across the border in israel the damage isn't as bad but people living in fear of hamas rockets. wrecked buildings and burnt out cars proof that not all missiles are intercepted by israel's defenses. life here is not simple it is living with a fear that you never know where the rocket hits you know there are rocket attacks for which there are no alarm as you see people are walking around as usual but it's quite distressing and then. the united nations has called for a car. only. this latest round of violence the cycles of this destruction and these. guys are always useless and. 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. it comes as israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he won't be reining in his powerful military anytime soon. we will 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. his 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 and then started

last monday with a salvo dense true islam and 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 there is as the stall and we are doing all in all to protect our citizens to intercept these rockets and to ensure that these rockets are not only 5 to date but also in the coming months and years especially in the past week what has shocked the world was the villian 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 living in 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 hamas trying to damage a son isn't it now now that i saw how those dogs. and has to be prevented again 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 didn't know you know have any sense so i mean when you asked me today is in israeli diplomat what is the logic of. you know this carrying 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 so it's

a couple of days ago the israeli military attacked a building that housed some international media houses. and 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 you know too 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 boccia velo 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 is the capabilities and also a very particular quitman and i'm pretty sure that not everyone realizes the extent 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 there should be to hamas that what they did was no less of a war crime than fighting and cheating 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 contain. 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 hamas needs to cease the rocket fire on israel and until it does israel will know this is that in defending its citizens so i mean the question has to be addressed the. as far as what i'm concerned i do not see this as something that has to be purchased without an adventure it'll 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 the astronaut say the foreign minister and i also believe also 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 have been a 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 are not. 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 profile a stand in demonstrations some of them saw altar 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 the some of the initial incidence

of concern where in no fraud no it was failure i spoke to them in law should prime minister of the state and he was very concerned about it and we discussed the news showed 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 israelis and jews here in germany look i'm always concerned and i'm as 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 light sake in frankfurt and even in berlin last friday there was a meeting with the minister of justice christina lumber with the minister of

culture monica groot is and also the head of the green party on a lean of the bill that 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 ambassador jeremy thank you very much for attempting thank you for having me. let's take a look at some other news making headlines around the world at this hour powerful cycloid is warming up the west coast of india after heavy rains lashed by almost 150000 people further north in the state of gujarat have been moved to safety but it is likely to disrupt india's fight to tackle the current surge of coral numbers cases in the country. myanmar's election last year did reflect the will

of the people an international monitoring group has concluded the asian network for free elections said the military was unjustified in using alleged election flaws as a reason to seize power around 800 people have died since the military coup began on february 1st. south africa's former president jacob zuma is in court for the start of a trial in a bribery case dating back 20 years the case has been postponed numerous times over the years is facing 16 charges of fraud graft and racketeering. and russia authorities have been clamping down on opposition to vladimir putin a court hearing originally scheduled for today but now rescheduled for june could see groups supporting jailed kremlin critic of all need to clear extremists the designation could mean activists face long jail sentences just for opposing russia's leadership only sure when has been and there southwest of moscow speaking

to all new supporters about the pressure they now face. this letter seals the deal it officially ends under contract with news team on the head of the opposition politicians regional office interior for 4 years. russia will be free he says one day was arrested at recent authorized protests his team organized into better but now his office. along with 36 others and campaign network have had to close russia's state prosecutor wants them declared extremist andre tells us he wants to create a new local political organization to keep working. for politics was always centered on the russian capital moscow but thanks to the nerve on the campaign offices political activity has bubbled up across russia's regions reach you now it's time for us regions to jump into the deep end and swim for ourselves it's hard

and dangerous but it's a necessary phase in the development of political life not only in fairness but across the country. and that he and his team and have become friends over the years like andre most of them have been arrested several times and have accepted threats and pressure as the price to pay for pushing back against the kremlin but the extremist label takes that to another level it could make symbols like this and for not viney illegal activists found to be part of an extremist organization could face up to 10 years in prison if i lost my job and when i tried to get a new one recently they told me in private that their security service wouldn't let them hire me we have already had problems with work. they really start tightening the screws and i see that they're making a show of putting former employees activists and volunteers of the not only offices in jail of course i will think about how i may have to lay low somewhere for

a while. but. even people outside of not actual team have been facing increasingly serious consequences for protesting against the government earlier this year thousands were detained during demonstrations in support of me and there have been several reports of employers firing people for backing the politician since the recent protests in support of the kremlin critics across russia have been under increasing pressure and that pressure is unlikely to let up ahead of parliamentary elections in september including for the activists here. but i'm very proud is unrelentingly optimistic the 31 year old wants to keep pushing for a more democratic russia and he says he's willing to take personal risks to further strengthen the role of civil society in his home city and the whole to their region . but he gives. the example of alexina vali who came

back to russia knowing that he would almost definitely be arrested strengthens my sense that sometimes you have to pay a personal price in order for you and your country to have a bright future so you have clear. now on that he wants to register as a candidate for the regional parliament in the upcoming elections he hopes his association with now by a nice team won't get him barred from running. let's bring in emily a short when the author of this report emily as we heard group supporting up on the are in court today state prosecutors are calling for them to be labeled extremists what is the latest from the court. but the latest is that actually this trial has now been postponed today in court to june 9th prosecutors have asked for new material to be added to their case against 3 organizations associated with

me and the lawyers defending those organizations have now been given time to study that material this case involves as i said 3 organizations including these anti corruption fund and this network of regional offices that we just saw in the report we don't know what the outcome ultimately be will be in this trial but it does kind of seem that the writing is on the wall because the state prosecutor was initially you know the initiator of this case in the 1st place they've been calling for these organizations to be made extremist and actually the work of those offices that we just saw across the country has actually already been stopped even in anticipation of the court's verdict which which is still upcoming and not exceed allies for several weeks now they've been saying that this is the final attempt of the authorities to dismantle their structure and that they have no illusions about.

them on these groups have a lot of grassroots support you think that would change were they to be labeled extremists. well allies have said that they plan to keep up the work of their organizations kind of against all odds they say that the regional offices and people who've been working for them will be continuing their work without any centralized leadership and they also have been calling ahead of these elections for what they call a smart voting strategy which is essentially telling the allies to vote for the candidate most likely to beat putin's united russia in the upcoming elections but the question is how successful they really can be we saw yes just now an optimistic office there in the city of tear but actually over 40 of these employees former employees volunteers have reportedly already left the country in anticipation of

potential persecution and we don't know how the 6th mizzen law if it comes to pass will be used it could mean that even an old post about the on face book could get you up to 15 days in jail so it seems like the authorities are really trying to stamp out any dissent and anything connected with alexei not by news organizations ahead of these upcoming parliamentary elections in september. from moscow thank you very much taiwan has introduced new restrictions to find a surge in corona virus cases the island had been praised for keeping the virus and bay until now but the last few weeks have seen infections rise today and announced a further $333.00 local cases that is the largest outbreak since the start of the pandemic in response the government has shut schools in the capital and has banned all foreigners from entry or transit for a month unless they have a residency card. and i'm joined now by correspondent joyce lee who joins us from

time joyce tell us more about these new restrictions. yes so schools will be suspended. starting from tomorrow and 28th may this will be the 1st time time on close schools since us endemic and borders also closed until 28 may and taiwan has a full. alert system. and. it's there in the on the 3 of the large which means that people must wear a mosque at all times and in don't gatherings on the metro to 5 people and gatherings on them and to all those that this is not a fool but a lot of people staying home by choice to hunting to spread out the pirates and they are still talking

a city and you talk this is the. people to stay at home as much as possible and they say that al gore if you stop the pairing poll be hopeful which means they will lock down right taiwan has long been hailed as the poster child for make control so why is this happening now do we know what is causing this rise in infection numbers . it is false belief that. so much to sell. lines spraining fact the case iran to taiwan but then in yesterday's press conference the authorities announced that. i want to confirm cases show symptoms as early as early april which means that taiwan. had been living with covert for more than a month without knowing and this is because taiwan the us not to moscow is saying

and its no. 2 trays all of the possible cases and and the hospital was. already on the edge right howard vaccinations coming along. so it's not i want to be. seen rolled out. march early march fascination rate has been really low. less than one percent of the population has been taxon aged and. this was because. cases and keyhole. simply don't feel the urgency to get a shot so now that. coming to taiwan the authorities are hoping that more people will get vaccinated. the gobby vaccine

alliance announced today that more astra zeneca vaccines are going to come to taiwan no later than the end of june that was taipei thank you very much. and since our phone is now in the german bundesliga bruce and dortmund knew that a win over mines would sweep them into the champions league next season and set up frankfurt mines already clinched their top flight survival and it looks like their minds were already on summer vacation as start went to victory for. dortmund might have expected an easy raid against a might side with 5 changes and little to play for and there was certainly enough chumminess before kick off to make frankfurt funs wince. and their fears were realized on 23 minutes when jason sun she was set up rafael guerrero to curl dortmund in front 3 might see as young stand in keeper finn diamond left clutching thin air. on 42 minutes sunshine was at it again dunson down the

left and feeding captain marco royce to no dortmund at half time and more wool for young dom and. it was too easy for son to as he was allowed to saunter into the box royce nipped in just ahead of erling holland and the 2nd half was no looking like a straw for the visitors. on 80 minutes paul and sets up yulian punt to watch read dumb and to make it through. the keeper taking a need to face in the process. before scored a consolation goal for months from the spot in injury time $31.00 the final score another feather in the cup for dawkins interim coach and in tears it follows german cup success with champions league qualification and a case of liquid you could have won for frankfurt funds you could only watch on an envious dortmund celebrated. for watching w. news coming up next n d w news asia more on taiwan's record surge and corona virus cases after months of

success at preventing inspections we asked what led to this latest outbreak plus. we take a look at how germany and other countries are helping india battle its coronavirus crisis. will have all that and more after just a short break on the belly of the end the entire team in the newsroom thank you so much for your company today. the for.

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