jamie systems huttfield more than $100000.00, so my lease of crossed into kenya since last year. i last saw aiden lack of village in somalia, when how 4 grand children died because you had no food to keep them in the last drought in 20 live in the surviving on goat skin and wild foods in this drought. we can't even get that. most of the people who are coming to this area are not registered as refugees yet, so they are struggling to survive. they have very little water and foods. this is the longest, dry spot in fort decades. ah, israel repels rockets, launched from garza after a carried out is strikes on the strip of a nice israel also targets pots of southern lebanon,

a die out to the biggest barrage of rocket far into its territory since 2006. ah, i'm told mccrae, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up to black house, democrats and tennessee are expelled for taking pot and gun control protests after school shooting. last month. the biden administration says president donald trump is to blindfold the chaotic withdrawal of troops from afghanistan. ah, we begin in garza, we attention saw escalating after an exchange of rocket far between israel and the palestinian enclave. his rails, the iron dome defense system has shut down rockets far from the strip. early on

friday morning. israel's military has been heading targets and gaza overnight. la, earlier this morning is rarely forces attacked, palestinian worshippers performing morning prayers at the alex and most compound and occupied east jerusalem. violence has gripped the occupied territories, and garza since is ready forces stormed al ox, a mosque twice within 48 hours. earlier we spoke on the phone to bus him name a member of hamas in garza. i am talking to while i'm hugging my children here because we have no no place to hide the play store securely safe shelter. we can expect that anytime that text tool attacks high buildings like what we have done in all the previous additions. i'm kidding. this is 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 know for to be to aggressions. therefore, we have no choice is other than other than to defend ourselves. it has always been a response to aggression, to continuous emissions on a daily basis. you can simply remember, i mean, read the situation in numbers and figures since the beginning of this year, around 90 thing, and have been killed, including around 20 children. the our homes and houses are

demolished on holiest lease. is the strong on a daily basis. israel's military also carried out strikes in the south of lebanon. explosions have been reported in the coastal city of tier. israel says it's it hum ass targets and southern lebanon comes after rockets were fired into israel earlier on tuesday. so hold a has more from beirut. among the areas that were hit, a village where the rockets that were launched yesterday from southern lebanon toward northern israel was hit. but this is, these are all open spaces. there were no casualties which really suggests that israel may not have wanted an escalation. and since those strikes there haven't been any further strikes. so another indication that their response, israel response could be limited and they are not seeking to why then the scope of

their operations. it is still too early to tell. but clearly, over the past 24 hours, it was the most serious escalation along the border since the 2006 war between israel and has the law. yes, over the years we have seen incidents cross border fire. but yesterday, the number of rockets that were fired were much, much higher. now there's been no claim of responsibility. israel is pointing the finger at the palestinian group from a most often the not their political messages. they want to tell israel that they could face more than one front if they continue their attacks on palestinian worshippers or, or palestinians the message really from the so called axis of resistance. hum us and lebanon's has the law as well as other groups that are at war with israel. what they're telling them is that you know, we can open more fronts. we can put more pressure on you. rosellan. jordan has more

on the us state departments reaction to the rising tension. 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 gloss of fear that had 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 for don 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 a, any, a director 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 its israeli and palestinian counterparts because of the concern about the possible escalation of violence going into the weekend. that is not something that you 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. the 2 other news and the republican controlled tennessee house of representatives has voted to expel 2 democrats for their role and a gun control protest at the state house representatives. justin jones and justin

pierson have called it a dog die in the states history. the demonstration happened 4 days after nashville school shooting, in which 6 people, 3 of them children, were killed. my cannon has more on the story from washington d. c. well, we have had now the tennessee house objecting to democrats who had claimed lead protests in the house against the house rules. those 2 were african americans and there was a sufficient vote to get them expelled the expulsion requiring 2 thirds. however, with a 3rd democratic charge who happens to be white, the tooth foods majority was not achieved. so she was not objected from the house. but this is a situation where the, those who have been thrown out of the house insist that this is anti democratic, a dog's day for democracy. they say they insist as well that they were speaking in

cohesion. and together with the relatives and friends of those who've been killed in that shooting the week before. and they had just be in a statement issued by president biden. and all of this harshly critical of tennessee house republicans saying that today's expulsion of law makers who engaged in peaceful protests is shocking and democratic. and without precedent. he's also called on congress to revisit, to issuing strong good gun laws. put himself right behind those law makers in tennessee who have now been expelled. what happens next? well, within 30 days, special elections have be to be called to replace these 2 seats. the 2 who've been expelled can stand in those elections. david blanca is a national security consultant and a former staff for joe biden. when the president was a senator. he says the expulsions should be taken very seriously. unfortunately, i think it will happen in other states, but this, it's a, it is

a dark day as representative jones and pearson have mentioned, it's a calamity, it's, it's a us national embarrassment that this is happened. one of the main tenants of the united states government not only federal or state, but all the entire government is the 1st amendment. and we have the right to peacefully assemble to peacefully us free speech ah, and a free press. so what's next? what is the tennessee the government going to do next to go after reporters who don't write a favorable stories about the governor or, or the robot republican party. it's a, it's a terrible day and i think it's, it's something that, unfortunately, we're going to see more of adulthood. franco is a republican strategist, he believes the tennessee house of representatives did the right thing by expelling

the 2 democrats. this wasn't a demonstration. these were before people got were rioting, they were pushing police officers, they're broke through lines. this wasn't anything. but as the legislature say, an insurrection. it's rather ironic that when you talk about things that happened and there was a riot in the capital on january 6th, that's an insurrection when people mob and storm the senate and overrun police officers. it's a peaceful demonstration, please. ah, so yes, these people, if you are talking about democracy and the standards that are not being said about a democratic a about insurrections, there's a, was tantamount to an insurrection. not a demonstration. had this been a peaceful demonstration, you would have had police officers injured, and the mob take to the floor of the tennessee senate. president joe biden's

administration is blaming conditions created by his predecessor, donald trump. for the caled withdrawal of troops from afghanistan, the review acknowledges that the government should have started pulling out americans and africans. earlier. president jo bottom was widely criticized for the chaos surrounding evacuations. when the taliban took a couple in august 2021. white house correspondent kimberly held kit 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 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 from to well, 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. the countries were there starting new lives away from the scrutiny of the taliban. further at 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. the international monetary fund has issued its lowest global growth forecast and decades. it is warning poverty and hunger rights will increase as economies struggle to recover from the current covered 19 pandemic.

it's also cited the impact of russia's invasion of you crime, global growth for the next 5 years to remain around 3 percent. this is our lowest medium term growth for dr. fork us. since $9090.00, it is well below the average of 2.8 percent. we fed in the pre coffee di kate and it makes it even harder to reduce poverty to huge economy, discuss of the coffee, the crises, to provide new and better opportunities to oh, getting up this hill would require major step changes. the still ahead on al jazeera al jazeera investigative unit reveals to buy as linked to gold smuggling operations in africa. plus, i'm rob reynolds in los angeles with a story about california's efforts to determine whether reparation is due the fact

that americans living in the state. ah ah, tell i we got some bits and pieces of unsettled weather making the way across the middle east at the moment by large not too bad, but still a few shouts in stormy weather. there in 2 central parts of burst. saudi arabia over towards mecca for the south southern end of the red sea western passa yet, and still seeing some lovely storms from time to time. the wet weather and it was when she weather certainly over the high ground, is reserved for to care that nodding a little farther east, which as we go through saturday, rolling across the caucasus, i will see some wet weather coming back into armenia and a ga to one or 2 showers there just straight across the southern parts of saudi arabia,

even doha temp. just try to pick up 33 celsius by the time we come saturday afternoon as well. i'm a still for cairo, very warm weather here. so the temperature you the spect see around june july, ashley said, well above the average for the time of the year, some went whether they're just around northern parts, over sahara, northern areas of libya, seen some wet weather pushing up towards nicea, algeria could even see a shower or 2, just across the atlas mountains for a time the usual showers now gathering across west africa. i re coast in particular seeing some rather wide spread showers. the showers stretch their way through the tropics, more big showers, coming through here over the next few days. so much right to the south. ah, the muslim community in diana, living in a vibrant, heavy in culture, this country we are blessed. we live in harmony with al jazeera wealth travels to south america for a guy, and he's ramadan is lanika the of late j junior. we have

rifts country in terms of diversity, and that is something that we can celebrate. graham, at an, in guyana analysis era. oh, a watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories, the falla, israel's and defense system has shut down broken spots from garza. early on friday morning. the military says it has been targeting her math positions and the palestinian enclave. a mass has condemned what it calls and aggression israel to military is also carried out. strikes in southern lebanon,

explosions have been reported in the coastal city of tier. it comes up to rockets for fire, from living on into israel on thursday. and the republican controlled tennessee house of representatives has voted to expel to black and democrats, but the role and the gun control protests after school shooting. last month, 6 people were killed and as attack with the french president to menu mccrory is urging chinese leadership ping to reason with russia to help in the war and ukraine . a kron is on a 3 day state visit to china. from 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 your worst conflict since world war 2. just to show who the 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 sci fi and peace talks. most west and 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. come 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, 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 sour. 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 import. 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, the kremlin, since china has strong potential as a media hibbitts sees no prospects for pace in ukraine. russia's presidential spokesman dmitri pet gulf says the situation in ukraine is too complex for now and requires moscow to continue its military campaign with china is also playing a bigger role elsewhere on the geo political stage. saudi arabia and iran have agreed to resume flights and facilitate phases as part of a chinese mediated deal. it follows talks between saudi and iranian foreign ministers in beijing. the 1st such meeting in 7 years to ron and read,

and now working to bri active, i try deals and reopen embassies. hundreds of protests as march through sedans, capital cow term on thursday, demanding an end to military rule. the head of the army says he is committed to a plan for the transition towards elections. the final deal for the formation of a civilian government was postponed for a 2nd time on wednesday. sudan has been in political crisis since president m i. l . bashir was forced to sit down and 2019 now for the latest from our investigation into a large scale, money laundering operations, spending southern africa and the middle east. the al jazeera investigative unit has uncovered evidence implicating high ranking diplomats and, and bob, wy and some of south africa's top bags, the gold mafia invited, undercover reporters to visit their headquarters in dubai. we have rival gangs, little da, vast amounts of money. alexander james has this report communist putney isn't

a tourist, go dealer. he long does money using go that he sells in dubai. he shows on the cover of horses 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 wants the reporters to join his existing money laundering setup or you know, somebody can but then it becomes too much for the finished floor treatments like no, 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 blocks 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 lower than most, but 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 the 5. well, play with the label. i'll make it look like gold. you bet. angel is in baldwin ambassador, who is offered to launder money through gold. again, lexus declined. he recently spoke to international, delicate cindy, by about investing in zimbabwe, free from corruption. i was

in my office with no option or any math angel is asking for $200000.00 to arrange a meeting between zimbabwe. president emerson, mann 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 does live. okay. good on greg nova there is somebody saying, i think. ready with thing that you are doing for us and it him the difference. angel says president, man and gaga can help with the money laundering for a fee. i think he's in this city job it with good us. and this is my you know, somebody i was another but. ready somebody who had the money to spend on oh yeah.

you you give him 1000000 is like is living the communist party 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 al jazeera zimbabwe information minister says authorities are committed to upholding local and international laws governing financial transactions. the trade of gold and other precious minerals. this is with in here. this is lee this is bob with pro or info

with and you can watch the 3rd of the full part series and the l. g 0, investigation, gold mafia. el dorado. on friday, at $1200.00, g m t a california is the 1st you stay to begin a process to consider reparations for black americans whose ancestors suffered under slavery, segregation, and discrimination. rob reynolds reports on the commission that is grappling with the issue that met martin at a public meeting of the reparations commission. people spoke out sometimes, passionately. our ancestors helped build this country, african americans, black people, whatever you want to label as this time. where on the island of desta to despair, amongst a sea of abundance, shrewd lipper right should start with money. the ab 3121 task force meeting is now

hard to order. the task force was set up by the state legislature in 2020, to develop proposals for compensating california residents who are descendants of enslaved people. this task force is designed to examine the harms associated with the enslavement black people, african americans in this country, as well as the legacy of the harms of enslavement. advocate, se reparations would not only be for slavery, but the century and a half of racism that followed. and we think about over time whether you want to start with the jim crow laws, whether you want to think about moving forward with the red lining with real estate are the, are the, the horrors of discrimination. segregation, all of those things followed, ah, slavery, and i have continued a thing to plague us through to day. economists consulted by the panel estimate

that the cost of compensating california's black residence could top $800000000000.00. that's 2 and a half times the state's budget for this year. the task force church says reparations may not be limited to money. the recommendations for reparations must include compensation restitution, which account for stolen land are still in. well, i'm still in opportunities rehabilitation. i mean, a free education, free health care is examples. i'm not saying is that those are going to be the final recommendation. hash reparations are not unprecedented. the federal government has paid some native american tribes compensation for land improperly seized from them. and in 1988 paid $1200000000.00 to japanese americans in turn during the 2nd world war. the task force would like to hear from everyone. the task force must complete is report by july. first,

the commission's ultimate recommend.