cool climate and to see barley's famous rice fields. but these fields and farms are more than just a tourist attraction. they provided a lifeline for the thousands who lost their jobs when the travellers stopped coming because of coven 19. pandemic restrictions brought financial hardship to many here valley. now, as the island reopens for international travelers, some say they want more just to return it to the way things work before. community groups have helped form a tourism workers learn how to cut it used to be a tour guide. now he farms, cabbages. had that the book done. yeah, i don't want to go back to tourism. i want to continue to be a farmer as the island prepares to welcome visitors again, many say the pandemic has taught them valuable lessons. never forget, ah,

fairs of a full scale garza conflict as israel attacks with the air strikes and palestinian faces at respond. ah, hello there, i'm still here today and this is out here at life and also coming a 5 year old palestinian gum is among 10 people killed in gaza. dozens was injured . the palestinian islamic jihad group and gases has its 5 more than 100 rockets into israel. china continues its military drills around tie one after us. how speaking nancy? pelosi is visits. the island, the taiwanese military has shop plaza drones and identified aircraft. ah

ah, so we begin in gaza where israels carried out a wave of air strikes and fighters a responded provoking phase of a full scale conflict house authority said these 10 people have been killed. dozens injured in that outside report. not from gaza and a warning. some viewers may find some images in the report distressing me. the darkness caused the city flashed bright by explosions as israeli artillery and other weapons targeted, what they said were weapons factories. a rocket launch sites belonging to islamic jihad. the moments before an aerial duel, as magical rockets were fired from caused it towards israel with most intercepted by the israeli iron dome. anti message system is lemay. she had said they fired more than $100.00 rocket. and player she could look to be in the televised address

. they usually prime minister. yeah. your la pete said his country had 0 tolerance for attacks from gaza, but that israel had no interest in a wider battle. earlier the israel defense ministry had approved the call up of as many as $25000.00 army reservists and read it combat battalions sparking fears that in each really ground invasion was eminent. the day light attacks were spread throughout gods. the city. one main target was this apartment building where a senior commander from islamic g had to see a job that he was killed is really army sweaters showed what they said was suspected rocket launch side in hon eunice. 6 among the dozens of injured and dead, the body of the 5 year old girl was carried throughout this tree. what

is this child's fault? she was dreaming of going to kindergarten and asked her father for a school bag and clothes. what has she done wrong? this innocent child, yeah. other funeral processions where he squirted by running crowds fearful of the next attack. longer so resident described what she heard. and so i heard about 45 loud bangs of the sleep. and i was just clicking on running, wondering what happened. and people in the, in the building, they just run down to the street, you know, because they fear that they're going to be other apartments targeted on slimy, she had said israel had made a declaration of war at promise, dislike back, learn how to this is a declaration of all out war against the palestinian people. we will respond to that. this is a violation and disregard for all the efforts that have been made over the past

days in order to restore him comp. positively, with these efforts that the enemy was as usual treacherous. these rarely action followed the closure as to port your crossings with because this trip earlier in the week and the arrest a senior islamic jihad members in the occupied west bank and the office of the palestinian president mahmoud abbas cold fridays attack a dangerous escalation. the un cushion against further civilian casualties. while egyptian mediators are trying to diffuse the tension between both sides. but this is calisha and it's something that we have seen time and time again. hearing garza and the heaviest price is always paid by the people. you may see al jazeera, gaza city, oklahoma have one from occupied east jerusalem. the israeli military says that now there's 120 rock has been launched into the country so far. we're not him. of any

reports of injuries. on the israeli side, a lot of those rockets being stopped by the iron dough, which is the israeli system against rocket to stop them even in the air. and those that have landed seem to have done so in areas where they haven't been able to to hurt anyone. there are other countries weighing in on this and other organizations. the united states is one of the earliest a tweet from the ambassador's ro, saying that the united states firmly believes the israel has a right to protect itself. we're engaging with different sides for come. so that was seen as quite firmly citing with the, with the israel in the jordanian foreign minister. the country obviously just to the east took a different tone calling for an end to the condemned israeli aggression against the gaza strip. and the un also the special coordinator for the middle east peace

process. also waited and said that he was deeply concerned. or the palestinian presidency has called on the international community to press israel to stop its attacks on gaza and to provide protections. people that hundreds of people protested in ramallah to show their support for the people of casa tensions had been high. and y'all to find west bank of the month of raids by israeli security forces correspondent need abraham, has the palestinian presidency, has condemned de escalation, calling a dangerous calling upon the international community to intervene to stop what they called it. these rainy escalation. also we heard from the palestinian prime minister, how much the you're talking about the escalation thing. it's israel that started this week, people to enter my la, go out in the, throughout the pro to calling for unity calling for retaliation. we've also seen a 10 situation in gene in the north will be occupied with bank. this is where the

senior plumbing she had the there was a respite from engineering itself. has been the epicenter of our coverage and has been the center of attention in the past. few months as use radio wouldn't have been conducted almost nightly and daily. we to the outskirts of the refugee camp fear. we know that there are armed men, they are in the camps, their estimated at the lower 100. they used to be fight and engaged in armed compensations would be ready forces when they twice to enter the refugee camp and arrest people are. and we both of those armed men yesterday going and showing a 4th in the camp holding weapons. because as we know, ever since israel has rested beside the side the from janine on monday, the slamming g had, has raised its level of alert, has told its all members to be ready to europe, to basically make israel page,

which is the terminology that they've been using for arresting senior flemming to had with them sadly from jan on the us national security spokesmen, john kirby says, israel has the full support of the united states before or to defend itself to state solution. of course, we remain committed to the station president strip. busy busy to jerusalem and we still want to want to profit on jordan has more on the reaction and washington d. c. the bind it ministration is also reaching out to what it calls the relevant parties. asking them to try to calm the situation to not aggravate

attention and to try to was stop of the violence that has been erupt in. i'm in is in southern israel and in the gaza strip a old day on friday and into the overnight the by didn't ministration. of course is a very much committed to a 2 state solution. but it has also been a very clear and we saw this when the u. s. president joe biden was in israel and occupied west bank recently that he knows that the situation is not at a place where the parties could negotiate in good faith on trying to achieve a separate palestinian state. it's not just that of the biden administration isn't going to engage with hamas, or with as long as law mich jihad, that has been the policy of previous a u. s. administration. but the usaa government under joe biden has been rather explicit in its view that these organizations are proxies for iran. you're just not

going to see u. s. officials engaging with hamas, or with islamic jihad. what you are going to seeing is engagement with the palestinian authority and its president buffalo to boss. you're going to see an engagement, of course, with the israeli government. and you're going to see engagement with other parties in the region with egypt, with jordan, with other countries that may be able to bring indirect influence upon hamas and islamic jihad. but you're not going to see the americans doing it themselves. that's just a nonstarter. well, gideon levy is a journalist and commentator at hearts. he says, israel politics on spain, these are a public is quite brainwashed and knows very little about what's going on. full days. we were told that there 1000 settlements over the both of these guys must be under a co fool because there is a danger. nobody knew what is the danger. exactly. and then all of

a sudden after 3 or 4 days, israel claimed that this is unbearable. i mean garza can be 16 years on the siege and this is bearable, but some towns in the south of israel cannot spend 4 days off or look down. so here it happened. i am very suspicious. the test will do with the elections. any prime minister needs to prove himself, especially if he comes from the center list in israel. and we have a new prime minister. and he wants to show that he's in much or like, or the form of prime minister or dose, a very poor excuses for role for another circle in garza, the key question is woocommerce join or know if hamas we'd be clever enough not to join the visa and we look provoke from us to join. so then there is

a good chance that for a few days, this will be over because they slammed jihad is quite a small organization with more limited capabilities. but once come up with joy and then the sky's the limit on the not united nations, not least coordinator has called for d escalation of the fighting. chris anthony has more from the you any neil? there can be no justification for attacks on civilians. those are the words of middle east coordinator toward venice land in response to the recent attacks in gaza. he noted that a 5 year old child is among the dead and express concern that this escalation between palestinian militants and israel. and what he described as the targeted killing of the palestinian islamic jihad leader could further exacerbate tensions in the region intentions, which have been growing and brewing not only in gaza, but also across the west bank. and of course,

it's the united nations that gets called in to pick up the pieces after conflicts like this in the occupied territories. and he express concern that civilians will ultimately be the ones who pay the worst price at a time when international support and international funding to help in situations like this is stretched very thin. so a word of caution from the middle east coordinator words released on twitter and in statements to the media, calling on both sides to tone down their response and protect civilians. while still ahead here on al jazeera kenny is drowned, could be hurting its democracy. thousands of people may not vote and next week's election, the climate is a big factor. and fun on michael's junior has been president of the philippines just a few weeks, but his infamous father is grabbing headlines with 2 movies telling very different stories. ah,

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but really widespread showers and storms in this area. the same goes for that east coast of the u. s. as while we've got high humidity here and i got to tell you these storms are going to do little to stomp out that heat in some spots filling closer to about 40 off to the west. we go. that sounds out vancouver $24.00 and look at that. those temperatures are climbing once again in portland to $33.00 degrees and around the desert southwest. it's our usual monsoon or storms, especially for nevada, where there are some flash flood watches in play. that's it. we'll see you soon. ah, the deadly john, virtues search, racing concert halls, a dominating international competition. what makes me stop careers musical prodigies one out to 0? ah,

i agree. i'll just here with hulu. ah, ah, hello there, i'm associate in dawn. let's remind you about top stories here. the salad israel has carried on as strikes in the gaza strip, an armed fight, as of responded provoking phase of a full scale conflict. palestinian islamic jihad says it's $500.00 rockets at his rating cities. while the fast israeli, as strikes, had a high rise tower in garza city, one of those killed was ta see algebra area commander of the outputs brigades. that's been military of palestinian islamic jihad just 10. others have also died,

including a 5 year old guy. now us secretary of state antony, blanking is meeting the philippines president ferdinand michaels junior. they said to discuss several issues including tension between the u. s. and china. lincoln described the relationship with the philippines as extraordinary. he said, the u. s. is committed to a mutual defense tracy with the country. marco said the current, your political environment showed just how important the anti as well. well, taiwan defense ministry says it's 5 flares to one off several drones and on identified planes flying over its territory. tensions remain high with china, which is furious over the visit to taiwan by us. how speak at nancy pelosi that speaker decompile, and she's the international editor of taiwan class. and she joins us now on skype from type a to chinese drills now seem to be affecting high ones, outlying islands. how significant is that? that's right. so these islands are on the tie. 13,

and they're seen as the closest point to mainland china. and in fact, one of those islands can min island is only about 10 kilometers away from would you and province in china seen as the main point. the general perspective here is that should trying to, to invade, that would be the 1st points of landing along with not so island to. so there is concern with these activity being so close by all the people are somewhat used to living with it and seeing the chinese military activity, given the fact that they can virtually feed china from their homes. but regardless, the ministry of defense expects us to activity in that area to continue and say to their remain on high alert. you say they expect them to continue. we're heading into day 3. now of these chinese checks the size of it. i believe they've also been extended. is there any sense of when they might actually end? no defense analyst here are saying that china could in fact keep extending it to you. they had more of it as a psychological tool to, to put,

keep taiwan on edge. so they may, may have already plans longer exercises, but they will feed the information in dribs and drabs. now, one of the main impact of these exercises would be the psychological impact, which such a beijing is hoping not just on the upper levels of taiwan government and military, but also on people here. but people are going about their daily lives. they've heard these threats time and time again, and seen this kind of aggression perhaps not to this extent. so it's that impact is somewhat been blunted. but people i've spoken to and the general chatter on social media is they are more wary than usual and they are more aware of this threat. mainly because of the way taiwan has been blockaded with these military exercises. and part of their concern is that that could be a mishap miscalculation or mishap, that would essentially affect taiwan lambs and also the economic impacts of this blockades. and the fact that china has been goods and products from taiwan in the

past few days, and is expected to continue doing so. and china is i want largest trading partner, so that is all on the mind. so many people here to think of holland, they're speaking to us from taipei, with all the latest. thank you. to v o patrick folk is a janice based and beijing. he says china is making good on its warning of consequences. following policies visit will state media, citing analysts broke down what some the diplomatic cancer measures were about to day on the issue of the cancellation of military level dialogues. it said that the u. s. had failed to keep china's warning for nancy pelosi not to go to taiwan. and that as a result, mutual trust between the 2 militaries had dive to a new lo. it also noted that president biden had made significant diplomatic progress on climate change. but the u. s. wouldn't be able to achieve anything on its own. meanwhile, the chinese embassy in washington said that the only way out of this crisis was for the u. s. to rectify its mistakes,

and that it was the u. s. that is the troublemaker and warned against taking relations down the track of conflict and confrontation. the war games are set to continue to day. china had in particular, notably across the median lines several times of the last couple of days. and analysts are fearing that this could be a new norm for the purely in future exercises. and living on a new state of indiana has approved a near ban on abortion the 1st day to do so. since the supreme court overturned the landmark roe v wade ruling and cheering. the republican controlled state senate voted to restrict the procedure except in cases of rape and infest when the mother's health is all set with it who has previously allowed up to 20 weeks into pregnancy. the states governor is also a republican. he has not yet said if he will find the measure into law a jury in texas has ordered a conspiracy theorist alex turns to pay $45200000.00 and what are called punitive

damages. turns a falsely claimed that the sandy hook, school shooting was a hoax. the info was host, had been ordered to pay more than $4000000.00 in compensation to the parents. and the child who was killed in that shooting in 2012. jesse louis, his parents had jones, his comments lenti years of emotional distress and harassment for them, including death threats. now kenya's drought could affect this year's election. thousands of people in the driest regions may be unable to vote, and he kenyans are struggling to survive while others have been forced to leave their homes. they say they feel neglected as the country braces for a competitive and expensive poll. catherine, so i reports now from garrison. i do about these lively who depends on life stalk, but there is a drought. woodrow, after 4 field rainy seasons, millions in our areas have little to eat and the animals are dying. in a few days,

voters will head to the poles, opti and he's neighbor say they are more focused on staying alive than costing their ballots. i do it. i do a credit card because it'll get up soon. about holiday options have come to look for votes, where they have not told us how they will resolve or problems. they just want votes . livestock was millions of dollars have died since october last year. conflict over resources boundaries and bond itchy are not making things easier. many harder have left their homes to look for food and water. they have gone to other areas to try and save the animals. but it also means thousands of them may not be able to vote. politicians will rob their campaigns on saturday. they're promising better living conditions that they're part of this country where, you know, nobody wants to know about it and then you know what, what goes on in that part of the. and unfortunately,

the county governments have also not been very useful because the county governments of, of resources to provide her assistance to drought victims. ah, what has happened is that this county, governments have not located enough money at true livestock related activities. these community elders say their issues have not been prioritized i born here in my children's school in here. i don't have a job. my income generation is livestock. whereas school my daily food is coming from the level to see my life. so all has gone. my grandfather died. oh, my children, all that good. so example, i'm asking you if my general of income is left took and has gone wild drive for

those vying for political positions in this region, have talked about ambitious plans to reduce poverty. but many people here say they want less talk and more action. catherine saw al jazeera carissa county. meanwhile, the indian government has announced new emissions targets as it tries to tackle climate change. and made the pledge more than a year after the climate change talk and glasgow. india is committed to cutting emissions per unit of g, p by 45 percent compared to levels in 2005. now that figure is more ambitious than the previous target of around 33 percent. it also aims to meet half its energy demands with renewable sources by 2030 previous target. 40 percent. india is the 3rd largest carbon producer, and the 2nd in the world for coal consumption. it's aiming for. net 0 emissions by 2070 mature. joshua is a senior associate at the climate change. think tank e 3 g. she explains what's behind these new targets. generally the 5 targets

announced announcements and also the still had made a copy 6. this included essentially $500.00 a month plus capacity, 50 percent in stock capacity from renewable energy, reducing $1000000000.00 tons of c o. 2 emissions that we now need to key for 25 percent intensity emissions and density reduction or what type levels are these 4 targets with by 2030 and and the premises also announced the emissions that 2017 and these are the 5 exits are often jammed it depends on the recently updated in d. c. in india. do not take into account of several of the open genders that were announced while the in d. c. updates are definitely a welcome change. these include 50 percent, non positive capacity by 2030 and 45 percent emissions. it

also has a goal that's focused on sustainable lifestyle and sustainable consumption. and so i do think that the mr. not endeavors to opportunity to sort of reiterate the premise to force, but hopefully the domestic actions are along those lines that will help achieving the vision and hopefully exceeding it that when you sons been released about the late philippine leader said at ferdinand ma casanya, the controversial politician was in charge during wide spread human rights abuses. his son is now the country's president critic say the film tries to whitewash history. fontinella has worn out from manila, so not sure yet. finally, a movie depicting the 1986 people's uprising that toppled the government of ferdinand marcus inside the presidential palace from the perspective of the marcus . the film is showing just months after the election of the former leader, son,

president, ferdinand marcus junior. it is being promoted as a true story, but historians say cliffs that have been circulating on line have not been consistent with the established truth. the scene shows that opposition leader corazon aquino, who later restored democracy as president nonchalantly playing mantle. while a revolution was raging. crossing the line, it's really it's, it's really hard to say, but ben, sean is very clear for me already. especially with the same way back when i saw it latino just saying, you know, very, very closely get them out of the philippines. and then both would be but john table with the elder marcos ruled for 21 years. amassed an estimated $5.00 to $10000000000.00 worth of unexplained wealth and was responsible for tens of thousands of wrongful imprisonments, torture, and killings. according to human rights advocates,

none of this was in the movie one another film about his administration. however, open on the same day. dips is about student activism and how the marcus government then responded with brutality. i'll work more full series of only to wednesday. the more important is that we're here to educate people and he's to be something which is where forgotten already was the sport that and revise. so we really need to remind our young people about the importance of these tips, which was a musical before it went on. the big screen has been earning rave reviews and reaping awards, and hailed as being more accurate in its depiction of the senior marcus's iron fist, cruel critics affording and mark the sooner. se whose victory in the election was a victory or dis information. now that this information has come to the movie theaters of the philippines, those critics will be hoping truth will prevail this hi, barnaby lol al jazeera.