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you have ever seen how slope taken up. this was germany. we loved it when it was built and read even when it was a major target of the conflict in northern ireland in the late 20th century belfast europa, a new episode of war hotels on al jazeera. ah allison hans. i tell to leave the homes in the middle of the night as israel hits garza with more air strikes. it comes as us president joe biden makes another push for a cease 5 and a phone call with israel as prime minister. ah, hello, i'm adrian again. this is l 0 alive from doha. also coming up, the european union agrees to reopen it, stores to travel as, as long as they're fully vaccinated against cobit 19. and donald trump faces the
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increasing likelihood of criminal charges from investigations into his business dealings. ah, people living in to crowded, gaza residential neighborhoods have been warned to leave the homes ahead of israeli as strikes. this is the city skyline right now. one of the targets owns isn't far from the jamalia refugee camp in northern gossip. earlier israel hit southern gaza with more than a dozen strikes destroying 2 homes, medics say that 4 people were wounded in the city of con eunice. it's been more than 10 days of intense is ready. bombardment in gaza, costing 227 palestinian lives. 12 people have been killed in israel by palestinian rocket file from southern israel. iran con reports the palestinians in gaza, look at yet another building reduced to rubble. as israel continues,
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it strikes and goes from land and sea. one man describes the moment he realizes his house was next door and i received on my mobile phone a call from a private number. they said that it was a call from the east lady intelligence, and they were wanting before to getting our job home. they asked me to clear the area and to move all the neighbors out. i turned in or out. he asked me to make sure that everyone is out. also, he asked me to block district. the israel has one of the most technologically advanced and well funded military in the world. while hamis has kept up a bars of low tech rockets, most of them have been destroyed by its rocket defense system, known as i and don't. despite that, some fell on towns de la garza border, including ash stored on wednesday, and some people were injured. israel's can take a prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke to foreign diplomats and was blunt when
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it came to his thoughts on god and homer. there only 2 ways that you can deal with him. you can either conquer that, and that's always an open possibility, or you can deter them. and we are engaged right now in fossil deterrence. but i have to say, we don't rule out anything. palestinian president mahoney de boss also spoke, hoping for an interview asking back long term solution in the matter. we don't have to do the work now is focused on stopping the israeli aggression against our people in jerusalem, west bank and gaza. then entering a serious political process under clear international packing that leads to ending the israeli occupation of the lands in the state of palestine. and the long term solution is still a very long way off. now. the united nations can't get it's a convoy into the gaza strip. israel says there was a motor attack at the border crossing,
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so therefore they shut it down. the palestinian factions say that their positions were attacked 1st. however, the aid convoy remains exactly where is not where it's needed. the most em ron con . i was there on the southern barrier with garza efforts to secure a ceasefire. still appear to be gaining traction while israel and palestinian armed groups, publicly se they'll fight on secret negotiations are set to be on the way. the whitehouse says that the us president joe biden put israel's leader benjamin netanyahu. all notice during the latest phone call, telling him that it's time to lower the intensity of the conflict. part of a statement breeds the president conveyed to the prime minister that they expected that he expected a significant de escalation today on the path to a cease fire. but that yahoo says that israel's campaign will go on until it's objective. some met rebuffs on the board because we are with every passing day, we are striking at more of the terrorist organizations capabilities targeting more
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senior command is toppling more terrorist buildings and hitting more weapons stockpiles. just as i told the ambassadors here today, this is the natural rise of beads rail. i very much appreciate the support of these governments, and i especially appreciate the support of a friend us president biden, for the state of israel bride to self defense. i am determined to continue this operation until its objective is achieved to restore quiet and security to you citizens of israel, while not addressing netanyahu's response directly, the u. n's, chief spokesman repeated calls for com. we want to see a stop to the fighting. as soon as possible, we want to see a stop or the fighting. immediately. there needs to be a halt to the aerial attacks to the rockets, to the artillery strikes, going from one side to the other. civilians need to be able to live in peace. we need to get that humanitarian aid into,
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into gaza for our part or a special coordinator tour. venice salon is actively engaged with all sides on the ground in order to work towards that end. in the us congresswoman alexandria, a casio, cortez and other democrats have introduced a resolution opposing the sale of $735000000.00 in military weaponry to israel. cortez tweeted, the united states should not be rubber stamping stamping weapons sales to the israeli government. as they deploy our resources to target international media outlets, schools, hospitals, she went to terry admissions and civilian sites for bombing understanding american congresswoman rashida totally ab fleet sleep has also treated her support to the measure saying no more weapons to kill children and families. enough ill on oma, another vocal congressional critic added, even if the current escalation wasn't raging,
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congress should be questioning the sales of these types of weapons to israel. out to 0 hydrogen castro. and washington says the rest resolution would actually stop the alms deal. this is a resolution that was merely introduced today by that liberal wing of the democratic party, some of the congress women who you just quoted. and if this were to advance in the house, all it achieves is voicing a non binding objection to this arm sale which was already reached between the by ministration and israel. this is money paid to boeing, the maker of the so called smart bombs, their precision guided missiles that the by the ministration has already approved to sell to israel. all of that happening before this crisis developed acutely. the congress was actually informed of this deal going through prior to this recent
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escalation and violence in the middle east. and so congress has 15 days to voice and objection will today is actually the 2nd to last day. and if you just look at the congressional calendar, there is simply no way that this resolution, even if i had the political cloud behind it could advance in such short time to meet tomorrow deadline. oh my about a is a palestinian american political analyst. he believes the president biden is falling short on 2 key foreign policy fronts. and disapproval is understandably building. as a result, it's quite clear that you have to blunders and american foreign policy in the region. one is the moral stain on america's conscience and the fact that we support this brutal is really occupational palestinians. and then you have the strategic blunder, which is biden's refusal to go back to be around nuclear deal, which is an absolutely common sense deal that prevents iran from developing their weapons and reduces the possibility for escalating tensions in the region and the possibility for a direct confrontation with iran or escalation with iran allies and the region as
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well. so there's simply no reason to move in that direction. and i think given the fact that because of biden's failure is on both front, we are witnessing the possibility for escalation increasing by the moment. and it's only a, you know, that's why we're seeing the significant pressure building. there is growing american awareness and you know, people are becoming much more informed about these dynamics, and that's precisely why by them is coming under intense pressure. we've seen several members of congress take to the floor of the house, demanding that by the halt israel accountable and fundamentally shift this policy towards the region. this is not the kind of thing that we have seen in previous israeli assault. on the one hand, it claims that it's putting human rights 1st and that this is the driving force behind its policy. but on the other hand, they are supplying weapons to a rogue apartheid regime while it is actively bombing civilians. i mean that, that hypocrisy really is on full display. and it's incredibly damaging to the reputation of the united states throughout the world and in the region. and it's obviously something that a lot of americans are concerned about,
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which is why you see so many celebrities and members of congress. and just really the discourse shifting within the country that is outraged that is directed by an administration for moving forward with the sale and with the unconditional policy of military funding for israel, an unconditional diplomatic protection that is preventing the united nations from holding israel accountable. there is a lot of pressure that is building against that as well. the you and agency, the palestinian refugee says the money is needed immediately to help people suffering in kansas humanitarian crisis. and is asking for $38000000.02 pay for food. are the basics of health and psychological support for the vulnerable, especially women and children, the you and says that 56000 people have been displaced since israel, as bombardment began last week. the agency is also pushing the aid workers to be allowed in almost 1900000 people live in gaza at 1400000, often a palestinian refugees, most of who have come from territories occupied by israel. 80 percent of godson's
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depend on international assistance damage from israeli, as strikes from the economic effects of the corona virus pandemic of deep and long running concerns about living conditions. in garza, the united nations general assembly will hold a special session on thursday. i'll just here as christian salumi tells us what to expect. foreign ministers from a number of countries frustrated by the lack of international response to the ongoing crisis in the middle east, are on their way to new york to attend the special session of the general assembly . the security council has held several meetings on the subject, but has been unable to speak with one voice as a result of objections from the united states. france is the most recent country to propose security council action, in this case, in the form of a resolution calling for a cease fire, but with no agreement in sight. the arab group here at the united nations that along with the organization of islamic cooperation called for the special session,
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hoping to keep the spotlight on the problem. they, along with the secretary general of the un, have called for an immediate cease fire, as well as respect for international law. there's been violence in the us where the city of alpha, home after the killing of a 17 year old palestinian israeli boy, 100 killed, one, died from his injuries after being shot in the head by security forces. police use tear gas to discuss one as who gathered outside his family home. so to come over here on 0 more anti government protests planned in columbia, even though they've had another victory of cautious return to life. french cafes, museums reopened. after being closed for 6 months, ah ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by cut on airways
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high that we got more very heavy rain coming into central parts of china, the seasonal rise across the, the my you front. now making its way across the central parts into eastern areas. and this semi space re from will let just wiggles away from the similar areas we go on through the next couple days must be like a rope being dragged across. a similar parts of the ground, the wet weather will continue to just pulse its way across. central nice parts of china into southern and central parts of japan. so some very heavy rainfall coming through. it is likely to cause some disruption as we go on through the next couple of days. it doesn't get a whole lot better as we go on into friday. if anything must ship on she by that stage, seeing some very heavy rain, brightest guys tried to come back in behind, but the rain never really too far away. and you can see hi runs, right the way back into central and southern parts of china. you make away towards the we can joining up the showers that we have across indo china. a rational
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showers there to northern parts of borneo into the philippines. but the heaviest rains going to be with, with the weather to it's part of indonesia, little rash showers. they're just around jobs and wet weather to coming in to southern parts of india over the next couple of days. here's the remnants about tropical cycling, making his way for the north sponsored pay cut on airways. from the al jazeera london broadcast center to people in thoughtful conversation, the struggles that we're in the global south have come not because of our help, but because of the harm of the global north, with no host and no limitation. that's the story of climate change. it's not that we're all in it together, the people who are the most impacted in the 1st impacted or in the global fund, less always how it is part 2 of barber and after dreaming past fashion should be actually regulated to like studio be unscripted on l g, c, i
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the hello again, this is i'll just hear the news this. our people living in 2 crowded garza residential neighborhoods have been won't leave the homes ahead of israeli strikes . this is the city skyline right now. one of the target phones isn't far from the jabante, a refugee camp in northern casa earlier israel hit southern gaza with more than 2 dozen strikes destroying 2 homes that say that's for people who wanted in the city of communist. while both sides publicly say the sites on secret negotiations are said to be on the way a phone call us president joe bible told israel's prime minister to lower the intensity of the conflict in the lead up to the conflict. social media networks
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were accused of deliberately censoring palestinian content from their platforms. facebook, instagram, and twitter all deleted posts about the forced expulsion of palestinian families from shakes java and occupy the steering column. the platforms blamed technical errors, pictures and video of israeli forces reading the alex and last compound were also blocked. some rights groups, data rights groups, blame what they describe as discriminatory algorithms. in response, facebook, a set up a center to monitor content on the conflict. it includes arabic and hebrew speakers who will identify posts that violate its policies and restore those removed an era as a tune, as facebook forma head of public policy for the middle east and north africa region . he says that social media companies have a history of silencing palestinian voices. i think this is something that's not new . i think it's upload, deployed by facebook senior management whenever they're under pressure. and i'm
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sure this was done due to the public outcry by the community futures. activists civil society and media gets facebook, deliberate, and systematic violence, simple a thing, invoices, i don't think the 1st time, nor will it be the last time. i think that the number of factors at the end of the day, these technologies depend on the input that you inserted them when you develop them . and i think the main, the main question is here is how much does the influence of these rated government and why i believe that is really government, one of the most technologically savvy governments in the run around the world. and they have a special cyber unit that focused specifically on cyber warfare. and i think they've been able to build a strong relationship with israel with facebook. and it seems that executives and they've managed to hack the system. i don't think the, any of these technological giants will ever allow any outside agencies to be able to look into that algorithm ident of the day. we need to realize that good in the business of data and algorithms is the main engine behind it. and they never allow
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anyone to access into their chillies palestinian commute as he has held protest against his ready military actions in gaza. chilly is one of the principal buyers of israeli weapons, but it's also home to the largest palestinian community outside the middle east. the sea and human reports from santiago, the enough towns had seattle members of the palestinian desperate in chile sing and dance for freedom in palestine. men, women, and children. the majority born here happened from boston, their roots. my grandparents are from ramallah, their home was demolished by the israelis and they were left with nothing was marked as a new arrival, but he's now desperate to return to his home in gaza. he shows me a photo of a building where she says his sister was dug out of the rebel 2 days ago. this was my family home. all 6 clothes were flattened by israeli bombs. 140 people lived in
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that building and 36 of them died. my 2 brothers is telling the coma many may be surprised. kimmy is home to the largest palestinian community outside of the middle east. they began my grading here in the early 1900 hundred's day. they're extremely influential comically. and politically they even have their own football team will not get the say. the thing in arabic does not become what that means to my way, those palestinian blood people. i'm actually in the water, but we will never renounce origin which we must fight for homeland on the palette. sitting association is asking the kids to do just the violence thinking they think that they're asking if the government actually israel and they point out that it's not a problem that they back here in this country. they have very good relations with
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the jewish community, but rather one turn all the in chile, palestinian self determination and a 2 state solution that respects borders established in 1967. how strong bipartisan support give it to the conservative sen, francisco, which one of palestinian origin says international pressure must increase industrial killer. just as the largest opener, prison on earth. and it also has the highest concentration of people in the world are calling on the united nations to resolve this critical crisis and condemn is really settlements on occupied palestinian territorial another politician of palestinian origin communist party married daniel hathaway is more blunt, pulls, put him as one of the favorites for julie's upcoming presidential elections. if i were president, i would push for the absolute condemnation of israel because there's a difference between intervention and foreign affairs and condoning
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a foreign occupation characterized by systemic extermination. whoever is the next president, the middle east conflict will continue to be an issue in chile, a country where the palestinian cause is so close to home, to so many have to see in human houses era cynthia. now to other news around this deputy foreign minister says that talks to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal and bring the us bank to table have progressed well in vienna. under the agreement, iran restricted its nuclear program and exchange for sanctions relief. but it's repeatedly breached the terms of the deal since donald trump pulled the us out in 2018. washington says that it's ready to lift many of its sanctions. a terran says that it won't rejoin until all of them are removed. donald trump has to cried. what he calls unfair attacks and abuse after new york's attorney general opened the criminal investigation and the former president's business dealings members of his
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family could also be in the firing line as probably co have reports. in his 1st run for president, when his opponent criticized him for possibly not paying federal taxes. donald trump described it like this so that make it more a 0. but now authorities in new york are looking at whether it was actually criminal. the state attorney general lateesha james had been looking at possible civil violations that could lead to fines. but now she says she's joining the investigation led by cyrus vance. the manhattan district attorney, looking at potential criminal charges. the issue did trump say his properties like trump tower, were worth love to the government to pay less tax and then tell banks they were worth more to get loans? tax fraud and bank fraud can carry prison time if convicted, it's entirely possible. the president goes to jail. this has been on the horizon during his campaigns when people were talking about some of these problems with his taxes in particular. and some of these charges it would also not
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surprise me at all to know that at some point there would be federal involvement as well because tax fraud is a federal crime. the former president claims its political retribution in a statement saying, there is nothing more corrupt than an investigation that is in desperate search of a crime. but authorities are pressuring his long time accountant. recently going after the tuition records for ellen, weisel, birth grandchildren at this expensive prepped school, why silver has worked with authorities in the past. getting immunity in exchange for testifying against trumps lawyer michael cohen. but it's not clear if this man who's believed to know everything about trans finances will or is cooperating. trump is facing widespread legal issues here in washington dc. the attorney general is doing the inaugural committee and his company, alleging that the committee was overcharged dramatically during the duration to use the trump hotel any more than a $1000000.00. just a matter of days while he was in the white house,
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trump was able to keep his records and himself free from prosecution action. he no longer has as a private citizen. pinnacle hain, al jazeera, washington, columbia, and politicians are voted down contentious health care reforms, handing protest as another victory of 2 weeks of often violent demonstrations. government opponents are backing down though, planning another week on the streets, out of some of them. pnc reports from bogus on the nationwide protest against the government in columbia entered there for a week. they show no signs of abating, but they seem to be getting more creative in color for union students. indigenous groups and others continue to march and dance for change. oh, demonstrations were marred by vandalism in violence, police response that kill dozens, the people having back down we continue demanding guarantees to process safely and
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that the government respects columbia as youth who are demonstrating in the streets because they want a new government model, a new system that will respond to the needs of the poor and the marginalized and columbia. the demonstrations originally called against and now cancel tax plan have expanded to include domains like a basic living income and police reform. protests leaders have begun discussing their demands with the government that former negotiations of the to start, while deadly confrontations with the police continue at night in a number of cities. the government once roadblocks that have paralyzed the country's economy to be lifted before negotiating in return. they're promising to make some concessions. helped reform opposed by demonstrators which shelled by congress on wednesday before the professors these when confessions, while the importance are for substitute support, the deep structural changes they're hoping to achieve. fabulous and fun in the sun
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during the rallies for the 1st time and wednesday, hey, they were compelled by the violent police response to the demonstration. the government's not listening to the people who are asking for better health. that education for the younger, for our kids, always see is repression. and this hurts us all. it makes a heartache. you negotiate legal and political annalee, say the level of repression has helped unify and strengthen the resolve of a diverse group of demonstrators. and so the goal, the protest now have the upper hand on the government. they have the upper hand in terms of the narrative. they are the upper hand in terms of the street, and now the government is trying to find ways it can be escalate, the protest, reduce intensity, and this way blockades from continuing. unfortunately, the government is not presenting a viable dialogue alternative to the protesters. emo's always threw you on is
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a complex, tangled to him. ravel for a colombian president that appears to be increasingly isolated in week as demonstrators bow to carry on, allison and l. just gotta me the pause french or french health care system is in various states of collapse something new very, and strove curve at 19 infections up sharply at this hospital in the capitol cap. my do beds have run out leaving patients to be treated outside. there's also a shortage of medical oxygen. the european union is easing travel restrictions for tourists who are fully vaccinated against covered by a team. you ambassadors of also agreed on relaxing the criteria for countries to be considered safe. until now, that list included only 7 nations. the imposed strict measures last here, one destination could be france. the famous cafe terraces reopened in paris on
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wednesday. as to the museums and cinemas will be with reduced capacity. the government hopes the restrictions will be gone by the end of june from paris booked at smith's reports. deprived of that cafe terraces for most of the past 12 months parisians weren't letting pouring rain get in the way of what is hoped to be the beginning of the end of lockdown restriction. we had our 1st customer here. i say it's tough this morning. so everybody is wasting, feels go into the stores, do some shopping to sit and have a coffee which we love doing in paris, sitting down at a table on a terrorist watch the world go by, get up going to a store own of that. people are waiting to go to museums, indoor of unused, aloof can operate at reduced capacity. it was sold out today. early visitors were keen to resume a modern tourism ritual. before the pandemic, france was the world's most visited country tourism contributed 7.5 percent of gdp
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to encourage tourists back. france will become one of the few to offer free covert tests to visitors to which is a key part of the french academy. and that's why we have decided to have these tests for free for the winter. it's so that france will be one of the most attractive destination among your band countries. while cues outside luxury good stores might be encouraging for the economy. 2021 will still be tough. many places around expecting a 3rd of the tourists. they would have seen pre pandemic. but at least it's something when you choose to be a way to when you choose to have a piece area, or when you choose to offer the best of the french or liquor luxury clothing. it's, it's the job you decided to do and what drives you to go every morning and this was for, for us. on the other one. yeah, it was very tough and we're not out of it yet. president emanuel microns said,
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as he took coffee with his prime ministers, young, caustics, but the government hope's a newly accelerated vaccination program will mean they'll be no more lock downs. now, the french government is taking a gamble. movie, 13000 people a day is still testing positive, a curve at 19 compatible with the u. k. in a similar population. and that 2 and a half 1000 people a day, i tested positive and the u. k. i only started reopening a few weeks ago. bernard smith, al jazeera parish. ah, it is good to have with a fellow adrian again with you here in the headlines and i was 0. people living in to crowded garza residential neighborhoods.

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