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is of a full scale garza conflict as israel attacks of air strikes and palestinian fighters that respond with wrong. ah, hello there i'm the saudi. attain. this is al jazeera at life from door. ha. also coming up. a 5 year old palestinian gown is among 10 people killed in gaza. dozens more injured. the palestinian islamic jihad group in gaza says it's 5 more than $100.00 rockets into israel. and antony ben can tells the philippines foreign minister, the u. s. is determined to avoid a crisis following tensions with china over taiwan.

but we began in gaza where israel carried out a wave of air strikes and armed fights is responded provoking fears of a full scale conflict. health authority say at least 10 people have been killed and dozens injured. una aside reports now from garza and a warning view as may find some images in the report. distressing. the darkness of it 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, ah. moments before an aerial duel. as metaphor rockets were fired from casa towards israel, with most, intercepted by these rarely ironed, dome anti message system is, luigi had said they fired more than 100 rockets. i'm closer to blue gold will be put in a televised address. they usually prime minister yet. you are luck,

pete. set his country had 0 tolerance for attacks from godsa, but that israel had no interest in a white or battle. earlier the israel defense ministry had approved the call up of as many as 25000 army reservists and read it combat battalions sparking fears that in israeli ground invasion was imminent. the day light attacks were spread throughout god's the city. one main target was this apartment building where a senior commander from islamic g had to see it and job that he was killed. he's really army switches showed what the 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 squirted by running crowds fearful of the next attack. longer so resident described what she heard and so i heard about $45.00 loud bangs of 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 there are going to be other apartments targeted on slimy, she had said israel had made a declaration of war, a promise to fly back. learn how to this is a declaration of all out war against the palestinian people. we will respond to that. there is a violation and disregard for all the efforts that have been made over the past days in order to restore him comp. we dealt positively with these efforts that the

enemy was as usual treacherous. these railey action followed the closure of 2 porter crossings with because the st. earlier in the week and the arrest a senior islamic she had members in the occupied west bank and the office of the palestinian president mahmoud abbas cold fridays attack a dangerous escalation. the un cushioned 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 gods, the city was on homer has worn out from occupied these torrison. 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 rockets 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. while the

palestinian presidency has called on the international community to press israel to stop its attacks on gaza and to provide protection to people there. hundreds of people protested in ramallah to show their support for the people of casa tensions had been high in the occupied west bank of the month, a raised by israeli security forces. correspondence need. abraham has the past and in presidency, has condemned the estimation, 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 talking about the escalation saying, it's israel that started this week, people to enter my la, go out in the, throughout the protest. calling for unity calling for retaliation. we've also seen a 10 situation engineering in the north will be occupied with bank. this is we're

a sam excited to senior plumbing. she had the there was arrested from and janine itself has been the epicenter of our coverage and has been the center of attention in the past few months as these really 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. there are estimated at the lower 100. they will be fight and engaged in armed compensations would be through the courses when they twice to enter the refugee camp and arrest people are. and we've also seen those armed men yesterday going and showing a 4th in the camp holding weapons. because as we know, ever since israel has arrested the sample size, the from jeanine on monday, the climate g has, has raised its level of alert, has told its all members to be ready to rock to basically make israel page,

which is the terminology that they've been using for arresting seniors, fleming to had with them saturday from jayden hall, the us national security spokesmen. john kirby says israel has the full support of the united states a solution. of course we remain committed to a strip of. busy to that, but we still want to see that the outcome both sides have to want to run. jordan has more on the reaction in washington dc. the binding ministration is also reaching out of 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, 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 couldn't 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 mahmoud abbas. 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. look, gideon levy is a janice and a commentator at her ets, he says, israel politics on to bane these are a public is quite brainwashed and knows very little about what's going on. full days. we were told that there's thousands 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 claim 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 that the test to 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 a much or like, or the former prime minister. or those are very poor excuses for role for another circle in garza, the key question is would come out of join or know if hamas we'd be clever enough not to join. and if israel will not provoke from us to join. so then there is a good chance of 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 skies, the limits for the nice nations middle coordinator has called for a d escalation for fighting. presently me has moved from the un in new york. 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 out there and kenya's drought could be hurting its democracy. thousands of people may not those and next week's election, climate is a big factor. china continues its military drills around taiwan days of to you as how speaking nancy pelosi is visit to the island. ah.

and off we go with your weather update for the middle east and africa. hello everyone. thanks for joining in. so we've got a plume of heat stretching from box dead into q weight and this so right here is some fairly gusty winds. we can expect gus about 80 kilometers per hour. of course, that's going to spin around the sand and dust outbreaks of rain to be expected, western yemen, spilling into the he jazz mountains in saudi arabia. these are some pretty good downpours. i think there is the very real risk of seeing some flooding going around the gulf states will put this day forward on sunday. tap into a bit of a southerly flow that pumps up the temperature in doha to 42 degrees. want to take it to pakistan. we're seeing the rain fide rate back in to sin province. and some of these could be some heavier about to be expected. not too far away from karachi on saturday. it's the sun cloud combo for it's them, bull, me see a shower,

sneak in there, but i think the better bet for that will be across turkeys, black, sea coast and off to central africa. we go but actually want to take it to nigeria, northern portions we had non stop brain for about 30 hours. that led to some flooding there, killing at least 7 people. and for southern africa, you know, not much to report a lot of sun, but me see a shower in durban on saturday, susan the no place. and so i go on with say, the press retreated to the car about a media hub and vital vantage point. during the 1st truly televised war from the roof, we could see the recreation at the american embassy, where the most iconic images of the conflict and vietnam were transmitted to the world. this was the front row seats, the final stages of the war cycle and caravel war hotels. on al jazeera

lou ah, ah, hello there, i'm mr. z at a in durham. let's remind you about top stories here. the salad. israel has carried out air strikes in the gaza strip, and armed fighters have responded provoking fears of a full scale conflict. palestinian islamic jihad says it's 500 rockets at is really cities on the 1st is really air strikes, hit a high rise power in garza city. one of those killed was ties here, algebraic commander val couldn't brigades, that's the military of palestinian islamic jihad. these 10 others have also died, including 5 year old go how the philippine foreign minister and re k manolo has

told the u. s. secretary of states that his region cannot afford an escalation of tensions, and new blinkin is in manila and has met the philippine president ferdinand macos junior. it comes as tensions and the taiwan strait a high after the u. s. how speak is visit to taipei and good china, macos described the u. s. philippine relationship as a special one on ship is one story because it is really found in friendship use for as well in partnership and strengthen body parts in alliance as well. that's pretty well committed to working with you on your child or barnaby. lo joins me now. live from manila. barnaby. plenty for blinking, and macos to discuss. we've also seen tensions rise, of course, in the south china sea. that's right. this meeting is happening against the backdrop of tension happening in the highway

street, which is just north of the philippines. currently, china is conducting military drills in that area. and the other day japan's defense ministry had said that the live missiles had dropped into japan's exclusive economic zone. and so understandably, there is concern here that, that conflict there could to the area because the philippines has its own territorial with china in the south and trying to see until understandably, again, the discussions between president president britney and mark was junior and us secretary of state anthony blinking revolved around the military and security alliance between the 2 countries. the 2 countries have a mutual defense treaty and under this treaty are a number of agreements including the visiting force, this agreement and the in has defense cooperation agreement. president marcos had previously said that he wants these agreements reviewed and possibly some

provisions revised. and also there is talk of expanding u. s. military presence in the country under the enhanced enhanced cooperation agreement. barnaby, i believe lincoln had also said he'd bring up the issue of human rights. did he that's right. us secretary of state had mentioned that he was bring up the issue of human rights with the president marcos we did not hear that during the on can segment up the meeting. we do not know if that was discussed during the moments of the meeting, but we do know that previously the u. s. government, under the administration of president obama had criticized the philippine government previously under the administration of our president would be good to take there for its conduct. the war drugs which human rights activists have said

had resulted into thousands of killings that is continuing under the presidency of the non market junior. again, according to human rights activists. and because of that, the president deterred, they had threat them to separate pies with the us. there's also the issue of press freedom president deterred to shut down the operations of a b s c, b and the largest news network here in the country. nobel peace prize winner maria reza has been super tax division and a number. so there's also the issue of the continuing persecution of activists. again, we do not know if these were discussed, but there's also the history between the us government and the marcos family. back in 1986. the marcus family was exiled into the u. s. after the ouster of the father

of the current president, and there are pending cases of human rights and corruption in the u. s. against the markets family barnaby low. that for us live and manella with all the latest. thank you so much. barnaby. paul, ty, one's defense ministry. meanwhile it says it's fired flares to warn off 7 drones and unidentified planes flying over its territory. as we've been saying, tensions remain high with china, which remains furious over the visit to taiwan by us. how speak a nancy pelosi dubuque pollen is the international editor of taiwan class. she explains the concerns around towns outlying islands. these islands are on the taiwan straits and they're seen as the closest point to mainland china. and in fact, one of those islands can men islands is only about 10 kilometers away from fujian province in china. and it's seen as the main point to the general perspective here is that should china choose to invade? that would be the 1st point of landing along with not so island to. so there is

concerned with this 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 see china from their homes. one of the main impact of these exercises would be the psychological impact which touch a beijing is hoping not just on the upper levels of ty, ones, government, and military, but also on people here. but people are going about their daily lives there for these threats. time and time again and seen this kind of aggression perhaps not to this extent. so it's that impact somewhat been blunted, but people i've spoken to and the general chat 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 there could be a mishap miscalculation or mishap that would essentially affect taiwan lambs and also the economic impact of this blockade. and the fact that china has banned goods and products from taiwan in the past few days,

and is expected to continue doing so. and china is tiwana largest trading partner. so that is all on the minds of many people here. well, that took folk as a journalist based and beijing, and he says china is making good on its warning of consequences following policies visit. will state media citing on this, broke down what's on the diplomatic counter. measures were about to day on the issue of the cancellation of military level dialogue has said that the u. s. had failed to keep john as warning for nancy pelosi not to go to taiwan. and that as a result of mutual trust between the 2 trees had dive to a new lo, it also noted that present 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, i 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 trouble make 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 over the last couple of days. and analysts are fearing that this could be a new norm for the purely in future exercises. on living on an indiana has become the 1st u. s. state to ban abortion. after the supreme court overturned the landmark, rosie wade rolling. the decision comes into effect on september 15th, with some exceptions. it means that women in indiana cannot only get an abortion in cases of rape or incest. when the mother's health is at risk, abortion was previously allowed up to 20 weeks into pregnancy. on a jury in texas has ordered a conspiracy theorist alex jones to paint $45200000.00 and what a court punitive damages he falsely claimed. 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 of a child who is killed in that shooting in 2012. jesse lewis, his parents said that jones has comments lead to years of emotional distress and harassment for then including death threats. a large fire has broken out around a police, munitions store and site in a german forest. the facility is in the grin of alta forest near west berlin. the fire brigade says the blazes under control, but official still say people should stay away from the area. police are investigating dominic cane reports. this is about as close as we can get to the nerve center of operations to deal with the fire that has being here in this part of berlin in the good about area since thursday morning. the thing that matters most here for the fire services is dealing with the unexploded ordinance that is still at the center of where the fire started and emergency services have been

briefing the media about the difficulties they've been facing had this to say the i'm, i wasn't back high, we have a big exclusion zone with a 1000 me to radius. that's important to know that risk from flying debris. but is a danger of munitions of explosives that have been affected by the heat detonating and blasted every freebie area. i've heard of her she game. it's important to stress that so far, at least this fire has not caused any civilian casualties, whatever. under the properties around the forest. well, they haven't been endangered either. in so far as the causes of this place are concerned. so those have not been established yet what caused the explosives to designate the way that they destinations. and then the other questions about the relative safety of having explosive stored in the middle of a forest rose questions are yet to be answered. but thus far,

at least the feeling coming from the emergency services is that this fire is under control and is now about damping down. what blazes remain. well, can years drought could affect this year's election. thousands of people in the driest regions may be unable to vote. many canyons 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 garza, i do up these livelihood depends on livestock, 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. abdi and his neighbor say, they are more focused on staying alive than costing the pallets i'd. i'd be glad to quote that soon all 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 banded. she 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 wrap their campaigns on saturday. they're promising better living conditions that they're parts 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 a school in here. i don't have a job. my income generation is livestock, whereas my daily food is coming from the livestock to see my life. so all has gone. my grandfather last night. oh, my children, all that good. so example, i'm asking you if my gender of income is left 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.