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the but. this is deja news coming to you live from berlin and the conflict in gaza flares up again at least one man is good as palestinian militants fire schools of rockets into southern israel while israeli air strikes and tank fire killed several finest in the us also coming up talent is celebrating its newly crowned king he's set to appear in public for the first time since his elaborate coronation ceremony. and pope francis arrives in bulgaria and urges the chorus members to take in more
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refugees we talk to our religious oppress correspondent why. i don't welcome i'm with that shima we started in israel where airstrikes in gaza have killed six palestinians and wounded dozens of others after a month long in hostilities gaza militants fired hundreds of rockets into southern israel killing one person israeli forces responded returned shelling and strikes the e.u. is calling for an immediate end to the hostilities. israel's army says it's hit some two hundred palestinian targets it says the strikes are in response to hours of palestinian rocket fire. one strike at a six story building that techie says housed state run and news agency ankara has
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condemned the israeli strikes and called on the international community to take action to ease tensions. gazan authorities say dozens of people were wounded and several killed in the bombings amongst them a mother and baby israel blames for mass for their deaths israel says over four hundred rockets have been fired from gaza into southern israel since saturday some rockets struck homes night here in kiryat gat israeli authorities say one woman was seriously wounded here dozens of palestinian rockets were intercepted by israel's iron dome defense system as the violence escalated israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu convened a security meeting. amidst the hosted ities egypt continues to mediate talks between israel and the militant palestinian organizations her mass and islamic jihad. joining me now from jerusalem is our correspondent tanya crema talia
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what is the latest on the situation there. well there's certainly no indication yet that this round of fighting is coming to an end the according to the israeli army over four hundred thirty rockets have been fired since saturday morning and the israeli army has said that they have struck over two hundred targets throughout the gaza strip on both sides to have been casualties as we heard in the report now hamas and islamic jihad the joint command center they have threatened to expand to expand the range of rockets if israel continues its airstrikes and israel has also warned that they are prepared for any scenario and have also reinforced brigade that is stationed outside the gaza strip now they had a lull in hostilities what sparked this latest outbreak of violence. well that's why there has been
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a period of calm of relative calm in the past couple of weeks after under the understandings that have been brokered by egypt and the un had been reached between hamas and israel sort of agreement to ease some economic restrictions and to expand the fishing zone for example but in the past couple weeks tensions have been rising and this friday during the friday protests there had been an incident where a palestinian gunman shot and wounded two israeli soldiers israel has responded retaliated with an airstrike on a hamas post killing those two militants now islamic jihad had said in the statement that basically this isn't ready for that but there also has been growing frustration that's also some of the statement mentions from. god and hamas that is what has been very slow in implementing such agreements that have been reached about a month ago that was. in jerusalem turning
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out of thailand where huge trance of gathered in the thai capital bangkok to witness the newly crowned king. long gone greet the public for the first time after his elaborate coronation ceremonies on saturday the day long kong ascended the throne two and a half years ago when his father king died after a seventy year reign his coronation comes two months after a contentious election in which the opposition try to oust the ruling military junta. correspondent charlatanism bill is in bangkok following the celebrations welcome we shall see today is the second day off festivities what can we expect. hey there marie's or i'm sure you can hear behind me the cannon fire has started knocking the beginning of the procession the king is going to make his way through the streets of bangkok he's traveling seven
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fellow mrs in an eight golden carriage she's being carried by sixteen people and just to keep you a sense of what that means really is incredibly hard here at the moment the days people that are carrying him having to change every five hundred meters because it's stream lee hot here now that procession will take the king past three royal tempos that will pay homage to the image a bit but for the people here this is really a chance for them to catch a glimpse of the newly crowned king is not it's quite unusual the people here see the king out in public so this really is a mentors moment for the people who have gathered here around the grand palace today and children looking at live pictures coming in a far off that procession is a very very special day for many thais give us a sense of the excitement among people as this see the newly crowned king. well i mean if yesterday was about the formalities the king being crowned today is
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the day the celebration for the people who are gathered here there are tens of thousands of people here the government estimates two hundred thousand i'm sure you can tell many of them dressed in yellow we in fact who are us who dressed in yellow as well as a as a mark of respect for the king indeed here in thailand the king of the state if that's as it has divined status so it's a chance for here for people to pay their respects to trying to catch a glimpse of him and to witness history in the making as well for so many people who are gathered here this is the first time they've seen the coronation of a thai king the last one almost seven as seven decades ago today so this really is an extremely important moment for the people who are gathered around me at the moment and we of course also getting a glimpse of the pomp and passion. the king budgeter long kong has taken over from his father rufus seventy years what did he do what do we know about the man who's just been crowned king. the king and took over from his late
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father after he passed away in twenty sixteen so he has been on the train for a few years the people here have a good idea of the monic that he is now we know little about his background we know that he was had to spend his early years in bangkok he was an educated in the u.k. in australia he became an officer in the thai air force we know as well from what his his statement yesterday his first real command that he would like to and this is the quote brain with righteousness for the benefits and happiness of the thai people say that's how the kind of money that he wants to be as the years progress. right seanad bill thank you very much for being us up to date with the latest developments in the thai capital bangkok. now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world syrian government forces of bombarded rebel held areas in the country's northwest dozens have been killed and wounded in
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a province this escalation of violence is the most serious in the region since russia and turkey negotiated a cease fire in september. pope francis is arrived in bulgaria to begin his three day visit to the balkans he wants to improve ties with the orthodox church and will meet the country's new fit in sofia but the packed area has refused to take part in a joint mass. the church's split nearly one thousand years ago. and we'll have more on that story later in the program but first moving to rwanda the remains of nearly eighty five thousand victims of the country's genocide have been laid to rest in a ceremony in the capital kigali the victims were among more than eight hundred thousand people mainly tutsis who were massacred by hutu extremists and militia forces twenty five years ago. north korean state media says the country's leader kim jong un has overseen
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a strike drill of multiple rocket launchers and tactical guided weapons the report came a day off to south korea said it detected several short range projectiles launched from the north eastern coast. as i just mentioned before answers of the ride in the bulgarian captain sofia on a two day visit to the european union's poorest country the pope is expected to discuss the complicated relationship between the catholic church and the bulgarian orthodox church which is the dominant religion in the balkan country that in his opening address he took up an issue that is close to his heart the plight of refugees here which has taken a hard line stance against migration to open their hearts to quote those who knock at your door. and for why i'm joined in the studio by martin got a religious affairs analyst. and the pope has begun his visit in bulgaria by the
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beginning of the vague touchy subject of bulgaria its hardline stance on tell us more about what the pontiff said and why well indeed i mean it is it is not only a controversial issue as sort of as actually projecting himself to the very center of the political debate right now in bulgaria and to be quite honest i mean beyond bulgaria to sort of the european the european discussion immigration journal bulgaria has a coalition government which brought in to bring two government to central extreme right wing or right wing parties both of them with very strong gratian positions. and the government has gone as far as to actually call for building a fence between bulger and turkey. but the thing that is quite interesting is that in fact very often these parties are actually very close to religious groups and religious positions so this entire thing means that in one sense it is sort of the
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usual but difficult to broach they're trying to bring out the message of reconciliation but at the very same time i think that this can be read a need to be read as a direct confrontation with a certain brand of politics that has really taken hold in much of europe and of course it ties in with the pontiff so a message of compassion talking about reconciliation bill france is also going to meet the head off the but given all the ducks judge but the fact we have to say he will not have a joint mass with him what is it to us about relations between the two churches well this is actually a pretty strong rebuke particularly because of arctic and had been quite open about its expectations were actually hold must to go there and be able to sort of. put away the friends in or there to you know show reconciliation both at the level of the liturgy you know really has one of the most complicated i mean the bulgarian orthodox church as one of the most complete. hated relations with the vatican and a lot of it has to do with the fact. that the lease is so it's really
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a small minority and you know way i think that what you know the vatican it's kind of pointing the finger too it's not only you know in relation to me gratian to those that come from the outside but really also about you know those people that are actually belong to minorities and are can see there to being somehow marginal or not then take elements of sort of the community inside very itself. so to say the other outside but also the other inside bulgaria it is quite clear that there are the church that actually has a strong association being a national church with nationalist nationalist movement that's not find this very comfortable and has actually decided to go the magic road they're sending a choir of children to the events but they will not actually hold mass together with the pope what is on the pope's agenda brigade yeah well mostly i mean the conversation will be about. immigration as we have seen the integration of marginalized communities but it seems that economic justice will also play
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a significant role he has already been talking about they it's pointing to the fact that he's visiting the country that he's the poorest in the european union in the block. and essentially talking about the plight of people that are sort of suffering under those kind of economic condition at the same time i think that the main sort of backdrop is really the question of a national east or even tyrion bumpy at least some that in different forms just move through the political system and it is not only a day that he called to the principle of the church as a universal east institution but he separately and they did go to these particular bumpus see that has a very strong commitment to ideas of integration and universally someone humanitarian is right thank you very much for sharing your expertise with us my pleasure. you're watching the job news coming to you live from london coming up next is the dumbass bundesliga show with nick mckenna kline good at lowly
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