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documentary jersey you know. there is no channel that covers world news like we do we revisit places mistake and just there are greedy invests in that and that's a privilege as a journalist. but israeli airstrike hits a refugee camp in gaza at least 8 people including 6 children dead. the whole robin watching all desire a life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes. in the occupied west bank after 11 palestinians are killed during a day of widespread protests families fleeing the fighting and there's a warning about the long term effects of the conflict. this fall and will carry
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lifelong injury mental health issues physical and physical disability as well dozens more bodies are suspected covert 19 victims are found floating in india's river ganges as 2 of india's poorest states trade claims. welcome to the program a refugee camps being hit in an israeli air strike in gaza killing at least 8 people including 6 children that takes the death toll to $137.00 palestinians since the offensive began on monday victoria gate and he has the latest. rescue workers in gaza dig through rubble for survivors at the shattered refugee camp after a house there was hit by an israeli airstrike that also if it's my cousin's house
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we were surprised by an airstrike that hit the house without any warning we ran outside we saw the 4 story house get completely demolished it was completely leveled if istana kids were visiting they were all killed all of them was the 1st thing. this 2 month old baby called was one of 2 survivors who were rushed to hospital but at least 5 other children were carrying it. we are still trying to recover more by. and figure out who is who this is truly a massacre that cannot be described in words we don't know how he managed maybe he just stayed alive to be a witness of what happened to the rest of his family. israeli jets tanks and artillery attacked other sites across gaza or on friday including a bank as well as the interior ministry. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the bombardment of gaza will not end anytime soon i am out of. the senior leaders of hamas believe that they can escape from our armed forces
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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. the mass and its allies responded to friday's attacks by firing about raj of rockets from inside gaza the israeli military said most were intercepted. as the fighting continues the humanitarian crisis in gaza grows steadily worse dozens of children have been killed since the shelling began and hundreds more have been displaced with their families aid workers say many palestinian children are already traumatized by past wars this is why it's so critical that we have to have immediately as i as physicians are still. carry lifelong injuries mental health issues
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visible physical disability as well palestinians sheltering where they can but they say no wearing gaza feel safe right now the jury gave him be al jazeera. the masses responded to the latest attack by firing a new barrage of rockets towards israel one hit a building in ashdod emergency services say the apartment damaged on the 6th floor and 3 occupants who were in a protected room were not harmed the factory in the port of ashdod was also hit causing a fire there were no casualties in this incident either. all fighting between israeli police and palestinian demonstrators as continued into the night in occupied east jerusalem but he set fires on the roads as security forces try to clear them out from there are a force of reports. after days of depressing racial violence across israel friday night in jaffa brought a new low throwing fire bombs into homes including that of 12 year old mohammed he
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and his younger sister burned his father said they'd been sitting in the living room when the molotov cocktail was thrown in he rushed mohammed to the bath the neighbors came to help but across israel neighbors a turning on each other on a scale that few can remember more gun violence in ludd where 2 jewish men was shot the previous night by palestinians the town has seen religious sites desecrated a jewish synagogue a muslim cemetery the prime minister was there again on friday. groups of writers are coming from the arab public and harming jews because they are jews i am explicitly saying that this is not the entire arab public and not even the majority of the arab public but it is a significant minority that harms violently and also harms the fabric of life we have built over the years between jews and arabs. and so to the crackdown israel's internal security agency detaining a senior cleric of the northern islamic movement for alleged incitement
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accompanying violent confrontations so dozens more palestinians injured some critically netanyahu himself stands accused of fueling this fire courting and legitimize in the extreme racist right at the last election failing fully to tackle gun crime within palestinian israeli areas for years before. in the occupied west bank a violent flare up of a different kind confronting soldiers in forcing a military occupation this was just west of ramallah. this was hebron. and this close to the illegal israeli settlement of beit oh. we're trying to defend our land we have no arms nothing as in gaza and israel the toll mounted quickly israeli forces using light. ammunition shooting protesters dead hundreds were injured. in occupied east jerusalem jewish settlers and palestinians faced
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off one palestinian man was shot and injured. as well as erupting in the occupied west bank and continuing here in occupied east jerusalem this violence between jews and arabs is continuing to flare in israel itself the image that shocked so many earlier this week was the beating of side mussa he's now given an interview to israel's channel 13 t.v. saying his assailants 1st asked him if he was an arab yes how can i help it was his reply the simple open innocence of that question now seems from another time carry force at al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem oh our house correspondent kimberly halkett has the latest on the u.s. political reaction to the israel palestine conflict and in particular what the white house press secretary jen sakhi had to say. 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
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is in his view not significant and for a 2nd day agent psaki found herself having to address those comments by the president saying that in no way was this a minimizing 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
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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 no demonstrations in support of palestinians happening around the world hundreds of people hold a rally in southern lebanon near the border with israel. or person died after being struck by israeli fire. well these are the scenes in berlin in germany where hundreds of protesters condemn the israeli attacks the government says it supports israel and has promised to increase protection for jewish institutions. of the earth on the 2nd day of the muslim holiday of thousands of people at present but whether protested in solidarity with gaza the demonstrators led by the islamic
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movement bangladesh group are calling on the united nations of the organization of islamic cooperation to hold israel accountable and these are recent pictures coming from protests in sydney australia many 100 saying gathering in support of the palestinian cause of the ongoing conflict there in gaza. the united nations is appealing for an immediate end to the fighting secretary general antonio taro she is warning of a security and humanitarian crisis and says the conflict could foster extremism across the region the u.n. security council will hold a meeting on sunday to discuss the issue kristen salumi has more from the u.n. . 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
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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. put 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 its impact
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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. well still ahead here on out is there vaccinating millions of american teenagers the gates can feed 19 but there's a cool full rich nations to instead of date specifies to poor countries. working to wipe out to season with the bites the controversy around genetically modified mosquitoes being released in the u.s. those stories after the break. it's time for the perfect gentleman in the winter storm suit point at ways hello let's start in the arabian sea where we do have this disturbance that
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potentially could form into a tropical cyclone over the next little while the indian meteorologist called apart and has warned this could indeed become an intense cycle as it spreads its impact to the western shores of india but all models really showing it staying offshore we could see potentially up to 200 millimeters of rain in some places that's in the east toward the west it's more settled and dry take your pick we've got a whole bunch of forty's kuwait at 43 doha a high of 41 plenty of sunshine on sunday we've also been dealing with intense rain throughout areas of kenya over the last little while and look what it has produced just incredible scenes of flooding across the country you know we also got to be on the lookout for flooding as we head toward the cape the western cape as we get this plume of moisture pushing on saturday pretty much a week ago we were dealing with intense flooding in stress 5 this time around i think really the worst of it will be in cape town 35 millimeters of rain that's
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about half a month's worth of rain in that short span but by sunday conditions improve and we're just dealing with a light showers for cape town. sponsored paul qatar airways. talked to al-jazeera we are the army who were attacking ripping ago and now they're attacking everyone in myanmar do you regret words like that when we listen absolutely nigeria with a woman president it would be great we meets with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera. unprompted and uninterrupted discussions. from our london broadcast center. on al-jazeera.
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talk about your watching al-jazeera these a whole run a reminder of our top stories israel is continuing with its bombardment of gaza with another 8 people killed in an airstrike targeting a refugee camp at least 137 palestinians including 30 children of the kills and see israeli offensive began on monday at least 11 palestinians have been killed during protests and swept across the west bank on friday clashes between israeli police and palestinian demonstrators continued into the night in occupied east jerusalem. and funerals have been held for some of those killed during theirs earlier protests across the occupied west bank more rallies are expected on saturday. now the bodies of about 100 suspected covert 900 victims have been found floating in india's ganges river in the past week most are recovered in india's poorest
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state of bihar which has the worst health care system in the country there's only one doctor for every 28000 people a warning that this report while india correspondent elizabeth parag contains images some people might find disturbing. the fires continue to burn in one of the many commission grounds on the banks of the ganges river considered the holiest source of water by hindus many want to be cremated near it and have the ashes scattered in the water work a say in recent times they've never had to deal with so many bodies. the daily concretes changing some days we cremate 4050 or even 70 bodies it's even reach 145 in one day but over the past week around a 100 bodies suspected to be of covert 19 victims have been found floating in the ganges in the states of be hard and author predation in bihar they have been
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reports of a shortage of wood for funeral pyres because of the unprecedented number of cremations that's denied by the local administration that the heart is also india's poorest state with only line to 2 community health care centers for 120000000 people. and i've been there pandey travelled from his home town to the capital patna to find a hospital for his wife he told al-jazeera he can't afford the medical care or food for himself. or. i have to buy medicines every day we get few tablets from the hospital for free but they are for basic illnesses we got medicines worth around grand decent and that's it we have to buy everything from elsewhere they give food to the position but not put the relatives. she had lost his uncle to coronavirus he is a man of many people in bihar who say their relatives would neglected because of
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a lack of health care workers there was only one doctor for every 28000 people. the health system across india has collapsed whether it is the i.c.u. or the general ward relatives are not being allowed to stay with patients and patients are dying there is no one to feed them water clean the sort clothes health experts say most covered by a 1000 deaths in bihar and india's rural areas where 65 percent of the population live i'm not being counted on the 2.4 percent of the deaths and be hard a medically certified. no more room. for improvement one good. guy didn't. even translate for me it is only not their fault to come to a hospital. cases of the virus an n.d.a. have now topped $24000000.00 but more than a quarter of a 1000000 deaths but it's widely suspected that the actual figure is unlikely to be
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much higher elizabeth pradhan al jazeera new delhi and in the tourist harbor go at least 75 patients have reportedly died due to a lack of oxygen at its top state run hospital over the past 4 days but the high court has the government turned the top hospital officials for saying that logistical issues while connecting oxygen cylinders may of course and casualties goes covert 19 positivity rate is the highest in the country maybe 50 percent which means one out of every 2 people tested have the virus. british prime minister boris johnson is warning the variance of covert 19 1st detected in india could threaten england's road out of lock down the u.k. stepping up exact scene program shortening the time between the 1st and 2nd jobs for people over the age of 50 and for clinically vulnerable people. if the variant is significantly more transmissible we're likely to face some hard choices
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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 hospitalisation now the us is credible as vaccination campaign has expanded to include all these people aged $12.00 to $15.00 now it comes as the world health organization calls on wealthy countries to donate vaccines for children to its kovacs scheme which is helping low income countries acquire those jobs but as political hand reports now the biden administration doesn't seem likely to heed that call. 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
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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 covered 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
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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 right now i urge them to quote to reconsider and to illustrate don't need vaccines to cover the body ministration has 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. al-jazeera maryland. people have been killed or 2 tornadoes ripped through central and eastern china more than 200 people were
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injured strong winds toppled dozens of homes across the cities of one hand and suture electricity facilities and factory buildings have also been destroyed. china has successfully landed a spacecraft on mars if follows the u.s. on the soviet union to become the 3rd country to have a rover touchdown on the red planet the 6 wheeled jurong named after the god of fire in engine chinese mythology descended from a craft that has been circling masses beery is china's most ambitious space mission so far chileans head to the polls later this week to elect a group of people who will draft a new constitution some of the seeds are being reserved for leaders of 10 indigenous groups and there's hope that this could be a crucial step toward solving an increasingly explosive conflict or latin america editor lucien newman reports now from long may in southern chile. for
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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 does. 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
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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 put 2 groups have been carrying out widespread and increasingly violent attacks in the greater at argonne your region to drive out chileans ferments just to territory that they want to reclaim. many communities are taking over land by force many indigenous communities like this one have a long this is i'm cells from the chilean state and are promoting their own institutions in open defiance of the chilean government ago. many might put it
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communities say that after years of broken promises they distrust the whole process while others say that they simply find it irrelevant if you writer and activist better guy you gayle 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 see me and building up really not the recognition of poor nationality in the new constitution opens the way for indigenous nations to demand internal self-determination it implies exercising their cultural rights and defining and administering their economic resources which currently is impossible. a new constitution won't solve the current conflict or heal deep old wounds overnight but hopefully official recognition of chile's indigenous culture and its linguistic and spiritual wealth will be important for its step you see in human al-jazeera young came a chilly. 90 days before i.t.
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systems and hospitals across ireland are fully operational again after a cyber attack that disrupted covert $900.00 testing by the country's health authority shut down its entire i.t. system on friday to protect it from a sophisticated ransomware attack crippling diagnostic services the government says an international cyber gang is responsible. federal shortage is continuing in parts of the u.s. after a cyber attack there on a major fuel pipeline led to panic buying now washington d.c. has almost run out of petrol as government officials raise to assure motorists the supplies will be returning to normal clonie oil pipeline that was shut down for 6 days after it was hit by a cyber attack last week that reportedly paid hackers $5000000.00 in untraceable cryptocurrency ransom to get the system back up and running. genetically modified most cato's have been released for the 1st time in the united states the pilot program in the florida keys is aimed at reducing the spread of potentially deadly
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diseases for issued an experimental use permit last year but some residents and environmental groups raged and the gallagher reports from miami this is the ada suggest time muskie to an invasive species it's made florida home only the females bite and spread disease and in 2009 were responsible for an outbreak of dengue fever who that ripped through the florida keys officials say traditional control methods a less effective as the insects build resistance so authorities turn to british biotech firm oxy tech they developed males with a gene that kills female mosquitoes before they reach maturity the males then continue to breed passing the altered gene on to more females it's a program the company says has been successful in brazil panama and malaysia in a november 2016 referendum $31.00 out of $33.00 monroe county precincts voted in support of our project some overwhelmingly so we like to say because it's true that
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our mosquitoes received more support and election than any human candidate. while the majority of keys residents back the project some have concerns about the long term effects of a new technology you're going to risk our community you're going to ask the people in our community to be sacrificial lambs really because how else are you going to produce your mosquitoes if it weren't for the people in the caves donating their blood. despite some local resistance the pilot project received approval from the environmental protection agency the culmination of a decade long effort by mosquito control of our teas in tackling potentially deadly diseases nothing out there is a silver bullet looking to enter great whatever we can and to our current control methods just to make sure that we can suppress that population below disease
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transmission thresholds mosquito borne diseases like malaria yellow fever kill over a 1000000 people a year according to the world health organization all this kind of technology is controversial to some it's also being watched closely during the initial stages of this pilot program here in florida around $250000.00 genetically modified male mosquitoes will be released if that proves successful in reducing the female a dissident talk population millions more could be introduced and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. georgia all deserve means the whole robin and horrible end of all top stories a refugee camps being hit in the latest israeli air strikes on gaza least 8 people have been killed including 6 children rescue workers have been digging through the rubble for survivors in the shati refugee camp after house was.
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