make up your own mind if. w. read from lines. this is the the news live from berlin tensions between israel the palestinians escalate as israel press ahead with its offensive in gaza hamas launched another barrage of rockets at jerusalem in tel aviv the violence has triggered the worst jewish air of violence inside israel in decades the international community is calling for restraint so far to no avail. also coming up heartbreak and anger as

russia mourns the 7 children and 2 staff members who were killed in tuesday's school shooting. and the coronavirus is pushing the polls health care system to the brink the country is desperate to avoid the pandemic fate of its indian neighbor. and i'm glad to have you with us more violence between israel and the palestinians israeli airstrikes in gaza intensified and troops are massing along the border tensions are at their highest since a similar conflict in 2014 a must militants have launched thousands of rockets into israel over 70 people have been killed and hundreds more injured mostly on the palestinian side world leaders are calling for both sides to pull back in fear of stoking even wider conflict. yes i think with this israeli arab man was pulled from his car and beaten by right wing

jewish israeli nationalists. it's the 1st act of nationalist violence to receive direct condemnation from the prime minister you can reach issue height. nothing justifies the lynching of arabs by jews by the lynching of jews by arabs it's unacceptable we will not tolerate this this violence is not us. the conflict can be seen across the sky line. islamist led hamas unleashed a stream of rockets fired towards israel in retaliation for the destruction of a building in gaza by israel. these are the most intense hostilities that israel has seen in 7 years. it's his particularly bad in mixed jewish arab tang's.

the palestinian leaderships message to israel and the jewish settlers is large and clear. but would. i address my words specifically to america and to israel enough is enough to leave us. we will remain thorns in your eyes we will not leave our homeland we will not leave our country uncle moreno the u.s. maintained its support for israel and its call for peace on weapons day my expectation hope is that. this will be. closing down sooner than later. israel has a right to defend itself and if thousands of rockets fly into your territory. israel's defense was to target the hamas military. they say several senior

commanders have been killed but the attacks have also claimed the lives of palestinian civilians. oh. oh neither side is showing any sign of backing down prompting the united nations to warn a fill scale war complete medical joined now by steven cook a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations in washington welcome to the program or the risks of prolonged conflict. well i think that it's clear that the israeli military and hamas are laying the groundwork for a more probably long conflict if you go back to $24.00 teams where there was a month long war between hamas and israel. the proximate cause of that conflict

was for less that was far less at stake and there is here in the current conflict how mass is demonstrated in billeted that the israelis did not anticipate which is to basically put all of israel in jeopardy that's not something any israeli politician defense minister or military officer can tolerate so it looks like with the call up and massing of ground forces and continue the airstrikes and rocket fire everybody is settling in for a much longer bloodier and prolonged conflict you mention steak so how are the political pressures on both sides shaping the course of events. well of course that is part of the narrative that is emerging here on one side you have prime minister benjamin netanyahu is fighting for his political survival just before this began the israeli president handed the mandate to form a government to one of netanyahu his rivals he clearly benefits from the situation

right now where political factions may decide a change in leadership is not the most appropriate being how mass is also in a bid for leadership recently the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas was forced to cancel elections the 1st elections in more than a dozen years because the polls show that he would lose they have now position themselves as leaders as protectors of muslim jerusalem and are seeking to benefit as the primary resistance to to israel those dynamics also lend themselves to a problem accompli. let's zoom out now we have you know joe biden he's an experienced foreign policy pro he's been criticized quite a bit for his handling so far of the situation what is the u.s. role here exactly. what president biden as vice president saw futility of trying to force israelis and palestinians into constructive

negotiations and has decided to take a very hands off approach to palestinian and israeli the palestinian israeli conflict. he has dispatched an envoy to see what can be done here to deescalate the situation and it has issued a statement that has been broadly supportive of israel and that is why he's essentially come in for criticism here among some quarters including within his own party but it's hard to imagine what exactly be united states can do at this point both sides can on escalate. the president has the kind of resources at their disposal in order to pull beside support when they are intent on fighting or i will have to leave it there for now steven cook from the council foreign relations in washington thanks for your time everybody funerals have been held for the victims of tuesday's school shooting in the russian city of cazan russian has strict gun control laws but president

vladimir putin is reportedly calling for them to be tight and hundreds of mourners gathered at vigils and funerals today to pay their respects to the $7.00 students and 2 staff members who were killed the morals have sprung up in several cities across russia police arrested the suspect of gunmen but have yet to release information on a potential motive. a carpet off loss and emotions running high shock mixed with anger and sadness at the after the tragic shooting in cazan locals come to believe that the high school like any other has come to symbolize senseless violence and that a former pupil carried out of a deadly rampage. my kids go to the school my niece is in the 9th grade the fire service rescued her with a ladder my son is in the 4th grade and thank god he only goes to school in the afternoon i'm shocked i have no tears left.

i'm grieving for all the children here i could cry my nephew goes to school i have . she did. i feel like they're all my children it's just so awful. to picked the. school shootings are unusual in russia but the attacker is still not clear people say he was polite and unassuming and to no one in russia would have expected a killing in the this city just over 1000000 people live in cars on tourists come here from all over russia and the city is known for being very beautiful and peaceful so the fact that something like this could happen has shocked everyone here. to have an armed police task force and to the scene judge exactly what happened inside of a school is under investigation the 19 year old attacker was able to get in with

a weapon he obtained illegally he shot dead 7 children and 2 adults before surrendering to police 23 people are still in hospital. the fact that the shooter was able to carry out of the attack in broad daylight using a legal weapon has raised questions of a russian strict gun laws. how can i send my kids back to school i'm really afraid. to stand at speed with. how can we carry on if we're always afraid to let them go i definitely won't let my child go back before the end of the school year and i'm already worried about next year. it will take a long time to get over the dreadful events for many of the city of this tragedy has changed their lives forever. let's turn now to some other news making headlines around the world thousands of colombians have demonstrated in the capital bogota

for the 15th consecutive day of unrest the protests were sparked by anger over tax reforms but quickly spread fury over police brutality the country's human rights has at least $42.00 people have died and more than $160.00 have gone missing since the protests began. western powers have accused china of massive crimes against the weaker muslim minority during a united nations sponsored virtual meeting united kingdom's un ambassador called the situations in jong province one of the worst human rights crisis of our time united states says it will continue speaking up until china stops what it calls crimes against humanity. tesla c.e.o. elon musk says his electric car company will stop accepting it toy because of environmental concerns the digital currency requires large amounts of energy which much of which comes from fossil fuels cryptocurrency is have long benefited from us

earlier support latest announcement triggered a quick sell off and crypto markets. to nepal now where authorities have extended a lockdown in and around the capital and i'm doing till the end of may and number of covert 1000 cases skyrocketing in nepal prompting concerns that it's headed for crisis similar to that in next door india. india's deadly 2nd wave has spread to neighboring nepal. in katmandu health care workers and authorities are struggling to contain a massive surge of co 1000 cases in the last 3 weeks nepal's daily trajectory has shot up with 2 out of every 5 people tested now returning positive for the virus with hospitals filling to capacity with covered 1000 patients the country's health system has been overwhelmed by the spike patients are scrambling to find hospital

beds and oxygen for loved ones. fears coming true. to the brink of collapse. are. only able to. increase the number of people who need treatment. the threat from cover 19 is even reached the world's highest peak as china announced on sunday it would set up a line of separation on the summit of mount everest to keep chinese climbers from catching the virus from those ascending from the nepal side. along the 800 kilometer open border nepal shares with india the police fleeing the virus or hurrying to return home. authorities fear even more covert 1000 cases are

on the way. let's get some other developments in the pandemic the u.s. will start vaccinating children aged between $12.15 with the pfizer vaccine today after the centers for disease control found the job to be safe and effective in adolescence thailand reported its highest daily number of new coronavirus case of thursday more than half of the nearly 5000 new cases were found in 2 bangkok prisons and ohio has announced a weekly lottery system to entice people to get their covert $1000.00 shot weekly $1000000.00 cash prize in full university scholarships are up for grabs for anyone who gets the vaccine in that u.s. state sports now have separately in have continued their climb away from relegation in the bonus league after beating shock on wednesday evening at the had to do it the hard way after shell get took an early lead thanks to

a strike in the 6 minute from heart of early in the berlin fight back started before halftime dedrick boyar levelled the scores with a close range header that before yes you know income scored the winner. which means after are all but assured of stay german football's top flight says. rushing to the news coming up next is our covert 900 special you're always get up to date at u.w. news dot com m y n what crap thanks for watching. and you hear me now i guess we don't need you and i last year's german chancellor will bring you uncle a mascot and you've never had to have a surprise yourself with what just possible who is magical really what moves her and want. to talk to people who followed her along the way maurice and critics

alike join us for michael's last stop. southern germany. for years it's been a departure point for long distance animal transports today its cabs just separated from their mothers. very profitable here in germany young often go for export. are headed for northern spain and another collection point. was filmed by. the animal welfare foundation she's followed the transports for more than 20 years the slide in the care about us always are the noises the calves make when they're suffering and they increase as the journey goes our heads wasn't it

more and more calf's join in this bellowing you see them licking everything sucking at each other and are really in a kind of starvation stress the animals are under stress. kilos and then. after an almost 20 hour journey the animals are unloaded in spain many of the young calves are completely exhausted some haven't survived the ordeal. was. a misspelling we track animal transports not only despite. the also find out what happens to german livestock sent to other places such as north africa. and russia where we document the longest transport of german animals over thousands of kilometers to central asia.

yeah. it's early december $21000.00 when we set out with us bombed out now for the 1st time. we want to find out what exactly is going on behind the trade in young cattle and what happens to the animals the finance and you name frontier we're driving to a collection point near to clear. vision typical i was tipped off by an official who said young calves were being transported via various collection play offs to staying over for sheena's damaged and transport she had to be at. the collection point is located in a small village on the river most of us watches what goes on from an opposite hill she's expecting a transport to arrive today from bavaria. suddenly at around 3 o'clock in the morning trucks begin arriving while others depart. we

follow 2 animal transporters. they take a strange route they should be heading straight across the border into france but instead they take a huge detour appear to be. the german cabs are unloaded at the collection point and euro news. according to animal transport regulators the cattle should be watered and fed and allowed to rest for 48 hours now. next morning meets a friend i did not work for the french animal welfare group well farming what are they expecting. that hans part of the transport will probably go on to spain and that's what we assume there are german caps there too but we just don't know yet when they'll start to love them i reckon they'll do when it gets light what to

expect to the north america i'm going to expect our living in the morning and go to pep in hand and maybe we can but he's come to our union. writing letters and can't speak. it's the afternoon less than 24 hours after arriving the transport is on the move again. we're on the highway heading to the south of france. the cabs have already been transported for much longer than is legally permitted. at a service area in your name the drivers take a break it's a chance for the animal rights activists to get a closer look and maybe have a word with the drivers. that your tags suggest there are german animals on board mostly from bavaria and been written back yet. you know you just

ask the drivers where they've come from and where they're going you know. they say they came from near lewis and are heading to spain right no mention of the fact that they started off in bavaria. back in the car i don't even call on our contacts the french police she asked them to stop the trucks and check the. city certainly a bit thicker shifting but before she was even finished her call the transporters off again. the animal welfare activists followed them and didn't even see them and sometimes if i didn't have. any just tell me they don't have enough stuff for a check and unfortunately they couldn't do anything tonight. the 2 women watches the trucks pass the border into spain without a hitch. we want to know how this transport was possible in the 1st place even though you lost prohibit such long journeys.

we had to the 2 years i explored veterinary office and speak to the man a charge that you can all just. a little while to go he's brought some colleagues for support. of course did not you check these transports for the loading and unloading are monitored and the papers are checked to make sure they're ok and of those in the law it's a check on paper no there's a check on the ground to. call what kind of check exactly. you know because you are checked to see whether the animals appear to be healthy or not and the nation is on this. but the office also ought to check whether the transport is credible. this came from a very obvious clear to eyes us. and that's almost double the distance it needed. that alone arouse some suspicion. he said this did no one ask why

the animals were taken to vinci holeman and then when a direct route would have been quicker. according to our checks the transport times will buy the book but it's an economical decision whether to take the direct route or take a diversion. why would a diversion be economical. that i can be the judge of that each company must decide for itself which route makes most sense. no one here appears ready to go beyond the call of duty but we're not giving up quite yet. some of your tags when the trucks were parked in southern france. that's enough for us to trace which farm the cabs originally came from. the tags lead us to a small parish in the very regional. we phone the farmer to let him know we're coming. for the old

for your office got your meets in the early evening. is this your farm. and you keep you count. how many cattle do you have. so it. 'd has its ups and so forth is it at least most of them so listen just because you have cats to. their female so thread from high yielding cattle if all goes well he says they'll be producing 10000 liters of milk a year. because in this could be a theater for i've come to you because we film cattle on a transport to spain that was last december 5 forgotten and what did you get for those animals who does it you couldn't because washboard us on the told the physio that actually if you're in the boat it's in the water and this if you feel the boat will this wonderful sequoia with this in just a few. shots. but i don't

know what the price what that place you know coming off would be fair to say that the ball cans as males are a waste product of this breed and these are 2 near. the most i see minutes it's a child fast as a 5 little beast is murdered all but 6 mr abo from place here come a saga so say so from boys a couple sagas is so well it's a little difficult this is a fight with the farmer shows us his cow shed he has a mixed herd but they're largely high yielding cattle the only key to the dairy cattle so he has no use for male offspring. as an addition there's little demand in germany for a deal these days. the follows this is. all done with the sec missed it. for tame gatos.

this county. i'm never going to the animals we're going astray after so vague at least you must have time to get what did you think. that you'll hurt who are you selling to the elf. gets a nice. house look at. the farmer's calves ended up being taken to spain but what happened to them after that. we had to cut a loan yet to find out it's the center of spain's cattle fattening trade and here we discover one farm after another. in the spanish that go with us to take a look. there are hundreds of calves here we can see they come from all over the european union. this is the spanish style of industrial cath forming. on closer inspection of some of the farms we see

that some of the animals came from the u.k. . only. yesterday i think. there are also calves from france and slovakia. were not far from the court tartar going up and fine that's where most of the calves are exported from. on the way to the port we see animal transporters on the return journey. the transports unload on the pier. electric prods are used to drive the young bulls onto the ship. this load is mostly made up of animals from france or destined for lebanon. one man stands out among the workers before us are on an animal export at our heels

from morocco. as we established later he's bought the animals for an arab company. but if he's prepared to talk to us so we arranged to meet with him a few days later. what's your job most contiguous and explore the sooner i work as an exponent of the companies here in spain this and organize transport to arab countries. whose. cities i drive around and pick out the animals. i make a selection by them try to negotiate the best price to export them to arab countries they always end up by john abbott. this innocence about this. which countries do the transports go to. most. clearly bill you know

i work a lot with lebanon but i also export to jordan. saudi saudi arabia libya. morocco tunisia. almost all of the arab countries is really the computer design the more many animals how many cows and the low draw from germany. with the. us thousands of them. i don't keep a precise count these are. just sick live cattle from germany are shipped abroad for slaughter to many arab countries are insufficient cooling conditions for frozen meat. we need. back to terra going to court where she wants to show us a chef. it docked the previous stair and tomorrow it's due to load up on animal transport. it's the crema law.

should offer treatises. the car in marlow was built in 1955 originally as a car ferry it's 55 years old at some point it was repurposed to carry livestock transports but unfortunately not very well. in 2016 we got onto the ship it shouldn't be allowed to carry animals so that's what it's full of things that animals can injure themselves on the ramps are steep not for animals when they run out of the ships they have to make a 90 degree bend and go straight down steep rabs then their head with electric process that what i heard i think this is happening. there is one deck on the ship that's only one metre 60 high not even a person can stand on it but can also regularly load it in there that's terrible the animals can't reach their food or water and if there is a problem no one would crawl through there to get an animal i want to know those

away. for years because he mylar has to reverse the mediterranean with its cargo of livestock for the middle east. a few years ago animal welfare managed to smuggle about on board he recorded these images during the crossing. to show the cattle pack together with insufficient water troughs an animal struggling to reach the. ship looks neglected to credit with potentially hazardous raggett and rusty metal edges. just 3 days at sea and the 1st animals die. the cows lying makes their own excrement. investigations by the european commission confirmed these abysmal condition. several inquiries last year found serious shortcomings on this and other vessels but found that the watering system was broken the food trucks were empty the cattle were weak and underweight the cattle

were spoiled with urine of feces i don't nations system in certain areas did not work as a true at. home and all that but we asked the ns buthe a professor of criminal law and university for a legal standpoint on all this. he's an expert on animal protection laws this could be fitted on fought the european how much risk what regulations have extra rules for the transport of animals by sea when vanda vessels don't conform to them and. in this ship is not legally permitted to transport animals. and if there are sharp edges and corners that could injure the animals. that's also a violation of the rules require their animals to transport it in a way that they are not harmed. ok with us i stood on the roof so transports and ships like that shouldn't be taking place and that's right yes. and

yet they are taking place despite the scenes like those on the cutting monarch being documented time and time again and the carcasses of dead cattle are simply dumped at sea because this president is on the move. all this week with that to us out of the animal exporter we interviewed in terror donna. the lone precisely that thrown in the water. into the sea. oh isn't that simple i. suppose you can do that possible because of. the law of nature. it's also illegal given the mediterraneans natural preservation status. as a result it's not uncommon for beach goers in israel to find carcasses washed up on the sand. the animals are shipped across the mediterranean to the middle east mostly to the ports of beirut haifa and gaza. german cattle usually end up in arab

countries and what happens then. are shown footage of how transporters and meat workers treat the animals in these countries we see upsetting images of animal cruelty the likes of which we've never seen before. some of the pictures are too disturbing to show in their entirety. i. but here they're even children watching the moon is a bit like an affair i. first the cattle were tied off and then restrained by force i. i r kicked slapped pushed over the i was

the. load. i was. feeling. and then brutally winched onto a truck there's no respect no sympathy for the maltreated that it's. just subjected to pure violence. a much more workers stand in a pool of blood while they slash the cow's throats. for neither stun nor anesthetized beforehand. receive pictures from gaza beirut and the west bank. if that was we meet the filmmakers who took this put it together dividing our

politics from animals international. what's their main take away from what they've seen. often to miss often the knife silent shop or long enough that we've seen them stopping at the carotid artery. in egypt lebanon and other countries it's the norm for the tendons in the legs to be slashed and for the eyeballs to be cut out and and by and then. all of our organization has been in these countries for more than 10 years documenting the suffering and misery of these animals being exported from germany and other e.u. countries and all this time nothing has changed. much to give and i have never seen any work in this this to nation neutering nordoff nor even near east or in the middle east anything that would be illegal in european union the reason this is happening is that there are no laws in those

countries to protect d.n.a. markers and the animals are being seen as objects and not as a living beings it's moments when there anymore is losing its dignity because then one can smell death and any mother can see that it's all wrong these and she knows what's coming there is a single reason why no matter how many any mars die as they all died this is still a good business it simply because of the price in the destination contrie is sometimes even then biomes more and european union business built on the suffering of animals deemed a waste product by germany's dairy industry. we asked professor about the role of the german veterinarian authorities after all they're aware the animals are being transported destined for the middle east. and nary an osa transport will very probably result in the condition that we've just described he should not issue a transport permit. it's his responsibility to stop it in accordance with the

animal protection regulations if he allows a transient to go ahead then he is going to end the eventual slaughter and thus himself has acted and the better animal cruelty. does not apply to slaughter that doesn't happen for another 9 months but if it can happen 20 years later it doesn't matter. in 21000 more than 60000 cattle were exported from germany. some federal states such as the area and has have designated these countries high risk for animal welfare and want to ban cattle export to them. but what about this year the transport of livestock has continued to lebanon war torn libya and morocco with a little song that the german veterinarian thorniest interested in animal welfare. the export of dairy cows to morocco is usually said to be for breeding purposes sent over in trucks the cattle are allegedly aimed at boosting the north african

countries own beef cattle population. high yielding german dairy cows enter the country feel the port of tangier and are brought to the casa blanca region. the animals angels' group filmed these images and 2019 at 1st glance they give the impression that the animals are well fed and well treated. but were skeptical and want to find out whether german animals are really being brought here to build up morocco's beef cattle industry. in the summer 2019 we fly to casa blanca to find out more. from the animal protection for animals angels it was with us she's familiar with the situation there. one of the organizations moroccan members picks up. a little early.

over the next few days will be looking at cattle markets east of casa blanca. village on the dock as our starting point. ali has already laid the groundwork we want to see for ourselves whether german animals end up in such cattle markets so. it's not it's a sunday morning. on a large area of ground outside the city. preparations are underway for the market. due to open the next morning. my guess is and every monday everyone yet in this area at news said you spot it there and it's the most important tools here. by 6 o'clock the next morning the market is already buzzing to life.

that traders arrive and other 2 hours being set up. the animals that are brought here are often slaughtered right away. because trader tells us that he has a calf from belgium that. hopefully it will cheat like. that's what's going to determine another comes from luxembourg we hear. her increasing signs that animals being sold here originate miyu. example most of the traders and young calves and sheep. on the next day we travel to a place near. it's the site of one of the region's biggest cattle markets.

traders bring their animals on open trucks 1st we only see cattle from the surrounding area. but then we discover european cows. this animal is from france. that has several your tax. someone has tried to cover up its country of origin. and in the middle of it all seems like this cow is being milked in filthy conditions. right next to the grounds of the upper to our animals that have changed hands are brought here for slaughter. we're filming with concealed camera. the florist covered with blood hanging from the ceiling one slaughtered carcass after the next. nearby more animals are being slaughtered while they're still fully conscious it's an open area anyone can come in. a short while later we

make a discovery the tag shows this is a high producing house from germany. and in the. next we find another one among this group of cattle this time it's a horse time friesian. it's just been sold so we hang around a bit to watch what happens. look. that look like. it's forced up a steep ramp onto a totally unsuited truck. we see many incidents like this one where here. it's driven away with other animals. we ask the driver whether we can follow him. he says we can't. so for an hour we drive north behind the animal transport parallel to the atlas mountains until we arrive in

a small town. the makeshift ramp is used again to unload 2 cattle including the german dairy cow. they're led away but we're not allowed to see where. earth. the traders are getting annoyed. at the truck drivers more often they're being taken away for slaughter he tells us. slaughter here means restraining the animal going to get onto the floor several men seize the animal and turn its neck until someone finds the right place to stick a knife in. it's a horrific procedure. your tag informs us that the dairy cow was sent for export to morocco by a company called must and. must often does one of the biggest names on the

german cattle market as a frequent sponsor of cattle shows the name is synonymous with the most beautiful and best mewling breeds. on its homepage the company mentions that around a quarter of its beef cattle are exploited to african an arab states. we raised our concerns with must often about finding one of their cows in a moroccan cattle market and it's inhumane slaughter. we received this written response. the marketing of animals for slaughter is fundamentally forbidden. of course we are aware that breeding cattle are expected to live forever by then taken to slaughter however they are the basis for the creation of domestic beef cattle populations and the basis for the continued profitable breeding of that population in these regions.

but is it through the morocco is really building up a domestic b.