the c.w. news live from berlin at least 20 people die in gaza and as tensions between israel and palestinians escalate hamas militants fired dozens of rockets towards jerusalem as israel's retaliates with deadly force as follows violent clashes at the isle of x.l. last that left hundreds of palestinians injured also coming up. what should happen to the women and families who left the west to join the men fighting for so-called islamic state many want to come home but their countries don't seem to want them

back plus. a bold blessing for same sex unions we'll look at how some german catholic churches are defying the vatican and the pope by its birmingham gay marriage. i'm going to have you with us and a series of deadly airstrikes against gaza israel says it has killed 15 operatives belonging to hamas and the islamic jihad group officials in the palestinian all clave have confirmed the death of at least 20 people in the operation but say 9 of them were children the israeli raids came within hours of a barrage of rockets launched into israeli territory by hamas militants most of those missiles were intercepted by israel's air. defense system the retaliatory

attacks caused outrage among palestinians with new protests erupting in bethlehem earlier hundreds were injured in clashes between israeli police and palestinians at religious sites in jerusalem the escalation in violence follows days of protests over plans to a victimless tinian of residents from a neighborhood in east jerusalem. rockets being fired from gaza hamas threatened to launch an assault on israel after hundreds of palestinians were injured earlier in the day. on the streets of jerusalem air raid sirens howled something highly unusual for the city rockets last hit the area back in 2014 the warning sent many people scrambling for cover one home on the western outskirts of the city was lightly damaged and there were no reports of casualties nevertheless israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu promised israel would

respond forcefully. on his wall we will not tolerate harm to our territory to our capital to our citizens or to our soldiers those attacking us will pay at heavy price. shortly after the attack israel launched a series of strikes on targets in gaza local authorities there said at least 20 people were killed several children and a senior hamas commander were among the dead the attacks mark a significant escalation in tensions in jerusalem the situation was already bad after days of some of the worst violence and years earlier on monday there were heavy clashes between palestinians and israeli police inside the mosque hundreds of people were injured when police fired stun grenades and tear gas at demonstrators many palestinians feel israel is trying to restrict their access to the holy site and want security forces to withdraw. later israeli nationalists gathered to march

through jerusalem's old city to celebrate israel's capture of east jerusalem during the $96076.00 day war many palestinians view the march as a provocation this comes after days of protests over plans to evict a number of palestinian families from east jerusalem to make room for jewish settlers the issue has become a focal point for palestinian anger. for many the evictions are part of a wider trend it's a matter of record policy there's really no it's. hard to do. and of course not getting our story and other places and they have surrounded through enormous certain months to extricate jerusalem from its current history and . the international community is now calling for all sides to deescalate but as far as continued late into the knowledge this seems to be little evidence of that happening so far. up to speed on some of the other stories making news

around the world at the cellar colombian president even duke a is met with leaders of nationwide protests now in their 2nd week anti-government marches erupted over and now scrapped tax reform and have since broadened in scope protesters demanded wide reaching social and political reforms at least $26.00 people have been killed in the demonstrations. u.s. officials have authorized the pfizer by on tech covert 19 vaccine for use in children aged 12 to 15 previously regulators had only allowed its use for those aged 16 and above officials hope giving jobs to younger children will boost the u.s. vaccination program which has slowed in recent weeks. china's population is growing at its slowest pace since the 1970 s. that's according to the country's 1st census in 10 years the country statistics

office counted 1400000000 people in 2020 that's a net gain of about 600000000 people since 2010 the data indicates an aging population and a growing unwillingness to have more children. a nasa spacecraft carrying samples from the inside of an asteroid has started its journey back to earth and 2020 the old cyrus rex briefly landed on the asteroid bend and collected 60 grams of cosmic rubble the trip home is expected to take about 2 and a half years. the u.n. is urging western states to repatriate their citizens from detention camps in syria's. province over 60000 people currently live in squalid conditions in 2 camps there a hall and a raj most of them are women and children they were sent to the facilities after syrian kurdish forces helped drive the so-called islamic state militant group out

of north eastern syria reporter daniel head was able to visit a rotch there he spoke to women who say they have given up their militant ideology but fear they might never be able to leave the camp. a dusty playground didn't northern syria mothers from germany france and the u.s. want to bring their children. members of the tyra group on this count to serve the needs and want to return home. cre dad is from the german city of tal of moroccan descent 8 years ago she followed her husband to live in the self-proclaimed islamic state something she now bitterly regrets she fled taking her 4 children with her. but. after we escaped we turned ourselves over to the kurds when we arrived here i didn't even realize we were in a camp i just slept for 2 days because the stress was finally over they told us

that we'd be handed over to our government within a couple of months. that was 3 and a half years ago. and it's also avoided. nearly 3000 women from 35 countries are stranded at road camp it's smaller and better equipped than others in northern syria and life is largely peaceful but the authorities say half the women detained here still hold it stream mr views they want to deal radicalize the mothers so they can go home. headman. our aim is to rehabilitate these women and give them a chance to reintegrate into society so they can lead a normal life back in their home countries there is. a rehabilitation session for 6 women from europe and canada they make drawings

showing a positive and a negative experience in the camp the pictures reflect the mood of fences burning tense a mixture of despair and friend turn. he's on his it is cutting him a thin i can see the sun in the sky to me that symbolizes freedom and safety but i'm fenced in and i can't leave this camp it's like a cage my children teach asking me what life outside the camp is like so it is also . something exercises like these are useful others are much more skeptical. it's a reminder of what we have seen and what we do see and i think it's always hopeful if you can feel that you're not alone thank my country it might help some people but every time i put my emotions down on paper it just reminds me of my bad

experience that i was. in on the women hope these are the 1st steps towards a better future but the chances of returning home soon are slim few of their home countries want them back. to afghanistan now where many young people worry about what life will look like once international troops leave the country the taliban have stepped up their attacks since washington announced it would pull out by september fears are growing bad to all progress made in the last decades could now be undone. 24 year old her fisa bomani is a member of the national mood thai team she trains about 70 students at a sports club in western kabul and she says she's scared about losing the progress they've gained through years of hard work. from home but on up on we are the women of afghanistan want nationwide peace in this country and we do not want to go back

to the past the dark past the taliban imposed on women when they were allowed to study or play sports i mean they didn't even allow women to go shopping but what's wrong how do you. have peace it is worried the foreign troop withdrawals would endanger her life and those of the girls she trains are more a myth that the situation we're living in now is frightening some nights i even have insomnia while thinking about what will happen when i go to the club tomorrow . a taliban return to power could also spell the end of independent media and the country many journalists and media workers have been directly targeted in recent months at least 11 were killed in afghanistan and 2020 many have left the country. no threat months saw as a 29 year old news presenter who works with one of afghanistan's leading t.v. outlets he says afghanistan still needs

a lot of help. because we couldn't both were sure given the fragility of afghanistan's security situation i do not think it is the right time for the americans to leave afghanistan because as you know the war is still going on in the country some of the root causes of the war have not yet been solved all the drugs smuggling and mining there are all important factors the prolonging the war he worries about his industry and his own future here and says he may also be forced to emigrate because of threats against him. to young afghans relying on their country to provide them with a stable future but deeply worried that it won't. earlier this year many marriage equality advocates were disappointed when the vatican revolt that the catholic church cannot bless same sex unions but progressive catholic churches here

in germany have developed their own plan to give same sex couples religious recognition turn your own cloudier haulers are getting ready for an unusual church service there are a married couple and catholic believers but until now their partnership has not been blessed in church. you know we love each other and we want to be together and we want to express that not just at the registry office as we already have but in church too because we both believe and love cannot be wrong. earlier this year the vatican reiterated its position that the roman catholic church cannot last same sex unions because they are quote not ordered to the creator's plan but the tough line has sparked defiance in germany this week more than 100 churches are holding special blessing services under the slogan love wins open to all couples irrespective of sexual orientation for those attending this is about meaningful public recognition and see a d.v.d.

and found it very moving the words were wonderful and we feel really accepted and you know make it. but even some reform minded catholics fear such events may sow division and the official church reaction is disapproving before us to do if we understand there is a need for these blessings but the bishops conference is of the opinion that this is a provocation we are currently in a theological discussion in germany about reform in the church we have to have the debates 1st such steps can come later so is it. not for the 1st time the roman catholic church faces the question how to respond not just to changing attitudes in society at large but to calls for change from within. and finally it was a good weekend for brazil's surfer as as they claimed a double victory at the world surf lake offend in australia touch on a western web came out on top in the women's competition that's just her 2nd career when on the tour and the men's event her compatriot phillip until late alastor the

ways to improve his place in the overall standings and kept a perfect event for brazilian surfer's. incredible you're watching you know when you news life of berlin my colleague terry marc klass more headlines for you at the top of the hour for me and the entire team here in the newsroom thank you so much great company. can you hear me now on last year's return to you and how last year's german chancellor i will bring you and i'm going to call as you've never time to have a surprise to so with god just what's a good congressman a cool really what moves time and want somebody who talks to people who flew on the way maurice and critics want to join us from apple's lock stock and.

i find it ironic that means that in the end. the 10 year old was to me the jewish people are going to be because this is. the root her as if. she was the only queen of the view. and in the bible was a ruler by her own right and not the wife of the king you're in the end she was beheaded in the road to the dogs. i don't think i'm like her when i tell you but when people write my story they might show me as

a traitor the same way or. call it what are you reading me some of your own pieces. grandpa suggested i read it again and. no more cheap fiction from him good sometimes i read other things too you know. from sounds grandpa so before grandpa's fine i just picked him recently you know if you haven't seen him in a long time. yeah it's not good if the kid says that he was most of the gobi happy cast and i'm just afraid helped pressure me in my mind a bit as well the army wanted me out of you know how it is with him. to some other it's of.

my life since you're a little you want to grow up and be a soldier. that's what they teach you. i was sure i will be like a fighter but i'll be in a fighting unit my idea was always that. if i'm in the army at least i'll be on the frontline my mother was an officer in the army and my sister not of course were in the army and then all the women in the family so it's like the whole family is really very much connected through the army and they all see the benefits of it and they're all professionals we have this mission to build the states and keep it safe and you're asked about it everywhere you go you know what did you do.

and he has a house right join the army there was rain yesterday that has also i mean that the people who receive that lies you know 2 reasons as well and one equate that with me on the days that i was a 19 you know it's a common as out with others they don't get it doesn't that woman are you saying that there are times i am alan around online because i am. asked as to her make her 8. say you know this means i didn't trust i didn't as was

somehow shoddy was it not because in truth it's force you to just say this was obvious to me up to say or the absence of the fish and chips like that was one of the problems of course and then implementing. the. meet. meet with. me and. i know the reality in terms of what i didn't know in the west bank. it's very very important to go to see things from a sound. like believe that in order to achieve peace meet my

limitations. so why did you start the group visit palestine. for 3 reasons 1st thing just to show the israelis that come on we are human beings we have shops we have a school for our kids and we want to live the most important well for me was to show the israelis my life and that if you mention it's policy to keep people out of

the lands it's policy to think all these lands to give it to settlers this way you will never be attacked as a this way you will you are creating more and more fighters you know most of the soldiers in the israeli army don't do that i think it's like 10 percent of the soldiers that this is their work and those 10 percent i think. i don't know and don't know the difference between the good to cuba and the better keeper for me that is really army that is of a government of the story in my home then they complain but i think teach their children pate. no one knows that your soldiers are teaching torture and by him. i really don't want to be that soldier that soldier i want to be something else i want to be a different voice. this israeli activist mr bank is showing your

kids this jewish people who are coming to you not all the full i'm so into those who advocate that past years to dissent there's no evil thank you mission is evil now let's not do this and that's very. all these houses are all you have the washing orders and every few months as they enter and destroy the houses they destroy in this area 12 houses last month. you know these are the worst of the hat so you imagine no arms to speak and and you don't see that that's not the reality you make. i began really. an hour. long news finding.

there's no disputing the distance between what you hear and what you see when you go to jordan. how did you decide to get out of knowing. i was looking i was looking for the fastest way out because i was afraid for my own mental health and i went to a public sector artist. and when i talk them out of exactly about getting drafted he wrote me a letter of diagnosis i had that they sent to the military and i got an exemption. i was really afraid of great how you treated that part angry and sad in

a way i wanted you to leave this area to be a part of the family even. if there is like social change so i think our family in a way experienced that it's like as if there is. either there is something wrong with me or i'm a liar you know you know how. getting an exemption from able to me 2 percent palestinians avoid all of the charm but i see my friends who. are addicted to the military go through as they're getting disillusioned thank you don't regret it i don't regret it at all it's that's the best decision i've made in my life. now and yeah. i don't know if that's helpful but.

see what i did besides being cowardly was abuse of my profession yeah you know there's so many people who have avoided military conscription if you have an ideology have to be willing to pay the price. if you could go back to being 18 would you still have to die and i have just a bad guy and i think we need an army and that's why i would go i would probably go to be a combat soldier and the worst soldier for so long that's because there's a vicious circle of violence if you know us and the palestinians if the palestinians stay in a nonviolent course i'm sure going to get an advantage why shouldn't we use like i'm. i can't decide right now but i can decide for myself nonviolence is the weapon of the weak yeah because the weak don't have the power don't have tanks they're powerful will never be nonviolent because the power have power why should they be

nonviolent but i think you have to have the right perspective on what's happening in this very morally. settlers from the new outpost. with a look at a map they killed a cow. has no place you can graze your hands now. you know we told the police we don't have a safe place to hurt. there's nothing you can come in and so they didn't do anything for you. you know they did nothing.

so you can't thank you. how many people. have. come a shred of treasury. 8. he went around attacked my children. and hit me on the head and what if you don't. he said i now had a damaged nerve. with one of those in the local workers and involved and. since he was attacked he could not go back to school. from that. so what. is he doing now i should damn i would. be a disaster from the promise. you're

always welcome here on the screen with me having a good bye my friend that. i think about many of my friends are now in the med there and some of them are doing things that they can say that this is a moral. and they stand there and they find like a way to adjust their own moral person victims. so there will be nights at the checkpoints don't smile at the check blank who is still being sick or. poor. came from his home where i live if you want i'm seeing

an exhibit i'm going to go and they flew the mission of this of us and was led me to my own you conscientious objection is to open young people's moment almost day and criticize the consensus about face no cost other than getting drafted in iraq and it gets it all. right now the situation in israel is very hot and it's getting harder and more and more people are afraid to say what they do the public fears become dangerous a lot of people know that if they wasn't in their mind they might lose their jobs lose or you lose their circle of friends sometimes or family we need to find a way to be hope and i think that this brave action of people who declare publicly say you out loud i refuse to serve in the army because of not just the occupation can't leave hope to the greater public. and without all the snowstorm thank you

very much all of you. believe it sam he said you're hungry do you think i'm cheering for america. as a movement to refuse or snatch to me people react to something that they didn't even talk about i mean they are making a change inside of israel if you want a person you have to be with the people of the have to know not to. stand on the from the side if you want to be in his own political discourse and this will be years to come israeli society is something that you you know only from certain viewpoints and the army gives you true you know that's really true that's one thing . the good. here's a very. i don't know how many. but in the whole i don't think. you think it's important you know experience what would you think would be the best

outcome to send the rest of your life and who are going to there are so not whether i would rather not see my palace of prison i think there are probably better ways to reach over to israeli society. it would be hard to have to gainst what the army does and occupation when they're kind of advocating something that you did know only for about and you have one chance to get to know the army and that's when you join it you know you can kind of heartbreaking because i'm really scared of not being part of this society because. that they're right they're gathering all of this is my home this is where i see myself living my life and i don't want to abandon it because i'm not part of the military

. what if you want immunity right. all right i'm a clear physicist not well not an iron to be seen on the warrior princess. and i don't want to be as you know i just wanted to be a warrior princess which i think i'm on the way or. whatever right that was in the form whatever you got it was all oh no no i let it slip.

and. i got on top of the vehemence it's crazy there was a village here they just came and built a settlement. said nurse and made a complaint that the smell from that cooking stove is disturbing their quality of living cigar me came and turned it down. i mean the secularists they have a thinker he certainly she. could get credit. oh.

wow. really there was so we got the right. to the. head of her in my mind i can't think of course nobody does what i want and daytimes know what we're doing to them. so when you can you see all data can sort of understand why. why there are terrorist attacks. people feel cornered people are cornered they get mad safe we want to stop the violence we've seen in more force and more violence to take them out of the coming .

very soon here me knowing i love to jordan i like to suffer when you say i was seeing what's really going on docket by thinkers and. it's not equality in any way they're just cool because it's screw what's happens due to the 2 sides became more exclusive between us of the ups level before any peace and we're finished 2nd only choice because it's not the only choice to see well the choice is the fight i'm still with other members of the jews within the world before wall to wall to most of the jews against zionism what happened to my grandfather that was until. he was burned in the leadership to be from the.

top to the east but the walls is not. it's not good to hear. but it's hard to turn to for me to believe that maybe if that wasn't the holocaust things would have been different but after the holocaust the jews wanted their own state doesn't make them but it will cost the ups and the all the mother of she was fighting to get to go into the hole it's been for. most of those who are fusing right now are women. and it's it's a side of that the women fighting for freedom and fighting for equality and by thanking us through i am not sure istic program. good. feel. when my grandfather was my age he saw home villages and my civilians who were being

loaded into trucks and the ports and. he told me that it broke his heart but also the farmer was necessary in the lows to be part of the meaning friends or their families in the end so i'm asking myself what can i do like the power that i have to change things here and that is why i have the power of music. up to. look to the american middle. and lower the thoughts of all our lives at least several.

as jewish people over we should know that he sees their own way. and in order to achieve peace you have to make sacrifices. and you know we're going the road of becoming more and more apartheid and i have to do whatever i can to try to stop that and try to change distro that they're working on. because the army is such a powerful thing in the israeli society refusing in. the way to make it go here me and to china me if i don't find their. cause.

oh. and also the shame you trace is your betraying your brothers to be defacing.

ok let's do this. hour knowing that everyone else was supposed to nix today. but i would refuse to become so that you can. i be transported to military facing the foot of. the fed up with you know that this is a military about this. that

maybe what we're doing won't end the occupation but it's the start of something. that i've seen and that has. made it's assuming collective responsibility for what is happening here or what's going on in our society and what our country is doing to millions of other people. try to think of them and it gives hope for change which is very important. because i lost my knee i didn't come from a very leftist background both my parents were in the army and i think they would prefer to find less that. i would advise anyone who is enlisting to tour the west bank and see what it's really like there to see settler outposts being established

and know that they are illegal so i was there every week and documented their expansion and called authorities but nothing ever happens. we had nonviolent protests and the military used force against us they sprayed us with tear gas and the outpost was left there to keep expanding i had to do something and refusing was the thing to do. when i was my sister's age i wasn't as bald and knowledgeable as she is today and i wasn't able to take such a public stand. i am grateful to be able to support right now and i hope that this can be the beginning of a new family tradition where it is legitimate to not do military service and to struggle against it.

i know my words want to be in with 2 siblings to you the way she thinks. and was supposed to. i'm sorry that you are always whose family the friends who lost i'm sorry because the police who are in this not your least. people what you are changing the actions you want to hate too long from the enemy to stray into the from war to peace we are all called to see you. these 2 are going to be. your drawings in the new future and be too sure true for all this was true for this 10 year sun. the earth i think you're finally how are you. and your son akane

you it was hard to get hold of you. i share my cell with some pretty nice people they're right wing and don't align with my politics but i can talk to them and they understand what i feel. and they hate the military themselves the military screwed them over so they want to skirt over in return. so i'm getting a lot of support of statements like. the way to go or don't agree to go there which is really nice they have a right there been a way to go. it's quite easy to live in israel and forget that there is an occupation at all so talking about the occupation in any way is a good thing and i think the last action really brought that up. and i think that

was important. while italy has a prison we organized a couple of trips especially one to the south of one who goes to see the occupation there. was held to. ransom and. so we did it was some american organization and that american organization said we want you to write something about the trip but don't use the word occupation so i said how can i write something about going to the one hurls without using the word occupation and they say well we talk around it i thought what kind of games are you playing i mean you need to call a spade a spade in order to start dealing with that and i used the word occupation you know the the the bad old word it was amazing and americans really really isn't like.

yeah you are all. right oh my gosh.

in the cage minutes of the conscience committee the purpose of the discussion is to determine whether the taliban is indeed a conscientious objector tallia please try not to get too excited tell us a little about yourself why did you submit your request to the conscience committee . and it'll have an imam and a back task a i'm a tell ya ben aba i'm 19 years old i live in jerusalem i did a year of civilian service at sanctions i believe in equality between people and that the control of one people over another is apartheid and cruel and exploited of it's a shocking thing that i'm not willing to take part in. i think it's going to be an issue but there are people who want to homicide right terrorists very example what do you think should be done about them. i mean i'm not sure the right way to deal

with terrorists is to look at the root of the problem why people do the things they do and then instead of investing in the army invest in political and social processes about the you isn't it enough so israel should disband its military quote unquote it's a crime 1st we have to end the occupation and if the let me just i'll give you a specific scenario hold you out with a friend and you see an elderly woman 2 boys are harassing her trying to steal her back what do you do. i mean because i would try to talk to the boys to understand what the story is and if that doesn't work then i would defend her if my body feels doesn't that contradict your refusal to cooperate with the military at the field office of the army is not to protect old women but to attack and impose occupation on millions of people do you want to end the occupation or be exempt from military service the same ticket bush you and to the occupation.

i not make running away from higher sponsibility for society and dangling to your work for like 10 over 12 hours a day because civil service is when it's something i believe in is something that i am able to do. it's. just going to have to balance he's not screwed well there is a sure good if he should get a 1000 of it very easily if you say our case today was actually a thing book and so. they say it's a scam. i think it was you know i say yes a little bit like you imagine this. and then very funny but your feminist views.

i still think it was stupid but. feel more strongly now that there should be in the term the route to national service side's army but the main issue is what i have a good in occupied territories and the question has whether it's for military security reasons or whether we're being dragged there so this is the exact because of this little secret that all we could do that if i wanted to go with what we're saying is the government didn't decide what to do with the territories right but and the government uses the army to police it because they still can't decide what these young people like it's actually are doing they're telling the government you can't use the army as an occupying force but what is more important to have that although it's important not to be occupiers i don't agree with you i don't and well i don't think we should go on living the way we do if we have peace with the jewish faith and peace peace was jordan and syria almost disappeared and so there's only lebanon and the army does all this policing in the west bank we should stop letting

on our storage is that it's sort of god being pulled. off and if you should look on something of value good will be to smile you humble opinion you know that being the flour is a very important ability i think i'm much better at leaving it out and it was my all i and it's really important that very useful. in the past you know i thought that i was more in the middle. and i was probably moved further to the left because the idea that you can fake change from the inside which is always what people say kind of go to the army and try to affect change from the inside i don't think it really works it's such a huge machine and so you know it will crush you if you try to change. living as a as a human being you almost feel guilty about something i always felt guilty about not doing enough. to have to come to terms with it i can't help from. i do what i can.

and i support my kids who do more than i do you know so far all i can do is support them than i do that. and that's my little bit of fighting the occupation through other people through subcontractors. what i say if we'll have more than 60 friends and just objectors at the same time will shut down the military prison system because there's only a place for 80 quentin to subject theirs and there are other girls in prison that's like my dream they want to have even a place in prison to put the. puzzle on the list of us all by name of crime she may know. 16312th graders have signed an open letter to the government indicating their refusal to serve now.

that. my name is the taliban. i was in israeli military prison for 110 days i left prison with the belief. in a quality that we are all born equal and that cruel and violent occupation of another people not only hurts them but corrupts us. and if we want to live in true

safety it's not by a plastic. another people. now many of the headline they want to thank all of the extremely brave men and women who came here and to fight this struggle and whoever will be brave enough to join us. thank you so much. the. nothing we are the true patriots i guess you survived to tell the story i survived to tell the story.

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this is d. w. news coming to you live from berlin deadly airstrikes in gaza as tensions between israel and couple escalate israel says the raids were launched as retaliation after hamas fires dozens of rockets towards through slumps this follows a day of violent clashes at the some mall spit left hundreds of palestinians injured also coming up a nation exhausted and scared from its fight with coverage 19 calls are growing for a nationwide lockdown in india as local measures fail to.