i i me, i protest outside cause in ocoee bodies. jerusalem is honest indian families, 5 or 6 falls from from their homes. ah, hello, i'm come all. maria, here in the world news from al jazeera, the u. s. efforts to shore up the seas fire continuing. secretary said anthony, blinking is headed to cairo also in the open to 1000000 people to take shelter as a powerful cycle. and another one hits india this time in the 8th and inefficient

apartments of the tokyo olympics called for the games to be cancelled because of the co, the risk ah diplomatic efforts continue this wednesday as lead is worked to cement the cease fire between israel and hamas. but for so many, this is where their attention is another potential flash point in occupied east jerusalem. this time it's over the neighborhood of phil. one purchased bro account isn't as ready call was expected to review. another case of forced evictions. 6 palestinian families are at risk of losing their homes. of the court has however, been adjourned for the day. we've also got the us secretary said antony blinking here he is leaving. kyra, if you are leaving for cairo a few hours ago, he tries to bolster the cease fire on tuesday, human palestinian and israeli leaders and announced millions of dollars new for palestinians,

as well as the reopening of the u. s. consulate in occupied east jerusalem. so we'll look at both of these stories, james space out, the matter i get it is in west jerusalem will be with you shortly. james, starting with her bill, how made it in occupied east jerusalem. a court has adjourned, but there was still plenty of an anger outside the court. the where he has the court has a journal, as the defense lawyer said, well, the court has decided not to take any decision at stake. here was an appeal made by several families who i've received a ruling forcing them to leave their home that the living in the 967 in the neighborhood of the defense lawyer try to do is basically off the court to get the attorney general of israel's involved in this case that would be a very similar pattern that what happened with the shaft ra issue? the reasoning behind that is that the defense lawyer says that that same attorney

general had ruled against palestinian family buying land in ships. so he, they want to not put him on this boat and see if he would do the same thing when it comes to illegal jewish settlement in occupied east jerusalem outside. as you said, it was a protest family. this is an activist, and now they have had their, their heading to shift around, which is basically a 5 minute walk from the courthouse. i say this is the reality, isn't it? how to we've spoken so much, obviously on gods or in the last 2 weeks. but any palestinian will tell you actually this is the core issue in the thing which needs to be dealt with. the it is the court issue and it is the issue that really causes fiction on a daily basis. you know, if you go around occupied east jerusalem for us, even journalists who come here on a regular basis each time you do see the different, you do see the,

the extension of i was a jewish penetration into the palestinian area that those are still under this kid, regardless of what president, some of those are still under this kid and occupies yours and it should not be on the israeli civil war. it goes against international law evictions. the actually, i guess international humanitarian law box people here would tell you that they are constantly under pressure that constantly. they have this feeling for morning to evening that the m game here is really to eradicate anything palestinians occupied east jerusalem. and certainly if you look at the map and if you look at the expansion of the sector in the area is getting more and more palestinians appearing much more squeezed at the heart of the world. but it's really in jerusalem and no one will ever let go of that. and

as we so far the cycle of violence, 11 day war with guys as a susan, the very bullet situation tempers flare up all the time. and i think the court ruling could not taking a decision rather today has much to do with trying to calm down the situation because we're only, we're less than a week into the fire. so it's just to calm down all the tempers here. but this issue will come out again. bill, how may in okay bodies, jerusalem, thank you for bad. we've also got him run khan who is overlooking that neighborhood of phil one. he's got more about what's happening in this case. that's still one over there. now a lot of the families being displaced in have been displaced. i've been displaced for a very simple reason. jewish settlers, they stated aim and this isn't hyperbole,

is to get rid of every single palestinian family and occupied easterly slept and make the entire neighborhood jewish. that's stated, aim now they doing that through legal means. they sometimes, particularly in the early days of this been going on since the ninety's they by properties from palestinians. now that's completely legal and nobody's disputing that that has actually happened. but now what they're saying is that they're questioning the laws that the palestinians bought properties from jordan. when this was jordan in 6566 and saying that those agreements are now not in void. and that's what they're trying to push through the courts right now. now when jewish settlers actually move into a neighborhood like this, they don't just move in and become good neighbors. what happens is that they bring with the board of police. they bring with israeli police security and even minor infractions. minor disputes turn into quite serious incidents between the settlers,

between the police and it's often the palestinians who get arrested who get taken out of their homes. and this is very well documented by bit selim and peace now and other israeli activists organizations as a pattern that occurs in occupied east jerusalem. valid diplomatic side of things. he was secretary states antony blinking on his way to egypt. he spent the last 24 hours meeting, both israeli and palestinian leaders, and we'll talk about the remainder of his trip with james bass in a moment. first, his report on blinking diplomatic effort so far. arriving intel of eve, the us secretary of state, on a trip with a narrow aim, keeping things calm after the sea. his 1st stop an audience with israel's prime minister pledging the u. s. is continuing commitment to israel's defense. but adding this, we believe that palestinians and israelis equally deserved to live safely and securely, to enjoy equal measures of freedom opportunity,

and democracy to be treated with dignity. that echoed by the israeli leader. his words, perhaps unconvincing to some of the leading and 11 de bombardment of garza, we discussed also how to improve the lives in the conditions of the palestinians. the managerial conditions in ramallah. the 1st visit by a secretary of state to the president of the palestinian authority for over 3 years old contact was stopped when the trump administration announced it was moving the u . s. embassy to jerusalem. there was a cordial tone, but it was clear one of the president central, the bonds was not on the u. s. agenda. one of the month. and we hope that the future will be full of diplomatic activities in order to reach a comprehensive solution. and to put an end to recent events, president bass was told though that the u. s. would reopen its consulate general in east jerusalem. a diplomatic representation specifically for palestinians,

which was closed by president trump. there was a commitment to help and the rebuilding of garza after the 11 day war and a new package of funding for the un and the palestinian authority and more with james based on antony blinking next to stop cairo and then amman. jordan yes, he's in car right now, tomorrow he's meeting right now as we understand the president cc. i think he will be big brother, careful with egypt. sions. because the relationship between the biden, the ministration and the cc government has been difficult in the 1st 4 months of the by did ministration. in fact, president biden only spoke to president cc about a week ago in the final days before the seas fall was agree. the egypt egyptians will be hoping to leverage that, i think, to improve relations, but there will be other talk subjects that need to be discussed between the 2

governments. the issue of the nile and the problems of egypt has with saddam over the dam. there'll be the issue of libya and of course the very thorny issue of the very bad situation of human rights in egypt. because you say that on to jordan, for a meeting with king abdullah in a few hours time. meanwhile, here, following in secretary lincoln's footsteps, the u. k. foreign set proceed dominic rob. he's been meeting with the israeli foreign minister, gabby ash canarvy, and then we'll be meeting with prime minister netanyahu interesting in his meeting with the foreign minister that it's iran. the foreign minister again wanted to bring up just as prime minister netanyahu inserted it in today's comments when he met with secretary blinkin saying this time that it was a rainy and drones that we used by her mass. and that's why there's such

a danger with the iran nuclear deal, and the u. s. going back into it, those negotiations ongoing in vienna. they're still at a delicate stage, but that making progress, in fact, the deputy foreign minister of iran is the chief negotiator saying there is some hope that the round that just started could be the last around. and that clearly is worrying of these righties. thank you. james. space at diplomatic ed is reporting west or islam. onto other news. the 2nd sign clones a hit india and just over a week it has made last fall on the east coast. states of alicia and west bank over the full force. with more than $2000000.00 people already moved to safety cycling the youngest is expected to bring gusts of up to 185 kilometers an hour and severe flooding. this is after last week, another cycle and hit india's west and coast and killed. more than $140.00 people from elizabeth per item and new del used as the cycle, and is also complicating the efforts to combat coven 19. well, they have been

a lot of preparations in place of the last few days and that is because dish and westbank goals are unfortunately no changes to cycling. there be more than $2000000.00 people who've been evacuated from low lying areas to shelters 5 years. mainland full on wednesday morning on our dishes, close to and so father being wind speeds of 142155 kilometers reported. the army has had to launch a rescue operation already for about 32 people who have been stranded after a search in water levels in the east mid now poor district of west bengal now even before yards made land full on wednesday morning. both states edition and west bengal will have been lashed with very strong winds heavy rain since tuesday, along the east coast. the army has 17 cycle and relief teams that they've deployed the capital city of cold cutter and whooping they should have suspended all flights

for the day. many trains on the east coast have also been canceled. the preparations are in place, but the flight plan certainly complicates efforts to 5 the corona virus, both edition and west bengal, west ban goal more so than audition. i have been recording very high numbers of corona virus cases. and 2000000 people have been moved to shelters, where there is no room for social distancing. cars here with a look at the weather next. and then when the public needs this most, the government failed. damning indictment on the handling of the current a virus pandemic that if the u. k prime ministers or what chief advise them giving evidence to him and syrians of voting in a presidential election condemned by the opposition as shall we will hear from refugees about their hopes for the future. ah,

ah. hello there, let scott in, south, east asia. and you can see the cloud cover over indo china bringing with it some really heavy rains. and those are going to persist as we go into thursday, particularly heavy across the vietnam cambodia for laos as well as thailand, and we could see some flash flooding. here we go into friday. some of those showers will be heavier across borneo. but for the philippines, we're looking relatively cloudy with some scattered sunshine and showers. somewhere else that's going to see quite a bit of rainfall to come, is going to be purse. it's been fine and dry ahead of that weather system that's bringing the wet weather. and that as we go into friday, that'll affect coastal areas of western australia too. but we've got high pressure keeping things pretty fine and dry across central and northern areas. it's down in the south, but we have got those weather conditions has mania, has seen quite

a few strong winds and rain snow as well in the highlands. but that does clear, though, the temperatures will fit down slightly 15 in melbourne, and that weather system moves across into new zealand. ahead of that, we have had some brisk winds across the north island and sunshine in the south, but the wet weather is on its way the the repo tell is the hotels that i've ever stated and the biggest box you have ever seen? how did explode taken out the hotel? this was the journey. we loved it when it was built and read. even when it was a major town it or the conflict in northern ireland in the late 20th century belfast europa. a new episode of war hotels on al jazeera

ah the me. the help stories this our on al jazeera and israeli court has a jones decision on false evictions in occupied these jerusalem protests broke out outside the court. 6 palestinian foundation, fit one or risk of losing their hope. you're a secretary state antony lincoln's arrived in cairo after meeting palestinian and israeli leaders on tuesday. he announced millions of dollars in new age, the palestinians, and the reopening of the u. s. consulate, unoccupied, east jerusalem. the 2nd cycle to hit india in just over a week is my land for on the eastern coast. the state of edition and west bank all

will bear the full force with more than 2000000 people moved to safety. what the hell of sending the dealing with a lot more than just conflict in israeli occupation? corona virus is spreading almost unchecked. officially, 250 new infections and 5 deaths were reported on tuesday. this harry force that reports from gaza. there's no way to know the real numbers. me that i'm a see is struggling for breath. like much of goes is population. he'd spend days at home in fear of his really bumming rates. the trouble was he'd been infected with coven 19, and was getting worse day by day. now, his condition doctor say, is very serious. had the money he's infected at home during the war, get corona virus symptoms, but he couldn't come to the hospital because he was scared of the shelling. we've had many cases like death that we've been dealing with in another ward and garza cities. she hospital, we find measured sally, a doctor turn patient recently out of intensive care. it wasn't covered 19 that put

in there. it was an israeli strike. the security camera in garza's ministry of health building shows the moment he was blasted out of his office. the building wasn't hit directly, this was collateral damage from a strike across the street. but it was more than enough to shut down garza's only covert $900.00 test lab testing finally resumed at less than half the previous capacity on monday. as well as keeping people at home, the strikes also drove tens of thousands out into temporary refuge in school buildings. there was some rapid flu testing done in places like this. the positivity rates were as high as 50 percent low that about the you know, distancing. no masks, no protection, no hygiene. all of this created a bad situation. we know the corona spread rapidly, that we have the british variant. aaron garza, 5 cases would have been enough to, in fact, all 4000 people in one school other than the american look. and the health ministry

is worried about the prospects of what it calls a disastrous 3rd way. the corona virus, which is why this is so necessary. 48600 doses of the fire of vaccine delivered under the kovacs international alliance, straight to garz's only ultra cold freezer in the run tc hospital. in comparison to the vaccination campaign so far in garza, this represents a major delivery and a much needed one. but in comparison to the need across garza, especially right now, it remains the drop in the ocean. this is far from the mass vaccination campaign. seen just a short drive and a world away in israel. so far less than 2 percent of garz's population has been fully vaccinated. while gaza has been focused on the immediate life and death concerns of a brutal but short war. a longer term threat may well have been gathering pace. harry for it, i'll just 0 garza before the chief advisor to the british prime minister has told

a parliamentary committee, but the government quote failed the public in its a virus respond dominic coming 56, giving evidence right now. this says he and other officials acted too late. last week he accused bars johnson, his government of incompetence and line to the public about its heard immunity strategy. cummings was offered from downing street in november and mid room is of a rift with the prime minister commission to the senior minister. senior officials to advisors like me fell disasters the shores of the standard. scott, the public has a right to expect of its government in a crisis like this when the public needs is most the government failed. and i'd like to say to families of those who are, who died uncertainly hostile he, i am in the states made my own mistakes. i took to john hall about this one. john to the criticism, of course will be that swell. it's easy to say these sorts of things once you're

not in the position that you were, but nonetheless, it's pretty damning stuff. yes, there's going to be hours yet of it to come as well. this damning testimonies you say from dominant cummings, chief, advisor, divorce johnson, right up until november last year when they split acrimoniously. many say he's bent on a campaign or revenge, but dominant comics very much at present. it is the sort of eminent grees behind boys johnson in the room, certainly for many, if not most or all of the significant decisions that were taken and himself probably influencing many of them. so he knows where the bodies are buried. that quote that you just heard, they're setting the tone for the revelations, if you like to come, that will go on to deal with allegations that the government has had a strategy of heard immunity in the early months of last year. they were fatal delays and implementing locked down advice that the prime minister himself took

a rather cavalier attitude at times to the virus to the pandemic and said some pretty strange things, which i think would be getting onto in the coming hours. that collective responsibility. me a copa, as you heard there was a say setting the tone that went on in the 1st half hour or 40 minutes of this evidence to you. the picture of a government basically ill equipped, ill, prepared to deal with this pandemic pandemic plans that he said were completely hollow, slow to react to the early months of the slow to prioritize code. no one was on a war footing throughout february. that's become known as the last month, while the virus was ripping through italy not far away. lots of people were literally skiing in mid february, including the prime minister, whose he says was on holiday for 2 weeks. number 10 says he was hold up in one of his private residences, working lots more to come. how do you think this type of testimony might resonate with the british people? because there's a, there's probably a more positive feeling in the u. k. the moment given that restrictions a lift and given that the vaccination has gone so well. and yet this is

a reminder of how bad it was at the start. sure. i mean, look, you know, they'll be concerned about the, the knock on effects from this testimony. of course they will. nobody knows quite what he's going to say, what evidence he will put up to justify back what he's saying. well, how long it will all lead the news agenda? certainly the number 10 spend machine will have its defense is ready. painting him as a man bent on, as i said, revenge painting him as a hypocrite, who broke the rules himself during the lockdown and damaged public trust in the government's message. and indeed, as you said, a guy who had this power in downing street at the time when all of these bad decisions allegedly were being made, it's a bit rich for him now to be complaining about them. i think the hope would be the public because you said has already made its mind up about what happened. they know the government made mistakes. there's now a wave of positivity off the back of a very successful vaccine program that seems to be leading this country out of the

pandemic. and i think the hope will be that for that. what mister cummings has to say he's not a popular figure, will not linger long in the publish public consciousness. jonah holland london, thank you. tokyo's olympics organizes are meeting to address increasing pressure of the games to be cancelled one of the official partners. the assassination been newspaper is warning about the dangers of corona virus and pointed to the widespread public opposition. last week. a union representing medics said it strongly oppose the event as well, which is scheduled to start in less than 2 months. and around 2 percent of japan's population has actually been vaccinated, vaccinated asymptote chief, and jeff kingston is the director of ation studies at temple university. japan, despite growing cold for the games to be cancelled, the government seems determined to go ahead dan, the torpedoes full speed ahead and the people. busy are scratching their hands why?

only 14 percent of japanese favor host in the games that about 80 percent. want them postpone her canceled. we have a who's who of c o. speaking out against the games, one of them call them a suicide mission and all public council experts believe that this is recklessly endangering the health of the japanese people. so yes, there are good reasons why people wonder why prime minister suga seems so determined to go ahead. the vaccination campaign here, the roll. busy out has been a dribble, only a just over 2 percent of japanese have gotten fully vaccinated. suddenly they're going to be bringing in 628-0000 visitors from all over the world for the olympics . are good reasons, people believe this could potentially be a super spreader event. perhaps there is some misguided pride there. i think that the also, they want to hold the sort of global coming out party for the end of the pandemic.

but a lot of people here are worried that the declaring mission accomplished a little bit too soon. i think more importantly is money. they spend about 28000000000 preparing for the olympics. nbc is pay 3000000000 to the iowa c 4 television rights. and so money is driving this decision and this seems inconsistent with the olympic spirit. now, the voting has begun in syria and a presidential election, which will extend sharla grip on power. just voted in fact and face a few rivals such expected to win his 4th term despite a decade of war, poverty and economy. any free for the opposition and western nations have dismissed the election as a sham, around half of serious population. remember, it's still displaced. will syrians in the last rebel held problem are protesting against the elections? it live, the target of

a fierce battle for control of the government forces launched in defense if they were late 2019. it now falls within the de escalation. so under an agreement between turkey and russia, wilson's mother now she's the syrian refugee camp in because in neighboring revenue, this is not going to change their lives. that means little to the millions of syria and to have been living in desperate condition for the past 10 years. these elections are not recognized by the international community. they're saying that these are not free. fair, incredible, you talk to people here, they say, of course we want to return home, but there are obstacles. first of all, many of us fear retribution if sharla had remains in power. some of these people took part in opposition activities throughout, throughout the years. and then there are many others who say the economists situation in syria so bad that at least 90 percent of the population, even those living in government control territories are poor and that's the united

nation statistic. so they say the economy has crumbled. there is no money to rebuild our homes. how can we go back here? we get some assistance from the united nations and a times of fine jobs, informal, informal jobs. but the message that the regime is telling the world is that we one, we defeated, we crushed the opposition. we are here to stay. and it is quite symbolic that the decided to cast his ballot into my that's a suburb of damascus when the last presidential election in 2014, that's suburb was in the hands of the opposition. so he's telling the world you have to engage with me, but the message from the international community is we will not engage with you unless you meaningfully engage in the you and lead political process. earlier on tuesday, ga floyd's family mit president joe biden at the white house on the one year anniversary of his killing biden has told them he hopes of policing reform bill

named after flo will be ready by the end of the month. his sister boy called the meetings and by the broken his promise to find the legislation, but other family members said they understood the reasons for the delay. i think that the meeting will be so concerned at all. i think generally he wants to know exactly how we were doing and what he could do to support us any day. let us know the support pass and the bill. but he wants to make sure that if the right build on that arrest view below the house of rushes, panama is approved. a bill which effectively bands, allies of the opposition leader like santa valley, from running for public office. the legislation prohibits people from being elected if they are linked with groups designated as extremist. no valley is in prison for breaking bail conditions. that was when he was being treated in germany for a near fatal poisoning. and then update on the situation in molly, as west african mediators are expected to meet the detain president and prime minister has been held in

a military camp for the past 2 days. the interim vice president, colonel, i see me going to who led a crew last year, asked the transitional leaders and ordered their arrest. going to says elections will take place as planned next year. you and security council will also hold an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis. ah, these other top stories this hour on al jazeera and is ready court as a joint decision on forced evictions in occupied east jerusalem. protests were held outside the court. 6 fat palestinian families in the neighborhood of sue one are at risk of losing their homes. also the secretary said antony blinkin is now in cairo after meeting palestinian and israeli leaders.