in 3 days from now the u.s. has brought at least 2 previous attempts to have an open meeting and refused to

back a statement calling on all parties to refrain from provocation the situation on the ground is changing so quickly sunday seems like such a long time away for the u.n. security council to be holding a meeting at i mean can the biden administration change its mind its stance given the changing situation on the ground. well i think that there's no doubt that u.s. officials are telling both the israelis and palestinians in private what they're also saying it in public that it's it's necessary to try to do everything possible to deescalate this you know by the same token u.s. officials are also saying that israel has a right you know to defend itself and so you know that line is you know between you know what is escalating and what is self-defense is obviously very murky i think there's going to be broad international engagement as this unfolds but at the end

of the day if the palestinians hamas and the israeli and the israelis want this conflict it will happen despite it whatever you know everyone's efforts to the contrary what do you think biden president biden can can credibly continue to claim to support a 2 state solution when you see that there is really no change in the u.s. position these are the and this conflict well i think the united states continues to support a 2 state solution. but the reality on the ground is that we continue moving farther away from that that's that dynamic is that going on for for more than a decade so i think yes you're right there's there's a there's a policy aspiration but then there is a reality on the ground that is much different thank you very much for talking to us p.j. crowley joining us there from alexandria virginia you're quite welcome on any

al-jazeera spoke to you seth was the resident in gaza west for the norwegian refugee council and he told us about having to flee his home after an ass strike and i was in my house and you know with my big my big one why is it a month with might be as old daughter and claim to own is now is that safe to be at your house usually. nothing's more safe for us than you are your case your house and so 6 pm 2 days ago. drone it's right. below my house. so i tried everything happen suddenly i had to flee my house very quickly usually we understand that when it hit and i've a building it means that it will be an airplane attack so i had to fear as much as a. i could not take anything i was just trying to deal with my

terrified daughter i had to take care of my regnant wife trying to run away next about men as as useless as girls is also i can see that we are hoping that this is college officials who know it can be any personally i'm wearing the only thing that i have and the only short that i have this is the 1st day of this is my outfit. and other 2000000 gazans are hoping that this is going to finish soon as they can meanwhile on the streets of ramallah in the occupied west bank many are said that the natives find in tesco in sided with the muslim holiday of the leon raid to hide really and. we are not observing any on the television this as willful to sad about what is going on in gaza what saddens us more is what is going on in jerusalem especially the end of the holy month of ramadan the israeli occupation forces were in the holy moments and the festivities. in the summer

a lot of middle nonstop shelling in gaza and the rising number of the fallen martyrs we cannot feel any joy however we should observe our rituals it is a saddening situation but say nothing and praise be to god. we pray to allah to accept the full and his mercy and grant a speedy recovery to the wounded we hope the world could genuinely pause and think about the injustice done to us the world is turning a blind eye others are talking just standards however this cannot go on to the end of time it will change thanks to the will and fortitude of the palestinian people. i still ahead on al-jazeera pressure mounts on india's government as calls from several states growing louder from all coronavirus taxi.

hello we haven't been able to say this for a while no real major storms across the u.s. we do have some bits and pieces of energy and we're getting into a northwest breeze for florida so that's given us some moisture and the potential for some showers as we head toward miami really unsettled for the next few days but look at this only a 30 percent chance of showers on sunday just had to put that on your radar but one area that could really use this rain is toward the southwest tender dry conditions drought emergency through areas of california crews battling this brush fire in california now the one thing that will be on their side is light wind but still dry conditions los angeles 22 degrees on friday now where the rain has been a problem is in central america for mexico because so much of the country was dealing with a drought and you got this deluge of rain all at once couldn't keep up more heavy rain in the forecast from mexico city on friday ok for south america i think the

heaviest pockets of rain will be ecuador on friday but our usual suspects so north in peru southern areas of colombia venezuela toward the south it's unsettled but pleasant in the north caracas a high of $29.00 on friday. frank assessments. but the government needs to watch what exactly happened and what may have now taking foot a situation might not be good ever again informed opinion is the u.s. with thinking military positioning in the middle east or is it just a simple act of reorganizing ministry us and this is a message to the region the united states is rethinking its military posture in depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story. the

in. there watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder on main story this hour israel is continuing its bombardment of gaza don't ignoring international calls of calm $109.00 palestinians have been killed since monday including 20 children hundreds of families have been forced to take shelter in un run schools in northern gaza to escape israeli artillery fire israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu says the offensive won't stop until peace returns . as we mentioned earlier the un security council will now meet on sunday to discuss cesário palestine conflict a proposal to meet on fighting was rejected by the united states president joe

biden call for a significant reduction in walk attacks but he said they has not been an over reaction in the israeli response was in jordan has more from washington. after 4 days of deadly violence between the palestinians and the israelis u.s. president joe biden is sticking with his calls for both sides to hold their fire the question is how. how we get to a point where they go to puri where there is a significant reduction in the attacks particularly the rocket attacks that are indiscriminately fired into population centers the biden administration had not made the israeli palestinian matter a top foreign policy concern mainly because of the covert 19 pandemic and the resulting economic slowdown analysts saying that was a mistake the team has not fully stepped out on the middle east it's adopted this

posture that i think affected badly the obama administration as well which is this reactive tactical crisis management posture the white house is being criticized for blocking an emergency security council meeting on the issue but it has sent a state department official to tell of the to urge israeli and palestinian officials to declare a cease fire a point underscored thursday by the u.s. secretary of state tony blinken but we are deeply concerned with the loss of life. among civilians especially among among children. the palestinians have a right. to live in security and to live in peace just as israelis do and so. we are working hard to encourage. all sides to stand down meanwhile in congress strong bipartisan support for israel but from

democrats a show of support too for palestinians caught in the fighting there is a respect for meeting the needs of the palestinians but there is a palestinian have struggle and this is about how mosque so i wouldn't just label it palestinian i would say hamas and hamas is. threatening the security of people and israel israel has a right to defend itself from republicans accusations the u.s. has indirectly endangered israelis by trying to pursue a new nuclear deal with hamas as primary supporter iran if difficult to believe an american president would consider removing terrorism or missile related functions at the very moment right now rockets are writing down on israel a sign of how challenging it will be for the biden administration to manage this sensitive part of its foreign policy rosalynn jordan al-jazeera washington well our

white house correspondent kimberly how kids sent us this update only after she asked the press secretary jen psaki well the palestine and israel had equal rights to defend to self defense. all week the biden administration has repeatedly underscored in its public statements its belief that israel has a legitimate right to self-defense and has condemned the rocket attacks by hamas so on thursday at the white house press briefing i asked the press secretary whether the biden ministration also believes the palestinians have that same right to self-defense here's what she had to say. in the state. policies also have a right to sell or the attacks not coming from hamas to consider hamas the palestinian leadership let me rephrase the question to you for me to be in the statement damn right it. does the white house does the final ministration sit down

with the. palestinians. but he does look into that in our readouts and certainly our national security advisor has raised and we have raised at many levels the importance of. addressing the building in these in these communities and the fact that you know in order to move forward and move toward deescalation that's an important issue to address that has been that has come up i think we've got to move on and let you wrap it it's clear that democrats in washington have coordinated their message the top democrat in the house of representatives nancy pelosi giving a similar response however president biden is under increasing pressure from more progressive members of his own democratic party who are accusing him of blaming palestinians for the violence they now face. france's interior minister has oxford's to ban a pro palestinian demonstration in paris this weekend on

a wednesday police disperser valley in the capital after protesters gathered next to the foreign ministry job dominants cited fears they could be a repeat of clashes during similar protests in 2014 several demonstrations took place at yet is announce an israeli offensive on the gaza strip. british prime minister boris johnson says israel and palestine must work towards deescalating the violence i think the everybody's very concerned and certainly we in the u.k. very sad to see what is is happening and the cycle of violence that now seems to be taking place and i think it's important we break that cycle we end this idea of reprisals and i think that what everybody wants to see is urgent urgent deescalation and that's what don rob has been saying to his counterparts both in

israel and in the in the palestinian authority. the coronavirus pandemic now in the u.s. centers for disease control says people who are vaccinated against covered 19 no longer need to wear masks in most places but is still advise is one be worn in crowded settings like buses planes and in hospitals 59 percent of people in the u.s. have received at least one dose of a cold 1000 vaccine the u.s. has been the worst affected country in the world let's bring in john hendren in washington d.c. for us john so president biden calling this a great milestone what's prompted the c.d.c. to issue this new guidelines. well there's been a lot of criticism of this c.d.c. for being too slow and too cautious on opening the us back up but it seems that people at the c.d.c. have been listening now you can wear a mask not just outdoors that happen a little earlier you can go without

a mask that is not just outdoors but also in most indoor spaces but there are restrictions. you can't wear one in a prison hospital or are you must wear one rather in a prison hospital or in airport or on a plane but for most open spaces for most indoor spaces you can go without a mask now under the c.d.c. guidelines if you have been vaccinated now this is largely to reward those people who have gotten vaccinated that's 111000000 americans of course those under 12 are not eligible but it's also an incentive to those who haven't been vaccinated and some of the concern is that about 30 percent of americans in polls have suggested that they won't get vaccinated at all this is a way of saying to them there are rewards for being vaccinated but it creates issues for state and local governments they have to scramble now to come up with new rules because those rules haven't gone away the c.d.c.'s rules are just

guidelines it is the state and local governments who actually come up with the rules but they are doing that right now j.b. pritzker the governor of illinois through a spokesman has issued a statement saying the governor firmly believes in following the science and intends to revise his executive orders the scientists message is clear if you're vaccinated you can safely do much more so the rules are changing here in the u.s. not fast enough for many conservative americans and of course there are for those who are immune deficient they'll still have to consult their doctor before deciding not to wear a mask but for anybody who wants to wear one they still can they can be safe and continue to wear them but millions of americans have been crying out for a change in these rules many of them are conservatives in congress who recently called the c.d.c. on the carpet for being too slow about this now we see the c.d.c. responding john thank you for that john hendren live in washington. in brazil a senate commission has heard how the government repeatedly ignored offers last

year to buy tens of millions of pfizer vaccine doses the firm's regional c.e.o. qantas morio says several proposals were sent between august and november including a letter to president bush narrow that went unanswered for 2 months a contract with the firm 400000000 doses was only signed in march the commission is investigating whether the government has been criminally negligent in its handling of the pandemic more than 430000 brazilians have died in india several states are in urgent talks with the vaccine manufacturers as a country faces an acute shortage in the face of wreckage called 1000 deaths and infections the government says it's hopeful more than 2000000000 additional jobs will be available in the country between august and december but it's facing criticism for its slow roll out on thursday india recorded more than 4100 deaths and more than 360000 infections mittal is in new delhi with more on india's fax

nation effort. the city of altar pradesh 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 this states these states include raja's 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 doses 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 massive vaccination drive and do it for free muslims in pakistan have marks the holiday in mosques and open fields as cases of covert 1000 surge prime minister in iran can send a message to worshipers on twitter asking them to celebrate responsibly a partial lockdown was introduced last week to prevent people from traveling ahead of the holiday the government says the next few weeks are critical. as south african report has found its death toll from cover 1000 is more than double official figures so authorities say almost 55000 people have died from the virus since the start of the pandemic but a report by south africa's medical research council says a real figure is around 133000 and that's just since last may.

now russia is sending a nocturne film director where no film crew has been before their mission is to make the 1st feature film in space using the international space station as their studio. parasail then direct a claim ship penco will begin training for the expedition later this month with takeoff scheduled for october the 5th and actor tom cruise is also set to film on the space station in the same month but no date has been given for its mission it's . the end. of the air coming stories on our jazeera this hour israel is continuing its bombardment of gaza ignoring international calls for calm $109.00 palestinians have been killed since monday including $28.00 children hundreds of family.