and fulfill its primary role of protecting. human lives in any case the the i grew up with the arab group will continue its and gauge went with the members of the security council individually and through our representative of tunisia. as with the rest of the membership of the united nation to try to end the suffering of the palestinian brothers and to allow them to the full exercise of their rights in the their and dependent state with help with the sharif as it capital. i think for us from the beginning. ok if you're just joining us just turned 17 g.m.t. where watching the u.n. security council giving a press briefing there been having discussions on the situation in israel and

palestine a closed door meeting earlier today and we heard earlier from the ambassador palestine we had months or giving a very impassioned. speech about the situation going on in his country and. saying that people should put themselves in our shoes and what would you do if your country was occupied members of the u.n. security council met on sunday of this week to come up with some kind of joint statement on what's been happening in israel in palestine and no we heard there from riyadh months or that so far there fails they have tried 3 times to come up with the statement but they haven't been able to and he thinks that's appalling let's go to our correspondent our. senior political analyst you've been listening

in to. the various statements. very vocal of messages there from riyadh monsoor but i do wonder how how how important is it that we do get some kind of statement here from the u.n. security council why does it matter so much. what we've heard was basically a positive statement of sort of that he would the palestinian people and that's of course is important in a bite sized meaning large number of people with a lot of groups with you know with 3 letter names like why sea organization of islamic state and out of goodwill and saw so forth expressing sort of that they were the palestinians who are. under occupation and being bombarded every day by israel however however it does sound to me like those countries are behaving like

like n.g.o.s like non-governmental organizations they even sometimes sounds like journalists reporting about injustices and you're not right what you expect to hear from a number of important that are present that that will important a group of countries is north and human rights report is more than an expression of sort of that it especially in light of. that big failure of the u.n. and the u.n. security council to come up with even a statement let alone that a solution i mean that as a nation under chapter 7 that has to be implemented by the u.n. security council so that still while this is really wonderful to hear to have countries or to a group of countries express shouldn't that at the would that weaken the victim my eyes and the middle east but you don't sense that that these are countries with which strategies with diplomatic strategies at least with leverage and hence we had some sort of a diplomatic plan that that has an end game you don't sense that what you're

hearing is we at to we you know we denounce and and and the likes instead of. you know plan every loveridge and i just don't mind our viewers around the world for low so we you know on the younger generation don't get it done but in $1703.00 when the arab world was united. it wasn't even that strong at the time but when the arab world wise united it it it's true fact those who supported this are in the $9073.00 war with annoyed in part it shook the world economy but look at the state of the arab world today it's weak it's just your night that it's even dependent on the likes of the united states and others fighting for their own protections the arab regimes have never been in a war situation than they are today and hence without that kind of strategic leverage from the arab world no one in washington or london on faddist let alone

but lead feels the need the necessity to to move because they're into and i'm at least that interesting get out of world i'm not being at the end not being warned that's all that it would out of what is weak the palestinians are victimized and israelis are ruling supreme. many thanks for that. is there a senior political analyst speaking to us the life and. well let's recap some of the day's events because for the 1st time in decades all the way from the jordan river to the mediterranean sea palestinians both in the occupied territories and those living in israel have been taking part in protests and a general strike they have been calling it a day of rage. this was bethlehem in the occupied west bank just a short while ago where there been confrontations between israeli security forces

and palestinian protesters israeli security forces have been using live ammunition we're also hearing reports of israeli snipers in the area. and they've been similar scenes near ramallah as well where they have been armed confrontations between some protesters and is really security forces and those protests still on growing as night falls. but also 10 scenes in nablus in the occupied west bank where demonstrators have been facing off with israeli security forces one palestinian protester was killed and more than 160 others injured during demonstrations across the west bank 2 israeli soldiers also wounded. earlier this was the scene near damascus damascus gate in the occupied east jerusalem protests as heated calls for demonstrations but were met with an israeli crackdown

a photojournalist was targeted and protesters were beaten. in a moment we'll speak to all correspondent i meet who is in occupied east jerusalem for the very latest there but 1st let's let's hear from need to embrace him who was reporting live near ramallah when shots were fired and she was talking to my colleague heidi to talk more about what brings these protesters here we're joined now by a palestinian who was at the protest play ali how. do you have been living here you were born and raised under occupation what makes you think that the.

crowds are leaving we're not sure what's going on there are palestinians who are who are steadily. getting to the same thing is. yes we are ducking now because a kid like this. needs and needs and we're going to we're going to we're going to let you get to play 66 it sounds rather dangerous where you're reporting from need to. check in with you and come back later on. it's worth pointing out that our correspondents need it for him is fine. that what you just watched happened earlier today but we can now talk to a maid who is in shaikh occupied east jerusalem said john of course very much a flashpoint for the conflict we're seeing today what is the very latest from there

. well at the moment there's sort of this crown in the street but certainly for a couple of hours this afternoon there were some clashes ongoing between protesters and israeli police you probably see behind me there is a checkpoint that's the route that's at the beginning of the road that actually leads to those houses where family families are being fed an eviction so the protesters were trying to get through that there we are but could not make it through a bride and. the police pushed them as forcefully forcefully as they could and as quickly as they could by firing stun grenades again using skunk water and all the ways to try to disperse them as quickly as possible from this way it lasted for quite a while the protesters trying to come back at this at this point now it is quite

calm and as you can see the traffic is flowing many thanks for that update. now with more on how the situation unfolded in bethlehem has harry fox and. there's been a group of palestinian youth here very close to an israeli military post they've been throwing stones and right now israeli army have moved in and they've managed to get one of the men in growth so throughout the day this is what we've been seeing the sort of skirmishes we're starting throws will get quite close within a few dozen metres of this military position built in to the separation wall between the occupied west bank and israel and they have had now come in to arrest all these detained one of those starting throws earlier they rushed them and they took up a sniper position on the road in front of us this follows

a long afternoon hours worth of protests and confrontations here in bethlehem but we often see these sorts of scenes at times like this it has been through 18 months of restrictions which have really devastated the tourist heavy economy it's been through more than 50 years of occupation of course and so these frictions these confrontations between israelis and palestinians often take place here and of course. all of this now as well but i will be seeing jerusalem and gaza in recent days. and in gaza the death toll from israel's bombardment keeps rising and the humanitarian situation is only getting worse israeli airstrikes have killed at least $213.00 palestinians so far that includes $61.00 children thousands of people of them made homeless and are sheltering in schools as israel's prime

minister benjamin netanyahu has warned the military operation against hamas in gaza will continue. and it will go to school because our enemies see what price we are charging for the aggression against us i'm sure they will learn the lesson we will continue the operation in gaza no matter how long it takes and we took on hamas years back and the enemies around us are learning their lessons of what we can do to them if they dare to attack us. joining us from israel. this is a nice house foreign can you recap on the day's events from where you are. well molly and before i do that i just want to say something that is going to be following on from what the prime minister benjamin netanyahu just said in an interview the chief israeli army spokesman is a man named brigadier general zilberman said that the army is planning on launching new attacks tonight on geographical areas that it has not previously attacked in

gaza he made reference to the hamas metro this is what israel says is underneath gaza city a series of tunnels he also added that the army is preparing for a night with an unprecedented strike force that's his exact words and that the attacks will target new locations in a geographical area that's not been previously dealt with so these are really only the employment of benjamin netanyahu saying that there's going to be increased of the gaza strip in areas that it hasn't previously attacked and now what was supposed to happen today was supposed to be a breakthrough if there was hope that a u.n. aid convoy would be able to get through the kerem shalom checkpoint which is just a few kilometers down that road during the day we did see jordanian army supplied medical hospitals field hospitals come in though with 3 of them they went about

half a mile up the road and then they were turned back i then spoke to a senior source of the u.n. who said no aid is getting into gaza today now there were bombardments happening all day from the israeli side you can probably hear them in the background there's still that faint dull thud of shelling and military attacks going on there were also hamas rockets fired. and over the positions where we were one of those attacks actually injured it and israelis 2 of those actually succumb to their injuries and died also earlier in the day there was a israeli soldier that was injured we saw him being taken to this checkpoint had this roundabout and then he was taken all the way by a hospital via ambulance to a hospital and then at the current checkpoint where the aid was supposed to get through a mortar shell landed an israeli soldier was injured whether that was the spark

with the decision to not let the aid convoy through was made earlier is very unclear it's also unclear what's going to happen in the immediate future whether the trucks will actually come back and go back to where they were deployed from or they'll stay at the crossing but given the strong words from the military spokesman that tonight is going to be another unprecedented strike force his exact words on targets previously not targeted in gaza it depends what's going to happen clearly the u.n. want to get this aid in but it's not a magic wand where everything will be sorted this is a trickle of aid and they can even get that aid into gaza emraan many thanks for that imran khan that from southern israel giving us that very worrying update from the israeli army that. the escalation could increase

over the night a very worrying situation. well let's recap some of the other diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis the european union foreign ministers have held an emergency video meeting on the situation in israel and palestine the e.u. foreign policy chief joseph burrell is calling for an immediate cease fire between israel and palestine we shoot for the right of defense to israel and get right to security. also for the palestinians and we can see that security for israel and palestine requires that true political solution because only a true shalit political solution could bring peace and for doing that we need to restore a polite political horizon now the priority to urgency is to stop violence and to implement the cease fire.

to get some other news now more than $100.00 people are missing after a barge sunk during a powerful cycling off the western coast of india search and rescue operations are underway with other vessels also grounded or adrift. talked say is weakening after making landfall in the state of good ross on monday evening which all about us has the latest. a rescue if it in the middle of a cycloid off india's wisconsin the navy an air force rarely does 3 barges with 700 people on board when to drift name one by one used for accommodating workers on offshore oil rigs sank tuesday morning with dozens of people missing these men were the 1st to be rescues. the barges were pulled from their holdings a cyclon top say pushed up past carola towards goodyear rat laden image rift in the

arabian sea. this was the most powerful storm to hit the region in more than 20 years the indian meteorological department categorized the storm as extremely severe it brought gusts of up to 210 kilometers per hour one level below india's highest supa cycling category there are even term routers orson scott has done bridges are walking route with you that brad has responded responds well go are you on strong sent 5 strong for me over there are a b. or c. . and this was the result on land the storm surge battered properties for hundreds of kilometers down india's western coast the swell reached 3 meters in some areas mumbai's famous gateway of india was flooded further inland heavy sustained rain swollen streets winds of up to 165 kilometers an hour damaged hundreds of harms mumbai authorities close the airport and urged

people to staying indoors. the cyclon added pressure to india's health system already at breaking point after now $25000000.00 cases of covered 19 in these districts are areas this is another disaster situation and above situation that. underway and in fact all the 4 states along the west coast which have been affected by this cycle but to varying degrees. are high incidence. this state's. 580 covert patients were moved from field hospitals to safe locations in mumbai well in northern good state who covered patients in hospitals within 5 kilometers of the coast will relocate it below turn at how supplies were arranged for nearly 400 days ignited covert hospitals with the storm weakening as it moves further inland people are cleaning up and hoping

offshore search and rescue operations are successful charlotte dallas. india's daily coronavirus death toll has reached a record high with 4300 reported on tuesday that's despite the number of new covered 19 infections continuing to fall across the country around 260000 cases were reported on tuesday that's down 30000 from the previous day meanwhile reports suggest india is not likely to resume major exports of vaccines until at least october elizabeth problem is a new delhi with more on why the export of vaccines is being delayed. it was about 2 months ago that the indian government decided to considerably slow down exports because they realized that they didn't have enough at home and about a month ago they halted them india was the biggest contributor to the un's kovacs program which provides about things to no income countries and because it's had to stop that low income countries such as india's neighbors may have

a strong young come many in africa are scrambling to find alternative sources but despite stopping the export something like 66000000 they either donated all sold before realize that realizing that they didn't have enough even though they've stopped the exports they still don't have enough vaccinations have fallen by 50 percent over the past month and states have been left now to try and make deals with foreign vaccine manufacturers none have been able to so far because the government even though it made everyone over the age of 18 eligible for vaccine from the start of may it hasn't brand up production to meet that increase in demand when india has the capacity to produce the 60 percent of all the vaccines in the world. confirmed deaths from covert 19 in colombia have now passed more than 80000 intensive care units are almost full in most cities where large crowds have been

gathering for weeks government protests on the m.p.'s he reports now from bogota as in most health centers and critical care unit such a national university hospital are close to collapse from us in the storm but we have 32 beds here all covered right now 15 beds we use intermedia unit have now been converted to i.c.u. we are stretched to the limit. doctor. says the latest surgeon infections has been devastating affecting younger patients and overwhelming already exhausted doctors and nurses the most worrisome thing is that we see that the peak is going to last longer than expected we will lack beds we are already holding ventilated patients longer in emergency rooms a month and a half ago a patient would find in i.c.u. in 2 hours now we are looking at a day or longer gloomiest 3rd peak of infections has been the most contagious and

deadliest with the average number of daily deaths close to 500 the government says it's planning to transfer patients by air to other cities outside this emergency room the relatives of patients fear for their loved ones in need of a ventilator. it's all full not only here everywhere we are waiting for them to give us an answer but they're not telling us how see the valving. growing crisis. population of informal. help. with more people. and. then more than 2 weeks of anti-government protests tackling inequality in police brutality might be making things worse i'll tell you he's warned that the demonstrations were extending the peak the mayor of people to stick to social

distancing rules then on friday she announced she was also infected. we don't become serious we're taking precautions i think the collapse will be enough probably in a week. with the surge now expected to last until the end of the month and no end in sight to the protests the lack of ice use may become a deadly reality. spain is facing a diplomatic and humanitarian crisis after more than $6000.00 migrants crossed for morocco into a spanish enclave it's the largest single day influx into the area many of them and more than a 1000 children the spanish government has deployed troops to the area to patrol the border with morocco 2700 people have been sent back wealth sweater and material believe one of the 9 territories controlled by spain in africa the

enclaves have long attracted people trying to reach europe but the recent surge of arrivals has further strained relations between madrid and robert rockeries angry that spain has allowed a rebel leader to enter to receive medical treatment the head of the polish daria front brahim got a contract to cope at 19 the group has long fought for the independence of western sahara a former spanish colony that is mainly under moroccan control now dame barbara has more on the story from london. this 24 hours if you like of unprecedented numbers of migrants or silent seekers arriving in the spanish enclaves in north africa. have led to spanish anger perhaps concern the prime minister peter sanchez has now canceled his trip on tuesday to paris he was due to attend an africa financing summit spain is extremely unhappy

about what's happened now behind the scenes there has been speculation that the arrival in sea uter but also in the militia the other spanish enclave of morocco's coast was to do with a diplomatic row over the policy front as you were referring to the group's leader brahimi as ali was admitted to spain for hospital treatment in northern spain last month morrocco protested to the spanish government saying that he had been taken admitted into spain under a false identity and without the knowledge of the moroccan government so they clearly unhappy know in recent months they have been given a boost because the united states earlier actually in december recognized moroccan sovereignty over the territory of western sahara so now it's

clear that morocco has been unhappy just a little bit of liason east and the program the world's largest televised music event is back thousands of people attending the euro vision song contest in the netherlands after it was counselled last year it is of course being dominated by kevin 1000 testing and social distancing but it's not just the pandemic playing a big role politics is to step last and report from rotterdam. said that. was. not i. guess. with her song born russian singer money shot brings domestic violence to you or pee in stage it's a sensitive issue in our country and has led to her facing many threats and protest including from church leaders and politicians. the ever vision song contest is of biggest stage. music stage in our planet i don't want to stop whatever if someone

dalek's me doesn't mean that i need to stop my art and i need to stop my message but with repression going on in russia right now are you not worried that it will backfire against you when you've got a no i don't know i'm trying to not think about it officially politics is off limits for the festival of us and being a dom's but when ballerinas sent in a song that was seen as supportive of its government's crackdown on protests after a disputed presidential election last august it was banned from taking part but even the theme of this officially a political contest is rather political the netherlands chose open up in an effort to promote tolerance what you see over the last decades in europe is that the continent is slowly but certainly opening up every country is in a in a different place on that journey but in our country like russia for example or have a different process absolutely and that's a fact that as

a song contest we can only accept. the other 2 messages like me too and that close matter can be heard in this year's contest but also songs about anxiety due to living under lock downs the eurovision song contest is that one moment in the year when you were really feel united even if it's only for a few hours but it's also the time for countries to use glitter and glamour to implicitly get a political and deploy. matic messages across. is where al has sent a song called set me free by even a lean questions about developments in her country are clearly not welcome looking at the situation at the moment in your country must be here also it makes sense of sorry i have to interrupt you. know we were not going to talk about political issues in this press conference there is some sort of sense censorship going on an expert on you're a vision historian dean for let it says the european broadcasting union that

organizes the contests contradicts its own values this series you start talking about values you take upon yourself some political responsibility and i think that the european broadcasting union really needs to do more to show better it is working to advance those values in he was i know now most importantly the show must go on and then that is facing a major challenge in holding the contest in the safest way possible during a global pandemic step fastened al-jazeera in rotterdam. my. was there and this is al-jazeera these are top stories augustinian both in the occupied territories and those living in israel are taking part of protests and a general strike in bethlehem back in confrontations between israeli security forces and.