the fans who make football on the. award winning documentary is from around the world. 0. a day of rage across the occupied west bank in israel turns violent with 4 killed in protests the strike was called in support of people under an israeli bombardment in gaza. daryn jordan this is not 0 a live from doha also coming up protests and an impassioned plea from the palestinian u.n. envoy but still there's

a staminate to the security council. as we speak any time soon. our objective is to put an end to the tragedy and the suffering of all of the. i was coughing really bad i couldn't really say anything and pepper sprayed because he's asian american and you build to fight a rise in hate crimes. welcome to the program the 1st palestinian national strike in decades across occupied territory and israel has ended with further violence and bloodshed israeli security forces fired live ammunition during protests in the occupied west bank 4 people were killed and more than 160 injured when the strike was called in support of people on the bottom and in gaza which is now relatively quiet just after 6 in the morning there were reports of 2 killed in as strikes earlier in the night. and

israel's air defense system known as i and home has intercepted more rocket fire from gaza more on that shortly but 1st the protests and violence across the occupied west bank al-jazeera is neither abraham was speaking to a demonstrate a live on air when gunfire broke out. what makes you think that this. crowds are living we're not sure what's going on well both are safe and need a continued reporting from ramallah throughout the day well another our correspondents harry force that was in bethlehem he reports on how the day unfolded . this is a well written road at one end palestinian protesters driven by years of occupation what 2 recent human rights reports have defined as a party and good and sustained by events in jerusalem in gaza at the other

implacable militarized position of the israeli forces blocking the way and more. this is how this day would play out huge shows of force pushing back the crowd then young men in small groups gradually approaching within tens of meters of the israeli fortifications peppering them with rocks and glass marbles. the israeli tactics varying from attempting to russian detain them to overwhelming them with tear gas and foul smelling water to considerably worse so israeli forces are strengthening their position after those stone throwers got pretty close to the checkpoint here and as you can see on the road just in front of us a sniper team has taken a position later as we reported live there was no rushing no show of force simply sniper fire from a protected position on unarmed protesters one man fell injured in front of us and

was taken out by ambulance one among many here among dozens across the occupied west bank. near the illegal settlement of a del close to ramallah the gunfire was at one point going both ways this is a rare shooting attack on an israeli military position during a confrontation a sign of the seriousness of this current upsurge in violence 2 palestinians were killed here 2 israeli soldiers injured i think i want to life it is just on the spot because we are living under this pressure we are living under this discrimination in the. place of regime that's that's the. this is a cliche this has been declared a national strike and a day of rage observed to an occupied eastern. confrontations breaking out of damascus gate. where a long simmering protest against forced expulsions of palestinians has in part fueled this wide of violence in the southern occupied west bank city of hebron

a palestinian was shot dead by israeli forces who said he was carrying a knife a homemade gun and an explosive device. a brutal day to add to the tally of the last week. bethlehem in the occupied west bank. and at least 220 palestinians have been killed in gaza since israel's military offensive against hamas and other groups began more than a week ago well this includes 63 children and the humanitarian crisis is getting worse a convoy of international aid trucks started rolling in at one point but israel closed the border crossing again citing security reasons the u.n. is calling for it and another crossing to be reopened it is critical that the air is crossing is also been for the entry and exit of critical humanitarian staff humanitarian access into and out of gaza for staff and goods must be sustained and appropriate measures taken to ensure safe movement within gaza overnight we

received extremely worrying reports of additional additional infrastructure civilian infrastructure being hit in gaza including in the central kovan $1000.00 testing lab and other health and humanitarian facilities in addition we continue to receive reports of significant displacement of palestinians within the gaza strip well meanwhile in southern israel palestinian rocket attacks killed another 2 people and injured 14 others the un security council met for a 4th time but again failed to reach any consensus kristensen in the reports. as outrage grows over the ongoing violence in the middle east so too does pressure on the international community to act demonstrators gathered on tuesday outside the building that houses israel's mission to the u.n. calling for an end to the hostilities while inside the u.n. the palestinian ambassador called on the security council to speak with one voice president biden has finally called for

a cease fire elevated his rhetoric did that give you any hope that today coming out of the security council the united states might have softened its position a bit on a statement are you seeing any difference and their level of engagement sincerely hope that he can succeed in his efforts with the efforts of everyone else who is involved in this endeavor to reach an agreement on a cease fire as we speak any time soon our objective is to put an end to that idea and the suffering of all of the the security council has met 4 times in the course of 8 days with norway tunisia and china pushing to keep the crisis in the spotlight and we have heard from president biden if a potent if you farai. so that's. really something consistent with what we are proposing in difficulty council so we hope we come

continue to work together among all come from members we felt good to be with out at the request of the arab group along with the organization for islamic cooperation the general assembly will hold its own emergency meeting on thursday the united states continues to insist it's working tirelessly with players in the region to bring about an end to the violence arguing that quiet diplomacy is more effective than a public statement even as the calls for action are getting louder christine salumi al-jazeera the united nations president joe biden has confronted the anger and one of the battleground states of 100 him last november's election hundreds of pro palestinian protesters marched outside a ford manufacturing plant in michigan as biden visited to talk up electric vehicle initiatives during his speech he directly addressed palestinian american congress someone. i want to say to you that i had mar your

intellect admire your passion and i admire your concern for so many other people and it's mine from my heart i'm free your grandmamma and family are well i promise remember you see they are in the west bank your fighter god thank you for being. well received it's why it is a member of the so-called squad of progressive democratic congresswoman who pressed joe biden the most about the conflict but pressures also coming from more of the president's colleagues cory bush from the state of missouri tweeted the black and palestinian struggles for liberation interconnected and we will not let up until all of us a free while i on a presley a congresswoman from massachusetts tweeted we can't stand idly by when the u.s. government sends $3800000000.00 of military aid to israel and here she is condemning the forced expulsions of palestinian families from their homes we are bearing witness to agree just human rights violations the pain trauma and terror

the palestinians are facing is not just a result of this week's escalation but the consequence of years of military occupation in shake your rub the israeli government is violently dispossessing yet another neighborhood of palestinian families from homes they have lived in for decades we cannot stand idly complacently by and allow the occupation and oppression of the palestinian people to continue the norwegian refugee council has released footage of the aftermath of israeli air strikes which it says killed dozens of children in their homes. the council says 11 of the children killed by israeli bombs in the past week were getting help for trauma they'd already suffered it says the children aged between 5 and 15 what home when they were killed. well a strike by israel have crippled the infrastructure in gaza nearly $450.00 buildings have been either destroyed or badly damaged that's the latest u.n. estimate and that includes $285.00 housing units which are now uninhabitable

leaving 2 and a half 1000 people homeless 6 hospitals and 9 primary health care centers have also been either damaged or destroyed among them others operated by the palestinian red crescent and gaza's only code test lab 41 educational facilities including schools kindergartens and the higher education centers including one operated by the un has been hit even as more than 42000 people seek protection in 50 schools operated by the un and the supply of electricity is now down to between 6 and 8 hours a day basic services including water and sanitation have also been disrupted well criticism is growing from some popular u.s. news and comedy programs about america's pro israel stance late night show host john oliver delivered this getting out of the israeli military's actions. look if you believe israel's actions are warranted and proportionate this week you're welcome to try and make that argument but we have got to start having this conversation on asli and falling back on convenient sanitised terms like real

estate disputes and airstrikes on militants feels a little disingenuous when what you're describing is forcing people from the homes they've lived in for decades and killing civilians and children and again none of these freeze hamas from responsibility but hamas doesn't represent all palestinians just as what israel is doing right now doesn't represent all israelis or indeed jewish people lots is complicated here but some things are pretty simple one side is suffering much more and if america really wants to help it will want to seriously consider changing its long held position here because for decades the backbone of america's policy in the middle east has been that america is an unwavering friend to israel which is a great thing to try and be but at the end of the day i would hope that a real friend would tell me when i'm being and definitely when i'm committing a war crime or manchester united's poor pub has joined other footballers and

showing support for palestinians the midfielder lifted a palestinian flag with his teammate and a dollar after their side's draw wins for. lots more to come here not just here including why so many journalists have lost their lives covering india's coated crisis. and why this year's eurovision song contest may be a tough act to pull off more of that stay with us. hello this very much sick game of chicken hearts across north america at the moment we got lots of warm sunshine across eastern parts of the continent surface of the west we are seeing some wetter weather just spilling in of the rockies and it's going to make its way over towards the plains at present the winds coming in from the south so always a warm direction here and that warm sunshine stretching up into

a good part of canada when he picked getting up to 30 degrees celsius 18 there in calgary so not too bad here we got that plume of walts then across many central and eastern parts for the time being but you can see that cold air case over the high ground over the rockies it will make its way further a switch in the form of thunder a downpours across much of the plains anywhere from texas louisiana arkansas all right up into the midwest and central parts of canada where he picked back to around 23 celsius as we go on through where the state to the east of that is fired into i'm a warm sun sign they say getting up to around 31 celsius so is something a little colder there just around the mountain states and we'll see if this snow coming in here was to go on through as they've pushing up into alberta some heavier showers sense essential parts of canada would have picked this station a woman that around 16 degrees but the heavy rain continues across the deep south and the warmth to the east.

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strike in decades has been held in occupied territory in israel but it ended with further violence and bloodshed 4 people were killed and more than 160 injured. israel's continued its bombardment of gaza at least 220 palestinians have been killed since the military offensive against hamas and other palestinian groups began a week ago. and the u.n. is calling for border crossings to be reopened to provide badly needed humanitarian aid to gaza a convoy of international aid trucks started rolling in at one point but israel suddenly closed the crossing again citing security issues. but elsewhere on the diplomatic front france has proposed a cease fire resolution with the u.n. security council in coordination with egypt and jordan president emmanuel mack wrong's been hosting a summit of african nations spent several days calling for a rapid truce he had talks with egypt's president sisi and paris while jordan's king abdullah joined by video link was speaking in front of an israeli fighter jet

however israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowed to continue hitting hamas and its allies people to fill. our enemy 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 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 what hamas a spokesman said they too will fight on. come on and let me make it clear all ripper ration jerusalem sold is ongoing relentlessly the israeli enemy is betting on the factor of time and how many losses they think they can inflict upon us but it's a losing bet because the resistance in gaza is ready for a long battle and on all fronts with the grace of god when the israeli enemy keeps targeting the women and children it is clear that they have failed and they cannot achieve much when it comes to their so called bank of targets also let me make it clear there is no free truce and that any talk about truce must be with jews and

condition this is ready and the patient will not enjoy security unless the palestinian people enjoy the same the same goes for our beloved al aksa well there's been allegations that media reporting especially in the west about gaza and the occupied palestinian territories is often biased abby martin is an american journalist whose reporting sought to change the narrative about palestinians living under israeli occupation is an exit from her documentary gaza fights for freedom. this is the for the stor allowed to get. putting your feet in the water on the sands of their host is the outermost border group without permission from the israeli military. most will never be permitted to be. trapped in this place which is suffering one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world you find much more than misery you find happiness and joy.

by the struggle for freedom. because in other news now the u.s. congress has passed a bill to prevent violence against asian americans there's been an alarming rise in the hate filled attacks on murders during the pandemic the covert $900.00 hate crimes act speeds up reviews of accidents targeting asian americans and pacific islanders are just there was how does the castro reports. from his family's t. fields in foods and china to this street corner in washington d.c. brewing chinese tea for american customers was gene hunt john's vision when he opened his tea shop in february 2020. but the timing was terrible way to don't really have any. knowledge about what kind of result will be facing just 3 weeks in the shop had to close due to pandemic restrictions that was also when john started to hear u.s.

leaders using racist terms linking the virus to china america will prevail over the jungle virus trust me and blame the for basically everything everything possible so . of course he will get blamed for the pandemic as well business was slow after the shop reopened one day in november john was alone when a man approached i could hear he was shouting something china called the. half. the man pepper sprayed john then left john says he struggled to call police for help i was coughing really bad i couldn't really say anything. that i will all the street i was trying to like find someone to help me finish a call i just couldn't find anybody researchers say the number of hate crimes targeting asians reported in major u.s. cities since the beginning of the year has more than doubled that is despite

increased awareness and protests in chinatown communities around the country many more people are starting to pay attention and more people are becoming galvanized to get active write the code in 1000 he crimes act passed by congress will make it easier to report hate crimes online it also instructs federal investigators to quickly review hate crimes related to code 19 there mr john we were horrified to hear of the attack after video of the pepper spray attack went viral jiang received dozens of sympathetic letters from the community i truly appreciate this. you know kindness that we face on a daily basis i think this is the more important thing he says each negative experience is outweighed by an outpouring of support he calls that progress. castro al-jazeera washington a prosecutor in north carolina says the officers involved in a fatal shooting of

a black man won't be facing criminal charges and joe brown jr has death an april spot weeks of protests but the prosecutor says the use of deadly force was justified under delicate has more from miami. it's been almost a month since andrew brown jr was shot and killed by police in north carolina the shooting came just days after derrick show when a police officer was found guilty of killing george floyd and tuesday's findings by the district attorney in that state come as a blow to andrew brown jr's family the district attorney who did show some of that body cam for to judge said that the police officers were justified in their actions and andrew brown jr was using his car as a deadly weapon that essentially brings to a close any action against those officers at a state level the federal bureau of investigation and the department of justice will carry out their own independent investigation and reaction to tuesday's findings by the district attorney andrew brown jr lawyers said that this comes as

a slap in the face for those left behind when andrew brown jr died at the hands of the police so they are now hoping that this independent investigation will give them the results that they so badly want and much of that footage that has been related to this case has not yet been released it's been restricted by a judge in north carolina but the family say this was an execution the district attorney says it was a justified killing at least 27 people are dead and nearly 100 are missing after a powerful cyclon hit india's western coast the indian navy rescued hundreds of crew members from a sinking barge search and rescue operations are underway for other vessels which are adrift. is now weakening since making landfall in garage on monday. in a turn of the 40 indian journalists and other media workers have died covering the pandemic most of them in the past 7 weeks and even though they're on the frontlines

many haven't been able to be vaccinated and is grappling with a deadly 2nd wave is a problem reports from new delhi. for more than a year journalists in india have risked their lives against an invisible threat to capture the impact of that 19 on the world's 2nd largest population and few places have been hit as hard as india more than 275000 people have died from the virus including at least 238 journalists that includes who was the president of the press club in the state of author put. his brother 1000 told al jazeera he died the same way as many others during the 2nd search outside a hospital without help. at least there was one hospital left and we did everything the court reporters called the district magistrate be called several government officials after trying a lot our hands were still empty we were told there were no beds and only one hole

put a ventilator. despite news media being deemed an essential service in india during the pandemic the government hasn't prioritized vaccinations for journalists as the 2nd wave gripped the country over the past 2 months many states declared journalists to be frontline workers but few have an ocular 8 of them journalist mohammad emraan was a friend of the meds i got just that i had the government is claiming that journalists in the middle have been declared frontline workers and would be vaccinated at the earliest but none of that has happened because none of the journalists in number will have been vaccinated television news reported near the sri in the badly affected state of bihar says journalists there live in fear. it's very difficult for us very very difficult but someone has to report from the field someone has to work someone has to show the real picture. so we're doing our work last year and this year too but this time there are many journalists in several states who have died and looking at those deaths we feel afraid but if you're going

by safety it's very difficult to do the job researchers say off the journalists who have died since the pandemic began last year more than 2 thirds lost their lives in the start of april this year just. maybe be shown on just ideas. are enforced. and. when it comes to death of journalist due to clear the mind team india is among the top 3 countries in the world behind brazil and peru more than 3 journalists have died every day from college at 19 from the start of a pulled the fear and it suspected to have killed another $72.00 since then despite the vaccine shortages journalists organization say those risking their lives to do their jobs should be protected by the government elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new

delhi. now the world's largest televised music event is back thousands of people are attending the euro vision song contest in the netherlands off it was counseled last year it's been dominated by covert $900.00 testing and social distancing but it's not just the pandemic playing a big role politics is to stop reports. said. was. not i. guess. with her song born russian singer money shot brings domestic violence to the european 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 go i don't know 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 balor roots send in a song that was seen as supportive of its government 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 the 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 are 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 the political and deploy. emetic 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 sorry i have to interrupt you. know we are 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 contest 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 europe. for now most importantly this show must go on and then that lens is facing a major challenge in holding the contest in the safest way possible during a global pandemic step fastened al-jazeera in rotterdam. talk a check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the 1st palestinian general strike in decades has been held in occupied territory and israel but it ended with further violence and bloodshed israeli security forces fired live ammunition during protests in the occupied west bank 4 people were killed and more than a 160 injured israel's continued its bombardment of gaza at least 220 palast.