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another day of terror for gazans as israel unleashes a wave of airstrikes on tunnels roads clinics and holds more than $200.00 killed so far $61.00 of them children. thousands of lost their homes have taken shelter in schools around gaza but even these are now at risk of being bombed 7000 people injured after rockets fired from gaza hit these really cities over stalled and bush . and president biden under fire from his own party is the u.s. blocks u.n. statement calling for an end to to the violence. i'm jemma naturist sports a new poll in japan shows that 80 percent of people in the country opposed to me lympics that's organizers still insisted the take a games will take place as planned despite a surge in cave in 1000 cases. there

is been no letup in israel's onslaught on gaza which is now into its 2nd week the military has carried out a heavy a wave of heavy airstrikes even as diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the fighting are stepped up to government schools in gaza currently sheltering people made homeless by israeli airstrikes have been threatened by attack with attack by israel the military gave the warning to the united nations well the israeli onslaught on gaza goes on destroying homes roads and clinics at least $212.00 palestinians have been killed including $61.00 children hospitals and girls are. are overwhelmed some injured people are being sent to egypt for treatment and there are electricity and water shortages and aid agencies are now saying that they're running out of supplies rockets are still holding on israeli towns and cities in the past week 10 people have been killed there including 2 children how the bellamy that begins our

coverage with this report on the plight of civilians in gaza. they fled their homes for safety leaving behind all their belongings not knowing if they will ever return to live there or find a pile of rubble instead for some the loss is immense. for thought we were sitting at home my wife children and i almost sitting in the same room we have free children one is a 9 month old baby all of a sudden the house was hit we couldn't get out then came another strike and the house crumbled over us they were trapped under the rubble i started screaming and couldn't find them the ambulances could not reach the area for about an hour but it was too late my wife and 3 children died. his is a story that has become all too common in gaza this video shows people running for

their lives after multi-story building was hit in central gaza on monday people visibly shaken shocked and in fear. israel says it target is buildings used by hamas or other armed groups claims that often go unproven sometimes residents are warned evacuated the premises by a roof which amounts to an initial small explosion indicating that israeli forces are planning to destroy the building but warning shots were not the suffering caused to civilians living there is on top. as a base journalist you know sayed narrowly escaped death when a car in front of her was targeted in broad daylight without prior notice that there were 4 people in the car 3 of them came out in pieces. embattled prime minister netanyahu has warned that the fighting will continue in full force and it will take time and russia the united nations relief and woods agency has opened 50

schools across the gaza strip for palestinians seeking refuge tens of thousands of people already sheltered there crammed in the classrooms. and other motivations and it's not only the war we have to be careful of the coronavirus how can we protect ourselves and our children. the u.n. agency is expecting more people to come if the blue or blue for a leg makes it more secure than their ordeal i think at the moment no where in gaza is secure but hopefully all actors involved in the fighting will respect the blue color of the united. but safety here is not guaranteed during the 2014 war several un facilities was shelled 44 people were killed including 10 staff for the 0 in west jerusalem. while on monday israeli attacks the store in

a high rise building that housed garza's religious affairs ministry. a senior commander of islamic jihad was also killed and more than 15 kilometers of hamas tunnels have also been targeted the health ministry says a clinic housing the only central laboratory for covert the testing in gaza was bombed and the office of qatar of the red crescent in central gaza was severely damaged with much of gaza's infrastructure severely damaged electricity officials have issued an urgent call for help to get more fuel supplies. if you believe that god i haven't heard that there are many and b. at the locals there is the threat that these companies might stop because current them crossing is closed and petrels expected to come to an end this evening there is a grant from katherine and we're now trying to contain the local market to conserve as much power tools possible so there's enough for one to 3 days maximum that's

what we need solutions within the next few days. kalu joins us live now from gaza suffered as we could hear there i mean beyond obviously the terrible bone barman's and the terror and then the fear of the people of gaza there's also all these pressures now fuel water just making life almost impossible there. yes let's start with the latest now on we here do. 2 separate barrages of rockets of rockets fired by let me get i did let me get a military wing said that they fired 2 barges at the words tell of even short range of rockets sources that ought in retaliation to this initial of the. senior commander today by the israeli air strike. back toward the humanitarian crisis is most of the infrastructure humanitarian infrastructure including electricity

including you know water supply medicine food. so all of this infrastructure according to the officials here has been damaged and needs lots of. the. municipalities said that they have been receiving hundreds of phone calls from people seeking go looking for some water because simply the main types of flies of water have been done as. minister of health as well launching appeals because it's not handle or dealing with the huge number of. injured people arriving to shifa hospital and other hospitals in the gaza strip egypt also will send from tomorrow 65 tons of medical supplies for gaza to help the health sector. to dealing with these waves of injured people cut

them up to saddam the only crossing. for supplying them with essential needs for gaza including medication including food and fuel should be should open exceptionally tomorrow after international pressure on the israelis to allow or to lift some essential. including. the medical supplies and the fuel also for the power station. to come so. back also to school we have been we spent most of the day moving between inside the u.n. schools we have seen or we met with thousands of people. were forced to leave their homes across the border or in the invited areas taking children from you out of schools. breaking old the midges old the preventative measures of.

19 because in the last year the minister of health have been been taking lots of. preventive measures and lots of. structure including keeping distance including the mosque including many other measures to avoid the word the widespread. the outbreak of the cove in 1000 but seeing meeting with people without mosques 50 to 60 people in one room using old much arses world ing or using old furniture or used by others because of emergency conditions means that. it will give a cause another wave of according to the officials of the militia to fill it with this will lead for another wave of cover 19 in fiction or out to break.

the latest terror on the situation. thank you. well 2 senior doctors are among the growing number of people killed in gaza dr mooing ahmed lulu was a 66 year old psychiatric neurologist he was killed in an attack on his home sunday his daughter said their house was bombed without warning dr iman was also killed on sunday the 51 year old was head of internal medicine at all she's a hospital he died along with his family in an airstrike on his home and parents across the gaza strip are trying to comfort their children who are terrified by airstrikes and explosions one such parent is out with mancy who made you tube videos of his 3 children playing games to help distract them.

but. surprisingly little girls terrified there will tragically their father ahmed nancy was himself killed in an israeli bombardment just 2 days after posting that video a friend posted on twitter at least 3 angels lost their father on. and in the last hour rockets have been fired into northern israel from lebanon prompting israel to hit back with artillery shells earlier rockets fired from gaza hit buildings in a number of cities in southern israel on monday injuring 17 people residential buildings were struck in the cities of a dog and bush sending people running to the shelter is built to protect them from

such attacks more than $3000.00 rockets have been fired towards israel many are stopped by israel's r. and air defense system and hundreds have fall in inside gaza itself. well israel meanwhile has continued to build up its military presence at the gaza border ground forces and tanks have been deployed near the israeli city of that all which is less than 2 kilometers from the gaza border fence people living in the area have also been forced to shelter from the exchange of rockets when we hear the sort of rains we have 15 seconds to climb getting in the last days we've been in 60 times maybe more coming here we sleep here in the show. you myself and many people in this area believe that the solution is not by force the solution must be

a peaceful solution and the situation in gaza is terrible humanitarian it's terrible they have no water they have hardly any electricity it's terrible there and until this will be solved somehow there's no chance for peace. well u.s. diplomat had he and that has led palestinian president mahmoud abbas as part of an american effort to deescalate the crisis according to palestinian media a bass asked for the u.s. to intervene in what he called israeli aggression against the palestinian people the palestinian leader apparently indicated that he is ready to work with international negotiations in peace talks and that has also met israeli officials herefore said he is in west jerusalem with more on the likelihood of a cease fire when the security cabinet met on sunday there was some reporting that they were going to discuss moves towards

a cease fire which does seem to be very much israel's decision though if it does want to start talking about terms for ending the violence. is now reporting as yet as to what's being discussed now but yes and you know who is there with his defense minister with the internal security agency chief the mossad intelligence agency chief the army chief and others i think one of the key things to look out for will be the humanitarian situation if the humanitarian corridor or does begin to be opened up into gaza sometime soon that could be a sign that things are starting at least to slow down certainly the americans are becoming slightly more vociferous in public about the urgency for that there was a state department statement talking about talks with the jordanians where both sides were urging for calm in that direction also the national security adviser jake sullivan tweeting that he'd been talking to both his israeli counterpart and

the egyptian government about working quietly behind the scenes but intensively to try to bring an end to the fighting. meanwhile turkey's president says his u.s. counterpart joe biden has bloody hands for approving weapons sales to israel this is biden comes on the more fire from members of his own party over his reaction to the crisis house democrat rushy that simply wrote truth she'd read tweet of an activist claiming biden is cheering on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the committing of war crimes alexandria cortez shared video of that the struction of the al-jazeera office in gaza and wrote that it was happening with the support of the united states how can the biden administration credibly claim to stand up for human rights she asked and the omar quoted independent senator bernie sanders saying it was illegal for the u.s. to support human rights violations it's going now to john hendren in washington

d.c. while we heard some of the criticism there how i guess for flecked of is it all of the wide of criticism that joe biden is under especially from fellow democrats well biden is being criticized by mitch mcconnell the senate republican leader that is to be expected and then as you point out he's been criticized by those members of congress who are known as the squad alexandria cortez omar and the 1st palestinian american member of congress rashida to leave in those words are stronger than we would have heard in the past but what's extraordinary and what's striking right now is that a majority of senate democrats people in the president's own democratic party have signed on to a letter encouraging him to call for a cease fire is soon is possible that's an implied criticism from democrats that he's not doing enough and that has put the white house press secretary jen psaki in

a tough spot trying to defend the white house position this is a little of what she had to say earlier. what our role is is to play the most be as constructive as possible in deescalating the violence bringing an end to the conflict we've done again more than 60 calls over the past week with a range of partners in the region so our objective here our role is not to do political analysis or or or provide motivation for any actions but to take steps we can take as a leader in the world as a as a country with deep relationships in the region to discourage the escalate the violence on the ground john it's not just of the us isn't doing very much it's that it's actively blocking for example the un security council from adopting a joint statement calling for the violence to stop they've done it 3 times in a week what explanation is the us giving for doing this. well the white house says

it's trying to operate through quiet diplomacy but what we've heard on the official statements from both the president and jen psaki the white house spokeswoman are that the president believes that israel is within its rights to protect itself or to defend itself the white house has condemned the rocket strikes from hamas and the president himself said that the attacks by israel were not disproportionate so the white house position seems to be at odds with this idea that it's engaging in a kind of quiet diplomacy that would move both sides to go together of course the white house is not speaking to hamas it's speaking to the palestinian authority and as mitch mcconnell the senate republican leader pointed out a little earlier the palestinian authority doesn't have sway over the mosque so the white house is facing increasing amount of criticism in in the united nations has

often taken israel's side and given them support or in this case many critics would say cover for not taking an action that would pressure israel further so the white house is once again blocking action for the 3rd time in a week on a statement that would call for an immediate cease fire out of the united nations security council and that it was been pressed by norway china and tunisia. john hendren with the latest there from washington d.c. john faine q well khalid the bonn is a humanitarian worker and palestinian citizen he joins us now from gaza city via skype thank you so much for being with us as we're entering week 2 of this conflict week 2 of gaza being on the airstrikes what is your initial reaction when you hear our correspondent talk about the inability for anything to get done of the united nations effectively the the international community standing by and looking on.

the problem is that here what i'm feeling is that it's not they can't it's rather they want for me as a palestinian it hurts me a lot to learn that the united states is blocking our misery here every night here in gaza it's apocalypse it's hell is unleashed on us and unfortunately as gazans we have to go 3 through this over and over again for the lurker of the of the strong will to tackled the root causes of what we are going through to tackle the actual causes of of of why this is collision actually has to take place every time which is the occupation and the human ization of us and everyone is only seems to be concerned about israel's right to defend itself but no one seems to care. even a bit about our rights to defend ourselves against the demonization and the persecution and the occupation that we have to go through everything

a single day of our lives here every day is apocalypse every night hell is unleashed on us we cannot call more children we cannot cormo ourselves we we believe that we are being targeted with this u.s. funded f. 35 of the f. 35 air strikes that can actually target that can destroy a full fledged country like russia let alone besieged country like gaza that have been under blockade for 16 years now. unfortunately count for nothing for the whole war this is what all of the palestinians are feeling at this point our children count for nothing the only think that counts for the so called free want unfortunately is only the israeli lives. you mentioned a little before this system forgive me you mention that this is cyclical this is

obviously not the 1st time it's happened the last time was 2014 gaza is no stranger to attacks this is the 1st time it happens when you are a family man you're a father of 2 girls 5 and 7 tell us a little bit about how you're trying to get on with what i presume you're as presume you're trying to make your life as normal as possible for your little girls but but the difficulties even in going out to get food and the risks that are involved. with as you mentioned i mean this is not the 1st war that we have to experience but this did what's what's different this time is that i am a for the troops to go 7 and 5 years old and to see the future of the war and this is something that. that no human being should ever experience and. just the other day my order girl and she's 70 years old she looked at me and said does god really feel what we are feeling now and of course i answered her but i

started thinking what is the mental state and the wind emotional state that she's going through at this point to be asking such. just such an existential question the other the other gal of mine she's 5 and the 1st day of trade or one of our long awaited festivity each year which marks also the 2nd day of this edition i told her i greeted her with the ied greeting call i want to create and she also answered me why are you doing this to me and i saw all the joy in the life in this kid's head has just vanished because what we are experiencing is just beyond the human being capacity and unlike israel we don't have shelters we don't have sirens we don't have an our own dorm that would and intercept the israeli rockets that are destroyed upon us and we cannot protect our kids and destroy get

is that we need a spare don't always to keep corn just as and to hide our feelings which act which is which are actually fear to hide them in order to maintain our kids call ness and we actually do not we we do not succeed most of the time doing that just the other day after an airstrike that took place we hear people waiting in the street and we get to know that some realty of our bit of our of or neighbors where we're boarded and they were there robins and they are just families just like oh it is and it's extremely hard for us to not imagine ourselves to be in there put. they are not affiliated with anyone the. kids they have kids just like us the husband is a doctor the wife is a housewife and it's very tormenting and extremely frightening to just imagine that

weep it could be any any family in doesn't. humanitarian worker and palestinian citizen. thank you for sharing what is obviously an incredibly painful experience with us thank you. for that the situation that most people in gaza find themselves in how is all of this being viewed in israel akiva eldar is a political analyst who joins us now from tel aviv. first of all from everything you're seeing and hearing politically do you think that there is a chance of a cease fire any time or should we believe benjamin it are now at his word when he says that this will go on if you ask the israeli people the man in the street the unserved will be you know we have once for all to crash the hamas there is

a fall that i just saw on one of the used websites that indicates that only 9 percent of the israelis 'd. want to stop this operation or war 70 percent will support the government until they destroy the hamas this is the answer. 21 percent say that they want it to continue until hamas will beg us for a cease fire so when it comes to publics of all the government is the free ride the only as good full support if you listen to israeli commentators on the mainstream media on national channels the message is we have now it is different must be different that it was in

20142012 now it's about television it's not just the saudis and we can't afford it to happen again so this must be the last operation but it i mean you know it's very unlikely there is going to be the last operation simply because we've been here before we have seen these escalations between israel and hamas in the gaza strip and it's never the solution because of course the problem at the heart of everything has almost got very little to do with gaza and how massive it's just the division of territory and the occupation but why do you think israelis seem to be getting even tougher or stricter on the sez she do you think the lack of any credible peace process has something to do with it. first of all you know people find it hard to take the blame it's much easier to blame the other neighbor. and if. you ask people now in tel aviv why

do you suppose because usually the only people from the center the athlete people who live in the heart of the they have business the capital of israel the business community they would be more careful about using violence but no so it's not just you know over the moon it's not just the saudis than the small communities that are once in a while you get a report from them and you hear about children who are. living in selous know people who are sitting in cafes in tel aviv my granddaughter you know i'm not trying to cope or us to be here 'd but i seen it people i just heard was great empathy. my friend from gaza but my 10 years old granddaughter when she had a lump. we are live in

a suburb of the very. she started crying and she wanted to sleep with her mother in the basement so. now the israelis and it sounds even like a paradox that the occupier is the victim so israel will not give up the right to be their victims in this conflict and i think this is the heart of the problem they don't see any linkage between the occupation the center measure giraffe whatever happens in east jerusalem and what's happening now between israel and hamas they say that it's about palestinian politics because hamas is frustrated since a boomer's and decided to put on hold to postpone the elections and it's because they just hate us and that's why i'm afraid that this is not going to be the last round. let me just put

a very quick point to you we're getting some lines dropping about a call between president biden and benjamin nationale biden reaffirming israel's right to defend itself so similar things that we've heard before our obviously grave concern about intercommunal violence i mean we are seeing a white house that perhaps is not quite as friendly to benjamin and to now as the trump white house used to be but that when it comes to the effect of the ground there any idea of the u.s. even being an honest broker just just isn't present. no you're absolutely right the americans. they look at that then look very keen of jumping into this mud a previously we have this time of 'd. it's longer than one week we will have emergency because their state was boots on the ground so to speak and.

commuting between to the fever and some other you know president biden just i think for the 1st time. president obama. knowhow to ice between. 'd jerusalem and ramallah and these ladies are all used by president trump and i think it's very hard you know for biden to make you know to take 180 degrees and be neutral after 4 years i guess why those poised ready yet not just under an a i mean he doesn't seem to be taking much of a sway in any direction really a cave out there political analyst who joins us now from tel aviv sir thank you for sharing your views with us on this thank you barbara. well the u.s. secretary of state says he has seen no intelligence from israel that shows hamas was using the power housing media including our that was the story to gaza today

israel has a special responsibility to protect civilians in the course of its self-defense and that most certainly includes journalists it's you said that you requested additional information have you received that have you seen it and did you find it credible i have not seen any information provided and again to the extent that it is based on intelligence that would have been shared with other colleagues and i'll leave that to them to assess. you know the news thousands of yemenis have gathered to show their support for the palestinians they demanded that israel stop its attacks on gaza while calling for the boycott of israeli and american goods goods the who the rebels who are allied with hamas called for the demonstration protesters also burnt israeli flags while chanting death to america and death to israel. lots more still to come in this news hour including after being locked down

and locked out in the rain for months britons are finally allowed to go back inside the pubs and restaurants a share market plunge and a government in a shock after chile's constitutional convention election delivers surprise result. and in sports manchester united's manager blames the protests for his side's poor performance. the u.s. u.k. and canada have announced a wave of new sanctions on high ranking me and mar military officials and the businesses that fund them the coordinated sanctions are in response to what they called the gentle violent and lethal attacks against the country's pro democracy movement the u.s. and canada focused on key military officers while britain targeted an exporter of gems including rubies and jade security forces have cracked down on the scent of

the country leaving close to 800 people dead since anti coup protests began. well in me and thousands of people from the north western town of many that have fled an assault by government troops and are now hiding in nearby jungle villages and valleys the army advanced on the town of cheatin in state have to days of battling rebel groups formed in opposition to the joint is bid to consolidate power martial law was the cleared in that on thursday and residents say food is in short supply one person who fled told the reuters news agency the military attacked the group he was hiding with when they spotted smoke from their cooking fire when they send wayne is the co-founder of the free rohingya coalition he joins us via skype from frankfurt in germany thank you so much for joining us some horrific

reports coming out of that area what more can you tell us from an area where it's also difficult to get a lot of information out of. yeah thank you so much for having me here today so i am in touch with the local people from there on the 247 peaceful process total where. detained by the secret you forces so. as the people it meant demand their release their secret force has promised them that they will be released soon but that but they didn't keep their promise and to be 12 so all the people who are stuck fighting back with this secret you forces so they have formed a channel that defense forces this is the inside since you group this is just for the defense they have found this last month so this c.d.f. channel and defense force us are fighting back with their. secret you forces

the military and. foreign ministry so. that the fighting last 3 days from 215 in this 3 to. 6 you who were killed by the secret forces and as yet security forces have been dotting day you and using them as who men she specially on may 15th they have abducted 15 youth and using them as. children different forces stop fighting with their military just for the safety of the people but that but the military is the secretive force has its tail terrorizing the people they are randomly shooting and also they are shelling. and mortar this morning. 10 years old who was hiding inside ha hole was

hit by a. and she's now in the critical condition but there is no medical treatment in that town so they did need to go to the other region since there is the shell or impose this they got no car you know saw horror faded still and known she's in the critical condition so in need of a tone also like. last night you know the military to you including a great great tennis today and what. and lyon for 2 years old man who was inside the halls who was hit by the bullet so this is happening in and he's fluent oh. and. another one. i forgot the name of the top don't.

interrupt you there just for a 2nd because obviously you're painting a picture of just the horrific situation and they say area but of course. protests have been going on since the coup itself so february now i mean do you get a sense of any shift in the balance of power or how would you just briefly assess the situation right now. says the international community's failing to take action against the military regime. as you mentioned earlier you know much more than 800 have been more than 5000 have been arrested you know the military is terrorizing the people and protected even if you live inside your whole although you you go also the same you and brought up that you don't know when you will be killed or daughter all arrested you know so since the international community. especially united nations is failing to invoke their response ability to brought to the people

in myanmar have designed to decide that some of defense so in many places as you know they have farmed the defense forces and also their national unity government for last month they have they have formed their people defense force so there will be there should you know ny sun co-founder of the freewriting a coalition sir thank you very much for telling us about that situation in myanmar that latest development thank you thank you. now jailed hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie has pleaded guilty to a charge of illegal assembly for taking part in a $21000.00 protest march the 72 year old appeared in court with 9 other pro-democracy activists hours after trading in his company was suspended on the hong kong stock exchange between e.u. has more from beijing. as activists and media tycoon jimmy lai appeared in court on

charges related 282-9000 protest all of his assets were frozen and shows from his company next digital the largest listed media company in hong kong were suspended from trading on the territories exchange a notice of the freeze was issued on friday it also applies to the bank accounts of the 3 companies owned by him the pro-democracy activist and billionaire is in jail serving a 14 month prison sentence for taking part in add to government protests his newspaper apple daily has been fiercely critical of beijing hong kong police say lies assets being used to fund an independence movement it's the 1st time authorities have used the national security law which criminalizes subversion to target a listed firm and that's worried investors in the asian financial hub i think this will be another narrative. business and. more than 100 people including some of the territories most prominent democracy activists

have been arrested under the law many have left since it was the borders last june and a recent survey by the american chamber of commerce found that 40 percent of its members were also considering relocating it's not the 1st time beijing has targeted the businesses of those personal of its rules the companies and financial and ali bought that were punished by chinese regulators after found and billionaire jack ma criticize the country's financial system the moves received as a warning to all chinese companies not to cross the corridors. jimmy lie and 9 others pleaded guilty in court on monday to charges of an authorized assembly in october $29000.00 supporters say the law is being used to silence all those who dissent from the government brought to hong kong but the whole world is watching and people are very concerned. law is also under investigation for colluding with foreign powers and endangering national security charges that can carry

a maximum sentence of life in prison katrina you al-jazeera beijing. at least 16 people have been killed by the most powerful storm to hit india in more than 20 years cycle and touted a stuck this struck the state of gujarat forcing more than 200000 people to leave their homes trees have been uprooted in the electricity pylons washed away leading to power outages and some parts of the state ports and the major airports have been shot. and the 1000 indian doctors with medical degrees from russia china and ukraine are urging the government to let them help in the fight against covert 19 they're waiting on local licenses before being allowed to practice and i've asked the authorities to fast track their permits the peak comes this fight warnings that india will soon face a shortage of medical staff in critical care units for the 1st time since april 21 the able to the 1st the number of daily coronavirus infections recorded has

actually dropped to below 300000 but the deaths are still high with another 4106 reported on monday. taiwan is banning foreigners from entering the island following a surge in corona virus infections there more than 300 cases were reported on monday in a country that's only recorded just over 2000 infections since the beginning of the pandemic a new social distancing measures are also being introduced taiwan has a population of around 24000000 people and it's been widely praised for containing the outbreak. turkey meanwhile is slowly coming out of a total lockdown with people allowed to move around more freely from monday a curfew will remain in place from 9 pm to 5 am local time and that weekends restaurants and cafes are still limited to take away services but shopping centers

will reopen during non-chord few hours the government introduced a complete lockdown after the daily infection rates soared above 60000 last month. and some good news corona virus restrictions have been eased across much of the u.k. thanks to a swift vaccination rollout businesses including pubs restaurants and sports venues are now allowed to serve customers indoors but as a whole reports from manchester this comes as a new variant of the virus is starting to spread. another big step in the great reopening of england scotland and wales with northern ireland to follow the resumption of gatherings indoors breathes new life into restaurants bars gyms theaters and cinemas dormant for much of the past 14 months we lost about 33 percent of our membership base through the lockdown but today's been fantastic we

actually had 4 members in the classes so the gym today actually seems nice and busy so that's been a really good reaction to it to reopen properly fans can return to sports venues and limited international travel is allowed it is almost as if life has returned to normal things that we used to take completely for granted like meeting up around a table indoors now feel new exciting and hopefully long lasting but as ever with the coronavirus there's a catch a new variant to 1st discovered in india thought to be far more contagious threatens to derail britain's unlocking plans if it spreads beyond clusters in the north west the midlands and parts of london the early evidence suggests that the $1617.00 is more transmissible than the previously dominant that the early laboratory data from oxford university corroborates the provisional evidence from bolton hospital and the initial observational data from india that vaccines are

effective against this variant and willing to delay the reopening the government has its fingers firmly crossed that surge testing and localized vaccination campaigns will keep the so-called indian variant in check as scientists warn of a possible 3rd wave of infections. that means effigies your freedom to start can't let was actually but the day after day thursday so with of an interview booked all day started everything so yeah it's great i'm up and out now sort of god knows how long. so it's been it's been out on me but now my. remains distancing squaring and and washing the final hole marks of the pandemic set to be abandoned in late june but the new variant brings new uncertainty and prime minister boris johnson has aged people to be embrace their newfound freedoms

but to do so with a heavy dose of caution join a whole al-jazeera manchester. get a chill and now the currency and stock market have taken a sharp hit after the government was just 20 percent of seats on a body that will rewrite the country's constitution presidents have a stand center right coalition needed to secure a furred of the seats to allow it to block radical changes but independent candidates picked up most of the votes calls for changes to the constitution surfaced after protests over social inequality broke out in 2019 while our latin america. joins us live now from some thiago about the government wasn't happy about that just explain to us why the market has reacted this way. well this is much more than just about what the government has lost to leave let me point out is a country that was the most one of the most seismic in the world for what people

here describing what happened on sunday as a political earthquake they know what they're talking about and the complete the political landscape and to be has completely changed after this vote that we're not just talking about the election for delegates to the new constitutional assembly but also the governors america the local officials all across the board the conservatives lost. but more than anyone could ever have imagined and as well as the other bloc that has been governing this country for the last 30 years with. you would both you could call the social democrats that have been in power they have altered alternated over these last 30 years since to be returned to democracy but now we have independents who won the most number of seats who represent progressive or far left wing ideologies but also the communist party did extremely well and young political coalitions that also represent what many

consider to be the far left this is something that that leaves a lot of uncertainty lot of questions up in the air and that's certainly something that the markets as we know don't like and just explain to us clearly what will this actually mean for the presidential elections later this year. well that is the question that is on everyone's lips right now because for example one of the candidates that was being discussed as a possible option was their marriage of everybody that is a county here and this is the greatest time travel area was a communist world his party did so well that now it is and it isn't for the presidency seems like a done deal and he's not the only one the other people whose names have been tossed into the ring belong to parties that did extremely badly so now the question is who will replace them with anyone who is going to lead chile or who would win

a presidential election in october when chile is called the polls so that the future not just of the constitution but of what happens here in the next 4 years is absolutely up in the air so a lot of hope but also a lot of uncertainty. it sounds like it or less an american attitude we see in human with the latest step from sun to get going see a thank you. and still ahead in this news hour in sports australian cricket tourists take the long route home from the indian premier league. and the long awaited win for this 23 time grand slam.

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and now here is gemma with us for thank you barbara a new poll in japan this showing that 80 percent of people in the country believe the take your name picks it should be canceled or postponed organizes all continuing to hold test events and say the games will start a shuttle charge on july 23rd tokyo is under state of emergency due to a surge in $1000.00 cases one in sanaa lathan 8 believes that the strict safety protocols that will be in place may actually improve performances you can congregate in big groups will you get a stand your little bubble of people the whole time and stadium in a little bit that's exactly how i've always treated like it has. experience for me it's all about competition so it's going to be pretty routine people are going to perform it really highly integrated because they won't be the same distractions

that leads some of the different sports base despite the extra safety measures these members of public in japan all feeling richelle what they gathered outside a main train station in tokyo on monday holding up signs and chanting to protest against the games. a group of australian cricketers have finally made it back home following the suspension of the indian premier league the players flew to the motives of 2 weeks ago when the competition was brought to an early end due to coronavirus at the time australia had banned all rivals from india every home to sydney has attracted some criticism with thousands of australians still stranded in the country. graeme attrit must win their final game of the spanish league season to have any chance of winning the title but they'll have to do so without one of their key players that's midfield attorney chris hughes tested positive for cope with 19 the german international has been in isolation since friday after coming into contact with someone who had the virus brough have to win against ferial on saturday and madrid dropped points in their game to be crowned champions after the

news tottenham fans have been dreading at best ostreicher hurricane has told the club he wants to leave at the end of the season came reportedly wants to stay in the premier league and ideally would like his future resolved before he kept in the yuri's next month spurs are likely to miss to miss out on champions league qualification and the 27 year old wants to be competing for europe's top trophies manchester united are one of the club's apparently interested in signing kane and their manager only going to so shut his players have been affected by the fan protests against the club's owners united supporters if he making their feelings known about the glazer family in a series of demonstrations in recent weeks and so shocked says that the protests along with a congested fixture list is to blame for the team losing their last 2 games. just didn't want to used up as an excuse because we lost

a few games would surely it's. recent behind the performances and the results we've got physically it is impossible for them to tune up and play at the intensity at the level that's required. and because i didn't the amount of games 23 time grand slam champion serina williams has won her 1st match in 3 months she accepted a wild card for the emilia-romagna open in palmer and a safe place for the 2nd round sweden on one season the 17 year old qualifier at least 7 after 6362 the italian was actually born 2 weeks of course 3 no one has 6 major title at will but in 2003. roger federer is in his home country of switzerland to play in his 1st tournament since macho the geneva ofen federer had double knee surgery in 2020 and is only played 2 matches so far this year so except his game is probably below the standards of his main rivals the 20 grand slam when

it will then head to paris for the french open at the end of the month. of course there is a question marks all around my level right now you will find out a little more tomorrow. practice things that have been going i mean going well i'm happy there you know when you come back from from an injury you are anyway in a different place than everybody else so. the players are there i'm here at the moment. and peaches again has won it stage 10 of the jhereg italia the slovakian right out sprinted found a governor every year right to take his 2nd stage great victory it's nice ground school columbia's began but now retains the only rule eat right is what i have some time to recover with tuesday the 1st rest day of this is race and it's just as well they have some of the big climbs are coming up in the next week so they're going to be needing all the rest so they can get it is a good looking at it jim

a thank you and that is it for this news hour do stay with us though we're going to be back in just a few minutes with the latest on all the day's news especially the situation in gaza stay with us. i'm perry davies and they came billy and western australia where indigenous communities it's teaming up with scientists to create a new approach to marine conservation the group where you learn everything but the

real stuff on the road with the ball the old rumble. i'm afraid your new reporting from brazil that you're going to tribe is protecting by the versity plough defending themselves against the illegal invaders. does era. for decades criminals made millions trafficking drugs through thailand one of the least explored is why the country has now become the 1st in southeast asia to legalize medical marijuana. on al-jazeera. biz lights made to look like a city from the sky but they're fishing vessels just outside of argentina's exclusive economic zone the united states launched operation southern cross to combat illegal and regulated fishing in the southern atlantic argentina's coast guard say their main task is to control their movements so they do not cross into arjan time territory from this 4 margin time forty's can money for what's happening

in its economic exclusive zones but what authorities here are saying is that what's important is to regulate what's happening in international waters. be the hero world news. washington. another day of terror for gazans as israel unleashes a wave of airstrikes on tunnels roads clinics and homes more than $200.00 killed so far $61.00 of them children and thousands who've lost their homes have taken shelter in schools around gaza of even vs risk of being bold.