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played an important role in human. touch face. because us off as its deadliest day of the past week with 21 members of the same family killed in just want to attack. i'm norm tell us is out there are live from london also coming up at least 58 children have now been killed by israeli airstrikes on gaza while others say they're scared they would survive the night. i mean the raised tensions a car rams
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a police checkpoint in occupied east jerusalem injuring 6 police officers and a chorus of condemnation at the u.n. security council but no action to end the violence. there israeli airstrikes of flattened more buildings and killed dozens more people in gaza's deadliest day yet of the past week of violence meanwhile a meeting at the u.n. security council to discuss the crisis as failed to produce even a joint statement after an objection by the u.s. on the ground the conflict is spiraling at least $46.00 people were killed in sunday's israeli air assault in gaza city including 2 doctors and 10 children israeli military says it was targeting hamas underground tunnels nearly 200 people have been killed in gaza since the conflict began a week ago 58 of them children and tensions keep escalating
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a car has rammed israeli police injuring at least 6 offices in the shaikh shara neighborhood of occupied east jerusalem and hamas continues to fire rockets into israel nearly 3000 have been launched since monday killing 10 people including 2 children who are about money begins our coverage. calling for survivors in a room flattened by rocket fire. and a sign of life a man calls back in july that. this residential building was struck by israeli rockets in gaza city. is a lawyer for our team talk to him and we'll get him out in a minute we hope that his sister's zainab is alive as well and we can get her out to others didn't survive. it's delicate work for rescue teams that would pulling survivors out with their hands ensuring there are no people life before they inch forward with an excavator lost cost up to. a number
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of people under the rubble is still unknown as we heard from the families and the neighbors it's a large number. from a number of people buried under the rubble it's clear they didn't have enough warning to flee before the residential buildings were destroyed. israeli rockets and artillery fire in the gaza strip have been the heaviest since the bombardment began a week ago $21.00 members of the same family were killed in one explosion what happened be targeted what hours continuous mom barred meant launched on one specific neighborhood. and i witnessed 3 whole neighborhoods where bombs were continuous hours and they did not only bomb both residential buildings and people innocent civilians they targeted the roads to this neighborhood. a teacher and mother tell of just seeing their children are too scared to close their eyes at night when the bombing is at its heaviest. they're not coping absolutely they are
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terrified all the time they're just listening carefully if it's going to be any warning. they just afraid to close their eyes at the night they don't want to sleep i struggle every single night to put them in their beds you don't want to go 2 to sleep because they know once they close their eyes something bad will have. to ring the building many families being forced to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones from this nuke. had written the father devastated by the loss of this child who never got a chance to grow up. there are. the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees as well the 38000 people who are now displaced in gaza after fleeing israeli airstrikes many are seeking shelter in overcrowded un schools and agencies unable to provide everyone the aid they need nearly 70 percent
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of gaza's population ready refugees mostly from territories occupied by israel al-jazeera suffered as in gaza with the latest on the territories casualties the minister of. the number of people killed and the last night as strike. was. more for 4 bodies and now the number of people killed. now $46.00 people so with the number of the total number of casualties or victims up to $200.00 people including $58.00 children. at the other hand now we. could hear. another explosion and. neighborhood which is. drawn one of the. houses but still the student of the fire is lower than yesterday and the people here are expecting or hope that all these meetings that had been run in the last few
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hours could come with a positive indication regarding that issue. still the palestinian factions also. use the strength of their fire of the rockets that they have been fighting also towards israel hamas official most will not who he said that so far all the efforts for reaching the cease fire failed in case there will be a cease fire it will be based on our conditions which means that they have not the talks have not to reach a serious point that when they can start with. giving the film put out a cease fire or cease fire we understand that they are talking serious talks going back on the ground the student of the fire the one who decides either there are positive indications or not. israel's military says hamas fired 120 rockets from
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gaza overnight around 3000 rockets subpoena launched all together in the past week or some have fallen inside gaza and israel's iron dome missile defense system to stop most of them others have made it through at least 10 people have been killed inside israel including 2 children the u.n. says at least 250 people have been injured. this around for if they had how this. the last one. i can tell child is in a funny thought a high need to take care outside to have. to breed. to be cool i always say talk to her i try to lay me down to hear your news it term because she's a very frightening frightening. they all the family in the basement a we sleep there together but they made it in
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a very very very frightening. 6 israeli police officers have been injured in a car ramming in occupied east jerusalem it had happened in shaikh jarrah that's the neighborhood away israeli settlers are trying to expel forcibly for palestinian families who live there the tribe there was shot dead very force it has more from shaikh sharon occupied east jerusalem the border security forces checkpoint it has been placed here at the entrance to the road which is been the scene of so many of the protests and so much of the tension here in occupied east jerusalem throughout the month of ramadan a car approached it it seems to do so at speed we've had witnesses 2 of them at least telling us that the driver appeared to shout a lot of akbar god is great as he approached the checkpoint and it rammed drove straight into where the police were 6 of those officers were injured the police
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spokesman says 4 of them lightly to the moderately but it was a very violent impact and it looked to be potentially quite serious to say the least to be to the well being of those police officers as for the driver himself he was shot dead in the moments after the attack obviously moments after the impact has been as i say the center of. a long simmering protest which is really gathered pace in the last few weeks a spur to kuli on the basis about 4 families who faced the imminent threat of forced removal from their homes it was part of the wider picture of tension throughout jerusalem which exploded on that last monday and now we have the violence which has been erupting throughout the area and on this day this afternoon that violence also felt very keenly here. the u.s. is told the u.n. security council is ready to offer support if israel and hamas seek
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a cease fire it also blocked the council from issuing a joint statement on the crisis saying it might hurt negotiations behind the scenes christensen ummi has more from the united nations it was the security council's 3rd emergency meeting in a week but the 1st in public and it started with an appeal by the u.n. chief for the fighting so hot the senseless cycle of bloodshed terror of destruction must stop immediately all parties must respect international within law and international human rights law reflecting the urgency of the moment some council members had their foreign ministers participate that was also the case for the palestinians israel is the thieves who have entered our house and if the right thing in our family. the stories our homes or persons or people innovation after. it gave after big
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and then. the security that it be nice us israel's u.n. ambassador accused hamas of carrying out indiscriminate attacks for political gain and putting its own civilians at risk israel sees everything villian death as a tragedy hamas sees every israeli civilian death as a victory israel uses its missiles to protect its children hamas uses its children to protect its missiles even as the violence escalates the u.s. has blocked the security council from speaking with one voice emphasizing instead it's only a shin efforts the united states has made clear that we are prepared to lend our support and good offices should the parties see a cease fire norway china and tunisia have been leaving work to go see a joint statement of the council frustrated by the lack of security council action
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on an issue that's been on the council's agenda for more than 70 years china's foreign minister called out the united states as the only dissenting voice and promise to keep pushing until the council can speak as one christian salumi al-jazeera the united nations. still to come this hour. from viral moments to rallying cries how they passed on israel conflict is playing out on social media. and vaccines versus variants of the u.k. banks tama took measures to help it stay on track with easy credit restrictions. right off the bat let's take you to the arabian sea where we do have tropical cyclone talked to spinning around let's show the impact in india just massive
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amounts of rain plenty of wind as well this is in careless stayed too far away we've got about 343 millimeters of rain over the past 2 days which is incredible rainfall about so this is we're talk to is right now just offshore of mumbai so 20000000 people in the line of fire here we have storm surge 2 meters high so that's the ocean being picked up and shoved in shore 185 kilometer per hour winds now by tuesday this looks like it could make landfall toward gerad so we the winds start to back off some but this is still a very serious threat acquittal into a category one hurricane it is going to wreak havoc for such a low lying area to australia cool start in the capital temperature at minus 5 when we should be at minus 3 we can see that cool air toward victoria new south wales and on tasmania as well so here's the temperatures 16 in melbourne just with some
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scattered showers and we are watching a front push into western australia monday into tuesday so for perth that's going to leave you with some showers and the potential of thunderstorms. from the al-jazeera london broadcast center to people in thought who comes. the struggles that we see in the global south have come not because of our health but because of the harbor but with no host and no limitation that's the story of climate change it's not that we're all in it together the people of the most impacted in the 1st impact are there in the global side that's always how it is part 2 of the as your barber and that's a great fast fashion should be actually regulated just like cigarettes studio b. unscripted.
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amount of top stories here a 0 israeli airstrikes have flattened more buildings and killed dozens more people in gaza's deadliest day yet of the past week of violence at least 46 people were killed in sunday's israeli air assault in gaza city 10 of them children only 200 people have been killed in gaza since the conflict began a week ago. a car has rammed israeli police injuring at least 6 officers in the shaikh chyron neighborhood of occupied east jerusalem that's where jewish settlers are trying to expel palestinian families from their homes the driver was shot dead . and the u.s. has told the u.n. security council it's ready to offer support if israel and hamas seek a site a cease fire the actions of both sides were condemned at the virtual session but the u.s. blocked a joint statement saying it might hurt negotiations behind the scenes. jordan's
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king says his country is involved in intense negotiations to end the escalating violence it's leading a diplomatic campaign with its european allies and u.s. allies to pressure israel to stop bombing gaza. damien's have held regular protests against the war what started as a peaceful demonstration near the israeli embassy in amman on sunday ended in violent clashes security forces dispersed thousands of anti israel demonstrators who gathered in the streets police were seen pushing and beating some protests as who refused to leave the area. and israel protests have also been held in pakistan's port city of karachi hundreds of members of the country's largest shia muslim students organization marched in solidarity with the families of palestinians killed in air strikes protesters carried pro palestinian banners and
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set fire to israeli and u.s. flags. and several demonstrations have been held across morocco in support of palestine just as also denounced that country's normalization of diplomatic ties with israel. who was one of 4 arab countries to restore relations with israel last year last week american authorities called for an end to violence against palestinians. ways really fast in conflict is playing out on social media in a way not seen before a certain higher it explains. social media is playing a big role by providing more content in real time straight from the ground and with a wider global reach than during the israeli attacks on gaza in 2008 and 24 t. now within hours of our correspondent stephanie decker posting this video of the destruction on saturday of the al-jazeera and a.p. offices in gaza it's went viral and has since been viewed more than $8000000.00 times in less than 24 hours now the israeli minute she was quick to defend itself
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as you can see here on twitter claims it is only targeting hamas but despite that people are showing solidarity online with those forced to flee now they've been using the hash tags journalism is not a crime and we demand press freedom in this photo here shows journalists just outside that destroyed building and social media has been a massive driving force behind many of the protests elsewhere in fact this here if you just have a look was the scene there you go in london just hours after saturday's attack and in other parts of the world hundreds of thousands of people took part in the free palestine munches celebrities have also been sharing their thoughts to that the football english f.a. cup final on saturday night in the u.k. less the city's hands are show the wall the palestinian flag in solidarity now a new generation also of social justice activists are using facebook instagram and
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to talk to dr narrative of what's happening during this conflict now it all started earlier this month when a video under the hash tag giora who went viral showing a palestinian woman trying to stop her jewish settler from taking her house palestinians use social media to protest against forced expulsions from their homes in the sheffer dora neighborhood in occupied east jerusalem and some found their instagram stories and posts removed and that prompted an apology from its. c.e.o. who blames a technical issue on the problem but digital rights groups on convincing are calling for social media sites to be more transparent about why they're taking down their posts now on thursday israel's justice minister benny gantz that he held a zoo meeting with facebook and to talk exact content critical of israel removed according to his spokesman the exacta said they'd act quickly and effectively to prevent incitement on their platforms facebook's executives are reportedly due to
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speak with the palestinian authority next week as well as containing misleading or false claims from both sides during this conflict have also been widely shared online in fact an israeli government spokesman shared this video on twitter saying it was hamas firing rockets at israel from populated areas but the video was in fact from 2018 and of syrian government forces carrying out an attack in the city of daraa in syria. at least 2 people have died and will know 150 are injured after bleach or collapsed at a synagogue in an israeli settlement in the occupied west bank video from inside the building shows the moment the stand gave way causing worshippers to fall on top of each other a man in his fifty's and a 12 year old boy were killed more than $600.00 people were in the synagogue in the jewish settlement of give out save to mark the start of the jewish holiday of shavuot.
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to man man now and the u.s. and u.k. have sounded the alarm over unrest in the town of minda out and according on the army to avoid civilian casualties fighting in the northwestern town in chin state has been some of the bloodiest since febreze coup with reports of security forces using civilians as human shields. and this video is said to be from minda that has been widely shared on social media presence there for the chin learned of defense force to fight me in mars military but they've been forced to retreat from the town it's now reported to be largely under military control with only women and children still there too afraid to leave their homes earlier i spoke to a protester who's been in mendota and who we're not naming for his own safety he says the situation took a turn for the worse when security forces detained 6 young protesters the police
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officers. promised him that gould relieved the clock at 6 pm. believing do that for a good nights the young people grew up you know people in the police shoot each other what is happening to the people who live in the area and who are not fighters and to what what or how do they feel at the moment. almost all. come to the field concert of their all the others are hiding the others are going away from the tar high the only way most took people most of the people don't want dictatorship than hate to fall just i want to know more for the international community help the we with part b.
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could do for good democracy of our people ahead of colombia's police forces to punish officers who've assaulted protesters demonstrations over proposed tax plan have continued even after it was withdrawn but many accusing the police of brutality video has emerged of a young protester being hit by a police vehicle during violent clashes in the city of pop by an protests that erupted of requisitions that 4 officers had abused a girl who later committed suicide colombia's national police director says more than $100.00 disciplinary proceedings have been opened against offices since protests began 3 have been arrested on murder charges for protesting who was injured in a fire and is being treated in hospital and has released this video. you know. my name. on may 14th.
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right now i just came out of course met chicks surgery my upper and lower right i'll eat i have no loss of sight i have a loss of a mobility yes but with surgical procedures disc and also be solved i have a fracture to my right cheek bone. and i feel sure it might arm and i thank the people who have been aware of my progress and the people who are still on the street. chad has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world one out of every $100.00 pregnant women is expected to die during labor or from relations complications because of trying to improve the care they receive but say many challenges remain there is have a morgan has more from the capital and. this hospital in chad's capital is where comes to receive prenatal care it's more than 2 hours away from her home but it's her 1st pregnancy and she's been experiencing complications and with her due date
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just weeks away she fears for her life and that of her baby. i've heard stories of women suffering during childbirth and i've been getting it regular pains in my stomach so i come to the hospital to get help because i don't want anything to happen to me. i was says her fear is made worse by the fact back teenage pregnancy increases the chances of maternal mortality she's only 14 and chad has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world more than 60 percent of its nearly 60000000 population live below the poverty line and while access to maternal health care is one of the few services that's offered for free the rate of life during childbirth has not reduced much over the past decade more than a 1000 pregnant women out of every 100000 yards. to die during childbirth or from related complications every year according to health workers several other factors are attributed to the high number of deaths including lack of enough health workers
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most of the fatalities are recorded in rural areas outside the capital where access to healthcare is limited less than 25 percent of pregnant women have access to medical a qualified personnel and years of conflict in the country's north and east have limited the provision of health services in those regions the united nations also says that the country's literacy rate is contributing to the high death rate 4 out of 5 women between $15.24 are illiterate and health workers say that's affecting women's awareness regarding their health so that. women usually come to us in late stages of pregnancy and by then they've developed multiple complications it's because they usually come suffering from malnutrition high blood pressure and that's the least it's sometimes worse we tell women to come to us as soon as they know they're pregnant so we can give them the right care but many are hesitant so when they give birth there are health risks not only for them but for the new babies that are born how was says she knows the risks she's facing and doesn't want
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to become another addition to the mortality statistics in chad she says she hopes to have a normal delivery but fears that at her age the odds may be against her and her child people morgan al-jazeera. knocked on restrictions have been extended in some indian state to help contain the country's outbreak india reported a smaller rise in daily coronavirus infections on sunday but an increase in deaths recorded more than 310000 cases and more than 4000 deaths in the past day police are patrolling the ganges after the bodies of some 2000 suspected covert victims were recovered from the river being offered money to cremate to bury their loved one. concern is growing of the presence of the indian covariant in some parts of the u.k. in particular london and bolton in the north west of england where cases of more
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than doubled in a week as general reports the situation is increasingly worrying the government especially is england heads towards the next phase of ease restrictions on monday. ahead of the next stage of england's exit from lock down long queues at a pop up vaccine center in the northwest town of bolton a scaled up vaccination campaign has seen jabs dispensed to 600 people and hour over the weekend there are concerns that the resumption of indoor gatherings from monday will lead to a surgeon infections led by a new variant 1st discovered in india and if that would get back today if. it is you know you don't want me in the very end is that a worry for you it is a little bit of a lot don't know anything about us i think it's good to get as many people vaccinated is possible if you have if you get it you're right yes yes it does if you have to be serious the so-called indian variant is already the dominant strain in bolton with plasters elsewhere in the northwest the midlands and also parts of
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london the challenge is to contain it i was hoping for this level of response i'll be honest i was quite emotional this morning when i saw the queues and all day long to see him in the queues or to stop think of him and you know i think the variance from india is a concern for people and it probably has pushed more people to get the vaccine as well as speeding up the vaccine delivery there's door to door testing going on the army is on standby to help with logistics in affected areas the real concern of course is that if these measures fail to contain the new variant that's thought to be up to 50 percent more contagious if it's allowed to spread well that could seriously jeopardize hopes of a return to normal life. and on the. test because. the government believes there isn't sufficient evidence of risk yet to require a delay of monday's reopening though the prime minister concedes there may be
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serious disruption to plans in the coming weeks a number of leading scientists offer a more cautious view the variant if unchecked very say threatens a 3rd wave of infections and hospitalizations this time targeting the unvaccinated and the young. al-jazeera bolton. and when you catch up on a time with our website. dot com. among other top stories on our jazeera is ready as strikes have flattened more buildings and killed dozens more people in gaza's deadliest day yet of the past week of violence at least 46 people were killed in sunday's israeli air assault in gaza city 10 of them children in the 200 have been killed in gaza since the conflict began a week ago including 58 children israel says around 3000 rockets have been
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