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israel from southern lebanon prime minister benjamin netanyahu bowed a fitting response. ah, i'm roll matheson, this is al jazeera alive from dough. have also coming up. the french president urges the chinese leader to make russia se reeves of non stop the fighting in ukraine. the, by the ministration says president donald trump is to blame for the chaotic withdrawal of troops from afghanistan. ah, we are going to be getting garzo with these really armies being bombarding the palestinian enclave with air strikes. explosions could be seen hitting to the siege enclave shortly after midnight. local time. the strikes came off to israel's prime minister. benjamin netanyahu vowed a strong response to earlier rocket attacks from gaza. thank you. by me,

my name then lloyd. 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 with that exception are united on this. we have no intention of changing the status quo and temperament. we are calling for counting the situation and we will take strong action against extremists who use violence there. regarding the aggression against us on other front, we will striker enemies and they will pay the price for any regression. strikes on gas also follow the largest bottle of rockets far from lebanon since the 2006 war which had parts of northern israel. israeli military says it intercepted 25 of 34 projectiles. this all comes after is where the police storm the alex a mosque and occupied east jerusalem twice within 24 hours. the 5 star grades and rubber coated steel bullets said worshippers, who threw firecrackers and stones in the off site. it has the latest developments from gaza. israeli aircraft started carrying out air strikes along the

gaza strip in different areas all at the same time. we witnessed air strikes in the northern in the south or in and in the central parts of the gaza strip. the targeting was particularly on military camps and training sites belonging to hamas. also agriculture lands, civil defense in garza. and now that one home in base, how in the north and part of the gaza strip collapse due to the targeting of the agriculture land in baker 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 beverages of rockets being launched from the gaza strip towards the israeli tells. diaries were heard in the southern israeli town. and we've seen a lot of rockets from the dome system,

intercepting the rockets wired from god's statements made by honey, who is the political leader of hamas in lebanon b route. and also the leader of lie you had who was also in the same meeting in b route for all factions there. and they said that there is a consensus agreement among all policy and faction and resistance factions to, to respond to any is israeli aggression. we are the other side as an associate professor of political science at all as our university and guys, and he's joining us from there. so thank you very much. indeed for being with us. can you just talk us through what the last few hours or so have been like for you? a 1st of all, many thanks for inviting me to be a part of this program. and let me say that are, are

a few hours is from bar to different areas of the gaza, according to the spokesperson of these way. the army is when he said is where the targeted 2 times one in the north of august, austin. but other than it was east of crime, eunice, which is used to go and according to the spokesperson of the israeli army, he said that be fun as well as strong as well. you won't be at 21 in 2014, 2014. but he has said that these are where we had been dated by the palestinian resistance again. and he also mentioned that to other targets were bothered by these wages, which, which are training camps for the palestinian resistance goods, no injuries were reported except that a home phone apart as

a result of boom, bonding, an open area and used to and as a, to a neighborhood and is to garza city and that was the only building that was there. collab snow engines, as i mentioned you were reported or no, this were reported as of now. it seems to me that the situation is choir twice now . and as we hear that israel is not interested in escalating the situation with the palestinians, it seems to me that way and just wanted to retaliate again. i sent the bellows to me, of assistance for the white kids that were launched one of those 2 days and also block that lunch from 11 am this morning at money into it, because there's something i really particularly want to ask you. many of our viewers won't have experienced being, having to live through any sort of air attack. can you talk to us what it is like

to be in gaza when there is an attack like that going on? that is a good question. let me just tell you of yours that that guy is a very small area. it's no more than 365 square kilometers, with more than 2000000 people. and it is considered one of the most populated areas on the face of earth. and it has been under extreme, and that is why you received it for the past 16 years were as well, but in much on the movement in and out of the gaza, for a more than the 2000000 that palestinians and the setbacks comes in the middle of ramadan and where the palestinians are, i've been to the dfacs just in a few hours after that that to me as well. it breaking them a fasting. and the said thanks as i was going to say to you that it

came after 2 days old aggression against most of them worship was in a locks almost. so unfortunately, in spite of all the inference that had been taken by the u. s. egypt, jordan, and to try to deescalate the situation. that is why any kind of coalition government is insisting on escalating the situation by storming alex almost as backing muslims are worshippers. and also that avenging hourly or thing again is the palestinian civilian population. in gus, professor beside that, that we've been hearing the statements that have been made by 2 or 3 of the on groups in gaza, particularly of course, hamas, which is the on group the controls. garza talked to me about the feeling of the people themselves. they're the ones who are living daily through this, this enclave in this situation that, that has been enforced upon them by israel as they, they would put it,

talk to us about how people, how advert, how they feel about the way that hamas is responding to this for example, well, let me said to you that the last thing that the palestinians in garza that they want is another escalation with israel or another with israel over the past 15 years, or 16 years since hammers has taken over. they've got a major awards again. it's got 200820122014 also 2 years ago in 2021 also in the middle of ramadan. but let me also add one more point that the guys are very angry and very frustrated with is wally aggression. and israeli attacks, again, is the only is to shine

a most and in all chords attacking worshippers, evacuating them by force, from a religious duties. and let me also add one more thing that we have been watching. what is happening in the west bank over the past few months now, since the beginning of this year, more than 90 palestinians had been killed and executed by the way the army in out of those 90 palestinians are children under the age of $18.00 and $1.00 and the only women, so there is a systematic is why 80 aggression against the palestinians in the west bank in and of course again as the likes of course. so i guess the palestinians are not in the palestinian civilian population and the other is not interested in any warfare with this. one is not interested in any military escalation as well. but in the meantime, the palestinians do not tolerate the continual aggression against the host.

and to the palestinians are isn't red line that i know that it will not tolerate any. is wally at that ahead. asada. thank you very much for joining us. and ours is either, so i'm afraid time is against us, but we're very grateful to you for being with us. we should of course, point out that israelis have been killed as since january as well, at least 14 in various attacks to thank you very much. indeed for being with us for a long time, rosalind jordan has more in the u. s. state department's reaction to the violence. well, there is great concern, a boat from officials here at the us state department, as well as over at the white house. so there had been a glass of fear that to a given the gal 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, on mosque. this is a some of what the a spokesperson for dont 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 the status quo to us is unacceptable. and we call for restraint coordination and calm 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 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. in other news, protesters and powers of attacks, one of french president emanuel mac homes favorite restaurants. as i go, continues of a controversial pension reforms. hundreds of thousands of people rallied on the 11th day of demonstrations on thursday. protest as again fault with police throwing stones bottles and a union cerebral keep fighting macros attempt to raise the retirement age by 2 years before the french president himself is in china, he's urging leaders change him ping to reason with russia to help. and the war in ukraine, macro is a 3 day state visit to china, coinciding with a trip to beijing by the european commission president of on the land. robert bride

reports french president emanuel macro being given the honor 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 wish she'd been paying visiting russian president vladimir putin last month since moscow's invasion, more than a year ago. they jane had stayed neutral and proposed a roadmap for a cease fire and peace talks. most west and leaders, including macros 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, 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 macro and she together can provide a breakthrough where others have failed goals on kinship chairs, 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 to the the signing of lucrative tre deals on this trip is seen as bay jim's attempt to maintain good european relations, even as ties with the us, sour hogan. i hope china will tell president mackerel on the one hand and then tell madam of on the lay 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 trade links can lead to a diplomatic breakthrough. robert bride al jazeera or the kremlin, says china has strong potential as a mediator, but sees no prospects for peace in ukraine. russia's presidential spokesman to me to pasco says the situation in ukraine is too complex for now,

and requires moscow to continue its military campaign. still ahead on al jazeera mozilla's investigative unit reveals, devise linked to gold smuggling operations in africa. ah frank assessments this treaty pride this with this hopeful moment where countries could come together and stop putting in place the rules allow us to treat with global comments with the attention it deserves inside story. on al jazeera in celebration of the day, i'll just say russia case is the collection of climate focused programming. right, meets the people calling for systems change? is the production price that has to go all hail the plan. it covers the forces at play undermining meaningful action. when i was east dive deep and uncovered

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we want you all to 0 reminder, what top stories this are. these really military is covered audio strike to the gaza strip. it says it's targeting hamas air raid sirens are being sounding and seldom israel signaling rocket far from within the besieged young play. earlier is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu said his country would hit its enemies after the bought out of rockets from lebanon. those followed a 2nd light of his ready police storming the alex, a mosque and occupied these 2 rooms. protesters in paris attacked one of french presidency manual macros favorite restaurants as i go, continues over controversial and a people rallied on the 11th state demonstrations and thursday. president, jo biden's administration is blaming conditions created by his predecessor donald trump, for the chaotic withdrawal of troops from afghanistan. but if you did acknowledge that the government should have started pulling americans enough guns out earlier,

president joe biden was widely criticized for the kale surrounding evacuations. as cowboy fell to the telephone, our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins. as 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 in the sharing of intelligence, as well as preparations for withdrawal. saying that the bible 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 oh, 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 afghan 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 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. let's bring the latest from an ongoing investigation into a money laundering, a gold smuggling operation implicating seniors and bob williams, diplomats on major south african banks in the latest installment. obviously, this investigative unit reveals that the bi connection. alexander, change reports, cumberland, putney is an, a tourist, go dealer. he lost his money using go, that he sells into buy. 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, you know, like buying putney wants the reporters to join his existing money laundering setup, or is it not like, you know, somebody can but then it becomes too much for the loan to finish that now. then you've been involved 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 box 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 you included anyone who is much the one 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 feel that way you can be included finally? well, play with the vehicle. i'll take a look. thank you. gold. uh huh. you bet. angel is in baldwin ambassador who is offered to launder money through gold. again, lex deployed and he recently spoke to international, delicate cindy by about investing in zimbabwe, free from corruption. i was in my office with no russian

math. angel is asking for $200000.00 to arrange a meeting between zimbabwe. president emerson, man and gaga, and out there is undercover teen. that guy doesn't take bribes or no. one is a big difference in appreciating some waking and bribe, you know, he, at this level google don't pregnant. there is somebody saying, i think. ready within that you are doing for us and it in the different angel says president man and gaga can help with the money laundering for a fee. i think he's in. ready any trouble with your good and this is my, you know, somebody was not that much money. so and somebody with the money to spend on. oh yeah. you, you give him 1000000 is like is living the communist partly denied involvement in any form of money laundering. and that also 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. alex, on the james al jazeera in zimbabwe, the minister of information says, authorities are committed to upholding local and international laws relating to financial transactions. the trade of gold, another precious minerals. this, this is with in i do with lee. this is bob with him. brow info i iss room. and you can watch the 3rd of the 4th part

sees in the odyssey the investigation, gold mafia. el dorado. on friday at $1200.00, g m t. hundreds of protesters marched through sedans, capital consume on thursday, demanding the end of military rule. the head of sedans, army says he's committed to applying for the transition towards the elections. the final deal for the formation of a civilian government was postponed for the 2nd time on widens day sudan has been mired in political crisis since president or marcia was forced to step down in 2019 more than 5000 people of fled, eastern me and mar, for thailand in recent days, because of an escalation and fighting between me and mars, army and armed groups. officials say people have been seeking refuge in thailand, tucked providence after rebels attacked and miramar army outpost at the border. according to ty, media, more than $800.00 children were among the refugees in the town of may sot. my mas, ethnic minorities have been fighting for greater autonomy for decades,

but armed conflict as intensified as the army deposed, the elected government of all sorts of cheat. in 2021, italy's former prime minister silvio berlusconi is being treated for leukemia. the 86 year old was taken a hospital on wednesday with breathing problems, dr. se he's also suffering from a lung infection and he's been an intensive care balance. connie was the longest serving prime minister of italy's in the end of world war to be still leads his body and he's elected senator that said, for me, the news is going to continue in august, either after inside story. stay with us. if you can find, ah, ah, hello, we got a pretty wet start to the weekend for japan, some rather nasty re making its way for a front. berryhead says, well,

we have got to this area of low pressure at the moment to see the safety plan. it extends down across q, she, right, the white down towards taiwan is making its way further. a switching see that big bump on the stone there. say some really heavy showers could cause some localized fighting for a time across other parts of japan. as we go through where friday it will gravity improve, rest assure, improving now across the korean peninsula. 15 celsius in so not particularly war 15 celsius that to, for beijing at least, habitable gradually notched away up fitting rathermore. presently spring like as we go through the next few days, 20 celsius in beijing for saturday. try to weather coming back into japan by i sat, stay, but still a few sh ask was a northern half of the country. they will make their way away. wanted to shout still let into taiwan. but again, that will clear through as we go through the next few days, southern china looking pretty good that it the usual scattering a showers across much of by south east asia. live the ones that was smart tra,

say some showers to just across see south of in the as we go through the next few days. shes becoming a little more extensive for the central plains. 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 played by urban decay, poverty, and the legacy of sectarian aggression arms. as students with the knowledge of the ancient greek philosophers. what a snail your fears. but his van and everybody else is this young, plato, a witness of human tree, honor jessina, engaging with china, frances president and the head of a european commission, both in beijing, the hoping seizing ping can help and the war ukraine.