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why are people more concerned. with. shorts may thirty first w. this is state of the news live from berlin israel's prime minister orders massive strikes on gaza. it comes after scores of rocket attacks on southern israel by palestinian militants to go to gaza the latest also coming out thailand's newly crowned king makes his public debut huge crowds
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turn out for a round of the tents in bangkok as he takes part in that in a ceremonial procession to celebrate his ascension to the throne. and south africa's amc holds a final rally before next week's general election pledging to reinvent the long governing party. i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he's ordered the army to keep up what he calls massive strikes on palestinian militants in response to rocket fire from the gaza strip a mass has made a similar vow the violence has claimed lives on both sides of the border and there are reports that casualties are rising. the sky above gaza city muddies with smoke as this latest exchange of violence leaves its trace israel says its own child
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hundreds of s trikes on militants in gaza this weekend in response to over four hundred palestinian rockets. at a cabinet meeting israel's prime minister vowed to keep up the bombings and send more troops to the border. and. this morning i instructed the i.d.f. to continue massive attacks against terrorist elements in the gaza strip and. i also ordered the reinforcement of the units around the gaza strip with armor artillery and infantry. people in the gaza strip once again navigate a landscape of rubble authorities here say several people died and dozens of wounded. because the neighbor called me of two o'clock in the morning and told me the building had been destroyed. that i was surprised so i came here and i saw the destruction well of the fire three missiles at the building which is seven floors
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high and i was shot before one of the myths about welcome aboard the amal. in southern israel air raid sirens wailed as palestinian rockets continued to be fired at the country. israel's iron dome defense system has intercepted dozens of them but this house close to the border shows how some have made it through an israeli father of four was killed when a piece of ricocheting shrapnel launched in his chest several more israelis have been wounded by palestinian fire israel has closed its crossings with gaza for people and goods a carefully negotiated truce between the two sides has once again proved fragile. i'm joined on the phone by has a militia journalist in gaza city has i'm thanks for joining me we spoke earlier to our correspondent in southern israel but you're in gaza what's the situation there right now. well the bombardment and the feeling is continuing in gaza.
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israeli jets and hilary's and navy boats are shelling. from western and eastern and from the air on several targets they are targeting. from fighters were always accusing them of crunching orcutt's injuries well. they are the story destroying some or. all buildings some of it as well is claiming that it contains some of this is for hamas and other factions. lately there was. an air strike on. security both belong to hamas. in the same time in the morning the other cost in years. but the bodies of at least eleven people were killed and over one hundred were injured they bury the bodies and in
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a funeral. various cities of the. people in gaza nervous and this could escalate into a full blown. in two thousand and fourteen. definitely this is one of the toughest wave of violence. experienced in the twenty fourteen. on the eve of the holy month of ramadan which is tomorrow. you could see in the people. i talk to some people in industry and they are they have the fear it will be and you war and you are. of. a larger scale operation in gaza strip this is where the people don't want trouble the people are . you know think this is the way to solve the problem but still the majority they are not happy and they are they are horrified by having
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a new war the new israeli prime minister has found strikes what have mass saying and doing. well hamas is trying to abide be think this is the way to break. up by dandruff than that they have reached last month before the general israeli election they think and they say israel didn't come show commitment of. their spendings that. to ease the blockade on both in gaza. of easing the weekly but this along the border so the league ation using cairo is was before this wave. to discuss with a gyptian mediators how to bridge the israeli so hamas think this is the way we have to wait and that was very obvious in this state they want israel to ease the blockade that imposing gaza since twelve ok howsomever lucia thank you very much
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for that update. well as to thailand now with the newly crowned king of the country has been taking part in the seven kilometer procession through the capital bangkok on the second day of his three day crowning ceremony the position comprises more than a thousand soldiers police and government officials and is a chance for the thai people to see their monarch in his royal gob king long corn ascended to the throne two and a half years ago when his father came away after reigning for seventy years his son's official coronation ceremony began on saturday. our correspondent challenge shells and pills in bangkok and following those celebrations challenge today's a second day of the celebrations you are there in the heart of it what's been happening. ok they're back yes what if the first day was a day for the formalities when the king was actually crowned today the second day
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is a day for celebrations there were thousands of people lining the streets here behind me a short time ago as the king passed along this route we were sats among the crowd they were all chanting long live the king all of them sitting down as the king passed as a mark of respect for the king indeed here in thailand he had the status of a daisy a divine status is a people were extremely respectful as he passed very excited to see him walking along the street as many people been passing along these streets many people of course have been here since the early hours of the morning china to make sure that they did get a spot along the parade route and it really has been incredibly hot here today that than a lot of ambulances medical staff on standby trying to help people out if the heat got a little bit too much for them but people still were willing to brave those temperatures and we know as well that a lot of people were bussed in by author ities from around thailand trains buses
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also free here in bangkok in a way to in an effort to encourage people to come here to witness this celebration and essentially witness history in the making of all the pictures certainly are spectacular but tell us a little bit more about the newly crowned monarch. yes pretty impressive pictures as he was being carried through here in that gold and elaborate carriage there's been a lot of poems and so on throughout this entire event and that is in line with edition when it comes to the monarchy now what we know about this king is that he of course has been on the train since his late father passed away in twenty sixteen we know he's got a bit of an international background he. really is here in thailand that was educated in australia and the u.k. we know that he's an officer in the time military and we also know how he would lie . to govern going forward he said that in his first command as king yesterday he said he'd like to record rain with righteousness full benefits and happiness of the
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type people say that we are going to charlottesville some fill in bangkok thank you for that. now to some of the other stories making news around the world the brother of algeria's former president has been detained for questioning along with two other for mccain regime officials sayah has been accused of usurping presidential powers after his brother had a stroke in twenty thirteen the arrests come amid ongoing protests for political change after abdul aziz beautifully resigned in april. syrian government forces have been bothered rebel held areas in the country's northwest dozens have been killed and wounded in italy a province this escalation of violence is the most serious in the region since russia and turkey negotiated a cease fire in september. both korean state media says the country's leader kim jong un has overseen a strike drill of multiple rocket launches and tactical guided weapons the report
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came a day off to south korea said it detected several short range projectiles from the north eastern coast. of south africa's governing african national congress has held its final campaign rally ahead of a general election on wednesday president's there are several run oppose it told the tens of thousands of a.n.c. supporters the victory was certain despite high levels of corruption and unemployment he said his government was entering a new era of accountability and that he'd be stepping up if it's to fight corruption and graft he also promised new jobs and economic growth. data christine was has been at that rally she sent us this update. the official figures are not yet out but the agency was expecting a crowd of about one hundred thousand people to come out today to listen to sit i'm opposed to give his final address before wednesday's election as expected and i'm
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up also addressed the issues that south africans are facing he talked about houses being built in the next five years jobs being created he talked about investment coming back into the country most poignantly he addressed the issue of the party having neglected its mandate of looking after the people saying we've looked into the process we've seen where we've gone wrong and we will now be putting the people first that message appears to have resonated with a lot of people here i must add though that this is a lot at stake for the african national congress twenty five years into this country's democracy and millions of africans are without work this is one of the most and equal societies in the world there is desperate need for investment and job creation in this country we're talking often unemployment rates north of about twenty five percent the pulk of that being young south africans many of them by the way who've not registered to even participate in this election the i.e.c. this is the electoral commission talks about the number of youngsters not having registered this is eligible voters not having registered for the election about
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sixty percent of them are below the age of thirty these are frustrated people who are tired of politics many of them didn't come to the stadium today but what i am opposed to was hoping to do was to sort of send a message that the a.n.c. is changing course that that the possibilities ration headed by jacob zuma that it's it's a new direction that the party's taken has made remarks before about nine wasted years and that going forward things will be changed. to the bundesliga now where shell could have retained their place in the german top flight for next season and her mil mil with his book to clinch the point they needed to avoid relegation table science friday off through one one sunday. final game leave a goose in the host frankfurt in the battle for the fourth champions league spot. in saturday's bundesliga matches by in munich took another big step towards locking up the seventh straight league title beating last placed hand of
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a one more win and by him will be champions robert levin dusky open the scoring for by and heading home a perfect cross from joshua kimmage one nil to buy and. then midfielder leon gorecki has long range strike doubled the first hopefully for the dominant hosts. and a penalty by brazilian jonah tass got one back for hanover but it was too little too late and the match ended three one. and second place dortmund visited mid table vertebrae in mn i knew they had to win to have any realistic chance of taking the league title from leaders by end and it almost looked like their plans would come true with dortmund scoring two goals in the first half thanks to christiane pulis sic he produced an amazing run an expert finish then his team night pack. also scored for the two no dortmund late braman tied the game with forty year old
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claudio pitts are getting his side second goal and in the match true or anything dortmund in disaster mode. you're watching data with news live from berlin up next reporter which takes a look at the midwife crisis in germany i'll be back with more news headlines at the top of the hour i'm rebecca riches in berlin thanks for joining me. with imho to be going to do goes on because we're biased but you know if i had known to them. i never would have.
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