these are the most intense hostilities that the country has seen in 7 years it's also led to an rapson 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 jewish settlers it's clear what. 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 in rwanda. 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. israel has a right to defend itself and if thousands of rockets fly your territory israel is preparing ground troops along the gaza border as as strikes 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. and a major general you are at your land as the former head of israel's national security council we asked him whether he thinks the israeli military is planning a ground incursion in gaza as its next. only good this is the 1st.

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israelis are dismayed by the new the plug said reporters have been out on the streets asking people what they think is behind the latest escalation. and we feel very bad it's very not nice with kids and even a flyers thing go it's very hard to to a sham they don't want us to stay here and they want us to go on and it's over and over again all the time like every year we have the same situation they send rockets a lot of rockets every night you can see you are in these are all right now we need to protect ourself what can we do it commitment as a civil uprising is not something that happens all of a sudden it's something that brews under the surface and at some point it erupts and i think that the years under binyamin netanyahu has control over israeli society under his leadership of hatred and incitement this is what brought us to this point and she did we are in a situation where i hope it will be possible for things to calm down but i'm not

sure it's awful simply awful to have to sit down the farmers for what i think both hamas and our government adding fuel to the fire. i think it's part sides and it's a shame because i really think most people ordinary citizens want peace and quiet is what i mean but they were at that point both sides there was no attempt to calm things down but rather the opposite we saw the situation got completely out of hand . so somewhat soviet's i mean literally go and let's get more now we're joined by reporter shannon resign as shani there are reports of more missiles being shot at israel what more do we know. well what we're seeing is the hamas attempting and partially succeeding in basically shutting off israeli skies for civil traffic they have managed to get israel to close the international airport and divert all

flights to a no turning to airport in the southern part of israel and now hamas is also targeting that airport and this is the hamas is a major achievement when we're talking about the psychological warfare and if we want to understand where this is heading and when we might be seeing the escalation we need to understand the cycle the psychological effect of what we're seeing is major hamas has gained many of these victorious moments of being able to show these achievements like you know like making israel you know what shut down international airport shutdown like reaching with his his nose all the way to dru's i'm all the way to tel aviv these are things that we have not seen from us to so easily before and put that promise it's a great it's a great victorious moment despite despite the great suffering and hurt that receiving inside gaza and the bombing that is really still continuing israeli forces are still continuing to to shower on on on on gaza strip at the same time

this is partly what israel is being so adamant in going forward because they feel they mean some of these victorious moments to flip it to show israelis yes we have also managed to get some gains and as long as both sides are still in this race for these victorious moments for the searing somewhat of the turns and getting more of the upper hand right as long as this is going on the escalation is nothing on the table basically and we have indeed heard from the israeli military a spokesperson for example sensually confirming that they are amassing you know ground troops in fact. having many concerned about about a potential ground incursion and what could what that could mean for potentially what would be a rising band death toll the fear is of an all out war shani how high is intimidating to let you know right now. indeed and if we see

a ground operation if you see israeli troops making it into gaza then this means real serious war as much as as this seems like a whole war for itself there's no doubt that once we are israeli troops hit the ground this is a different ball game instead as as gaza has one of the most densely populated we place in the world this is nothing that the israeli army is doing so lightly or easily this is the last resort and it's kind of a hold me back moment because i don't think israelis are too eager to go in and i'm sure gazans palestinians are not too happy to think about the prospect of israeli troops on the ground so i think we're not yet there you know in a place and actually going in but the demands meant of the soldiers and forces on the border it's more of a threat and it plays again to this part of the psychological warfare that we're seeing of both sides trying to say we have feel it's we've got time we have

patience we're going to go on and on sort of each side trying to show an upper hand or trying to show more more perseverance when the other one who's going to blame 1st and both sides are still we're just starting basically this is that their day so there's still a lot of similar this is a lot of energy going on unfortunately before we start seeing things winding down one of the possible dates would be maybe toward sunday or the weekend as israelis are expecting to celebrate shove what is that it's things than it's been pentecost and the jewish calendar of it that would be a great moment for israelis to sit at home with x. had a ceasefire we're still not there yet nobody wants to admit it yet because as long as we're just discussing the need to show strength is now what's leading both sides in this x. and the 6 change bombings. to tolan's gaza and towards israel to have your reporter shot he was honest thank you. thank there are. some other developments in the

conflict british airways has canceled its flights as we've heard to and from tel aviv amid safety concerns there following many other international carriers who are currently avoiding the region u.s. energy corporation chevron has shut down the tomorrow 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 let's get a quick check of some other stories making the news there are warnings that over a 1000000 people in madagascar are in urgent need of food assistance to their 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. i mean western powers have accused china of massive crimes against the leader muslim minority journey u.n. sponsored virtual meeting britain's u.n. ambassador called the situation and change on province one of the worst human rights crises of our times the u.s. says that it will continue speaking up until china stops its quote crimes against humanity crimes against humanity and that. migrants in greece have told you that they fear police detention despite being legally registered in the country. has obtained footage from inside the a part of the tension center which is close to journalists funny the charge 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 believing they'll be

after beepers 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 this street you know we're going to give a little going to be able to make a lot. social worker hope barker shows us the squats were 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 that looking at either likely detention or a violent push back so most people don't want to be seen by the police after remeet shot up from a jury who also had documents he was speak to up on the street and spent months in a detention center i haven't. thought hunger striking because 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.

everyone. was really like so many people. complain or support arbitrary detentions in holding facilities to prisons and human rights violations the authorities tell a different story the government says that push backs are nothing but turkish propaganda 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 rope the mountains 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 there reports of police violence we obtained this exclusive footage from border monitoring violence network an independent watchdog which documents police

brutality and illegal pushbacks the video was taken inside her nasty last year the 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 system has changed ready. to strengthen itself for the refugees there is little prospect of any immediate improvement in the knife this facility near to saloniki is supposedly an open camp a concrete wall is being built around it to keep people in ironically construction is being financed. but 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 in 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 you know 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 to push back on the aegean sea when migrants are coming from turkey over sea trying to every 5 in greece but also already on in between the greek and turkish border own 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 a 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 the migration challenge the 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 an 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 liz cheney from the leadership position the wyoming lawmaker was under pressure for her criticism of donald trump especially for her refusal to support his unfounded claims that the

2020 alexion. nym's who are out for us republican liz cheney and opposed to a vote to house republicans removed her 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 in 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 ju-ju widespread fraud last november and for encouraging supporters to storm the capitol building on january 6th. cheney also joined house democrats and their 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 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 and this party and the white house has condemned in move more special guests for all of you 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 we'd like to bring you up to date now on some of the major developments in the coronavirus pandemic the u.s. will start vaccinating children aged between $12.15 but the bio on tech pfizer vaccine today after the center for disease control found the job to be safe and effective in adolescence the u.s. state of ohio has announced

a weekly lottery to entice people to get cold the 19 jabs and $1000000.00 cash prize and full university scholarships are up for grabs for anyone who gets the vaccine and thailand has reported its highest daily number of new coronavirus cases more than half of the nearly 5000 infections were found in 2 bangkok prisons. well one of the common symptoms of covert 19 is the loss of smell and taste most people will gain these senses a month or 2 after being infected but for some the symptoms linger and they can severely impact quality of life now though there is hope in the form of factory training basically teaching yourself how to smile again. once a feeler can't last her collection of perfumes or rather she used to. have this melts though i really liked it once. really smells their

bare legged baby's diaper. a little something good but it's still. for a belgian answer for your camp lesson sense such as her favorite per fumes smell or for after she got infected with corbett 19 a few months ago at 1st she could no longer smell anything then many smells were distorted one of the most common side effects of the virus she can only see the spring on her balcony but barely smell it she says it's as if she were raring an iron mask. there is a tiny bit of something but i don't know the smell. that's frustrating and makes me a bit sad. sure michelle my yard can understand very well how our car is feeling the frenchman lost his sense of smell due to an accidental 5 years ago it's

the smell of his children he misses most but mayor does not want to give up his passion for cooking. a bit of color is good we eat with our eyes after all a bit like the great chefs of france are doing it but it is the nose with its millions of factory cells that defines the tell you stuff this silent after his accident my i was angry because no one could help him even if an estimated 5 percent of the french population suffers from a distorted sense of smell but with time his anger gave way to an idea he founded a necessary action and develops off actually training incorporation we scientists with concentrated sense rose lemon coughs. the sense of smell is a sense that is as important as other senses. many forget about it. most

people only discover it once they've lost it or gone since the beginning of the pandemic thousands of affected people all over europe have been using his sense of smell training techniques belgian answer feel our count is also exercising her nose her doctor has seen for herself their penny patients are recovering thanks to the training for example because the a factory sells damaged by the virus renew themselves. this gives me hope but my motivation very soon and so does my hope because sometimes i'm just i keep asking myself if it will ever come back. even if things are getting better only slowly answer for your car is hoping these smell bottles will her probe put on her per fume again without upsetting her nose. up next on news asia the magazine keeping hong kong's democracy movement alive from nearby taiwan

and pakistan's cave dwellers those left with no other option to escape the taliban violence. the fear ash batters he has all those stories and more coming right up i'm circling in berlin thank you so much for watching take care.

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