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fires hundreds of rockets in response and the threat of a ground assault looms as israel mobilizes its tanks and thousands of troops at the border with gaza. and also in the news working to wipe out a disease with the blind the controversy around genetically modified mosquitoes being released in the united states. i'm gonna get your ass covered this continues to host the olympic test events but 350000 people signed on online petition calling for the games to be canceled. around 4 pm in this part of the world we're actually starting in the occupied west bank 2 palestinians have been killed there by israeli security forces there are ongoing standoff between protesters and israeli police in multiple cities hebron bethlehem. police have fired tear gas there are reports of live ammunition being

used as well many are gathered for peaceful protests marches after friday prayers there is so much anger growing anger over the intensifying israeli bombardment of gaza and then we go back overnight the jets the tanks and artillery which hammered gaza killing a mother and her 3 sons $119.00 palestinians including $31.00 children have now been killed since the offensive began on monday the hamas fired another $220.00 rockets as well towards israel where at least 8 people have died since the conflict escalated as a result we're seeing the israeli military deploying thousands of troops over to the border in the area of steroids now here's the team this hour harry forces 1st of all southern israel near an israeli artillery battery sami abu salem is a palestinian journalist in gaza will be with him shortly but starting with made

abraham occupied. the switch in focus today in fact i'm seeing behind you i guess over your right shoulder a few people there and smoke tell us about it. and i'm going to ask the camera man to go to the right side as well as you mentioned come out and show you the palestinian protesters who are coming here from ramallah after the friday prayers they were telling us that even though the spark of these protests were intensified and they were lit by the latest round of escalation they say they have more than enough reasons to protest against the israeli occupation that is in full swing here in the occupied west bank we are here near an israeli military checkpoint that is there to protect an illegal jewish settlement it's called bits and it has been here for decades also expanding like many other illegal israeli settlements and we're seeing palestinians who are trying to throw rocks and molotov cocktails at the

israeli army we heard the actually the sounds of live ammunition being used by the israeli soldiers here and remember come out this is one of 50 or more than 50 other locations where there are confrontations going on between the palestinians and the israeli army and palestinians are saying that there has been an excessive use of force against the israeli army maybe by the israeli maybe you are hearing chants of palestinians who are near us we're seeing palestinians who are overlooking the confrontations and who are cheering on every time palestinians pick up a tear gas bomb and throw it back to the israelis so kind of doing the counter effect of what it should be doing ok so this is an important point you've raised that it's not necessarily just about what's happening in gaza it is the decades long occupation which has people protesting i'm wondering about over your left shoulder and then if your cameraman can hear me as well the israeli. tanks or or or

hardware that's there are they usually there have they been in any way explain to us. they're usually brought in when they are trying to disperse crowds that are protesting there is a military post that this huge will be stationed nearby to offer obviously protection to the illegal israeli settlements but these tanks are new and there are the die i mean there is specifically brought in to counter and disperse the crowds and there is also the very very foul smelling tank that sprays water against the protesters it's a very nasty smell that could take days and days till. it gets out that it gets removed so you can see the they are trying now the israeli soldiers i'm not sure if we can see them in the frame but they are trying to come closer to where the

protesters are and that's why we see we're seeing the protests are going back to that location they're usually trying to come closer to the army and then when the army feels that they're too close then that's when they bring in the tanks to remove the tires the burning tires and to try to disperse the crowd right ok thank you for him in ramallah and thank you to your team there as well giving us a really good idea of what's going on protests in an area that remains under occupation there is another angle another front almost that we've got to look at now as well have a look at this this is the lebanon israel border where protesters have been attempting to cross the barrier there and israeli forces have responded by firing warning shots at them from tanks then a correspondent on the line from beirut to tell us. he has come out of the come since returned these young men have since left the area that is what we understand

from security sources there is growing anger in lebanon as people watch the scenes coming out of gaza and jerusalem this country hosts say sizable palestinian refugee population but it's not just the palestinians many lebanese feel that the world in action and the world not stopping the israeli attacks against palestinians that they need to do something these young men took it upon themselves in what seems to be a symbolic protest they attempted to cross the border it's still not clear whether they in fact across the u.n. recognize blue line or are not they just crossed the technical fence the united nations peacekeeping troops which are deployed in the area are looking into whether or not they didn't manage but like you mentioned warning shots were fired in the air a young activist groups are calling for more protests along the border tomorrow 2 late last night rockets were fired from southern lebanon on towards israel and the

israeli army said that 2 of them fell in the mediterranean lebanese the lebanese army has been arrested a palestinian man and he said that he fired the rockets and retaliation to israeli attacks in gaza and jerusalem so this growing anger but at the same time these symbolic protest symbolic actions are also a message a message that 'd you know to israel that another front can be opened if you do not leave the pressure on the palestinians in gaza angela's on them really good point that zain quieter now on this lebanon israel border but always the potential there's an accord on the line from beirut thank you. let's hear from the saudi prime minister benjamin netanyahu now he says israel is fighting a war on 2 fronts actually but will the military operation against hamas will continue. 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 we great force the final word has not been said and this operation will continue as long as necessary. live pictures from you for from bethlehem actually it looked a little quieter really just before we came on air but things clearly increasing again now. israeli not tanks but personnel carriers possibly there were military hardware at the very least on the streets barricades going up in the streets protests like this in bethlehem seen in places like nablus and ramallah as we saw really with neda as well the anger not just at what's going on in gaza but why the anger about what is happening with the israeli occupation that has been going on for decades there is so much more to this conflict than simply what is happening in gaza we're going to focus on that area there in a hurry force that in southern israel near the border. and i think we were saying before near an israeli artillery battery was that correct.

yes that's right these are a long range artillery guns that have been dug in here for a couple of days now they've been largely or at least comparatively quiet so far on this friday during the few hours we've been here they've fired 3 rounds in total we've also had some incoming rocket fire out of gaza which has been intercepted above by the iron dome but this was one of the locations from which the heaviest bombardment of gaza during this escalation took place overnight in northern gaza in particular there is more reporting coming out about this in the israeli media now what took place and what we witnessed was a pretty major movement of tracked vehicles heading south towards gaza with hours worth of heavy artillery and air strikes as well similar tenuously there was a statement from the israeli military saying that its. troops were attacking in

gaza from the ground and from the air so that was interpreted by many media organizations as mean that there was a ground offensive under way there is now reporting in the israeli media that that was all a deliberate ploy to try to drive gaza fighters underground into a tunnel network in north northern gaza ahead of this huge bombardment also involved 450 missile strikes from 160 aircraft according to the israeli military we've also seen obviously the impact of that on that whole area of bit late here people driven from their homes civilians killed as well as a few hours after that there was in another enormous barracks from gaza so the city of ashkelon where we were in a very severe rocket attack there hundreds of rockets so far during the course of this day there has been a bit of a lull we're waiting to find out both what the israeli military says and the effects of this heavy bombardment in gaza and also the response from hamas military

wing just as. think about any potential ground offensive and looking at the hardware behind you harry it's a good reminder for our viewers isn't it that this is what israel can do even though it says it pulled out of gaza in the bid to thousands and technically doesn't occupy it anymore it holds the keys and it can pretty much go in at a second's notice and i reckon the picture with harry is frozen just as i ask that looked a bit stale didn't it yeah we're going to have to leave harry for so therefore harry if you can hear we will come back to you later on well as the violence in his . 5th day residence in guards or is surrounded by rubble and well what is left of their homes and businesses we've got some pictures here showing the immediate aftermath of israeli airstrikes hundreds of families took shelter in the united nations run schools in northern gaza as they try to escape that israeli artillery fire that harry was talking about. there is

a lot of shelling and the children are all afraid even us adults have been in war since our childhood we are afraid and cannot bear it anymore though not that we were planning to leave during the night but israeli drones and jets kept bombarding us at daylight we finally started moving in we rented to schools we could not believe the way our children were screaming they wanted to leave and we were shaking for them when we woke up we found everything behind us there's nothing left and a funeral is being held in gaza for a family of 6 killed in an israeli air strike the 2 parents and 4 children died overnight when an israeli warplane targeted their home. my brother rufford was present may god have mercy on him he his wife and 4 children there was no warning or anything 5 rockets his wife was pregnant they have no mercy neither for children nor adults may god have mercy on them. we'll check in now with journalist sami

salem in gaza right now sami tell us about what today has been like we saw the pictures and we saw the destruction from overnight has it been sort of quiet so far today. well now with his wife out of. the my right now we're from time to time from time to time we have some explosions in and different parts of the. air raids in different markets of the gaza strip the last one in a rage unit and bridge or 2 houses have been bombed. the cyclist was killed and it's like and they've used and the north of gaza. that is to. busy in evacuating people from. maybe and i want to go. back to you with a family a mother and. a lot of

time maybe the father was not because he works with it is so that he sued the evacuated family. the man in the picture people out of living. i talked to some people. feeling that the they would like that. because when life so it is very expected that they would visit by and love of. life and then that picture from gaza. i have seen. mean is leaving that out of the border they out of being from the from their house in the of the. state of image. basically afraid that from the unity because it is not a spontaneous to avoid that as i you know add to that. like they move inside gaza

that is no place is you know. no place is the word to go wrong according to them they told me this long. you would see. so they are waiting for the. other families this is the 'd picture of so far and even inside. there is a majority of places lots of places without it if that if. there is big holes in the streets because of the bombing 'd yesterday night or. morning. because a. big hole is in investing. and i bet a significant thing in gaza while i'm coming. and lots of phone calls from friends and i hear other friends are talking together do you have one apartment do you have

a safe place 'd i mean people are talking to other everybody everybody asking about . a suitable place to use it as a shield. right that there is no safe place in gaza ok i mean i would certainly not know if it will leave you this because we've got some other guests to get to sami are preserved in gaza thank you for that as this conflict between israel and the palestinian factions intensifies it is important to understand the different military strengths at play here now hamas has just announced the use of a new weapon the so-called suicide drone the bulk of their arsenal is made up of several 1000 rockets most of them short range but a large number. of reaching major population centers in israel. but it remains a fundamentally symmetrical struggle israel has the iron dome this is the anti missile system which intercepts 90 percent of the rockets before they reach the top hits and the israeli army is one of the largest and most advanced militaries in the

world with nearly 170000 active troops and a budget of $20000000000.00 let's talk more about this with retired brigadier general of the v.a. is the director of about pronounce this correctly. which is in a israeli security forces company he's an. brigadier general thank you for your time does it surprise you 1st of all does it surprise you 1st of all the range that hamas has shown here cities like ashkelon and ashdod where we're always in range of those short range missiles but tel aviv. jerusalem have come into play this time around. well it's there and it's been done to. their organization hamas and islamic jihad. was usually it was. then started shooting in the israeli cities and israeli citizens in the last few years how massive. and brought from.

the southern rockets with the large range with warheads and all these rockets are shot at israeli people in israeli cities directly at cities and israeli defense forces are attacking that people of iraq that can directly hamas apparently in this climate jihad this terrorists try to hide behind civilians they were doing a very very precise job in order to heed only their own stock i'm trying to get more focusing into the actual military side of things rather than who is firing and for what reason as i say these hamas rockets are reaching further and if you're saying they have managed to bring in 50000 rockets how are they doing that if israel has got guns under a blockade i mean that suggests that the blockade it's not really working if they're able to make as many rockets apparently. israel cannot even trigger and want it still it cannot do it look at the was gaza has

a border was egypt and when israel left gaza basically doesn't connect it to egypt unfortunately i can tell you that we knew beforehand that that moment does it will connect to egypt screw egypt this and i've been in solana endless amounts of munitions not terrorists will go into gaza and this is unfortunately exactly what happened there is situation where basically hamas and islamic jihad can threaten their capabilities or is that a lot of money coming from iran who we said know how it also is munition and it's wrong with suge from $2.00 sides and 14 here today it's getting worse and worse today basically in short that all israel from the north your rules. it sounds a lad everywhere so that's a jab what do you think then this is going to be

a more protracted conflict than the fact that hamas is better armed to this time that it's using these so-called suicide drones as they call them this could be a much longer conflict. this is rare. to see destroying this capability do this mine take some time now since we don't have to mean. what king mostly from here this is a big complicated and they're not necessarily going to chip that was the if you want or so it might. be but when it will do you need an issue romantically the capabilities 1st of all and then. it will stop shooting israeli citizens you say mainly from the air but there is a whole lot of israeli military hardware amassing on the border with gaza and while you also say that israel doesn't occupy gaza israel's got the keys israel controls

all the crossings except the edge of crossing in and out of gaza israel with this huge military mass can simply roll into ganso whenever it wants and that is going to affect civilian populations it is not a matter that you're simply going to get hamas targets or military targets within gaza civilians are going to be targeted and killed so again anybody can open them up and see israel controls its own border it doesn't want any of that orders that is there is connected to egypt the gazans. are not going to go you're not going to go through egypt i'm talking about what you do control and the fact is it gulzar is an enclave it is sealed off other than that gyptian crossing and as i say our border at the moment on the israeli side there's all these tanks. what we are there of course ground forces were not plans to go into gaza maybe where they were we are enormously see if they continue shooting at us and we cannot manage from the

we might consider that but then it's very simple put it people have guns and stops short shooting that these are and you know that program was ours we didn't start this is a war or this operation that is going on now it's hamas its leadership do they want to shoot they want to post problems we always want only please this is the only thing to do shit for once brigadier general joining us from her in israel thank you for your time today you're welcome. sharon now with 0 senior political analyst you want to weigh in on any of that now and it's it reflects a growing trend which i'm seeing when we do speak to the israeli people on at the top that no actually israel doesn't occupy always right doesn't control gaza when in fact it does. it does because also it has agreements with egypt

and. the siege of gaza is coordinated effort and it is subject to international agreements with egypt and song so of course and also egypt is just as nervous as israel is that anything gets in and out of gaza. so the egyptians are no less mercifully short when it comes to closing the borders and they have abided by whatever they were told by israel the united states on that question and that's why gaza continues to be the big prison that that has been for so long that's 12 as the bigger the journal probably should know that hamas was not in gaza since since eternity right how much is a recent phenomenon gaza people forget that because they've been with us that us 3 wars but i am unfortunately old enough to remember in the 1980 s. when israel did something very similar to guys i accept that went in and occupied

and and and demolished and and the past and her past and the countless of people in jail and killed countless of people as well when then was not hamas in gaza so the question of gaza is not subject to hamas. or the hamas rockets and by the way again you know enough i was talking points are by israeli specialists we all know that the those things can be made can't be no one can be learned online nowadays and clearly hamas is determined to deter israel by whatever means possible that includes rocket now just to make things clearer how must does not consult with you or with me or with a bigger general to defend gaza so no one's consulting us as to what they were going to do and how they're going to defend themselves but here we are and i think your question is therefore irrelevant here we are 2 wars and this is the 3rd. each time that they're lies that they're going to destroy how much is missile capability

. but that is the. former head of our late. mayor the gun told that and you know back in 20142016 here we did all what we wanted to do all we bombarded and everything but in the end of the day neither could we did it how much nor did we are live at a diplomatic solution and here we are yet another confrontation yet another war against mostly mostly disarmed people mostly refugees mostly in living in a big prison and we are repeating the same again and again as when i want to our pretty previous conversation i said wouldn't it be the same thing again again yeah it is you know a sign of craziness and i would add that's perhaps also a sign of sadism the other argument we hear. is that israel is only targeting hamas and it's it's trying to hit hamas targets within gaza and that it's hamas is fault if civilians get killed because hamas is hiding amongst

the civilians and within populated areas and well we hear a variation of that sort of thing in gaza is a really really densely populated area is there any way even the most sophisticated military in the world that can really target that much or do they just not care about about civilian casualties here. this is the nature of a symmetrical conflict. better than a general knows that everyone knows there isn't a single movement in the world that short a well armed state by putting out its fighters in the desert or out in the open area for them to. go on our affair sense. before christ. you know have always been and the population centers what else would they be they are not involved in a conventional war the $812.00 war that cost this told us about more than 200 years ago it does not exist but we have been living through for the last century or so

that i think that following your wars have always been going to war and the fight there's always been within the population because that's what popular resistance looked like but the talking points in israel or out of his are actually convincing to many people especially in israel that's why they called us about our explaining explaining israel's doctored but just listen to what the brigadier general ended with in his composition with you he said we need to fight the war and we want peace is the door discourse and that's amazing there's always this we're going to shoot and we want peace but can't you see that there is a contradiction but more importantly to your point and i think it's a very important point and again it's one of these things that we are struggling with a lot of people. indeed and it's factual when israel to bombs. gaza as of lately they did send a sort of an alarming bombing 1st in order for them to empty out the buildings and

then to actually bomb. so i would like to call this heel man bombing. let's go to you man bombing the fact of the matter is that 10 times to 20000 more people died in gaza than they did. and we are still at the same logic that israel is scaring the hell out of the people of gaza where the absolute majority of the population are children under 16 and these people are this new generation you you you can be sure as you are talking to me that they will go out to be a good fight theirs as well i think live the drama as the tragedies of 20082014 or 2000 yeah. because in the end of the day this is not just about force this is about the counter that force is causing. why it is there and pretend clean or all. of human bombing it is bombing them less and if you start

a rise in the population then it is causing huge destruction and we are still in this emerging 50 years of occupation not the next just perpetuates the cycle doesn't it mo and bashar our senior political analyst thank you for that ok let's take you around the area right now a lot of live pictures coming to us starting in ramallah remember what half an hour ago we saw needed abraham up on that hill and they were starting to throw the tear gas in the light back well it's now this burning tires throwing rocks ongoing protests against the israeli occupation where we go next bethlehem around next pictures occupied west bank still. similar picture to what we saw earlier this seems to sort of flare up and then settle down every now and then but indicative of everything we've been saying the fact that this is not just about what is happening in gaza there is obviously an acute issue in gaza but there is decades of occupation which are being protested against this was bethlehem and you saw

ramallah before that as well. let's grab a quick break before we do the weather with rob. time for a cooling trend the s. coming off the bite now represented by this rash of showers in the case in the care the air is quite cold which means you get some snow in the victorian else and a high of only 13 in melbourne as opposed to a pretty steady 24 in perth that rain goes away into tasman sea more comes across tasmania is quite windy through the bass strait otherwise it's fairly sunny not that warm in sydney but at 18 degrees the spring rain showing itself in china concentrating in the yangtze or to the north bit of rain 1st of the can beijing and then we look more to south korea and japan this is where the spring rain should be sometime next couple of months has been waiting in the night in the orange bits indicates the heavy downpours the next day or 2 i think was a good bye for a couple days to come where shecky is in bangladesh and the northeast in the big

dangerous thunderstorms because your eyes obviously drawn to this is tropical cycle and almost tropical spin to produce a lot of rain from kara all where the west coast of the western dance but the chance our next 2 days the thing will spin out stay over water or produce a lot of rain as it gets towards good europe isn't a certainty so fairly likely focus be on that iraq going towards the south of pakistan and west that all were hit in the forty's there for example in doha. definitely how ok after the break indian's 19 crisis spills over its borders it's turning south asia into the epicenter of the latest coronavirus wave ethiopian peacekeepers apply for asylum in sudan intelligence he wrote they fear for their lives and colombia players call for games to be canceled after tear gas from protests affects players on the pitch joe has your sport a little later. discover

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with the news from al-jazeera as we keep an eye on developing stories across the occupied west bank and gaza 2 palestinians have been killed by israeli security forces in the occupied west bank there are ongoing standoff between protesters and israeli police in multiple cities as i say this is ramallah but hebron bethlehem nablus as well police and fire tear gas on there been reports of mind that means being used as well. this is after many palestinians had gathered for peaceful protest marches after friday prayers but as you see from the live pictures in bethlehem there is plenty of growing anger over both the israeli occupation and its

bombardment of gaza. and this is guns or itself where overnight jets tanks and artillery hammered the territory killing a mother and her 3 sons $119.00 palestinians including $31.00 children have now been killed since the offensive began on monday a mass fired another $220.00 rockets towards israel where at least 8 people have died since the conflict began back to ramallah now a correspondent. to about half an hour ago admitted things that clearly escalated i'll give you and your team the screen to just show us around and tell us what's happening. ok come out let me point out that in just in the last few minutes since we spoke we've seen 3 palestinians get injured by. israeli forces fire some one of them by live ammunition to the chest and 2 by a double coated steel bullets that name might trick you they might sound like they

are rubber bullets they are still bullets that they're coated with rubber that could still cause severe damages to the protesters. all in all in the occupied west bank we are talking now about 4 palestinians who were killed by the israeli forces fire 3 by the confrontations that are undergoing in more than 50 locations in the west bank and one in the israeli army said that he was trying to conduct an attack against israeli soldiers who are near an illegal israeli settlement called. so as you can see now there are i'm given says trying to pick up those who are injured from israeli soldiers fire. and usually when that happens the youth surround the person they're trying to make sure they're ok before they're taken to the hospitals we've spoken to some of the protesters just before they

started gathering near the the israeli military checkpoint and they were telling us that not only are they angry about the bombardment in gaza what's going on in occupied east jerusalem they also are fed up of decades and decades of the israeli occupation on their lands with really no hope for them the dogs have agency in the political system they were supposed to have the 1st palestinian elections by the end of this month they were going to be the 1st elections in 15 years but they were canceled because of what the palestinian president has said that israel didn't give a positive answer when it comes to palestinians it is jerusalem voting in these elections so they feel frustrated at the fact that they don't have leaders that they have chosen they feel that the palestinian authority has taken a soft stance when it comes to israel while at the same time the israeli measures are still continuing ringback on the ground be it with the illegal israeli

settlement expansions with israeli military checkpoints with secular attacks that have been on the rise according to the u.n. and that goal 90 percent of the time unindicted so there is a lot a lot of frustration going on here and let's not forget that on saturday palestinians commemorates more than 70 years of neck back which is the displacement of hundreds of thousands of palestinians from their lands when israel was created so there is a lot of tension going on here and some palestinians have told us while they don't believe that there is hope they feel like by these protests and some of them were conducting attacks say that at least they can inflict some pain on the israelis. i wonder if someone who lives there in the occupied west bank you can explain to our viewers what occupation really means in terms of everyday life like your ability to move around your ability to go about

a sort of normal day if i were to describe it in one word it's fear you're afraid of conducting any act of your daily life so let me give you an example if a palestinian lives under here and wants to go an hour away to annapolis to to visit parents or to to see the city they have to ringback pass by numerous illegal israeli settlements they have to pass by israeli military checkpoints and in sometimes we hear that the israeli army has shot up palestinians saying that they have tried to conduct an attack but you're not really sure if you how you don't have a way of. checking that narrative and making sure it's ok so people are always afraid that even if there is a car accident by a certain checkpoint or another that the that something might be happening to them by the israeli army i'm not sure if this is live ammunition that we've just heard

this is live ammunition and as we're seeing now the clashes are intensifying and the people here were overlooking the truth to start cheering on to kind of support the palestinian protesters. the pictures you're looking at i think you know the just starting on your pictures just for a moment as we look at the occupied west bank ramallah live fire and you do with the what was being used there smoke tear gas. a lot going on in one place and as you were saying neda sorry if you end up repeating yourself here again but it's it's what happens in gaza that intensifies the feeling that he's already there. indeed it's a reminder that the israeli occupation is still there it's still in full swing and in the past few years we've seen a disregard to even some sort of decency when it comes to the international

community and international law the when trump took office. in the last present us elections palestinians thought that trump was giving the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu one gift after another including the declaration of jerusalem as the israeli capital this is something all palestinians agree on the jerusalem is the capital of their future state that's east east jerusalem the eastern part of the city so all of all of these and the moving of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem you have daily practices by the israeli army many. palestinians who are killed paulsen is would tell you were killed in cold blood this also adds to the tension sometimes you see a man or a woman approaching an israeli military checkpoint where you see a heavily armed israeli soldiers but then if someone waves and knife then they could expect all need to get killed so the that could tell you about the balance of

power that could tell you about the injustice many palestinians tell us that they face every single day and let's not forget that even having a normal life as a palestinian marrying someone from abroad in off limits because of the west bank or the population registry is controlled by israel and if you want to marry someone say from the u.s. or from any other country they might not be able to live with you here because israel won't give them a palestinian id or apostasy in passport so if the occupation is in the very small details of palestinians life including who you want to love and i'm a fan do it. really great to get the context from you then need it in. even in amongst the cables and you stay safe over there that's needed abraham in ramallah so have a look at the 3 pictures on your screen right now top left the burning tires that's actually at ground level in ramallah below when it was broadcasting from just

a moment ago then bottom of your screen stood out the israeli tanks the israeli military which are waiting near the border this is close to the israel gaza border this could be the next phase of what we see some sort of ground incursion and a reminder because we've been focused on the west bank today a reminder top right of gaza that's the skyline overlooking gaza it has been largely quiet throughout the day today but that is how it tends to happen it tends to be quieter during the day and around this time we're coming up quarter to 5 in the evening early evening and then into the night is when the airstrikes begin and as i say waiting all the time there instead out and around the border with gaza the israeli military hardware given you 3 perspectives there on an ongoing conflict across israel gaza and the occupied west bank. to other news an a bomb exploded inside a mosque in the afghan capital killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 20

others a spokesman for kabul police says the explosives were placed in the mosque ahead of friday prayers that blast on the 2nd day of a 3 day cease fire between the taliban and the afghan government for the 8 holiday there's been no claim of responsibility yet for this attack. and. let's not forget what's happening with coronavirus and india's prime minister is trying to reassure people that the government is doing everything it can to stop the spread of covert 19 they're under murray's administrations faced heavy criticism for being poorly prepared and for allowing large political rallies in the u.s. government says 2000000000 vaccines could be available from august but some states are taking matters into their own hands and looking to secure doses from overseas is. we have lost many close to us due to this coronavirus the pain that the citizens of this country have felt in the last few months the pain and suffering that they've had to endure feeling that being just as much your son grandma or i

began this infection is now spreading to villages very rapidly all governments of the country are trying everything to stop this the worst of people in the villages in the cooperation of the villages governing bodies is just as important in controlling this project talk about control though india's surgeon covered 19 infections and spilled over already to its neighbors and it's making south asia the epicenter of the latest wave form so it looks at the polls health services are overwhelmed in government hospitals doctors are treating patients on corridor floors and in waiting. several of the hospitals in the capital katmandu 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

deaths. among the biggest in the me 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 easter holiday. our businesses have been affected due to the earlier strict lock down 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. the sites the 2 graves of my immediate family members that you can see here and many are the graves of my relatives

friends and family members it's 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 detect at the highly infectious indian coronavirus 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 its urging the international community come together to ensure equitable access to vaccines florence louis al-jazeera. still more heavy on this news are including this. mama that's the song for football's european championships if it sounds familiar that's because there's a very well known rock star behind it who is it joe joe it's not judge i will tell

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all the old. saying join in on the 1st of the sports thank you. in the last hour former bosses have confirmed that next month's turkish grand prix has been called off because of carpet 19 the estimable park circuit had only been added to the calendar last month to replace the cancelled canadian qualm prix but with the country facing another wave of infections and locked down the french compre will be brought forward

a week and austria will host 2 races in a row. over 350000 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 committee case of current virus or on the rise with tokyo soccer and several other areas under a state of emergency the postponed games that you to open in just under 3 months time poll suggests around 70 to 80 percent of japanese citizens want the game lympics 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 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 that because they procrastinating 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. it comes at the same time as reports that dozens of japanese towns have abandoned their plans to host athletes 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 through 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 event was held without spectators but those taking part a keen for the games to go ahead. i thought 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 the template through bruno fernandez. equalised and then roberta familiar gave liverpool a hard time lead that amir got a 2nd after the break before marcus rushford got one back for united. flight on to make it 42 as liverpool move up to 5th 4 points behind chelsea with a game in hand. with just a month to go into argentina and columbia hosts the copa america plays 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 last april 4 games in continental cup competitions were

moved out of the country last week and on thursday a couple of stories much in but i was stopped several times as players were affected by take gas 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. 20 time grand slam tennis champion rafael nadal is on his way to the rome masters semifinals on friday he knocked out germany's alexander's vera in straight sets the world over 3 trials faint 6364 and face even of a joke which will stir pharmacist's a person next having trouble completing the quarter final right now with rain falling in the italian capital. on the women's side croatia's petra much to she is on her way to the semifinal she defeated american jessica 7564 next up the croats night sleep carolina place gaza. and they call to find. out what we are just 4 weeks away from the opening game of the delayed european championships and

i'm warning you now you'll be hearing a lot of the official song has just been released. written by dutch d.j. martin garrick's the song features bono and the edge from the barracks has been waiting more than a year to release the song off of the year as were postponed because of the current virus pandemic last year but he hopes it gives people joy and something to look forward to after a difficult 18 months told that begins in rome on june 11th and will be held in 11 cities before the final is played at london's wembley stadium a month later. want to make sure about it more what do you think. it's a bit repetitive and if i know what's good for me i'll agree with that thank you finally let's talk about genetically modified mosquitoes why not because they've been released for the 1st time in the united states the pilot program in the

florida keys is aimed at reducing the spread of potentially deadly diseases but some residents and environmental groups are outraged about it all i began to get reports from miami. this is the ada subject time muskie to an invasive species it's made florida home only the females bite and spread disease and in 2009 were responsible for an outbreak of dengue fever that ripped through the florida keys officials say traditional control methods a less effective as the insects build resistance so authorities turn to british biotech firm oxy tech they developed males with a gene that kills female mosquitoes before they reach maturity the males then continue to breed passing the ulta gene on to more females it's a program the company says has been successful in brazil panama and malaysia in a november 2016 referendum 31 out of 33 monroe county precincts voted in support of

our project some overwhelmingly so we like to say because it's true that our mosquitoes received more support and alexion than any human candidate while the majority of keys residents back the project some have concerns about the long term effects of a new technology you're going to risk our community you're going to ask the people in our community to be sacrificial lambs really because how else are you going to produce your mosquitoes if it weren't for the people in the caves donating their blood. despite some local resistance the pilot project received approval from the environmental protection agency the culmination of a decade long effort by mosquito control of our teas in tackling potentially deadly diseases nothing out there is a silver bullet we're looking to enter great whatever we can and to our current control methods just to make sure that we can suppress that population below

disease transmission thresholds. mosquito borne diseases like malaria yellow fever and kill over a 1000000 people a year according to the world health organization all this kind of technology is controversial to some it's also being watched closely during the initial stages of this pilot program here in florida around 250000 genetically modified male mosquitoes will be released if that proves successful in reducing the female it is that you talk population millions more could be introduced and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida just a quick look at the situation across israel and the occupied territories 4 palestinians killed now one in an attempted attack 3 in confrontations in these locations like the top left ramallah bottom right bethlehem the protests that have been going on for a few hours now ever since friday prayers bottom left stand out near the israeli gaza border where the israeli military is massing ahead of a potential ground offensive top right is guards are quiet so far today but we know

this is around the time when it strikes generally start increasing back with more in a moment. the 1st to you rupie in country to ban the food from public places it's home to more than 6000000 followers of islam many who want to assert their religious and cultural identity in the light of france's 2021 contentious so-called separatism law as we look at the recent history of muslim immigration to the country in the final episode of this report see. muslims of from its results we all know does either. a day like no we will never give up we will never be good shook us politics to its core you reacted. to klein's 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 this is trumps party will the fire overtake the party will overtake the country faultlines capital attack the republican party off to trump on al-jazeera no rains for months now because once lush vegetable garden has turned to dust she says it's as if the land has given up on her but she has not given up on the land. in this land you can grow not just to biscuits but carrots potatoes onions collie flower if only we had water. during the rainy season it's another story the land springs to life the state pays and others to plant trees as part of the great green wall project an initiative to stop dessert if occasion from east to west africa. because of rising temperatures and the lack of rainfall most of the trees planted are either dying or

already dead and while polluting countries have recently pledged billions of dollars more in funds for those projects people here say they're throwing money into the desert they say they don't need more trees but more access to water. protests across the west bank is anger grows over the israeli occupation and the offensive on gaza. going on sun some area here in doha with continuing coverage of developments across the middle east families inside the strip speaking of terror and also israel's bombing campaign forces dozens.