and. impartial we tell your story we are your voice. to al-jazeera. a relentless bombardment on gaza forces families to flee their homes palestinian factions fire hundreds more rockets into israel. the whole romney watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes the threat of a ground assault looms as israel sends tanks and troops to its border with gaza. the lone palestinian american congresswoman breaks down and she talks about

a family living in fear. she said quote tonight i put the kids to sleep in our bedroom so that when we die we die together. and americans are told they can now get their fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. welcome to the program israel's bombarding gaza for another night ignoring international calls for calm and a rapidly rising number of deaths. $113.00 palestinians including $32.00 children have been killed since the israeli offensive began on monday and at least 7 people in israel have died since the conflict escalated in the early hours of friday morning hamas fired another barrage of $250.00 rockets towards israel hitting the city of ashkelon well in southern israel there are been heavy troop movements and the israeli military has drawn up plans

for a ground offensive hurry force it has more from the border near gaza. just after sunset we watched the biggest movement of israeli armor we've seen so far here on the fringes of northern gaza as the tanks moved south heavy artillery station behind them fired round after round of long range shells a prolonged intensive lasting over an hour on the day that the israeli military confirmed that it was preparing a plan for a ground offensive this is the kind of heavy armory movement that we haven't seen up until this point also consistent heavy artillery fire as well that plan is due to go up the chain of command to the political leadership for a decision to be made. with darkness another line of tanks and for the shelling perhaps the preliminary phase of a ground attack perhaps a ploy to pressure hamas whichever the impact on northern gaza it was immediate and

heavy. the 1st day of the eve holiday it started grimly enough for these families it end on the streets exposed in fear of an israeli incursion even as the fighting factions said they would welcome $130.00. now one ally though nothing that the enemy is doing will change our strategy will have a bigger chance of killing and capturing more of your soldiers don't threaten us with what will bring us victory this would be the shortest way to our victory. really it is really military had said it carried out a series of major strikes against hamas destroying an intelligence unit in southern russia knocking a hamas. drone out of the sky. for yet another day the rocket fire out of gaza came in waves against central and southern israel were targeted by major barrier. a new long range rocket was used to target the far southern airport of rome on where israel routed incoming airliners israeli prime

minister visiting iron dome interceptor units said the military attacks would continue but most of the hamas we continue to strike hamas while defending our citizens it will take more time. a short time later he was on israel's 2nd front a parallel crisis of lawless racial violence which is gripped its towns and cities . the intelligence we have says that it is very possible that there will be an increase in violence here in the coming days they may be an exchange of blows here and in cases like these in order to suppress the riot we need to use force a lot of forth we will use that while giving full support to the israeli police. in a town of bad morning was spent surveying the damage of the attack the night before you heard that there are signs that the world would never say did it because we speak arabic we're not bad people we did nothing remember hurt anyone we've been here for 20 years alongside them as neighbors family and friends we did not expect

this to happen. intelligence about further violence was soon proven accurate israeli law enforcement so far unable to stem this coming all bloodletting in lloyd the palestinian israeli firing on jews was i felt. elsewhere jewish israeli journalists attacked by jewish extremists unhappy with their coverage this is a spasm of internal insecurity that like the military situation in the south is at the moment only escalating are a force that al-jazeera southern israel. does or spoke to use of hamas a resident in gaza who works for the norwegian refugee council he told us about having to flee his home after an asteroid. i was in my house and go with my my wife well my me is all daughter and it trying to convince ourselves that the safe to be at your house usually nothing more safe for us than you are you know you're clean

your house and i think pm today they go and they land and. hit me below my house. so i it when everything happened suddenly i had to flee my house very clear usually we understand that when we get hit and a building near it means that it will lead to it and an airplane attacks or. fear the macho. i mean i could not take anything. just trying to deal with mike did if i daughter had to take care of my mignonne 2 i drank 2 would run away. as you would go and also i can see you there we are hoping that if your patients will know it can be the only person only i'm wearing that's the only piece they have and on short that i have it unless they are very different my outfit or made any. other 2000000 hoping that this is going to finish

much sooner than they can the palestinians have been protesting in cities across the occupied west bank against the israeli offensive. there have been sporadic demonstrations throughout the week but the crowds grew larger on friday as palestinians mark the muslim holiday of 8 they're calling for the end to israel's bombardment of gaza. now the un security council will meet on sunday to discuss the israeli palestine conflict a proposal to meet on friday was rejected by the united states earlier president biden called for a significant reduction in rocket attacks but he said the israeli response was not an overreaction the u.n. secretary general antonio terror is calling for an immediate deescalation and suspension of hostilities also in jordan reports from washington d.c. . 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 get to a point 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 cold at 1000 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 has agreed to join an

emergency un security council meeting on the crisis on sunday in the meantime 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 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 on 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. correspondent kimberly how sent us this update from the white house not to she asked press secretary jens sakhi whether palestine and israel had the rights 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 this policy it's also our right to sell our lives for 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'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. the 1st palestinian american woman to be elected to the u.s. congress has accused her colleagues of funding what she calls israel's apartheid government receive that the because emotional talking about those affected by the escalating violence in go also. i am

a reminder to colleagues that palestinians do indeed exist that we are human that we are allowed to dream we are mothers daughters granddaughters we are just a seekers and our unapologetically about our fight against oppressions of all forms and colleagues palestinians aren't going anywhere no matter how much money you send to israel's apartheid government i want to read something a mother named the man in the has a wrote 2 days ago she said quote tonight i put the kids to sleep in our bedroom so that when we die we die together and no one would live to mourn the loss of another when well still ahead here on al-jazeera i thought we had a really good idea

a former british prime minister thanks uncomfortable questions from m.p.'s over his lobbying activities. and breaks his 5 star ambitions why some toys destinations are looking to go up market as an industry reopens. it's time for the perfect gentle. winter sponsored park qatar airways. 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 offshore 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 go and 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. sponsored by qatar airways. killing the debate you don't see this action and amplify your voice your only human narrative the media will miss when true

story no topic is off the table why in the world what was humanize an individual domestic terrorist this was an illegal occupation of a country what they're doing is they're removing or just to store all those innocent this street where a global audience becomes a global community on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me as a whole robin a reminder of our top stories israel is continuing its bombardment of gaza are ignoring international calls to car $113.00 palestinians have been killed since monday including $32.00 children

a mass has fired another barrage of rockets towards israel and hundreds of families are taking shelter in your run schools in northern gaza to escape israeli artillery fire israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the offensive won't stop until peace returns. the un security council will hold emergency talks on the conflict on sunday secretary-general antennae caetera has appealed for the region deescalation has a say should of hostilities. the u.s. said this for disease control says people who are vaccinated against cave at 19 little goody to wear masks in most places but that still recommends using face coverings in crowded settings such as buses planes and hospitals the only 59 percent of adults in the u.s. of a c. the least while the vaccine does $100.00 possible for washington d.c. 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. several states in india are floating global tenders to obtain bank scenes as the country faces an acute shortage in the face of the world's worst ongoing covert 19 outbreak it wants a punjab it said to be joining the un back kovacs scheme the new interim government is being accused of abdicated its responsibility by making states compete against each other for vaccines it is expressing hope that more than $2000000000.00 additional jobs will be available between august and december on friday the country

recorded 4000 deaths and more than 340000 infections. a south african report says the number of people who have died from quote a virus could be more than double the official figure almost 55000 people are confirmed to have died but a study by south africa's medical research council has revealed there have been more than 157000 excess deaths in the past year it's estimated 85 percent of those work coronavirus related. the head of pfizer in latin america has told brazilian politicians the government repeatedly ignored offers last year to buy millions of vaccine doses from the company. who is testifying before a senate commission investigating whether the government was criminally negligent and its handling of the pandemic a contract with the firm for 100000000 doses was only signed in march more than 430000 brazilians have died from covert 19 with the country focused on the pandemic brazil's lower house of congress has approved

a controversial environmental bill the legislation would make it easier to issue permits for infrastructure mining and farming projects critics warn it's another step on the path to environmental mass destruction this week the former ministers signed an open letter opposing the bill which now goes to the senate. mexico is marking of the 500th anniversary of the spanish cold quest but many people are choosing to all of those who defended their land and celebrate the ancient city founded 200 years before the europeans arrived. reports from mexico city. it's one of the world's busiest megacities but 5 centuries ago when mexico city was called mexico denotes to learn 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. what is her name cortez

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 as take empire featured inventive engineering practices farming techniques and waterways that made it a marvel of human ingenuity and he got them off to mexico to know steve 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 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 ass

took rule and conquered the city don't let this you see on. cortez 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 ancient 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 dynasty . 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. al-jazeera mexico city. now forward british prime minister david cameron has told the parliamentary committee his motive wasn't money when he lobbied for a financial firm after leaving office peter investigating the way he bombarded ministers with messages last year offering to help during the pandemic but he barbara 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 still 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 and 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 but actually part of this push was to get cash into the business is there will be clear concern about the future of the business at that point is to him i think it's important to make something very clear that means he'll itself and indeed is that chancellor put in

is there. and that chant and a governor of the bank of england. greensill at no time sort funding for itself 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 servant the previous year cameron and lex green still 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's those proposals for our n.h.s. i'm not mind urged. daily or weekly in advance directive that your lobbying the n.h.s. wasn't but it's house but for the house the greens so spend its balance sheet i wouldn't accept that for 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 barber al-jazeera . greece is welcoming taurus from the us and european union so long as they're vaccinated or have a negative covert 19 test but the move comes weeks ahead of the rest of the e.u. at a time when the country is desperate for tourism related income. as more. 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 and lenny who cicle pool says she feels lucky to be able to reopen the staff telling them i worry about going out of business i'm not optimistic this year a concert put the shop big spence's a really high i'm holding on by my fingernails. now that he'd lost a whole season industry leaders here say they'll be lucky to reach just 45 percent of their $29000.00 in come 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 packed sees a small island without hotels there are villas 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 half his business is repeat tourism a level of loyalty hard to find on corfu there are 2 and a half 1000 residents on taxi and the authorities 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 coven safe destination something larger tourism hotspots cannot do but see is certainly doing well as a luxury destination 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 sun never sets on greek tourism jumpstart ople us al-jazeera. on corfu and. with me so whole run the reminder of our top news stories israel is continuing its bombardment of gaza ignoring international calls for calm $113.00 palestinians to be killed since monday including $32.00 children. hundreds of families are taking shelter in un run schools in northern gaza to escape israeli artillery fire israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the offensive won't stop until peace returns .