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breaking the law then i'm going to do that for shelter in place to place fun for housing on all jersey or understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the desert no matter when you. encounter for that matter. explosions continue to shatter and there are warnings the city is now running out of power and water. again i'm going on son to maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera and my administration is going to continue to engage powers to news releases and other regional partners that's us president joe biden facing growing pressure to do more to end the attacks. and the day's other news more signs of frustration in
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india over prime minister narendra modi's handling of the corona virus pandemic and the jailed hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie is in court for a new trial accused of inciting the pro-democracy protests of 29. of the answer is now into its 2nd week and despite the days of international condemnation the calls for a ceasefire had no impact have a look at a little bit earlier right when strikes hit the palestinian. all morning in fact with a renewed intensity this was a factory inside a refugee camp which was hit israel says it is targeting tunnels military facilities and residences used by palestinian factions all told 198 palestinians including $58.00. children have been killed here is obscene to bring us up to date
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with everything harry for some on the left hand side of your screen occupied east jerusalem need to bring him in ramallah in the occupied west bank will be with you too shortly 1st you in the outside as outside the besieged on claves main hospital and tell us what about about what you've been seeing there today you know. until now the list i mean it's another tense day in the bombardment on the gaza strip just in the early hours self of this day the air raids very very heavy dark till the shells were very violently targeting different areas of the gaza strip mainly in the west and the east. on my way i myself on my way here to ship a complex in the in the morning there was a car that was targeted just 10 meters away from my car and without prior
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notice there were 4 people in the car 3 of them came out in pieces and one severely severely wounded. nature after a couple of houses have been targeted and have arrived as like bodies more bodies have air i have to ship a complex we were talking i was talking to the doctors here and they said that the morgues air full already the hospital is running out of resources and running out of medical requirements and supplies to corey doris' have been stuffed with beds to take more patients those who are seriously wounded or are in different difficult conditions right and the whole strip is well you're running out of the basics fuel and water. and the power outages are huge in this trip i mean it's. the electricity comes from one
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hour to 3 hours at best in different times and that's that's a crisis for the hospitals that are riding and the generators are running out of fuel so there is a great shortage in electricity out of course when we say there is shortage in electricity gaza then there is automatically a shortage in water as well because there is no electricity to generate the water so that we can get torture supply so now what gaza is going through the crisis of great shortage in power due to all things struction in the lines off the electricity lines and the power and even the company power distribution company yeah it has been partly also damaged and a list of all the infrastructure of the cables have been damaged in all in almost all the areas of the gaza strip that out where we're going through not only are the
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gaza strip is going through not only an adequate shortage of fuel and power shortages and outages and. lack of water but also the medical sector is is too light extensively being threatened now with the amount of shortages in medical supplies or requirements ok you know if i don't leave you there i want to get to our other correspondents about just as well thank you for now. before we go to the prime minister of the palestinian authority spoke earlier today in ramallah his fatah party calling for a general strike across the occupied west bank on tuesday in his speech he thanked members of the international community for condemning the killings in gaza but said more must be done. behind the united nations must. be describes own. actions as
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a legal. illegitimate again this policy in the. banishment must be there again. friendly comes with must be some of the best of the as well as presentation and assignment. of injecting. neighbor him in the occupied west bank in addition to what we heard from the prime minister a believe you've got news on the u.s. envoy. yes the us the deputy secretary for israeli and palestinian affairs has arrived and has met with 3 palestinian officials according to a statement by the palestinian civil affairs ministry he met with the palestinian president advisor for diplomatic f.a.r.'s as well as the palestinian head of intelligence and the palestinian minister of sibylla fares and in the statement released by the palestinians they said that they urged the u.s.
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administration to pressure israel to stop what the palestinians call the assault against the palestinians and they said that the right wing israeli government as well as the continued settler attacks are killing any opportunity or any hope for a future settlement or negotiations between the palestinians and israelis so this is the latest from. the u.s. envoy who has been in tel aviv for the past few days and we've heard from other sources telling us that he is going to be meeting with the possibly of president mahmoud abbas of the reports are saying that he is indeed now with the meeting with president mahmoud abbas the palestinian authority says is still invested in diplomatic efforts for deescalation they say that they want the u.s. and the world countries to intervene and pressure israel to end its occupation as well as what they call to leave this aggression on the palestinians specifically in the gaza strip this is not something that many palestinians are appreciating they
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are saying that the palestinian authority needs to do more and that they are taking a softer approach when it comes to the situation in the occupied territory thank you need abraham reporting from ramallah in the occupied west bank now on. the mount of olives occupied east jerusalem and here is harry for so what can you bring us in there today. yes here in occupied east jerusalem there have been another round. over the last 24 hours or so rounds of arrests going on this is in the light of what the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has tried to be instituting in the security forces and the police a much tougher response he says sue the kind of violence that we've been seeing both here in occupied east jerusalem and inside israel the majority of those arrests appearing to be of palestinians and as well as in the last 24 hours less than that we've seen the most violent incidents so far in weeks of protests in and
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around the neighborhood of where there are 4 palestinian families under imminent threat of forced expulsion it has been a factor of fueling and driving a lot of the protests which erupted in violence and then went so much further afield from there but a very violent incident and the images at the top of our report on that some people may well find distressing. actually harry we haven't got your report this hour i'm sorry we will play it again later on but i have got a guest from coming up sorry about that but it is that's quite a right to carry force in occupied streets and thank you for that now this is important israeli's warning that the united words warn the united nations that it plans to bomb 2 schools on the gaza strip and it is understood that these schools also act as accommodation for refugees we have matthias ishmael with us now who is the director general of unrwa which is the united nations humanitarian aid agency
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for palestinian refugees mr small thank you for your time 1st of all i know you'll be incredibly busy do you know more about this the warnings from israel over your schools. good afternoon to you i have frankly not been directly informed of this far the message from the israeli side has been that installations that are colored in blue and have a u.n. flag like the one i am in awe protected so i am trying to check this out i have not been given this direct warning right it must be a huge concern for you though even if you just think about what happened to the media building the other day which was destroyed which houses the a.p. and al-jazeera the israelis took the view that there was elements there and bombed it anyway would you be concerned that they would take the same view of u.n. facilities. absolutely i mean we need to be clear we are in war here this
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is a war like 2014 and in many ways at a more violent level the price the civilian population is paying for these is increasingly high you know any civilian deaths is on the acceptable we now have more than 50 children dead and killed among them 18 children that went to law would run schools that for me is just an unacceptable price that the civilian population is paying and indeed we have seen several buildings taken down in which civilians linda and so yes in most cases they were warned to evacuate those buildings but we now have i believe at latest count at least $5000.00 people without a home so that's the 2nd price they're paying and then the 3rd $1.00 is we are here in one of our installations people are scared they are terrified this is experienced as terror from the skies and people are increasingly leaving their homes we now have more than 41000 people in 50 schools and to come back to your
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question it would be of grave concern if any of these installations were directly here how are you able or are you able to look after all of those thousands of people because we were reporting earlier about shortages of water and fuel not. so the priority we are into the 3rd day of having people in our installations like this the priority so far has been to make them safe and what that means is number one that there are no unexploded devices lying around number 2 we're still in culver times you know we've had to make sure that we have protective equipment and p.p.a. for them and now we have been starting to look since yesterday at what to do in terms of basic needs like water we have our installations kitted out for situations like this with solar energy and water supplies and sanitary facilities but not and we are racing against time now to try and meet these basic needs obviously we will
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have to have the border open at some point to bring in supplies for the moment we are all k. but as you have said throughout this session there will be critical supply and needs in the next few days i think mr schmidt i can hear the noise of maybe a drone actually above us sort of a buzzing noise around that makes me think about the conversations that you have with the israelis i'm sure that you give them the exact coordinates for your facilities so that they don't get bombed how do those conversations actually go. i mean we have a long established process i think every 6 months we update them on all our installations so they have those coordinates i must say during this current war the conversations have been difficult my understanding i wasn't here but in 2014 we much more early on had humanitarian corridors you know where there was a lot in the fighting and we could move to installations bring material and so on and so far in day 7 or 8 of this they have not granted that they've also not
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granted to us to bring in and out of people you know so it's at the moment it's very difficult conversations a big important part also is that they are hitting striking very close to our installations my main office complex is c.v.s. damaged in parts of the because the strikes we have very close to it and so an understanding we had in the past that they would also be keep some distance that striking from our installations is just not being respected sufficiently. zarate to general of honor thank you for taking the time for us today i know you'll be very busy we really appreciate it. thank you very much for this opportunity thank you. let's hear from u.s. president joe biden now he says his administration is working towards what he calls a sustained calm between israel and palestine those remarks were made in a video released to mark the white house's virtual aide celebration on sunday but
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some prominent muslim advocacy groups in the u.s. boycott of the events were also believed palestinian do is really is equally deserved to live in safety and security and equal measure freedom prosperity and democracy and my administration is going to continue engaging powers to news israelis and other regional partners to work towards sustained calm. well let's look back on sunday now which actually was the deadliest day of israeli air right since the campaign began a shot rise in the number of palestinians killed with rescue teams working around the clock to help the survivors to or but man they has our report. calling for survivors in a room flattened by rocket fire. and the 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
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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 the rescue team and the woman pulling survivors out with their hands ensuring there are no people alive before they inch forward with an excavator the last car stuck to. 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 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 boardman launched on one specific neighborhood as a as happened and i witnessed 3 whole neighborhoods where bombs were continuous
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hours and they did not only bomb boats residential buildings and people innocent civilians they targeted the roads to this snippet of those neighborhoods. 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 on the time they're just listening carefully if it's going to be any warning. they just afraid to close their eyes that the night they don't want to sleep i struggle every single night 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. had another father devastated by the loss of this child who never got a chance to grow up. near
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a persian ali al jazeera. the rest of the day's news is on the way including a step towards normality coronavirus restrictions are eased across much of the u.k. . and left wing parties in chile win a majority in a vote to rewrite the dictatorship era constitution. it's time for the perfect gentleman to weather sponsored point qatar airways the last few days is showing how violent the weather can be this time of the year with the seasonal rains in china less so in japan we did see a couple of tornadoes it's possible to get them there and not back common but there is a pretty heavy rain in and out of southern china from the yangtze down to hong kong very likely and completely normal at this time of year they do tend to go through south korea japan but you have a day off on tuesday a few
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a few showers in middle east then that orange indicating heavy rain heads towards tokyo for later on wednesday and it's chinese and has gone north as well so she's waving around a little bit they will be floating there was supposed to be flooding but this is the worst consequence of this change of season 6 trini severe cyclonic storm is the official name secret of a category 3 hurricane for those who know so it's very damaging landfall is like to be during the dark hours and over good you're out now once it's made landfall and brought the storm surge with it and those waves are 30 meters that'll be the start of the trouble he carries on moving struct choose day it will still be called a windy cycler and even over land then eventually looses circulation but the rain will still falls through rogers down and beyond probably affecting delhi there was a massive whetstone up in the himalayas on thursday. sponsored pol qatar airways. in hebron boys breathe and fly
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pigeons but in this occupied palestinian city boys are also close to watched by israeli forces at times cut 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 jazeera. form . a reminder of the situation in israel and palestine israeli attacks continuing the bombing raids across the garden district despite international calls for calm this
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is a factory inside a refugee camp in gaza which was hit earlier 198 palestinians including $58.00 children have been killed in the past week israeli troops are massed along the border as well they've been firing artillery into gaza and hamas has launched more rockets itself into israel towards ashkelon. 10 people in israel have been killed by hamas strikes in the past week. and palestine's movement has called for a general strike across the occupied west bank on tuesday in protest against israeli aggression prime minister. urging the international community to act to end the violence in gaza and. on to other news in the indian prime minister narendra modi is being accused of cracking down on criticism after dozens of people were arrested in the capital but put up posters asking why vaccines were sent abroad earlier this year instead of being used in india police say they were arrested for defacing the wall. with more now from new delhi. you are seeing
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is a significant dip in 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 will go on one of the states that held elections in april has announced a fresh 2 week strict lockdown and in terms of debts more than $4100.00 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 serve it announced that it is going to be ramping up testing and trying getting a better sense of how many cases there really are the more the government has also announced that there will be it 3 medical system in the local villages and towns so
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really getting primary health care centers and schools to start helping with isolating and treating milder covert cases. of the u.k. is taking a major step toward snowman see this monday coronavirus restrictions are being eased across england wales most of scotland which means pubs restaurants cinemas and sports venues are among the businesses being allowed to reopen it was a complete lifting of the carpet 90 measures is due in june john hope has more on that story from manchester. people can now meet and mix indoors eat and drink in groups of up to 6 for up to 2 households i'm in manchester as you said in a pub or restaurant and you know these are pretty substantially unusual seems now very welcome of course to businesses and to punters alike they haven't been able to do this for months and it's not just hospitality there it's all indoor venue so that's gyms cinemas theatres galleries sports stadia as well international travel these back all now albeit on
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a pretty limited basis planning as ever with corona virus there's a catch the government has allowed all of this to happen on a shared tool but with fingers firmly crossed behind ministers backs and in the face of warnings from prominent scientists and that's all to do with this very 1st discovered in india the so-called indian variant considered much more contagious will be nobody quite knows how much more contagious it's present in localized clusters up here in the north west in the midlands also in london and there are containment measures in place to try and keep it there the big worry is if the indian variant is allowed to spread more widely it could provoke a 3rd wave of infections this time focused on the young unvaccinated those who also have decided for whatever reason not to get vaccinated so a real worry there prompting the prime minister on monday to tell the nation look get out there embrace your freedoms again but do so with a heavy dose of caution in other words enjoy it but don't enjoy it too much.
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taiwan is banning foreigners from entering the island following a surgeon to run a virus infections more than $300.00 tases reporting on monday taking the total to just over 2000 since the beginning of the pandemic a new social distancing measures are also being introduced taiwan a population of about 24000000 people and it has been widely praised for containing the outbreak. southwestern india is bracing for impact as a severe site clone heads towards the country's going to tell you it's already caused heavy rain flooding killing 6 people the storm is expected to hit good out state early on tuesday nearly 2 and a half 1000 rescue workers have been deployed across the west and south of india joe hong kong media tycoon jimmy lies in court for a new trial along with 9 other pro-democracy activists they're charged with incitement to authorized and authorized i should say assembly for their roles in
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the 29000 protests march trading in lies companies been suspended on hong kong stock exchange 2 days after the hong kong government froze his assets under the national security law it's even steven vines a writer and broadcaster who says hong kong as a result is no longer a safe haven for businesses to operate without government intervention. i think it's immensely significant even in though we knew that the national security law had these enormous sweeping powers to do more or less anything that the authorities want to do it was commonly assumed that as far as the commercial sector was. they wouldn't be applied to interfere with business so to speak now we know that isn't true and we also know that once it's happened once the likely a lot of it happening again is quite considerable and for a place like home countries and international business center the idea that your
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assets would suddenly and without. any detail research be frozen is sending a big show down the spines of people who are doing business some people say and some people are already saying oh well jimmy lie is a well know if the chinese are far to dislike him intensely you know as long as you keep your nose clean you really don't need to worry about this but if they think about this for just one second they'll realize that can't possibly be true because one of china's largest businesses. which is run by jack bauer who's a communist party member has been encountering not problems of this magnitude but of very considerable magnitude and so even if you know close of the coming this i don't know running a very big business the chances of the off thought is intervening and preventing that business from operating in a normal way very considerable. u.s.
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secretary of state antony blinken here addressing the situation in israel and palestine just if he's fully side by side with people from all unities able to live in dignity. this is a topic of conversation with with the foreign minister today because denmark in the united states our allies in. partners on virtually every major issue facing our countries facing the world facing our citizens and i think you can see the strength of that partnership in our shared commitment to democracy and human rights and i commend denmark for last week's successful democracy summit which illustrated how deeply the danish people feel like the american people about free and open societies that empower all of our citizens and we look forward as well to working together in the months ahead as we work on our own democracy summit in the united states i think the partnership is evident also in the very close economic ties
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including a robust trade relationship and of course cooperation on climate denmark is a world leader in both its green ambitions and its green technology especially wind energy as prime minister of highlighted at the leaders' summit just a couple of weeks ago that she participated and. we're proud of our new partnership with denmark on decarbonising the shipping sector and we look forward to working together to set even higher climate ambitions drive innovation invest in renewable energy and help vulnerable communities adapt and build their resilience more broadly we work together across an incredibly broad range of diplomatic and security priorities several of which the the farm and structure our coordinating closely to end the global over $1000.00 pandemic and to build back better so that we have in place a better stronger global health security system to prevent and if necessary
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mitigate the next pandemic. and together we're committed deeply to the nato alliance which we agree is the bedrock of transatlantic security we've had american danish troops serving in us secretary of state is intent. on a trip which was already planned of course he was addressing the middle east. peace process which state they very much conflict between israel and palestine at the moment he said that the u.s. remains greatly concerned by the escalating violence. had journalists and health workers have been put at risk but says the u.s. has been working intensely behind the scenes to bring the violence to end and u.s. secretary of state and blinken and. just to update you on what is actually happening on the ground israel continuing its.

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