on. google or are. 0. hello i'm maryam namazie you're watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes. israel's bombardment of gaza continues the death toll mounts and thousands of people have been forced from their homes. more than $100.00 rockets are fired from gaza the israeli prime minister says hamas will pay a heavy price for these attacks in other developments at least $11.00 palestinians are killed and hundreds more injured as protests erupt across the occupied west

bank and also coming up this hour we'll be looking at india's coded vaccine crisis some states start taking matters into their own hands despite government promises devon actually supports the takis formula one grand prix has been cancelled and japan's prime minister remains determined to hold the olympics despite the country extending its state of emergency to 3 more areas. hello welcome to the news hour we begin in gaza where exchanges of fire between the israeli military and palestinian factions appear to have subsided at this hour. israel did launch several strikes against more targets in the strip earlier on friday this was the moment when the building that houses the interior ministry was attacked no word yet on casualties as a result of that and then

a multi-story building that had a hamas bank inside of it was also leveled that was in a separate strike at least $126.00 palestinians this includes $31.00 children have now been killed since the israeli military offensive started on monday and then how mass and its allies have been firing more rockets. from inside gaza the israeli military says a total of $140.00 rockets have been launched towards israel so far on friday most of them were intercepted at least 9 people in israel including a child have died since the conflict escalated but at least 11 palestinians meanwhile have been killed by israeli security forces in the occupied west bank since friday morning more than 600 have been injured in the west bank oh a wave of protests broke out over the israeli occupation there's a growing sense of anger and frustration after israel intensified its air strikes over gaza have been stand offs between protesters and israeli police in at least

200 different locations from hebron in bethlehem to nablus and ramallah police have fired tear gas and there are reports of live ammunition being used as well well al-jazeera saw what alcohol who joins us live now from gaza and suffer what there was a very intense bombardment of the strip last night particularly concentrated in northern gaza would it appear that there is an easing of strikes now. well after almost 2 hours of silence. in the gaza a few minutes ago the israeli. is. about 30 strikes still the same in the north part of the gaza strip. the last couple of hours what a village to village quiet except from some ground shelling from the navy shelling across. the course the line of the gaza strip on the border the line of course of

the gaza strip these bombardments have been forcing hundreds of people to leave. their homes near the border to stay and you on run the schools. the ministry of health say. 126 palestinians have been killed including 31 children. also the bangle blood in gaza has been appealing people for blood donation because the hospitals in gaza are running out of blog because of the huge waves of injuries that are arriving to the hospital which according to the ministry of health of the number is more than a 1000 now egypt also tomorrow will open the border. exceptionally for the palestinian intruders to treat them and that if he received them and in the sinai hospital that's ending equipments for. hospitals to treat the policy and get his other hand there is no yes there is no response from the palestinian

armed groups on the latest israeli wave intensifying that's been cut it out a few minutes ago. all right thank you very much stuff what. inside gaza and now. is humanitarian work inside gaza she joins me by skype from west gaza city and can you tell me if if you've been seeing or hearing anything in the past few hours what it's been like for you and and how you and your family for to kill you or your children have been coping this evening. hi yes. it's it's been a lot of few hours of heavy bombardment from phone by them and have been shouting also from the from the sea as i live nearby to see those old saw

a few dollars of video horrifying. from natives from the outside as well of course that has become the. daily experience of us and as for adults people children say that it's a clue are an old soul meant to be it's a huge huge issue a huge challenge and the minute we face this great fear the things we see that our children are. that they themselves. are really you mentioned in there the 4th of the 30 children that died you've seen how the largest city their homes because of the swaddled also 77 days or even volunteers have been have been get the infrastructure this big hits we are witnessing a lot of whining. lou that it is you know i would say experience for with the this war that is more intense than that than the one in 2014 the great

that and great that anxiety because we feel that even the threshold to keep some moving car going off and the world look what's happening and it's extremely challenging it's extremely hard to find i'm sitting right here and i'm i'm ordered about one when is the next it's going to be and especially during the night where the. massive explosions are jets there every in every defense in everything down the gaza strip and of course city and tent city of activity and bombardment at night makes it impossible to sleep until you are men and you are the mother of 2 daughters now where it where are they at the moment. in the bedroom i am sure that i'm too old to question the leisure stevie to make them at the away from the window and old so do all the right things about having

some math of no bucko noses that broke down good lungs as i mean like music it's up to but i jump over to do to them i sleep next to them on the floor to make sure. that if anything happens i'm on there to protect them because immediately that starts screaming and that's that's maybe my 1st experience as a mother having a girl that was about 6 years old and she's starting to see the city and feel and the fear and experiencing it even physically issues started to complain from physical beings and imagine i i've been lucky and we've been very lucky that. we have not experienced direct direct damage in the outhouse and already died a doctor going off there seeing all these children or older people who are in have been exposed to that injured or killed just by these random insane.

shelling that is taking place and you know obviously at. a place where. you know everyone is living very closely together do you happen to know of anyone friends or family who have been at directly affected in the way that you describe over the past few days. well of course gaza is small and people know it so that and as much hard the situation becomes people still have a very strong sense of something that if the we the state of all all the night checking on the each other some of the old friends or acquaintances even we know people who are experiencing so many different things i know people who have to feel their home will have their homes. severely damaged or even destroyed people who are just feeling because they live their lives near. the northern area and have to stay

in in an actual school with their roof that homes as as so you have the 4th did more than 10000 people have opportunity for that and i think that number is going to increase the and so we do know all we all we all have it all in this however different people experiencing different experiences but it's all harder for them and. ceasefires when they come are always will they tend to be fragile and temporary because of the kind of dynamic between israel and amass it's always that always in between there's always that period in between was because fundamental issues are not being addressed and so help us understand what it's like in those periods of lull because in gaza are still facing a continuous shortage of clean water and short of an electricity and then just the continuous. presence of israeli drones in the skies and i suppose always that

that expectation that something is going to happen at some point. of course because each time that is any downed of such. of such duration skin nation or the law of ever you'd like to call that the fundamental issues are that murders of because even on the cease fires where conditions order good of quests are put on the team. immediately. you know it's just ignores them and that's what unfortunately many people have not not that we get off but hopefully we're the cut in situation because it's not only gaza this is the entire palestinian population all across gaza and jerusalem been at a number that's all this was sparked interest in them and in the cities and palestinian cities within the administration i think this tendency still exists

that is that there is something fundamentally wrong and it is a great grave injustice that only that of syrians even those who seem to be treated in a better situation like as israeli citizens on that the government that i think each group each type of palestinian if i may call each classification is treated with and certain of it off of oppression and in gaza of course the situation is just much more intense due to the the fact that the that he sent i would say decent i mean i mean 15 years of a blockade and then he met experience which ration that has been dating it off to iraq and just before the sound i think it was also very obvious that the level of poverty and unemployment and. we have completely forgotten what quadrant is although it was just last week with the coffin situation and all that goes on

doesn't have any fair share of any decent living you mentioned walter of course you're talking about 80 percent. the population dependent on age you are talking about one half of the population on their property. and we see that from our earth in our day the it daily the thing security in their daily life just day by day where the just a few a few shipments to 2 to have to have a need and many they cannot even secure flats so have them that situation and it's controlled by israel and if the if it has an out of step that says we were the jew from its side well. you need to read the facts correctly because israel controls what we eat it israel controls the fuel that supplies and it's a city which is now by the way has also the native during. this phase or this these few days when it was good it was 8 hours off it's

a city on and 8 hours off and now it's completely uncertain we get maybe just a few out of 3 hours or so because of damages because of lack of fuel because they decided to close the crossing when everything is in that control and that the and then this goes on and on when it comes to an economic climate that activity i need a decent access to to to leave the state seeking medical medical. student for example why where does that end the. 70 or 60 year old women and men to get treatment in a bottle of doctor in the west bank even if month in israel but even in the west bank why would that spin continue that's that's the big lie for palestinians you know security in daily walks of supply and electricity and seeking diffusion seeking medical treatment all of that basic stuff to people do people understand

that this is what and what gazans are facing and again that the bigger. the picture is extremely important because we need to see it now more than any other time what is happening all these riots and protests tendency of something tells you there's something really wrong here and what we would like the people people of the world to know is that because politicians know they just have no interest and they just have double standards we know that however those will are it. who want to understand they once they do see that reality they they will be supportive without us begging for any support or or asking for it thank you very much from gaza and west gaza city thank you for joining us humanitarian workers nigel. will out of there as high force it is in an occupied east jerusalem this is the

neighborhood where palestinians have been threatened with losing their homes with eviction to israeli settlers he said the sense of internal conflict and tension there is starting to build. occupied east jerusalem outside of israel has also been a scene in recent days of pretty clear instances of racial violence there was a jewish person attacked by a palestinian group close to the city walls of the old city the other day and earlier here of course is a conference of issues this ongoing protest but also into ethnic violence going on with palestinians and jewish settlers facing off around a jewish building in a neighborhood just a little way away from here with 2 of 4 of the occupants of that place brandishing weapons as they threw stones at people from outside who were themselves throwing stones and fire letting off fireworks into the area those guns were used

and one palestinian person was injured as a result of that exchange before the police went in and removed the weapons there have also been other developments elsewhere in israel itself where we've seen. the arrest of a senior muslim cleric a senior member of the islamic movement by the security service the shin bet accompanying that and after that very major disturbances in the palestinian israeli town of call for qana where we've seen streets filled with with protesters moving around and a large number of injuries we've heard from a doctor that there have been dozens of injuries in that incident so as well as talking about this the prime minister benjamin netanyahu talking about rather about the situation in gaza he's also been talking again about this issue he's been talking about groups of arabs who are attacking jews just for being jews that's

correct that has been happening he didn't talk at all in this instance at least about the reverse of that issue and he's promising an extremely severe crackdown really telling police that they need to do whatever they can to to try to quell this violence or protests have spread to the occupied west bank where there were confrontations in $200.00 different locations including hebron bethlehem and nablus there's a growing anger over the continued house of actions in demolitions that harry was just talking about also israel's military control of the area and now the air campaign inside gaza now to abraham is in ramallah in the west bank this is one of the group protests that are taking to this area some of the occupied west bank this is the part. in the besieged gaza strip against the israeli measures in occupied east jerusalem there is the fear of how the word illegal jewish settlement of where

there is at israeli military life and we were. told cocktail to confront the israeli army that have been using live ammunition to disperse the crowd. we're trying to defend our land we have no arms nothing on the whole i'm here because the highly destructive is really striking houses in gaza killing innocent people why these protests were sparked by the latest round of a skill ation protestors here tell us that they have more than enough reasons to protest the ongoing settler attacks against them that they are often quite carried out with impunity the diminishing hope of having a state or being free remember these people mostly are young they were born after the palestinian authority was established in the 1990 s. and they've seen the leaders on and on talk about them having

a state and they're only seeing the lands on which the state the supposed to be established shrinking. well the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is insistent that hamas should pay a heavy price and ones that won't stop carrying out attacks. i mean. 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. meanwhile the u.s. the u.s. deputy secretary of state for israel and palestinian affairs has now landed in israel the spokesman for the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas accuse the u.s. of encouraging what he called israeli war crimes were dinah's said that the silence

of the u.s. administration regarding what israel is doing in describing it as self-defense has led to massacres in gaza the west bank and jerusalem let's go to john hendren now who is in washington and john what can you tell us about efforts underway to secure a cease fire. well president biden's official policy is deescalation of this conflict as soon as possible but the white house's actions are essentially allowing israel to consolidate its military gains and to do what benjamin netanyahu the prime minister there has said he wants to do which is to exact a heavy price from hamas with those military strikes there the white house did call president biden did call benjamin netanyahu recently but he didn't not call the head of the palestinian organization the rather. mahmoud abbas the head of the palestinian leadership there the secretary of state anthony blinken did

so but it makes a difference that the president actually makes these calls the president has also been keen to say that israel has a right to self-defense any said that the strikes from israel were not disproportionate that despite the fact that the body count is considerably heavier on the gaza side that has put the press secretary of the white house in a difficult position trying to walk some of that back this is a little of what jen psaki 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 hamas is a terrorist organization hamas does not represent the views of 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 there is a white house press secretary pushing back on this suggestion that hamas should be recognized in any way as the leadership in gaza by the u.s. government the u.s. still recognizing the palestinian authority and yet not having the president speak directly to them but it an extraordinary thing is happening on capitol hill for decades the united states has had 2 main parties but essentially one policy when it comes to the israeli palestinian conflict well now we're seeing one member of congress after another step up in the u.s. house of representatives and speak against the biden administration's policy and in favor of the palestinians in this case rashida to leave a palestinian american member of congress the 1st palestinian american member of congress stood on the floor of the house weeping and said how many palestinians

have to die before their lives matter omar another member of congress a muslim or american member of congress called israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who ethno nationalist on the floor of the house so that president biden may be maintaining the longtime policy of the u.s. which tilts toward israel but he's increasingly getting friendly fire from democrats in his own party thank you for now john hendren in washington d.c. well in terms of the wider international reaction the united nations has made an appeal for an immediate end to the fighting the secretary-general antenna the terraces warning of the security and humanitarian crisis and says the conflict could fall stake stream is an across the region the un security council hold a meeting on sunday to discuss the issue as christian salumi now explains. the u.n. security council is on the sidelines of this latest middle east conflict as a result of american intervention diplomats confirmed that the united states

blocked calls for an open meeting on friday during which countries could publicly express their views it was also the americans who stopped any form of a statement unified statement from being issued on behalf of the council something that all other members were pushing for a spokesperson for u.s. ambassador linda thomas greenfield tells al-jazeera that the united states wanted to give space for diplomatic efforts underway at the highest levels to to work they were looking to deescalate tensions and move towards a cease fire while of course the situation on the ground has only gotten more violent since then and diplomats as well as u.n. officials here have expressed their extreme frustration we would like to see member states. pruett to action the ideals that we all have to live up to within this within this organization. so the more

unified the security council is the stronger its voice and the stronger it's impact the united states initially said they wanted to wait until tuesday for an open meeting they've since relented a bit agreeing to a rare sunday gathering the 1st open meeting of the council since these hostilities began. he with the news hour live from london much more still ahead for you on the program a cyber attack forces the shutdown of an entire national health system we're going to bring you that story also looking to salvage a tourism industry in ruins greece opens its borders to vaccinated visitors and then later install with gemma will tell you why the turkish one prays been canceled and which country now has an extra rice.

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building housing the interior ministry has been attacked in as strikes on gaza the evening has been relatively quiet although in the past hour several dozen is ready as strikes in the northern part of the gaza strip at least $126.00 palestinians including folks you want children have now been killed in gaza since the offensive began on monday hamas and its allies are firing more rockets from inside gaza towards israel the israeli military says a total of $140.00 rockets have been north towards israel on friday but most of them were intercepted at least 9 people in israel including one child have died since the conflict escalated and in other developments a wave of protests broke out in the west bank over these radio key patient in that intensified air campaign in gaza have been standoff taking place between protesters and israeli police in at least 200 different locations at least 11 palestinians have been killed. well am heimer abu sada is a political scientist an associate professor of political science at university in

gaza joins me now from gaza city where he lives with his wife and 4 of his 5 children 1st of all how would you describe the intensity of the bombardment in the ass strikes of the past few days. good evening let me say that for the past 5 days gaza has been under fire and under israeli at. bombardment from the air from from the ground from israeli artillery last night was a very tough and a very intense bombing that included the north areas of the gaza strip areas called . and one where according to his weight a spokesperson stated that $160.00 israeli military jets participated and air strikes against that area which targeted $450.00 missiles in

about 2 hours at 150 targets those 150 targets are mainly main roads is eventually areas and some open orange groves. tonight also the israeli bombardment of gaza is continuing even though with efforts to try to reach a cease fire israeli bombardment has not stopped and as a result of the intense bombing last night of the north areas of gaza some of my family members has evacuated their homes my mother and brother evacuated their homes in north of gaza and moved into gaza city where the intensity of the bombardment is a little bit less so right now you are experiencing a bit last activity there is fewer strikes way you are and so your family your extended family are saying or not your extended family your mother your brother

they're living with you now. yes they moved in today with me because of the intense bombardment. in the north of gaza us to last night and luckily the kim and moved in with me today because i'm talking to some people who live in the same is the bombardment is continuing tonight and as i'm talking to you right now he had that 6 people were killed tonight which makes the the total number of palestinians who have been killed over the past 5 days more than 120 so far and above 500 palestinians have injured and a lot of destruction have been inflicted on palestinian civilian infrastructure like those are then shelled buildings our men rode. other. government buildings the belong to the to hamas in gaza.

do you do you worry me you mentioned buildings and we've seen 2 apartment blocks collapse from as strikes and you're saying that i mean obviously that the the gaza strip goes through. this destruction we saw in the 2014 war and carry audit plea when tensions escalated of course you have a loss of life and injury but also the infrastructure. suffers a great deal of destruction do you think that when we get to that stage the there are building effort is going to be a much greater challenge compared to previous rounds of conflict. definitely the amount of destruction which has been inflicted on dollars over the past 5 days is immense i don't think that governments will be able to rebuild that destructed or destroyed infrastructure the e.u.

alerted the palestinians and israelis back in 2014 that the e.u. would be the last time to invest in rebuilding destroyed infrastructure in gaza i don't know who is going to be rebuilding this infrastructure we are talking about residential buildings over the course of the past 5 days at least i can name 3 lives and then shall buildings one is a 15 story building that is used by media outlets another story a 10 story building also was brought down and another 10 story building that houses some some apartments was also brought down that is in addition to a lot of other apartments and civilian infrastructure which has been targeted by the israeli air force it's definitely a big question who is going to pay for this who is going to rebuild this that will be. a question for the international community to answer after this

current wip of escalation will be over. now egypt is going to open its border to so that the injured can receive medical assistance what can you tell us about the pressure on gaza's hospitals. well gaza has been under tight israeli siege for the past 14 years since hamas took over the gaza strip in the summer of 2007 and as a result of the israeli siege and blockade the health infrastructure here in gaza is very weak and. it is very fragile and as a matter of fact many palestinian patients were transferred to the west bank and israel in the past for medical treatment now as a result of the covert mind the and as a result of the current askin mission and military. commission against skulls are egypt decided today to open the office for severe injured palestinians who would be

treated in egyptian hospitals as a matter of sympathy with the palestinian people and girls on also egypt is trying to show its displeasure with the israeli rejection of the egyptian proposal for an immediate cease fire. we hope that this current wave over israeli bombardment will will seized very soon to save lives to save civilian infrastructure in gaza but yes egypt is offering it till it's him for the palestinians right now and heimer deaf ank you for joining us from gaza city thank you my pleasure to be with you well we're following other stories this hour in a particularly developments in india the prime minister reassuring people that the government is doing everything it can to stop the spread of coverage 19 arranger modi's administration has faced heavy criticism for being poorly prepared and for

allowing large political rallies to take place the government says 2000000000 vaccines could be available from all this but some state authorities are taking matters into their own hands and list looking to secure doses from the seized me mentality is a new delhi with more on how different parts of the country are planning to meet the vaccine shortfall. india is the world's largest back to me still below speed week several states have reported. and have had to even close some centers because this simply didn't have enough to inoculate the people in the latest developments local partner in india said it had started a rule out of the vaccine the government has said that it expects to be available on the market starting next week and that the vaccine will be made in india starting july the government has come under severe criticism for its vaccination policy and today announced that it will have enough tools is nearly $2000000000.00

of by the end of the year it says it has been in touch with it vaccine makers it india and around the world to complete this order still several states have now come out and said that they wouldn't be launching a global tender individually what billions of dollars to import vaccines their knowledge that this is going to be a 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 by the w 2 and the f.d.a. in the us will be allowed in india and that import licenses will be granted within 2 days. the us is nation campaign has expanded now to include all teenagers between the ages of $12.15 it comes as the world health organization calls on wealthier countries to donate vaccines for children to its kovacs scheme which is helping low and middle income countries

a quiet jobs but reports the biden administration doesn't seem likely to heed that coal. it's not often that you see kids actually excited to get a vaccination shot but that was before covet and the confidence that comes with a vaccine i was glad because now i can be like safer and soon will be able to like be out soon and do normal things i think it's cool that it's at school because i can see like all my fellow classmates getting it and that i know that like people around me all have it and my holy district has it so it makes me feel safer for their parents finally some relief from what has been constant stress and fear having been through 3 cases of cove it in my household of 6. i couldn't get my 12 and 15 year old daughters that shot in the arm fast enough but she is in the minority according to polls about a 3rd of parents want to get their kids that's unaided the rest want to wait well

only do it if they have to or they won't do it at all the government wants more people cover to get close to herd immunity and doctors are trying to combat any hesitancy with science while kids are less likely to have a serious complications from coven 19 there was a recent study that showed about a quarter of kids who have persistent symptoms of lasting months after their initial infection still the world health organization believes this shouldn't be happening yet in 100 countries we bowed to the my duty to the vaccine supply lower risk groups are now being vaccinated. i understand why some countries willing to blacks who need their children and adolescents. but the right to know our desire to go to recall and to eat is to donate book seems to go box the body ministrations given no

indication that they're even considering that given the political fallout would be fierce so now in community centers like this one all over the country teens are being vaccinated up next kids from 6 months old to 12 years old that decision is expected in september particularly al-jazeera maryland. computer systems in hospitals across ireland are being shut down as a precaution after a massive cyber attack the irish health service says the system could be down for several days because of the ransomware attack emergency services are also carrying on as normal though thankfully health officials say that they are yet to receive any demand for an actual ransom jerry west is chief executive officer of global cyber risk cyber security firm and says she believes both the public and private sector need to be more proactive in dealing with these types of issues. companies have just refused to spend the money they need to spend on cyber security

they will all raise been more in response than they ever would have in print in preparation and constructing and maintaining a strong security program but they just are not spending money the boards and senior executives are not paying attention to this and making sure they have resilience in operations that's starting to change i.d.c. did the study and after the 1st few months of the pandemic the call that that business resilience was down at number 7 and by june 2020 it was up to number one and that's the number one priority now for decision makers and i think a lot of it isn't the pandemic it's not coded it is ransomware attacks that is causing this and causing huge business interruption losses so companies are either going to have to spend the money or the government's going to communion right you know. what all the stories are following the 1st flights carrying terrorists

arrived in greece since restrictions were eased for visitors from a short list of countries the terrorism dependent country is allowing in those who have been vaccinated or test negative for the crying a virus now more than 3 days before that the pasha john psaropoulos reports. these are some of the 1st arrivals anathema 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 i want to feel because of the koran up and we love very much greece it's very near to our country it's 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 countries tourists come from like for you. ok in 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 the leadership. says framework for others to call busy me a good go through and the thought process is to mature so by actually remove. some of the ballast our the other countries to make their own decisions based on what we have greece's say framework is to demand proof of vaccination already negative cova test 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 did 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 wrists 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 forecasts 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 opal us algis or athens we go to chile now people heading to the polls this week to elect a group of individuals hold draft a new constitution. in 11 percent of the seats of the constitutional convention of being reserved phillida is representing 10 indigenous groups and there's hope this

could be a crucial 1st step toward solving an increasingly explosive conflict our latin america editor lucien human reports now from monkey my in southern chile. for centuries indigenous my booty have chased after wild horses here in the b.o.b. your region of south central chile 44 year old a d'andre middle chilcot still delves. but he's now preparing to chase something far more elusive. and chile's current constitution denies the very existence of indigenous people it says that chile is a monocultural country so that is our 1st challenge not only to be recognized as a people but to obtain historic recognition of the genocide carried out against the mob by colonial state that has to chile and eyes the native people to create a how marginalized country at an irreparable cost for our own people romero's

father was a revered community long or chief before he died earlier this year he asked his son to take his place as a candidate to fill one of the 7 seats allocated to the in the upcoming constitutional convention. we believe that firstly has to be a historic recognition of what happened to generate justice and reparation and compensation for the damage done to our people just like the german state has done to compensate victims of the holocaust. the indigenous weaponry people on easter island to the eye matters in northern chile will have seats at the convention but the largest number is reserved for the map which it the most numerous the most dispossessed and the most combative indigenous people in the country get their. arms of a butcher groups have been carrying out widespread and increasingly violent attacks in the greater at argonne your region to drive out chileans from incest to territory that they want to reclaim. many communities are taking over land by

force many indigenous communities like this one have a long distance and cells from the chilean state and are promoting their own institutions in open defiance of the chilean government or. great many might put it communities say that after years of broken promises they distrust the whole process while others say that they simply find it irrelevant if the writer and activist bedroom who is also a constitutional candidate believes this is a historic opportunity to find a political solution to the conflict that we're going to be and building up arenas in the recognition of poor nationality and the new constitution opens the way for indigenous nations to demand internal self-determination it implies exercising their cultural rights and defining and administering their economic resources which currently is impossible. the new constitution won't solve the current conflict or heal deep old rooms overnight but hopefully official recognition of chile's

indigenous culture and its linguistic and spiritual wealth will be an important 1st step you see in human al-jazeera chile. still ahead for you on this news hour from london in major league baseball a frightening collision between the kansas city royals and chicago white sox.

org. board. gemma's hanau the overspill thank you mariam and manchester city have celebrated

their 1st game since becoming premier league champions by achieving something never before seen in english league football newcastle provided the traditional god of honor before city claimed a 43 when it's in james's park with aaron torres scoring a hat trick that made it 12 consecutive away victories the 1st time that's been in the history of england's top 4 divisions now more concerning news for organizers of the olympics with japan extending its state of emergency to 9 areas to try and contain a rise in coronavirus cases host city take it was already under restrictions and 3 more prefectures have been placed under emergency measures until may 31st including home where the olympic marston that will be held 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 you say without compromising the safety of by thieves and japanese nationals who. 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 the head of what office 6 sebastian coe says his recent recent experiences in japan after convinced him the games can be held safely and he's explained why it's essential for the athletes that they go ahead this year. there's always going to be a reason not to do something at the moment and i do genuinely saying the world has to keep moving i think the games is a great sign of. our and i do also think it is important to reflect on one statistic and it's a sobering 170 percent of the libyans only make it to one games so you know to lightly you know action lightly as some are suggesting you know will

stumps on down the line is effectively saying and 3 quarters of the libyans that actually charms and i think we should make every effort if we can do it safely and securely which i believe we can form a new one bosses have confirmed next month's turkish grand prix has been called off because of cave in 19 the istanbul park circuit anything 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 lockdown the french go on for a one hour be brought forward a week and be followed by 2 consecutive races in austria back to football at liverpool and out just 4 points behind chelsea in the premier league with a game in hand and the battle to finish in the top 4 is one which excites them homage at yadin club level who play west from next in clubs predicting a tricky game against a side who have already been relegated he also says he'll have a word with striker sadie a manet it's not his handshake after thursday's win over manchester united although

he's played down the incidents for boys emotional game and everybody expects from us that we have that big control our emotions always. and that doesn't work all out always that's the case if you do do do you want to have these things happen and nothing but it's on the 1st time in my life and i'm afraid to save it for probably not be the last time. manchester city defend the emirates reports will switch from france to spain ahead of the european championship fifa proof of the change of eligibility after the french soccer federation consented to spain's request the port is a former france under $21.00 international but has never played for the senior national team the spanish government has already granted report citizenship the british and irish lions rugby team of change the shuttle for that tour of south africa to reduce the risks posed by the corona virus pandemic the lions will play their 8 matches in there in only 3 cities that's to have his back 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 the lions of played without fans in their 133 year history rafa nadal has recovered from a nasty fall during his quarterfinal match to overcome alexander's verify the very modest is rafa awkwardly while chasing down a drop shot at the end of the 1st set his wife looks on consent the spaniard brushed off the incident and carried on to claim the match in straight sets the 9 time champion will now face the surprise semifinalist american riley. was very clear what happened on some lines are higher than the rest of the court so when to dodge the line he's done just so that's it i think that the. minister. playing the way that i have to a setback for women is what number one actually bazzi ahead of this month's french open the australian retired from her quarterfinal in writing because of an arm

injury she was leading by a set and 21 in the 2nd the 17 year old american moving into her 1st semifinal of a w t a 1000 events. and finally a gnostic collision and major league baseball reigning m.v.p. of the american league chicago's jose a brave collided head on with kansas city's home to dosha players will review from the game and surprisingly the white sox are late to confirming a prayer left with facial bruising and laceration as well as a priest last night but no concussion as yet while the worlds have reported it is being treated for a heavenly priest quads and neck discomfort as well looked pretty horrible that it didn't. it's got to you've had some experience of our yeah i broke my collar bone doing exactly the same thing playing around as i get out which that's it for the news hour soon a couple of minutes. a

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