even but just because. i found you and your reporting from brazil here vantage tribe protecting biodiversity defending themselves against illegal invaders right on al-jazeera. a day of rage across the aisle fly the west bank and israel turns violent the 4 killed in the protests. the strike was called in support of people under an israeli bombardment in gaza. blown down jordan the saudis there are live from doha also coming up what is the business. if it does not come rushing to help us

the palestinian u.n. envoy says security council inaction is costing lives it's again failed to find consensus. i was coughing really bad guy but it wouldn't say anything. and pepper sprayed because he's asian american a new 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 rounds during protests in the occupied west bank 4 people were killed more than 160 injured well the strike was called in support of people under bombardment in gaza which is relatively quiet now at just after 8 in the morning there are reports of 4 killed in air strikes earlier in the night and israel's air

defense system known as the iron dome has intercepted more rocket fire from gaza at least 12 people have been killed in israel since the start of the conflict including 2 children more on that shortly. but 1st the protests and violence across the occupied west bank al-jazeera is neither abraham was speaking to a demonstrator live on air when gunfire broke out. what makes you think that this. was saddam. crowds are leaving we're not sure what's going on thankfully both are safe and need to continue reporting from ramallah throughout the day while another of our correspondents who are a force that was in bethlehem he reports now on how the day unfolded. this is a well one 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 dado 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. it is just on the spot because we are. living under this discrimination. that's that's the. this has been declared a national strike and a day of rage observed to an occupied east jerusalem confrontations breaking out at damascus gate was there. and. where a long simmering protest against forced expulsions of palestinians has in part

fueled this wider 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 or it will sit bethlehem in the occupied west bank well at least 222 palestinians have been killed in gaza since israel's military offensive against hamas and other palestinian groups began more than a week ago this includes $63.00 children the humanitarian crisis is only getting worse a convoy of international aid trucks started rolling in that one point but israel closed the border crossing again citing security reasons well the u.n. is calling for it and another crossing to be reopened. it is critical that the air is crossing is also point 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 and other health and humanitarian facilities in addition we continue to receive reports of significant displacement of palestinians within the gaza strip 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 any 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 to 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 the tragedy 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 but we have heard from president biden youth a potent if you thought so that's. really

a film thing consistent with what we are proposing in difficulty council so we hope that we can continue to work together among all kinds of members without good without 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 kristen salumi al-jazeera the united nations. and president joe biden has confronted anger in one of the battleground states that pounded him last november's election hundreds of men supporters marched outside a ford manufacturing plant in michigan as biden visited to talk up electric vehicles during his speech he directly addressed palestinian american congress and

rashida fly. i want to say to you that i admire your intellect i admire your passion and i admire your concern for so many other people and it's mine from my heart i'm praying your grandmama and family well i promise remember you see that they are in the west bank your fighter in god thank you for being. well as 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 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 honor 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 but henry olsen is a washington post columnist he says the u.s. president's stance on the conflict is intentionally non-committal. i think he's trying to do exactly what i would expect which is to offer some degree of private. and in the case of 2 congressman clearly public reassurance that he understands their concerns while not doing so much to pressure israel that the bankers the

people who support israel in his party it's a very difficult row who threw him to rome this too sorry are actually mutually incompatible you can't support israel in its battle with the palestinians or without not supporting the palestinians in their battle with against the israelis and brightens trying to do exactly what i expect he would do which is to offer each side a little bit and hope that they will turn the pressure up on him the israeli public is decidedly to the right of where the democratic party is in the united states whether it is gideon so far or whether it's spending and then the on who are now taliban that it is highly likely that the next semester of israel is going to be somebody of the nationalist religious right and they will take a view towards israeli sovereignty over the west bank that is dramatically in odds with where the majority of democrats be and so i would expect biden to be moving more in the position of the people who want to put more pressure on israel but he will do it delicately he will do it slowly if it's an awful lot of repulsive. well

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 emanuel much who's been hosting a summit of african nations spent several days calling for a rapid truce he held talks with egypt's president and sisi in paris or jordan's king abdullah joined by video link. speaking in front of a fighter jet however israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowed to continue hitting hamas and its allies and. 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 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 and hamas a spokesman said they too will fight on. and on and let me make it clear all ripper ration jerusalem sword 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. it's time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back why so many journalists have lost their lives covering india's covert 19 crisis and a critical coronavirus situation in colombia intensive care unit beds are running out more that stay with us.

how that weather so far and try hard and sunny across much of the middle east as per usual as it should be the main weather action of course is across the other side of the arabian sea affecting both western kona of in the pushing up towards the himalayas for the most parts of crust sea arabian peninsula across afghanistan iran iraq hot dry and sunny and more the same as we go on through wednesday temperatures quite readily getting up into the mid forty's now that he will continue as we go on through the coming days maybe a chance of the shut down towards a southern end of the red sea but even here not too much to speak of the horn of africa clear skies here i see want to to showers a little further inland around the highlands and maybe southern parts of somalia could catch sharratt say as we go on 3 way to say those showers they stretch their way across the south african public all the way into the gulf of guinea gabon

cameron seeing some very heavy showers but to the south of that it does look largely dry fine and sunny there we go a plenty of sunshine across much of southern africa and might just catch a shower etc it's essential areas of mozambique maybe that is to sidle madagascar as well south africa lost a fine and dry but the rain is not too far away and we could see it having increased the unsettled the thursday. in hebron boys breed and fly pigeons but in this occupied palestinian city boys are also close to watched by israeli forces at times and often are arrested. delicately told tales filmed over 5 years of a coming of age in a place where even a child's imagination is every restricted to the skies above hebron a witness documentary on a. what the

war. welcome back to the top stories this hour the 1st palestinian general strike in decades has been held in occupied territory and israel but it ended with further violence. 4 people were killed and more than 160 injured. israel has continued its bombardment of gaza at least 222 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 process again citing security issues. the norwegian refugee

council has released footage of the aftermath of israeli airstrikes 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 were at home when they were killed. but the airstrikes 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 are those operated by the palestinian red crescent and gaza's only code test lab 41 educational facilities including schools kindergartens and higher education centers including one operated by the un

have been hit even as more than 42000 people seek protection in 50 schools operated by the un on 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 they have been accusations that media reporting especially in the west about the occupied territories often biased abby martin is an american journalist whose reporting sought to change the narrative about palestinians living under israeli occupation in the bags from her documentary gaza fights for freedom. this is the for the. putting your feet in the water on the sand that there is the outermost border 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. you find happiness.

at least 27 people are dead and 78 and missing after a powerful cyclon hit india's western coast the navy rescued hundreds of crewmembers from a sinking barge search and rescue operations are underway for other vessels which are still adrift. is weakening since making landfall in the state of gujarat on monday well for the 2nd day in a row the number of coronavirus deaths in india has hit a record high more than 4500 fatal it is well recorded in the past 24 hours but the number of new cases has been coming down after reaching day in the eyes of more than 400002 weeks ago well elizabeth problem joins us live now from new delhi new cases coming down but the death rate remains stubbornly high.

that's right we did see the highest ever numbers around 2 weeks ago and it takes around that time for deaths to follow cases we must always remember with india's numbers that independent health experts say both the cases and the death of vast undercount cases because of low testing deaths because most indians die at home these deaths are part of the official count and most deaths in india aren't medically certified today we have the government in the state of with a day sending investigators to a village with 34 people have died in a small village of 1200 people and many others are sick and we have reports such as these in the many states across the country deaths happening without testing at home and no medical certificate now one group of people in india have paid a very high price for working throughout this pandemic and that is journalist just as many journalists have died in the past few months and the 2nd surge as

doctors has our report. for more than a year journalists in india have risked their lives against an invisible threat to capture the impact of the 19 on the world's 2nd largest population and few places have been hit as hard as india 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. his brother 1000 told al jazeera he died the same way as many others during the 2nd search outside a hospital without help and at least there was one hospital and we did everything the reporters called the district magistrate because several government officials after trying a lot. we were told there were no bad. and don't be one who 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 front line workers but few have an ocular 8 of them journalist mohammad emraan was a friend of the meds. the government is claiming that journalists have been declared frontline would be vaccinated at the earliest but none of that has happened because none of the journalists have been vaccinated 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. just.

when it comes to deaths of journalists due to the mine team india is among the top 3 countries in the world behind brazil and peru more than 3 journalists have died every day from call of the 19th and the start of a pulled the fear and it suspected to have killed another $72.00 since then despite the vaccine shortages journalists organizations say those risking their lives to do their jobs should be protected by the government. and the vaccination shortages are only continuing care and dia we have done is government saying it's going to stop have to stop and all killings in people between the ages of 18 to 45 next week because of the shortages many other states are having to do this the vaccination program and via has very much been a start stop exercise danny's government is once again criticized promising that a little more that you for exploiting 66 $1000000.00 is when other countries. boosting their supplies they're also asking the government to share the hate into

the vaccine that helped create one company so that many other indian companies can make the vaccines when india has the capacity when it can ramp up production a few days ago it came to light that delhi police had arrested 25 people who had put up posters asking the prime minister why he was exploited why he had exploited vaccines and vaccination the numbers have come down so much 50 percent of the pos land from the peak of more than $4000000.00 a day in april to less than $2000000.00 now. by 10 is a purana in new delhi thank you no confirmed deaths from covert 19 in colombia not more than 80000 intensive care units almost full of those cities were knowledge crowds been gathering for weeks of anti-government protests there was a pity reports now from bogota as in most health centers in critical care

units at the national university hospital are close to collapse from us in the song 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. dr. says the latest surge in 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. colombia's 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 the 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 she's evolving. growing crisis. population having informal. help. with more. than more than 2 weeks of anti-government protests tackling inequality in police brutality might be making things worse. he's warned that the demonstrations were extending the peak the mayor of big 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 alison that. the u.s. congress passed. aiming to prevent violence against asian americans there's been an alarming rise in hate filled attacks on mitt as during the pandemic the covered 19 hate crimes act speeds up reviews of incidents targeting asian americans and pacific islanders al-jazeera is how did you cast reports from his family's t.v. fields in foods e.-n. 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 20 twentieth's. but the timing was terrible way to don't really have any. knowledge about what kind of result

we 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 tries mean blamed 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 find someone to help me finish the 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 right the code in 1000 hate 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 giang 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. the italian super car manufacturer lamborghini says it will produce only hybrid cars by 2024 the scion became its 1st petrol electric hybrid when it was launched last year the company's investing $1300000000.00 in converting the rest of its range to hybrid it aims to produce its 1st all electric car by the end of the decade. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the 1st palestinian general strike in decades has been held in the occupied territory and israel but it ended with further violence and bloodshed israeli security forces fired live rounds during protests in the occupied west bank 4 people were killed more than 100.