tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera May 14, 2021 1:00pm-2:01pm +03
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president an in-depth examination into agribusiness and the conflicting interests at play industry doesn't want any regulation it just want to put the products on the market the price of progress on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. 10100 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera hello i'm come on santa maria welcome to the news hour. israel intensifies its attacks on gaza the relentless bombardment forcing palestinian families from their homes. there is the threat of a ground assault as well as israel mobilizes tanks and thousands of troops at its
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border with gaza. and palestinian factions fire hundreds more rockets into israel warning of the heavy response to any incursion and also in the news several indian states looking overseas to buy their vaccines as the number of infections climbs above 24000000. with the sport take care continues to hasted impact test events but 350000 people signed an online petition calling for the games to be cancelled. everyone israel has only intensified its aerial bombardment of gaza this friday despite the international calls for calm and a growing number of victims let's take you to overnight 1st of all as the jets the tanks the artillery hammered the territory killing a mother and her 3 sons at this point friday afternoon 119 palestinians and that
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includes 31 children have been killed since the offensive began on monday this was the masses response overnight as well through the early hours another 220 rockets fired into israel at least 8 people have died in israel since the conflict escalated now have a look at the live shot this is steadily out near the israel gaza border this is the build up we're talking about the israeli military deploying its troops. and it's hardware there as it devises plans for a possible ground offensive and on top of all of this you've got security forces confronting the violence between jewish residents and palestinian israelis in multiple cities inside israel the result of this is at least 374 people have been arrested as well as action the israeli action is sponsored protests across the occupied west bank crowds growing larger on friday palestinians are marking the muslim holiday of adolf hitler today and in fact we've got a live shot for you i think from your resume this is the dome of the rock.
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mosque these holy sites for both jews and muslims and a good number of people gathering there today friday prayers underway at the moment here is the team this. is in gaza you may be with you shortly i want to start with harry for sort of course and southern israel on the ground there harry an update from you. well it's relatively quiet certainly relative to the last few days here and it does suggest that things are at least in a lol after what was an extremely intensive night time exchange between the israeli military and hamas and other fighting factions inside gaza at around 3 am there was an enormous barash coming in multiple waves into ashkelon
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that was where we were overnighting and it was i can tell you a very heavy attack on that israeli city just a short drive north of here that followed some confusion deliberate or not we don't know certainly that's the charge coming from some in the israeli media about exactly what the israeli military was doing there was a message sent at one point that israel was attacking garza from the air and inside the ground attacking inside got gaza from the ground so indications that potentially some kind of a ground operation was underway israeli military has since clarified that saying that there was no entry into garza bit heavy attacks from the ground outside it may have been a way of trying to show a force to hamas and threaten hamas and we certainly saw the early phases of that from a position quite close to where we are now. just after sunset we watched the biggest
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movement of israeli armor we've seen so far here on the fringes of northern gaza. as the tanks moved south heavy artillery stationed behind them fired round after round of long range shells a prolonged intensive barash lasting over an hour but 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 preceding hours more heavy shelling israeli army saying it was attacking from the ground and the air although through the night ground forces didn't enter gaza territory instead northern gaza was pounded by concentrated fire in the heaviest bombardment so far rescue teams rushing to a destroyed home on the outskirts of the city of beit lahia after reports that
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a family was inside 2 bodies were pulled out. he had been out helping the injured a call diverted him to identify the dead his daughter and 3 grandchildren a brief quiet prayer a new burden of grief for one more family. effect of the shelling of an imminent or just threatened ground assault evident on the streets. hundreds of palestinians streaming south exposed yet more to a worsening conflict. earlier the israeli military had said it had carried out a series of major strikes against hamas destroying an intelligence unit in the south and anti tank units in the north from inside gaza repeated heavy waves of rocket fire at intervals throughout the day and night targeting urban areas in central and southern israel this was the impact on ashkelon repeatedly struck in the early hours of friday and are saying it also targeted ramón airport in the far
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south where israel had diverted air traffic for safety as i said that we would exact a very heavy price from hamas and the other terrorist organizations we are doing so and we will continue to do so with great force the final word has not been said and this operation will continue as long as necessary. the israeli government is aware it's fighting 2 battles the other violent front line a threatening fracture within israel bringing racial violence to town after town among the incidents 2 jews shot and injured in the town of lod a soldier severely beaten in jaffa a heavily pregnant arab woman seriously injured by a rock thrown at her head. in southern television a jewish israeli t.v. crew targeted by jewish rioters a spasm of insecurity that like the military situation in the south has not yet run it's course. back with harry now in southern israel this is a new thing in the conflict isn't it seeing that communal violence inside
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israel and it's just it's adding a whole new and quite frightening layer of the conflict. it is and for all of the reinforcements that have been brought in for all of the very. forceful words coming from the israeli government it has been continuing and spreading on social media there have been not just the the videos showing the effects of this violence but also people gearing up and telling each other where to be and when to carry it out it's an extremely concerning situation and it is one that some are pointing to. being present in israeli society for some time. you know there is into coming all racism in israeli society is also
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a good deal of violence the. palestinian israeli politicians who have been calling for more police intervention in criminality in arab towns inside israel are saying this is the the impact of all that gun violence all those guns on those streets and the ability of organized crime that they say has not been properly addressed by israeli police that it is now coming out and being expressed in a way that is directly impacting jewish israelis and not their own societies that they've been talking about for so long there are also people blaming the policies and sort of political a ticking of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu has endorsed the far racist right in israel stewarding an alliance between 2 groups on the right so that they would both get into the parliament and shore up some extra right wing votes in the last election that is given a real shot in the arm to the israeli right racist marches which in turn obviously
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causes a reaction on the palestinian side ok thank you very false that reporting from southern israel. and. as we saw before. how is it seems quiet at the moment at least. well as you mentioned yesterday it was definitely the most violent. nights of the rates on the gaza strip i mean in the north. of never who have been totally destroyed destructed like in beit hanoun and in beit lahiya hundreds of families have left their homes and have going to schools also in this some of the gaza strip and the and and. in the east has also been brutally brutally pounded by by air shells and by artillery shells and by air raids
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the situation is just getting worse time is it does not seem that any of the international. are any any of the international mediators are able until now to get to endure standing to deescalate the escalation that is the violence that is going on. 6 some brigades in retaliation also fired hundreds of rockets towards kilo and in response. to their rockets at the air raids by the israeli forces on the infrastructure and neighborhoods according to israeli army * spokesman they said that they used 5160 raids yesterday with 500 aircrafts for 45 consecutive 45 minutes where they pounded the gaza strip with with their air strikes. with the update from inside so we'll be talking to her more again later
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thank you. and now bringing it all together mountain charlotte senior political analyst on scott here in amman a conversation that you and i could have been having in 292014 i mean it just it is there anything that you are saying this time that is different and that points to i mean possibly a worse outcome that this actually being an even more protracted conflict and what is that they say about repeating the same thing again and again and expecting different results. certainly there is a you know i degree of craziness that's been going on because we all understand i think most israelis understand certainly the international community understands. without addressing the grievances of palestinians especially in the likes of gaza but also in jerusalem and elsewhere that there's going to need be no peace in the
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part of the world certainly not permanent but you could have raised the occasional cease fire which would have is the ok should not fake being nice and some form of diplomacy or sort but without addressing the so-called root causes the real grievances of those people who are either refugees under occupation under siege forced to evict their home and so on so forth unless nessa dress i think we will be repeating that 200820142021 yet again and again. and the and the sense that every time there are false promises about this is it this is that war that will end all wars we will make sure that have mass you know we'll never wake up again out of this thing ourselves all short ends up being no more than massive punishments of the people of gaza who have been punished for short long for 5 decades and more under occupation under siege and big refugee
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camp in a big prison show the people of gaza the people of the west bank but even with jerusalem don't have much of a choice but one can we just pause for a 2nd i want to have a look at some pictures coming in from jerusalem at the moment just to show our viewers just to remind them about actually where a lot of the sort of just looking at friday prayers that began in occupied east jerusalem. much have a little listen. there friday prayers and let's not forget my one that we had a situation at a locks a mosque iconic to remember how many days ago it was now but with people with these really storming the mosque there and you know another trigger point a shakedown has well all these trigger points which as you pointed out none of them gets. any full attention and then suddenly we're back into the phase of war.
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that is actually an unfortunate development i must say. i mean the way the palestinians have managed themselves in jerusalem that young people from all walks of life from the 48 like from the 6 from jerusalem it sound it's like us if this hostile generation is taking taking matters and towards her own hands but i think it was also from long a force impression to think that just because you're not going to withdraw from gaza we'll continue to live in this big prison whatever and that is it and can continue to do whatever it deems necessary security let's say although it's not so in jerusalem i guess the locks on moscow song so forth and that the people guys that the people the people have not to say i'm not going to move they forget that these are one people while it is a big divide them through force 48 there's
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a 6 or 7 hours on guys on source of work but then i mean one people and they all suffer according to at least one prominent israeli human rights organization bitset them as well as the human rights watch and others that the all live in one on that one form of all part of hate system or not that meaning there is something this cannot is something racist about the way israel has been dealing with its palestinian population or palestinian under its control or by the stimulus on that it siege in gaza there's also the issue meaghan and i'm going to get your political view here obviously as our senior political analyst and that is israeli politics which has shifted more and more and more to the right under prime minister netanyahu despite all the problems he has a couple of days ago i interviewed nuff tony bennett who may well be the next israeli prime minister and he seemed even more he was basically saying there wasn't even an occupation that the people of gaza controlled themselves that israel didn't
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lock them up in gaza i mean that just takes us to a whole new level. absolutely and this is what you're observation is close to the heart of the matter of the ongoing threats formation implicit albeit in israel that is key to understanding what is but has been going on in jerusalem it within israel and certainly. there's a new generation of leaders in israel. and that new generation of leaders just i ming has been empowered over the past 4 years by that time and mr these are the minions of jetted krishna and bastard that david friedman and jason green brought the special and why i opposed them from these radical zionists these fanatic ultra orthodox i have then connections in the israeli settlements in the israeli radical right they're the ones who supported them they were the ones
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who financed them they're the ones who empowered them and we see bennett's being one of those leaders who by the way just changed his position to say i need to go back and do a coalition government with that now that difference between him and previous israeli 'd need this from previous years and decades is that those ones it's going to take that long time to explain it to me but let me just say but i didn't 2 words they used to work under they under the rubric of shooting and crying that's what how it was doing in israel meaning yes they did shoot the palestinians yes they did bomb them yes they did them yes they did it take them but they did not feel very well about it they just were forced to do. this new generation of radical fanatic settlers and the bennetts of the world like the lieberman's of the world these are shooting and laughing shooting on lying these are not like that earlier
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generation that at least presented itself projected the name edge of saying look we are not feeling good about this we must do it a new generation of his or any this is celebrating the death of palestinians is celebrating that the suction and we've seen images during the 2014 when when when gaza was won by that israeli is took a picnic to celebrate the bombing of gaza so it is this new sadistic approach by a new generation of his rabies a new generation of that picks represented by the likes of bennett that i'm afraid will be destabilizing within the country itself i think they will eventually turn against other jewish citizens within the country because you know that that that type of neo fascist don't know the limits of nationality or others and they will crack down on jews just like they will crack on palestinians i think they are the most destabilizing force unfortunately they are netanyahu is our lives they are
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the israeli government they are today a major portion if not the majority in the israeli parliament and hence i'm listening as an outside pressure and listeners to set an international leverage and american pressure on israel to change course i think we might be in the beginning of something tragic going on there. analysis with bashara on the news out today thank you for that the live pictures we're looking at from occupied east jerusalem friday prayers under way the dome of the rock behind the worshipers there are lots of shots at the moment and while that's going on this is the border . between israel and the build up of israeli military hardware and troops continues we wait to see when it's probably more a case of when and if that ground incursion begins
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we are 20 minutes past this news or here's what's coming up india's covert 19 crisis spills over its borders turning south asia into the epicenter of the latest wave also americans are told they can now i'm asked if they're fully vaccinated against coronavirus and liverpool takes a big step towards finishing in the top 4 in england joe we'll have those details a little later. and. let's look at coronavirus news now on the severe shortage of vaccines is forcing some indian states to try to secure more doses from overseas while the state of punjab has said it is joining the united nations backed kovacs scheme the regiment is government says it hopes more than $2000000000.00 additional jobs will be available but that's only august it's also been accused of abdicating its
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responsibility by making states compete against each other for the vaccines on friday india recorded 4000 deaths and more than 340000 infections more with joining us from new delhi poverty those numbers still stubbornly high does anyone lay out any sorts of plans of actually trying to reverse them. you know weeks into the 2nd wave the numbers and the impact of the numbers instead of very high the situation is still very dire we've been reporting on states that have announced strictly lockdown international aid has been coming in but you know for the sudden in a row more than 4000 deaths more than 343000 cases on one single day and you know shortage of medical supplies continues to be a huge problem just overnight 15 people in a hospital in goa died because of oxygen shortage this is the 2nd time in
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a week an incident like this has taken place in that very 'd hospital just 2 days ago a 26 people died in that hospital over the same issues in fact the court had even order the state government to ensure there was enough supply of oxygen in the state but at this point the system is simply unable to cope with the virus let's talk about the vaccine situation then because as i outlined in that introduction it's become the sort of state versus national situation of a national government saying yes there will be more but we're still talking was 33 months away maybe 23 months away. yes the indian government has said that it has been in touch with its vaccine makers and will be able to procure around 2000000000 joseph between august and december today at the local park know of the sputnik vaccine said that it has started a soft rollout of the vaccine in the city of hyderabad and of the next few weeks
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we'll see example up the government also said that sputnik will be manufactured in india starting july it has been priced at just below $14.00 for joe's at the same time states have been incredibly critical of the government's handling of the crisis you know oxygen the lockjaw but especially the vaccines because they believe the government has not had a mass free vaccine rollout and left the states to scramble for those as we've been reporting on how some vaccinations centers in the country have had to shut because they simply don't have enough doses so now 12 states have come out and said that individually they will be floating global tend and spending billions of dollars to import vaccines they also admit that this is going to be a tall task given the situation in the international market right now you know countries that place orders a while ago are still waiting for their supplies companies are unable to fulfill
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those orders but states are saying that in the absence of a national plan they will do what they have to do to ensure their people are inoculated because of the toll this virus is taking both in terms of the health of the people but also the economy. that uptake from new delhi thank you. surge in india in kind of in 1000 infections it's really spilling over now in fact it's turned south asia into the epicenter of this latest corona virus way florence louis looks a panel. nepal's health services are overwhelmed in government hospitals doctors are treating patients on corridor floors and in waiting rooms several of the hospitals in the capital kathmandu have had to turn away new patients because of a lack of beds and oxygen the himalayan country is reeling from a 2nd wave of infections that started last month after migrant workers returned from india in the last few days it's recorded its highest number of new cases and
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deaths for the. biggest enemy right now is covered 19 to fight this begin to me the nation needs to come together and all the forces need to unite for the better with pakistan already battling a 3rd wave imposed the most severe restrictions in over a year by ordering a 9 day shutdown during the holiday. business. our businesses have been affected due to the earlier strict lockdown by the government but we are recovering by following the standard precautions the government fears it too may not be able to cope if cases search due to a possible lack of ventilators and oxygen bangladesh's 2nd wave appears to have peaked the country was averaging around 100 deaths a day in the 3rd week of april. be sites the 2 groups of my immediate
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family members that you can see here and there many are the graves of my relatives friends and family members is really heartbreaking tough restrictions imposed mid april have helped to bring numbers down. but health experts fear the virus may surge again after tens of thousands defied a travel ban to return home for celebrations this week bangladesh health authorities detected the highly infectious indian corona virus variant last week amnesty international says the new surge in cases poses a huge challenge to a region that's already struggling to vaccinate its population it's urging the international community come together to ensure equitable access to vaccines florence really al-jazeera a state of emergency has been declared in 3 more districts in japan because of rising coronavirus cases means around 70 percent of the population will now be subject to restrictions including early closing times for restaurants there's
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a petition as well calling for the tokyo olympics to be canceled and it's been submitted to games organizers more than 350000 people signed it it was also sent to the tokyo governor the games are due to begin july 23rd a contrast all of this to the united states where people who are now vaccinated against covert 19 no longer need to wear masks in most places the u.s. centers for disease control has eased its guidance still recommends using face coverings in crowded settings such as buses and planes and also rules nearly 59 percent of adults in the u.s. have received at least one of their vaccine doses john hendren with more now from 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
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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
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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 more news from the u.s. coming up as a major fuel pipeline rethought after a cyber attack a panic buying a thing. i thought we had a really good idea. a former british prime minister faces uncomfortable questions from employees over his lobbying activities. and colombian players call for games to be canceled after tear gas from protests affects players on the pitch the left joe long life in sport.
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well it's quite a little spring right about which i hope is welcome it makes things grow after all after all the dodgy start to spring and is widespread clad in various curls it comes up against this blocking high just east of moscow as everything goes in this direction then heads north and tempers have risen as for the southerly flow in scandinavia is no longer snowing anyway even in finland temperatures in the teens it's cold enough at the height of the tops of the outs on the pyrenees still to some snow it's not a great surprise i suppose for the general disappointment if you look at the temperatures there in the teens you'd expect to be in the twenty's for example europe or in london and london representing england here is wet and windy quite often certainly the whip it is there now typically innsbrook is below average by 4 degrees and it's going to be showers show showers or thunderstorms for the next few days that does represent an awful lot of europe but not all of spain in the south of spain the southwest and lithia in seville it has hit 41 before but the average
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is 27 and we well about the ocean that's going to keep going i think so the next couple of days it has been hot throughout the hell recently the area is still pretty hot not sure it's quite a record but it's getting there but it's mostly dry. a day like no other we will never give up we will never concede that shook us politics to its core you reacted to the faultlines examines the fallout i don't know what the hell happened to the republican party and asks what next for the grand old party everything is anger everything is clean and this is trump's party where the fire overtake the party will overtake the country faultlines capital attack the republican party off to trump on al-jazeera there is no channel that covers world news like we do as a roaming correspondent i am constantly on the go covering topics from politics to
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a mass fired another $220.00 rockets towards israel hitting the city of ashkelon at least 8 people have died in israel since this conflict escalates its military is deploying troops plans for a ground offensive. and the united nations and egypt are leading the mediation efforts the security council will hold emergency talks on sunday while the secretary general antonio guterres has appealed for an end to hostilities. what we are seeing in gaza and in israel is spreading it's being felt at least as well in the occupied west bank needed here bring him is there for us now in ramallah need to tell us actually about where you are and what you've been seeing. we are in ramallah overlooking the illegal israeli settlement of bet al the where there is a military checkpoint next to that settlement and palestinians usually come here it's one of the known confrontation points where they come to throw rocks at rocks
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out the israeli army usually the army responds with rubber coated steel bullets and we've even seen in the past few days and protests that happened here overnight that the israeli army was using live ammunition these palestinians want to show their frustration and their anger at the israeli occupation and to what's going on in the b.c.s. the gaza strip in the few hours ago we've heard that the palestinian health minister confirmed that a palestinian was killed by israeli fire the israeli army says that the man attempted to attack the israeli soldiers now these israeli soldiers were in a military post near the illegal israeli settlement of our own north east of ramallah the army says that there was no casualties no one was injured from the army and that the palestinian has attempted to accelerate his car towards the
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military post and then he tried to stop the soldiers when they responded by fire and killed him now this is the israeli narrative it's often hard to know what's going on in these incidents because israel has cameras has army has all the equipment that could help it to tell us what's going on in the occupied west bank while palestinians do not have that let's say luxury in the past few weeks we've been seeing an increase in the attacks by palestinians against the israeli military in different locations in the west bank. reporting from ramallah in the occupied west bank thank you for that. no mention this before the u.n. security council meeting on sunday to discuss the conflict there had been calls to meet on friday that was rejected though by the united states earlier president joe biden called for a significant reduction in rocket attacks but he said the israeli response was not an over reaction a white house correspondent kimberly halkett has this update after she asked press
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secretary jens sarky 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 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 for their tax 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 divide ministration down the. palestinians from the home in unison akin to that in our readouts and
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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. more news out of the u.s. where president biden says the east coast fuel shortages will end in a few days as the country's largest fuel pipeline networks restarted colonial
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pipeline was hit by a cyber attack last week affecting supplies and causing panic buying the firm reportedly paid hackers $5000000.00 in untraceable cryptocurrency as a ransom in reports from washington d.c. . a major oil pipeline shutdown the government told people not to panic it didn't work videos like these are all over social media prompting a government agency to warn this is a really bad idea the plastic will melt and bad things going to happen but all along the east coast people waited in long lines to get gas and some stocked up and any container they could find again bad idea but the panic could soon be subsiding the pipeline that was shut down after hackers infiltrated the computers of colonial pipeline has been restarted there are reports that the company paid almost $5000000.00 in ransom it continues to be the position of the federal government the f.b.i. that it is not in the interests of. the private sector for companies to pay ransom
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because it incentivizes these actions and president joe biden has sided executive order demanding that everyone selling software to the federal government has to meet certain cybersecurity standards but biden says he can't make private companies do the same private entities are in charge of their own cybersecurity and we need we have to we know we know what they need they need greater private sector investment in cyber security and that's why we launched a new public private initiative in april even with the oil flowing again it will take days or weeks to refill the tanks with half of all gas stations dry in georgia almost 70 percent in north carolina and almost 73 percent in washington d.c. as people continue to panic buy in more stations run dry reinforcing the idea that there is something to worry about regardless of what the government says is a very bad idea for
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a temporary problem pedicle al-jazeera washington. a venezuelan police officer has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of a man during anti-government demonstrations and 2070 the court described the killing as a treacherous homicide around 100 people died during those mass protests against nicolas of those government the criminal court opened an investigation into possible crimes against humanity the following year chileans head to the polls later this week to elect a group of people who will draft a new constitution 11 percent of the seats at the constitutional convention are being reserved for leaders representing 10 indigenous groups and it's hoped that that could be a crucial 1st step toward solving an increasingly explosive conflict a latin america editor lucien newman reports from in southern chile. for centuries indigenous my booty have chased after wild horses here in the b.o.b. a region of south central chile 44 year old
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a d'andre middle chilcot still does. but he's now preparing to chase something far more elusive to. chile's current constitution denies the very existence of indigenous people it says that chile is a monocultural country so that is our 1st challenge not only to be recognized as a people but to obtain historic recognition of the genocide carried out against the mob by colonial state that has to chile and eyes the native people to create a how marginalized country at an irreparable cost for our own people romero's father was a revered community long or chief before he died earlier this year he asked his son to take his place as a candidate to fill one of the 7 seats allocated to the in the upcoming constitutional convention. we believe that firstly has to be a historic recognition of what happened to generate justice and reparation and compensation for the damage done to our people just like the german state has done
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to compensate victims of the holocaust. the indigenous weaponry people on easter island to the eye matters in northern chile will have seats at the convention but the largest number is reserved for the map which it the most numerous the most dispossessed and the most combative indigenous people in the country get their. arms of a butcher groups have been carrying out widespread and increasingly violent attacks in the greater at argonne your region to drive out chileans from incest to territory that they want to reclaim. many communities are taking over land by force many indigenous communities like this one have a long this is i'm cells from the chilean state and are promoting their own institutions in open defiance of the chilean government or. great many might put it communities say that after years of broken promises they distrust the whole process while others say that they simply find it irrelevant if the writer and activist
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bitter guy you kill who is also a constitutional candidate believes this is a historic opportunity to find a political solution to the conflict that we're going to be in building up the recognition of poor nationality in the new constitution opens the way for indigenous nations to demand internal self-determination it implies exercising their cultural rights and defining and administering their economic resources which currently is impossible. the new constitution won't solve the current conflict or heal deep old rooms overnight but hopefully official recognition of chile's indigenous culture and its linguistic and spiritual wealth will be important for its step you see in human al-jazeera yankee my chilly. breaking news coming out of afghanistan a bomb exploding inside a mosque in kabul killed at least 12 people and injured more than 20 others we've
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heard from a spokesman for the kabul police who says the explosives were placed in the mosque ahead of friday prayers 2nd day of a 3 day cease fire in fact between the taliban and the afghan government for the 8th holiday no claims of responsibility for this attack we'll keep an eye on that story for you russia says a cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan must be observed i mean you have accused azerbaijan of sending troops across the border to claim new territory it's acting prime minister says the latest tensions should be settled through negotiations last year you'll remember there was a war over the disputed region of not going to cut it back which claimed about 6000 lives that ended when armenia gave up territory it had controlled for decades. to the u.k. where 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 m.p.'s are investigating the way he bombarded ministers with messages last year offering to help during the pandemic and barbara
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has this report. 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
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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 still itself and indeed is that chancellor put in is there. and that chant and a governor of the bank of england. greensill it no time sort funding for itself but cameron's lobby included 9 whatsapp messages to chancellery she soon complaining the treasury's objections to green to 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
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proposals for our n.h.s. i'm not named urged. daily or weekly in advance do you accept 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 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. just an update on the situation in well in this case the occupied west bank we were talking to david abraham in ramallah about the way the violence has spread and we're saying it hebron 30 kilometers or so south of jerusalem in the
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occupied west bank clashes. intercommunal clashes which we are seeing between palestinian israelis. and it's ready settlers and residents it is ongoing it is possibly i would cite getting worse as the day goes on friday prayers have finished the barricades up in the streets in hebron as well a lot of live picture and events for us to keep across we will do that of course throughout the day as our coverage continues. we will have a look at sport after the break in a memorable eagle for sergio garcia joe we'll have that action in just a moment. you're
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we talked a little bit about japan and the olympics in the news just got more on that now from all thank you yet over 10350000 people have signed an online petition calling for the tokyo olympics to be cancelled the petition has now been submitted to the city's government as well as the head of the international olympic committee case of coronavirus are on the rise with tokyo osaka and several other areas under a state of emergency the games a jew to open in just under 3 months time poll suggests around 70 to 80 percent of japanese citizens won't be a limp is canceled or postponed but organizers have repeatedly said they will go ahead the man behind the petition feel sorry for the athletes. the cancellation of the olympics should be requested to the national government the tokyo metropolitan
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government and the organizing committee but the athletes of the victims i think players could have changed directions if it was decided a little earlier but because they progressed knighting in the decision i think the ones who are suffering the most are athletes who want to be in the olympics whether . i am aware that there were 350000 online petitions against the olympics many people have strongly expressed such opinions about whether it is possible to hold to talk your games in such a situation and what meaning it holds i take it seriously. well it comes at the same time as reports that dozens of japanese towns have abandoned their plans to host a meets over concerns their medical resources will be overburdened in a 4th wave of infections $500.00 towns originally registered to welcome international competitors but now around 40 have pulled out. but tokyo continues to repaire for the games 19 japanese skateboarders took part in a test event on friday as the sport is set to make its limping debut this year the
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event was held without spectators but those taking part they came for the games to go ahead. this don't move. at all i really want the olympics to be held i think the top pros from overseas will come and i'm really looking forward to seeing them there's my own skateboarding but i really want to see the top pros. liverpool have taken a big step towards finishing in the top 4 of the premier league after beating bitter rivals manchester united for 2 it was united who took the lead in their temperament to bruno fernandez but equalized and then reverse a familiar gave liverpool hof time late coming near got a 2nd after the break before marcus rash for it's got one back for united. but i have a solid gold light on to make it for 2 as little move up to 54 points behind chelsea with a game in hand. before the match hundreds of united
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fans gathered outside old trafford to continue their protest against the club's owners and 2 arrests were made the fixture was originally scheduled for may the 2nd but was postponed after fans broke into the stadium and invaded the pitch and similar scenes were expected before this game so there was a heavy police presence presence in the united team arrived 6 hours before kickoff the players use beds brought into the stadium to rest before the match. well madrid boston aziza dan says it's still possible for his club to win the spanish league title on thursday they moved to within 2 points of leaders athletica trade with a 41 win at granada 2 games remain and 4 points separate the top 3 sides with barcelona just behind in the standings and. well we're going to give all until the end until the last minute until is over we're going to give our all as we did today and we will see. mostly dormant have been crowned
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german cup champions for a 5th time jane sun show and erling holland both scored twice as dortmund thrashed rb like 641 to deny them their 1st title captain marker royce was involved in all 4 goals and also happy return for holland who's been out for almost 3 weeks with a muscle injury. it was just a month to go until argentina and colombia host the copa america players in colombia calling for domestic matches to be stopped because of political instability in the country colombia has been hit by a wave of protests since late april for games in consentual cup competitions were moved out of the country last week and on thursday a couple of back door as much in but i but on key it was stopped several times as players were affected by to take us fired outside the stadium the 1st half took more than an hour to complete with the players coming off at one point because of the gas your group of them have been. going to contribute towards the worst
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experience of my life personally i have never gone through this before we couldn't be on the pitch because everything with burning throat knows everything one of the worst feelings i have for gone through on the pitch i hope i never go through this again. what is good in a country makes me sad i'm very sad and in these conditions it's impossible to play football impossible i feel disappointed for everything going on. 3 time major govt champion jordan speak is the co-leader after the opening round of the 18th tee byron nelson in dallas spaeth shares the lead with j.j. spawn both men shot a $63.00 finished off his round with this long part for eagle as the play is ready for next week's p.g.a. championship the is 2nd major surgery garcia's round also include an eagle and one worthy of the celebration. there's been
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a 1000 outbreak in the new york yankees team with 8 players testing positive despite being fully vaccinated yankees say the team is undergoing additional testing and contact tracing the schedule has not been interrupted though right now we're dealing with obviously it's not moving parts and things considered months old in-house we're just trying to get our arms around that. and take the guidance from major league baseball from the doctors that. you know we deal with industry and. shortstop tribal torres is among the young casey tested positive and on thursday new york looks like they really need it those players play with rush 91 by the tampa bay rays both teams play in the american league east division yankees and the rays hole thought of this game. right that is last but for now i have more for you little bit later ko thank you joe you're just back in the next news hour which is
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1300 hours g.m.t. about 2 hours from now i'll see you for that as well right after the break mr clarke can organize a snooze on i'll just. killing the debate. and your voice only. the media will miss when true story no topic is off the table why in the world humanize an individual domestic terrorist this was an illegal occupation of a country what they're doing is they're removing or just historical truth and it's
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pressure venice well as the defense minister vladimir by breena said the armed forces were lige to defend their country from the regular groups but added that human rights needed to be respected and that the events at the border would be fair to gated. israel intensifies its attacks on gaza the relentless bombardment forcing palestinian families from the news. i don't make like this is out there in life and also coming up the threat of a ground assault news's israel mobilizes tanks and thousands of troops at its border with gaza.
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