along with that's looking for safety after facing military, correct on in me i'm, but this is what she's dealing with now. for a make shift home at this refugee camp in cox's bazaar. went up in flames on sunday . the far how strong the spotlight back on the struggles the trauma and tragedy is based on daily basis by everyone here. this far as a reminder of the many challenges facing the roaming or refugees there 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, forced them to flee in the 1st place ah, explosion, todd and gaza off to israel's prime minister vows to strike his country's enemies. ah,

hello, i'm mariam m ozzy in london. you're watching al jazeera, also coming up this protest as empower a set fire to one of the manual macros favorite restaurants. on the 11th day of nationwide demonstrations against pension reforms, french president himself is in beijing right now. he's been appealing to china is needed to bring russia to its senses over the war. and ukraine. under the u. s. government defends its k all. take a rush to exit from afghanistan. ah, welcome to the program, our top story, this. our explosions has been hugged in gossip as israel's military announces it started as strikes on the strip. and this comes just als off to the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said that his country would hit it's anna these and

that they would pay a price for aggression. so these are some live shots coming from gauze or at the moment where explosions have been heard a media, they're suggesting that there have been several strikes in the territory. and so this is just an idea of what is happening there now. but of course, netanyahu's warning followed. largest burrage of rockets being fired into israel from lebanon. tis the 2006 war. israel's military says 30 full rockets were fired and about $25.00 intercepted. 3 people were reported injured. several buildings were damaged. spokesman blamed palestinian factions in lebanon for this rockets will also fide from garza during the night. but really this all comes after is ready police against on the alex, on mosque in occupied east jerusalem on wednesday. that was an anticipation that there would be some sort of reaction from garza and then is ready strikes. this is

typically a cycle of violence that plays out every so often. and of course, it was in 2021 when there were numerous israeli raids on the alex a mosque. and the surrounding compound restrictions on the ability of palestinian worshippers to access that space to exercise their right to worship and their right to be able to use that public space. that then triggered an 11 day conflict between amass in israel, which played out in garza, but at the same time we saw numerous protest erupting in towns and cities across the west bank. this is the live shot from garza now and we do have alger is younger . aside on the line, actually, she joins us now from the gaza strip, where explosions have been heard. can you tell us what you've been seeing and hearing there in garza to night?

yes, so in about half an hour or less than half an hour, actually dozens of israeli aircraft where in the skies of gaza carrying out air strikes in different areas in the same time, in the north and in the center in the south and parts off because the strip, many areas have been hit, many military camps and training camps belonging to us who are hit in the same time . also agriculture lands a while ago, a beverage of rockets was launched from the gods district towards israeli towns. sirens were heard in the israelis house in solving israel, also anti aircraft belonging to san brigades. the most true wing of us also were launched against the ease railey aircrafts that were carrying out the air strikes. and until now, as i'm talking to you, i can see very judges of rockets being launched and we also see the iron dome

intersecting them. so we can see the bombs off the iron dome just right there. price of us. if you can hear the sound of explosions now and human, has there been any reaction from a massive we heard anything from them? yes, true. i mean, there was every reaction, the 1st before the earth strikes began by the political leader of hamas ismael. hannah, who was in a meeting with all policy infections in beirut and lebanon. and he actually issued the statement as saying that are we call on the policy of resistance fractions to unify their ranks in escalate the resistance in the face of the zionist occupation . and the prior t today is to resist the occupation and national unity and resistance are the way

to achieve victory and defeat the zionist project. ah, later, just a while ago, actually, a joint factions, a chamber statement, was issued from all the policy infections here in the gaza strip. they said in light of the enemy's threats to our resistance in our people in godsa, we affirm the readiness of the resistance to confront and respond with all force to any aggression and to defend our people in all place at places of its presence and our sanctity is also there is a reaction from the ad and the high leather leader of islamic jihad, who are said that the enemy's threats will not scare us, but try to make us stronger and more current. and he also said that the lead the resistance be united in the force of any aggression and our heroic fighters, whatever they are, must be ready to respond to any aggression. the latest statement by hamis was

a mass official here in garza who said that they are ready and fully armed to a stand and to respond to any israeli aggression carried out in garza and against the palestinian people and to our protect holy site and the lock so mosque ok, so beyond the, the reaction from hamas, you know, every so often there is this periodic explosions and, and bombing of garza. but can you describe 1st the situation inside the gaza strip, where you have, i think, some 2000000 palestinians who are living on the blockade. there isn't freedom of movement or goods. they're essentially cut off from the rest of the world and the other occupy territories in it's been this way. 3rd over a decade. now what a conditions like inside garza

well, the conditions inside the living conditions inside guys are ready in deterioration and constant deterioration over the years. there is a very high. c rate of poverty among the people, the restriction of people air movement and the entry of goods has also made the reconstruction. after the latest, a war of august between israelis blind jihad and the previous war in 2021. between hamas and israel. the reconstruction is very slow since bills to war is the people are not living in good living conditions and employment is very high among the people here. and there was a very high state of worry intention as ramadan was approaching. where in the holy month of ramadan and the people here in gods that have always connected drama, done with a lot of memories about wards and escalations with israel. and so as room

a down was approaching because of all the storming to luxor mosque. and the provocations of these really are forces towards the worshippers and the response of the policy infections here. this is all caused a sense of great worry and tension among the population in gaza. and at the end, these people feel that they're living in an open air prison and they are just under constant attack. so basically while now israel is attacking the gaza strip the population over 2000000 people are forced to stay here with borders closed. they have nowhere else to go. they have nowhere to run. they have no, they have no where to hide. so it's, this is basically how life is in godsa. they're constantly under fire. when there is any kind of escalation there, threatened their homes are threatened to damage their, their life,

threatened to be lost or taken any kind of high escalation. and we've always seen and witness very high numbers of injuries. and people killed in every single escalation or war between israel and the policy instruction. ok, thanks very much from gaza. young aside. joining us now is dr. boston, i am dr. boston. i am as also in garza understand. he is. he is a member of a mass joined us on the phone. now. yes. can i can i start by getting your reaction to what is happening in gaza? thank you very much. the while we, when i'm talking to the 0, now i can hear mom, bob meant everyone everywhere. the guys are the

forces attacking different places in that goes to my tunnel. until now it's not clear how many cars you want is how many people wanted home when the house is deducted on the demolished. but i think we have something around 30 minutes ago or something like that. we are still at the beginning of this new edition. i guess to, because as to how will, how mass respond. now, i think how much would the other for to have relieved a short notice or leave me alone. take 2 minutes when i want to go the resistance movement. and all the philippine infections

respond to the aggressions will not allow. this is to escape from their crimes against our people. here no concern to you for the people of god are we see every few years this same cycle playing out to their rocket attacks into israel and then this bonding and explosion of gaza, which is, you know, it's been described as, as an open prison humanitarian situation. has been to here, rating economy has collapsed, unemployment is an issue. human rights also deteriorating that people are already trying to rebuild their homes. reconstruction from from previous attacks living conditions just seemed to get was how would another round of

violence and an escalation affect people living in the, in the gaza strip. thank you. was been a very important crucial question. but unfortunately, the, you have mixed different topics, additions in one question, the humanitarian catastrophe, because it started 17 years ago. and so it is supported by them, national community, merely by the united states, or bly oh, and imposed a siege on the gossip table. $2300000.00 team here, let it type of siege. and therefore simply because they have participated in the election in 2006 and they have chosen how much are given, how much the majority. therefore, this is on one side. the other question is, because never started my look at launched from garza against our

cuba, that it took him to 48. the reason it has always been a response to his aggression to continuous emissions on a daily basis. you can simply remember me. i mean, the best situation in numbers and figures since the beginning of this year, around 90 of thing and have been killed, including around 20 children, the our homes and houses are demolished on holiest lease. is the stormed on a daily basis. people are tucked inside the most peaceful washable, have been attacked by the government so, so therefore, the each aggression is not initiating on with this and just to be just to be care. just to be clear about this. obviously, you know, garza has 200620082014. you know,

all these was focused on garza, but in many ways it is very much jerusalem that lies at the heart of this conflict . and you know, when police storm, you know, the alexa mosques in the old city of jerusalem, this is seen as a violation of very serious provocation. how, how do people there view these whenever these rates take place? how they, how they, what, what are their observations, and what is their reaction to this? i cannot deny the also that the will can't of the coming out. and so i am talking to, while i'm hugging my children here because we have no no place to hide on the play store securely safe. sure.

we can expect that anytime that that tech tool attacks, hybrid things like what we have done and all the previous additions. i'm kidding. the dozens of civilians in one shot like what happened in 21 to one. the yes. the people here on the ground, a very kid, but at the same time they have no, no choice is other than 2 to support the choice of self defense, we are only depending on so we are under continuous aggression 24 hours, 7 days a week. you can talk about 17 years of seo. you can for the be to admissions, therefore, we have no choice is other than other than to defend ourselves. but this is that afflicted again on the symbol on dinner. the people here in increasing numbers off the house house and then were listed above our p collapsing economy collapsing

the 7 services the yes it is. it is. it is a kind of situation. well ok bus and 9. thank you for joining us from gaza. well we've just been hearing about explosions and gaza tonight, quite wide ranging. they've been hired from the, the south and to the northern region of garza as well. and of course, all this took place off to very busy day has been a un security council meeting. also the united states, of course, israel's most powerful ally as expressed concern about this escalation intentions. rosalyn jordan brings us more on that now. 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 glass of fear. that tug 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 violence around alex. i'm mosque. this is a some of what the spokesperson vadar 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 a status quo to us is unacceptable. and we call for restraint coordination and calm 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 about the 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. ah, protest is in paris of attack, want to find surprising denial microns favorite restaurants. as the anger of a controversial reforms continues, hundreds of thousands of people rallied across the country on the 11th day of demonstrations. protest as of again, clashed with police throwing stones bottles and paint unions. the adamant that

they'll keep fighting a manual microns attempt to raise the retirement age by 2 years from 62 to 64. it's ashley butler has moved from paris. the big picture is these, the, some of the pick a street protests that have been seen in france in decades. and since january francis trade unions of really managed to mobilize hundreds of thousands of people again and again, nearly every week to demonstrate against the french president's pension reform. and we've seen it out again today we've seen and leased anywhere between this, it was difficult to sell because the police and the trade unions have different figures anywhere between half a ww people in the streets. hundreds of demonstrations around france including strides, transport, confusion, that kind of thing for the trade from trade unions point of view. this is the movement to, to still strong, even though i from numbers can fluctuate from week to week. many people still supported business to

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 lot. we'll finally see 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 bought purchases that are often be peaceful for the trade unions once is for the pension reform to be scrapped. what the minister says is that's just not going to happen. so we're in a state of deadlock and stalemate. we have another 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, protest next thursday. but to present mack on himself is in beijing at the moment. he's on the chinese leader shooting pains have reason with russia to help bring an end to the war in ukraine. she responded saying he's willing to speak to ukraine.

your present. rhodium is lensky. but an adviser to rush to lead russia's lead of, let him of cushion says the chances of peace talk starting this year. as 0 on mcbride reports french president manuel macro 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, the worst conflict since world war 2 was going to show who are 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 us, you live 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 to 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. so i hope china will tell press the micro on the one hand and then toe of on the layer on the other hand that it is absolutely impulse want 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 crate links can lead to a diplomatic breakthrough. robert pride al jazeera,

a review of the us military scale to withdraw from afghanistan in 20. 21 has been blamed on the administration of a former president, donald trump. the report also seemed to allege that the government should have started withdrawing americans and afghans earlier than it did. white house close when it kimberly how kit has more on this. now. 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 binding ministration reached out repeatedly, but attempts to communicate we are 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 oh, what there seems to be in terms of a conclusion that is acknowledged within the report is that 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 routing the evacuation flight, lead 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 to the after action reviews are now being reviewed by members of congress from to way 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 fight in white house saying that what it's most proud of is that now 124000 afghan people are now living in the united states. the countries were there starting new lives away from the scrutiny of the taliban. further, the white house saying that president biden as 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, shortened to ukraine. now fighting in the city of bahama tis intensified with russian troops continuing their offensive to capture the city and the dumbass region. ukrainian authorities on thursday shed video of soldiers operating ballot beat done yet. regional government says the latest russian strikes kill 2 civilians

and destroyed bartlet, ukrainian president. autumn is a lensky says it could it fall, could allow russia to rally international support for a deal that would require keith to make on acceptable compromises. the while authorities in a russian controlled area of eastern ukraine, se 7 civilians have been killed there in 2 separate strides, which they are blaming on keeps forces. danielle has been controlled by pro russian forces since 2014 and regulate regularly comes under fire from a fight as loyal to cave. now, russian president vladimir putin has also met the kremlin appointed leaders of the 4 ukrainian regions that moscow illegally annexed in september. speaking in a meeting with the russian appointed head of the daniel squeegee, and he said that ukrainian forces must be pushed back. he also claim that ukrainian soldiers killed 14 of their own troops who had surrendered to russia without providing any evidence or further details on it. much alicia condition of the due

due to the ukrainian forces, have low pissy for the road soldiers, the extremely cynical and cruel. therefore, our goal is of course to push them back to a distance from which they can't cause harm. and one other development on thursday in this story, president putin has it been speaking about strength in defense ties with his better russian counterparts. alexander location could travel to the kremlin for these talks. they covered economic corporation as well as security barts. the leaders did not include the placement of tactical nuclear weapons embarrass according to russian media. now this is something that person has previously said is going to happen by july. now to sudan, hundreds of protests as of marching capital hard to him demanding an end to military rule. that of saddam's army says he is committed to a plan for a transition towards elections of final deal for the formation of a civilian government. was postponed for a 2nd time on wednesday. at sudan has been my and in political crisis since

president a moral bashir was forced to step down in 2019. we will have been following developments in italy where the former prime minister, silvio berlusconi is currently being treated for leukemia. the 86 year old was taken to hospital on wednesday with breathing problems. dr. say he is also suffering from a lung infection and has been an intensive care. now something a bit different to bring you. an artist in northern italy has created a portrait of pablo picasso to mock the 50th anniversary of his death. and he's done it in a way you might not expect. dario gun baron has used a tract up to transform a 25000 square meter field in verona. into an image of the painter. number is carved out several portraits of high profile people through the years, including fidel castro. they now though davinci and barack obama.