all out i don't know what the hell happened to the republican party and asks what next for the grand old party everything is singular everything is clean and this is trump's party will the fire overtake the party will overtake the country folk large capital a turn the republican party off to trump on al-jazeera the arab . the end. every lentulus bombardment on gaza force his family to flee their homes palestinian factions fire hundreds more rockets into israel. i'm fully back to bill you watching al-jazeera live from doha the threat of a ground assault looms as israel sends tanks and troops to its border with gaza as dealing with the destruction of their homes the ordeal for gaza residents under

attack. anywhere in the only. way out on the program americans are told they can now unmask if they're fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. israel is bombarding gaza for another night ignoring international calls for calm and a rapidly vising number of deaths is also now the threat of a ground offensive as israel bull sits deployment of troops and tanks near the border with gaza hundreds of families are taking shelter in un run schools in the northwest the israeli artillery fire $109.00 palestinians including 20 children have been killed since the israeli offensive began on monday israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is adamant the attacks won't stop. until peace returns. in

a week moving limo service into we will collect a very high price from her mouth and the wrist 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 in 52 the state of israel. meanwhile has fired another barrage of $250.00 rockets towards israel in the past few hours hitting the city of ashkelon on thursday their rockets targeted tel aviv in a lot where all international flights have been diverted at least 7 people in israel have died since the conflicts escalated lebanese security sources also say rockets have been launched from southern lebanon towards israel the spokesman for hamas his military wing says the group's decision to strike israeli cities was easy . the decision to bomb tel of the jerusalem dimona ashkelon ashdod.

and any cities before or after that from our occupied cities is easier for us than drinking water or is just past 3 in the morning in gaza let's speak to al-jazeera. new barrage of rockets since we spoke last hour launch towards israel bring us up to speed with the latest air. yeah the military wing of hamas some brigades. announced a while ago that they have launched a new project 100. 100 rockets to was. the south of israel they said that this said you about ours came in response to the latest israeli raids. strikes the targeted civilian and the north of gaza strip. going back to the attack before we said that blunt says we are not able to reach the north of gaza after the he was really the big wave of

israeli attacks the local media now is reporting that. after reaching a lot of which is in the north of gaza they managed to retrieve the body of a woman or a mother of 3. sons this is the latest regarding the last israeli attack rate in the north of the gaza strip still it's back and forth every time we have. immediately we have a response retaliation from the on groups in the gaza strip the minister of health say that the number of people killed in the latest escalation. up to $109.00 including $28.00. children. i think to the new the new casualties or the new victims that has not been

considered yet there were appeals also from the bank of of blood in gaza are calling people for for blood donation because there is a lark of. blood because of the big waves of injured people are arriving to the hospital does. you mention that also that hundreds of families until now evacuating their homes in those who live across the border or near the border line because most of the israeli recent strikes and artillery. were focusing across the borders so more and more families are evacuating some reach their relatives and. friends also some other hundreds they have opened the door of. 'd our own schools

and taking shelter from from these schools. this is the case in gaza so far right the israeli military threatening a ground invasion there was some confusion early about whether israeli ground forces that entered gathered by these really. that it has not entered gaza that would. signal signal a major escalation if they did. yes of course. 'd 'd for the time being from what we can see it's quite impossible the israeli. not from the technical point of view or the military point of view but still you know the ground operation needs lots of preparations needs lots of troops. not deployed . enough number of times and troops for a ground operation yes it does misunderstood by the by the international media the

huge wave busy the big wave of strikes and artillery tanks because normally such attacks or such charades. cut it out in preparation for a ground operation but. the thing that is not happening along the borders we have conducted our contacts along the borders there is no single israeli soldier entering inside the territory inside the borders of gaza yes there are artillery times and they have being firing their shells. projectiles along the borders but we can't say that any of these tanks are moving. towards the gaza strip thank you so far thank you very much for that update. correspondent. now the u.n. security council will meet on sunday now to discuss the conflict a proposal to meet on friday was rejected by the united states and have president

joe biden call for a significant reduction in rocket attacks but he says it has not been an over reaction in 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 eve 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 it's difficult to believe an american president would consider removing terrorism or missile related functions at the very moment iranian 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 rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington i white house correspondent kimberly hunt how has sent us this updates after she asks press secretary jens psaki whether palestine and israel had equal rights 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 biggest ration 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 provide ministration sit down

with the. palestinians. in unison akin to that in our readouts and certainly our national security advisor has raised and we have raised 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 rather 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. still ahead on al jazeera

pressure mounts on india's government does calls from several states grown. for more grown advise. and greece's 5 time they shouldn't is why some tourist destinations and looking to go at markets and the industry be open something this. time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored point qatar airways hello there we do have a risk of flooding for southern areas of china in particular in and around as we're getting these heavy pulses of rain along beginning see river lot of rain in the forecast for shanghai on friday we will watch that backs of moisture sling into the korean peninsula and key issue island in japan so osaka what day ahead for you on

saturday 27 degrees and heavy pockets of rain for beijing in the forecast as well on saturday to southeast asia we're getting some thundery downpours across indochina but bangkok you're in the clear some sunshine holcim on city thunderstorms however for you heavy pocket of rain toward northern areas of sumatra across borneo in particular brunei and drenching rain for southern areas of the philippines that will continue for saturday as well take you to the arabian sea where we're watching this disturbance now starting to form proper circulation it looks like it could develop into a tropical cyclone over the next little bit and impact go up to mumbai but our computer models are keeping this offshore but it will still have an impact toward western areas of india across the middle east we've got high heat a high of 42 in doha on friday. qatar airways. in hebron boys breeden fly pigeons

but in this occupied palestinian city boys are also close to watched by israeli forces a time shot at an awesome arrested. the delicately told tales in the over 5 years of a coming of age in a place where even a child's imagination is every restricted the skies above have brought a witness documentary on a 0. the eh . eh eh. you're watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our main story israel is continuing its bombardment of gaza i knowing international awful calm 109 palestinians have been killed since monday including

20 children amassed meanwhile has fired another barrage of $250.00 rockets towards israel in the past few hours hundreds of families are taking shelter in un run schools in northern gaza to escape israeli artillery fire these are the prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the offensive won't stop until peace returns un security council hold emergency talks on the conflict on sunday secretary general and tony terrorists appealed for an immediate day escalation anticipation of hostilities. or more now on the violence in gaza al-jazeera spoke to use of hamas a resident in gaza who works for the norwegian refugee council and he told us about having to flee his home after an asteroid. i was in my house with my my pregnant wife was my 3 years old daughter and trying to convince ourselves that the safe to be at your house usually nothing more safe for us than you are your claims

your house and if so 6 pm 2 days ago i saw the land drone strike had parked me below 'd my house. so i it was everything happen suddenly i had to flee my house very quickly usually we understand that when a drunk ok it hit and i've a building means that it will lead to or on an airplane attack so i had to fear as much as i can. i didn't i could not take anything because i was just trying to deal with my terrified daughter i had to take care of my regnant wife trying to run away to next about men as as useless as god has also i can see that we are hoping that this is going to finish as soon as 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 the day this is my outfit for the. other 2000000 gazans are hoping that this

is going to finish as much soon as they can. on the streets of ramallah in the occupied west bank many are upset the latest violence has coincided with the muslim holiday of the. we are not observing any celebration this as we all feel too sad about ways 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 mamas and the festivities. from the summer legacy amid a nonstop shelling in gaza and the rising number of the fallen martyrs we cannot feel any joy for however we should observe our rituals it is a saddening situation but say not think and praise be to god. we pray to allah to accept the fall in his mercy and grant 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 adopting jews standards however this cannot go on to the end of time it will change thanks to the will and fortitude of the palestinian people earlier i spoke to p.j. crowley a former us state department official he says israeli and palestinian leadership are pushing towards a conflict for political gain. if 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 civilian loss of life if that occurs but also hamas will will be punished severely should israel make that decision 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 and you know he may mean he has 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 both on both sides of the border that are telling the 2 sides to his conflict that will will not necessarily achieve what either wants. the u.s. centers for disease control says people who are vaccinated against all the 1000 and no longer need to wear masks in most places but it's in advise is using one in

crowded setting such as buses planes and hospitals any 59 percent of adults in the u.s. have received at least one dose of a vaccine the u.s. is the worst affected country in the wild john hendren has more from washington. 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 some 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. in india several states are in urgent talks with vaccine manufacturers because of an acute shortage the government has a host more than $2000000000.00 additional jobs will be available between august and december but is facing criticism for its slow rollout on thursday india

recorded more than 4100 deaths and more than 360000 infections of newtown is in new delhi with more on india's vaccination effort the city of alter 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 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 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. greece is about to start welcoming tourists from the u.s. and european union so long as are vaccinated or have a negative coverage $1000.00 tests a move is weeks ahead of the rest of the e.u. and comes at a time when it's desperate for tourism related income johnson. corfu is one of greece's most popular islands for holidaymakers with 2 and a half 1000000 visitors here in 2019 the talk was about over tourism no longer

last year's tourism revenue fell by 3 courses because of covert 19 and because tourism is the main industry 8 in 10 people were left unemployed and dependent on state aid many businesses have gone bankrupt lenny who says she feels lucky to be able to reopen after all and i worry about going out of business i'm not optimistic this year a concert put the shop big spence's are really high i'm holding on by my fingernails now that would last a whole season industry leaders here say they'll be lucky to reach just 45 percent of their $2900.00 income this year it's a different story on taxi just south of corfu the islanders managed to hold on to huff their business during the worst of the pandemic last year and believe they'll do even better now that's because black sea was developed as a luxury destination in the 1970 s. when europeans started to build fillers here and then rented them out to other

europeans to offset the cost it back she sees a small island without hotels there are villages and rented apartments tourists trust because they don't come into contact name brought home and spaces the villages are clean and owners try to keep them disinfected stephanos for how those who rents apartments says his business is repeat tourism a level of loyalty hard to find on corfu there are 2 and a half 1000 residents. baxi and those florida keys here say they have so far vaccinated about 2 thirds of the population compared to the national average of under 30 percent so this island is selling itself as a covert safe destination something larger tourism hotspots cannot do but see is certainly doing well as a luxury just a nation the 4 month season keeps people in money the rest of the year such profits haven't gone unnoticed on call food where it doesn't 5 star hotels have gone up in

the last 15 years coffee it's now seeking to cash in on those more expensive markets. we're at a turning point we depend on the british market for 40 percent of our tourism we're trying to attract new markets like china the united arab emirates kazakstan and azerbaijan we believe this is the future the trend towards luxury locals hope will ensure the son of asserts on greek tourism jump several close al-jazeera on corfu and boxy. former british prime minister david cameron has told a parliamentary committee his motive wasn't money when he lobbied for a financial firm after leaving office and days are investigating why he bombarded ministers with messages last year offering to help during the pandemic and reports . david cameron shortly before becoming british prime minister in 2010 i believe it's time we shone the light of transparency into lobbying in our country and forced our politics to come clean now he's being asked to come clean to

parliamentary committees are investigating cameron's lobbying on behalf of green silk capital a financial firm he worked for after he left office between march and june last year cameron and his staff sent 45 emails texts and whatsapp messages to ministers and officials he says he wanted permission for green seal to issue government insured loans to help companies through the pandemic the motivation for contacting the government was that i thought we had a really good idea for how to help how to help extending credit to thousands of businesses cameron says that in april last year at the time of his intensive lobbying he had no sense crean still was close to failing but company owner lex green still himself giving evidence to m.p.'s this week said he'd become aware of supply chain problems in march 2020 and discussed it with david cameron he was asked whether the furious lobbying was aimed at saving his firm that actually part

of this push was to get cash into the business is there will be clear concern about the future of the business and the point is to him i think it's important to make something very clear that means still itself and indeed is that chancellor put in is there. and that john and a governor of the bank of england. greensill at no time sought funding for itself but cameron's lobby included 9 whatsapp messages to chancellery she soon ak complaining the treasury's objections to green so its application were nuts as well as a dozen text messages to the treasury's top civil servants the previous year cameron and lex green so had met health secretary matt hancock for a private drink to discuss a new payment scheme for national health service staff turning now to green. i'm not named urged. daily or weekly in advance do you expect that your lobbying for the n.h.s. wasn't but it's house but for the house the going so spend its balance sheet i

wouldn't accept one second because the in the end cameron's lobbying was unsuccessful greensill capital collapsed in march this year after its insurers withdrew their cover that's jeopardized $5000.00 steelmaking jobs in the u.k. because the bank was key lender to the firm liberty steel one former minister has told m.p.'s green still had elements of a ponzi scheme something david cameron rejects and while he accepts he should only have gone through official channels he says he broke no rules the team barber al-jazeera. television am fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera israel is continuing its bombardment of gaza ignoring international costs for com 109 palace in.