the contentious debate public interest in the public safety is definitely not taking precedent an in-depth examination into agri business and the conflicting interests that play industry doesn't want any regulation it is willing to put the products in the market the price of progress on al-jazeera. israeli airstrikes continue into the lives offer a day of heavy gossip bombardment hitting homes clinics and government buildings. hello i'm adrian forgive this is al jazeera live from doha with continuing coverage of the israel palestine conflict is now into its 2nd week international diplomatic

efforts to get to make much headway u.s. president joe biden the spoken with israel's benjamin netanyahu expressed his support for a cease fire. but also ahead india is hit by a powerful sight close as it grapples with a devastating covert by n.t.l. break. the conflict between israel and hamas has gone into a 2nd week has mounting airstrikes pushed the death toll past 200 mostly palestinians in gaza there's no end in sight to the carnage for gaza's 2000000 residents with diplomatic efforts to reach a cease fire all but stalled. this was the gaza skyline in the past few hours a huge explosion from an israeli airstrike that about 30 during their lives but also bursts of palestinian rocket fire.

earlier israel destroyed a building that housed gaza's religious affairs ministry that killed a senior commander of islamic jihad's 15 kilometers of hamas is tunneled that were cool so targeted there was severe damage to consols red crescent office in central gaza 212 palestinians have been killed in the conflict and more than 1400 people injured all spittles in gaza overwhelmed are 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 palestinian armed groups of 5 more rockets from gaza into southern israel injuring 17 people residential taz was struck in the cities of ashdod and bush sending people running to nearby bomb shelters all them $3000.00 rockets a been fired towards israel many are intercepted by israel's defense system

hundreds of full and inside gaza u.s. president joe biden has expressed support for a cease fire during his latest call with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu biden is under growing pressure from members of his own party who accuse him of ignoring the plights of palestinian civilians children reports from washington. after continued israeli strikes on gaza and persistent pressure from his fellow democrats president biden is now calling for a cease fire in a phone call with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu the white house says in his statement the president expressed his support for a cease fire democratic congresswoman ileana omar one of the most persistent critics of the president from within his own party tweeted finally our delay in supporting a cease fire his cause the slaughter of children and destruction of lives now biden has to push for an end to the occupation the white house press secretary has been insisting the biden administration is engaged and why it diplomacy to end the

conflict and reduce palestinian and israeli casualties the president we're making all of our decisions through is how can we help bring an end to the violence and bring an end to deescalate the situation on the ground in march president biden's own secretary of state promised to make human rights the foundation of american foreign policy and the by paris of ministration will stand against human rights abuses wherever they occur regardless of whether the perpetrators are adversaries or partners. critics argue the rights of palestinians who make up the overwhelming number of civilian deaths and injuries in the current conflict are being ignored and biden has failed to roll back most of his predecessor's pro israel policy that he once called destructive the us embassy remains in jerusalem biden has not overturned president trump's recognition of israel's sovereignty over the occupied golan heights biden's foreign policy has also avoided condemning forced expulsions

of palestinians from their homes so far it is a it's a dramatic failure the main reason for that is that the administration was taken by surprise they did not expect this to happen. it's partly a self-inflicted wound biden maintains both israelis and palestinians. are entitled to safety and security in equal measure that's why some members of congress are questioning reports of a recent one sided arms deal $735000000.00 in new weapons to israel some lawmakers argue the sale should be halted until israel stops its military campaign biden has consistently defended israel's right to defend itself and he has repeatedly criticized the hamas rockets raining down on israeli soil at one point saying the israeli assault was not disproportionate but there have been days of air attacks since then. now israelis and palestinians alike wait to see if the american president's call for a cease fire will actually make

a difference john hendren al-jazeera washington rami corey is the director of global engagement at the american university. joins us now live via skype from boston good to have you with us rami this is the 1st major foreign policy test for the. ministration how do you think it stop. oh i give him a c. minus at best not very well certainly not living up to the words his own words on his secretary of state's words when they 1st came into office about promoting human rights and working for peace and justice everywhere. the call for a cease fire by the president which was reported by his staff about a phone call that's about as low intensity as it gets there's nothing really more limp than that in terms of putting on behind your desire for a cease fire so it's not very serious he's doing it because of history when

pressure from democrats in congress is feeling the moral outrage of the world and he's hearing everybody around the world 'd not everybody but many people around the world demanding that palestinians be protected and he sees that the destruction is so disproportionate. and as of course as anything in israel that he just felt he had to say something and what he said was very low intensity hopefully it's the beginning of a more dovish decisive process behind the scenes but we'll have to wait and see the sun of course or came after 3 days of stopping the security council at the u.n. from making a statement so what do you think's going wrong here with the by the ministration and its approach. what's gone wrong is that it has lived up to its tradition of liberal democrats in the white house that's what's gone wrong the united states has managed the mediation process direct me to direct talks between palestinians and israelis for about 40 years almost 3540 years from the madrid

process madrid talks and it has been just about the only mediator has a say only when the israelis will trust them to listen it's one of their other arabs and it has achieved 0 absolutely 0. and it's frightening that many of the individuals who are running the peace process are now speaking out in the media and think tanks as a great on a list of what should be done when they had 40 years on they did nothing so they don't have they don't know how to make peace even handedly but the irony is that the u.s. was able to do that for instance in northern ireland that played a very decisive role and it helped bring about a pretty reasonable peace process so it just there's there's no. have military or willingness off the united states specially democrats but both parties are pretty similar there's no willingness or ability to come right out and say palestinians and israelis have equal and simultaneous rights to statehood sovereignty peace

justice and a decent life they can tell you it's it's chromosomal e politically in their political chromosomes won't let them say that and we've seen it over 4050 years so that's the problem now it's being and it's changing a little bit because there's real pressure coming out of the white house from democrats in congress from public opinion from church groups from universities from labor unions even from the some of the media there's there are some historic but limited changes taking place in the public sphere palestinians are telling their story as never before and the media not just social media but in mainstream media there's a generation of young palestinians between the ages of 20 and 40 who are spectacular at explaining the law explaining the morality explaining the problems and so there's a change happening in the world which is simply demanding equal rights for israelis

and palestinians not revenge not. beating up israel is just justice equal rights and that's i think something that we should take note of and i think the president of the united states finally took note of that but couldn't react to it with the same dynamism by which the process of global rising awareness of the need for palestinians and israelis to have equal rights he couldn't match that but it's a start and i think we should encourage it and then we should but we have to go beyond the cease fire and it's to be a way to address the underlying issues in what the u.s. can be appears to be dithering and it is there another act that could at least. come in here and negotiate an end to this latest crisis. not a single act or no this is one of the problems for various reasons they are peons

the russians people in the middle east nobody can take that role only the united states is trusted by the israelis the us more than trusted the israelis more or less helped shape american policy because of the the arab israeli conflict that tried to shape and visibly iran but they couldn't so they just stuck to palestine but the israelis only will deal with the americans as mediators but the in americans as mediators are serial failures they're chronic underachievers they just don't know how to do it and they don't have the political will or. munition at home domestically to be able to do so than must be in an international effort through the security council through some other mechanism through a special conference like the madrid conference years ago there needs to be people from russia europe the middle east china people whom the israelis trust the palestinians trust i think we're getting close to the point we're not there yet and

we're moving in the direction that the world will then in the seventy's and eighty's was of the south africa and one of the most striking things now is how the word apartheid is used so frequently when talking about what israel is doing its policy to the palestinians and this should scare the daylights out of the israelis if i was a zionist on israeli i'd be very worried and this will continue once the star some started out will continue because long as the israelis keep pursuing their policies of colonization and ethnic cleansing as they're doing now always good to talk to rami many thanks indeed rami corey there in boston. still to come here on al-jazeera the head of the world health organization warns of what he calls vaccine apartheid. at england's pubs and restaurants welcome people back inside but a new code 19 variant threatens to spoil the party.

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people where arrested the listening post covers the way the news is covered on a jersey it on. or. well again this is al-jazeera the bay news this hour. the conflict free trade israel and hamas has gone into a 2nd week as mounting as strikes pushed the death toll in gaza to at least 212 is ready attacks destroyed a building that housed gaza's religious affairs ministry and killed a cd have come out of islamic jihad. palestinian groups of 5 more rockets from gaza into southern israel injuring at least 17 people residential towers were struck in

the cities of ashdod and the sheva sending people running to be had by bomb shelters and u.s. president joe biden has expressed support for a cease fire during his latest call with israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu bidens on the growing pressure from members of his own party who accuse him they can all read the plight of palestinian civilians. at least 61 palestinian children have been killed since the conflict began many others have been injured or lost parents about the road serious of a serious carlopa is how they are reports now on the growing emotional and physical toll for young people. for 7 hours 6 year old suzy was trapped under piles of rubble. her home was hit by an israeli air strike in gaza her mother and 4 siblings died. and hospital she reunites with her father a budget they hold hands facing

a new life without their family that had been up when. i was filled with all the anger of the universe but when i heard that one of my daughters was alive i said thank god because this girl might capture some even a little of my other daughter smile. there's not much room for innocence in gaza play time with their new toys is cut short for the sisters when the sounds of fighting come too close for comfort heavy heavy heavy heavy heart attack that their father achmad muncy made you tube videos that were widely shared on social media to distract his kids from the violence the days after this recording he died in an airstrike oh this boy lost his home. he holds back tears trying to recover some of his belongings. that i made of the wreckage a moment of joy for these children who managed to save their pet fish but experts

fear these fleeting moments of happiness may soon be replaced by a long term trauma my older girl 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 the head but i started thinking what is the mental state and the wind motion instead that she's going through at this point to be asking such a. sister such an existential question the depths of loss can be overwhelming especially for children. you know would feel. i get. i'm not really that much i get i do anything i feel i don't know what to feel just . as bomb strike nearby and this girl prays her repeated recitation is an attempt to drown out the sound of explosions. doctors say suzy will recover from her physical injuries but it's the invisible emotional scars

that may require long term attention to look for civilian targets here. whom is a humanitarian worker rights advocate and rougher in southern gaza she says they are constantly on the run from air raids there's actually no safe place in the whole gaza strip the only thing you can do and what we are doing the minute i think this is collision started that that started we stayed home the only thing we can do is to stay home and if you are targeted what you can do is to be saved is to stay away from the airstrikes happened and it means you have to jump from one area to another and it's almost like airstrikes are chasing everywhere so you can't do anything but run away this is the only way you try to be the closest to being safe in gaza and it's always not the same and some people who have been affected directly and more than other people would go if they lost the house of the area

stop the more they would go to us court another place that is not shipped up. again they can go to this additional difficulty is in addition to a lot of the same difficulties we have living for decades we are pros and we are we receive in my house our own 4 hours of electricity and you have to run to make sure that your you are running or your house or household tasks to make sure that you are addressing your needs for example we need electricity to love water to our water tanks and without that you can't do so it's really a difficult situation and it adds to your feeling for horror because we need to have no electricity sometimes means you have no internet and this is how you are disconnected and this is how you fear more what is happening because you can't anticipate what is happening unless it happens in front of your eyes. affair cyclon has blasted ashore in western india killing at least 21 people cyclists. cross the coast into good survive states on monday and it's being described as the most

powerful storm in decades coastal areas are reporting extensive damage up to sea level swelled as high as 3 meters winds were recorded reaching more than 165 kilometers about serious prompting the tal is live for us now in new delhi probably was the latest for the latest is that the cyclon which made landfall in good rock last night is weakening but it is the med to boston says will continue to cause rainfall in neighboring states so last night the state of good experienced landfall for about a few hours till about midnight some areas also saw winds up to 190 kilometers per hour the storm also brushed past several other western states including or not to talk carolina and mumbai dozens of people are missing and at least $21.00 people have been reported as being dead. 2 'd maharashtra where in the city of mumbai

actually shut down the airport for a few hours it's important to note that you know the pandemic has obviously complicated things because 100100000 people had been evacuated in preparation for this cycle but we are being told that several teams were deployed several personnel across western india and that in shelters where the people had been moved covert protocol was being followed states had also made preparations you know for hospitals that had patients so they had in short that uninterrupted supply of electricity was maintained to hospitals and several ambulances were also kept on standby just in case patients had to be moved i was serious probably baton reporting live from you tell you many thanks indeed. the head of the world health organization has described the disparity between vaccine rollouts in wealthier countries and poor of nations as a form of

a pos ace to address given a source says the gap is huge he's called a manufacturer has to make jobs available to the global vaccine sharing scheme more quickly. the world is in but. as you know. the nation but for the vice president of the world. and know. almost the world. but this is. the. the huge 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 tof lockdown restrictions were east on monday measures have been tightened in april after new daily cases soared above 60000

a my time curfew will remain in place until the beginning of next month people are now are free to go back inside endless pubs and restaurants as restrictions that ease but the new covert 19 variant 1st identified in india is threatening to put the brakes on other rules being lifted 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 corona virus there's a catch a new variant a 1st discovered in india thought to be far more contagious threatens to derail britain's unlocking plans if it spreads beyond clusters in the northwest of the midlands and parts of london the early evidence suggests that the $1617.00 is more transmissible than the previously dominant that area 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. out what was actually but the day after day thursday so with of an interview booked all day. and everything so yes 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. 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 jono whole al-jazeera manchester the u.n. general assembly has to lay the vote that was settled for tuesday on banning the sale of weapons to be on laws military it would also call for the jointer to end

the state of emergency and stop violence against anti crew protest us the reasons been given for the delay on monday the u.s. u.k. and canada revealed new sanctions on high ranking military officials at firms connected to the generals. stifling press freedoms by freezing the assets of media tycoon. has been a leading voice in the terror pro-democracy movement the tribune reports. as activists and media tycoon jimmy life appeared in court on charges related 282-9000 protest all of his assets were frozen and shows 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 personal of its rules the companies and financial and ali baba were punished by chinese regulations after founder and billionaire jack ma

criticized the country's financial system the moves received as a warning to all chinese companies not to cross the corridors. jimmy ly and 9 others pleaded guilty in court on monday to charges of an authorised assembly in october $29000.00 so. it's being used to silence 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 collusion with foreign powers and national security charges that can carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. al-jazeera beijing chile's currency and stock market have taken a shot hit after the government failed to secure enough seats of a body that could guide the nation's future president sebastian pinera center right coalition won just one of the 5 seats on the panel that will rewrite the constitution it needed to secure a 3rd of seats to allow it to block potentially radical changes independent

candidates picked up most of the votes 2 of the world's largest media companies are merging in a 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.n.n. the food network and other brands the deal is expects to be finalized by the middle of next year. good service hello adrian figure here in doha with 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 and destroyed a building that housed gaza's religious affairs ministry and killed a senior commander of islamic jihad.