what is part of the battery supply chain for europe? they don't think it is. pete also have the same human rights as other people can. nations made wealth from oil and gas now balanced their green obligations with the rights of indigenous people. you can't choose solutions for us in f know for future voices from the optic in one. it talks, money, winds on it just either the u. s. is always of interest to people. all right. the world people pay attention to walk with on here and i'll just see this very good that bringing the news to the world from here. ah you. ready is really a raisin garza after rocket so far from the strip ah,

to walk. it's also london, israel from southern lebanon prime minister benjamin netanyahu vows a fitting response. ah, i'll matheson and this is all 0. lie from dough hob also coming up. the french president urges the chinese leader to make russia seen reason and stopped the fighting in ukraine. the by administration says president donald trump is to blame for the chaotic withdrawal of troops trough, janice done. ah, we're going to be getting gaza with israeli army has been bombarding the palestinian enclave with the air strikes. explosions could be seen hitting the besieged enclave shortly after midnight. local time. the strikes came after israel's prime minister. benjamin netanyahu vowed a strong response to earlier rocket attacks from gaza. pompey, by a memo,

when im sure we venue, may i have made it clear that our enemies should not misjudge us. the internal debate in israel will not prevent us from taking action against them wherever and whenever necessary. all of us, without exception are united on this. we have no intention of changing the status po on the temple mount. we are calling for calming the situation and we will take strong action against extremists. he's violence there regarding the aggression against us. on other francois, we will strike our enemies and they will pay the price for any act regression little or the strikes on garza also follow the largest bottle of rockets fired from lebanon since the 2006 war which had parts of northern israel. disraeli military says it intercepted $25.00 of $34.00 projectiles, and this all comes after is ready. please stop the locks or mosque in occupied easter islam twice within 24 hours. the 5 star grenades and rubber coated steel bullets are wash of us to fire crackers and stones. just as a human face,

johnny has not from the gaza strip. just talk us through what's been happening over the last hour or so, you know? yes. trav. so about an hour ago, israel aircraft's a started carrying out air strikes along the gaza strip in different areas all at the same time, we witnessed airstrikes in the, nor then in the south or in and in the central part of the gaza strip. the targeting was particularly on a military caps and training sites belonging to hammers. also agriculture lands, civil defense in gaza announced that one home in bate honeymoon in the north and part of the gaza strip collapsed due to the targeting of the agriculture land in baker. genuine in the northern part, but the luckily the home was empty and there were no casualties or injuries in that home. also, we have seen buried as of rockets being launched from the gods. this trip towards

these really tells sirens were heard in the southern israeli towns and we've seen a lot of uh, rockets from the dome system, intercepting the rockets fired from garza as well as anti aircraft missiles that were fired from because the strip towards the israeli aircraft's carrying out the strike scene godsa. jonah thomas, is they on group the controls, the gaza strip that are on groups there as well, or kind of a response? have they been giving? yes. so we have a statement from the joint fractions. here in the gaza strip. they said that in light of the enemy's threats to error resistance in our people in godsa, we affirm the readiness of the resistance to confront and respond with old force to any aggression and to defend our people in all places and of its presence and our

sanctity is before this, or prior to this statement, there were statements made by ha, ha, who is the political leader of hamas in lebanon, b root. and also, as he had the santa, the leader of islamic jihad, who was also in the same meeting in b route for all factions there. and they said that there is a consensus agreement among old palestinian a factions and resistance factions. to a, to respond to any israel, aggression against the gaza strip against the holy sides, or any other aggression that is being carried on the policy to be in people. the only thing is that this time ha ha, mass unit. thank you very much. indeed, we appreciate, and you may also token to sir, from garzo. there we were just looking at some live pictures of garza. it seems

fairly quiet at the moment. off to the bottom that you know, i was talking about of rockets that came out of garza into southern israel. but of course it's still just in the early hours of following this is really raid on various parts of the gaza strip. so we're going to be keeping to watching that situation a very closely. in the meantime, rosalind jordan has more on the us state departments reaction to the violence. well, there is great concern of both from officials here at the us state department, as well as over at the white house. so there had been a glutter fear that took, given the yell convergence of ramadan on us pass over, which is the 1st day and of our holy week in the western christian calendar. that there would be an increase of violence 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, in any unilateral action that jeopardizes the status quo to us is unacceptable. and we call for restraint coordination and come during the holiday season. now there haven't been 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 he was 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. last fall hot as a retired liberties army general, he's a strategic and political researcher. he's joining us now from beirut. so thank you very much indeed for being with us. and israel has responded by in the last hour or so. coming out here strikes on garza, but of course, the majority of the rockets that were fought into israel came from lebanon. why is it to that israel would choose to, to fire on gaza, as opposed to firing on what they believe would be palestinian targets in lebanon? yes, the firing give me some. ready some it's already. busy busy so when

i get stuck for how much i know, maybe they have some gas, but today they can take on the ship that i like most so how much to get but it's really good. so we are expecting someplace

in the. ringback extent. busy goal exceeding the need confrontation be and the vision and so i think that's a shipment game. busy and if they want to swap, they want to go below lebanon's. prime minister is quoted as saying that his office condemns any military operations from its territory that disturb stability. how likely is it that lebanon's government would actually be able to track down whoever could be responsible for the rocket attacks fired into israel from lebanon?

yes, there was a nice addition for all of the thinking to event condition of the situation so far. busy i could even tell the people in the building the organization. busy busy intuition and the tools because

they have some some other vision these. busy busy on that, so we should know that to condition the nation with united nations and it's hard. we appreciate your being with us and just to say thank you very much indeed for your time. protesters in paris of attacks, one of the french president in my own, my calls favorite restaurant was anger continues over controversial pension reforms . hundreds of thousands of people rallied on the. busy 11th day of demonstrations on thursday, protesters again fault with police throwing stones bosses and paint union said they'll keep fighting macros attempt to raise the retirement age by 2 years. 62,

to 64 latasha barbara has more 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 francis trade unions have really managed to mobilize hundreds of thousands of people. again and again, i navy every week to demonstrate against the french president's attention reform and we've seen out again today we see a leased anywhere between is always difficult to tell because the police and the trade unions have different figures anywhere between half a $1000000.00 people in the streets, hundreds of demonstrations, all round our thrones, including types of policy, destruction, transport and schools and that kind of thing. so for the trade from trade unions point of view, this is a movement which is still strong and even though at the numbers can fluctuate from week to week, many people still supported. this is a reform that is still deeply unpopular. opinion po, still suggested 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,

normal violence, and some of these protests, what human rights groups. i've also been saying that 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 purchases that have often been peaceful. what the trade unions want is for the pension reform to be scrapped. what the prime minister says is that's just not going to happen. serena stated deadlock and stalemate. we have another day, like we had to day where people have come out 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. well, the 1st president himself is in china. he's urging leaders shooting ping to reason with russia to help and the war in ukraine. macro is an a 3 day state visit to china, coinciding with a trip to beijing by the european commission president of on the land. while mcbride reports french president emanuel 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. just 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 and paying visiting russian president vladimir putin last month since most goes invasion more than a year ago. they ging had stayed neutral and proposed a roadmap for a cease fire and peace talks. most west and leaders, including macros have criticized 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, fled to me. putin in the kremlin, under spoken to him several times by phone over the past year. many and now

watching to see if macaroni she together can provide a breakthrough, where others have failed goals on kinship channels. china insists on a peaceful resolution and as willing to work with france 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 macros 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, the signing of lucrative prey 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 tell madam of the layer on the other hand, that it is absolutely important 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, the kremlin, says china has a strong potential as a mediator, but sees no prospects for peace in ukraine. russia's presidential spokesman to me to pascal says the situation in ukraine is too complex for now and requires moscow to continue its military campaign. still ahead on al jazeera odyssey,

this investigative unit reveals, devise linked to gold smuggling operations in africa. and a closer look we hear from uganda, an eye doctor serving poor communities. ah hello. we are still looking at a few nasty storms just pushing across the far southeast of the u. s. it still see this very active line of bir thunderheads just moving across the yard. deep south easing over towards that southeast and corner had about still some warmth around the eastern seaboard, but that will get knocked back as we go through the next couple of days. this friday's pitcher then some begun foundry shower still in play. still a possibility of one or 2 tornadoes, but no way there was widespread was active as we have seen recently. so things

starting to slowly but surely improve that push saw all the way across to was north carolina maybe into were for tenure as well. thinking farther south is as we go one through sas day, still some rather nasty weather pushing across sir. a good part of the deep south there, mississippi alabama in particular, sees what, whether they're into georgia tech, to struggling to get him celsius in atlanta, at this state. 11 degrees in the sunshine, much cooler there for new york, but at least it will be dry temperatures. well, i should be at long last in a lay. so here getting up to around 23 celsius net is some when she, whether they're just around b. c. but for much of the western us, not too bad over the next few days. and it's not too bad to across the caribbean, looking a little unsettled with some lively homes for hispaniola as we go through the weekend. ah, those that know, do those that understand? teach, cook a maverick school headmaster in post conflict,

gulf fast determined to change the fortunes of an inner city community, plagued by urban decayed poverty and the legacy of sectarian aggression arms. as students with the knowledge of the ancient greek philosophers scottish male in your best. but it's very, everybody else is very young. plato, a witness, dumb human tree. on a jazeera lou . ah, you watching? i'll just see it. a reminder. what top stories this are, these really military is carried out here, strikes in the gaza strip. it says it's targeting hamas air raid sirens have been sounded in southern israel signaling rocket far from within the besieged zone place

area is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu said his country would hit its enemies after a bothers of rockets from lebanon. those followed the 2nd night of israeli police storming the alex some loss been occupied east. jerusalem protesters in paris if attacked. one of french president emanuel my calls favorite restaurants assigned or continues over controversial tension reforms. hundreds of thousands of people valid on the 11th day of demonstrations on thursday. a review of the u. s. military, chaotic withdrawal from of janice down at 2021 has blamed the administration of former president donald trump. but aboard did acknowledge that the government should have started pulling out americans and afghans earlier. president joe biden was widely criticized for the chaos surrounding evacuations. as couple found to the taliban. a white house correspondent, kimberly hawk. it has more. 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. and 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 it 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 flights 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. the after action reviews are now being reviewed by members of congress to lay 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 or other countries where they're 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, saudi arabia and iran have agreed to resume flights between the 2 countries on facilitate visas as part of a chinese mediated deal. it follows talked to in the foreign ministers in beijing. the 1st such meeting is 7 years to run away, i don't know working to reactivate trade deals and re open embassies. okay, let's bring you the latest from our ongoing investigation into a money laundering and gold smuggling operation implicating seniors. and barbara and diplomats, and major south african banks. today, obviously it has investigative unit reveals the dubai connection. alexander change reports communist putney isn't a tourist, go dealer. he loaned his money using go,

but he sells in dubai. he shows on the cover reporters earnings from one store. does the cash? yes. this is us dollar. rival gangs are competing to clean up what journalists posing as chinese gangsters say is $1200000000.00 of dirty cash for every day. coming here everyday, the vision and the not like buying putney once the report is to join his existing money laundering setup or is it not like, you know, somebody can but then it becomes too much for the finished floor treatments like to know. then you can invest in what you want 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 blacks 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 much 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, you can pay through the 5. well, play with the people, how they look like gold. you bet angel is as in bob when ambassador, who is offered to launder money through gold, again, lex logan. he recently spoke to international, delicate cindy, by about investing in zimbabwe, free from corruption. i was

in my office with o. robson already mat 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 bribes or no. one is a big difference in appreciating something and bribe, you know, he does live or go don't pregnant. there is somebody saying, i think. ready within that you are doing for us and it him big difference. angel says president, man and gaga can help with the money laundering for a fee. i think he's in this building with good us and this is my, you know, somebody else nodded his money. ready somebody with the money to spend on oh yeah. do you give him 1000000 is. ready legislative calmness partly denied involvement in

any form of money laundering and that also to deal with funds he knew originated from 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 out there in zimbabwe, the minister of information says, authorities are committed to upholding local and international laws relating to financial transactions. the trade of gold and other precious minerals. this is terry, this is it is lee. this is bob with him, bro. all info i. vis move

you to watch the 3rd of the 4 part series and the old a 0 investigation gold mafia. el dorado on friday at 1200 g m t to ne, uganda, where people are struggling to access treatment for eye diseases such as catalogs and tacoma. knowledge 0 heard from the 1st and only i doctor in the common joy region. o. dr. gladys at a l. and, and dr. working in a hospital in this any, again, this community is purely pastoral, is community then move from place to place. what is the problem? so, tacoma, phil, endemic here. and so they suffer from a lot of tacoma, there. we see. so work on those cases then there was a have cataract, which is the commonest cause and blindness here. and also in the world accessibility in general,

to health care is so poor and is what affects the people here. and then those are believes given that this the had to rec, area seems to be cut off. they have their own criteria believe. and so they prefer to use traditional medicine before coming to that i hospital and most of them come with complications already. i have a qualified team of a co worker who really fully trained. i have of tell me clinical officers i have of they'll make nurses a, have the attendant to have it off. they'll make a quick meant technician. so that kind of tim is willis pilot specialist than i care. and there's other 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 see. and for that that is a kind of impact with the, the independent, someone comes you know, and they're being.