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have their hopes been fulfilled. in years after the arab spring. 1000000000 starts june 7th own d w. this is deja news live from berlin no diplomatic breakthrough on to no letup in the israeli palestinian violence shellings continue through the night after israeli airstrikes destroy a building in gaza city housing major international media outlets the military says the high rise was linked to hamas intelligence the press freedom troops are outraged. that israel's financial center comes under its heaviest bombardment so
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far launches dozens of rockets from gaza into television. also coming up in sports news crunch time in the bundesliga. beach brennan i'm books themselves another season in germany's top flight. on pablo foley s welcome to the program the white house has weighed in on the conflict between israel and the palestinians u.s. president joe biden has again emphasized israel's right to defend itself and has told the palestinian president mahmoud abbas that hamas must end its rocket bombardment of israel meanwhile there's been more bloodshed in the palestinian territories multiple members of an extended family in gaza were killed by israeli
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bombs israeli airstrikes also destroyed a tower block i was seeing apartments and offices of international media organizations. 13 stories reduced to rubble in seconds israel not hesitating to strike back hard against hamas. the building housed international news agencies israel's defense forces say hamas intelligence was using the media as unwitting human shields. warned about the attack journalists pleaded with an israeli intelligence officer for more time. look here from the a.p. news agency all of our equipment is in there including cameras and editing equipment give me 15 minutes to get it out. request denied the airstrike went ahead as planned. in another part of gaza
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a family of 10 had no warning before bombs flattened their home they were killed in their sleep all except for baby omar so i mean. that my cousin died with her children. here survived. he hurt his leg and his eye and he can't breastfeed because his throat is injured. in israel hamas rocket attacks are also killing civilians. one man died when a rocket struck his building in a tel of eve suburb. others narrowly escapes death. 2 more meters and it would have been my house. i was in the shelter and i said that's it the building is gone.
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the united states has sent a mid ranking diplomat how the ometer to negotiate a cease fire but there's no breakthrough so far. well our washington bureau chief in his poll has more on the white house's diplomatic push for peace while hyena's and president biden has telephoned with both the israeli and palestinian leaders are there any indications the progress towards a truce was made right in 2 separate calls mystified conferred with prime minister benjamin netanyahu of israel and president mahmoud abbas the palestinian leader about efforts to broker a cease fire while biden is actually supporting israel rights to defend itself he urged netanyahu to protect civilians and journalists and probably only hours after this phone call mrs netanyahu himself posted
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a speech to facebook invades he vowed to continue attacks on hamas until and this is a quote israel's security is guaranteed so that indicates that the phone call of president president biden didn't bring the wanted results well the united nations is set to debate the israeli palestinian conflict on sunday now the u.s. had blocked an earlier meeting now what can we expect from from that debate. right secretary of state blinken wanted the meeting to happen not only the next just because he wanted to have more time to work behind the scenes to work on diplomatic solutions but probably with the reaction off today of mr netanyahu is pose some facebook after the phone call with president biden i think it's fair to say that there is actually little hope at this point that we will see a major breakthrough anything substantial tomorrow right well now we have that
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reaction but the white house is also voiced pointed criticism at israel over the bombing which destroyed the building housing u.s. news agency associated press in gaza can you tell us a little bit more about washington's reaction overall. to give our international viewers a little bit of a perspective we do have to understand that president biden is very much focused on the mystic issues in these 1st months of his presidency but many democrats are getting really loud or now and wanting the president to be more forceful in his actions especially today after the bombing of the media tower by. you know i mean many american journalists have been doing life from this very tower actually also our colleagues from d.w. because they thought it would be saved there they would have never imagined that israel would lodge an asteroid on the sour so that will put a lot of pressure on president biden to react as always enos poll in washington
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thank you. well there is being outrage from some international media. that airstrike air on that strike out on the building housing al-jazeera and associated press in gaza the president of the strongly condemned the israeli airstrikes saying quote 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. well our near our drew some correspondent tanya came up told us how israeli authorities have responded to international criticism over the bombing of the gaza tower statements came out 1st of all by the israeli military there were actually 2 statements so they were saying and i will quote you
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through a few lines from them if they said that the building contained military assets used to be longing to the intelligence office of the hamas terrorist organization as it was in the statement they later said it was an r. and d. office in the 2nd statement and that hamas hyatt's according to the statement behind civilian media offices and used them as human shields and that it's hamas actually that place says military targets deliberately at the heart of densely populated areas in the gaza strip so they didn't give any more details so evidence . the offices that they're talking about and this is a bit and line but hearing here officially what we've seen also in the past days happening in gaza high rise buildings a lot of buildings also which also contain presidents of flats and people living that it became homeless now. that they were targeted because israel says they are
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containing infrastructure or offices belonging to hamas or other militant groups they don't use tanya came a reporting there while violence has spilled out onto the streets across israel in cities where jews and arabs have been living side by side for many years this new unrest is exposing underlying tensions not least in one district of the coastal city of tel aviv. anonymous attacked his home on a tough cocktails into the home of an arab israeli family in jaffa 2 children awoken from sleep their home and their bodies burning. their neighbors to a frightened they mount a protest and. we cannot accept an attack on the east children on our home we hear to say out loud no to violence much more how how do you can email have to i had none and i don't. protests in other parts of israel weren't so peaceful here in sees a real demonstrators blocked off streets and fought with police. rockets fired by
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hamas from the gaza strip pound israel some explode in mid-air targeted by defense systems others wreak havoc in residential areas. and me. i served in years radiometer 2 years i know what rockets sound like seeing me in leman i was terribly frightened but god is with us it's horrible horrible. what are in the occupied west bank 2 tensions flared between palestinians and the israeli military on what palestinians call not by day catastrophe day commemorating those forced from their homes by the founding of israel in 1948. or the conflict in the middle east has brought people on to the streets in cities worldwide to protest against the violence here in germany thousands marched in support of the palestinians. campaigners around the world organized rallies to condemn the
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violence in the middle east and to commemorate the displacement of hundreds of thousands of palestinians when the state of israel was created in 1948 most of saturday's events were peaceful although in berlin police broke up at least one pro palestinian gathering and arrested several demonstrators still the people made their voices heard. i just want that to be peace between jews muslims and christians we're all human and i'm in a methodist and there right my message is that the bombarding and the killing should stop. in a war there are only losers there is no winner. in this case children are dying on both sides. and that's not nice. elsewhere in the city a smaller gathering backing these rallies but most of the rallies around the world
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have been in support of the palestinians. in france police fired tear gas in an attempt to break up a rally in the north of paris crowds gathered even though city authorities have banned the march fearing an outbreak of anti semitic violence. there was also solidarity down under with a pro palestinian gathering in sydney. as the renewed violence deepens the rift in the middle east many are around the world are uniting in protest. while their 1st some other news making headlines around the world the operator of the largest u.s. gasoline pipeline says it has resumed normal operations after being hit by a ransomware attack the disruption to colonial pipelines network stretching from texas to the east coast triggered supply shortages and long lines at many gas
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stations. russia has deployed to aircraft and fire fighters to extinguish forest fires and heatwave has pushed temperatures above 30 degrees celsius in central russia and siberia in the eastern region of human flames haven't govt more than 60000 hectares. well to sport now and this weekend sees the 2nd to last round of blue in this league games with a lot at stake for those battling to avoid relegation outspread faced braman with both teams barely above the drop zone i was bird came away victorious securing another season in the top flight and leaving braman in deep trouble. the message was simple and augsburg 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 better braman coach florian ko felt whose team was an even worse shape
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trailing 2 points behind our sport but things swung in his team's favor in the 13th minute when outscored midfielder ruben vargas was given his walking papers for attempting to kick an opponent which took v.a.r. to confirm it man advantage better braman. were compensated well and then in the 57th minute scored when ronnie could ear a took an opportune shot after a fortunate bounce went his way from a corner when neil explored. the brain and pushed forward but it was not to be. and in the final minute of regulation time this oxford breakaway and penalty shot. taking the honors was danielle colleague judy. to nail the final score.
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outs were celebrations were understandable. as was braman stis appointment. or remain in the top flight next season oh and it's final league game coming up it's against byron unic and a very hungry robert leavened off ski on the hunt for the all time goal scoring title a match up i'll be glad not to have to when. you're watching the news that's all we have time for see you soon take care. of. people in trucks injured while trying to treat a city center more and more refugees are being turned away or it. seems. to skirt. demonstrators. to sleep extreme tribute. to the.
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