actual. could be much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears. than anyone thought. more missile strikes in gaza and more air raid sirens in tel aviv as israeli and palestinian leaders show no sign of backing down. the at. this is al jazeera live from doha i'm fully back to brawl with continuing coverage of the israel palestine conflict. the only israeli

airstrike on gaza frightens a building housing al-jazeera and other international media. to a global show of solidarity from iraq to britain to australia thousands march in support of palestinians and denounce the israeli occupation. and in other news after protests and a pandemic chile heads to the polls to elect candidates to draft it's new constitution. to the end. it's a midnight's g.m.t. 3 am in israel and the palestinian territory nightfall has seen israel continue its airstrikes on gaza and hamas continue to launch rockets towards israel in the past few hours israel's iron dome air defense system has been used to intercept incoming hamas rockets am. at least

2 houses have been hit in gaza by israeli rockets in the past hour rescue workers are digging through the rubble in hopes of finding survivors is comes after israeli strikes destroyed a building housing foreign media outlets including al-jazeera the israeli prime minister has vowed to continue the offensive on gaza for quote as long as necessary while the head of hamas. the resistants were not given harry fawcett reports from western on the day's events. in a moment with a phone call from the israeli army another gaza highrise 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 at 7 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 but even about the timing. in the heart of. the. 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 to believe one can leave what the great work of all these are like that which under 12 string but you won't think of when something where you are caught up in this building was home to families as well as media companies more to add to the list of homeless in a besieged enclave 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 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 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 israeli territory on saturday a 55 year old israeli man was killed when one rocket struck his home in a television other 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 schools 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 that al-jazeera west jerusalem. and this is

a scene over gaza right now where it's gone past 3 am and there's been new fresh intensive waves of israeli bombardments that have shaken the territory in the last few hours or so a barrage of raw. from gaza fired towards israel in the last few hours as well in the last few hours as well so the night far from being quiet once again in gaza let's bring in. our correspondent on the ground. intense israeli airstrikes in the last hour tell us about what's been happening and what areas of gaza these airstrikes have been targeting. yes in the last couple of hours. army carried out the most intensive strikes all over the guard over the past 7 days of collation

today we according to the latest on formation we have received the israeli fighting jets carried out 150 early strikes all over the gaza strip from south to the north 60 of them at least in gaza city one of the targets was to residential buildings in gaza city and the center of gaza city just a few 100 meters away from our destroyed office building. the shifa hospital we talk to doctors they say. they believe a doctor his wife and 5 of his sons. were killed in this latest israeli air strike in gaza city the civil defense team is they said they said. published or issued a statement saying that they believe there are lots of families under the rubble of

the destroyed houses from the softer the north according to the really supremacy of god also. released immediate statement after the israeli bombardment in gaza city they destroyed the main some of the main roads in gaza as they have been destroyed some. buildings have been damaged who are close to these 2 buildings that were destroyed and rough newness are also the same there are there are some buildings that have been destroyed some of them that had been warned by the israelis to leave but some others they have not been informed go to leave their homes. the ministry of health. lots of arriving to the hospital following the. strike that was coated in the last

couple of hours on the other hand before the israeli. the barrage of rockets fired from gaza bi-polar senior and fighting groups. on this as well as of longer range rockets off the 2 hours of 'd old brick that the militant wing of hamas give to the israelis between turn midnight break. thank you for that update. for us there in gaza while israeli forces have killed at least 2 palestinian protesters and injured 365 others during a knock or day protests in the occupied west bank mass rallies were held in hebron loose and. they gathered to mark the 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 a state of israel and abraham was at one of the protests in occupied west bank

where palestinians confronted israeli 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 a 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 release 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 a sense here that this 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 arms don't have anything and one palestinian protester was even showing us how he was making a joke to buy adding petrol and a piece of cloth dripping glue and then they would fire that and 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 to this is what we are going to do. is. cry against our actions. have

been held across the world as tens of thousands of people gather. to show support for the palestinian people. in iraq demonstrators held a rally in the capital's tyree are square many were shouting untie israel slogans while somewhere it seemed burning israeli fags family gatherings have been raining iraq since the government imposed curfews to curb the spread of coronavirus there were similar scenes in the u.k.'s thousands of people took to the streets in london lines of people waving banners and palestinian flags threats toward the british capital as they called on their government to take immediate action to help end the fighting and solidarity protests were also held in several cities across the u.s. including the capital washington d.c. they accuse a us government to funding what they call israeli war and torture in palestine john hendren has more from washington this really was an unusually large global show of

support for the palestinian cause here in the u.s. there were demonstrations in new york chicago colorado and here in washington d.c. we saw an unusually large pro palestinian crowd of several found people and they really had 2 things to say one they wanted peace in between in the israeli palestinian conflict right now but also they want the u.s. government to exert more pressure on israel to end this conflict and there is a real sense of dissatisfaction at the biden administration's policies are really not significantly different than the policies of the trumpet ministration or any other u.s. administration over the past several years this was apparently the 1st time the president spoke to mahmoud abbas since the conflict began 2 2nd time that he spoke to benjamin netanyahu into both of them he expressed concern about the loss of life

and what he called intercommunal violence that is violence between individuals. in those 2 groups to abbas he said ultimately the solution to this is a 2 state solution that has been for a long time u.s. policy to netanyahu he reiterated that the u.s. position is that israel has a right to self-defense and to both men he condemned the firing of rockets by hamas out of gaza. and now that wild news ahead on al-jazeera as the bodies of 2000 suspected over 1800 every convert from the river ganges we know that how india is coping with a pandemic. until recently the baltic sea just tweeted where a joy and oxygen free dead zone is one of the latest symptoms of climate change.

it's time for the perfect jenny. sponsored plan cuts at ways oh let's show you where that intense cycle is feigning right now toward the arabian sea look what it did in careless state in india 124 millimeters of rain in just 24 hours so careless care not to come up through will all be impacted on sunday it's go as chance to see 102200 millimeters of rain winds 155 kilometers per hour now monday it's going up the west coast of india mumbai will now be in the line of fire 20000000 people there and the winds 175 and this is really where we're going to see a divergence could head towards southern areas of pakistan otherwise go into rogers stan so do check back with us on the track we have seen some intense weather through areas of china to tornadoes struck including in on so let me look this was

some of the damage that we saw just mass destruction and we saw this crane toppled just an indication of how powerful the winds were once again heavy rain setting along the yangtze river valley it's shabbes into korea and japan very soggy forecast ahead and where we did see that tropical disturbance pushed through southern philippines it's now pulled out so rain will begin to ease there on sunday . sponsible qatar airways. the 1st european country to ban the full face veil in public places home to more than 6000000 followers of islam many who want to assert their religious and cultural identity in the light of france's 2021 contentious so-called separatism laws we look at the recent history of muslim immigration to the country in the final episode of this 3 part series it's muslims of funds at the school 3 on 00.

her. current form. to. welcome back every captive amin story this hour on al-jazeera israel has continued its bombardment of gaza with more than $150.00 airstrikes in the last hour at least $154.00 palestinians including $41.00 children have been killed since monday and nearly a 1000 others are injured commodified more rockets towards israel most were intercepted by the iron dome defense system at least 10 people have been injured from the latest attacks 10 of those have died in israel since the conflict escalates it early on friday israel destroyed an 11 story building housing international media including algis year and the associated press both companies have condemned the

attack and vowed to continue reporting from gaza more now on this story and focusing on the u.s. response to the conflict let's speak to hillary mann leverett who is a former white house national security official and is currently the c.e.o. of the political risk consultancy she joins us via skype from virginia in the u.s. very good to have you on our air miss leverett once again thank you. from what we know about the conversation with prime minister netanyahu and president abbas u.s. president biden has largely stuck to the old regional scripts concern and so on everyone thought that biden would do better than trump on this tourny issue why this low key approach by the current administration. well people thought that biden would do better than trump because he had been president obama as vice president and president obama tried to have

a somewhat different policy then than us administrations in the past which it really mired the united states in this never ending cook quote unquote peace process that never brought peace to anybody in in the middle east so people thought that biden would be better because he had worked for obama but biden is really very much representative of this kind of old school establishment politics in the united states which. really predates president obama and represented much more of a very solidly pro israel line both in congress and in the administration and biden has really is really determined i think to keep that middle of the road establishment democratic policy and not just not to stir too many of his democratic party donors and not disturb the dynamics in the u.s. congress but the discourse seems to be changing in the democratic

party were hearing more diverse voices now especially a man among progressive democrats there's increasing support also among the american public for the palestinian cause surely the administration has been listening to this why why not for instance condition aid to israel. you're absolutely right to point out this growing disconnect this growing gap between the old school the establishment politics of the democratic party which president biden absolutely represents and there's a growing progressive voice within the actual democratic population here in the united states which is represented increasingly in congress we had some very important turnovers in congress in the past 4 to 5 years where we had stalwart pro israel people who had been in for decades were but were ousted by progressives who came into office who are much more open to looking at palestinian rights as human rights as basic human rights that caucus is growing in the congress that feeling

and that view is growing amongst american public focus on a black lives matter how could black lives matter and palestinian lives don't matter it makes no sense but this is a growing disconnect and biden is determined to try to wait it out so that he can continue to get his primary focus of domestic legislation through the congress and really try to keep his eye on china and russia and away from the middle east how how long do you anticipate he will wait it out i mean are they any red lines for israel anymore how many deaths will be enough. it really seems like there's almost never a red line and i am really pessimistic that there really would ever be a change especially under someone like president biden who represents this old school the one to change which potentially could shift things a bit is is really what they're calling intercommunal violence is. the concern

about arab citizens of israel are constantly and citizens of israel who are being targeted attacked and beaten in the streets on full view for everyone to see that could change things because it becomes almost ridiculous that president biden is dealing only with with mahmoud abbas who does not mind abbas represent here he doesn't represent anybody in gaza and he certainly doesn't represent any of the palestinian citizens of israel so it looks almost ridiculous combined and really ride it out as long as he would like i think we'll see that's what he seems to intend to do whether that will work in terms of the course of the conflict i think is a real question but i'm very pessimistic thank you so much for sharing your views with us hillary mann leverett showing us there from washington thank you. let's turn our attention to other world news now and india's government says corona virus infections and deaths are stab allies in out of the country report it is smallest

daily rise in new cases in nearly 3 weeks but it says the virus is rapidly spreading through rural areas then experts say most tests there are not being reported officials say the bodies of iran 2000 suspected over 9000 victims have been recovered from the river ganges the river flows through some of the poorest states where many families can't afford cremations on saturday india report iran 3900 deaths in just over 326000 infections from new delhi padmini tom has more. the tragedy we're seeing on the ground simply cannot be quantified i mean if i could just run you through the latest numbers nationally the fresh count is the lowest we've seen in over a fortnight but still above the 300000 mark even the death toll is the lowest in 4 days but still where above the 3000 mark and involvement in jail you know that's what we've been talking about a lot the tragedy over there and now the government has acknowledged that it has

recovered more than 2000 bodies in and around the ganges and this is happening in 2 of in just poorest states this emption is that these are bodies of people who died of colvin and because of the rising cost of cremation and the general feel of the virus this is how people are getting rid of dead bodies this really underscores 2 things that we've been talking about one the massive undercount both in terms of the death toll and also the caseload and secondly in rural india you know the combination of poverty a threadbare medical infrastructure and lack of literacy lack of know how this is these are places where you can catch a covert test more you're positive and isolate these are not places where you have you know high quality and 95 mosques you know good facilities to sanitize and the combination of all of this has really allowed the virus to run rampant in rural

india. vaccinations have been scaled up into northern english towns and made a rise in the covert 1000 very interested den to find in india health workers are also delivering tests door to door in bolton and blackburn on friday u.k. prime minister boris johnson said the more infectious strain could seriously disrupt the lifting of lockdown meshes with cases and deaths declining in mole ferry in most areas england is finding to lift all restrictions on june 21st people in chile have begun casting their vote in state and local elections day electing an assembly of 155 members to rights the country's new constitution and in a global 1st 50 percent of those elected must be female with $700.00 spaces research for indigenous people this comes off the back of mass protests that began in $21000.00 and a vote in october demanding an end to the current cost and more social justice a latin america at its embassy in yemen has more from santiago. there was

a referendum a few months ago you may recall where chileans were asked whether they wanted or not to scrap the pinochet era constitution and an over whelming majority said yes and so now we are seeing the exercise of actually electing for the very 1st time in this country who will write that constitution out of the population at large in the past they were politicians they had to be senators deputies people assigned by the president or others but now this is not the case in fact the vast majority of the candidates are independents because chileans only a very very small percentage of chileans belong to this country's now very discredited political parties weirdo in a working class neighborhood now and everybody here that we spoke to seize this election to elect the delegates to the constitutional assembly as the as historic is the most important thing that many say has happened to them in their lives some older people who are being able to vote today they're getting priority say that

perhaps they will not be alive to see the results of this but that they're hoping that that this new magna carta will lay the groundwork the contract for a better economic political and social system of of rights for all in this country and so this is what we're hearing over and over again but in another part of the city there are others who are concerned that those who are elected may be too radical they want to go just too far and destroy this country's economic system which at least for some has been very successful. the oceans have been a powerful ally in combating global warming absolving nearly 93 percent of the compound dioxide released by human activity since 1970 but the rise in temperatures and discharge of pollutants has created a series of dead zones oxygen depleted areas each measuring tens of thousands of square kilometers where no plant or animal life can survive poll recently forced from sweden on the baltic sea west scientists have measured the narges dead zone in

the wild. sweden's ability baltic coast a chilly spring has held back the tide of domestic tourists expected to hit these beaches due to foreign travel restrictions but it's not such a pretty picture under the water rising global temperatures on the impact of fertilizer and sewage have caused huge areas with no over very little oxygen known as dead zones the baltic sea is the largest human in the dead zone in the world it is somewhere around $70000.00 square kilometers and it can increase global warming rapid rate the baltic zone may be the biggest but the problem is worldwide increasing by millions of square kilometers in the past half century the so-called dead zones are either in small pockets a little bit coast where they lose or gain oxygen according to the seasons or that far out to sea where they can be pretty much permanent cover. they get

worse the. seas like the baltic have been a buffer against climate change absorbing excess heat and carbon dioxide. but tests have shown that is surface water heats up oxygen from the atmosphere can no longer get through creating the dead layer beneath so sea floors that should be full of vegetation and life are empty. it's one of the reasons cited in cases where thousands of dead fish have been washed up on beaches. solutions have been tested in the baltic such as a wave powered device to pump oxygen down below. a more low tech solution is here in a unesco wetland near the city of christian start. for this wetland means we hold water on land for longer before it reaches the sea so the vegetation

can absorb fertilizer and pollutants and prevent algae blooms in the baltic so it's one part of the puzzle in preventing dead zones. some hope emerged last month in the indian ocean where ecologists found a sea grass meadow the size of switzerland a vital site of carbon capture and supporting thousands of marine species but with evidence that areas like this are receding it may not be enough to mitigate the ever increasing loss of oxygen from the world's oceans a number that stands at 77000000000 tonnes of o 2 in just 70 years paul reese al-jazeera on the baltic coast of sweden. where again i'm fully back with the headlines on israel has continued its bombardment of gaza with more than 150 s. strikes in the past hour.