critism as we look at the recent history of muslim immigration to the country in the final episode of this report see. muslims of from us at us all 30. 0 cases of the best documentary films from across the on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello again i'm peter dhabi you're watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. israel intensifies its bombardment of gaza the u.n. estimates around 10000 palestinians in the enclave have been forced from their homes. more than

$100.00 more rockets are being fired from gaza the israeli prime minister says hamas will pay a heavy price for the attacks. protests across the occupied west bank as israel continues its strikes on gaza at least 10 palestinians are being killed. in other news greece launches its tourism season seeking to jumpstart an industry that's been severely battered by the coronavirus pandemic. a wave of protest against the israeli occupation has swept across the west bank there is growing frustration and anger after israel intensified its airstrikes over gaza confrontations between protesters and israeli police and at least $200.00 different places from hebron and bethlehem to nablus and ramallah the police are

fired volleys of tear gas and there are reports of live ammunition being used at least 10 palestinians have been killed by israeli security forces in the occupied way. bank on friday and more than 400 people were wounded israel has fired fresh air strikes into gaza. the moment when the building housing the inner syria ministry was attacked there's no word yet on any casualties a multi-story building that had a mass bank in its was also leveled in a separate airstrike at least 100 $22.00 palestinians including $31.00 children being killed since the offensive began on monday how mass and its allies are sending more rockets from inside gaza the israeli military says a total of $140.00 rockets have been launched towards israel so far on friday though most of them have been intercepted at least 9 people in israel have died

since the conflict escalated on monday that ibrahim is in ramallah in the occupied west bank we'll talk to her in just a moment 1st let's go to suffer. who's in gaza for us so more missiles being launched in the last hour or so we think. there is fresh israeli airstrike. 200 meters again from our office here in gaza they hit a house. still unclear who was who was the target but at least we know that. retrieved the one body at least of a palestinian that was killed. and there are some other people injured in this recent attack in the background we also could hear the. explosions from. the israeli artillery. placed along the borders with gaza. the palestinian fighting groups are still criminal responsibilities for

firing short range rockets towards southern israel the longer range rockets normally. come up when the israeli intensified their fire so. anytime there is no certain criteria for. both sides fire so back to the north of gaza sir also there is another israeli attack at the glances say the 2 more policy others of 2 more policy unions arrived to the indonesian hospital which is the main hospital and then out of the gaza strip the minister of health says the. official number that they stated is 122 people killed and. 5 days of israel escalation including $31.00 children and $900.00 palestinian injured

they have been appealing and asking for blood donation because bank of blood in gaza say that it's running out of blood units because of the waves of injured people arriving to the hot. because it's all about the gaza strip egypt also said it will open its borders receive the injured people from gaza from tomorrow. there are other humanitarian problems that are appearing now. let's say at the level of water supply sewage and it works just have a chat with the mayor of gaza who told me that they are receiving hundreds of calls every day from people because most of the water supply and its waters have been destroyed in gaza or in many places in gaza city and they are not able to deploy their teams and fix these. supply networks on.

this island nation station on the north of gaza strip is also completely stop ok so many things that abraham is in ramallah in the occupied west bank. i guess it's common now than it was a couple of hours ago but we're expecting more demonstrations tomorrow. we are because saturday is what excuse me is known here as nec betty this is the day that reminds palestinians of the forcible displacement of hundreds of thousands of palestinians who left their homes and wouldn't able to come back to them in 1948 when israel was created and also there will be the funerals of most of those who were killed in protests that took place in different cities in the occupied west bank as far as the latest medical figures from the palestinian health ministry 10

palestinians were killed by israeli fire 9 of them during confrontations and one the israeli army said that he tried to attack israeli settlers and stop them near an illegal israeli settlement also the medical figures talk about more than 500 injuries dozens of them by live ammunition we have now 14 critical conditions because of the excessive use of force by the israeli forces and the ministry of health has issued a call for palestinians to volunteer blood to the blood bank in a way that we think that they are getting of. a tense day on saturday as well and they want to make sure that they have the medical supplies and the are equipped to deal with the high number of palestinians will probably will get injured in confrontations now most of those who were killed in friday's protests weird

in and out around nablus which is an area known for the intensity of settler attacks israeli settler attacks usually attack palestinians their villages their homes in several cities in the west bank but nablus have brought in jerusalem have the largest share of settler violence so we've seen more protests that are still going on there but overall we can say that it is less they don't city is less than it was a few hours ago. reporting live from ramallah thank you very much. he is a palestinian rights activist he joins us now from hebron. what's your reading of where we are with this conflict right now. i think last thing in people know what these are trying to tell all over the world that we have somebody from your patient from about a. well a long time ago. we

lost your picture and we had your son and then we lost and now we've got sound and you're picture back live television these things happen just carry on with your answer for us please if you can. about a time and book to let you know really if you patient. had been in the streets and tonight more calls for lesions and broadest. unfortunately there is really if your patient is committing the more exclusion they are shooting live ammunition be sold protesters all over little spent more than 10 palestinians were killed only in west bank today and. pushing the force the use in does. double out all the crime is they will not do all these kind of attacks inside

the bank or the guys that are without the silence. from many international. wants to solve the internal political problem of the price of the will of the people i see more of these collisions on the israeli army from the israeli government more let me say discrimination more supremacy from the 'd from the from. about. massacres me it may have been involved in villages and involved in. the move around with their own guns you know and the other hand we saw the palestinians united the art of our only talking about how to defend themselves and how to protect each other and about how did was there to be an out it was israeli about oppression

2.0 listening to what you're saying the 2 points point number one you're saying israeli massacres of palestinians is a potential here the israeli military might react to what you've just said by saying well actually we were very happy the the word went out that an incursion into gaza overnight last night was imminent because we knew word would spread and people would leave the border area point number one point number 2 this really military would say to you we are only going after hamas' military installations in point number 3 benjamin netanyahu if he was here he might say to you look this time how mass went far too far and we had to react. i want to start from point number 3 how mass didn't plan to the slaves of the young families from chipchura the richer we saw how those really police was treating the

women and the elders and the family civilians in jerusalem a method in that attack some most and you know attacked the worshippers and thousands were injured inside the mosque inside inside the most part they are there's only police used. a massive 'd violent blow out against the palestinian worshippers who are worshipping inside them or so or they were attacked in fide the more that yell himself is really in or calling the right wing he brought it up. and they come out and brought in. but a fanatic extremist can if to is a government that is calling them now to go to lead and at least saying that the gate should use. 'd all of the unions that they can you know sure they can you know and he's telling the police do all the people you want you will not be accountable in the other hand you know i saw on the t.v. that the majority of the ballots were killed in gaza were civilians i saw

a lot of busting and there's a 1000000000 burnings were demolished and completely by that those that you were playing i see that the young boy is a little bit in the civilians and something very important i am not the one who is late as an adult i. was struck by human rights watch an american human rights organization as an apartheid state from the river to the sea bits element israeli human rights organizations dr. i just ask you one final question can i just ask you 11 final point please your speciality is palestinian rights that's your job description your palestinian rights activists. at any time more than any time in the past few years why is it say the people of rama ramallah and not hearing more from the palestinian authority is the palestinian authority failing palestinians.

yes for sure the last thing i thought of not fulfilling its responsibility to protect the palestinians because of the color of the nation and their contract with theirs wrote their bill of the authority is now in 3 months and the people of the don't see them. as leaders we see the people who are defending. those we want to live in dignity with really much right 'd but it is not giving that time because of that option and because of cancelling the legislative election and but of the authorities should let me say modify the world hard to give the will of the moon just again and to start really the resistance project there's only if you please in without doubt and without. many thanks for joining us from hebron a difficult time for everyone we do appreciate your time the israeli prime minister

benjamin netanyahu is insisting hamas should quotes pay a very heavy price and he warns it won't stop carrying out its attacks and i want to show you. the senior leaders of hamas believe that they can escape from our armed forces but they cannot we can reach them everywhere we reach all these people and we will continue to do so they attacked us on our holiday in our capital and fired rockets at our cities they have paid and will pay a heavy price for that this is not over yet. al-jazeera is correspondent gary force has changed location in the past couple of hours he's now in an occupied east jerusalem area what's going on there tonight. well the issue which show you just heard is some are talking about that had fuel so much of the tension and so much of the anger and indeed the violence that we've seen in recent days here in this palestinian neighborhood of occupied east jerusalem they're still going on these

protests the security forces behind us have tried to keep the protesters inside their homes opposite a settler building on the other side of the road there was a brief uptick in the skirmishes just now with a stun grenade used just before you came to us but this is just one instance of the sort of violence that we've been seeing in occupied east jerusalem and a different kind of violence in the country more generally just calming all interracial very close at hand conflict that we're seeing erupting around the country here. earlier in the day there were clashes between palestinian protesters and jewish settlers. and there's a compound a courtyard inside one of the jewish owned buildings and there were 3 people there

with sort of. sir there are 3 people 2 of them at least with handguns and one palestinian person was shot and injured in that confrontation the police then moved in and took the guns away from the settlers elsewhere in the country the situation remains very much on a knife edge the city of lloyd to the east of tel aviv where there have been a number of very violent incidents there is a curfew in place 8 pm till 3 pm local time from 4 pm in the afternoon no one who didn't live inside that city was going to be allowed to go in there and then elsewhere for qana another city a palestinian town in the center of the country 30 or so we believe the reports were injured in very serious clashes between security forces and palestinian israelis and so this violence just continues to spread. if there's time one of the

thing i just want to tell you there's an interview with a person who's really a man who was beaten. sort of grabbed in the city of but off is scooter and there were horrible images of him being beaten by a mob of far right jewish rioters he's been interviewed by a local channel channel 13 news his name side and according to the interviewer he said there are no jews there are no arabs there are only humans he said that the group approached him and said are you our of and he thought they were asking for help and he said yes how can i help you and then that was the beating beginning and he was beaten beyond almost all recognition so that is the kind of thing that is shocking people here is someone who's used to dealing with jews on a day to day basis perhaps thinking they were asking for help with directions or a language issue or something and suddenly he was erupting in his face quite literally he was on the ground being beaten and kicked and so that's why this has

been so shocking and so upsetting to so many people around the country that it can happen in such close quarters such a personal way. we saw those pictures indeed harry the ferocity of what happened quite quite shocking harry thanks for talking to us and a force of the jarrah in occupied east jerusalem our bashara is our senior political analyst and let's talk about potential diplomatic moves here some israeli media outlets tonight saying enough's enough we're hearing from joe biden's white house spokeswoman saying israel has a right self-defense of course just reiterating what we were talking about yesterday when mr biden said that 36 hours ago now and also the egyptians calling for a 12 hour ceasefire a pause in what's going on could that be the building structure for a mosaic of something that will take this in the right direction. yes

ms akers the world because i'm not sure there's going to be any immediate there was an issue of this standoff of this escalation is going on but i think a ceasefire does make sense i think for all of the fall of the parties involved not only for the netanyahu government and for the how must be the ship in the sense that i think the ship has established its deterrent capacity and that it did it once and it could do it again. but that it fulfilled that mission which is to say you cannot attack in jerusalem and you know be free to do so at a twitter and i think for the now government the price has been very heavy for gaza set them to inflicted lots of pain. that the suction is clear to us or with us several days in gaza it's also in terms of the cynicism of that that in our

government clearly a lot of the eyes now have moved away from the popular uprising in jerusalem fish but to add all of that i think what we've seen the last 24 hours is key which is that there's a lot of education in the arab street in jordan and lebanon in egypt and there's also the beginning of what seems to be an up evil in the west bank already recounted by midday some 35 contact points some hot spots already of confrontation between this and the between an armed palestinians and these are the security forces so all the fronts are open now escalation is possible on all fronts and i think is are that just got out of the car or not and then it and is entering into the summer season of tourism and so on so forth clearly it cannot continue with the same breadths and the same insecurity and the scented foot that would have us and if you add all of that. that netanyahu has already established if you will

his political endgame in the sense of preventing the opposition from the possibility of forming a government which means he's probably going to be prime minister for another several months perhaps until another elections happen so all of these factors together if you take stock of the entire situation in addition to what you said about that the prometric efforts it would make sense for a transitional at hope the beginning of a cease fire of sorts conditional on so and so forth that is possible whether whether this means syria solution on the intermediate or on i am not so hopeful whether this means that we are seeing the prospects of a. of the conflict certainly not we do have as well ma one however the u.s. envoy is now in the region but for any u.s. envoy it's the same old question isn't it how do you get israel and hamas to jettison their collective memory because israel's got form on this if we just look

at it as a journalist record even before hamas was hamas in the early to mid 1980 s. israel occupied gaza and reinvigorated that even before hamas was there even before the name came into popular pollens you know with all due respect to the armor and not sure how much he has in terms of leverage and how much influence he would have heard he just landed in israel. i remember back back in the days when some other. some other confrontation took place it was at the time secretary of state hillary clinton got involved personally and in fact that was the time that she even began a conversation with then president morsi of egypt. the brotherhood president then in order to mediate a cease fire so i'm certain it was happening on

a much higher level back then for the by the administration to be sending a low level. envoy at this point in time with such a meek low energy use the expression is that they don't expression a low energy. approach from the by the administration with so much indifference to the suffering that's taken place on the ground i think that would weigh in but not as much as all these other factors i just mentioned notably that there's a gathering of storm against israel and in the neighborhood the palestinians are rising all over historic palestine and the arab street is getting agitated i think the arab governments that have regimes are getting uncomfortable so i think all of that together will probably weigh in ok mo and thanks very much more on the south other senior political analysts the white house says it's working to deescalate the

crisis has also said israel had the right to defend itself let's cross now to our white house correspondent kimberly how can so campbell who already touched on this here on on this particular news about we have been hearing from mr biden's press secretary. that's right and she is continuing to do some cleanup on the comments by the u.s. president joe biden on thursday where he stated that the response by israel is in his view not significant for a 2nd day jen psaki found herself having to address those comments by the president saying that in no way was this a minimizing of loss of life that in fact the united states is working very hard and mourns the loss of every life whether palestinian or israeli take a listen to what she had to say israel has the right to self-defense our focus remains on continuing to use every lever at our disposal to deescalate the

situation on the ground i think it's also important to remind people a mosque is a terrorist organization hamas does not represent the views the families of the people who are suffering all of the palestinian people who are suffering as a result of this violence on but there is no justification for 1500 rockets coming from hamas so the argument being made by the white house press secretary as you heard there that she doesn't believe there's any justification for any firing of rockets what the white house is being accused of not just in the united states but around the world is being very selective about the starting point and once again completely ignoring many of the facts on the ground including those forced evictions of many palestinian families from occupied east jerusalem is the u.s. may be leaving yourself open to more criticism as well kimberly by sending a and i mean this respectfully a low energy low profile envoy instead of one of the really big heavy hitters who

knows the middle east very well. yeah this was something that was brought up in the press briefing just a moment ago the fact that there is a low level low energy diplomat that is being sentenced head of for example anthony weiner and to the blank in the u.s. secretary of state why isn't he going right now why did joe biden call just benjamin netanyahu the israeli leader and not mahmoud abbas the palestinian leader i mean these are very glaring obvious facts that are leaving a lot of people scratching their heads including members of the president's own democratic party and i can tell you that a lot of people are noting some of the sort of glaring sort of bits of hypocrisy if you will in a lot of the democratic statements what you're seeing is this division within the democratic party where some of the older democrats including joe biden who's been

in congress for decades before he came to the white house that they have always sort of turned a blind eye if you will to many of the israeli policies that are inconsistent with the sort of championing of human rights that the united states does otherwise and this is being called out by members of the progressive wing of the democratic party representatives like alexandria castillo cortez joaquin castro mung others who are saying very strong statements on the floor of the house of representatives that israel's reaction is disproportionate not. what we're hearing from joe biden and that it's exacerbating a cycle of violence. representative alexandria cortez saying that both this is not about both sides but about a balance of power and their cues in joe biden of looking the other way as israel engages in horrific campaigns against the palestinians so it's glaringly obvious to many in congress something that we would have seen 20 years ago that there's

a bit of hypocrisy going on ed it's pretty uncomfortable for joe biden and for the press secretary as she can to. used to get peppered with questions about the inconsistency in u.s. policy kimberly thank you very much well we've also been hearing from e.u. leaders leaders in the european union line up to london and our correspondent need barkha who saying what. well from moscow all the way to london european leaders are roundly condemned the violence they're all calling for a deescalation of the tensions only you've got to meet putin even said that he feared that violence in the region could affect russia's own national security that's how seriously he is taking the situation we heard from. the president of the european commission she took to twitter earlier to condemn the firing of rockets by hamas into israel she also said that civilians on both sides need to be protected earlier germany's foreign minister vehemently defending israel's right to defend

itself he said a different tact from britain's prime minister boys johnson who has both sides to step back from the brink judging from these comments it would look as if israel is getting off lightly here but israel has been under mounting pressure from several european countries the u.k. france germany italy and spain sending a joint statement to israel. in the week urging them to reverse settlement building in the occupied parts of east jerusalem saying that it undermined the possibility of setting up a viable. gives me a viable palestinian state to have a grassroots level been demonstrations in multiple locations across the continent a couple here in london where one of them in paris demonstrations demonstrators there were incredibly frustrated to hear that a court had held a police ban they had hoped to hold a demonstration on saturday but the police said that they feared the similar kind

of violence seen at a similar demonstration in 2014 an astonishingly in copenhagen the danish capital of protesters who've been holding a demonstration outside the israeli embassy that were dispersed using tear gas you do get the sense peaking to demonstrators that there are going to be many more demonstrations to come particularly if there are attempts to fall. as seen in france need many thanks need parker reporting live from london. well people around the world have been demonstrating against the israeli attacks. on the 2nd day of the most the need celebration of thousands attending prayers in bangladesh protested in solidarity with the people of gaza the demonstrators led by the islamic political party are calling on the united nations and the organization of islamic cooperation to hold israel accountable because the scenes in berlin in germany that neve was just talking about were hundreds of protesters rallied to

condemn the israeli attacks but the government says it supports israel and has promised to ramp up protection for jewish institutions in germany. the world health organization is urging rich countries to reconsider their plans to vaccinate children against cope with 19 it says the doses could be better used in poorer countries and the searching rich ones to donate them to the kovacs scheme the comments came as the world health organization admitted the 2nd year of the pandemic will be more deadly than the 1st i understand why some countries want to vaccinate their children and adolescents but right now i urge them to quote to reconsider and to instead donate vaccines to quote marks

because illo and lower middle income countries vaccine supply has not been enough to even immunize health and care workers. well the world health organization director general the dots head ross also saying the situation in india does remain a major concern the indian prime minister narendra modi is reassuring people the government's doing everything it can to stop the spread of covert 19 his administration has faced heavy criticism for being poorly prepared and allowing large political rallies the government says 2000000000 vaccines could be available from august but some states aren't waiting instead they're taking matters into their own hands and looking to secure doses from overseas is caught on our wires get carter 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 they've had to endure i too am feeling that pain 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 awareness of people in the villages in the cooperation of the villages governing bodies is just as important in controlling the spread pattern a metal is in new delhi with more on how different parts of india are planning to meet the vaccine shortfall. india is the world's largest back to me still below 3 weeks several states have reported. and even closed some centers because they simply didn't have enough. people in the latest developments. in india said it started really out of the. the mood the government has said that it expects to be available on the markets. and that the vaccine will be made in

india starting in july the government has understood this isn't a nation and today announced that it will have enough nearly 2000000000 by the end of the year it says it has been in touch with the makers in india and around the world to complete this order still several states have now come out and when launching a global turned individually what billions of dollars to import vaccines knowledge that this is going to be told to us given the market forces at this point several countries around the world are still waiting for orders they've placed a while ago the government has said that any vaccine approved. and the f.d.a. in the u.s. will be allowed in india and that import licenses will be granted within 2 days. well the u.k. prime minister boris johnson has warned the variance of covert 19 1st detected in india could threaten england's road out of lockdown the government is stepping up

its vaccine program shorten the time between 1st and 2nd jobs for people over 50 years old and for clinically vulnerable people as well. if the variant is significantly more transmissible we're likely to face some hard choices and we're going to be learning a lot more in the coming days and weeks about that the good news is that so far we have no evidence to suggest that our vaccines will be less effective in protecting people against severe illness and hospitalization. greece has launched its tourism season the 1st flights carrying tourists have arrived in greece since restrictions were eased on businesses from a short list of other countries it's allowing people who were vaccinated or test negative for covert 1972 hours before departure john psaropoulos now from athens. these are some of the 1st arrivals and i phones since restrictions were lifted and many have been waiting for this moment for months danny cohen leads

a group of 16 israelis one of the nationalities that can now holiday here without quarantine we are waiting for this moment more than one enough here because of the koran up and we love very much greece it's very near to our country its wonderful people have always welcomed smiling good food and. good climate at the moment it's not a flood but a trickle because greece's opening is unilateral many of the country's tourists come from like the u.k. and germany haven't yet lifted restrictions on their nationals traveling abroad greece has been pushing the e.u. to implement an e.u. wide digital green pass for those with vaccinations it has yet to happen we saw that there was a clear lack of leadership and we need to provide this kind of leadership. says framework for others to call me and go through and the thought process is to

mature so by actually remove. some of the battles we are our the other countries to make their own decisions based on what we have greece is a framework is to demand proof of vaccination all in negative covert tests 72 hours before travel the motivation for greece is simple it needs the income in 2019 a record 31000000 visitors came to greece making it the 7th most popular holiday destination worldwide last year those visitors fell by 3 quarters and so. revenue to just over $5000000000.00 since tourism generates a 5th of the economy the government is determined to improve on that performance this year in order to succeed greece wants to use to feel safe it now has the 5th fastest vaccination program in the european union and it is putting special emphasis on vaccinating $85.00 islands popular with holiday makers like call food

by the end of june many of these island economies are almost entirely dependent on tourism if greece's gambit succeeds it may see its economy grow by the 4 point one percent the european commission for costs this year a far cry from the 8.2 percent contraction it suffered last year the doors are open it's now a question of how many people will walk through them jumpstart awfulness al-jazeera athens ok let's bring in dr annelise well dismiss a professor of emerging infectious diseases at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine she joins us from in switzerland dr weil the smith welcome to the news hour how safe or dangerous is it to be a tourist now. so currently the numbers and europe are quite know after an extended lockdown of various extent over the winter months so and and coupled with that we have know an increasing back seen

push and increased uptake of that seems within within europe. so bearing in mind in the hope that the indian variant of will not take a major hold in europe. restarting travel at a moderate level if still considered safe. the step that that recess it just so just taking is to make sure that that travelers are either vaccinated or they have a negative p.c.r. test ok when you talk there about travel in a moderate sense some tourist destinations are fully booked some resorts are fully booked despite having say 2 vaccinations and a negative test before departure would that still mean that people are completely safe and there is no risk here. nobody can say there's no risk the risk is reduced

compared to last year but if we have an increasing number of travelers even if they're p.c.r. in the negative prior to their travel we know that some of them will become positive after arrival because of the income patient time so nobody can say there's no risk and therefore we every country study it's to to continue with their with their measures for greece the way they have to side to protect themselves and that is the correct way to go is to decide to really increase of x. in a certain coverage in the in the tourist islands and the tourist hotspots but also nationwide all over greece is boris johnson the u.k. prime minister right to be signaling this moment the 2nd of caution when it comes to the indian variant we've reported extensively here on al-jazeera what the indian variant has done in india it is almost apocalyptic and clearly mr johnson

doesn't want something similar or even something slightly close to similar happening in the u.k. . so we're all concerned about the indian variant and it's just a matter of time when it will be introduced it's already it's already been reported in the u.k. as we know we're with a small outbreak there and it is a very trust miscible variant that's why it's a variant of concern. obviously if a read of concern arrives in the country where there's a very high vaccination coverage like the us like now also u.k. there's less of a risk that it will spread the message but in countries where the law or cover trade and that includes many of the european countries where we've only reached about 10 or 20 some maybe 30 percent there is of risk and so and so we have to watch this sperry and very carefully and we need to we need to continue to all be vigilant whilst trying to now

a balance some of the the chief that's what that we've had over the past months because we now have to have lower numbers in most of the european countries does that mean doctor for example say france and germany that until just 6 or 8 weeks ago were perceived as very much playing catch up when it came to vaccinating their population they are more at risk from these super strong very transmissible variants such as the indian variant if it gets into via hub airports or gate ports or ports or whatever into countries like france and germany totally great so the the the emphasis now is accelerate vaccination pull it out get better supply increase the vaccination manufacturing capability so that that more of our populations are vaccinated this is the only way out dr annalise well dismissed great to get your thoughts on this significant development in the fight back

against covert 19 thank you very much. thank you. computer systems in hospitals across ireland being shut down because of an apparent cyber attack the country's health service describes the ransomware attack as sophisticated and says it's affecting national and local systems but it says ireland's coronavirus vaccine program is unaffected because it does operate separately the incident comes just days after a cyber attack on a major u.s. pipeline led to fuel shortages and panic buying joining us live on skype from washington is jody westby she's chief executive officer at global cyber risk a cyber security firm welcome back good to talk to you again how can this have this kind of impact on the health service how can it have this kind of impact on the health service question yes. well because these systems are all interconnected and the ransomware gets and it's very sophisticated and knows how to disrupt systems

entirely and can erase backup data it can exploit trait data it can change the configuration settings of the system so it can bring an entire company to or an institution such as the irish health system to a halt if the malware wants to but i'm sorry jody forgive me maybe i'm being really dumb here we're talking here about health care provision we're talking about a doctor or a nurse walking up to your eye as a patient and saying jodi you're really sick you need an injection here's an injection thanks very much you're well goodbye how can a cyber attack stop that relationship happening. oh i'm sorry ok well it can because one people and schedule appointments and those appointments are all entered in a computer so right now the irish health system has not been able to even know who was scheduled for an appointment to reach people and try to cancel them it doesn't

know if it has a right not available that may require being connected to the computer system whether that that appointment would even be fruitful to have to have. the i.t. systems can support a lot of live support systems and other types of medical testing equipment so it can interfere not only just with the ability of patients to come for an appointment and be treated but in that the some of the at cell offering that treatment depending on if there is this potentially the next kind of warfare if you will in as much as it's about what it can actually do as we saw with that attack on the american oil and petrol gas pipeline system and also the perception of what it's done because anything that leads to panic buying is always going to be a victory for the people who are perpetrating the attack. yes i think it's

a pandemic is the better word than warfare we are having a ransomware pandemic at the moment and we end it is simply because companies are not prepared and they have been warned repeatedly by governments by other incidents occurring and it is the chief executive officers and the boards of directors of those companies where the blame sits at their feet they have not allocated the resources and attention to security programs and companies do not have the backup plans they don't have good incident response they are not prepared to deal with this malware even though it is then hitting company after company after company and they simply choose not to spend the money yet they will spend always spend more in a response than if they had done things right ritek their company their customers and and the civilian population in the case of

a pipeline who would want to mount these kind of 2 attacks that we're talking about here jody i mean mr biden said he thought it was the russians he said i don't think it was the kremlin but i think it was the russians and he wasn't ruling out some sort of payback but i mean you know a very nice person if you will if you attack if you launch a cyber attack on the irish health care system but who would want to attack or disable the irish health care system anyway. and they want money and so all of these attacks or end up getting money and they're being quite successful because the companies are not prepared and they can't simply restore their systems and so it is a very big problem this malware darkseid is located in eastern europe it may be in russia there may be some of the russians affiliated with it one of the biggest problems we have with russia is that they do nothing to arrest anyone in russia committing cyber crimes so long as they leave the russian organizations

alone if they don't attack anyone inside russia and leave them alone so they can really operate with impunity over there and that is a very are very difficult situation for other nation states to deal with we need to have better coordination among nation states we need to have more harmonized legal frameworks to deal with cyber crime we've known these things for 20 years and it has just been a failure now at the feet of governments to actually get these mechanisms in place where we can investigate and pressure on russia judy you seem to also be saying sort of folded into it into our conversation tonight you seem to be saying that you can lead a cybersecurity boss to water but you can't necessarily make him drink so the the people that run you know nation state oil companies health care systems whatever they're not going to do anything about this until the system is frozen or damaged

or may be completely eradicated for a period of $24.00 or 48 hours despite the fact that your industry if i can call it that has been telling them look this is a really big issue and you've got to do something about it otherwise something really bad will happen not just somebody has to somebody feels the need to panic buy gas. right and so that this is what's happened they have done nothing and then when something happens they say oh we're going to make sure this never happens again they don't they get their systems back up and running and then they ignore everything again so it is a very big problem but now there may well be government regulations put upon them the government could use incentives they could offer companies tax credits for everything they spend on cybersecurity there are things a paper do to incentivize companies to take these measures but then there's also lawsuits that can come from days where the might of spar will simply start so in companies that have armed civilians or created some other damage in some way

and so i think we're going to see as change right now where companies will have to start paying more attention boards and c.e.o.'s are going to have to have a governance framework in place and actively exercise that government governance and and the governments are going to have to create more of a facilitator it environment for assistance when these things happen but in the main time i i think we can be sure that the u.s. congress will be having hearings and discussing legislation judy this is an important coming important story which doesn't need to be told thank you so much for helping us tell the story here on al-jazeera good to talk to you tony west be there joining us from the united states time to support his jemma. thank you peter more concerning news for organizers of the olympics with japan extending its state of emergency to 9 areas trying to contain a rise in corona virus cases

a city take it was already under restrictions and 3 more prefectures have been placed under emergency measures until may 31st that includes. the olympic marathon it will be how it japan's been struggling to slow infections but the country's prime minister remains determined to hold the games in just over 2 months and believes they can do so without compromising the safety of both athletes and japanese nationals. we're making adjustments to ensure the medical system for the turkey or games would not be a burden currently the organizing committee securing designated hospitals and also nurses who are currently not working and sports doctors we are calling for their support public opposition to the games that persists more than 350000 people have signed an online petition calling for the 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 polls suggest around 70 to 80 percent of japanese

citizens want the games cancelled or spend the man behind the petition and feel sorry for the athletes but there isn't one 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 so i take it seriously. formula one bosses have confirmed next month's turkish grand prix has been called off because of cave at 19 istanbul park circuit only been added to the calendar 2 weeks ago to replace the cancelled canadian grand prix but with the country facing another wave of infections and a knock down the french grand prix one i'll be brought forward to wake and be followed by 2 consecutive races in austria chelsea head coach thomas tickle admits he isn't yet in the right frame of mind to look forward to the f.a. cup final against leicester segal is targeting his 1st piece of silver was chelsea

boss at wembley on saturday but it sounds like he's finding it hard to get excited about the game as he still feeling cross about that defeats also in the premier league on wednesday i'm not yet in the mode to enjoy it still have a bit of a hung over from from last from last defeat so i hangover from last defeat it's always like this so i'm a bit of more over angry. in the angry mode livable and out just 4 points behind chelsea in the premier league with a game in hand and the basso to finish in the top 4 is one which excites them out of control liverpool play west brom next in clubs predicting a tricky game against a side have already been relegated you'll say says he'll have a word with strike a saudi i'm on a it's not his hand shake off with those days when the manchester united although he's played down the incident. put those emotional game and everybody expects from us that we have that big control our emotions always. and that doesn't work all of

the vase that's the case if you do do you want to have these things happening nothing but it's on the 1st time in my life and. i'm afraid to say it will probably not be the last time. manchester city defend america port will switch from france to spain ahead of the european championship approved a change of eligibility after the french soccer federation consented to spain's request report is a former france under $21.00 international but has never played the senior national team the spanish government has already granted the port citizenship which is 4 weeks away from the opening game of the delayed tournament and you can expect to hear a lot of the official song that was released on friday. written by dutch d.j. martin garrick's the song features bono and the edge from new to eric's has been

waiting more than a year to release the song after the arrays were postponed last year because of the current of us pandemic but he hopes it gives people joy and something to look forward to after a difficult 18 months the toma begins in very much on june the 11th the more we have 11 cities with the final london's wembley stadium a month later. the british and irish lions rugby team of change the shuttle for that for south africa to reduce the risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic the lions will play their 8 matches in only 3 cities to have a cape town and pretoria to cut down on the amount of travelling and the games in july and august will most certainly take place behind closed doors it will be the 1st time that the lines have played without fans in their 133 year history rafa nadal has recovered from a nasty fall during his quarterfinal match to overcome alexander's virus at the ryan masters rafa all quickly while chasing down a drop shot at the end of the 1st set his wife looked on concerns the spaniard

brushed off the incident and carried on to claim the match in straight sets the 9 time champion that will now face the surprise that we find this american. palca. because basically what happened are some lines are higher than the rest of the court so when you dodge a line he's done to us so that's it i think the. minister. playing the way that i have to in the women's tournament croatia's petra mott it is also into the semifinals after beating american jessica q let's 7564 next up is 9th seeded carolina pliska. penco in their final. elsewhere in italy is stage 7 of the 08 it's how it was won by australian it caleb you in his 2nd victory at this year's race allowed to him that is all your sport for may for now i'll be back

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israel's bombardment of gaza intensifies the death toll mounts and thousands of people have been forced from their homes. oh i maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program more than $100.00 rockets are fired from gaza the israeli prime minister says a mask will pay a heavy price.