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you're watching the al jazeera news hour coming up in the next 60 minutes. thousands of rockets, a fired from southern lebanon into israel, israeli prime minister vows to strike his country's enemies. protest is in paris, set fire to one of emanuel mac calls favorite restaurants. on the 11th day of nationwide demonstrations against pension reforms, french president himself is in beijing ways appealed to china's leader to bring russia to its senses. worn crane and his hotel, he announced a temporary fix to a long term problem. former coach frank lampart has been named in term and manager until the end of the season. ah. hello and welcome to the news. our israeli fighter jets have been heard over

lebanon after israel's prime minister. benjamin netanyahu vowed to strike his country's enemies. after dozens of rockets were fired from southern lebanon into israel, following days of violence intentions between israelis and palestinians. the israeli military says it intercepted at $25.00 out of $34.00 projectiles. what was the largest barge of rocket fire since the war in 2006, 3 people reported injured. several buildings also damaged and israeli spokesman has blamed palestinian factions in lebanon for this. it all comes after israeli police against on the alex some mosque in occupied east jerusalem on wednesday night. a 5 star grenades and rubber coated steel, bullets worshippers, who, through fire crackers in stone. the united nations actually general says he's a pulled and disturbed by israel's actions at the mosque. and in a statement, lebanon's prime minister has condemned military operations from the countries

territory that disturb stability. meanwhile, tensions is still running high and occupied east jerusalem itself, where an israeli settlers shot and injured a palestinian man. security forces on out the mount of olives where the attack took place. it is the 3rd such as salt to take place in the road. oh, the abdul hamid joins us live now from occupied east jerusalem. she's monitoring the situation there and it was expected that some sort of military operation would be approved at this is ready, security cabinet, meeting against a mass and garza, but also in lebanon. where fighter jets have been heard. what do you know about the, the strength of this military response? well, the security cabinet is still meeting at the moment. all what we know is what we heard from a prime minister benjamin netanyahu, as he was going into that meeting,

saying that, you know, the enemies of israel will be hit and with there will be retaliation. and he also warned that this is a time when is really stand united, i think making a hint at those deep divisions that exist a development in these really society of but we haven't heard anything yet. we do know that prior to that meeting are well, the defense minister had met with the general top generals of the army with top security officials. they made a situation assessment. they came up with a plan, giving different options of retaliation, whether it's in garza or across the border in southern lebanon. those options are being discussed now. jury in this cabinet security cabinet meeting, but we haven't heard yet. of any decisions, at least that's not made public,

but everyone is expecting that something could happen. would it be tonight? would it be in the coming days? that's probably the biggest question and what form will it take the israeli media? there is speculation that if a retaliation or when a retaliation would come, it would probably be in garza rather than across the border in lebanon. but that is just what is being said in the, in real among the commentators in these railey media, not as a trophy, at an official level. and in terms a particular dynamics of netanyahu and the rest of his, his coalition. do they have the, the upper hand on this? how much pressure is there on him now to to show that he is responding in an added in a strong such way. well, i think nathan,

yeah. who has always a, made himself well positioned himself towards israelis as mister security as mister strong man. the one who always replies was force and vigor or when threat comes or when any attack sca come. and we have seen that over the past decade or so with the several successive wars in gas. and now this time things are different for the prime minister. he's under stress by under stressed by his own coalition. they are deep divisions within that government. the defense minister that he is talking to at the moment who she, who should be at the home of this retaliation or whatever is going to happen in the coming days or hours while he is at odds with a prime minister. he had been the prime minister, had asked him to have sacked him, basically bought the cabinet. he is a defense minister, never wrote that resignation letter. so he is still within the government, but they are benches between these 2 men. and then he has this far right faction,

all these parties that are within the governments who i've been calling really for very, as swift facts when it comes to palestinians who have been using very harsh rhetoric when describing at the palestinian. so that's really what the prime minister benjamin netanyahu is getting from within his government. and then he has the issues with the israelis at large. or we have seen these protests that have pitted, you know, the religious israelis versus a secular israelis or the right versus the left. all i get old based on this judicial, overhauled that the prime minister wanted to bring about. but i think does demonstration those protests and the way they were at each other throat really also on the line, the deep divisions within society. and that's why i think the prime minister was before entering that security cabin a war and that this was

a time when it comes to dealing with rocket fire when it comes to dealing with the palestinians. this is a time where israelis unite, at least that is what he said. okay, thanks very much for now from occupied east jerusalem. honda i've done need reporting to us. well, in terms of the international reaction to what has been happening in israel's most powerful ally, the united states says it's extremely concerned about recent developments. and they've been cool, so both sides to de escalate tensions. rosalind jordan has more on that. well, there is great concern of both from officials here at the u. s. state department, as well as over at the white house. so there had been a glock of fear that took, given the yellow convergence of ramadan of passover, which is the 1st day and of a holy week in the western christian calendar. that there would be an increase of violets around alex on mosque. this is a sum of what the spokesperson for damp patel told reporters here at the state

department earlier on thursday. we are concerned by the scenes out of jerusalem and it is our viewpoint that it is absolutely vital that the sanctity of holy sites be preserved. we emphasize the importance of upholding the historic status quo at the holy sites in jerusalem. and any unilateral action that jeopardizes and status quo to us is unacceptable. and we call for restraint coordination and com during the holiday season. now there haven't been a, any, a direct conversations between state department officials and israeli and palestinian officials at this hour. but that said, the u. s. is going to be very much engaged with it is really an palestinian counterparts because of the concern of, of a possible escalation of violence going into the weekend. that is not something that you us wants to see. and again, that message of trying to engage in restraint,

trying to avoid escalation, trying to avoid provocations. certainly those are all things that us officials would be delivering in terms of messages to the israelis and to the palestinians. will say in falling events and fronds today, protest isn't a capital. paris of attack on a french present to manual microns favorite restaurants. as the anger of a controversial, petro forms continues to mount. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied across the country. only 11th day of demonstrate, protest as of again clash with police with stones bottles and paint being thrown unions adamant they'll keep fighting. emanuel mac calls attempt to raise the retirement age by 2 years from 62 to 64 out there as a tasha barbara has more now from paris. the big picture is these, the, some of the big street protests that have been seen in france in decades. and since january frances trade unions have really managed to mobilize hundreds of thousands

of people again and again, nearly every week to demonstrate against the french presence a pension reform. and we've seen that again today we've seen and leased anywhere between is always difficult to tell because the police and the trade unions have different figures. but anywhere between half a $12000000.00 people in the streets, hundreds of demonstrations around france, including strides to transport and food and that kind of thing. so for the trade from trade unions point of view, this is the movement to still strong, even though i from numbers can fluctuate from week to week. many people still supported, this is a full that is still deeply unpopular. pinnacle still suggests to some 2 thirds of french people want that reform to be scrapped. but what we have really been seeing in recent weeks is a lot more anger, local violence, and some of these photos what human rights groups. i've also been saying in the past few weeks, is that the police are fueling some of these tensions because they often use excessive force and target,

not just the troublemakers but purchase is sort of often be peaceful. what the trade unions want is for the pension reform to be scrapped. what the minister says is that's just not going to happen. so we're no state deadlock and stalemate. we have not the day, like we have to day where people have come arch in the street to protest. and we know the next week is going to be very much the same because the trade unions i've already called for another day protests next thursday. meanwhile, mac con himself is currently in beijing ways. been urging chinese leaders. she just thing to reason with russia to try and bring an end to the war and ukraine. she responded saying he's willing to speak to the ukrainian president roger, ms. lansky, but an advisor to russia's lead of lead team person says the chances of peace talk starting this year. a 0 robert pride reports french president emanuel macros being given, the owner of a state visit. welcome by his chinese counterpart, she's in pain. one of your most influential leaders coming to ask china to exert

its influence on russia to bring an end to europe, worst conflict since world war 2 is going to show who will keep you. i know that i can count on you to bring russia to reason and every one to the negotiating table. this was she jane paying visiting russian president vladimir putin last month since moscow's invasion. more than a year ago. jane had stayed neutral and proposed a roadmap for a cease fire and peace talks. most western leaders, including macro, have criticize the plan, but the french president has been one of the more conciliatory voices among nato heads of state. 2 weeks before russia's invasion, he met president vladimir putin in the kremlin, under spoken to him several times by phone over the past year. many and now watching to see if macaroni and she together can provide a breakthrough,

where others have failed goals on kinship check. china insists on a peaceful resolution and as willing to work with front to maintain the rationality of the international community and avoid actions that could further escalate the crisis or let things get out of control. in a show of european unity, macro is accompanied by european commission president ursula on de leon who has taken a much tougher line on china's failure to condemn the russian invasion. the europeans are looking at the very least to dissuade china from supplying russia with arms. we also count on china not to provide any military equipment directly or indirectly to russia, because we all know arming the aggressor would be against international law. and it would significantly harm our relationship, surely the signing of lucrative pray deals on this trip is seen as beijing's

attempt to maintain good european relations, even as ties with the us our. i hope china will tell press the micro on the one hand and then tow madam of on the they on the other hand that it is absolutely impulse to have a european perspective which may or may not be exactly identical to that of the united states. chinese and european leaders hoping traditionally strong craig links can lead to a diplomatic breakthrough. robert bride al jazeera and other developments fighting in backward and ukraine is intensified as russian troops continue their offensive to capture the city in the dumbass region. ukrainian authorities on thursday shed video soldiers operating in bartlett, the done yet squeegee or governess as russian strife of kill 2 civilians and destroy back most acquainting president rosemary. zalinski says it's full could allow russia to rally international support for deal would require keith to make

unacceptable compromises. meanwhile, authorities in russian control, the areas of eastern ukraine's, a 7 civilians have been killed in 2 separate strikes, which they're blaming on keeps forces. danielle has been controlled by pro russian forces since 2014 and regularly comes on the fire from ukrainian military or washing present id. my fusion has also been meeting with the kremlin appointed leaders of the 4 ukrainian regions the moscow illegally annexed and september. speaking during a meeting with the russian appointed head of the done yet screech and he said, ukrainian forces must be pushed back. they also claim that ukrainian soldiers killed 14 of their own troops who had surrendered to rush up without providing evidence or any further details. muscles alicia punishment, did you get the ukrainian forces, have no pity for their own soldiers. they're extremely cynical and cruel. therefore, our goal is of course to push them, but to

a distance from which the current causes harm. also on thursday, president putin disgusted strengthening defense ties with bruce, alexander lucas shanker, travels the kremlin fir, the talks which covered economic corporation as well as security. but the leaders did not include the placement of tactical nuclear weapons embarrass according to russian media. as something pushing as previously said will happen by july. with the news, our lie from london much more still to bring you on the program. the u. s. government defense is chaotic and rushed exit from afghanistan in 2021. ah, protest as are undaunted by another delay in sedans, long fight for democracy and an off dave of tiny. how baseball's biggest star made the wrong kind of history. ah,

saudi arabia and iran have agreed to resume flights between their countries and facilitate visas for citizens as part of a chinese mediator deal. it follows talks between saudi and iranian foreign ministers in beijing, ashmore hall bar reports on this. now this is the 1st high level contact between the 2 regional heavy weights in 7 years. iran and saudi arabia agreeing to reopen embassies and consulates in each other's countries. these are the 1st significant steps to was normalization says the 2 restored relations last month meeting the deal was broke, heard by china as it seeks a new role as a global peacemaker to leader would add as a good friend and partner of middle east countries. china will continue to respect the autonomy of the middle east countries and is a full supporting reconciliation,

peace and harmony. in the middle east, china will work with middle east in countries to implement global security initiatives, global development initiatives, and global civilization initiatives to promote security. re ard, sever ties into $1016.00 after iranian professors stalled the saudi embassy into iran that followed the execution of a she, i, cleric, in saudi arabia. oh, for years the oil rich kingdom, plains iran for spreading radical. she ideology and army proxies in yemen, syria and iraq. the wealthy gulf nation prides itself on being the defender of sunny's lamb and has repeatedly called an iran to give up its nuclear ambitions. for now though, the arch rivals want to start a new chapter and grandparents and prime minister mohammed ben said man, widely known by his initials m. b as has ambitions to develop saudi arabia rapidly

. this is primarily driven by amendments alman or motivation fulfilling his vision. 2030 of socioeconomic ya development and saudi arabia, which requires stability. you can't really achieve that kind of growth. if you're are being rained on by drones and missiles coming from across the border of the united states. us praised the dealers a positive step forward. but washington, rebellion, skeptical it fears it's decades long, influence in the region could be eroding at a time that of its biggest rival, china is expanding. hash model butler al jazeera, more than 5000 people have fled, easton, me, and mar for thailand in recent days. because of an escalation and fighting between me and mars, army, and resistance groups. now officials are saying that people have been seeking

refuge in tac province in thailand. after rebels attacked me and my army outpost at the border. who and 800 children are among the refugees in the town of my thought is according to ty, media fighting reportedly continued on thursday with gunfire heard from the ty side of the border. man, mars ethnic minorities have been fighting for gray shorts haunted me for decades. that armed conflict is intensified since the army ousted the elected government of unsung c. she. in february 2021. a review of the us military's chaos withdrawal from afghanistan in 20. 21 is blame. the administration of the former president donald trump. reports also acknowledged that government should have started withdrawing americans in afghans earlier than it did. our white house correspondent, kimberly how kit has more on this. now. the white house is not taking any responsibility for what many have characterized as a chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan instead passing the blame on the previous

trumpet administration for not being more forthcoming in the sharing of intelligence, as well as preparations for withdrawal. saying that the by the ministration reached out repeatedly, but attempts to communicate were not responded to. we should point out that this report that was prepared and will be shared with both the state department. the pentagon to members of congress was handed to reporters with just 10 minutes prior to the press briefing, giving us little chance to look it over in advance of asking questions of the national security council. but many report is referred to as a classic holiday news dumped. made it very difficult to sort of scrutinize, but a what there seems to be in terms of a conclusion that is acknowledged within the report. is it the white house is admitting that nobody predicted that the african forces would collapse in just 9 days. in other words, acknowledging a massive intelligence failure on the part of

u. s. agencies. and even though the picture showed people rushing to escape and crowding the evacuation flight and times even falling from the sky, john kirby, the spokesperson for the national security council, says he says, for all the talk of chaos, he says he didn't see it. take a listen after action reviews are now being reviewed by members of congress to weigh out things that could have gone better. nobody's saying that everything was perfect, but there was a lot that went right. and a lot of afghans are now living better lives in this country and other countries around the world because of the sacrifices in the work of so many american government officials. so yeah, there's a lot to be proud of. in fact, the 5 in white house saying that what it's most proud of is that now 124000 afghan people are now living in the united states or other countries where they're starting new lives away from the scrutiny of the taliban. further, the white house saying that president biden is commander in chief of the u. s.

military is enormously proud of that. what is not being acknowledged, however, is the fact that within that withdrawal was left behind 7000000000 in u. s. military hardware. or at least 2 people were killed and more than a 1000000 left without power. when an ice storm, hey canada's to most populated provinces. freezing right and strong winds topple trees and way down electricity lines. the outages were in quebec and ontario, which account for more than half of canada's total population electricity provide as a working to restore power. the repairs are expected to continue for days. we go to see don now, hundreds of protests of march for the capital har tune, they are demanding an end to military rule. the head of saddam's army says he is committed to a plan for transition towards elections, but a final deal for the formation of a civilian government has been postponed again for 2nd time on wednesday. so it has been mine and political crisis since president tomorrow. bashir was forced to step

down in 2019. it morgan has more on the story now. to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the thoughts of a citizen which elected to overthrow of long time president del martin bashir in april 2019 protest. as in heart of tomb and other cities in sudan on 1st they took to the street to mark the day. but they also voicing their anger against the current political developments in the country. now, them has been in a political term world since the military took over power. in october 2021 and a 2 year transitional government that was meant to leave for down to democracy. and the protesters have been demanding that the military handover power to the civilian government and returned to the barracks. but they've also been demanding political parties not negotiate with the military, saying that would give them legitimacy. over the past few months, they have been talking between political parties and the military to form a 2 year transitional governments that would lead to down to elections. and the deal is to be signed in the coming days, according to both sides. the military and the political parties. those talks are

being facilitated by the african union, the united nations and the regional. i got body here in sudan, but protestors say that the fact this is happening is against their demands which they've been making since the military took over power security forces on 1st they used tear gas to disperse protestors in the city of part of whom and the trinity of under man, at least a $120.00 protested, have been killed and anti military demonstrations. hundreds of others have been injured, but protested hearsay, they will continue to void their anger and wants to trade against the military, even if they have a small role in the upcoming government. and even if it is led by civilian leadership. well now to uganda, where people are struggling to access treatment for eye conditions like cataracts and tacoma, al jazeera heard from the 1st and only i, doctor, and the carol mo, jeremy chin. oh, doctor gladys at. so i am a doctor working in a hospital in this area kinda this community is purely

pastoral, is community then move from place to place. what is a problem for tacoma through endemic here? and so they suffer from a lot of tacoma, though is c. so work on those cases then there was a have cataract, which is the commonest goes on blindness here. and also in the world accessibility general to health care is so poor and is what affix that people here. and then those are believes given that this, the had to rec, area seems to be cut off. they have their own go to room believe. and so they prefer to use traditional medicine before coming to a hospital and most of them come with complications already. i have a qualified team of a co workers who are really fully trained. i have of tell me clinical officers, i have of them make nurses that have the attendant to have it of that make equipment technician. so that kind of, tim is willis, palace. the shell is an acre and those are the people i work with. you would know

what it means actually to see. so the impact of i say her is actually that's the next day for patients who have undergone surgeries, if someone has gone been blind for 5 years, and then you work on them. and the next day they can sit. and for that, that is a kind of impact with the, the independent, someone comes, you know, and they're being guided by a child or some of that. and then, and then now they can work on that one. you would the news, our life from london much morsel to bring you on the program. there's our investigation into the rival gangs, big banks and talk politicians involved in a goal smuggling ring that stretches all away from southern africa to do by. and have you wondered why eggs have gotten so expensive lately? i'm kristen salumi looking for the answer to that question. in lancaster county, pennsylvania, ah, allens for the box, it headings to pile files. the eastern conference to b. ah

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come back, our top story, this our reports of an explosion in gaza. planes of being heard overhead this off to the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said his country with its enemies . after $34.00 rockets will fire from lebanon. about $25.00 were intercepted. the prime minister has vowed an aggressive response. our protest is in paris attacks one, a french president of audio microns favorite restaurants. the anger of a controversial picture of forms continues to mount hundreds of thousands of people of rallied across the country on the 11th day, now of demonstrations that mac calling himself is on a tour of china. he is urging the leader shooting thing to try and reason with russia to help bring an end to the war. and ukraine. macaroni is on a 3 day state visit to china along with the european commission president. and i sit up on the line or not top story now with honda,

i mean she's been reporting from occupied east jerusalem where both the israel government a prime minister, where engage in a security cabinet meeting all day when we were just speaking about 30 minutes ago . and now these explosions have been hired in gaza. what further information are you hearing? well, we just spoke actually to our team inside garza, that had been telling us actually that this, that they have been hearing as several, a explosions, very loud explosions. and those explosions could be heard all the way from the north to the south of gas. as far as we know, a de moment israel is targeting a hamas, i sits inside garza training camps and other locations. we don't have the full details yet as we haven't really heard from a hamas. or what we're we did here from gaza. is islamic jihad,

which is another palestinian factors saying that it won't be intimidated by any action taken by israel. we don't have any reports at this stage of casualties. now this does not come as a surprise in the sense that early in the day, a spokesman 40 israeli army had actually pointed the finger at palestinian factions inside a lebanon for debt. a barrage of rockets that northern israel came under a so the, there was a lot of speculation that the retaliation when and if it came, was going to be against a gaza, rather than on lebanese territory. simply because israel would be shying away at the moment from an all out war. and tell us more about developments earlier on tonight with the security cabinet meeting on to because as you say, a strong response was promised. and the expectation was that there would be

some sort of military strikes, an action taken in gaza. but is there still a chance that it will be limited just to gaza, or that something further could happen in lebanon as well? well, the security carried it is on go at the meeting is ongoing as far as we are, understanding now. when you listen to really as sort of military experts speaking to these really media, when you listen today, you read the statements coming out of these really are me or are these really politicians? it seems that there is and there is no intention of really opening the front or with lebanon at this point. and i think the words of the israeli spokesman when he earlier in the day as appointed the finger at either hamas or islamic jihad for

being it or a behind that a barrage of rocket fired at a hit northern israel this afternoon. i think there is an, it does seems to be an intention of trying to limit all of these to the gaza strip, giving full responsibility of what had happened to hamas and trying to solve that problem there. but these are the early and i was really of all of this, there's a lot of tension simmering here in occupied east jerusalem. actually they were earlier as kermit is between some palestinians and the israeli police similar skirmishes were seen in palestinian cities inside israel. so, you know, these really government at the moment would be under a lot of stress trying to figure out how to contain at this situation. because it would have in mind what happened back in 2021. again, tensions that started at the l. x m. most compound that escalated into 11

days war with garza. and at the same time, violence erupted in mix cities inside israel, between palestinians and israelis. and that had taken the government completely by surprise. so this time probably in the cabinet meeting, they will be trying. they would keep that in mind, trying to make an assessment how to contain all of that, and also not open another fraud with lebanon. israel had said clearly, earlier in the day that it held her mass responsible of that. and it said that hes bala had deacon no part in it. even though it said that his boiler must have known about it. so you can see that rhetoric that israel is really trying to isolate hermas and put all the responsibility of this on. huh. all right, thank you very much. i'm occupied issue some honda, our bill hamid reporting there. and now donna occurred as an assistant professor at

university of richmond and a non resident fellow at the middle east institute. she joins being live now from virginia and it was in 2021, wasn't it that we saw police raids on the i like some mosque in jerusalem, sparking an 11 day conflict between israel and a mass. are we on the cost of the same sort of escalation? now definitely, i think that that is a great possibility at this point, especially because of the transgressions and our compound, you know, 2021 was the big deal because of the unity and to bother. but they have been ongoing and their current government in israel is particularly keen on flexing their muscle. and meanwhile, we have seen israel already step puppets, near daily raids across the occupied west bank. scores of lives have been lost. we've seen it typically violent attack stage by settlers at the same time

as well as attacks on individual israelis. does it look as though we will just see this conflict take place in god's or is it likely to spread to these spasms and towns and cities in the west bank as we saw 2 years ago? no, absolutely. i. i do not think that this will be isolated to the gaza strip. and i think that, you know, passing actors factions, activists, all sorts of posting actors have made it clear that this is a kind of a cohesive uh struggle. and so when we see something like air strikes on garza, we're going to see reactions with militant groups in the west bank are going to see protest. and especially in an answer to the ongoing aggression that you mentioned by settlers who are completely protected by the israeli army. this is going to exacerbate the situation. so i truly believe that

this is not going to be isolated to gaza. whether or not it's going to be at the, at the level of escalation that we saw, the unity and the father in 2021 remains to be seen. but it's still going to be quite unsettling and quite violent. wouldn't you speak about the settler violence and wayne, which is where the security forces of responded to that? what might we see now if there is to be a full scale conflict in gaza? possibly some activity from southern lebanon to israel, at the same time, while you have protest happening. how might they, what are the concerns about the way in which is where the security forces may or may not respond? so to be clear is a security force of always responded aggressively and act with complete impunity because they know that know, you know, the israeli authorities as well as the international community,

won't hold them accountable. but there is kind of an added layer of fear over the emboldened for settlers. so these are armed for individuals who are happen in bold and even more so here today in 2023 because their leaders are now in the cabinet. and so someone like at the moment give your can promise no, no retribution for any of their activities. and so given that kind of interplay for both of like, internal is really dynamics as well as the ongoing, you know, crisis and continued is really aggression. and in the occupied territories, what we can expect maybe a let's say, a further escalations of violence. and we've seen in the past and greater use of violence than we've seen in the past between past new processors and the armed israelis up there is. and then the security forces and police and things like that

. the last 10 days of ramadan, a particularly sensitive, of course, that we now have this occurrence of ramadan and cherish possible holiday coinciding . but none the less in the last final 10 days, people will want to spend more time at the most particularly the, the whole night entire night if they can until, until sunrise. now if there is an escalation elsewhere, we like to see is right, please refrain from staging these raids or could we see more violence in east jerusalem as well? no, i don't have high hopes for them refraining to be honest with you. it's true that the israeli authorities have claimed that they will allow, in the last 10 days, people to engage in those activities that you mentioned staying overnight active. but 1st of all, they are not. they shouldn't have any authority over this space by international law. and 2nd, given, you know, again, all of the viral moments in which they've been caught on camera, you know,

engaging and human rights violations, speeding protesters beating prayers, worshippers. and nothing has happened. i doubt that they will be willing to restrain themselves. and especially if they're in the context of garza being under attack or things like that. this is definitely going to inflame, you know, passed in your sentiment and make people angry about what's going on. so yet again, another reason that the is really police will use to, to crack down to repress, to be people to, to exile them from the old city. all the different strategies that they've used. all right, thanks very much. donna are good for joining us there from the university of richmond and just to recap. explosions have been heard in garza, this is a, this is just after midnight with at war plains at being overheard, or this is according to reuters, but nonetheless, it does come as a security cabinet meeting has been taking place in israel. benjamin netanyahu

promising a strong response to rockets that were fired at israel. dozens of rockets fired from southern lebanon into israel after days of tensions. but really, this all comes off to israeli. police again storm the alex, a mosque in occupied east jerusalem. this was on wednesday night firing a stun grenades and rubber coated steel, bullets worshippers who had been inside the mosque, but they will continue to stay across the story. bring you the latest as it comes to us. want to bring you some other news in aus. well, and government of kill the east, 50 people in to attack on a village in north central nigeria. local officials say 47 people were killed on wednesday in wilma, giddy village in ben. you state after 3 others were killed a day earlier. please confirm that attack saying that the assailants had opened fire to market, but the officers put the death toll at 8 people. this includes a policeman. now we want to bring the latest from our investigation into

a large scale, money laundering operation spanning southern africa and the middle east. the al jazeera investigative unit has uncovered evidence implicating high ranking diplomats in zimbabwe. in some of south africa's top banks, the gold mafia invited undercover reporters to visit their headquarters in dubai, where rival gangs launder vast amounts of money. alexander james brings us this report now. cameras putney is in a taurus go dealer. he loaned his money using gold that he sells in dubai. he shows undercover reporters earnings from one store for josh. yet we are through the review of dollar, not non rival gangs are competing to clean up what journalists posing as chinese gangsters say is $1200000000.00 of dirty cash for every day her coming? yes, with an i patti,

once the reporters to join his existing money laundering, set up with somebody, then it becomes entertainment. that is the laundry much was finished. you know, then you've been raised to buy has set themselves up for being the middle of the gold trade. the key to being a money laundering haven is you have to have the financial infrastructure and they have backs laws and no enforcement. allister matthias is also based in dubai. he uses gold to clean money for corrupt politicians. oh, is there any current only included with the one where we're looking? for the most part, he plans to clean the dirty cash through his gold refinery allies. hell,

by the way, because we can do or can you you literally, you can pay through that finally. well, play with the people how they can look like gold. you bet angel is as in bob when ambassador, who is offered to launder money through gold. again, lex, he recently spoke to international, delicate cindy, by about investing in zimbabwe, free from corruption. i was in my office with no russian or math. angel is asking for $200000.00 to arrange a meeting between zimbabwe president emerson, mann and gaga. and out there is under cover team that guy doesn't take right or no one is

a big difference in appreciating somebody and grab it busily. walker good on greg nova. there is somebody saying, i thank you for everything that you were doing for us and it didn't big difference . angel says president, man and gaga can help put the money laundering for a fee. i think he's in this building with us. and this is my, you know, somebody was nothing but money. so and somebody with the money to spend on. oh yeah . do you give him 1000000 is like is living with calmness. putney denied involvement in any form of money laundering. and that he offered to deal with funds he knew originated from a legal sources. allister matthias said that he had never laundered money or gold, nor offered to do such things. he said he had never owned any refineries in dubai. the other parties featured did not respond to our inquiries. alexander james al jazeera, and by wise information minister did say that the authorities are committed to

upholding local and international laws relating to financial transactions. the trade of gold and other precious minerals. go with this with with pro info crime with the international monetary fund has given its lowest global growth forecast in decades wanting that poverty and hunger rates will rise as economy struggle to recover from the covet pandemic, and the impact of russia's invasion of ukraine. global growth for the next 5 years to remain around 3 percent. this is our lowest

medium term growth for growth forecast since 9090. it is well below the average of 2.8 percent. we fed in the pre copied decades and it makes it even harder to reduce poverty to hear the economy, discuss of the cove in the gracies to provide new and better opportunities to all getting up this hill would require major step changes made while the u. s. is currently dealing with the deadliest bird flew outbreak in history. more than $58000000.00 farmed birds have died or been killed to prevent the spread of the virus contributor, rising egg and poultry prices. kristin salumi reports from lancaster county in pennsylvania. chickens are more plentiful than people in lancaster county, pennsylvania, but a severe strain of avian flu is taking

a toll on the poultry population here and around the country. and restrictions meant to prevent the spread of the virus are taking away a source of income for farmers like jeffrey mitchell. so how long has it been since we've had chickens here? it was january 27th. when the last of them left, he sells his birds for meat. his 4 chicken houses are currently empty. well, i've never had the disease on my farm that i know about. so, you know, they're being being kept away from me for safety reasons. i'm because of the diseases in the area. it's in the quarantine area as m. i. avian flu, along with inflation help drive up the price of eggs as much as 70 percent last year. in the united states, the world's largest producer and 2nd largest exporter of poultry. the virus is carried in the droppings of migratory birds. this latest variant has not only spread like wildfire among poultry. it's also been found in mammals as well.

raising the specter of a human outbreak, a drop of manure about the size of my finger nail, for example, would be enough to in fact, a flock very easily of scientists at penn state university are working to educate backyard chicken owners, as well as farmers to reduce the spread humans should not be worried simply because only 2 percent of our population is actively working in agriculture. and so the majority of our, our public are consumers of our poultry and eggs. and those are safe because they're inspected before they're put out into the supermarkets. i think for us, the worst case scenario is seeing this continue to spread which the states governor has also set aside $25000000.00 from next year's budget to compensate farmers. another 6000000 for testing, but as this latest strain of avian flu, no signs of abating. some of the industry say vaccinating chicken should also be on

the table since 2015 a number of different outbreaks of billions of dollars spent on indemnification. 100000000 birds put down. it deserves serious consideration at this point in time. they say more needs to be done to keep this vital food supply safe. kristen salumi al jazeera lancaster, pennsylvania santa han, now the sport. thank you very much. marianne. more england have beaten brazil to win the women's finances emma showdown between the champions of europe and south america. the finishing one all in regulation time at wembley. in that time to be 5 . if i cannot go to bed, mary pulled off some heroic for the lionesses with chloe kelly was called england file winning goal last few years to deliver they delivery once again, her support kick ceiling, shes out for 2 and another title for england. for example,

this is becca chelsea's manager. this despite the fact that he had, he was fired as a clubs both just over 2 years ago. for now he's being given at the job in a temporary capacity until the end of the season. then pod previously spent more than a decade at chelsea as a tear family club is still looking to hire a permanent replacement for gram porter. who sat on sunday. chelsea on the bottom half of the premier league, the spies spending more than half a $1000000000.00 on a new place. this isn't what we've been speaking to the evening. sanders, football correspondence, ms. arkansas law. he believes having a club legends back at stanford bridge. it might help chelsea and the season positively. the word that was used to me was stabilizer. he's he said to stabilize things. the seasons been as chaotic as you could imagine. now i'm tired. discovering all 4 different managers in the season. i don't think i've seen anything, lot people at chelsea, the thing roman abramoff which is

a bit crazy hiring and firing managers. but now the new owners foley and the data violate. they've gone and done something and never did, which was you know, start to managers in a single season. we've had a can take a manager before and you know, so there and now with frank, who is the kind of intern managing one, it's a good steady pair of hands to get to this point. it's been pre k. i think it's been for a bad as well to be 11 in the premier league. that's not what i wanted before the season and, and this is the guy who's going to try and save this season. i think that they've got huge issues in the long term, but it's about, can you save something from the season? can you take something out of the 11th in the premier league? there's not a lot to play for the funds to get in board. the atmosphere is getting really bad at stamps at bridge. so having a club legend like least gives you something to hold on. see, the players might respond to a legend as well. he's, he's a coach as well. he's got experience the chelsea before in the champions league and

family. but it's really, it's the last roll. the dice from the own is it's a last chance to try to achieve something. and. and that last thing is the champions league, they've that play in rail madrid next week. i'll be there. and they see if they're, if they win the competition, they qualify that they get a trophy at the end of a or a bad season. but if they don't do well in competition, it's going to be seen as a disaster season then. and rivals will rightly laugh at chelsea and think it's been a ridiculous year from that japanese baseball. so show here, all tiny has made some slight new unfortunate major league history. the angels player was called offer for clock violations on both the plate and mind making him the 1st player to break the new rules as both a batter and that pitcher. while the rules were brought in this season to speed up a games, despite that set back or tony's, that team did go on to win this game against the seattle mariners milwaukee bucks

that have clinched their place as top seed in the east for the n b a playoffs the bug speed to chicago bulls to do it. bobby porter who replaced the end of the and he sent it to cooper for 27 points through holiday, added 20 more as the bucks wrapped up the when 105 to 92 on his job or is it closing in on for her 1st title of what's been a difficult 2023 so far for the tennessee and star. after crashing out of the australian open in january and the 2nd round that she pulled out of a number of torments due to a minor surgery, she's looking good in charleston and is in to the quarter finals after beating caroline dolly. and also support for meal and you back to marry him in london right on it. thanks very much. now, an artist in northern italy has created a portrait of public, a casso to mock the 50th anniversary of his death with a novel method. dario gambler. and has used a tractor to transform

a 25000 square meter field in verona into the image of the painter. gomberg has carved out several portraits of high profile people over the years, including fidel castro, in our davinci and barack obama. that's if this means out, i won't be back in a moment with much more the day's news and a round up of the top stories that's coming up very shortly. ah ah, along with a meeting of minds all out is kind of suggesting

other words to us saying, what would a world like this be like the fan yoga mainstream economics. if that happens in any other profession, they would all be fired. yeah. or not just fire, they would go to prison. musical innovative brian, it meets renowned economist, hygiene chang. i see a lot of hope. i see a lot of experiments going on in the world a new season. i'm studio b unscripted coming scene. the muslim community in diana live in unit 5. when to have income tax country, we are blessed. we live in harmony to call you. i'll give an agenda. i'll just have a well to travel to south america, right guy. and he's rama dan. islamic will be of late and they enjoy doing it. we have a rich country and thumbs up diversity. and that is something that we can celebrate grandma time in diana analysis era or a big on plaque to bangladesh,

looking for safety after facing military, correct on in me, i'm, but this is what she's dealing with now. are make shift home at this refugee camp. been caucasus bizarre, went up in flames on sunday. the fire has swung the spotlight back on the struggles . the charm of and tragedy is based on daily basis by everyone here. this fire, as a reminder of the many challenges facing their own hang or refugees, they're caught between the increasingly dangerous situation in bangladesh and a new political reality off a homeland now led by the same military hunter responsible for the crackdown that force them to flee in the 1st aah! explosion tied and gaza off to israel's prime minister vows to strike his country's enemies. ah.