to say that we lose learn from berlin things u.n. secretary general condemns what he calls the senseless cycle of bloodshed in the middle east but there's still no end. to a new wave of israeli air strikes how many targets in gaza city prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the military campaign against hamas is continuing at full

force we speak to the israeli ambassador to germany in the studio in just a minute and also coming up. large parts of the british economy reopened from today but the prime minister warns a new coronavirus variant could delay plans for a complete reopening next month plus. and we're just like a football dog punch their ticket to the champions league next season beating lines with only one match stage left to play. on culturally welcome to the program. israel launched a series of heavy airstrikes on gaza in the early hours of monday morning climb minister benjamin netanyahu said that attacks in gaza are continuing at full force and will take time it came after a u.n. security council talks ended without a coup. he meant on a public statement the u.n.

secretary general antonio terrorist warned of an uncontained of all security and humanitarian crisis. israeli air strikes a lot of the night sky at one point dozens every few minutes creating another sleepless night in the gaza strip there is so far little news of casualties or the extent of the damage gaza officials say dozens of people including children were killed on sunday that would be the highest death toll since airstrikes began leaving palestinians to mourn their dead. this father himself wounded in an airstrike on his house breaks down as he bids his daughter a final goodbye. across the border in israel the damage isn't as bad but people are living in fear of hamas rockets. wrecked buildings and burnt out

cars proof that not all missiles are intercepted by israel's defenses. right here is not simple it is living with a fear that you never know where the rocket hits their rocket attacks for which there are no alarm as you see people are walking around as usual and it's quite distressing. them. the united nations has called for a car. only. this latest round of violence only the cycles of this destruction and these. problems in the eyes of existence. must stop the u.n. security council held emergency meetings but all efforts to produce a statement on the issue were so far blocked by the united states israel's closest ally. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu

says he won't be reining in his powerful military anytime soon. continue for as long as it takes to bring back peace to you citizens of israel it will still take some time. people living in gaza say the magnitude of sunday's airstrikes was unlike anything they witnessed before as coals for deescalation continue to go unanswered. i'm joined now by jeremy he's israel ambassador to germany mr ambassador thank you so much for coming in today and yesterday was one of the deadliest days since the fighting began what needs to happen for the bloodshed to end well basically what should have happened in the beginning the hamas should not have attacked his row with now over 3000 rockets this started last monday with a salvo against drew sloman is continued throughout the week and this is been one of the most intense attacks on israeli population centers that we've had even

though they've been previous exchanges and so bottom line is what needs to happen is that this has the stall and we are doing all in our power to protect our citizens to intercept these rockets and to ensure that these rockets are not only 5 today but also in the coming months and years has special me in the past week what has shocked the world was a 1000000 casualties in gaza how would you respond to people calling israel's operation disproportionate well 1st of all i think as i said that the attack by hamas on israel was such a heavy number of rockets and missiles and again let's not forget these are embedded in the palestinian infrastructure and they are targeting israeli civilians and cities i want to also emphasize one thing virtually narced the mission 20 to 30 percent of the rockets also fall within gaza and they kill palestinians so i think

that when people talk about the situation in gaza 1st and foremost they should come to hamas and say why did you start this horrific exchange who needed it what are you trying to achieve is how must try and damage is done isn't it now now that i think has died. just on and has to be provided so they can what was hamas trying to do to make peace with israel to bring israel into a peace process which they don't believe in which they are trying to undermine to help the palestinian authority who they're trying also to wonder why it just did no you know have any sense so i mean when you asked me today's news really diplomat what is the logic of. you know this carry on i asked what is the logic of it happening in the 1st place and the well must really come in full force to hamas and have them explain themselves and not it's a couple of days ago the israeli military attacked a building that housed some international media houses. and a.p.

i'm going to quote an a.p. statement saying the world will know less about what is happening in gaza because of what happened there was the real purpose of this airstrike to prevent international reporting on what is happening no to much to the best of my knowledge no and everything i can see on television whether it's on c.n.n. well just there all the other stations on those. i don't think there's any lack of coverage and we wouldn't do that in order to stop coverage we had very clear information about the facility is the will of being serving hamas in terms of their intelligence capabilities the capabilities and also very particular equipment and i'm pretty sure that not everyone realizes they've sent to which hamas again embeds itself in the civilian population in order to try and have a human shield so if anyone should come to any. complaints here it should be

to hamas that what they did was no less of a war crime than fighting and shooting against israeli civilians in israel now with all of this the international community is asking for a cease fire but prime minister netanyahu says the fighting will can. and you know until calm is restored how far is israel willing to go look we didn't see this exchange and essentially i think you need again how must needs to cease the rocket fire on israel and until it does israel will know this is the in defending its citizens so i mean the question has to be addressed to them. as far as what i'm concerned i do not see this as something that has to be protracted without and eventually it will come to a close there are a lot of different conversations happening now what are the conversations that are conversations between the americans and israel we also have very open channels between the foreign minister of germany who's speaking to speaking to egypt and

he's also speaking frequently to be astronomically the foreign minister and i also believe the loss of be very continuing high level discussions that will go on in the coming hours all right we've seen a flare up in sectarian violence in israel over the past couple of days how worried are you about the growing rift in your country 1st of all. i'm more worried because i saw actually in the last months a growing desire by the israeli arab community to be more and more involved in israeli politics and you could see this in a range of things that happened after the last election the possibilities of coalition i thought this was an incredibly important development i think hamas is very scared of a need type of israeli jewish arab conciliation so this is a byproduct of the exchange which is caused right since make cities which up to now

be no very major example of coexistence so i am concerned about it but i believe living in jerusalem and having a many palestinian and israeli arab friends that are the ones who are interested in quiet which are the vast majority of jews and. arabs will want to reassert their right to live in peace and coexistence so ultimately i think that is more will prevail right let's talk about the situation here in germany over the weekend we've seen a series of programs lost in demonstrations some of them saw alter cations and were overshadowed by anti-semitic rhetoric is the german government doing enough to curb this kind of behavior well i think 1st of all i've spoken to some of the initial incidents of concern where in no front what's westphalia i spoke to the prime minister of the state and he was very concerned about it

and we discussed and he assured me that they will do all in their power to prevent it other senior security officials spoke to me and also assured me that they will do all in their power look some of these things of fighting against you know jewish communities confronting them attacking synagogues burning israeli flags these are things that you know it's one thing to have a peaceful demonstration but another thing to have these type of acts which really i mean the jewish community in germany has nothing to do with the crisis going on in gaza they are deserving of living like any other community in germany in peace and security and i based on what i have heard also from president who spoke out very loudly against these attacks also from what i've heard from all see hoffa the minister of interior who came out against these attacks and he said we will use all in our power to stop these type of anti semitic attacks so i from that point of

view i feel the german authorities will do all they can to prevent are you currently concerned about the security of the israelis and jews here in germany look i'm always concerned and i because i said i think the. these communities should live quietly and in place and i must say i don't want to paint the picture just negatively we've also had demonstrations of support and solidarity for israel not only from the you know overworks of life in german in germany but also from even local arab leaders arab muslim leaders and i think that's important to remember they've been supportive in leipzig in frankfurt and even in berlin last friday there was a meeting with the minister of justice christina lamberth with the minister of culture monica group says and also the head of the green party and alina be able they came to express their support and to very much negate any form of anti

semitism against jews in germany and i and i think that that is also a very strong. sense of sentiment that i i feel very. at least racial by and that's the danger thank you very much for attempting thank you for having me. now let's get to some other news making headlines around the world a powerful cycle is warming up the west coast of india after heavy rains lashed mumbai almost 150000 people further north in the state of gujarat have been moved to safety the cyclon is likely to disrupt india's to tackle the current surge of corona virus cases. another trial is underway in hong kong for a 10 pro-democracy advocates charged with incitement for taking part in an authorised protest and 292 defendants unfurled a banner that read free political prisoners before going into court to me a lawyer

a prominent media tycoon is already serving time for 2 other protests. chileans voting to pick lawmakers who will draft a new constitution have widely reject of the country's ruling coalition in favor of independent and leftist candidates the assembly will have to address deep seated social discontent that triggered mass protests and $29.00 t. chile's current constitution was written under military rule 4 decades ago. parts of the u.k. are easing lockdown rules today despite concerns over the spread of a coronavirus variant 1st detected in india pubs restaurants and other hospitality venues are being allowed to reopen after being closed for months people and families will also be able to meet indoors with some restrictions for the 1st time since last autumn but a number of health experts are calling for the measures to be delayed after cases

of the indian variant tripled in the past week in parts of northern england. joined now by w.'s correspondent bigot mohsin london berger's welcome is their opposition to the government's course here. well generally i think for a lot of people they will be very very happy it's a bit of a game to the people can actually meet indoors and meet and hug their friends and however there are people who are cautious and those are mostly scientists a health experts have been asked in the last days are you actually going into a restaurant are you going to go into a pub are you going to hug your friends and several have said no that they're not going to do that so cautious is is actually the word off of the day because there is obviously concern that this indian variant is going to overtake all the other

variants here in the u.k. and it's going to spread throughout the country and give us a sense of how far the indian strain has spread so far and where the hot spots in the country are.