on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. sneeze and euro ready. families in gaza wake up to another burst of israeli air strikes as its bombing enters a 2nd week. out of view and i'm come out santa maria with the world news from algiers. and my administration is going to continue to engage powers to news release and other regional partners under growing pressure the u.s. president reacts sand washington office support to bring about

a cease fire also in the news india records fewer than 300000 covert 900 cases for the 1st time in nearly a month the number of deaths there remains very high and the jailed hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie is in court a new trial where he's accused of inciting the pro-democracy protests of 29 take. starting with of course the israeli bombardment of gaza which is now into a 2nd week. and despite days of international condemnation calls for a ceasefire have had no impact on the ground strikes of continue to hit the palestinian enclave even in just the past few hours with renewed intensity israel says it's targeting tunnels military facilities and residences used by palestinian factions all told 197 palestinians including 58 children have been killed

israeli troops remain massed along the border as well they are firing artillery into gaza prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the strikes will continue and quote full force is. launched more rockets itself into israel towards ashkelon and the sheba 10 people in israel have been killed by hamas strikes in the past week well sunday was the deadliest day of israeli air raids since the campaign began a sharp rise in the number of palestinians killed as well rescue teams are working around the clock to help the survivors. as this report. the survivors in a room flattened by rocket fire. and the sign of life a man calls back in july. this residential building was struck by israeli rockets in gaza city. as a lawyer for our team talked to him and we'll get him out in a minute we hope that his sister is alive as well and we can get her out to others

didn't survive. it's delicate work for rescue teams. pulling survivors out with their hands ensuring there are no people alive before they inch forward with an excavator. the number 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 that began a week ago. $21.00 members of the same family were killed in one explosion what happened be targeted what hours continuous mom boardman launched on one specific neighborhood as a as happened and i witnessed 3 whole neighborhoods where bombs were continuous

hours and they did not only bomb goes residential buildings and people innocent civilians they targeted the roads to this neighborhood. a teacher and mother tell just sara that her children are too scared to close their eyes at night when the bombing is at its heaviest. they're not coping actually they are 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 they don't want to go to sleep because they know once they close their eyes something bad was. during the bombing many families being forced to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones from the snake. another father devastated by the loss of this child who never got a chance to grow up. there are. now 6 israeli

police officers have been injured syria car ramming in pieties jerusalem the tank happened in schecter a neighborhood where israeli settlers are trying to forcibly expel 4 palestinian families and if they're still warning our force its report does begin by showing the moment the car crashed into those offices. after weeks of sight of tension and protest a new level of violence. 6 members of the israeli security forces injured the driver shot dead in his seat seconds later witnesses told us the man a palestinian from occupied east jerusalem shouted. as he approached on edge israeli forces driving our team and others from the immediate area. for palestinian families further down the street a facing imminent forced expulsion from their homes their fate driving many of the

protests that preceded the descent into the air strikes rocket fire and comical violence of the last week. was the focus of so much of the simmering tension that we saw here throughout the month of ramadan tension that sparked violence that has spread far beyond here violence it is continuing a short drive from an israeli settler was filmed taking aim at palestinians to were later reported shot and injured these were the arrests that followed in a settler israel's prime minister calling the explosion of racial violence the 2nd front in this crisis the other front has so far not relented more heavy rocket barrages out of gaza in our school on a synagogue was struck israeli attacks on gaza are also unrelenting the toll in people killed in displaced in homes destroyed still mounting israel's security cabinet reportedly not discussing a rumored move toward cease fire negotiations the prime minister taking his argument on to u.s. television were trying to degrade hamas as terrorists and to degrade their will to

do this again so i hope the want to klong but it's not immediate but there's also report that he gypped offered a truce hamas said yes you said now why. well that's not what i know and frankly if hamas thought that just far enough rockets and then sit back and enjoy immunity that's forced by night the checkpoint had been reinforced with heavy blocks even if a ceasefire is coming between israel and hamas the violence here in the occupied west bank and israel now has a momentum of its. occupied east jerusalem. just a little look at some pictures we've been keeping an eye on only in the past few minutes as the artillery shelling continues from the israeli military hardware on the israel gaza border all very close to it they suddenly troll couple of minutes ago these pictures and in fact the live pictures show it continuing as well

sporadically khan exactly predict when it's going on but a sign that this is not letting up at all and that all this military hardware is sitting there waiting near the border as we wait to hear whether they would be any escalation on the ground as well so those are some recent and live pictures from the border area let's say from u.s. president joe biden now he says his administration is working towards a sustained calm between israel and palestine that he stopped short of calling for an immediate cease fire even though there are demands from 28 senators in his own democratic party were also believe palestinian do israelis equally deserve to live in safety and security and enjoy equal measure of freedom prosperity and democracy and my administration is going to continue to engage powers to news releases and other regional partners to work toward sustained calm some thought and john nichols

national affairs correspondent at the progress of magazine the nation he says pressure is mounting on the u.s. president to distance himself from his israeli counterparts. i think that the by ministration had hoped to stand back from a lot of middle east issues and focus more on domestic policy and what has developed in israel and palestine over the last 10 days or so has forced this administration to adjust to teach 8 what's going on there much more seriously it's not that they they weren't concerned but right now this one and center issue the president's initial spawn's which was to express a great deal of solidarity with israel not to mention palestine this was a couple days ago was very controversial in the u.s. and drew a lot of criticism from his fellow democrats in so use some evolution in it to mention the circumstance of the palestinians but there is still

a lot of division bernie sanders who was president biden's cheap democratic opponent for the nomination in 2020 wrote an opinion piece for the new york times the other day headlined the u.s. must stop being an apologist for netanyahu government and so you see very prominent democrat stepping out and being frankly quite critical of long term u.s. policy but that you know also includes the current u.s. policy and so sanders's spoken to other senators such as elizabeth warren christan hollen from maryland and many many members of the u.s. house of representatives have been outspoken on this your mother u.n. security council members have condemned the violence during an emergency session on sunday but they failed to agree on a joint statement china accused the u.s. of blocking efforts on a unified position christensen let me reports now from the u.n. in new york 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 halt. the senseless cycle of bloodshed terrible 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 thief who has him to our house and if the right thing in our family. stories our homes or persons or people innovation after. it gets after big and then. the security that would 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 every $3000000000.00 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 minutes hours even as the violence escalates the u.s. has blocked the security council from speaking with one voice emphasizing instead its own mediation efforts the united states has made clear that we are prepared to lend our support in good offices should the parties seek a cease fire norway china and tunisia have been leaving work to negotiate a joint statement of the council frustrated by the lack of security council action 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. some of it but that he is a palestinian journalist who is calling on the us to stop providing israel with weapons to continue its bombardment of gaza and i think what matters here is what the palestinians of gaza of jerusalem and of israel proper within what we call the 1948 areas think and what they think is that the united states needs to not only speak out on the floors of the congress but and immediately all aid to israel nothing short of that will suffice the reason why we are calling for that is because the weapons that are being dropped on the innocent civilians of gaza now and that are being aimed directly at the innocent civilians throughout historic palestine or american made now for the united states to concede that point and to confront the very real. reality that it is american made weapons that are

causing this carnage would be for it to face its own history we cannot turn to america for moral clarity on these issues and as you see now in gaza and in the west bank and in jerusalem the palestinians have now taken matters into their own hands as they should you know i am the child of palestinian refugees one of whom has already passed away without ever being able to see his native land again. and i can tell you now as a palestinian in the diaspora that what matters to me most is not what i think sitting here in ohio but what palestinians in the occupied lands of historic palestine think and what they think and what they have been saying for more than a decade now is that the international community needs to hit the streets as we did here in america for the black lives matter protests and the governments of the world need to sanction israel as part of the b.d.s. movement nothing short of that will force a change and the u.s.

policy toward our people. the rest of the day's news is coming up as left wing parties in chile when a majority in a vote to rewrite the dictatorship era constitution and we report from one of the british towns with over 1000 vaccinations are being scaled up because of fears over the variant identified in the. well the european spring to do the pace a little bit on the cool side and a lot on the west side of the clouds to parley in from the atlantic and you can see from the complicated chart it's not a straight forward area of warm high pressure now that's in the west of russia that's keeping moscow 29 degrees everyone else expect rain or showers the heaviest rain on its way probably into warsaw by the start of shoes day having spent much of

the day in slovakia a bit of austria-hungary there is warmth and rough would be you say all of europe southern europe is relatively warm but nothing much changes further north the heavy rain goes into ukraine during tuesday and it's all being steered up the brain and the warm into scandinavia so it's really quite warm in stockholm compared with the average but if you want hot weather is not innsbrook that represent typical anyway if any where in middle of europe the average $21.00 we're talking about the low teens maybe 70 miles and it is the day with rain or showers no come down to iberia it has been in the algarve certainly it is in the southwest of spain with temperatures in the middle thirty's seville represents a pretty hot bit of europe the average here is around 27 we don't quite have a record valleys were consistently pretty hot.

frank assessments there are a lot of poison but the government used one exactly how and one measure never taking for a situation like i'm not to believe you could ever get informed opinions is the u.s. with thinking the military positioning of the middle east wasn't just a simple act of reorganizing ministry assets this is a message to the region the united states years are rethinking its military posture in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. it was around 0 a reminder of the headlines and israel's continued its bombing raids across the gaza strip. and artillery fire as well despite international calls for calm these

live pictures from near the israeli gaza border israel says it is targeting tunnels military facilities and residences used by palestinian factions 197 palestinians including 58 children have been killed in the israeli airstrikes which are now in its 2nd week. this is the live shot of the gaza skyline at the moment looking quiet but there has been as we say this morning. with israeli troops remaining massed along the border firing their artillery into gaza as you saw in the other pictures the prime minister netanyahu says the strikes will continue with full force as hamas launches more rockets itself into israel towards ashkelon and bushy but 10 people in israel and children the past week. and there's been a u.n. security council meeting this world to discuss the crisis in israel and palestine it was unable to agree on a joint statement china accused the biden administration of blocking attempts to

form a unified position. india's health ministry is reporting 4100 deaths and more than 281000 new infections of corona virus in the past 24 hours that is actually the 1st time the daily recorded cases have fallen below $300000.00 since late april but health experts and government critics say there is significant undercounting they say testing is limited in the rural areas especially in the northern states of the prohibition. where hundreds of bodies have been found in the ganges river or simply buried along its bangs also a top virologist in india has resigned from a government covert advisory group that looked into new variants accused the government of not paying enough attention to a more contagious strain despite being warned about it back in monch more with me with all now in new delhi will come to that issue of the resignation of the signs

in a moment and 1st of all the numbers can you give us the context on that because i know well under rip on the accounting is a problem but also they can be levels through the weekend we're testing is down as well. yes you know both these caveats are very important when you look at the numbers but still if you watch it look at. these figures the government figures for the trend in overall trend and you want to zoom out and see you are seeing is significant different numbers you know just 10 days ago the fresh case count was hitting 400000 but still at nearly 300000 cases this is not a situation where india can or is being complacent so you are seeing many states extending lockdowns you know west bengal and one of the states that held elections in april has announced a fresh 2 week strict lockdown and in terms of jets more than 4100 deaths in 24 hours and this is in line with the trend you see with the virus that is the death

spike follows the spike in cases now what we are also learning is a huge focus being given to rural india and the situation there so one of india's poorest states is now starting its survey it's announced that it is going to be ramping up testing and trying and getting a better sense of how many cases they really are the more the government has also announced that there will be a 3 tier medical system in local villages and towns so really getting primary health care centers and schools to start helping with isolating and treating milder covert cases and yet puffing as we said a top the role of just has resigned from the advisory group i mean quite simply that is never a good sign and shows the sort of disconnect between the science and the politics. definitely dr sharjah meaning is not just a top or ologists he was also heading the advisory board that you mention it is

that the board is basically in charge of coordinating genome sequencing so really important body in india's battle against over 1000 he's also been one of the biggest and the loudest critics of the government saying that early you know warnings of an impending 2nd wave were not heeded to he's also criticised the government for not basing decisions and policies on signs evidence and data he said that scientists have been facing a lot of critics of a lot of resistance from the government to follow science and data and he's not the only critic you know the indian medical association has come out and criticized the government on various accounts you know the loudest being on not having a nationwide lockdown the vice president of the indian medical association had in fact called the prime minister is super spreader for having those massive rallies on the other hand you know exports have been really frustrated with many things that top ministers including india's health minister have been promoting you know

promoting quackery on social media promoting you know home grown pills like coronel which you know do not have any scientific backing on how whether they can actually cure hoovered so a lot of frustration there among the scientific community in in india thank you. in new delhi. much of the u.k. is taking a step towards normality this monday coronavirus destructions of big east across to england wales and most of scotland this means pubs restaurants cinemas sports venues will be among the businesses being allowed to reopen their doors a complete lifting of covert 9000 measures is due in june but some experts in the u.k. are warning the variant 1st detected in india could jeopardize those plans to reopen the strain has now become the most dominant in some parts of the u.k. in particular bolton and blackburn in the north west of england where cases of more than doubled in a week journal reports it is especially concerning as more restrictions are about

to be. 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 to the aids. it is you know you don't want me in the very end is that a worry for you it is a lower back on a lot than anything us i think it's good that you get as many people vaccinated possible if you have if you get it you're right yes yes i'm going to say you have to be c. of the so-called indian variant is already the dominant strain in bolton with plasters elsewhere in the northwest the midlands and also parts of 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 and to stop the give and take and you know i think the variance from india is a concern for people and it probably has pushed more people to see 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. 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 serious disruption to plans in the coming weeks

a number of leading scientists offer a more cautious view the variant if unchecked they say threatens a 3rd wave of infections and hospitalizations this time targeting the unvaccinated and the young jonah how al-jazeera bolton. now the jail to hong kong media tycoon jimmy lies in court for a new trial along with. the 9 other pro-democracy activists. they are charged with incitement to an authorised assembly for their roles in 829000 protest march lies company has suspended trying on hong kong's stock exchange 2 days after the hong kong government froze his assets under beijing's national security law. to be israeli palestine conflict this is mohamad chatah of the palestinian prime minister and getting sleep cutie on the 17th in the verse 3 of the. yes it's quite clear. has.

a solution that is based on the international law and order to establish the palestinian. state would deliver them as their capital 1 the right of living fiji's to come back we are united with one unity we have the same suffering despite all the attorney said by israel by their occupation to create a rift amongst loss but we will be victorious and thank you very much for every one of you. can. go on the. palestinian prime minister mohammed to tire speaking ahead of a cabinet meeting and really focusing as you heard there on the core issues not just what's happening in gaza right now but the issue of occupation the issue of

the right of return and the issue of where the capital of a palestinian state would be. one more story to bring you leftwing candidates have won a majority in a historic election for the delegates who will rewrite chillies constitution president sebastian pinera says it shows his government and political parties are out of touch with citizens a latin america editor soon human reports now from santiago if they even get a feeling of having to do an election like no one to chile has seen marked by hope and a need new dose of uncertainty. chileans voted overwhelmingly for left wing delegates to write the new constitution dealing a bitter blow to the governing conservative coalition that had bet on obtaining enough seats in the upcoming convention to block radical changes. our citizens have sent a strong and clear message to the government and all the traditional political blogs we are not adequately tuning in to our people's demands and aspirations we

must hear this message of humility. but it's not just conservatives who are licking their wounds after an election that has dramatically changed chile's political map the biggest winners have been the independent candidates and the biggest loser is the mainstream center to center left the left wing political parties have also done very well including the clumsiness and that could give their candidates for the upcoming presidential elections later this year an unexpected boost. some of the results are demonstrating for those searching for a true transformation of this country of time a tremendous triumph this consolidates not only a new democratic constitution but also the possibility of a new popular democratic government even the right wing voters like maria lisa were horrified but far more that with the this country is going downhill if we don't find another general pinochet i swear this won't work them among all the. others

a bitter over the voter turnout especially among young people which was much lower than expected i guess. they just don't believe that anything will change we fought for this institutional change but too many people don't believe it can happen. where the hard work begins now to draft a constitution over the next 9 to 12 months that can build consensus instead of even deeper divisions you see in human al-jazeera santiago. past the hour let us take you to the headlines israel continuing its offensive in gaza despite international calls for calm monday morning in gaza as these live pictures show that is relatively quiet but there have been airstrikes previously this morning israel saying it.