a little bit of safe when he goes to the office and in the same day that the building was he staying it was hacked and and they are now without any offices and . they they said that their coverage of gaza will be limited to jitter that i talk to many journalists who are working there and they are really shocked and they never expected that the building would be flattened or destroyed how it has that it will hit back it will hit israel harder after this attack does not have the capacity to do so well today the spokesperson of. i'm sorry about the spokesperson of. military wing. said in a statement that we we have prepared ourself. to do to head to live continuously for 6 months so i'm not sure how. critical the

military wing is to do so at least the statements that are issued by hamas officials within the political world before this this round of confrontation or during it saying they are ready and they are. and can you give us a sense of what the situation is like now on the ground in gaza city. well there is there are some strikes i don't know if you can hear in the background there sound of shelling from military. and tanks at the border i live in the most of gaza city and there are some from time to time there are tanks are shilled. tanks are shelling a despoiled of years and some from the navy ships are a chilling at the beach from time to time there was a strike like a while ago there was 2 apartments in a building was was destroyed after a warning and a car was hit and the fear and believe there was

a guy killed when it was attacked in this car ok cars and pollution in gaza city many thanks. well cotter based al jazeera says the strike was aimed at silencing the media and preventing journalists from reporting on what is happening in gaza the president of the associated press also strongly condemned the israeli air strike in a statement to c.e.o. gary pruitt said this is an incredibly disturbing development we narrowly avoided a terrible loss of life a dozen 18 journalists and freelancers were inside the building and thankfully we were able to evacuate them in time the world will know less about what is happening in gaza because of what happened today and now let's bring in jerusalem correspondent tinier kramer for more so i know you have been reporting on of that building in gaza brought down this afternoon and bring us up to date on what the israeli army is saying. well this early military released

a statement shortly often i think i will quote from it they're saying that it has a quote contained military assets belonging to the intelligence offices off the hamas terror organization it continues saying that the building contains civilian media offices which hamas a used to hide behind and uses as human shields and that hamas deliberately that's a quote places military targets at the heart of densely populated areas in the gaza strip they're also stressed that they had given advance morning and had given sufficient time for evacuating the building now interestingly enough there was another statement just tonight that came out which was more detailing what exactly was. said that the offices there belong to an r. and d. unit of hamas which was responsible for numerous attack acts of sabotage

against israel but again. without elaborating or giving any evidence of. ok and we now know that hamas has been escalating its rocket attacks in israel as well can you tell us how heavy the the bombardment has been. well the scene in the early afternoon we've seen a heavy came in waves i mean several barrages of rockets fired from gaza into central israel also to its television other cities there in the area you haven't seen it for example yesterday was mainly in the south and the south and parts of the country so several rockets rockets made an impact in central israel and one rocket also made an impact on an apartment building in milan much gone which is just next to tell of eve and one israeli and then a civilian there was killed by that rocket now the militants in gaza must have said

that kevin rudd tell you a cent for earliest trikes in gaza. refugee camp family of 10 was killed and that strike now of course there have been numerous rocket attacks during the day and also as we speak we are getting the alerts on our phones here that rockets are incoming mainly in the southern part of israel and tony all eyes are on the diplomatic response of course a u.s. envoy is there now to meet with israeli and palestinian leaders and the u.n. security council is meeting tomorrow what international efforts are we expecting to see to try to bring this conflict under control. well it's not a 6 day off the conflict and i think we're still somehow in the middle of it as house really intensified again it usually comes you know in waves but we haven't really seen the international community there are

a lot of statements that are coming together but there's no real or at least not publicly push for a ceasefire but there are more and more reports and that i think is interesting because we have seen that in a previous rounds of hostilities also doing wars that there are a mediation for a possible cease fire going on you see i mean all the settings on place for that all the tennis players from a previous hostilities usually it's egypt the united nations possibly qatar and other states that are trying to mediate between hamas and israel but at the moment it's really unclear where we are in this stage and whether you know warring parties and have reached you know their achievements or whatever they want to achieve so it's not really clear how close to such a ceasefire we have of course giving you updates on those diplomatic efforts to have used kramer thank you so much for your reporting. and most of the latest

street violence has been in so-called mixed cities in israel or jews and arabs have been living together for many years cities like accra and that were captured by israeli forces in the 1948 war much of the arab population was displaced as jewish migration flowed in from overseas and many arab residents still live there and many of them are israeli citizens he cities have been until recently mostly peaceful but this new unrest is exposing underlying tensions. in the central city of load the running battles between police and is really our ribs erupted again. this man was one of 15 arrested here. police say they also confiscated an improvised submachine gun and 9 molotov cocktails. in haifa in the north there

were more police searches. and 9 more people arrested on suspicion of rioting and attacking police. not far away in just a. and police faced off across a burning barricades before clashes that led to 2 more arrests. in just a mostly out of district of tel aviv the streets lay quiet after a night of violence that saw an arab child seriously wounded when a fire bomb was thrown into his home. some were determined to go about their daily business regardless but many prefer to stay inside fearing the civil war of which israel's prime minister has warned. let's take a look now at some other news making headlines around the world 2 main contenders are standing in the iranian presidential election hard line judiciary chief ever hear you see will run against the former parliament speaker larijani the current president is barred by term limits from running again in election in june. voters

in chief they are electing $155.00 delegates to draft a new constitution it will replace the one imposed decades ago during august 2 pinochet's military dictatorship activists hope a new framework will include equality for women and environmental protections the polls are open saturday and sunday. and russia has deployed aircraft and fire fighters to extinguish forest fires a heat wave has pushed temperatures above 30 degrees celsius in central russia and siberia in the eastern region of 2 men flames have engulfed more than 60000 hectares. well it is the bundesliga 2nd to last match day of the season here's where we stand so far i was part of why did relegation by beating bremen head to berlin beat the draw with a draw against cologne felt and hoffenheim grabbed a point each freiburg held chance of biron unica to

a draw and relegated shoulda stunned champions league hopefuls frankfurt the leverkusen share the spoils with on your own berlin and stuttgart down to gladbach 2 games on sunday might start meant and likes a false flag. and china has landed a spacecraft on mars the latest step in its ambitious space program the chinese rover will stay in its lander for a few days of tests before exploring the red planet rover has yet to send back any images from mars but here's the story of how it got there and what the mission is to find out. after a treacherous journey through the martian atmosphere the chinese spacecraft a honey land safely on the red planet a major triumphant beijing space ambitions and the culmination of years of hard work. this was not an easy task it's our 1st time down this path and we have encountered many difficulties and it was

through a lot of hard work that today we were able to make our goals a reality i'm delighted this is a key event for the china air space and technology corporation this is the chinese people's 1st river landing on another planet there's a wrong rover on board will explore an icy area of mars known as utopia. it was formed by the violent impact of an asteroid about 4000000000 years ago past space probes have discovered large amounts of frozen water under the surface here an enormous layer of ice lies only a few meters below the surface using radar jurong can precisely measure the underground i guess. the river is named after the chinese god of fire 8 days after landing when diagnostic tests have finished it will go into action. nasa says 2 miles robots use similar high tech equipment to jurong even though nasa

research takes years drones the mission will be short for 3 months the rover will explore the surface of mars measure its magnetic field and study the properties of weathered martian rock. the purple then ford the collective back to a ground station in china. and coming up after the break our show chef asks whether online hate speech should be censored station for that out with more news updates at the top of the hour. plane. people in trucks injured when trying to shoot a city center more and more refugees are being turned away from others. the islamist demonstrators lucky fleet street

reluctant to give. the lists ultimo since 300 people are seeking. the ecos no one should have to sleep the mum make up her own mind the luck w. . made for mines. online hate speech is a powerful thing sometimes all it takes is one tweet or post by a user and suddenly they're hit by tons of insults and threats but is hate speech so dangerous that it should be censored or is freedom of expression more important hate speech versus free speech our topic today and so.

according to facebook only one in a 1000 posts were contains hate speech the targets are often individuals like homosexuals muslims or women who get hundreds of replies per day to something they've posted but online hate speech can also target entire ethnic groups and it can escalate tensions and incite real violence says the u n special advisor on the prevention of genocide big must stop this stark. place with more action and linkage no one. thought it that the whole look cause was preceded it. by hate speech crimes and hate speech continues to escalate tensions and animosity between groups here are 2 recent examples. in march. an open smear campaign on social media against her hinge of muslims

a deadly crackdown by me a mars army sent over 700000 ranger fleeing the country. conflicts with the muslim minority affair took time and again for centuries. it's been mars population gained access to the internet in 24 to targeted misinformation about the revenger was disseminated. south sudan. here hate speech and social media has found the flames of civil war and further divided the country 64 tribes. platforms are used to spread propaganda targeting particular groups. in south sudan online attacks have also often been followed by physical assaults. but. what about if hate speech is only online some say that this is so hurtful that it should be forbidden others call

that censorship they argue that we should be free to say exactly what we think so where is the line between 8 speech and free speech the answer to that largely depends on the country you live in. not even legal experts have managed to separate free speech in a clear and binding way insists renowned american civil liberties activist the dean strong. speech refers to motion which is very subjective and. you're more. than that has c been you bought. and being in here aren't we they and subject to the discretion who ever has power to enforce at. the top of that definitions are very indifferent parts of the world

denial of the holocaust for example is illegal in $1000.00 european countries but even here freedom of speech is up held as a value worth protecting it is strawson this herself the daughter of a holocaust survivor nonetheless she says censorship isn't the right tool to his against hate speech. that well and and as in censorship it is it ends up doing more harm than good and that is simply true with respect to cost denial or any other kind of disinformation or misinformation in fact any kind of censorship the natural human reaction is that more attention is drawn to the very message that one is seeking to suppress. the former chairwoman of the american civil liberties union or a.c.l.u. is convinced that honest discussions are the only way to overcome distance between

opposing sides counter speech is a very important factor and by that i mean any use of your freedom of speech hours to persuade educate in. support do anything you can to advance the cause of the messages are equality and inclusive and diversity and dignity and to rebut the counter messages. but there are limits. and when individuals are directly attacked to the ted constitutes a criminal offense such as libel or threat of bodily harm is. it's no longer protected it's freedom of speech. tech companies have started taking more actions against negative content on their platforms nowadays because laws in europe have been tightened but there is still plenty of hate speech on social media because that kind of content brings money. paid speech is controversial it's highly

emotive and it attracts clicks critics maintain that companies like facebook and you tube are well aware of that and actively promote the spread of posts containing extreme content those books algorithm for instance long favored potentially controversial. because they get more views and they to people spending more time on the platform which increasingly news. this was because they pursued growth in a way that was reckless and. to promote content in a way this insatiable stuff would get more exposure if you take extreme measures to get rid of all hate speech then you're going to slow down the growth. projects these assertions the company says it has 35000 employees deleting hate speech posts. in the 1st quarter of 2020 facebook took down over

9 and a half 1000000 inflammatory posts a new record according to laws in europe companies are only obliged to take down hate speech after it has been reported but in close groups content is only visible to members so it's unlikely hate speech there will get reported because posts are being seen by like minded audiences this is true for chat groups and also for online gaming communities where hostility can be expressed in a different way. to the world's largest p.c. games platform is not within to find. players who could beat it shooter game steve develop themselves to bicycle home. sexual or jews others. far right groups have links to close to hate speech groups on telegraph these have clear rules that if you must follow ask of a well known as he committed filings offline to become

a member that's what i wanted to get ahead i want to prove myself to say that i'm here you notice me. that's why i beat someone up i told the leader and even sent him a picture. a took that photo to prove i belonged to the group. that this is my family and i had to anything for them. these days kevin no longer hangs out and right wing chat groups in germany of the majority of hate messages on line about 3 quarters comes from right wingers about my percent are by leftwing extremists and 14 percent cannot be definitely assigned to any political orientation according to germany's federal criminal police what i find especially interesting is that about half of all like for hate comments come from a really small number of users only about 5 percent experts have long known that hate speech compares are often well prepared and carefully typed only someone who's been targeted by such a complaint can now how devastating it can be someone like stephanie palmer from

eastern germany in 2015 she launched an initiative to help refugees and her hometown. in 2015 a sentiment that for i told was turning against for a few g.'s stiffy prop 2 thought that an organization to promote openness and tolerance she was simple borrowed it but on the heat messages. you should be brave too and get out of town we have the baseball bats ready to go. things like that. come down that was just the beginning for milk blogs was also blown up and people call her at night. and that's as if you've got this kind of felt like it was coming closer and closer to the one i come home and you would immediately lock the door behind me and then i would 1st take every room holding pepper spray in my hand corked or almost bordered on paranoia where to cleanse. but i think at moments like that being afraid can be good to

a certain extent because it makes you cautious and alert and. the hostility she experienced has left its more. escape target there are days when the verbal attacks just roll off me i can stand there and say oh come on you can kiss my butt on this guitar and there are days when it really hurts when all at once i fall silent and take a step. that's horrible and a lot of people have had similar experiences there are going ization that specialize in dealing with hate speech and digital ourselves to help those who have become targets of hate campaigns want to hate aid in berlin the 1st thing hate and hate employees try to do is to stabilize hate speech victims emotional. the scum the hostile content for posts that could carry legal consequences. not all those attacked wish to file charges this also has financial reasons then. if you've been

libeled or threatened for a post and you go to a lawyer who says all right we'll take it to court you're facing at least 2000 euros and costs and if you lose you have to pay the other side's legal fees that's another 2000 euros or 8 advisers people free of charge. if someone can't pay the court fees the organization offers legal aid. it also provides practical online security culture. in the event a huge problem online right now are attempts to get people's private data like their home addresses or children's schools. we help them comb the internet before the haters do and hide that sensitive data. 500 people have contacted the organization over the past 2 years 65 percent were female were women or girls are attacked online threats often have sexual connotations many attackers remain

unknown shielded by the anonymity of the internet it. recognizes that it's important for people to be able to be anonymous online. but if someone violates the law she thinks their identity shouldn't be protected. also a huge problem we have in germany and in almost all european countries is that acts are committed on line. which courts rule are punishable by web sites i won't hand over the culprits data so basically they're protecting the guilty ones scoffed at home because there we have to say clearly this has to change. eventually middle court rules that an offense has been committed then websites have to be compelled to cooperate here. i'm grateful to say i've never been targeted by hate speech have you how do you defend yourself against abuse and hate speech on the internet let us know on facebook or you tube by and see you soon.

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