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now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. making a healthier world for you. to everyone. ready . we will continue to respond forcefully until the security of our people is really stated and restored israel's prime minister says the ongoing offensive in gaza will continue as long as necessary. there is after israel destroyed gaza tower block housing al-jazeera and other foreign media as well as many families.
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on our intel of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. the funerals are held for 2 mothers and their 8 children killed by israeli jets in a gaza refugee camp. and a new barrels of rockets is fired at the israeli city of tel aviv from gaza killing one man. i know israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says a military offensive in gaza is not yet over and his forces will continue attacking while doing all they can to avoid civilian casualties but deaths are still mounting in palestine one $147.00 palestinians have been killed since monday including $41.00 children meanwhile a rocket attack from gaza has killed one man in tel aviv raising israel's death toll to 10 an israeli airstrike has also destroyed a building housing international media including our jazeera and the associated
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press are a force that reports. with a phone call from the israeli army another gaza high rise became a condemned building minutes ticking down on a one hour warning. this the office of the associated press as it staff made instant decisions about what they needed to salvage to keep on working across the lift lobby staff from the al-jazeera bureau were doing the very same thing that's on the street outside the building's owner pleading for a stay of execution home not that that's ever we need 10 minutes as you can see there all around the press not people who are going in to get weapons out but there was no arguing not even about the timing. and it's. about al-jazeera gaza journalists off what was live on air as he watched his workplace of 11 years vanish in front of him we partake frankly everybody
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ultimately we were going to leave what the great work of all these are like that which under trusting that you won't drink or when something very dark up in this building was home to families as well as media companies more to add to the list of homeless in the besieged and played during days of intensive attacks from the sky oh. in a statement al-jazeera said it condemned in the strongest terms the bombing and destruction of its offices by the israeli military viewing it as a clear act to stop journalists from conducting their duty to inform the world and report events and vowing to pursue every available route to hold the israeli government responsible israeli military said how must operatives were using the building and media companies like al-jazeera and the associated press with human shields. i want to remind the world. that in firing on our cities hamas is committing a double war crime they're targeting our civilians and hiding behind palestinian
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civilians we've heard that from the israelis i can tell you that we've been in that building for 15 about 15 years with our bureau we certainly had no sense that hamas was there we would like to see the evidence we're not sure whether hamas was there or not we don't know but i can tell you the impact will be that the world will know less about what's going on in gaza because that building was leveled. in another escalatory step israel hit the home of a senior political rather than military hamas figure. the 1st such move in days of attacks. amasses top gaza political leader issued this message during a visit to the qatari capital doha look. that has been besieged for 15 years 15 years under siege from every direction. amasses military wing sent further major rocket attacks deep into
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israeli territory on saturday a 55 year old israeli man was killed when one rocket struck his home in a televised suburb in the midst of it all in the occupied west bank palestinian protesters confronted israeli soldiers on nakba day when palestinians marked the creation of the state of israel what they call the catastrophe the palestinian red cross said scores were wounded many by live ammunition in occupied east jerusalem or scuffles around the neighborhood of shaikh shura where threatened forced expulsions have fueled the tensions. with violence on so many fronts still untamed israel's prime minister said he spoke to the u.s. president and informed him of israel's plan next steps are a force at al-jazeera west jerusalem. across gaza families have been holding funerals for loved ones killed by israeli airstrikes many of them children are a bad man lee has more and a warning there are disturbing images from the beginning of her report. at the
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funeral of a child in the city of prophet in southern gaza. a woman in shock said only children playing with their toys mothers grandmothers and families left inconsolable. innocent victims the days of heavy israeli airstrikes and artillery fire that destroyed homes and neighborhoods. what is this baby done it we were sitting safely at home we didn't hear a warning rocket our house got hit violently why why why do they bomb houses in their residence. in the northern beit hanoun neighborhood people search through rubble for their belongings. gaza is home to about 2000000 people in an enclave under israeli blockade there are few places to escape the bombs glass that is probably the most densely populated spot on earth it has been under 14 years of air sea and land blockade it is the place where the spare is extremely high and
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we're civilians are trapped. tooth scape the bombs many children as sheltering in schools but they still don't feel safe. and i'm not that we ran out of our house after the air attacks and our house was bombed we fled to the school we're told at the smoke from the bombs poisonous we don't know what the poison is and we only know that the thick smoke after the explosion was very choking for what purpose in the united states on thursday house democrat rashida to play up made the motional statement to congress reading the words of a palestinian mother i want to read something a mother named the man and has a wrote 2 days ago she said quote tonight i put the kids to sleep in our bedroom so that when we die we die together. as al-jazeera spoke to a man about the message it was interrupted as bombs exploded nearby you can hear it
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actually while we're speaking there is loud sounds of bumping the. people who are living refined grains. every single day. we wake up to reply to messages like are you a lie. we're skeered every single night we are needs. hamas and its allies have responded to the attacks by firing a barrage of rockets from inside gaza. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the bombardment would not end soon. as bombs fall rescue workers seek the survivors after a house was hit an all shouty refugee camp on friday killing 10 members of a family funerals are taking place throughout gaza for those killed which includes dozens of children for those who survived the bombs then on the traumatized and
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terrified of further attacks. during the al-jazeera a 5 month old baby was the only survivor from that israeli air strike on a house in the refugee camp in gaza baby omar is being treated in hospital he suffered a broken leg i and throat injuries and bruising his mother and forcibly siblings all died in the attack along with 5 other relatives they were visiting family for aid celebrations. in the last half hour there's been another series of loud explosions in gaza. as the air strikes have continued so too has violence among palestinian israelis and jewish residents inside israel the past week has seen riots on
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a scale not seen in decades the mare of the mixdown of law which has seen some of the worst violence has compared it to a civil war the tactics of police have also been called into question. her is the deputy general director of adela the legal center for arab minority rights in israel she says the violence happening now as a result of years of discrimination. the israeli government and parliament passed the jewish nation state basic law which has the status of a constitution providing a constitutional legitimacy for ethnic jewish supremacy excluding palestinians from this constitution which basically means that it is allowed to discriminate against arabs based on the constitution what we are seeing now is a translation of the constitution off a long term a systematic racial discrimination against arabs and i think that there are the
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narrative of living together or coexistence is not there anymore we are talking about narrative of sygate racial segregation of apartheid and even at least even more than that protests against the bombardment of gaza have been taking place in cities across the u.s. and these are scenes from washington d.c. crowds of also gathered in boston dallas and los angeles earlier u.s. president joe biden spoke about the conflict to both israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the palestinian president mahmoud abbas is going after john hendren in washington d.c. what we know about those course. what we have read out from the white house on both of them to mahmoud abbas president biden expressed sympathy for the lives lost among palestinians he expressed concern that so many of them were children and he expressed concern about what he called the intergroup violence that is the street violence between non military israelis and palestinians
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is well he condemned the rockets being fired out of gaza by hamas and he expressed their desire that ultimately this could all be resolved by a 2 state solution that is the official u.s. policy to benjamin netanyahu the president made his 2nd call and in that he expressed his support for israel's right in his words of self-defense also condemning those hamas rocket attacks and expressing concern about the loss of life and updating netanyahu on the diplomatic efforts which have not really seemed to have pressured israel to strongly to curtail their actions there because as you have reported here netanyahu says they are going to continue with their military operations and how common is it to see solidarity protests for
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palestinians taking place across the u.s. . well these are quite unusual and they're larger than we're usually seeing here on the mall as you know the u.s. has generally had a pro israeli policy for decades in congress that was even stronger but now you have the 1st palestinian american member of congress rashida to leave who you showed just a few moments ago speaking out and you have omar muslim american member of congress of somali descent and you've got a number of other voices among the democrats that are pressuring joe biden with friendly fire from within his own party to take some stronger action against israel and to offer a little more support for the palestinian side he has long expressed the belief that israel has the right to defend itself he's condemned those attacks by hamas but of course the u.s. government is not speaking to hamas because they don't record recognize the group
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as being in control of gaza so they speak through the palestinian authority and that has limited effect but these protests that we're seeing here in washington and indeed around the world are generally peaceful but there have been clashes in germany and in france between police and protesters and there are protests here in the u.s. in colorado new york chicago and right here in washington so this is an unusually large expression of support for the palestinian cause. thank you very much. still to come this half hour. mark on that but the day they were displaced from their homes aren't establishment of israel. bodies of suspected cave of 19 victims and dumped in india's holiest river as the train of hours rips through the country's poorest states.
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there should be a different feel to the air already that will continue breeze up from the south is a fairly cold one so the rains gone through a bit of snow more full of victorian alps and there are few showers to come the windy and not very warm weather be felt in tasmania just catching the edge of victoria sherrod in melbourne about 16 and in fact britain's only $22.00 it is southerly breeze running up the coast where as perth succeeds all those $27.00 and that continues after say the rains on its way down towards new zealand obese and snow here in south island the rain the spring rain throughout china and japan if in particular which is recently with at least 2 tornadoes reported even causing deaths in who by one hand who by province that the rain is supposed to be here just wave off and then it's on its way south in 2000 china it leave south korea as
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a dry place on monday and heading towards most of honshu again spring rains are normal or just showing you where they are at the moment. the incoming monsoon also tend to produce these things their resume normal time of year this is a big and strengthening tropical cycle it's currently a very severe cyclonic storm it could get worse than that as it heads slowly north . it's one of the most recognized sites around the world famed for its support from far and wide but for the fans back home it's more than just a football club and you want to tell policy it should be left out of football you know doesn't know about football it's new all politics and. the passion and the politics of liverpool f.c. the defiant giant. part of the fans who make football series on al-jazeera.
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amount of top stories here not just 0 and his radio strike has destroyed a building housing residential apartments and international media including our jazeera and the associated press the tower was evacuated before the strike after the building's owner was given a warning. funerals are being held for 2 mothers and their 8 children who were killed by israeli jets in a gaza refugee camp at least 147 palestinians have been killed since the offensive began israel's prime minister says the miniature operation will continue for as long as necessary. and these are pictures of rockets being fired from gaza towards
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the israeli city of tel aviv within the last hour earlier one man was killed when a rocket exploded in a suburb of tel aviv 10 people have been killed in israel since monday including 2 children. israeli forces have wounded at least 38 palestinians during nakba day protests in the occupied west bank protesting held in hebron ramallah not bruce and qalqilya the rallies motley 73rd anniversary of the day the arab israeli war broke out one day after israel declared independence hundreds of thousands of palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes to make way for the establishment of the state of israel it avraham has more than a protest in albury in the occupied west bank where palestinians have been confronting is ready forces. these palestinians most of them were born after the $99.00 after. the palestinian authority and they were promised on and on by their leaders that they're going to be having freedom and the
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state instead of all these people are seeing now is if you can hear these tear gas bombs that are being fired by the israeli army we've even seen the israeli army fire live ammunition we have 3 palestinians were now in a critical condition more than 50 palestinians were injured according to medical sources and the majority of these people were hit by live ammunition these people here would tell you that they are fed up of talks of having a state talks of having peace while instead what they see and on the ground is intensifying illegal israeli settlement building intensifying israeli power and this really sucker attacks which often when the israelis say that they are investigating these allegations or these attacks 90 more than 90 part of 5 percent of these attacks go on indicted so there is
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a sense here that this is really is are building in the occupied west bank having the upper hand and these people who are trying to fight that and the only way as many of them were telling us they don't touch armies don't have anything and one palestinian protester was even showing us how he was making a bullet off poked it by adding petrol and a piece of cloth dripping blue and then they would fire that and a try and. towards the israeli soldiers it's kind of like small means they don't have much but they were telling us that if this is what we have to bring palestine so this is what we're going to do. people around the world have been rallying against israel's bombardment of gaza. this was the scene in. baghdad earlier demonstrators gathered into his square to show support for palestinians in gaza some in the crowds were seen burning israeli flags . demonstrators also gathered for solidarity protest in the cattery capital doha
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hundreds of protestors waved palestinian flags at the grand mosque in the center of a city. in paris police used tear gas and water cannon against them straight as who defied a protest ban to rally in support of palestinians the city's police chief deployed more than 4000 officers on the streets and close shops where the march was meant to start a quarterback and the protest of the fears of violence demonstrations were allowed to go ahead in other cities including legal and must say. millions of chileans voting in a poll that could change the way one of latin america's richest nations is governed their neck ting 155 people to rewrite the constitution which was imposed by a former dictator augusto pinochet more than 40 years ago the move was triggered by mass protests that began in 2019 demanding social justice and economic equality. are latin america solution human joins us live from santiago so people excited
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about this election. people have been very very excited now what you see behind me are some of the ballot boxes but this was only the 1st day of voting these are going to be taken away in a few minutes the the election is taking place over a 2 day period because of the pandemic to try to prevent large lines and and maintain social distancing so the real excitement is going to be more than 24 hours from now when the actual vote counting begins and that's it's a mystery exactly what the results are going to be because there are thousands more than $1200.00 candidates and the majority of them are independents but the system is such that the independents have have to fight on an uneven playing field if you like because of the electoral system which favors political parties but in general people have been telling us that they are that they believe that the future of
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chile is what's at stake that it's this is going to determine what happens in this country over the next few decades of not even longer and that hopefully this will bring about a system that will guarantee social rights individual rights of the rights of the majority over those of the privileges of a minority and what are the concerns about the upcoming process. there are people who are concerned precisely because they don't know who is going to be elected to write this constitution that to many people that are depending on what side of the political spectrum iran will be too radical little on the right hand side or on the left communists or alter right wingers it's really unclear who will be elected that's going to be the big mystery because chile has never had an experience like this but the most exciting thing for many is just the fact that half of the delegates are going to be women many argue that women are better at at dialogue than agree and less good at fighting so we'll have to see but it's going
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to be at least 2 years before we know what the real what the constitution itself is going to say but people do have their whole set on it you see in human thank you very much 30 people have been sentenced to death in the democratic republic of congo for their role in police violence a policeman was killed on thursday in riots that broke out in the capital kinshasa another police woman is in critical condition and 8 of the 46 injured remain in a serious condition officials say the violence was triggered when rival muslim groups began fighting over holding aid celebrations at a major sports stadium. india has reported its lowest daily rise in corona virus infections in almost 3 weeks but hospitals remain severely overrun more than 326000 new cases were reported on saturday and nearly 4000 more deaths and the official told now exceeds $266000.00 but experts say that's
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a vast undercount and the dip in infections is due to fewer tests. bodies of suspect and carbon victims continue to wash up in the river ganges as the virus rips through india's rural heartland most of the corpses are washed up in pradesh and bihar the country's poorest and most populous states where barely any doctors i want in this report from elizabeth broderick contains images you may find disturbing. the fires continue to burn in one of the many cremation 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
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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 pradesh in bihar they have been reports of a shortage of wood for funeral pyres because of the unprecedented number of cremations that's denied by the local administration but the heart is also india's poorest state with only 1000 to community health care centers for 120000000 people. but i've been there pandey traveled 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 there are 4 basic illnesses we got medicines work they don't bring decent and that's it we have to buy everything from elsewhere they give food to the position but not put the relatives
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. she had lost his uncle to corral. virus he is a man of many people in bihar who say their relatives would neglected because of a lack of health care workers there was only one doctor for every 28000 people. by 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 caused 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 to medically certified. i have no more room. for and a better. every need is. to come to
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a hospital. cases of the virus in india have now tops 24 1000000 but more than a quarter of a 1000000 deaths but it's widely suspected that the actual figures are likely to be much higher elizabeth pradhan al jazeera new delhi. 80 australian citizens have arrived in the country from india on the 1st flight since a controversial travel ban expired 70 people were stopped from boarding a flight from new delhi because they or their close contacts tested positive for cave in 19 those arriving in darwin will quarantine for 2 weeks in a converted mining camp 2 more repatriation flights shut your response. taiwan once known as a coronavirus success story has imposed 2 weeks of restrictions after a rise in cases of the capital taipei has raised its current virus alert level and shops and restaurants will have to close masks are to be worn out doors for the 1st time working from home is encouraged and social gatherings will be limited 180 new
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cases of community transmission has raised concern and triggered panic buying taiwan has reported fewer than 1519 cases among its 24000000 people most imported from abroad. and the colombian authorities are warning that a surge in coronavirus cases is putting pressure on i.c.u. units the government says hospitals are almost full and big cities over deaths in colombia have passed $80000.00 with a capital bogota recording its highest number of deaths on thursday since the pandemic began in the past week an average of 470 deaths have been recorded a day. rescue teams are looking for survivors after 2 tornadoes ripped through central and eastern china killing at least 12 people when 300 people were injured the strong winds destroyed dozens of homes in the cities of rouhani and sue jo christie facilities and factory buildings have also been damaged china has
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successfully landed a spacecraft on mars it follows the u.s. and the soviet union to become the 3rd country to have a rover touchdown on the red planet a 6 wheeled jurong is named after the god of fire in ancient chinese mythology it's china's most ambitious space mission so far. top stories are now to 0 israel's bombardment of gaza will continue for as long as necessary according to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. in the last hour there's been another series of loud explosions in gaza where.
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