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dish and dedication a short documentary by african filmmakers on the white 9 and the book make it africa direct on al jazeera. ah, we regret the intrusion to what should have been a peaceful procession. immune response from the white house falling short of condemnation of to the israeli attack on morning during the funeral for i'm just there, a journalist sharina block. ah, by there and can get all their food on their line from dough also coming up. high tension says the anniversary of israel's creation approaches smoked by palestinians as the knocker or catastrophe. russian forces being pushed back and the battle for
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hockey's. we have an update from our reporter in ukraine, 2nd largest city, and american parents trying to keep their babies fed demand solutions to a wide spread formula shortage. ah, i'll just our journalist sharina black lab has been laid to rest of the mourners were denied a peaceful farewell. israeli police attacks the funeral procession nearly forcing pall bearers to drop sharon's casket. veteran journalist was shot in the head by israeli forces on wednesday or covering arrayed the occupied west bank. stephanie deca begins our coverage from occupied to east jerusalem. oh, thousands came to say their goodbyes. many her thing then you sharina personally.
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that's how much you connected with her audience. telling the story of her people. oh and now the coming the story. i eat a whole lot of people around the world. how can us people know that what is was doing is a good time, and they feel help with the occupation she long reported on just as the coffin started its final journey to the church. ah, mourners were pushed and beaten by his ready forces as a storm the hospital square, the pull berries retreating, her coffin nearly falling to the ground. ah! for to police in riot gear. on horseback,
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baffling scenes. at least one man pulled out of the hearse. is really forces also removing palestinian flag that i knew they were not going to let this day go by peacefully. i was on the frontline when we were trying to exit the hospital while they were carrying her casket and a troop. they were, they just stormed and they were beating up everyone. it was very frightening to be honest, who is also tension when she reads body arrived outside the church in the christian quarter of the old city crowds filling the small streets. this ancient city. a at once the coffin made it inside, granted more peace shooting the bodily brooch. the message of the fullest in you.
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oh, suffering dog brigitte, to fly not to be assassinated, but to be nurtured. c c i blackly was shot dead in the occupied west bank. well, honestly meant in the janine refugee camp, her funeral procession was joined by thousands of palestinians, a show of the widespread affection and admiration she had earned through her years of reporting on their lights. but yeah, she never waka was buried next to her parents at the mount zion cemetery. both her parents died in the early stages of her career and never knew how loved and respected she become. the crowds of gall and the family has gone. sharon's grave has now been sealed, but even after her death she continued to tell the palestine story stephanie decker, al jazeera in occupied east, jerusalem. a shaked her, our neighbourhood of occupied east jerusalem is one of the cities biggest flashpoints due to the forced eviction of palestinian families in montana's. there
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with more reaction to friday's events. well, there's only really one word that anybody is using. certainly palestinian is using amazon, devastated, devastated though sharina barclays of funeral was not a dignified one. that it was actually a fraught with violence from the israeli forces. those pictures that we've seen from the hospital not far away from where i'm standing right now. just up that hill over there where our moon is the pool barrows were actually attacked as they carried sharon's casket out into the courtyard of the hospital. them there she left the hospital at that stage. they were in the courtyard and these really pulses moved in those pitches. have shocked. oh palestinian certainly if you take the temperature of palestinian social media, once again is the word devastation that comes to mind. these images are going to reverberate for a very, very, very long time. not because of the shocking nature of the pitches themselves,
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but the fact that israeli forces i didn't even respect somebody in death. now that's a real big issue for palestinians, and that's something that they will be talking about for a long time. but for serene i will actually herself, even in death, she managed to highlight what it was like, living under occupation, living on the israeli occupation. not just that incident there, but when the, the casket arrived by a call to the church in jeff again in the old city, palestinians were being arrested for merely hoisting up the palestinian flag. and a statement of the european union said it's appalled by what happened during the funeral. potter reads to you, condemned the disproportionate use of foremost and disrespectful behavior, mind israeli police against the participants of the morning procession, allowing for peaceful farewell without harassment and humiliation is the minimal human respect and independent us sen. bernie sanders, who votes with the democrats,
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tweeted saying the funeral attack is an outrage. he added that the united states must condemn us. the biden administration though, stopped short of that describing what happened as disturbing and an intrusion is our white house correspondent, kimberly held it as mourners. attending journalists, serene abu ack laced funeral were attacked by israeli security forces. white house press secretary gen saki simply called it an intrusion, but refused to condemn the attacks. copays images deeply disturbing, is really beliefs of beating mourners. we're carrying this casket. he said we regret the intrusion. do you condemn his actions? i think when we said they were disturbing, we, obviously we're not, we're not justifying them, but i think i will leave my comments at what i said, go ahead. but her answers didn't sit well with reporters who pressed for an explanation as to why president biden is allowing israel
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a u. s. ally that receives billions annually and military funding to treat sharon's funeral and the investigation into her death. an american citizen. with such disrespect, american journalists, i can in ukraine, nobody with one investigation in point there. you know how the russians, why is ready to get away with this, why not put in put an independent wiring. fisma policy has not been. israel is cable that you're investigating itself. we understand that there are investigations by both sides. we've offered our assistance to the israelis to the palestinians, and we are prepared to provide that. should they want it still? when asked if president biden had even contact as sharon's family, or if he would use his leverage with the israelis to bring sharina killers to account. this was the answer that the president would request to speak with. he is really government directly with the ongoing. i don't have any calls to predict at this point in time. the president himself appeared a short time later,
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but had little to add. i don't know all the detail, but i know it has to be investigated. indeed, despite an american journalist being killed, president biden refused to condemn the attacks on mourners at her funeral. even as earlier in the day, president biden met with king abdullah of jordan in the oval office to discuss the escalation of violence between israelis and palestinians. in the region, the un security council made no mention of israel, it it's response to showing up or closed death. in a statement, it said that it strongly condemned the killing of palestinian american journalist to rena barclay. and that it conveyed its sympathy and deepest condolences to sharon's family. it also called for an immediate thorough, transparent, and fair and impartial investigation into her killing and reiterated that journalists should be protected as civilians. an initial report by the israeli
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military says it's difficult to determine the exact source of gunfire which killed terrain, but it's not rolling out fault by israeli soldiers, according to israeli media. the military's inquiry is looking at 2 scenarios. one that sharin was hit by palestinians who fight bullets to woods israeli army vehicles. and the 2nd is considering whether in israel, the soldier inadvertently hit serene when returning fire witnesses and the palestinian health ministry. se sharina was hit by an israeli bullet under their senior political analyst model, and the shower says there's an israeli assassination unit, which is targeted palestinians for decades. for many of us, it is not just the question of who pulled the trigger. it's not even the question of what the trigger is. the caution will give the orders for those specialized forces in assassination dove to run this special israeli military unit like samson. they are specialized in assassination. we have acted in the dark for
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the past 40 years, certify the us since 1987. they are form to carry the sato operations against palestinians are seen inactive, especially in demonstrators and clearly or storm floors for that matter. and clearly it was in this particular context in jeanine, where sharon was killed was assassinated by one of those assassination units. so it's those who are devising that the colonial policy goes into defense minister who are giving the orders to those young soldiers. you know, maybe this is because some of us are getting old, but i tell you, i looked at some of these soldiers. it talks like they were not born back then in 2002. when jeanine was then attack occupied, invaded and dozens of better sinews were killed in that invasion of the refugee camp. and here you have a new generation of israeli soldiers carrying the same atrocities,
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carrying the same assassinations in this vicious cycle of violence that will not end without their leaders, their government taking a different course than the one they are doing now is ready. settlers have a legally stormed palestinian home in the occupied westbank. dozens of people rushed into the vacant 3 story building in hebron, which was undergoing renovation. video show israeli soldiers blocking palestinian residents from stopping the settlers. on thursday. israel approved plans to illegally build 4400 more homes for settlers in the west. coming up on al jazeera, she 7 foreign ministers all the final day of meetings to show up support for ukraine. ah, which is the favorite to win the eurovision song contest this song about its fight for survival?
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ah, richard, he has begun the 3 for world copies on its way to cattle group. your travel package today. hello, we've got some quiet weather now. coming in to japan, we seen some rather wet weather. recently across some parts ceased in areas of honshu, grassy pulling free courtesy of this, where the system i met you front, which is now just sinking across southern parts of china for a time. it'll waive its way back to where, what weather to come as you go through the coming days. have your birth dufrane and pulsing the way out of southern areas of china. st. pass. not too bad lassie. dry and sunny hot sunshine up to was basing one or 2 showers into the northeast of china though only showers just make their way further east, which as we go one through monday, by monday, eastern parts of japan could also see some wet weather tokyo, a little fresher around 90 degrees celsius is that rain set sin and we have got
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some right across southern parts of india. but the big story course is the brutal heat wave up towards the north west. and this is into central le pakistan, jacob about 50 degrees celsius on friday afternoon. this is 7 days in a row. now, where temperatures have exceeded $48.00 celsius, the average is around $38.00 degrees. so that heat is set to continue, hopefully less hot as we go through the next few days. we can see temperatures do remain up there around the mid to high forty's. heavy shouts of southern parts of india with risk of flooding. chatter air with fisher ally of the journey. a guest with
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awe. ah, watching on his era reminder, i told stories this hour. i'll just are jealous. sharing a block layer has been laid to rest and occupied east jerusalem. 3 days off to israeli forces shot and killed her thousands gathered for her funeral on friday. but sharing funeral procession was disrupted when is ready, forces attacked mona's carrying her casket as strong widespread condemnation. but a mutiny response from the u. s. a base 27 people have been killed and dozens
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injured in a building, fire, and india's capital. new delhi, the lease of arrested 2 brothers, suspecting the fire, started in their offices, castillo as haughty on has mall. ah, for 5 hours flames rip through the sorcery commercial building, a new deli inside. dozens of people burned to death. desperate. some of the survivors jump through windows. look at a lot of people, including women, were breaking glass and jumping out. all the air conditioning units in the building world fire, about 15 of them authority, the cut, the water and the power supply running outside this hospital, families wait for updates, hoping their relatives are still alive, firefighters rescued about 70 people, but their whereabouts are unclear sod. i ordered a lot for to last of go to anger, rama i've gone to several hospitals looking for my wife, the trauma hospital,
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the memorial hospital. and now here it's my 3rd attempt to rescue units look through what's left searching for more victims and clues. the flames started on the 1st floor, which mostly has offices, daily's fire services, say the building, had no clearance, no fire extinguishers, or proper safety equipment. was a little bit of fun, but there was only one exit and with the flames burning. no one could escape fires are common in india. building laws and safety norms are often ignored by both builders and residents. an investigation is underway for now that's of little comfort for families facing this loss. castillo peaceable young al jazeera ukraine says russian troops are withdrawing from its 2nd largest city, which they've been bombarding for weeks. the russian army is apparently stopped its
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advance on the northern parts of khaki and now focusing on guarding supply routes. ukraine's military says russia has intensified its artillery and asked drawings in the east and donnette region. as i beg, is falling developments from near cott heath the pattern for hockey seems to have been won by the ukrainians. now we were here well over a month ago, and we were told a 3rd of the population had left many cases were pills. in fact, all cases were closed and the city was under daily shedding and artillery for now. people are returning the governor said, people are beginning to return, but is worried about some of the areas that the claims are taken back. and the fact that the russians may have left mines, but there is a mother to returning to the city, the 2nd largest city in ukraine. but as you said, the russians are trying to hold on to some of the territory and other parts of the country. and protect their suppliers. but what that means is in the east for the east of the country, the battle still rages. now we were there a few days ago,
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and there was constant shelling and artillery fire taking place and is right around the main city of chemicals. and the kinds of villages surrounding it, but also there's another issue when we went to some of these places, these kinds of villages. we had the military trellis also residents. that in some of these places, there are considerable amount of people that are supportive of russia, and that's a problem for the ukrainians that they may hold on to this territory. they may stop, stop the russians are, but they are members of the ukrainian population in that part of the country in the small towns and villages that supports russia. but the ukrainians also say that they've prevented a russian battalion crossing the severity of the river and the russians took heavy losses according to the ukrainians. they posted pictures of what looked like destroyed vehicles and a pontoon bridge. so the russians continued to push in the east, but so far the ukrainians,
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at least from their version of events seem to be holding them all. g 7 foreign ministers, the vowed to further enforce russia's economic and political isolation. and he joined statements. they also said don, continue supplying weapons to ukraine and to ease global food shortages caused by the war. on friday, the foreign policy chief announced a further $520000000.00 in military aid. we support every measure and every step they are taking to ensure that people in ukraine and this is also our common goal as g 7 can live as everybody else in europe again in peace, but also insecurity and freedom in their own country. and we have also made very clear that it's our go, that rush this bridge was international law that the imperial strategy often aggression, which screeches into national peace order and law will not succeed until the magic
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elephant james bay's reports now from visor house in northern germany, the french foreign minister said the purpose of this g 7 meeting was to support ukraine in its war with russia. until there's victory. the leaders discussed fresh military support with the european union proposing a further payment of over $500000000.00 for new heavy weaponry. with the global food crisis growing, the e. u is also working on plans to use rail routes to export the grain, which is trapped in storage in ukraine. the use hi representative joseph barrell told me it was a matter of urgency. the wall that pens of ships block in the ukrainian port, my de russian navy, tons of which has been destroyed and burn or stolen and brought to russia. they do law me. foot crisis is a crisis created by the war. and we need to take 1000 of tons of wheat after you
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grain my and rail since her many time and wrote is closed due to the russian navy activities attending this meeting alongside the g 7 foreign ministers, demitra caliber, the foreign minister of ukraine. he'll be travelling soon to brussels, where the e u is proposing a ban on russian oil imports. he gave me his reaction to the fact that hunger is prime minister, victor, or ban is threatening to veto the plan even though his country has been given an exemption. his ear moment of truth will come and we will see where the hungary was blocking the oil embargo because of its national concerns and the attempt to come with it to make the union accommodate them. or they are doing it for some other reasons of higher political consideration. if all
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bomb goes ahead and be toes this package, what action should you take? well, i'm afraid. the european union will face a precedent. the risk of creating a precedent when the unity was broken. and when the unity on russia was broken, and this will be the 1st such case, since 2014, i believe that it will cause a lot of damage for the european union itself. mister columbus says he's also received a positive response from the g 7 to his demand for seized russian assets to be used to pay for the reconstruction of his country. after nearly 3 months of war, james bay's al jazeera vice in the house in northern germany. this very council of the united arab emirates has elected shake mohammed ben zaya. does the next president as follows, the death of his half brother shake holly for bins. i had to knock on the 73 year
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old had been in palace and succeeding his father in 2004. the u. e is observing 40 days of morning. public and private work places were closed for 3 days. the asian football confederation says china will no longer host the 2023 asian comp football tournament. because if it's covered $900.00 outbreak, the government has imposed health measures including prolonged locked downs and major cities to curb infections. w h o says china 0 tolerance policy won't work long term and cold for a change in strategy. our parents in the united states are growing ever more desperate to find baby formula as a nation wide shortage with no solution expected for weeks. how does your cast our reports from washington? our 4 year old albert butler wears a backpack filled with a specialty formula that slowly feeds him 22 hours a day. his mother just butler says, this is what her son with special needs,
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must have to grow. it was super critical when he was an infant, and this is like the only thing that he could tolerate and was kind of the 1st time resigning gross out of hand. that off was on this formula, but store shells in the united states are running out of instant and toddler formula. the tracking firm data, assembly reports, there's 43 percent less of a nationwide pandemic supply chain problems started the trouble in a factory closure. michigan made it worse. abbot nutrition maker of the popular similar brand, whole to production after several babies got sick and 2 died after drinking possibly contaminated formula. the government investigated and found no further danger, but the company says it will be weeks before production resumes. butler has taken extraordinary measures to find formula for her son, even flying across the country to buy it from a woman she met online,
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only to be scammed. she never showed, and eventually parents say walking out of a store with baby formula can now feel like walking out with a goal. the forwarding has become a concern with stores now limiting how many they sell to each parents. it's important to remember that for babies on for me, this is the only food option. there is no substitute, and i think we have to probably me a value. what critical infrastructure really means. critics have blamed the white house for failing to help president biden met with retailers and baby formula manufacturers on thursday, hoping to help ease the shortage. i think we're going to be in a matter of weeks or less getting significantly more formula on shelves. and he is also sure we are going to port and still maintain the say,
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the high safety stamps are now parents are making due by turning to food banks or just feeding their children less, less all worked together because these are babies. you know, they got to eat for parents. there's no more urgent need than this nutrition for their hungry children. heidi joe castro al jazeera washington ukrainian band is favored to win this year, eurovision song, contest collusion, orchestra is running a wave of public support after russia's invasion. their entry is attributed to ukraine, which mixes wrap with traditional folk music. i'm rainy report from tourist italy by the final will be held on saturday night. oh, i the hands on favor in the eurovision song contest ukraine's colors orchestra rehearses for the biggest performance of their lives.
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but i believe you, but they're carrying the hopes of their country devastated by russia's war against ukraine. ah, did you gotta get him in in a year there song, stephanie, a fusion of wrap in ukrainian folk music would have probably been a hit. it's an ode to the lead singer's mother, but with the war region, it's taken on new meaning. ah, business to for renewal on i was indeed the song, stephanie, it was written long before the war and it was dedicated to my mother on what after it all started with the war in the hostilities. it took on an additional meaning. and many people started seeing it as their mother, ukraine. the all male band was given special permission to lead ukraine. one of its members is still fighting tooth ukrainian fans in italy say a when here would mean everything. eurovision is like a breach because it's normal life that we have before the war started. and may be
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like for a couple of units for an hour, day worker just to safe it with me. and the last, it's a me and a lot. stephanie had turned in to you, ah, song about everyone's mom and ukraine as a mom, mom to us all. and we're seen and about mom the to you fighting for. ah, but victory is not a short thing. of course, there are 24 other fine was taken the stage and turn on saturday. the you case, sam ryder, a tick tock star has generated bus 2 as has norway subwoofer for their song and their antics it because i will say making finals iceland entrant said it makes sense for larger events to be front and center. ah,
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we really wanted to bring hope to people suffering and the people that are not free and the people that are going to, through hard times like ukraine and to all of us that have been struggling and, and cove it that there's hope for the 10s of thousands of fans here at the finals and the millions more watching at home. it's always about the music. it's just that this year the music has taken on greater significance than normal. adam rainy al jazeera tour in italy. ah al jazeera and these, the top stories, al jazeera journalist, sharina barclays, has been laid to rest and occupied east jerusalem. 3 days after is ready, forces shot and killed her thousands gathered for her funeral on friday, but turns funeral procession was disrupted when is ready. forces.

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