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hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha with continuing coverage of the israel palestine conflict now into its 2nd week the latest round of rockets fired from gaza into southern israeli cities as injured at least 17 people . international diplomatic efforts to get to make much headway u.s. president joe biden the spoken with israel's benjamin netanyahu and expressed his support for a cease fire. the conflict between israel and hamas has gone into a 2nd week as mounting s. trikes push the death toll past 200 mostly palestinians in gaza there is no end in sight to the cottage for gaza's 2000000 residents with diplomatic efforts to reach a cease fire all but stalled. this was the gaza skyline in the last hour we saw a huge explosion from an israeli airstrike there's also been bursts of palestinian

rocket fire. israel destroyed a building that housed gaza's religious affairs ministry and killed a senior islamic jihad 15 kilometers of hamas as tunnel network also targets is and there was severe damage to councils red crescent office in central gaza will cause a system foreign minister tweeted images of the attack which killed 2 palestinians and injured 10. called on israel to stop terrorizing civilians 212 palestinians have been killed in the conflict including 61 children all more than 1400 people injured hospitals in gaza are overwhelmed or running low on critical supplies some people are being sent across the border to egypt for treatment there are severe shortages of electricity and water. and palestinian

armed groups of 5 more rockets from gaza into southern israel injuring 17 people residential towers were struck in the cities of ashdod and beersheba sending people wanting to nearby bomb shelters more than 3000 rockets have been fired towards israel many are intercepted by israel's air defense system and hundreds of inside gaza. reports critically desperate and dangerous situation for families. 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. the narrative got in for. we were sitting at home my wife children and i almost sitting in the same room we have 3 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 but couldn't find them the ambulances could not reach the area for power now on but it was too light 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 a multi-story building was hit in central gaza on monday people visibly shaken shocked and in fear israel says it targets buildings used by hamas or other armed groups claims that often go unproven sometimes residents a warrant to evacuate the premises by a roof knock which amounts to an initial small explosion indicating that israeli forces are planning to destroy into buildings. but warning shots or not the suffering caused to civilians living there is own told. 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 works 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 motives. 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. from leg makes it more secure. i think at the moment nowhere in gaza is secure but hopefully

all actors involved in the fighting will respect the blue color of the united nations but safety here is not guaranteed during the 2014 war several un facilities was shelled 44 people were killed including 10 staff. in west jerusalem. a father in gaza who filmed his efforts to calm his children has been killed by the strike on lancy recorded this video just days before his death the recording has been widely shared on social media he could be seen comforting his distressed daughters during bombardments telling them not to worry and to keep playing. xanana could i fancy go for another day how would he do on the how is a mobster would you put her seamus in a box been to hell and if you beat her if you keep suppose i was i think and i've been shot. him in the middle of the of the day i

looked at the show. i think he's pretty pretty pretty satisfied that there. are lots of posts that a certain amount. of them are. so as the situation with gaza grows more dire pressure is building on the u.s. to encourage its ally israel to agree to a cease fire washington has been blocking efforts of the un security council to even come up with a joint statement on the violence in iran com reports now from western missile. would leave the side backing down israeli and palestinian officials are using tough language that presents a problem for a diplomatic solution on sunday the u.n. security council was reportedly unable to issue a statement due to a u.s. veto it's the 3rd time that has happened this week one person involved in the talks

told out is there that egypt jordan the u.n. and others are all pushing for a breakthrough but it's unlikely anything will happen in the immediate future on monday french president have on your mccraw an egyptian president of the c.c. met at a conference on sudan for the egyptian president events that were firmly on his mind saying that he was urgently working on efforts to resolve the conflict. for the current situation we are working urgently and clearly for the return of calm and the end of violence and killing that is taking place we are exacting efforts and will do so there is always hope and hope with all of us moving together to end this conflict in ramallah palestinian prime minister. spoke to reporters urging the u.n. to act and asking friendly countries to withdraw ambassadors from israel. speaking enough. to have declarations.

must be. illegitimate again this. must be there again as well. but with no breakthrough the u.s. is reiterated its position with the secretary of state and the blinken insisting israel has a right to defend itself palestinian politicians say this isn't self-defense if you ask the residents of gaza they would say what the remains to be done is to drop a nuclear bomb into gaza the amount of attacks the scale of before cities the amount of ammunition that's been deposed is beyond belief beyond imagination but there's israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu issued a warning to us we're trying to degrade hamas as term stability and to degrade

their will to do this again but with no breakthrough in diplomacy the conflict has carried on the question now is not whether all parties involved can get diplomacy back on track but whether there is even a hope for a long term diplomatic solution. is there a western slope turkey's president or one says that joe biden has bloody hands for approving weapons sales to israel and the us president is coming under more fire from members of his own party to house democrats. simply wrote truth as she reaches an activist claiming the pipe miss cheering on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in committee in the committing of war crimes are xandra a cacio of cortez shed video of the destruction of the al-jazeera office in gaza a wrote that it was happening with the support of the united states and iran omagh quoted independent senator bernie sanders saying that it was illegal for the u.s.

to support human rights violations but white house press secretary james psaki insists they're working hard behind the scenes. 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 let's get more from 0 to 0 as john hendren who joins us now live from washington president by the spoken to israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu in the past few hours what we know of what was said in that phone call. well president biden has responded to

a number of his democratic party critics by doing exactly what they wanted him to do and that is to call out for a cease fire in a readout written by the white house press office after the meeting with netanyahu over the phone the press office there says that biden specifically said although he supports the right of israel to defend itself it ended with a statement with him saying the president supports a cease fire well among the critics that you were showing there earlier was omar a congresswoman who began her tweet after that by simply saying finally the president had received heavy criticism not just among those in the u.s. house of representatives which tends to be a bit more liberal on the democratic side but also by a majority of u.s. senators who are democrats who had signed a letter calling for the president to offer as ceasefire and he has consistently said he has supported israel's right to defend itself and he's consistently

condemned the hamas rockets raining down on israel at one point saying that israel's response was not disproportionate but there have been several days of airstrikes since then and now israelis palestinians people on both sides of this conflict are waiting to see if the u.s. president's response will make a difference. john many thanks indeed opposite as john 100 live for us in washington. the rest of the day's news still to come here on al-jazeera the head of the world health organization horns of what he calls vaccine a past age. and britons are allowed back into pubs and restaurants as a more contagious variant threatens to spoil the party. it's time for the perfect gentleman the weather sponsored point qatar airways.

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. hello again this is al-jazeera the main news this hour. the conflict between israel and hamas has gone into a 2nd week of mounting airstrikes pushed the death toll in gaza to at least 212 israeli attacks and destroyed a building that housed darcis religious affairs ministry and killed the city of commodity of islamic jihad. palestinian armed groups of 5 more rockets from gaza into southern israel injuring at least 17 people residential towers were struck in the cities of ashdod beer sheva sending people wanted to nearby on shelters. pressure is building on the u.s. to encourage its ally israel to agree to a cease fire on sunday washington again blocked efforts of the un security council

to come up with a joint statement on the violence. khaled abu siobhan is a humanitarian worker and palestinian citizen he reacted to washington's decision to block a joint un statement. for me as a palestinian it 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 exists 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 right 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 corner ourselves we we believe that we are being targeted with this u.s. funded f. 34 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 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 over children count for nothing the only think that counts for the so-called free war unfortunately is only the israeli lives. already been facing serious polish

shortages before the conflicts no electricity officials warning of a complete blackout of more fuel doesn't come in soon. but. 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 graphic out there and we're now trying to contain the local market to conserve as much power tools possible there's enough for one to 3 days maximum that's why we need solutions within the next few days the us secretary of state says that he hasn't seen any intelligence from israel to justify saturday's attack on a gaza town housing media outlets including al-jazeera spiro the israeli military claims that hamas was operating from within the office building israel has a special responsibility to protect civilians in the course of its self-defense and that most certainly includes journalists. you said that you requested additional information have you received it 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 thousands of yemenis have gathered to show their support for the palestinians that are modern israel stop its attacks on gaza are also calling for a boycott of israeli and american goods who the rebels who are allied with hamas called for the demonstration protesters also burnt israeli flags while chanting against the u.s. and israel. the nia. in the palestinian issue is a humanitarian political an essential issue for arab and islamic nations and therefore it is right must be supported by all peoples in all countries of the world so our message is to stand and support the palestinian cause and its resistance in gaza. stifling press

freedoms by freezing the assets of media tycoon. he's been a leading voice in the territories pro-democracy movement you reports from beijing . as activists and media tycoon jimmy lie appeared in court on charges related 282-9000 protest all of his assets were frozen and shells from his company's 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. 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 employers 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 personnel of its rule the companies and financial and ali baba . punished by chinese regulators after founder and billionaire jack ma criticized the country's interest. to chinese companies not to cross the pond. jimmy lie and 9 others pleaded guilty in court on monday to charges of an authorised assembly in october 29th. supporters say the law is being used to silence all those who dissent from the government not just hong kong but the whole

world is watching and people are very concerned. ly is also under investigation for colluding with foreign powers and in danger national security charges that can carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. al-jazeera beijing france has announced that it will wipe $5000000000.00 of debt owed by sudan in an effort to help the transitional government rebuild the economy on monday president of. a summit with several african nations in paris high on the agenda was how to develop sudan of the years of authoritarian rule and political turmoil sudan is struggling to emerge from u.s. sanctions that were recently lifted. the head of the world health organization has described the disparity between vaccine rollouts and wealthier countries and poorer nations as

a form of apostate to address. says the gap is huge he's called on manufacturers to make jobs available for the burble vaccine sharing scheme more quickly. as you know. the nation but for the vice president of the world. and no. almost the world is for leisure but this is the. huge affair cyclon has blasted ashore in western india disrupting the country's response to its to have a staging covert 19 outbreak cyclon to cross the coast and to go to a state where it's being described as the most powerful storm in 20 or 30 years coastal towns reported sea levels swelled as high as 3 meters reported winds of

more than 130 kilometers per hour it will compound pressure on hospitals that are overwhelmed by a coronavirus surge that's killed at least or is killing at least $4000.00 people a day turkey's government has announced a pandemic relief fund totaling more than half a $1000000000.00 to help struggling businesses taxi drivers restaurant workers musicians are among those who receive a one off payment of $600.00 tough lockdown restrictions were east on monday measures have been tightened in april after new daily cases sort of up to $60000.00 a my time curfew will remain in place until the beginning of next month. has more now from istanbul. this is the 1st day of the reopening of the country after 17 days of a complete lockdown coffee is and restaurants are serving the acosta mares 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 various cases with daily cases topping around $60000.00 after the complete lockdown sent leaders of the complete lockdown the cases there were 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 guess it'll mostly we're hoping the business gets better soon once restrictions are all gone there will be more people around and business will recover and of course more importantly tourists they're the ones who feed our business the normalization 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 out of the tourism season as turkey heavily relies on tourism revenues which had suffered from a significant loss last year. people are now free to go back inside in the pubs and restaurants or struction. but the new covert time team various started to fight in india is threatening to put the brakes on more easing his job the whole reports from manchester. 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 both the 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 localised vaccination campaigns will keep the so-called indian variant in check as scientists warn of a possible 3rd wave of infections. that means evidence if eating to start. out what was actually but the day after day thursday so with love in a bottle day. and everything so yeah it's great i'm not going out now sort of knows how long. so it's been it's been out on me but now my. so. what remains are social distancing squaring and hand-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 urged people to embrace their newfound freedoms but to do so with a heavy dose of caution join

a whole al-jazeera manchester chillies currency and stock market have taken a sharp hit after the government failed to secure enough seats on a body that could guide the nation's future president sebastian pinera center right coalition one just one in 5 seats on the panel that will rewrite the constitution independent candidates picked up most of the votes 2 of the world's largest media companies are set to merger deal worth $43000000000.00 u.s. telecom giant 80 and t. says that its war media business will be combined with discovery bringing together h.b.o. c b b the food network and other brands. it is good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera. the conflict between israel and hamas has gone into

a 2nd week as mounting airstrikes pushed the death toll in gaza to at least 212 israeli attacks of destroyed.