place. blame. blame. blame. blame blame. blame blame blame blame blame blame. this is g.w. news live from for let israel amasses troops at the gaza border as a deadly conflict with palestinians escalates israeli forces continue to pound targets in gaza city and in israel cities residents examine the wreckage caused by

hundreds of rockets launched by hamas militants are the 2 sides headed for all out war. also coming up. attains rare footage from inside of an isolated refugee detention camp in greece we look at allegations of police abuse there. and failing the trump loyalty tests u.s. house republicans toothless cheney from the top post but have they done quickly made her the leader of those republicans looking to matters most powerful the trump era. time sarah kelly welcome to the program. the conflict between israelis and palestinians is intensifying with reports that israeli forces are now massing at the gaza border hamas militants have launched hundreds of rockets into israel and

israeli forces have been responding with devastating air strikes on gaza the tensions are spilling over into street violence in several israeli cities home to both jews and arabs at a time that is unusually excuse me that is usually one of the celebrations for muslims. palestinian muslims in tourism come together to mark. the end of the holy month of ramadan is usually a time of joy but here and in gaza the ongoing violence is overshadowing celebrations. i distribute chocolate because i want to feel the joy because as you can see there is no atmosphere for eat at old it is all ass trucks destruction and devastation may god help everyone there were other. israeli airstrikes hit targets in gaza.

while hamas unleashes a stream of rockets fired towards israel these are the most intense hostilities that the country has seen in 7 years it's also lets to unwraps in of street violence between jewish and arab residents of several israeli towns. this arab man was pulled from his car and beaten by a mob of right wing israeli nationalists it was the 1st act of nationalist violence to receive direct condemnation from the prime minister. 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 palestinians message to israel and the 3 settlers is clear what drew my address my words specifically to america and to israel enough is enough leave us.

we will remain thorns in your eyes we will not leave our homeland we will not leave our country for lauren or the u.s. montagne its support for israel in its call for peace on wednesday. my expectation hope is that. this will be. closing down sooner than later but israel has a right to defend itself and if thousands of rockets fly in the your territory israel is preparing ground troops along the gaza border as s trikes targeting hamas militants continue they say many senior commanders have been killed. but the attacks have also claimed the lives of palestinian civilians. neither side is showing any sign of backing down prompting the united nations to warn a full scale civil war. we are

joined now by major general island the former head of israel's national security council he now works as a consultant to israel's defense industry thank you so much for your time this afternoon the military says that it has ground units prepared is that what is next in this conflict a ground incursion in gaza which could see the death toll rise further. you know this is the 1st. drama. was the loop. holes who. created the story. with civilians so we refer to who are who. but in this new group her because that's. 'd

a lot. to bring. those of us. who are crucial. 'd early. sunday with 4 hours which is a lot. ok so you think the timetables within the next 48 hours i mean there's a lot of concern on the ground and also in the international community that we could be staring down the barrel of potentially a full scale war here and i'd like to just ask you to respond to the fact that in gaza we have reports of 83 people reported killed since monday quoting 17 children more than 480 people wounded there's reports of missiles bringing down entire tarr tower blocks is this a proportionate response. of course interpersonal hurdler so thirst are the thing to guard it becomes worse. call it this is

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we call the go on here. as well there are loads of losers and the people who we are ones who are very very small and. who write in all of the dollars you better leave. who are using you to start. from us as a service user and the solution very stupid to me. the little you all or has followed very very popular area careers cycles are solutions not. specially when mr general. are concerned. mr general i thank you for that explanation you know but that the question among many. could could that potentially be in fact more targeted you're our eyes have indeed affirmed they've come out in support of israel's right to defend itself but

you know from the palestinian perspective critics point to a wider political context for example the expansion of settlements which is illegal under international law palestinians calling recent moves to a victim them from a strategic parts of the city and they're using this terminology ethnic cleansing illegal they're also pointing to heavy handed israeli policing and you know you brought up in your answer there how we sort of got here to now this conflict how do you respond to those frustrations do you think that it was was adequate over the past weeks. it is much worse in the real. world the room people 2 years appear it is a little wrong to 00 lose alone voting. to screw.

you over your lives your fortune or other golden globe. including all. the old rules to live. and. close by. so it is not the little. girl. but i mean there are all these little girls to call. if there is no beauty. but the way to resolve it of course is not to begin to cry is really serious and are so little and love is little in women children. are the surplus this is the also. the. solution for all of us who follow you. because there is no other way to talk to someone. so early in the model.

in the mean time and i just like to ask you about this briefly before we go because i mean this is really a new aspect now in the conflict and a very into and i'm at within israel we are seeing the worst violence between jewish and arab communities in decades prime minister benjamin netanyahu has spoken of this particular development as as a battle now on 2 fronts how worried are you now about this aspect and this development within israel itself. so we are all because of the results is something like certainly it was about 20 percent of the relations of not only our ups these are all syrians. who knows our police or who we are some. tube users are entering our news alert it is a conflict well we're doing we're relieved and solution will be low

and so on when militants who are too elderly burned. by the way especially during the who are you believe those who are actually. who believe in good order and the last where there's actually. been a year all the young are. valued you know further embarrassing we're going. to use their forces. earlier. and much more there's. whole who will and will lead to. and sample and ira tools. over many years usually old jewish early hearts and.

there is a hole or pollution to come down a little search for their. duties and the real solution for peace and condi and all who will be who created. the year hell but who are equal. and you feel lonely now and there is. indeed many many are hoping that the situation will become more calm and major general in your island former head of israel's national security council thank you so much for your time. and some other developments in the conflict now british airways has canceled its flights to and from tel aviv amid safety concerns they're following many other international carriers who are currently avoiding the region u.s. energy corporation chevron has shut down the tomorrow and natural gas platform off of the israeli coast as a precaution israel says that energy needs will continue to be met and opponents of

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu say that they are freezing talks on forming a coalition to unseat him after israel's inconclusive election here some other headlines from around the world there are warnings that over a 1000000 people in madagascar are in urgent need of food assistance severe drought has brought the country to the brink of famine according to the world food program the un body says that large numbers of children are especially at risk of starvation. western powers have accused china of massive crimes against the leader muslim minority during a u.n. sponsored virtual meeting britain's u.n. ambassador called the situation in shin jiang province one of the worst human rights crises of our time the u.s. says that it will continue speaking up until china stops its quote crimes against

humanity and the riggers and the now my currency in greece have told you that they fear police detention despite being legally registered in the country has obtained footage from inside of the party mesti detention center which is closed to journalists is funny for char reports on the accusations against greek authorities . reza and his friends spend their days looking for somewhere to sleep in to saloniki he's from afghanistan and he's registered in greece as an asylum seeker. join other about the believe in the we have a person we have to hide when the police catch us they beat us and forces out then we have nowhere to go we have to live on the street you know we've got the development going to be able to make. the social worker hope barker shows us this what's where asylum seekers can find shelter in testimony the city used to be safe for refugees but more and more are hiding from the authorities if the police pick

them up they're looking at either like the detention or a violent person back so most people don't want to be seen by the police after all we need shut up from a jury are also had documents he was speak to up on the street and spent months in a detention center i haven't. thought hunger striking. we didn't know 1st why are we here and for how long it's going to last one incident was especially traumatic might they have brought this group of police. and there's a. reason everyone. was really. like so many people. complain or support arbitrary detentions involving facilities so prisons and human rights violations the authorities tell a different story the governments that push backs are nothing but sure this problem

that so-called secret detention sites don't exist that we are on the way to her and our state which is a free removal detention center yet still. to the public eye. surrounded by the right of even this official detention center is hard to find. an aerial view shows a facility that can hold up to 500 detainees surrounded by barbed wire fencing inside their reports of police violence we obtained this exclusive footage from border monitoring violence network an independent watchdog which documents police brutality and in the push backs the video was taken inside pertinacity last year to monitor say violence is systematic the greek government has not responded to our interview requests we show the images to the united nations official responsible for refugees certainly. shouldn't happen and it's important that the

conditions of detention are. worked on collectively but at the same time the asylum service has been you know in the but if you look at the past 3 years the systemic change we're ready. to strengthen itself for the refugees there is little prospect of any immediate improvement in daily life this facility near testimony is supposedly an open camp a concrete wall is being built around it to keep people in ironically construction is being commissioned by the united nations migration agency. and funny char is joining us now standing by in the field funny as we've heard greek authorities others they have been accused of pushing back migrants in violation of international law what more can you tell us about that. exactly human rights organizations have expressed great concern and have said numerous times in the past

that greece is involved in illegal pushbacks in fact only on wednesday europe's top human rights body called the regal sorties to put an end to these illegal practices but greece is saying that this is actually fake news and turkish propaganda not ironically or not the europe's own agency owned border agency frontex is also facing these allegations of being involved in illegal pushbacks and by the way not only push back on the aegean sea when migrants are coming from turkey over sea trying to rival in greece but also already on in between the greek and to push border on greek soil so the various allegations accusations and as i say the reaction so far but the greek also reduced to a rather blunt saying rejecting of these claims is unfunded now the problem that exists is that human rights organizations can create awareness but they can only make recommendations they cannot inform in force anything on greeks all this is what the european union comes into play they could actually start an

infringement process in light of clear indication that human rights violations take place but that has not been the case there is no infringement process whatsoever so far within the european union against greece ok very interesting funny tell us the greek authorities. what is the situation right now when it comes to the resources that they need to cope with the situation. i would say the question here is not resources the hundreds of millions of euros to tackle did migration challenge a question is how that money is spent if you look at the numbers hundreds of millions are spent on enforcing the external borders of the european union but only very small fraction of that is actually spent on improving the asylum system and when it comes to asylum system you have to zoom into every and each european country almost especially when it comes to all 3 or hungary or greece that all have their own national politics aside in politics that's the problem and on the ground

if you look at the situation of migrants particularly in greece there's no obligation to give them even a translator to make them understand what their eyes are because the greek asylum law says that's no longer over the good story. is funny for char thank you. republicans in the u.s. house of representatives have voted to remove fellow party member loose cheney from a leadership position the wyoming lawmaker was under pressure for her criticism of donald trump and especially for her refusal to support his unfounded claims that the 2020 alexion was still on. knives who were out for us republican liz cheney in a closed door vote republicans removed from her post in just 15 minutes. great by today's i do not i think it is an indication of where the republican party is and i think that the party is at

a place that we've got to bring it back from. the wyoming republican is a staunch conservative and go to a form of vice president dick cheney she was seen as a champion for the republican party when she took the leadership role in 2018 but she came under fire for criticizing former president's donald trump over his claims that he lost the u.s. presidential election jus to widespread fraud last november and for encouraging supporters to storm the capitol building on january 6th. cheney also joined house democrats and then peaching donald trump but trump has kept his influence over the party and cold for her removal. cheney lashed out at her own party before the official vote on tuesday attacks against our democratic process and the rule of law empower our adversaries and feed communist propaganda that american democracy is a failure we must speak the truth our election was not stolen and

america has not failed. it's a critical moment for the us republican party where internal divisions on raveling well this change responsibility is to lead our conference in the house of representatives and so she has a particular responsibility as a result of that and yet it it frankly it doesn't serve us well if you're creating fomenting division in our ranks like i stand with liz i'm proud of her there's a lot of people that are proud of her for what she's done and a lot of people who feel threatened by her and that's their decision but going forward i think she's in be a great leader for this country in this party and the white house has condemned the move more special guests today. it's disturbing to see any leader regardless of party being attacked for simply speaking the truth and as the president said last week it's hard to understand while the shakeup comes to the forefront of u.s.

politics this latest purge is a turning point for the republican party and its future cheney says she won't go away quietly and will fight to stop trump being reelected to office. and here are some of the stories making news thousands of colombians have demonstrated in the capital bogota for the 15th consecutive day of rest the protests are sparked by anger over tax reforms but quickly spread to fury over police brutality the country's human rights ombudsman says that at least 42 people have died and more than 160 have been missing since the protests began. tesla c.e.o. elon musk says that his electric car company will stop accepting bitcoin because of environmental concerns the digital currency requires large amounts of energy much of it from fossil fuels cryptocurrency is have long benefited from musk's earlier support tesla's latest announcement triggered

a quick sell off in the crypto markets. full well dormant coach will wait until the last minute to decide whether or not to play star striker erlend holland and thursday's german cup final against abi leipsic the norwegian central to torment hopes of victory in a game where both coaches are seeking their 1st major silverware. as the i was ticked down to kick off all eyes are focused on german football's grandest day has history a white so too does the question loom will elin holland arguably the game's brought his stuff be there to take pot. yelling. tailing was on the pitch yesterday after almost 2 weeks out. we didn't push it but it looked good and we wanted to see how would fill. a void and we'll have another short session where he'll move around. a bit more and see if that is

enough. for morgan in hope to shoot for his 1st major trophy as coach knows one thing for sure in jag and san show he's at least one feet reliable path to go being which means trickery gave dortmund victory of the logic on the way can't now 5 days later to the novice men has one final shot at lifting lot of trophy before he departs to take charge of by munich. we will try to achieve the maximum which is winning the trophy at this guy but i don't think this has a lot of consequences on my personal career rather it's about every single player in i as the coach doing the best possible job then we want to celebrate together with the club which employees mean where i still enjoy working and with the players that's what it's all about the thing to found it's. a win for a lot so it would be the club's 1st trophy in 12 years since the club's formation.

you're watching news up next as conflict. so where my colleague tim sebastian interviews dimitrov coolabah ukraine's foreign minister do stay with us if you can for that in the meantime there's always more on the web site to w dot com and of course as always on social media i'm sorry kelly and for left thanks for watching. i'm. going. to.

get. into the conflict zone with jim sebastian america's secretary of state grounds in a bluecoat who is in ukraine last week visiting the bar meets all the words of comfort and support for the country also russian troops of mostly huge numbers froze to the border my guess who's weekly praise for newest good to be true cool about getting out of the ditch from what was here just the conflict zone. the phone next to w. o.

best girl who could ever live on the show that it was as we are now a dinosaur. into. what's a big what's able. to do for your book. it's an ongoing quest for it to change. the arab spring began in 2011. people stood up against corrupt travellers and tater shipped. all these moments. had left deep box in my memory.

they had hoped for more security more freedom more dignity. have their hopes made from several. years after the arab spring now a 1000000000 starts june 7th on d w. because this is all that we will be defending that if they had crossed that border what do you think the west would have done for you i'll judicial system is in the best shape america's secretary of state sounds to me blinker and was in ukraine last week raising the bar of need to offer words of comfort and support for the country after russian troops would must in huge numbers go through border my guest this week from p.s.v. ukraine's foreign minister good to me troop pulling about what did he get out of the visit and what was he asked to give.

of. the future of course labor welcome to conflict zone good afternoon the u.s. secretary of state was visiting kiev last week and said he stands strongly with your country what do you understand that to mean standing strongly with you that means political and military and reforms our support for ukraine we count on our partnership with the united states as much as we count on the partnership with the european union and its key capitals your president was clear that he wanted more than that a few days before blinken arrived he posted a tweet calling for a clear signal about the european and euro aglow dic prospect in other words

a clear signal about your big for membership in the e.u. or nato did you get that clear signal well both perspectives of your atlantic and european membership are long overdue you and i would like to recall that for example when it comes to nato the promise that was given by elyse in 2008 for a summit so we've been it's been 13 years now and my president reiterated the ambition to achieve that we have not heard affirmative positive response yet but this is you know we are aspirants we are seeking membership so we will keep pushing this story forward so you didn't get what you wanted so in effect mr blinken just bought a basket of fine words and that was it. no it would be not entirely correct mr brink in with others not entirely but there is some truth

to it. well he did not bring with himself a promise that ukraine will become a member of nato this year or next year but he reaffirmed that the united states stand by the decision of 2008 where it says clearly ukraine and georgia because it applied to both countries will be members of nato and we will be working with our friends and partners on achieving this goal but the problem is without a timetable it's meaningless isn't it well what we need we currently have a timetable which is called national program of cooperation between ukraine and nato it is structured very much. along the pattern of the membership action plan but what we do need and i can agree with you here is a clear timeline of granting can you create membership action plan

and what will follow after that this is the next step in our integration with the alliance how far do you get with your shopping list because you are known to be looking for enhanced and you drone and the aircraft capabilities you also want the patriot missile is washington going to meet those requests while we submit to the united states illest of. the most urgent needs for ukrainian army some of the items on the list are more easier to get some more difficult we do not expect to get everything at a time but we are making progress on those items and on those positions which. which are feasible at this at this point you say you're making progress so you didn't get any of them you haven't signed any deals to get them it's not it's not fixed. mr secretary blinking did not brink and understand our complex with him

but. nor is there that he was going to give you one either nor update i have no doubt that we will we will receive and number of items from all this this does not require reiteration it's a mental matter of co-operation of certain technicalities but i have no doubts that we will give them this global let's talk if we may about the frozen war in the eastern part of your country if we can talk about it that way there's been some the escalation in tension with moscow it withdrew many of its troops after the sudden massive deployment close to your joint border if they had crossed that border what do you think the west would have done for you expressions of condemnation maybe some sanctions while 1st there is no withdrawal adequate to the number of russian troops and military

machinery assembled along the border of ukraine and in the occupied territories what is happening cannot be called it was that all russian forces largely stay where they are what has changed is a drop in military forex this is true but the threat is still there and you know in the soviet union they had show trials trials without justice. and now was the observer is that a show was the role it was the role without the removal of forces and this we should be we should be we should remain vigilant on this when it comes to your 2nd question is this this is our land this is our people we will defend it we will fight for it we do not expect for in troops to arrive and help us but we do expect from partners to provide ukraine was all assistance they can offer to make us prevail in this struggle for

a country so you're not expecting nato to go to war with you with russia you're clear on that to defend you. absolutely we are not a member of nato yet and i would like to. see again clearly and squarely that this is our land we will be defending it but partners can help us to defend our land and i'm sure that this is what will this will be happening when it comes to negotiations your president has made it clear he no longer thinks the minsk 2 agreement is laid down 6 years ago is the way forward is that because neither you nor the russians know the separatists that actually done what you signed up to do. well the key demand off russia in minsk is to recognize so-called lugansk and honest people's republic as party to the conflict

which would effectively turn an international armed conflict between ukraine and russia into an internal armed conflict between ukraine and separatists this is the cornerstone of the discussions that are taking place in. in minsk now my president is saying that alf goal number one should be peace. and security and lives of people and not the political political recognitions and we call on moscow to focus on the same on bringing peace to donbass and on making progress on a number of drive decisions which are ready to be adopted they have pending green light from moscow moscow can easily give the green light but it continues playing this game with the demands to recognize donetsk and lugansk as part of the conflict so this is in essence what is happening in minsk and this is why we are making

steps to. ensure a way forward out of this stalemate the mid to agreement is you know contains political commitments on you and on the other side article for a dialogue on local elections was supposed to start the day after heavy weapons were pulled back from the contact ploy article 11 the new ukrainian constitution should have entered into force by the end of 2015 its key element was to have been decentralization none of these things happened that day and each side blames the other for not fulfilling their side of the bargain where do you go from here. you are absolutely right this is this is the works to word by word russian narrative about minsk when moscow a meets the fact that paragraph one of means key security 1st you stop shooting and then you proceed to political settlement ukraine spared

no effort and made a number of painful concessions to ensure a ceasefire unfortunately the ceasefire has been violated on a systemic basis and more and more and many korean soldiers have been killed. i would like to assure you that we are absolutely committed to moving along the political part of the of the main scope of the minsk agreements you really think through security 1st you think you can get those through your parliament those political aspects of the minutes to agreement well if we see if we see that russia is not killing our soldiers is withdrawing its heavy machine heavy military machinery from ukraine and that advice by security provisions this will give us an additional argument in the parliament to convince that this is the road to peace this is the road to settlement and this is what my parliament wants but we will never accept any russian idea of federal ideation of ukraine because

in in this country we have a very advanced reform of decentralization and by the way i would like to thank the government of germany in helping us with this reform to really empower communities on the ground and to give them more right right and when certain regions of donetsk and lugansk parts of ukraine which are currently occupied by russia to return to ukraine they will enjoy all those vast possibilities for development and prosperity yeah but why does your president say he's not going to talk to them russia says talk to the separatists your president refuses i'm curious as to why he refuses because the people in donetsk and lugansk is still ukrainian citizens aren't they why is your president refusing to talk to ukrainian if he wants that area back under his control my president will talk to legitimately elected ukrainians in the currently occupied parts of donetsk and lugansk will not talk to holders of

russian passports who vigorously in the implement only instructions coming from moscow. we should not mix these 2 categories of. once we hold elections as provided by the minsk agreements when there are legitimately elected representatives they will be become part of the political system and we will talk to them but today the only party that makes decisions and instructs people on the ground how to act is moscow it's not these so-called separatists yes but this process is going nowhere isn't it and the fact is that you're out of ideas for how to pursue it something that the president's chief of staff actually admitted at the end of last month under your mike on television he said it's necessary to continue working in all directions and they're all formats because in the end we don't know

what format will bring peace to ireland 7 years after the seizure of crimea that's an extraordinary admission of both failure and despair isn't it you don't know how to continue. there is no fate neither fairly or no despair in kiev we have a certain number of. well we are obsessed with the behavior of moscow with its unwillingness to play constructively interest to pro-create sincere willingness of ukraine and of germany and france to put an end to the war in donbas when it comes to crimea. you know we launched we came up with a very good idea of a crimea platform and this initiative is gathering more and more international support so now we are not running out of ideas but unfortunately russia has adopted a very. very unhelpful tactics of simply

downplaying every any idea that if they do not like or ignoring them but will keep trying because as i said just a couple of minutes before this is all then we cannot sit down with and lay down our hands we have to come up we have new ideas we have to be creative and we will be doing that this is all then to and it may take some time but in the end we will succeed the fact is that your president was elected 2 years ago on a promise to end the war in the donbass region he didn't do it even blamed the continuing conflict on its previous president poroshenko saying it wasn't russian aggression that was the problem it was the ukrainian side being unreasonable that came back to bite him as well given that in effect he's over promised under the lid that that's the biggest sin the politician can commit isn't it well my president still has a couple of years in office to deliver on that and. before the end of his 1st term

. the 2nd point is that in just 1st year of his presidency there were some very good achievements in our relations with russia and they were promising for example the exchange of prisoners including the return of the famous director or all extenso who was a political prisoner in russia russia returned our vessels captured. the carriage trade so there was a good period now there is a better period but it doesn't mean that we will not find a solution that will bring very good period and we will find will settle the conflict without crossing our red lines this girl labor it's clear that if you want more help from washington in the west you're going to have to do more to deal with the rampant political corruption in your country aren't you the state department says that's key to securing ukraine's democratic institutions its economic prospects.