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the city. we need to take america try to bring people together trying to do what people left behind. more airstrikes on the threats to target schools israeli israel the israeli bombing of gaza and says a 2nd week. of their on how my hitting and this is all just live from doha also coming up from hospital beds to electricity to water people in gaza real want to show surgeons.
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not scaring up some desperate villagers and will india take makeshift steps to care for covert patients. and celebrations in chile as left wing causes when a majority of votes are we rights the dictatorship era constitution. now we begin in gaza where palestinians are spending yet another day under sustained wind bartman splays really artillery despite international calls for calm . 200 people including 59 children have been killed in the past week the severe damage to infrastructure and water and fuel supplies are all running dangerously low thousands of people have been left homeless and israel has warned the un that it plans to bomb 2
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schools currently be used as shelters or here ambulances ferry injured how seriously the crossing into egypt's conflict enters its 2nd week costs and goals are overwhelmed officials say also spittles will run out of critical supplies in the coming days. here in ireland which i urge all the free people around the world to support a municipality of the gaza strip the people of gaza that support will help us provide the services needed here they need to continue living here the gazans must always be here yes we're going to team a correspondent standing by for you to bring your the very latest developments kimberly says at the white house you know abraham is in ramallah herefore so it's this in west jerusalem but 1st let's cross live to sami abu salim he's in gaza with people who've been displaced by that bombing sami what have they been telling you.
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yes we have just hear the bombing. around us now we are on the one school and we have here bombing just like. south of gaza city. people who are playing. even while thinking this is school as a shoot they were terrified then they. came back to play again actually from their morning from time to time we hear explosions they are. getting. it's in gaza city and across the gaza strip. that now that's in. we have just received some families who are arriving because. people are still evacuating their houses after the to avoid or to avoid bombing. the problem here one of the new problems here and according to
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to their families with a shortage of medication some people who are some people are suffering chronic diseases like kind of like renan funeral or. things like this. the building i have just heard according to local and he was very upset that it is . garbage received notification from the army field and that we are going to hit this this is important point why because most of the houses we have met the owner and this is a bit into the sea especially those people lost their families inside i have called i have just called one of the families there. for i talked to a man who lost his wife and his 3 children and he told me he was playing with them and when bombing began to hit the area without any need to pick
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a shoe and talk to some people who also risk you're alive after bombing their house they said. i talked to several more than 3 people who lost their beloved and lost their houses the affirmed and the at that it could that they received not notification from the israeli army another point regarding the milliken political issue some wanted people have been moved to egypt because of the crowded hospitals here is so they are looking for treatment in different in a different place. ok this means that. a fair shortage of food. disposables and medications inside the hospital itself ok yes a very very tense situation there inside gaza with supplies clearly running low and homes being bombed without notification being given. live from gaza
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thank you for bringing us those updates let's take you over no question receive them harry force that is there for us harry we've heard what the situation is like in gaza how are things that israel. well the rocket attacks from gaza have continued through the day there have been several fairly strong. including the impacts that you saw earlier in ashdod and also in ashkelon there of that that has also come under attack 3 light injuries reported from southern israel so far as well as that the israelis are talking about their strikes on gaza continuing to say that they are military targets including 100 kilometers of tunnels and the senior commander in the north from palestinian islamic jihad having been killed the it's a common all violence is still
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a story here although it has been somewhat relenting in recent days but one of the early victims of that a jewish man from the city of lud who was attacked by palestinian israelis after the day after a palestinian israeli was also killed he has now died in hospital from his wounds so that remains a major issue for the for the israeli government and for israeli society and all the indications are that certainly there is more pressure on the israeli government to try to come to a cease fire it does seem to be very much israel's decision whether to start proper negotiations and start to bring this to an end however the public communication from the israeli government remains that they are maintaining these military strikes that they are not yet ready the prime minister benjamin netanyahu in an interview with american television saying that he hoped it would come to an end but not immediately that hamas could not expect immunity for launching its rockets and
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for now the strikes would continue to carry false life for west jerusalem harry thank you very much indeed the prime minister of the palestinian authority spoke earlier today with chairing a cabinet meeting his fatah party has called for a general strike across the occupied west bank on tuesday mohammed. thanks members national community for condemning the killings in gaza but he said more must be done. behalf. must. must be there. must be some of the. presentation.
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in ramallah in the occupied west bank and you know what's happening where you are. the u.s. deputy assistant secretary for israel and the palestinian issues has arrived this morning he's met with house to me and officials as well as the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and according to a statement carried by one for the official news agency it says the president has urged the u.s. to intervene and pressure israel to stop what he called its aggression of palestinians in the besieged gaza strip and in occupied east jerusalem and all and in all of the occupied west bank as well as the statement that the u.s. envoy has also said that they were interested in the escalation but we've been asking officials how are they viewing this us. and how they're viewing the
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international community's reactions and they say that a lot more should be done their bit disappointed their responses that they've been seeing so far and we've heard just now from the palestinian prime minister saying that condemnation is not enough he's been saying also that countries should call their bluff so there is we call. there a bus there is an israel at least for consultations he's saying that also he wants the un to take more sanctions and that against israel and that the palestinians are asking the united nations general assembly to could be now in the streets palestinians say that they don't even believe that these diplomatic efforts are going to be to deescalation and if it does it's probably going to be related to this round of violence why that is the underlying conditions which are. greedy the israeli occupation are still going to be there this is why they say they want to take to the streets tomorrow on tuesday they've been asking shops to close
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and everyone to have to protest and confrontation points in this and participate in this general strike so far many syndicates have said that they're going to be joining in shops are going to be closing and now the palestinian government says that it's asking all its employees to be pretty disappointing in the general strike on tuesday ok need to abraham that live from ramallah need to thank you very much indeed cross the road our to our white house correspondent kimberly how for some reaction was happening in the united states. kimberly the u.s. is clearly calling for calm but not a ceasefire. yeah that's correct and this is really been noted that in the united states that there's been a bit of a measured foreign policy approach when it comes to the biden administration and well the biden administration has repeatedly said that there is
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a belief that there should be an equal measure of security for both israelis and palestinians you have to remember that the united states gives billions of dollars each year to the israelis but not the palestinians when it comes to military support so it is hardly equal measure when it comes to allowing them to have the tools to defend themselves and this is certainly something that has been noted here in the united states and around the world as the israelis continue their airstrikes and there are some new questions too about the intelligence around that building that was toppled that house journalists including al jazeera as the secretary of state speaking at european rather at meetings in europe said that he has not seen any intelligence that would suggest that there were in fact have lost leaders or hamas operating in that building despite claims by the israeli military take a listen further we call on all parties to ensure the protection of civilians
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especially children to respect international humanitarian law to protect medical facilities protect media organizations and protect you and facilities where civilians are desperately seeking shelter and we are ready to lend support if the parties seek seek a cease fire. and we'll kimberly's is certainly the. lincoln has actually said in a statement that they hadn't seen the evidence the prime minister netanyahu was clean and he presented to them. when it came to bombing our offices but in terms of also happening within the united states right now i the u.s. president's under a bit of pressure is he not for his policy when it comes to this. violence between israel and the palestinians and a lot of that is coming criticisms coming from those in his own party a walkie tell us about. this is
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a generational division when it comes to support for israel 1st hand in the united states particularly the democratic party older democrats like joe biden have this sort of unwavering support for israel regardless of its actions but younger more progressive further left democrats are not feeling this way in fact we saw this loud and clear from house members like alexander ocasio cortez last week who essentially accused by an administration of siding with the occupier not the victims the palestinians in this ongoing violence but now we're seeing also some strong remarks coming from the senate side of the u.s. congress as well in fact 28 democrats in the u.s. senate the upper chamber of the more powerful body of the u.s. congress sending a letter saying they are calling for an immediate ceasefire notable that something that we've not seen from the biden administration thus far so there are some
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concerns about hypocrisy among some democrats who say this is really an issue of racial injustice and we should point out this is an administration that's been very vocal when it comes to the rights of those who are having their human rights violated in fact the secretary of state or one of his 1st foreign policy speeches to diplomats in the state department early on so that human rights would be a foundation of the biden ministrations foreign policy so many people are scratching their heads saying what happened in this case can be large from the white house kimberly thank you. no it's more still ahead here on al-jazeera including step toward a. school of arts restrictions or easter cross much of the united kingdom. and jailed hong kong media tycoon jimmy law is in court for a new trial is accused of inciting pro-democracy protests and $29000.00.
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now the seasonal rain that you would expect to see structured from child to japan is there the orange centers for juice that suggest the heavy adverse waves up and down and it when she moves north into south korea even north korea and the central part of china but for the time being if the next few weeks is going to cause flooding throughout the yangtze valley the pearl river valley and generally any loaded areas in china it's meant to do that it produces if you like the spring fertilizer and this rain is like hit home shoot the tokyo where i think later on wednesday this is all part of a system which of course also brings the monsoon rains up to india and as it comes in the monsoon rain often produces cyclops and here is one and it's a big one that's his track of the last few days it came very close to go and it's
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caused damage all with the coast from carolus recount like a to go when strong enough to bring down trees obviously flooding street flooding and around the coasts the waters well of its course and damage here and the waves are big there have been desk reported as a result of this and that's not the worst of it is still strengthening and at its height it will come very close to go drop that it will make landfall join the dark hours they will keep going up to will rogers stands the storm still viable so apart from flooding go big waves and a storm surge. from . talk to al-jazeera we are skipping along with who were attacking wrecking ago and now they're attacking everyone in myanmar do you regret words like that when we listen absolutely nigeria with a woman president it would be great we meets with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera. holding the powerful to
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account as we examine the u.s. its role in the war on al-jazeera. the. plan. this is out is here a quick reminder of the top stories this hour israel is continuing its bombing raids across the gaza strip despite international calls for calm in the trees warned the u.n. that it plans to bomb 2 schools he says accommodation for refugees 200 palestinians and 59 children have been killed in the past week at least 8 israelis been injured by work at far from gaza buildings were hit in our shots and beer sheva 10 israelis
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have been killed since the escalation began. your sexual state and sleep lincoln has reiterated washington stance that israel has a right to defend itself against fox tax from hamas and has called on both sides to do more to deescalate the situation and respects international law. indian prime minister narendra modi's being accused of cracking down on criticism after dozens of people were arrested in the capital they put up posters asking why vaccines were censored broad's earlier this year instead of being used in india police say they were arrested for the face in walls and it's opened for all ages says resigned from the government's coronavirus advisory group that look since in you very and shahid jamiel had accused the government of not paying enough attention to more contagious strain of the coronavirus despite want to buy sets in march and he wrote in the new york times that scientists are facing stubborn
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resistance to policymaking that's based on evidence it's hours following the story from new delhi. you are seeing 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 western goal one of the states that held elections in april has announced a fresh 2 week strict lockdown and in terms of debts more than 40 $100.00 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
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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 tier medical system in the local villages and towns so really getting primary health care centers and schools to start helping with isolating and treating milder covert cases. so i wanna spending foreigners surrendering the arlen's for when the surgeon coronavirus infections $300.00 cases reported on monday taking it to schools just over 2000 since the beginning of the pandemic these social distancing measures are also being introduced time one is population of around 24000000 people and history widely praised for containing the outbreak. turkey is slowly coming out of a total loss on wall street strictures were lifted on monday as those some like we can't look sensible continued wrestle santa has more from istanbul this is the 1st day of the reopening of the country after 17 days of a complete lockdown coffee is
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a restaurant or so will be a costumer's and strewed when there is are back in business selling souvenirs and food. they don't think the business is not at the level we want to get back to that level the restrictions must be completely lifted cafes are not fully operational and people are not feeling comfortable outside yet turkey entered a full lockdown after all $29.00 after a surgeon one of iris cases with daily cases topping around $60000.00 after the complete lockdown sent leaders of the complete lockdown the cases drew up all around the country and the works initially ruled out continues and many in the country are hopeful that that was the last lockdown they have endured and with the reopening of the country it will have an economy recovery as their business has been remarkably a factor by locked down well i could almost say we're hoping the business gets better soon once restrictions are all gone there will be more people around and
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business will recover and of course more importantly tourists they're the ones who feed our business the normalisation will be gradual as limited logon will remain in place until june 1st but now people are expecting a reduced measures with more mobility will have their business especially as head of the tourism season as turkey heavily relies on tourism revenues which had suffered from a significant loss last year. much of the united kingdom is taking a major step towards no malice in the spawns a coronavirus restrictions are being eased across england wales and most of scotland's farms restaurants cinemas and sports venues are among the businesses being allowed to be open their doors. a complete lifting goal with 1000 measures is due in june jonah home is in manchester where many people are making the most of their new freedoms. people come in able to do this for months very good news of course for business owners and for customers alike and it's not just hospitality
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all indoor venues are now allowed to reopen so that's jim's cinemas galleries museums sports stadiums of course international travel is back on albeit on a pretty limited basis but as is so often the case with this corona virus there is a catch and ministers are watching all of this with fingers firmly crossed behind their backs that's because of the variant the new variant 1st discovered in india the so-called indian variant considered way more contagious albeit they don't know quite how much more contagious now is present in localized clusters in various parts of england there are containment measures in place but the real concern is that this reopening provokes a 3rd wave of infections particularly if that but very very and is able to escape those localised clusters and it would put at risk this time the very young and those unvaccinated all those who have decided for whatever reason not to be vaccinated so some cause for concern there the prime minister boris johnson warning
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people on monday morning to you know go out and enjoy these newfound freedoms again but to do so he said with a heavy dose of caution in other words don't enjoy the war too much. so 1st india's bracing for impact says a severe cycle head steward's the country cycle has already caused heavy rains and floods and kids the 6 people storms expected to head out states on tuesday with 2500 rescue workers sippin deployed across the west and south of the country. several african leaders are in paris for a summit hosted by french president zuma no macro high on the agenda is how to help sit on as it emerges from years of authoritarian rule delegates including sedans transitional leader or focus on encouraging investments and developing its economy sudan is facing a severe financial crisis after years of isolation due to u.s.
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sanctions that were recently in the fit's that's clear is in paris and has the details. well the french president. has been a greeting delegates and heads of state here in central paris for a summit that aims to says the elites a help to john in his transition to democracy are after decades of authoritarian rule now one of the main elements of course is trying to help the economic crisis in sudan without upholstered economy says it can be no peaceful democratic transition in the future so the leaders heads of state are gathering african heads of state sudanese delegates as well as the french president will be discussing ways to help sudan's economy they are looking at ways that perhaps a dance nearly $60000000.00 external debt could be a white debt relief we've already heard that france is offering 1500000000
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a bridging loan to saddam will help pay off its i.m.f. debts that could also be added to our other breaking loans that the u.s. and the u.k. have ready put in place for sudar but also it's very important say sudanese leaders that this is not a summer it's about donations or handouts this is a summit also try and see if there are ways to encourage more international investment in sudan to open up the country to international banking. childes hong kong media tycoon jimmy law is in court for a new trial along with 9 other pro-democracy activists charged with incitement to assembly for their votes in the $29.00 to protest march. company has been suspended among kong stock exchange 2 days served in the territories government proves his assets under a 2 national security lol. left wing candidates of won the majority in
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a historic election the delegates who will be rights constitution a record number of independents been elected to the 155 member body and math america edison the see a new man reports now from santiago. de mint getting the tactics of an election like no other chile has seen marked by hope and a neatly dose of uncertainty the chileans voted overwhelmingly for a left wing delegates to write the new constitution dealing a bitter blow to the governing conservative coalition that had bet on of taining enough seats in the upcoming convention to block radical changes. if what. 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
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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 klan meanest and that could give their candidate 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 luisa 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 that one man of the. others a bitter over the voter turnout especially among young people which was much lower
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than expected i guess here but i see i mean. 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. this is on to syria and these are the headlines israel's continuing its bombing raids across the gaza strip despite international calls for calm the military has warned the u.n. that it plans to bomb 2 schools used as accommodation for refugees 200 palestinians including 59 children have been killed in the past week at least 8 israelis have been injured by a rocket fire from gaza.

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