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children learn to play dangerous game, said the store, the house have worn down by frustration and broken promises. young men living under the constant threat of imprisonment. they took me to the chief and blindfolded me the time for them to regain control of their lives is when the boys return. prison . 9 inside and out on al jazeera ah israel and had agreed to a cease fire ending 11 days of fighting that killed more than $200.00 palestinians and brought widespread destruction. ah, hello and welcome on pizza w, watching on 20, live from headquarters here in bo. how also coming up?
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the palestinian celebrate the troops that come out claims victory and the conflicts that warns it'll react to any violations. the us president joe biden welcomes the deal, calling it a genuine opportunity for lost in peace in the middle east with the u. energies all sides to renew. dial also ahead reports that minimize the electoral commission plans to dissolve. anson su, cheese national, the crew democracy policy ah, in the new day is coming with a ceasefire and fresh hopes for an extended break and fighting between israelis and palestinians. this is the gaza skyline this morning. it is a very different scene from the last 11 days where the tell tale signs of bomb will
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often seen above garza city. and this is on the garza israel border. where is really tanks have been master. of course, during the 11 days of fighting. and this is how the news of the seaside was received. celebrations broke out in garza, bethlehem ramallah and the occupied east jerusalem neighbourhood, which has been at the center of the most recent tensions. families in gaza had been sheltering it un ron schools have begun returning to their homes after the cease fire announcement, many fled to the schools on the outskirts of god's city and un says, nearly 60000 people have been displaced. delta meet is in chic gerra. that's the neighborhood in occupied east jerusalem. that's been a flash point in the recent conflict. we'll talk to her in just a moment. first, let's go to, you know, i'll see you in gaza unit for those tens of thousands of people internally displaced in garza. that's tough. enough, but returning to literally find your home is a pile of rubble. where do they start?
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hi peter. i mean, the people here in god's are so much determined to, to, you know, remove everything away from in front of them and start fresh with that light. they mean they're, they're moving the rubble away from their home. they're trying to get whatever they could get from their furniture mattresses, whatever they can. they have hope that the upcoming gave chelsea better. i mean the streets of the goddess just suddenly, there is a light beating in them. there is a movement if people shop has opened and people are coming and going, there's transportation movement around. people try to get what they can save from the rubble of their home. probably most of the people that we still can to are going to be heading to neighboring families for this period of time until they find
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in its turn to solution for their homes that have been destroyed. and this is what they're hoping that it would not be taking long that the un united, especially since most of the residents here are refugees would be giving them turn it to like, funding for rent or anything like that until they can have their homes re constructed once again, but basically life has started to be in the streets of god's starting from now. okay. you know, many things, you know, i'll say 40 lifers of gaza. that's also a good life to her to meet in occupied east jerusalem. so honda is, may be worth reminding ourselves that where you are, shake gera was one of the, the localized api senses that led to the trouble going back 11 days. but there was
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trouble there and they were tensions that going back to the beginning of ramadan. there's absolutely, i mean, many actually watch that part this whole around by and now we are exactly outside of that road. if you see behind me here it is a police check point down that road are the houses of those families who have spread and expulsion today. no one is allowed there except for residents. not even a journalist are allowed that. so you can still feel that the tension is around yet the war is over. but the tensions in jerusalem remained quite high, actually adorned. so shortly a couple of hours after the fire was announced, hundreds of people went to come off for the radio and on their way out, there was still some mission between the israeli police and some of these
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worshippers coming out around them. i just gave area. so the tensions are still very much. yeah. and actually even hamas in a statement overnight before and after the fire had said yes, the war is over. but we need guarantees that the tensions in jerusalem and around the ship to ra, neighborhood will subside. and that idea of replacing palestinian homes with israeli jewish settler homes, that's one of the core issues that everyone involved in the, the run up to this cease fire is signaling or has been signaling. that's one of the issues we have to deal with. difficult to imagine, however, the israeli government rescinding what's been going on there or doing a big you turn on what's been going on there? shake gera. yeah, absolutely. you're absolutely right. in that i mean,
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any palestinian living here in june. they would they have been saying that for years now that that is an effort, i concerted effort by the government through the settlers to push every palestinian out of occupied years. and as you sort of take away the palestinian identity now many would tell you that that actually became more prominent after president trump. and now that jerusalem was the capital of the issue, is that that has been ongoing. you know that i was telling you about that. no one is allowed. that when i tell you, no one is allowed to live. and if you are ready, if you are, you don't live in this neighborhood. you are still allowed to go down that road is a synagogue at the bottom of that road. so you have this sort of friction that's
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increasing because you have the continues infiltration of settlers into this area. and the friction points of friction are basically in every street in every way every round about. and it's very difficult to see how a prime minister or whoever will become the next prime minister. you will back off from them. i mean, even in that, just before the fire was actually in place officially in place. and after we heard from the leaders of this sort of far right, political party and they were very upset about this, the fire, it would be very difficult way to change any policy that's going here. it could be on hold, but it won't change. okay. or many thanks for that. also meet the report in life from shake gerra. harry thought it has more for us this off from west jerusalem is really is to to start with the saying that the civilian restrictions that have been
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in place, especially the ones very close to garza, are now being lifted apart from schools. they're saying the military and placements will stay there for several days. monitoring the ceasefire, both the israelis and the leadership of hamas claiming victory. hamas is saying that it exacted concessions out of israel both in terms of is really activities in shaped euro. and on the alex are most compound known as the temple mount to jews. the israelis are entirely denying that saying it is a lie. the israeli line is that how much has been put back by years. that's what the defense minister benny guns says in terms of these strikes on the tunnels on missile production on senior commanders to in turn, how much is denying that saying that there are men proudly striding through the tunnels as we speak. so that is the situation in terms of the victory claims, the, there is a political criticism of the government of benjamin that you know,
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from the right one right wing political leader saying with the advanced military and intelligence at his disposal, the only thing that was managed to gain is a sci fi without conditions, so criticism coming in on that front too. okay, that's the picture in the region. the us president joe biden, in the states welcoming the sci fi, saying his administration had worked tirelessly behind the scenes. gabriel elizondo has more now from washington. president joe biden had come under increase pressure over the last week to do more to try to stop the violence. particularly with progresses within the democratic party, who were calling on biden to pressure prime minister benjamin netanyahu to pursue more aggressively a ceasefire. so ultimately, when biting did announce a cease fire, he wanted to show that the u. s. was very much involved in it and wanted to take some credit. we've held intention, high level discussions, our by our literally egypt palestinian authority,
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another middle eastern countries with a name of avoiding disorder, pro long conflict we've seen in previous years when hostile is broken out. i believe the palestinians and israelis equally deserved to live safely and securely and enjoy equal measures of freedom, prosperity and democracy. my administration will continue our quiet, relentless diplomacy toward that end. i believe we have a genuine opportunity to make progress and i've committed to working for it. the question now becomes as well, the biden administration use this opportunity to pursue peace with israel and palestine in the region. we are getting late. we're now that secretary of state antony blink, and we'll be heading to the region in the coming days to meet with both israelis and palestinians, and regional players to pursue some sort of peace agreement where these meetings will take place and with exactly whom is still unknown but it does give an
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indication that at least in some degree, by and does want to seize this opportunity to pursue a more lasting piece in the region. the un secretary general hazards both sides to respect the truth and renew the dialogue to bring about reconciliation and an end to divisions. i welcome the ceasefire between gaza and israel. after 11 days of deadly securities, i extend my deepest condolences to the victims of the violence and their loved ones . i commend egypt and katara for the efforts carried out in close coordination with un to help restore come to gods and israel. i stressed that israeli and palestinian leaders ever responsibility on the restoration of come to start to see this dialogue with the rest root causes of the conflicts. plenty more ground still to cover for you here on out there including concerns a growing up the pace of south africa's vaccination program as it enters
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a 3rd way of coping and joe biden will hold his 1st face to face new thing with his as korean counter product can the us help the north and mend broken times? ah hello, nice to see. we have been dealing with our usual heavy rains across areas of indo china. let me show you what he did in bangkok, 80 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours. it's not an extraordinary amount, but still quite soaking rain that you had now on saturday. the heaviest concentration of rain will be towards southern sections of cambodia and vietnam. i think we'll get into some breaks for bangkok actually on saturday. and the rain is easing across tomorrow. and borneo as well, that's not to say that there are still won't be heavy pockets, but we're getting
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a bit of relief here. k off to australia and high pressure is really the driver of the school bus here. we may just see shower toward the sunshine in the gold coast. nothing major. maybe just a bit of increasing cloud cover. but here's what we're watching toward western australia, a friends going to swoop in. it's going to bring some gusty winds and some rain as we head toward perth, over the next few days. it's going to drop your temperature below average. by the time we get toward monday, you know what? it's also a lot of sunshine, a run of sun as we had across new zealand. except for this we do have a disturbance just toward the north portion of the north island that could introduce some rain into auckland, but very gusty conditions on sunday. the news for decades, criminals made millions trafficking drugs to thailand, 11 east explorers where the country has now become the 1st in se,
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asia legalize medical marijuana. on al jazeera, me be the hero, the world needs right now. a washer. i oh, a. okay, there we are. here we go. let's recap your top mean stories for this c 5 between israel and hamas does appear to be holding. it went into effect on friday after 11 days of fighting, which killed more than $230.00 palestinians. 12 people died in israel,
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news of the sci fi and has been met with celebrations across the palestinian territories displaced families begun returning to their homes, wanting names of the troops. us president joe biden as well can be agreement saying, israelis and palestinians deserve to live in peace. he says washington will continue to support israel militarily and he pledged humanitarian aid to palestinians in garza. well, many palestinians living in lebanon, our descendants of those who fled the 1948 war. they've been closely watching the events unfold across the border. now they say a new reality has been created. the holder reports now from beirut, where he, the us were, has never set foot in his homeland, but he holds on to his palestinian identity. he was born in lebanon over the decades. the 51 year old has watched his fellow palestinians fight israeli occupation at 1st with stones and now with long range rockets. but he says the
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conflict now is a turning point in their struggle. that can excuse him, him. i won't take israel's because this is our land. so i say palestinians living in villages occupied since 948. when i played a critical role, that's the fact that they have now revolted. well hoping israeli generations of palestinians have grown up in exile, descendants of many of those who left or were expelled during the 1948, palestinian israeli war. many have felt helpless and powerless as they watched the deadliest violence in years in the occupied palestinian territories. but at the same time, they feel the narrative is changing. recent events have highlighted the underlying reasons behind the repeated cycles of unrest and violence. the fact that there is a people oppressed suddenly real a lot as judge the world is reacting. there is support for the palestinian people who seeing the injustices day and you will know that there is an occupation for
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they know we have a cause a cause that has not gone away. the latest violence was not confined to gaza and palestinians in the west bank occupied jerusalem and across israel mobilized a few months ago when we visited this camp, the feeling among palestinians was different. they had lost hope when some arab countries find the normalization deals and establish ties with israel. the trump administration called it the dawn of a new middle east. they now tell us the palestinians who are resisting our, showing the world. those accords won't bring peace to israel. little hi, hausteen's not relying on rulers, but the people who are filling the squeeze from the united states to arab countries to europe carrying the palestinian flag. lamb ruins did 1st o people live except to be received or humiliated. essays out of the attack on the acc, some mosque, and attempts to drive more palestinians from their homes in jerusalem triggered the
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latest round of violence. but the policy of expulsions dates back to 1948 of mohammed who is older than the state of israel is living proof that their elders, either they root the political party of me and mars steed lead son sue cheese being dissolved by the country's electoral commission that's according to reports from some local media outlets. now the commission, which was appointed by the countries military rulers following the cue in february, accused the party of electro fraud. florence louis as falling developments from columbia the military when they took over power in february, it justified its position on the basis of electro fraud. so it's following that line. now, one of the 1st things it did after the coup was detain election commission officials and investigated senior members. then it appointed its people, people that trust it to the election commission body. now there's new gent,
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her appointed electron election commission, held a meeting on friday, and it's chad person said that they've made that decision. this was a meeting attended by political parties as well. but many of the pro democracy parties refused to attend. it was attended mostly by the pro military parties. now the chairperson is non said that the election commission intends to dissolve the national league for democracy party. this is a party led by on santucci and at 182 percent of elected seats in last year's election. now the chair also said that the end of these leaders were he considered them traitors, and he said, action would be taken. that's as far as we know now it has to be said that no credible election monitoring body has supported the military's claims of electro fraud. in fact, quite the opposite. there were 2 foreign election. observe the missions in young law during the polls last year. and they both said, but by and large, the voting and the results result reflected the people's, when the military did say that when it took over power in february,
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but it intends to hold an election. but i think from what we're seeing that whatever election, whatever shape this election takes, it's not going to be one that will be free and fast. corona virus restrictions back in place in the say, shells following a sharp spike in cases more than 60 percent of the population is fully vaccinated and the government had been trying to reopen its tourism industry. but since businesses started returning in march with no vaccination required cases did start to rise. schools and shops had been close bars and casinos close. early south africa has begun the 2nd phase of its vaccination program focusing on people over 60 years old. but the government has been condemned because of a slow rollout. it's the worst hit country in africa. and there are growing fears of a possible 3rd wave to me. the miller has more not for me because the natal province at this vaccination site and peter merits bug rupert now lines up with hundreds of
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people for their 1st of 2 jobs. this is the 2nd phase of south africa, the vaccination program, and the government plans to vaccinate 5000000 elderly people by the end of june. i've just said in the queue, which was very, very far, very efficiently done. and very nicely, they took care of all the over 61 and the there been any old person sitting around for a long time. so far more than 470000 health workers have received a job through a trial program. almost half a 1000000 still need to be vaccinated. the government says it wants to be vaccinating 250000 people a day by september. but their concerns, the program is and will be slower than expected. but between now and the end of june, we should every 5th. ready goes to 6000000 boxes, we're trying to get more than that, but because of some of the days we're trying to deliver it,
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we ship them for later on india. and so we're hoping that on the 2nd phase one, looking at 16000000 people vaccinated, the government says a shortage and supply may delay 2nd doses of 5 vaccine up to 3 months. and some a worry that virus variance 1st identified in the u. k. in india will impact south africa. several cases of both have been identified here. the government has for months, want people, a 3rd wave is expected, and it's now been confirmed in 2 provinces. so electric is also entering winter when more people, especially the vulnerable, will become ill. government says it's focusing on vaccinating the elderly, and it's aiming to vaccinate also the africans by march next year. that's off to saying it will meet its deadline this year. for many watching and waiting for their jap, shifting target is wiring for me to mila ultra xerox. luna?
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tell south africa. spain says it's bank more than $6500.00 microns offer. a huge influx of people across the border from morocco over recent days, around 8000 refugees and microns made their way into the spanish enclave of suitor this week. spain, as accused morocco of relaxing its border security as retaliation for madrid's decision to allow a western sahara and independence leader to seek medical treatment in spain. bernard smith is in suitor. the spanish military standing guard, again here at the beach at theatre, just on the other side of the fence, is morocco and its back around jeff. thousands of migrants cross earlier this week and the ability with which they so easily cross seems to have been influenced by how the moroccans on the other side decided to enforce or not enforce. border security. morocco is displeased by decision of the spanish authorities to allow
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entry to spain the hospital treatment to him. golly, he's the leader of the policy mario front. it seeks independence from a rock and run western sahara. but this event is not gone without tragedy. earlier today, a body washed up on the beach here. so if all the only known vitality from crossing and an indication of the desperate circumstances that there are in morocco and elsewhere in northern africa. and yet another indication of how people a desperately trying to leave those countries in search of a better life in your job item and his screen counterpart moon jane will hold their 1st face to face talks at the white house shortly top of the agenda. north korea, mr. biden, trying to strike a balance between donald trump's leader to leader diplomacy and barack obama is more distant approach. kimberly, how kit now from washington,
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he was the 1st sitting us president to ever meet with the north korean leader. but donald trump so called love affair with kim jung and was often shaky rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself. still he hoped his efforts would change the relationship . washington house was feeling gang for all the hoopla and all the pageantry with the summit between the president, trump and north korean leadership. and all of the boasts about how things were going change for the better. indeed, nothing really changed at all. and essentially, we're back to square one just before the new president joe biden was inaugurated in january. north korea lodge was called the most powerful missile on the planet. stark reminder, appealing gangs desire to continue its weapons program as bite and prepares for his 1st white house meeting with south korean leader moon j n. north korea hangs over every discussion. i think that i know,
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given the timing with with moon possibly at the end of this term, i think he wants to get something done quickly. south korean president needs biden to help with a long term piece deal to the north. and south korea are still technically at war water bivens predecessors failed to achieve what that officials are playing down any glitzy grand bargain from biden bite. and gould out the possibility of a meeting can tell none of the north. i mean, is that even a possibility? i don't expect that to be top on his agenda for the past week. americans attention has been mostly focused on the ongoing crisis in gaza. and israel. that may be a distraction from the meeting. one area where the to leaders can reach a deal is on covey. 19 vaccines. sol needs more and they're hoping that president bided can help. kimberly help him al jazeera, the white house,
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the 8 nations that make up the council have agreed on a new tenure strategic plan for the region that the conference in reykjavik has highlighted tensions between russia and its 7 poland. neighbors poll brennan explains the frozen north of our planet has long been the cause of contested rival race. less than a century since explorers 1st set foot at the north pole. climate change is causing the sea ice to recede, dramatically, opening up the world's smallest ocean to the globes. biggest super pass, and to intense geopolitical competition. the arctic council brings the 8 polar nations together, along with indigenous representatives. and together, for the 1st time, they've agreed a 10 year strategy for cooperation on climate environment or science and maritime safety. the arctic council needs to ensure a stronger attention to indigenous peoples rights and protection of our cultures to ensure the development is truly sustainable. and that no one is left behind. we are
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committed to advancing a peaceful arctic region where cooperation prevails on climate, the environment, science and safety. and we're sustainable economic development benefits the people of the region. by 2040, it may be possible to sail to the north pole across open water. but as the region becomes increasingly accessible, economic development, extraction of natural resources and strategic interests are being hotly contested. russia is expanding and modernizing its military faces along the arctic rim, rebuffing criticism by pointing out that nordic members of the nato alliance, so also bolstering thin military presence in the final. see what was a thrust. but of course, we're mostly concerned about what is happening next to our borders. know why is our closest neighbor with which we have very good relations. however, problems linked to the escalation of military political tension remain because of
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foreign trips in norway and in the baltic region. if the baltic, you only last month, no way agreed with the united states to all, to see the a lot of territorial control in the form of military bases. 4 of them which do not a state have an interest in and obviously the objective is quite quite clear that would like to use this presence in norway in order to challenge russia and are at the end of the council. the ceremonial gabble was passed on to russia, which intends to use its chairman ship to prioritize sustainable development in the far north. but of course, any development strings, environmental impact friction between the natural human worlds and increasingly the possibility of political and even military conflict. pull brennan al jazeera ah, this is al jazeera,
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these are your top stories. a ceasefire between israel and mouse does appear to be holding and came into effect on friday.

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