to get out of. this is g.w. news a wire from burlington israel bombards gaza destroying a building that housed international media organizations. israel says the high rise was connected to hamas intelligence oppressed groups have condemned the airstrikes . and on day 6 of the conflict hamas launches dozens of rockets from gaza and the heaviest bombardment yet of israel's financial center tel aviv.

hello i'm claire richardson a very warm welcome to the show israeli air strikes have destroyed a tower block in gaza city that housed international media organizations as well as private apartments. among the media outlets using the block where the associated press agency and the broadcaster al-jazeera israel's military says the building was connected to hamas intelligence gathering and that israeli forces gave notice to evacuate the building before strike. and for more i'm now joined by journalist in a gaza city thank you so much for joining us look the skyscraper was in the middle of gaza we've just seen the building being destroyed do we know if there are any casualties. luckily there was no casualties the building was was empty the israeli sometimes asking the residents of some buildings specially

those high buildings to be evacuated in in advance. on or off the head of the building was was asked and called by the israeli officer and asked them to to to to to talk to the residence and asked them to vote to take you wait the buildings how surprising is it that a building that was housing bureaus for international press including al-jazeera and the associated press where the target of the strikes. well that was shocking for many many journalists working in gaza i read a story today of a bee correspondent who said. he felt a little bit off safe when he goes to the office and in the same day that the building was he's staying at was head and and they are now without any offices and . they they said that their coverage of gaza will be will be

limited to due to that i talked to many journalists who are working there and they are really shocked and they never expected that the building would be flattened or destroyed 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 story tanks are shelling a display some from the navy ships are shooting at the beach from time to time there was a strike like a while ago there was 2 apartments in a building was was was destroyed after a warning and a car was hit and i fear and today there was a guy killed when he was attacked in this car ok delusion gaza city many thanks.

al-jazeera says that 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 condemns the israeli airstrike this is an incredibly disturbing development we narrowly avoided a terrible loss of life a dozen a.p. 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 tanya kramer for more so i know you have been reporting on it the media 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 after and i think i will quote from it they're saying that it

has a quote contained military assets belonging to the intelligence officers off the hamas terror organization it continues saying that the building contained civilian media offices which hamas be 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 there as it's 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 that

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 heavy came in waves i mean several barrages of rockets fired from gaza into central israel also. to its television other cities in the area you haven't seen it for example yesterday was mainly in the south and the south then parts of the country so several of our could rockets had 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 tel aviv 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 brett family of 10

was cured 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 now the 6th day off the conflict and i think we're still somehow in the middle of it it has really intensified again it usually comes you know in waves but we haven't really seen the international community here 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 and previous rounds of hostilities also doing wars that there are a mediation for a possible ceasefire going on you see i mean all the settings on place so 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 those warring parties and have reached you know their achievements or whatever they want to achieve so it's not really clear how close we are to such a ceasefire we will of course giving you updates on those diplomatic efforts to get his tire kramer thank you so much for reporting. well the conflict in the middle east has brought people on to the streets in cities worldwide to protest against the israeli attacks here in the german capital berlin police clashed with crowds as

thousands joined a pro palestinian rally. the gathering also in march the palestinian not by day anniversary this commemorates mass displacements injuring at the arab israeli war of 94. and the reporter jared reed has been out covering those demonstrations here in central billings thousands have been marching on the streets to not only mock the day but to show solidarity with people in gaza there has been some wristy of police scuffled with some of the crowds they fired pepper spray and made some wrists tensions are high not only here in delhi and bought in cities across germany police have made a wrist of people that they allege burn flags in front of synagogues in in various cities german leaders have condemned these anti semitic oxen i say anti semitism has no place in german society. reporter jeremy there and now we can take

a look at some other news making headlines around the world's 2 main contenders are standing in the iranian presidential election hard line judiciary chief every him see will run against the former parliament speaker ali larijani the current president is barred by term limits from running again election should. be while voters and she way are electing delegates to draft a new constitution it will replace the one imposed decades ago journal goosestepping o'shea's military dictatorship activists hope the new framework will include equality for women and environmental protections. pope francis has met the u.s. a climate envoy john kerry to prepare for a u.n. summit on the environment kerry arrived in the vatican as part of a european tour to meet. government officials and business leaders to discuss the climate conference in glasgow. and russia has deployed aircraft and fire fighters

to extinguish forest fires a huge wave has pushed temperatures above 30 degrees celsius in central russia and siberia into consideration of human flames have engulfed more than 60000 hectares. and china has landed a spacecraft on mars the latest step in its ambitious space program the rover will stay in its lander for a few days of tests before it begins exploring the red planet china's only the 2nd country to land on mars for the united states. and this weekend a saw the 2nd to last round of bundesliga games with a lot at stake for those of battling to avoid relegation went up against braman with both teams barely above the drop zone oxburgh came away victorious securing a nother season in the top flight and leaving bremen in deep trouble but. the

message was simple and. the fans believe anything less than a win for their team could mean having to prepare for the 2nd division even with one more game to play. their coach marcus vine cyril knew it too. and so did very brave and coach florian coalfield whose team was an even worse shape trailing 2 points behind the board. but things swung in his team's favor in the 13th minute when our sport midfielder ruben vargas was given his walking papers for this body check seen at the bottom left of your screen even if it did take v.a.r. to confirm it man advantage better braman. were compensated well and then in the 57th minute scored when ronnie could erupt took an opportune shot after a fortune of bounce went his way from a corner one nail borg. braman pushed forward but it was not to be. and in the final minute of regulation time

this sport breakaway and penalty shot. taking the honors was paul colleagues. to nail the final score. outs work celebrations were understandable as was braman stis appointment oxburgh remain in the top flight next season oh and its final league game coming up it's against byron munich and a very hungry robert leavened off ski on the hunt for the all time bundesliga goal scoring title a match up i'll be glad not to have to win. as i heard robert evans the of byron munich has tied the record for the most one of the goals in a season he notched up his 40th in a byron's draw with freiburg the polish striker scored from the penalty spot in the 1st half equaling the western german goal scoring legend get more that the record

has stood for almost 50 years bottom of and off he could even break it and by his last game of the season. and today is the bundesliga 2nd to last match day of the season so let's take a look at where we stand so far. further void of relegation by beating braman heads of arlin beat the drop with a draw against cologne felt and hoffenheim grabbed a point each freiburg held champions byron munich to a draw and relegated shall stunned champions league hopefuls frankfurt leverkusen meanwhile share the spoils with union berlin and stoke art down to gladbach 2 games on sunday mights dormant and lights a full spark and a sweet and strikers lot of him of it has been ruled out of this summer's european championship by a leg injury the 39 year old hurt his knee playing for ac in the long last week ibrahim of itch retired from international football in 2016 but he made

a surprise return in march making him sweden's oldest national player. coming up next as reporter on location with the downside of the big apple and i will be back at the top of the hour with more news headlines for you thanks so much for joining us. every day counts for us and for our place. to live the life is on its way to bring you more conservation plays how do we make cities streamer how can we protect animals and their habitats what should you put all our waste. we can make a difference by choosing reforestation holdridge the forest recycling old or just

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paris wants to help she collects food donations for people in need because the things well. you know you know there's always are desperately needed by the city's poor. it's payday for 6 tilly on barrio she has an entire week's worth of work in these bags and every cent counts. that there are $144.00 cans and here each once worth $0.06 what or that's a $0.16 for each bag. so that i get $0.14 and i have 5 of those it should be $230.00 total. come out of the empire bank. 60 has lived in new york city for 34 years

she immigrated illegally from mexico her husband left the family and 6 there raised 5 children all by herself. before the pandemic 6 they had 4 cleaning jobs now she only has one in order to pay the $600.00 rent for her room she collects bottles every day. from america 8 am i get what i call early in the morning or at night after dark and since the pandemic lots of people cannot bottles or even the men come at the supermarket cuts full of bottles yet it wasn't like that before but now with the pandemic it's the only way we can survive we don't get help otherwise they must already be a bit but. we're not the number one graduate or. put another one on top thank. god thank god. the

recycling contractor that buys 6 does bottles is waiting a few blocks away. across the east river in manhattan project harris and her team of volunteers are also collecting. not bottles but cookies to give to new yorkers in eat. these cookies are among the most popular in the city chocolate and peanut butter chocolate chip and walnut $7.00 apiece and the boxes are full. today cookies these are pieces of loaf this look like a lemon loaf it's almost always there cookie is a lot of leftover cookies muffins whatever they don't sell from the the night before we take them and it's a pretty good stuff it's not stale or anything if the team didn't take these baked goods they'd be thrown away like so much food in the city. or that's going to

be really heavy. that's. going to get better i think so yeah the whole can stop if we need better bridget's main job is delivering meals by bicycle for delivery app but on the side she collects food donations all over new york city for the nonprofit rescuing left over cuisine her family's originally from liberia for her fighting hunger is personal but when i was there i was going through a civil war and starvation so ever since then i have hated the sea the amount of food that gets wasted and then just seeing people on the streets hungry right here in america it really hurts to know that people are wasting food when there's hungry people out there. today they drop off the donations at the bowery mission in southern manhattan. it's the oldest christian relief mission in the city. it all fits carefully weighed.

it was a total of $182.00 pounds of our pick up today. very good. here are you trying to find oh yeah i know i knew it was going to be over 150 i just didn't know it was going to hit 200 but this is still pretty good. barry mission has been helping the city's poor for 140 years even in the days of the spanish flu it provided food and a place to sleep and today thanks to bridget and her team there's a delicious cookie for dessert 2. back in brooklyn 60 has arrived at the collection point she has fewer employees than usual that's because she's been on a hunger strike together with 14 others she's been calling on the state to finally

help immigrants like her because they're undocumented they're not eligible for most government aid. your member. i took part because there needs to finally be justice yet there are so many immigrants hired and most of us pay taxes. because we thought that was the only way we would eventually get a residency permit by paying taxes but i'm a mormon but i'm afraid of the belly of the family but i'm going to let the protest was an act of desperation she says eventually she no longer felt hunger. that i now what i was we were given coconut water to drink and a vitamin pounded to keep the body killing them i lost 61 days if i want them and i want them i go on this is the year it was a success new york state is now promised $2100000000.00 to help people like sixto

she's one of more than half a 1000000 undocumented immigrants living in new york city the success of the hunger strike has given them courage. second remember it was a victory very happy because we did it we have won it it's great for us but everything is going to get a much better nice country where the money will come don't help us i think people who even get residents. living out of. the money from the state is not yet here and neither are other documents but at least the recycling contractor has arrived 6 tickets a little less than she hoped for but she still happy. oh. yeah i got he paid 393 don't as you get.

back at the bowery mission i should put on he is making sure everything is ready for lunch soon the clients will be arriving. we're going to start packing up at about 11 o'clock. so in about 5 minutes. they distribute 2 to 300 meals every day impossible without the help of volunteers. so whatever we have out now we can probably just wrap them up and start fantasizing and getting ready to pack up ok thanks guys. you guys are all the time back there so how about this let's start bringing back the crates of living cookies and i'll show you where you can put them. before covert people ate in the dining hall but now it's all takeout for you very very. most of the people here are regulars. at

a very young people from. my kidney also comes here on a regular basis. and let's see there's watermelon. looks like a beef stew. with some cabochon rice. and some bread. mike is a trained x. ray technician he lost his job and home before the pandemic it's a difficult time to find new work and get back on his feet he appreciates any help he can get. because good love watermelon saved the rest for later. because so many people are homeless during the pandemic the city has temporarily put them up in hotels my friends some of them are in homeless shelters so they move them to whole tells motels then they have lost their or they can pay for their phone bills they lost their jobs unemployment took

a long time. so i lost contact with a lot of people that i consider friends and the baron mission now mean a lot a lot of the people that work there just sitting and talking to them for like 45 minutes. just got me out of the deep space you know space and became. optimistic instead of pester mr. he never thought he'd be in this position relying on help from others. cheung 1000000 waving troops. but it's humbled me because i didn't have a good paying job and relying on someone i've never been used to that i don't like relying on people. but until you find his work he has no choice but last year has taken its toll for a while there i was really not. doing anything i was just depressed

gave the city was like dad i mean i was just laying in bed doing nothing and just get even more depressed mike wants to leave new york as soon as you can to go somewhere where life is easier and cheaper. 6 is also getting a snack the pandemic hasn't just made life more difficult it also took away her youngest son unemployment alcohol depression he was only 30 years old. let the world bank you hear my new i went into the ball 3 and within 5 minutes i was down stance as going to get the car and taken to coney island and that's when my other son said mom quick my brother isn't responding he's asleep i run like crazy. but by then he was dead.

my son was dead. bad gonna take it oh you want to live here well i've been here for 34 days until the moment i don't want to be here but i want to go back to my brother ok through this year and then i'll go back to mexico i. work for my grandma that i mean i wonder if they are going to get rid of it you damn about time they did. for many new york is a city of dreams for people like 6 to the pandemic has turned it into a nightmare a nightmare she wants to escape from as soon as possible.

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