now more than ever the world needs w.-h. on making a healthier world for you. to everyone. you know here in. israel it carries out more airstrikes on gaza just hours after a massive wave of protests against the attacks. from doha everyone i'm kemal santa maria with the world news from. demonstrations in the united states as the pressure grows on president biden to demand an end to the violence also more than 400000 people die in just one day from

covert 19 in india it is another new record. i was coughing really bad i. say. pepper sprayed because he's asian american but now there is a new bill to finance the rise in hate us. so less than a day after palestinians across the occupied territories in israel held their 1st general strike in decades and is sold on gaza continues at full pace the live shot of the gaza skyline just a little bit of smoke you can see there from a previous attack in fact which is only in the last hour or so i have a look at this. fact more than 100 bombs and artillery shells run down on the gaza strip through the night and then into the morning.

22200 still ones have been killed since the military offensive against hamas and other groups began a week ago. factions and gals are also much more than 50 rockets towards israel overnight most intercepted by the defense system known as the on dome 12 people in israel have now been killed since the start of this conflict and that includes 2 children. well the general strike on tuesday was described as a day of rage and it ended in more violence and bloodshed 4 people were killed and more than 160 injured in the occupied west bank 2 israeli soldiers were also wounded kerry force that was in bethlehem his report now on how the day unfolds. this is a well known road at one end palestinian protesters driven by years of occupation what 2 recent human rights reports have defined as apartheid 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 i think a lot of life it is just on the spot because we are living under this pressure we are living under. discrimination. that's that's the. ship this has been declared a national strike and a day of rage observed to an occupied east jerusalem confrontations breaking out of damascus gate was. 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 are a full set bethlehem in the occupied west bank. and. you've been speaking i think to our team in gaza what are they been telling you about events of a night and this morning. well we haven't just a new update from gaza some residents of a complex of 2 building 16 story buildings were told to evacuate the building now that's a building that is. gaza city and it is by and large a residential building each floor has about 6 apartments and so you can imagine now the panic of those families trying to leave as quick as possible maybe grabbing some belongings because they won't they don't know whether they will be ever be able to return to their homes or whether that building will be flattened we've seen

with other buildings in the days before now overnight it was also quite intense for residents in parts of the gaza strip especially near rough idea of the border with egypt and munis it's been quite dull for them there we understand that people civilians have died in that attack now israel says that it has actually been targeting. facilities including launchers and he says that it actually hit 120 targets the last 24 hours so absolutely no sign the order of a cease fire and yet there is some talk in the background you were able to shed any light on that. well there is some talk in the background the u.s. has been weighing in egypt has been trying to mediate between hamas and the israeli

government there are some leaks in reports in the israeli media about an imminent ceasefire that could come as early as thursday but publicly at least both hamas and israel are saying that the operations are continuing and israel saying that it will continue until she gives its goal its main goal is basically to weaken hamas as much as possible so the next round of violence comes. takes a few years to start again that's the thinking here in israel hamas on the other side says well we're not going to stop our operations until we get something out of it there is no choose without receiving something on the others besides i think hamas would like to see for example the border crossings whether it's with egypt or even the ones with israel open would like to see some sort of. coming up or would

like to see some sort of help reaching the people in gaza so publicly at least the posturing is this military the military operations are continuing in both directions behind the scenes there is a lot of political effort to try to stop this as quick as possible considering also the heavy toll this of aliens in gaza are playing. with that update from occupied east jerusalem thank you. well there has been another u.n. security council emergency meeting on the escalation and another failure to reach any consensus there salumi reports on that. 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 and we have heard from president biden youth a potent if you thought so that's. really

a fun thing consistent with what we are proposing in difficulty console so we hope that we come continue to work together among all come from members with a good 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 kristen salumi al jazeera the united nations has called for a cease fire continue to be ignored as the humanitarian crisis in the gaza strip only gets was that the united nations has now called on israel to open 2 crossings to allow deliveries of badly needed aid supplies it is critical that the air is crossing is also open 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 of additional infrastructure civilian infrastructure being hit in gaza including in the central coast in $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 hundreds of propeller stinney in protest as demonstrated outside the israeli embassy in washington d.c. on tuesday demanding an end to israeli airstrikes in the gaza strip. and one point during the protest demonstration leaders read the names of those killed in the israeli airstrikes purchases demanded an end to american support for

israel and an end to the decades long legal occupation of palestinian lands was this is los angeles dozens of demonstrators there held in a rally outside the israeli consulate on tuesday protesters chanted in solidarity with palestinians on strike in the occupied territories and in israel and purchased 2 in michigan where president joe biden was visiting a common your factoring plant michigan was one of the battleground states that handed joe biden last november's election during his speech he did to directly address the palestinian american congresswoman rashida to labor who has been vocal on their condemnation of israel and i want to say to you that i admire your intellect admire your passion and i admire your concern for so many of the people who smile from my heart i'm truly your grandma and family and well i promise

remember you see that you are the west bank your fighter god thank you for being with. us house speaker nancy pelosi has called for the boycott of the 2022 winter olympic games in beijing criticizing china for human rights abuse against weakness and other ethnic minorities if we can postpone a lympics by a year for a pandemic we can surely postpone an olympics for a year for genocide. this would give the i.o.c. time to relocate to a country whose government is not committing atrocities now to those who argue that the olympic should be immune from politics i say they take a stance against genocide it is not politics it is about human decency muslim organizations in india are demanding a judicial inquiry into the demolition of a mosque in the state of it but the 100 year old building in the town about a bank he was brought down on monday district officials in the

b j p ruled state say the structure was illegal and legal case over the issue has been ongoing in india did witness one of its worst communal riots after a 16th century mosque was demolished in uttar pradesh back in 1902 by activists from the r s s the parent organization of the b.j. pay and there's more from india in a moment why so many journalists have lost their lives there covering india's covert crisis and a moroccan border guard is seen waving people through is thousands of refugees and migrants make their way into a spanish on planes. however the weather remains rather cold and shattering across much of europe but there is some wealth around got some decent spells of warm sunshine for spain imports go through the mediterranean and all the way up into that eastern side overarching see

the messy picture that we have across the central processor we have showery right now i show as well not a little further east which as we go on through wednesday so moscow picked back to about 26 hours here very beginning up into the thirty's over the last couple of days so still some walked around but it's all getting a little more mobile look what's coming into that western side if europe as you go on into the 2nd half of the week so i would say some cloud of the right spilling in from the atlantic fading in across all and the british isles seeing some very a wet sand windy weather on season west when the yet again showers there into central pa through the low countries into germany eastern areas if you cooling off in moscow to around $22.00 celsius but down towards the south we're still getting into the high twenty's grace will see temperatures 28 celsius there for athens and a similar value to former trade so warm sunshine continuing across spain and portugal and across a good part of northern africa because the show was of course showing the now

around west africa will see some very heavy rain they're starting to fade up across a good part of the gulf of guinea. frank assessments. that you have. now taking for the situation right i'm not viewing if you've ever again informed opinions is the u.s. with thinking military positioning in the middle east or is it just to simply reorganize the ministry asa this is a message to the region the united states fears a rethinking here its military posture in-depth analysis of the day school ople headlines inside story.

by the top stories on al-jazeera this hour israel's assault on gaza continues at full pace a day after long protests across the occupied territories more than a 100 bombs and artillery shells were fired through the night and into this morning as we have a quick look at the live shot of gals a pretty calm at the moment but all told at least 222 palestinians have been killed since the military offensive began 9 days ago. factions in gaza launched more than 50 rockets towards israel overnight most intercepted by the air defense system known as the i and 12 people in israel have been killed since the start of this conflict including 2 children. and purchased in support of palestine have been held across the united states u.s. president joe biden under increasing pressure even for when in his own democratic party to push for a cease fire. for

the 2nd day in a row the number of coronavirus deaths in india has hit a record high more than 4 and a half 1000 of them recorded over the last 24 hours the number of new cases there has been coming down in recent days after reaching daily highs itself of more than 400002 weeks ago india's 2nd wave has seen hospitals in major cities running out of oxygen and supplies elizabeth purana reporting live from new delhi now one of the case numbers likely because as we point out they're going down even though the deaths unfortunate keep going up. that's right come on the overall trend in cases and that's what we will focus on because the exact numbers aren't an accurate depiction of the real number of cases in the country because of low testing but the overall trend is that cases are coming down because they were at their highest around 2 weeks ago it takes around that time to see deaths from cases and we must always remember with the numbers in india that

independent health experts say that both cases and deaths are huge on the count cases because of the low testing death because most indians die at home and their deaths aren't medically certified we have the government in the state of north of british sending investigators to look into the deaths of 34 people in one village a small village of 1200 people where many others are sick and this is something there are reports of this in many states all over india people dying without getting tested without having access to tests access to medical care and without their deaths being medically certified now for there is also the state it's india's most populous and it's the state which has seen the largest number 2nd largest number of journalist deaths in the country and hundreds of indian journalists have lost their lives over the past year most of them have been during the 2nd search

just as many journalists have died in india 2nd surge as doctors here's 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 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 to put the. his brother. 1000 told al jazeera he died the same way as many others during the 2nd search outside a hospital without help. 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. 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 muhammad was a friend of meds. 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 not all the journalists in number have been vaccinated researchers say off the journalists who've died since the pandemic began last year more than 2 thirds lost their lives in the start of april this year just. fiction or just.

when it comes to deaths of journalists due to car that 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 college at 19 since the start of a pulled the fear and it's 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 shortages are very much continuing danny's local administration is the latest to say that it has. to stop an occupation people between the ages of 18 to 44 next week because it doesn't have enough back famed similar situation and many other states in the vaccination program and india has very much been a start stop exercise and interestingly the latest person to call on the government to share the patient of the vaccine that helped create whether an indian company with other indian manufacturers to ramp up production is one of the government's

own cabinet ministers who is part of the ruling baath at the jump the party of prime minister in that in 2 more days with her on i'm reporting from new delhi thanks to her and of course our whole team in new delhi who are doing an excellent job of covering the story for us. now at least 27 people are dead and 80 others 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 adrift so i couldn't tell you is now weakening since making landfall in the state of gujarat on monday. the new york state attorney general's office says it is widening its probe of the trump organization to include a criminal investigation there was a she was previously being investigated in a purely civil capacity or explanation why the scope of the probe is being expanded in manhattan's district attorney had been conducting his own criminal probe of the

trump organization for the past 2 years the u.s. congress has passed a bill aiming to prevent violence against asian americans spend an alarming rise in hate fueled attacks and murders during the pandemic the covert 1000 hate crimes act speeds up the reviews of incidents targeting asian americans and pacific islanders how does your pastor has this report. from his family's t. fields in food and china to this street corner in washington d.c. brewing chinese tea for american customers was 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 results 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 me 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 jiang was alone when a man approached i could hear he was shouting something china called the. hour. 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. just some quick live pictures to show you from

ramallah of the reality of the day after his gives me the strike which turned violent. in the general strike which in violent funerals being held now through the streets of ramallah after he. just checking the numbers as they were yesterday of. 4 people killed and more than 160 injured in the occupied west bank a funeral for one of those people happening right now in ramallah. and while that's happening in. actually we'll move on we will return to those pictures and of course gaza a little bit later now the european union urging morocco to stop the irregular entry of migrants into spain's enclave of say or to on the north african coast and 8000 people have crossed from morocco into syria to after swimming or walking around the coast dozens also reached millia which is spain's other enclave there

but in baba has been. tuesday in c.u. to and still they kept coming some had swum around the border fences sticking out into the mediterranean sea or used rubber dinghies others simply walks across at low tide one young man is known to have drowned dozens of been treated for hypothermia the adults were transferred to suit his main football stadium but those thought to be miners were sent to warehouses run by the red cross and other groups the spanish government is now sending $400.00 extra troops and police to boost souter's border force while appealing for calm. it is the last thing a migration free and humanitarian crisis of this nature needs is for political leaders to show hatred and fear we therefore call on everyone responsibility prudence and a sense of order prime minister pedro sanchez has counseled a trip to paris for a summit on international aid to africa instead he. travelling to see you to which

is separated from morocco by a 10 meter high fence meanwhile madrid's dismissed suggestions the sudden rise in migrants arrivals is linked to a diplomatic route. last month morocco reacted angrily when it emerged that brahimi the head of the policy front had been allowed into spain for covered 19 treatment the algeria backed group has fought for decades for western sahara as independence from morocco analysts had warned the rao over carli could push the moroccan government to limit cooperation over illegal migration and other issues brussels is now urging it to stop any more people trying to reach spanish territory the most important thing now is that morocco continues to commit to prevent a regular departure and that those that do not have the right to stay are orderly and effectively returned spain says it is expelling all those who vented suitor illegally but it's not clear if that applies to unaccompanied migrants. who are

usually allowed to remain lady barbara al-jazeera. colombian security forces of injured dozens of protesters who continue to rally against the government's tax plans local media reported a strong explosion near a fuel storage station according to authorities the fire was caused by a propane gas cylinder protests began last month over a proposed tax plan but have continued even after it was withdrawn people still angry with president even decades handling of the pandemic economic and social inequality to be addressed. on al-jazeera and these other top stories funerals being held for palestinians killed during the largest general strike in decades on tuesday has been a procession in ramallah 4 people killed across the occupied west bank really security forces fired rubber coat.