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time i've covered wars revolutions elections and military coups. from the favelas of caracas to the battlefields around also i would drop just to get to the truth and empower people through knowledge. this is al-jazeera. over there on how my kids eat and this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes presidential blocks flattened in gaza as israel launches its most intensive air strikes on the besieged territory more than $150.00 raids in the early hours of sunday. a desperate search for survivors in gaza 26 people were
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killed overnight. also has votes that will give women more say in the voice in chile's constitution which thinks back to military dictatorship plus. i'm told reached the baltic sea of sweden where a joint oxygen free dead zone is one of the latest symptoms of climate change and i'm only a hardy and sport the world's oldest national football competition has a new 1st time winner leicester city of one english f.a. cup beating shall theme one nil in the final. but has just gone 1 pm in gaza that stay in the 100 hours g.m.t. the buildings are being destroyed by the israeli artillery for a 7th consecutive day and that's after israel launched hundreds of air strikes overnight the most. intensive borrowers since the offensive began on monday
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buildings have been flattens and residents on looking for survivors we're hearing of 2 brothers trapped sons of the rubble who've managed to coal rescuers for help with israel's prime minister has voted to continue the offensive on gaza for courts and as long as necessary all the heads of hamas says the resistance will not give in $181.00 palestinians have been killed in the enclave including 52 children now we have a team of correspondents covering this story for you bring him is in ramallah in the occupied west bank harry false it says that the minds of all lives in occupied east jerusalem sami abu salim is in gaza as is. her 1st she's outside the out she for hospital the civilian death toll in gaza continues to rise what more can you tell us this hour.
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we're here at the shifa hospital every now and then we find this coming in with lots of bodies whether from the winded or from people who have been taken out of the rubble and are dead. that neighborhood has been brutally destructive yesterday 3 buildings were brought over the heads of 3 civilians without prior not this old wording everyone in them is under the rubble either dead or wounded civil defense and emergency crews until this moment are taking people out of the rubble the 2 brothers that you mentioned hold up for emergency was to help also die just out why it ago ah it's it's it's extremely violent that targeting was extremely violent every single night we say that this has been the most violent since the escalation all. but the night that follows gets to be even
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more violent and more intense and even worse with much more people dying and when did i mean the entire neighborhood of the house been destructed the houses when i say 3 buildings have been targeted i mean not to build and dozens of other houses that have been also told to leave destructed due to this targeting the streets the infrastructure we find rockets that have made big extremely big holes and destructive the streets extremely in that area that even it's extremely difficult for the app ulysses' to enter that area and that neighborhood to bring out the bodies and to help the people so even in the rescue that is going on now since like long hours that has started it has been going on until this moment it's extremely difficult for all the people that are helping the emergency crews the
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civil defense to actually help to bring the people out of the rubble and that's what is taking so long why it's taking so long and why we don't have the correct statics of the numbers we only know that $26.00 now and over 50 are when did but there's so many other people who are still lost under the rubble from even the people who are wounded and there are looking for their family members they're not yet. dead or their bodies have not yet been brought out so they still don't know if they're still alive or dead under the rubble here is quite a logistical challenge there you're not for the emergency crews who are trying to help the people who have been trapped sons of these buildings that keep being brought in if you're inside that hospital. how are they holding open there was the situation are they getting cool so being overwhelmed because let's not forget this is a territory that doesn't have medicines and supplies in a. since and it's exceptionally difficult to get things into gaza.
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the morgues are full of the good the hospital husband said in their reception there steps in itself has been emptied of everything and has medical beds in it because there are no there is no space in any of the hospital rooms. and. very souls to a short while there will be no empty place i mean there are emptying their offices there empty at ministrations and receptions in whatever part they can put. a bed for a patient to be put right there the beds are just close to each other at all visit to each other i mean. the health system and the health sector in gaza is already a very fragile his health sector and now where they are. despite the cold 19 crisis that has been going on and the shortages in medical supplies and requirements this
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disaster of the war is happening now and it's just getting more and more. it's almost collapsing the prices are just getting more and more higher and. the doctors have been calling out for help they have been calling out for more emergency supplies and emergency request and day medical requirements that they need in the state of emergency and i think that very shortly very shortly it will be announced that the health sector has collapsed a very distressing occurring there from your side speaking to us from our side bill sheaffer hospital thank you very much indeed we're speaking to some of the. city a journalist and gaza resident when close to him. can you just tell your i'm sorry that some ridged a building there some ear appears to be another destructive. the
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residents of gaza are having to deal with what's the latest where you are just talk us through the location you're standing at and what's been happening. actually what is happening right now there is a queue team are still working and the moving dollar bill inspecting for any people who are under the rubble if that is the or alive people there is a number of the people according to medication then on but is increasing state by state by i mean soon after the bombing so when after the bombing medical teams declared to all did people then 5 then 10 then to now 26 then no more than half of them are women and children what this particular there by the way this is this area is known as one of the area in gaza so bombing flatting houses then threat in that class system because this is for the rich people and very ordinary
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people very safe place very secure place that's why that's why some rich people try to live here to avoid any problems which means that there is no safe place in gaza there is no. lines for any place people have been killed last night among them physicians engineers doctors people etc so this is so it is expected that it is it is very safe and then other another thing some people who are living at the tips of gaza they are escaping to come in sign they're looking for an apartment any place a safe place to live in like this area but now this means that it is not safe at all either you are in the middle of the city or you are at the tip of the city another pointed askew teams cannot work 3 big. cause. because.
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israeli airstrikes. destroyed their men the roads destroyed the main roads leading to the places which has been targeted. leading to the hospital even during the night while and beyond says try to move try to take the main road to the hospital but it is destroyed they try to take that native one also destroyed so it means that even with occasion and ambulances going to work 3 times over some important context there from you so many. journalists reporting live from downtown gaza thank you very much indeed no neighborhoods is safe according. to reports even the roads have been boneset ambulances cannot get hospitals for foreign ministers from the islamic world to hold an urgent meeting to discuss the situation and his opening statements in the organization of islamic cooperation
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saudi arabia's foreign minister condemned what he called flagrant violations of palestinian rights and says palestine's foreign minister pushed the international community to put an end to israel's military operations i doubt he was hardly the only free people of the world all the people who believe in human rights and justice should reject this the palestinians are facing a cowards occupation that kills children and terrorizes families the patient must be faced with must be attacked and must put an end to this occupation we need to know what should be done against the israeli aggression. well made abraham is in ramallah in the occupied west bank and you know we heard there from the palestinian foreign minister speaking at that summit. how will that message resonate with people who are you are. people here do not really trust that these meetings my the arab league or organization of islamic cooperation would yield any
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results to change their reality on the ground we've been asking protesters here and they were telling us that these meetings happen when only when there is an escalation but then they condemn both sides and ask for the violence to stop and then their lives would go back under occupation but away from the international eyes so this is why many of them told us they don't care to know when there are these meetings they say that even more important meetings such as the united nations security council that have actually risen lucian's calling for condemning israel for the illegal israeli settlements and asking them to dismantle them in the occupied west bank including a truce and these resolutions that haven't been implemented so why would. as far as these protesters and corn are concerned why would the organizations like the arab league or the islamic cooperation have different results when it comes to
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their lives on the ground ok well we understand joe bars in the u.s. president who perhaps does have slightly more sway in the situation he's cold. the cold war we don't know more about this cold it's a deescalate from both sides do you think the cold. joe biden to mahmoud abbas is significance and anyway or should joe biden really be speaking to someone else should joe biden be calling hamas at this point. we've just spoken to an official who's close to president abbas and he told us it's important that the u.s. president has made this call because it shows that the palestinian issue has become ha or has become really in force this is the term he used as an issue has been forced on the u.s. agenda after it had other issues to deal with on its foreign affairs list of issues
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so he was saying that this is important and that he was expecting this official saying expecting had to ahmed who is a u.s. official to are ready now in tel aviv and has been for a couple of days now is expecting him to be coming to the west bank in the next couple of days and hold meetings with the palestinian officials so you could sense that the palestinian officials are they are. interested in deescalation they say they are despite their differences what with hamas they are still keen on deescalating the situation on the ground we've seen many statements from the palestinian authority saying that they are. it warning if the american administration doesn't intervene that the situation is going to go out of control so it is seen as an important call here and this official has been telling us that it's important that this call has happened not just by the u.s. president by then before that the secretary of state. blinken so they are expecting
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a deescalation despite that and they are hoping for the escalation and working towards it but it's important to note that this official has been telling us that it doesn't expect much form from the organization of islamic cooperation when it comes to the session that's going now that's being helped now ok need abraham there says it from ramallah in the occupied west bank thank you. well press freedom advocates are accusing israel of trying to silence journalists covering the story after it bones a building housing international media on saturday 11 story terror held offices bone in his ear a media network and the associated press targeted media organizations is widely considered a war crime a correspondence harry fawcett reports. in a moment with a phone call from the israeli army another gaza highrise became a condemned building minutes ticking down on
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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 but on the street outside the building's owner pleading for a stay of execution how about that 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 not even about the timing. and hardwoods. al-jazeera gaza journalists off what was live on air as he watched his workplace 11 years vanish in front of him we panic thank you everybody ultimately we weren't believed what the great work of all these are like which underpants doing that you think of when something like you got caught in this building was home to families as well as media companies more to add to the list of homeless in
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a besieged and played during days of intensive attacks from the sky. 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
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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 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 called the catastrophe scores were wounded many by live ammunition in occupied east jerusalem or scuffles around the
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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 plans next steps. i will hurry for us and joins us now from occupied east jerusalem looking right now. well at the moment a lot of focus on what's happening inside the israeli security cabinet there have been reports from one of israel's leading security and political journalists at the wall a news agency saying that there have been indications from israeli officials that they are looking for a way to start ending this fighting that a lot of the military targets that were on the list have now been struck from the israeli perspective and that there is pressure coming from international actors
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including the united states despite fairly publicly strongly worded message of support from washington that there is pressure from that direction as well as you heard in that report the the prime minister of the country but even that has already spoken to joe biden his main envoy is in the country at the moment as well so we wait to see developments on that front here in occupied east jerusalem some more localized news the locks a mosque compound behind us here has been denied access for jewish or at least all non muslim people the concern being that there was a potential some talk of. jewish active activists right wing activists trying to get on to the to the compound and carry out some kind of activities so still some tensions and worries about security in even during daylight hours here it did get a very tense situation a hairy less we've not had those lightly because we're had
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a lot of focus on gaza on the military action being taken on the rockets flying back in return but the other developments in the last few days of escalating tensions has been least sporadic outbreaks of incident komi no violence that's between israeli citizens attacking each other how big a concern is this to the israeli government and is there still more violence breaking out between israelis. well yes i mean there have been more disturbing images overnight disturbing videos being shown and shared on social media just to tell you about 2 of them there were there was a reports or a video rather showing a group of jewish people at a junction on a normal looking road looking for palestinian israeli appearing drivers and when one car came along that they judged was being driven by
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a palestinian israeli they started hurling stones at it police with didn't seem to intervene in any particularly strong fashion although they did move in and try to quell it to some extent another video shown of a jewish man walking home in just a late at night from c.c.t.v. and apparently 2 palestinian israelis on a motorcycle just stopped right next to him and immediately pushed him into a doorway and beat him up so there is that level of violence going on there is also concern about more organized levels as well with armed settler groups going to places like load or lid in arabic that's sort of an eastern suburb or satellite town of tel aviv where a lot of this violence has been also concerns about armed organized crime groups within the palestinian israeli sector of society as well something that palestinian israeli politicians have been talking about for many years appealing for the israeli police israeli state to come in and sort it out because so many of the victims of those groups have themselves been palestinian israeli so those are the
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sorts of levels of concern and violence that we're talking about the prime minister very strongly condemning and especially the arab versus jew violence that we've seen in recent days and also promising very forceful action by police and security forces in response ok harry for set there joining us live from occupied east jerusalem thank you harry. well we can speak out to sell their heads as it is the deputy regional director of the c international middle east and north africa he joins says from ramallah by skype skits have you with us on the program. let's focus on the attack yesterday say with the attack there were there were several attacks several buildings were brought to him but the striking difference with the el gelateria that was brought down is that it had stu. international media
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organizations in there we heard from. the c.e.o. of a piece saying that this will make it harder to get the story in the testimony from gaza outs so the wider world what is your assessments of that particular attack. relationship i mean it is seems israel israel is trying to hide what it is doing in gaza and the people in gaza just want to remind the arms international has been prevented by the israeli authorities from entering the gaza strip since 2012 so it was a pattern of trying to. buy vision is going to happen but i just also want to remind we know of an international criminal court investigation into the situation in the occupied palestinian territories since 2014 this is crucial we are calling on the look into this incident because immediately there is
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a military target the holy proportionate to attack the building in such a manner and reminder that disproportionate attacks such as this one amount to war crime i also say that this follows a pattern of collective punishment against the palestinian people in parts of. the human rights in gaza as reported that there are more than $51.00 residential buildings including a high rise stars. have been completely destroyed since the beginning of this military operation this is also comes within the context of legal located that israel is imposing on the gaza strip since 2007 amounting also to collective punishment so a spartan of consciousness nation stop yes but these things have been going on for quite some time though and. several others have been decrying these actions as war crimes for an awful long time and yet nothing seems to happen in terms of the
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strike on the al jazeera building. a proportionate strike because it's rather difficult to define even if the evidence for striking that building yes not offer it up if israel continues to withhold the evidence and the proof that it says it has for striking that building as a legitimate target is that one way perhaps of a voice in just a spy simply saying we're not going to hand over the evidence therefore no one can prove it was a disproportionate acts therefore we will not face any kind of. legal. justice anywhere so. there is no absolutely no cost to israeli legal and judicial system this is precisely why the international criminal investigation. part of this is. because
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israeli justice system is only. a sions of war crimes or crimes against humanity and so this is why back to the issue of. the on going investigation well. the i.c.c. do you think your initials not going to cooperate with any i.c.c. investigation and the united states certainly won't so what's the point. well this is the only unfortunately the only piece of course that we sort out the cycle of impunity is broken and that international law or human rights become front and center in how things happen on the ground and how the international community deals with the situation in israel by wanting to examine the core then on all states or members of the international court and to support. an international order 'd based on on the floor and human rights to support this investigation with all the power
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whether that is in giving support statements or is not impeding the situation because we have seen troubling statements from some of the countries says an investigation has been opened unfortunately this is the only book we have a constant a national justice and of calling of the rule of law of international law when it comes to israel and not by considers ok seller has as he from amnesty and said ashe will enter a moloch rates thought psyche very much in deeds we can get some analysis now from our one bashar on his al-jazeera senior political analyst and he joins us here from doha marwan it's i mean it is key this the fact that there are all these investigations going on but unless israel wants to take parts there is literally nothing that can be done where does the hope life for
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the palestinians and those who have been impacted by the israeli action. well you know this is an ongoing process and i can sense that. you know the sound of frustration and the more so many including ours as reporters journalists commentators why trust trying to figure out where this is going because clearly court many this is stuck in the past and nothing seems to change and for others everybody. every bit of good news everybody but the development you know it's like an whole new world i think in terms of our journalism and i think it's a way between cynicism and gullibility that we cannot be cynical about each and every development but we also cannot be gullible about believing it it's as if it is a whole new breakthrough it is unfortunately what it is meaning there's a concert going on and not there's a war going on and it is very complicated because of its estimator meaning this is
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not a war between 2 states over the borders this is a colonial war it's a similar war and it's infiltrates levels of the society and that's what makes it even more complicated but when we speak about change will you speak about that if or when you see good news because what could be good news for say someone in jerusalem now that if it should have stocks it's not a sunny good news for more settlements in the west bank when you say you know this could stop on sunday or monday or tuesday if the bombing of gaza what it could be. someone else so it's an ongoing think it's frustrating but as we said on a numerous occasions if the occupation ends the war ends if the occupation ends in security ends if the occupation ends then it is or the colonial power could in fact claim it has a right to self-defense what
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a colonial power does not have the right to defend its occupation and with so what would it take for this to end i mean these are not of these are easy questions my land but it doesn't take in sanaa no pressure. or does or will it require something some change within israel itself because certainly the images that were broadcast on this channel yesterday were very distressing especially since a national actors who hailed the rule over free press who hailed the rule of truth justice and information did israel overstep the mark yesterday will this lead international actors to put more pressure on them or does the change have to come from within israel itself or will nothing change. you know one of the good examples that we're seeing in terms of historical records are due to such cases that resemble rather much what happens and so on and one is the french in
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algeria and i think they are 96 and of course many many tickets before that and the white regime and sought much also by the were suckered monthly report just when israel came to existence on the ruins of the kind of signal in the last 2 cases you know we have options and the options are either you end your colonial. occupation of the country such as a little out and basically allow one of the independents as happened with the french or in the case of whites white south africa the part that we had there they established you know a democratic state where white becomes live in one democratic country these are the options. i thought it accepts one state or 2 independents that how could this come about there has to be a change of mindset in israel itself yes and so your question but they also have to
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be international pressure in order to bring about this change of mindset in this or again just as we've seen in french algeria just as we've seen in watching international pressure coupled with popular resistance from within that is the kind of thing that won't change ok. bring us some context and analysis thank you very much indeed as ever there are 2 sides to every story we have been trying here at al-jazeera repeatedly to get some comments a representative a voice from israel to tell their side of the story as 1033 g.m.t. so no oppose this is a response to our inquiries we. keep asking and when someone wants to come on al-jazeera rest assured we will bring that voice to you so they have the opportunity to tell their side for now still to come on the news hour we will
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report from one of the british towns because $1000.00 vaccinations are being scaled up because of fears over the variants from india plus what have sports news for you and a new start for professional basketball in africa moving here with more later. hello there across a huge swath of europe we've got wet weather breezy conditions just a bit miserable let me show you where i think the heaviest rounds of rain will be storm wrists towards the northern portions of italy but also as we head towards slovenia at the czech republic poland and ukraine as well where the risk of flooding is here because water levels are elevated from all the snow that we saw in the winter and now some of these heavy rains that we are seeing look at this batch
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of precipitation croatia slovenia the czech republic poland once again in the line of fire on monday now there is some nice weather to be had not only toward the south but also toward northern portions of europe for example moscow could touch 30 degrees on monday well above average we also have high temperatures in the mediterranean we did see some rain from greece dance into turkey did in pakistan bowl but it's now out toward will get another wave of quick precipitation for is stamboul on tuesday but look at these temperatures istanbul $28.00 you should be about 20 to athens 33 and your average is $24.00 or so of the same can also be found across areas of north africa tunis $32.00 degrees and cairo plenty of sun on sunday with a high of $39.00. a . protest by a palestinian artist using
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a symbol of national identity to create postage unpossible stamps. allows for some burglary was another story during your large come flying anywhere sending a message of resistance about the arab israeli conflict a little sort of come to palestine. palestine sunbed a stamp of defiance on al-jazeera. we tell the untold stories. we speak one of us don't. be caught up alongside us. no matter where it takes us i prefer your fear syria out of my eyes. and power and pasha which tell your stories we are your voice your news your net al-jazeera. more on the on the
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on. this is al-jazeera quick reminder of our top stories this hour violence in gaza has answered a 7th consecutive day we're hearing of 2 brothers trapped under the rubble who've managed to call rescuers for help this follows hundreds of air strikes overnight 174 palestinians have been killed in the enclave. foreign ministers from the islamic call to hold an urgent meeting to discuss the situation saudi arabia condemned what it called flagrant violations of palestinian lights palestine's foreign minister pushed the international community to put an end soon as serials operations and press freedom advocates are accusing israel of trying to silence
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journalists covering the story after it a building hires an international media on saturday the 11 the story terror held office is born into i want to see your immediate network and the associated press. voters in chile are choosing delegates who rewrites its dictatorship era constitution but he hopes the new draft will address the social inequality that led to violent protests nearly 2 years ago a latin america editor the c in human reports from santiago. it's a historic election in more ways than 1 o'clock it's the 1st time chileans will have a say in who will write a new constitution and document that will determine the country's economic political and social roadmap. beddes and her husband believe it's no small feat to settle this will define our future that's why this day is so special and a quarter of them in order to make the necessary changes to social changes that we've
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been waiting for for so long that if chileans are also electing mayors governors and city council members but the constitutional vote is regarded as the most significant the current constitution written 40 years ago under the pinochet dictatorship is regarded by a great many as illegitimate and the source of many of chile's ills for the 1st time anywhere in the world 50 percent of delegates to a constitutional convention will be women 17 of the 155 delegates will also represent choose indigenous people their existence isn't even recognized in the current constitution. and another 1st to prevent long lines because of the pandemic the election is taking place over 2 rather than one day that means these votes won't be counted until sunday the end of the 2nd day in the meantime these bins will be taped completely covered with fields that according to electoral
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authorities will break of anybody tries to tamper with the votes and then there will be taken to a special security area and kept under guard by the army even so a lot of people. don't press the system we don't know you that's why daniel who works in front of his designated polling station is staying out there now that obama would only have a common way to vote but more of us will go tomorrow because we've seen in many countries that when they leave their votes overnight someone changes them. while chile doesn't have a reputation for vote tampering it's a reflection of how discredited political institutions and politicians have become in this country where millions are waiting for a new constitution to prioritise the social rights of the majority rather than the privileges of a minority you see in human al-jazeera santiago india
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is reporting a fall in daily corona virus infections but an increase in the number of deaths recorded more than 310000 cases and almost 4100 fatalities in the past day police are patrolling the ganges after the bodies of around 2000 suspected coalwood victims were recovered from the river and families are being offered money to help them crewmates or bury their loved ones federal health officials say the overall situation in india is stabilizing. britain's health minister says a fast spreading variance of covert 901st identified in india is becoming the dominant strain in parts of the country vaccinations and testing have been scaled up in the northern english times of bolton and blackburn spites the variance the number of new cases spreading across the u.k. is still steady at around 2000 per day i would join
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a how is live now from bolts and he joins us now join our worries are people who are you are about the so-called indian variants. well take a look at the queues behind me and you get a sense of the scale of response from people here in bolton hundreds of people in a queue there simply waiting to get vaccinated as soon as they can take you round there waiting in line to get to this mobile pop up vaccination center here in the white tents next to that bus over there 40 to vaccinate is at work putting literally thousands of jabs into arms during the course of this weekend and people here of course all too aware of the very 1st discovered in india all too aware that scientists are saying it could be up to 50 percent more contagious than existing versions of the virus that it's responsible for more than 55 percent now of new infections here in bolton and bolton is currently registering the largest numbers of new infections anywhere in england
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a variety of pro approaches being put in place to try and contain the so-called indian variant in these localized hotspots bolton other parts of the northwest pockets in the midlands and in london there is this scale that vaccine program as you can see behind me there is surge testing door to door testing the army is on standby potentially to be used in the week to come. helping out with logistics and so on and of course the big concern is that if these measures don't work if this variant is able to escape these localized hotspots and cede more widely into communities across the country well then it could provoke a 3rd wave potentially a very significant 3rd wave of infections going on that is quite a concern really joe not because the u.k. where you are has been on the lockdown for an awful long time so what sort of threat does this variant of england's hopes of returning to normal. well look at the beginning of lockdown the government set out for tests in terms of
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which the unlocking would be allowed to continue boris johnson on friday the prime minister said as far as he was concerned right now there wasn't evidence to warrant halting the next stage of unlocking that's tomorrow monday it's a significant one it's the reopening of indoor venues indoor gatherings allowed again closer physical contact and so on so that's a big deal though he did voice concern about the possible final stage later in june well scientists the moment of voicing a rather contrary view they were due the government to take far more caution potentially to delay the reopening by 2 weeks so that they can simply find out more about this very very little is known about it their worry as i said is a 3rd wave of infections if those if that contagious transmissibility is proven correct albeit aimed not at the elderly and vulnerable this time but at the young and unvaccinated people of course less prone to the worst effects of the virus and it may be that that plays into the government's calculation that right now it's worth pressing on
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a doctor sort of wait and see attitude rather than call the whole thing off ok join a whole of their life from bolton jonah thank you. and the oceans have been a powerful ally in combating global warming but a mix of higher temperatures and pollutants has created dead zones there oxygen's of the today areas measuring tens of thousands of square coma since plants and animals can't survive police for ports from sweden on the baltic sea. zwi dilip 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 and 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 and those in the world it is somewhere around 70000 square kilometers and it can increase global warming
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at a 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 along with coast where they lose or gain oxygen according to the seasons all that far out to sea where they can be pretty much permanent. 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 the to surface water heats up oxygen from the atmosphere can no longer get through creating the deadly out beneath so sea floors that should be full of vegetation and life are empty it's one of the reasons cited in cases where
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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. that they'll all about not claw 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 seagrass 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 out his error on the baltic coast of sweden.
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well mccallum is head of oceans of greenpeace u.k. he says global corporation is required in order to tackle the scale of the problem . you are seeing these dead zones proliferate right the way across the global oceans both in coastal areas like the baltic but also right out in the open ocean in areas like the northern indian ocean it personally is on the most terrifying things that's going on in the ocean the idea of fish struggling to breathe it's quite a grim one but the fortunate thing is there are solutions out there and we know what those solutions are things i cutting our carbon emissions limiting our use of chemicals and agriculture but there is plenty that we can do out there on the ocean as well one of the most remarkable things are the oceans its ability to rebound to recover from crisis when we just leave it alone so greenpeace along with scientists and civil society across the world is calling for at least 30 percent of the
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world's oceans be put off limits to human activities by 2030 this would allow fish populations to recover allow habitats like that sea grass meadow that we were out there in the indian ocean studying to be more resilient to these problems like that sounds but it's going to require real international collaboration it means that countries have to work together one thing about dead zones is they prove to us yet again that the oceans are all connected you can't take action just in one corner of that blue planet that we're on and hope that it will solve everything right well of course also actions like the wise agricultural runoff in the baltic could be impacting right up in the arctic and what happens in the arctic impacts us all so the solutions have to be global and they have to have ministers and have to have heads of state coming together next year to agree a strong global ocean treaty that might help these areas off limits its. says come on i'll just say we'll have the sport for you in a landmark moment see the brand of this sports football and. the
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big. in hebron boys breed and fly pigeons but in the occupied palestinian city boys are also close to watched by israeli forces at times shout outs and often arrested. and delicately told tales filmed over 5 years of a coming of age in a place where even a child's imagination is every restricted the skies above hebron a witness documentary on a. bit calling brought change and cryptocurrency its disruptive technology all the way to a fairer financial system if you have mining happening in your house and they will confiscate and it might award winning filmmaker thorsten hoffman looks at all sides of the complex crypto. we love to film a utopian dream of bypassing the international banking world or just as easily
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manipulated as today's financial system. crypto b.-a coming soon on al-jazeera. the old . sex discord fuselier thank you hala the world's oldest national football competition has produced a 1st time winner leicester city they finally left lifted the english f.a. cup beating chelsea one nil in the final any richardson reports rage airs every gate and having to get transfers out right try to match fans were back in numbers for the english f.a. cup final 21000 in all of wembley the u.k.'s biggest mass participation of events since the start of the covered 19 pandemic. i feel certain testy got out to pfizer
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jobs one p.c.r. test one for slow test and all i'm hoping is that shell's is different person been civil as i'm feeling right now sadly for all chelsea fans it didn't quite work out that way when one goes in the 1st half i. know that after the break lest the city's produced a moment see remember i a stunning goal to put his team in touching distance of a 1st ever f.a. cup when chelsea surged forward in the time that remained only to run into the inspired efforts of less to keep it kasper smikle. in the final minutes chelsea thought that equalized i. intervened to rule this goal out for offside leicester finishing up as one nil win is i went in there for
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a cup for a for the 1st time in the history and it's clearly a special day so just so happy for the players it was so courageous in the game for the supporters the last 4 finals and i 1st time we've been able to to get the victory for them. lest his fans and players able to celebrate the club's biggest day since defying the odds to win the premier league back in 2016 and the richardson al-jazeera. real madrid coach than it in the don has told his players that hell be stepping down at the end of the season rael have 2 games left in the spanish league and could still win the title if results go their way speaking of ahead of sunday's match with athletic bilbao this is what the down had to say about his future. if you think i can quit because i want to get rid of more responsibility or because things get complicated never the only thing is what i do i do it 100 percent to the end then comes
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a moment when things need to. change for everybody not just for me for everybody for the sake of the players and for the club and germany's going to sleep go byron munich striker robert lewandowski equalled the record for most goals in a season he scored this penalty against fribourg for his 40th of the campaign to draw level with the legendary good moment to achieve defeat 49 years ago lewandowsky has the chance to break the record in the final league game of the season next saturday and the late basketball legend kobe bryant has been inducted into the n.b.a. hall of fame michael jordan presented the award to bryant's widow and daughter it's a star studded class including tim duncan and kevin garnett kobe bryant died in a helicopter crash last year along with one of his daughters and 7 others he once told me if you're going to bet on someone bet on yourself i'm glad you bet on yourself you overachiever. you did it you're in the hall of fame
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now. champ you're not just an m.v.p. you're an all time great. i'm so proud of you i love you forever and always. being right. it's also a huge day for basketball in africa with the launch of a new league backed by the n.b.a. 12 teams from across the continent have qualified to play in the basketball africa league all games are being played in a bio secure bubble in the role london capital of gali the north american n.b.a. is basketball's most lucrative league this is the 1st time though that it's helped start up a new competition on a different continent the n.b.a. already has many high profile african born players including joel embiid and pascal see it come the stated aim of this competition is to drive economic growth and support even more up and coming players. well we've been talking to the man in
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charge of the new week about his hopes for the future of basketball in africa these games are going to be seen around the world in $215.00 countries and territories so you know as far as. we are super excited and looking forward to building this is the into one of the top professional possibly in the world our youth is of biggest assets and we want to make sure that you know with the right tool and we should the best of all you know by promoting engagement and positive social activities that you cation being 1st and foremost educating these young people building this sense of a mission and self-confidence and most importantly a sense of responsibility to a giving back to the community as we're seeing it across the board raise all our players from the continent playing in the n.b.a. and as a region on the world who are coming back to help grow the game and the system
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already is a cubit is have cemented our belief in the potential of the africa region as not only a hotbed for tundra put it on hold with export to talent but a place where we could actually grow a professional need to complete the puffery where a young boy from my rugby or legalists. can dream about starting to play basketball at home and have a computer software to get to the pros the bus the bus the lead being the opportunity and finally all the attention was on the horse that finished 3rd at the 146th preakness stakes medina spirit was allowed to run despite testing positive for a banned substance after victory at the kentucky derby 2 weeks ago the horse was the subject of additional testing ahead of this race was the surprise winner and baltimore. already that's it for me and back over to hala thank you very much
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indeed leah well that's it for this news there to keep it here on al-jazeera the net clark will be with you after this very short break with more from gaza. frank assessments of poison but the government needs to watch what exactly how and what measures never taking for us to asian like i'm not you could ever get informed opinions is the u.s. with thinking the military positioning of the middle east or is it just a simple act of reorganizing mistreat us and this is a message to the region that the united states is are rethinking its military
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residential blocks flattened in guards or israel launches its most intensive air strikes on the besieged territory to more than $150.00 raids in the early hours of sunday. the be. put on the clock this is out sara line from doha also.

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