israel's jets also targeted an underground network of tunnels used by the militants in the early morning raid. of a residential complex in the city of ashdod hit by a hamas rocket have masses kept up its bare arjan something in israel not all missiles are intercepted by israel's defenses as the bombs keep falling the international community is becoming increasingly alarmed more for less the u.s. says it's working to diffuse the situation. united states remains greatly concerned by. by the violence by the escalating violence hundreds of people killed or injured including children being told from the rubble we'll continue to conduct intensive diplomacy to bring this current cycle of violence to an end. but as the killing continues violence fear and loss remain an every day experience for these children

in gaza. today of mr cramer is covering the story for us she joins us now from jerusalem tania we understand that gaza has come under heavy bombardment again what's the latest information you have for us from the enclave. well on the one hand as you speak they've been had some rocket alerts so incoming fire from the gaza strip to about southern communities and cities in israel but there have also been again a very heavy night from parchments in the gaza strip and during the day as strikes such as talk to some people there on the phone what is also very concerning is now the humanitarian situation it is sealed off and play for many many years to a lot of shortages anyway but people are saying they have been now in the about 3 hours of electricity. power lines for peer into the are not working properly they have work before either but now they're cut down again and that also affects

you know water and sewage and everything else and also the has been no humanitarian corey doing now this is the 7th or 8th day so when this compay in one week and they need new supplies to come in this was on the humanitarian side. israeli prime minister mr benjamin netanyahu said yesterday that the conflict would take time and will continue at full force is there the political will to look for a way out. why did he send the public stage statements we're hearing that the israeli government binyamin netanyahu the prime minister has said that very clearly again yesterday they feel they still have to support of many countries international community especially also from the u.s. to continue the military campaign. could assume that also there is domestic considerations in this equation there's a lot of pressure here to achieve something with this contain not just stuck in the

middle as some people you have told me to have a decisive victory so to speak and to end and once and for all it's not quite clear what he's meant by this and also the military has said they want to continue as long as they can continue to degrade the military military capabilities of hamas and islamic jihad now it's turning in conclusion calls for cease fire are growing what can you tell us about any diplomatic efforts that are underway but it's very hard you know to get any solid information at the moment a lot of reports you know the united nations special envoy. is in talks that it's also the traditional role here but also a person from egypt is usually the mediator here between hamas and bella stepless tends to have done this before and expecting them also to meditate in this regard

and this matter again and also the u.s. envoy that was sent here. also still on the ground so there are a lot of efforts but it's not so tangible at the moment when there would be a breakthrough to diffuse a tiny kramer reporting time have thank you for your tireless coverage greatly appreciated. and earlier today we news a spoke to jeremy issacharoff israel's ambassador to germany and we began by asking him about the israeli military bombing a tower housing international media organizations in gaza over the weekend where there was intentionally targeting the building to silence those who were ports on the situation in gaza. too much to the best of my knowledge no and everything i can see on television whether it's on sea analogies they are all the other stations and . 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 that with being

serving hamas in terms of their intelligence capabilities cyber 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 here it should be to hamas what they did was no less of a war crime than fighting and cheating against israeli civilians in israel and he was also asked israel's ambassador to germany about pro palestinian demonstrations here in germany some of which were overshadowed by anti semitic rhetoric and acts if he feels the german government is doing enough to fight these incidents. but i think 1st of all i've spoken to some of the initial incidents

of concern where in north rhino it's westphalia i spoke to a man last shit prime minister of the state and he was very concerned about it and we discussed and he showed me that they will do all in their power to prevent it and 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 and 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 going to take a step back and fill you in on the headlines on the stories that are making headlines around the world. a powerful cyclonic is roaring up the west coast of india after heavy rains lashed mumbai almost 150000 people further north in a state of good jobs have been moved to safety the 2nd is likely to disrupt india's fight to tackle the current surge of korda virus cases. hong kong media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner jimmy lie has pleaded guilty to taking part in an unauthorized protest in 2019 a media company lie owns has halted trading of its shares after authorities froze

his assets under the territory's national security law and that sparked concern about press freedom in hong kong and. i mean mars election last year did reflect the will of the people according to an international monitoring group the asian network for free elections said the army was unjustified in using alleged election flaws as a reason to seize power around 800 people have died since the military coup back in february 1st. now in russia a court decision has been perspired on whether to declare a group supporting jailed kremlin critic alexina all the as extremist well that ruling is now due next month and the designation could mean activists face long jail sentences for opposing russia's leadership if you have use only sure one has been there the south west southwest of moscow speaking to mr vali supporters about

the pressures they now face. this letter seals the deal it officially ends on the repercussions contract with nice team andre head of the opposition politicians regional office and to fear for 4 years. russia will be free he says one day was arrested at recent an authorised protests his team organized and they had but now his office along with 36 others and not by news campaign network have had to close russia's state prosecutor wants them declared extremist under a 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 novell in 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 fear but across the country. and that he and his team and their 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 a relic and for now viney illegal activists found to be part of an extremist organization could face up to 10 years in prison. i lost my job and when i tried to get a new one recently they talk. 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 nepali offices in jail so 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 now and there have been several reports of employers firing people for backing the politician since the recent protests in support of. 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 . similarly. remove some of 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. to be very serious that only. now and that he wants to register as a candidate for the regional parliament in the upcoming elections he hopes his association with now by nice team won't get him barred from running. and that was only sure when reporting we can talk now to emily end of the proceedings or as you've reported are now in storage with the next a hearing scheduled for early june what can we expect from this trial. well the pretty proceedings are taking place against 3 organizations that are associated with opposition politician aleksey know viney including his anti corruption foundation and also that network of local offices that we just heard from in that

report proceedings are going to be taking place behind closed doors so the public won't be kind of witnessing what's really happening and we don't know of course what the outcome will be but it does seem from the signals that we've been getting in the past few weeks that the writing is almost on the wall there for those organizations for example when it comes to the network of offices the state prosecutor's office is you know the initiator of these proceedings these extremism proceedings they've already stopped the work of those offices in anticipation of the trial these offices have already been added to a list of extremist organizations again ahead of the trial and ahead of that decision from the trial from the court rather and one of these allies has said that they have no illusions that this is the authorities attempt to dismantle their structure and lay it out for a supply what would it mean if misson of all these supporters are labeled

extremists. well it would essentially mean that his knees organizations are equated with a terrorist organization or a neo nazi group that would mean that organizers in the group or activists associated with the group could face up to 10 years in prison their symbolism would essentially be deemed to be extremist as well and we don't actually know of course what that will mean even for former activists it could mean that they could be jailed just for their association with with these groups and it also could mean that even someone who posted let's say a video an investigation by the anti corruption fund these anti-corruption fund you know a few years ago that that could be really enough for people to get fines or even 15

days in jail so really the authorities there upping the pressure on any kremlin critics in the last few weeks and especially anyone associated with me did ever use and we sure are reporting from moscow russia thank you to our attention now to south africa which has begun vaccinating citizens over the age of 60 the 2nd group to be permanent thais after health care workers all south africa has the cottons highest number of coronavirus cases but so far it has only vaccinated one percent of its population well more than a 1000000 south africans over 60 have registered for the job there are only 87 vaccination centers across the entire nation. it's the day yes i mean meat has been waiting for for a long time as a diabetic the pandemic changed her life and forced the 65 year olds to avoid contact with friends and family. i need to get a big scene because i can only condition and i can't wait to get it i'm going to

the end of the predicament i'm glad i'm here it has being very difficult because i have lost that. it is just a difficult time but the government aims to inoculate more than 5000000 senior citizens by late june if enough vaccine doses are supplied. although south africa ordered to fix scenes for 75 percent of its population only a fraction of it has arrived in the country while some nations are debating about vaccinating children in south africa people with co-morbidities who are younger than 60 don't even know when they will be able to get their jep we should have been way ahead of where we are right now i think of procurement of vaccines as being away too slow in south africa i mean that's all we were pushing to try and prepare ourselves as a province which is very very difficult you know i mean a lot of countries trying to prepare so that's been part of what my letters to

international markets have been to say you know we notice you've prepared more than a vaccine for each citizen you know some some countries up to 3 vaccines for each citizen come on you need to you need to help us out politicians have been calling for local vaccine production but so far no single vaccine in south africa is produced from scratch only a few fill and finish last distribution agreements were made for covert 1000 vic scenes and despite worldwide calls for a waiver of intellectual property rights for covert 1000 vixens leading pharmaceutical companies say this won't have an impact in the short. haul this time . you know just what you need was a superintendent off you know he had to be. in my office to know that she just my sister who should. know my mom you know does this if i

was in the best. of the ones that you won't find me. trying to succeed in the resistance with our politicians that we've had all the stuff in the fossil when the issues are. on the job you know on the. procedure. in the meantime yes mean meat does finally getting her 1st shots of being by on take 5 is a big scene and with its hope for the future. it's been difficult then this basically for as we. don't feel good nxn a little you don't need to use this if you don't need to but i've been so it has been. a ducal with king and look forward to being together again with a view body living again but as meta and others see and know it will be a long time before life can return to normal after 4 months of low infection rates the numbers of new cases have been increasing in the past few days

a 3rd wave of infections seems inevitable. and some more headlines from around the world for you now we stay in south africa where that country's former president jacob zuma is in court for the start of a trial in a bribery case dating back to decades where the case has been perspire numerous times over the years mr zuma is facing 16 charges of fraud graft and racketeering. the weather phenomenon lenny out has brought heavy rains to brazil's amazon region families have been forced to use canoes to get around and there are a lining up for aid these floods could become the worst in a century where affecting hundreds of thousands of people. advocacy groups say more than half of algy bt students here in europe have been bullied because of their sexual orientation they also warn that progress on the rights has

come to a virtual standstill because of the rise of far right parties in europe and the discrimination faced by people in other parts of the world is even worse on the international day against homophobia we look at the situation of young transgender people and mexico. today begins like any other day in luis's new life by studying but this is not a regular school because at the last minute because it's a shelter for transputer mexico city many are school dropouts and they're hoping what's taught here could be their ticket to a brighter future. both in them but i could do it as again as at the you know they motivate me to take part in classes to graduate and leave this place stronger. determined to stay out of trouble. at that but i said i thought you know what luis is no stranger to trouble she used to battle with drug addiction until she found

her way to class at the last one yes she's lived here for 9 months sharing this room it's one of the few safe places in a country where trance women are shunned lisa's story is no exception after a family disowned her charge of prostitution turn money a life fraught with danger. you can earn good money as a prostitute but it's very dangerous you can catch us a decent guy or someone could kill you. for kenya quit us lisa stories all too familiar she also used to work as a prostitute one of the only jobs trans women can get in mexico the turning point came in 2016 when a friend was murdered king a call to crime on tape but the perpetrator still walked free since that day kenya's made it her mission to fight for women and against violence. get it done that i've been screaming from the top of my lungs about the violence

against transfer people in this country but no one's listening. there's no inclusion only discrimination. at. the pentagon has only made things worse when the government shut no tell motels many trans women were left out on the street. but you're getting it fortunately i already have this place yet i open it up to the other women and seek other decorated it. also used to make food for the homeless women. donations keep the shelter running it's located in one of the more diverse and tolerant parts of mexico city but the threat of violence always looms large last year 57 trans people were killed here. the 2nd highest rate in the world the other love. most men in mexico feel their masculinity is threatened when they come into contact with gay transputer. they see as

aggressors something that's not normal. but from the known. cost of the most money because many feel seen for what they are people with goals and dreams surrounded by friends. that is i always say that our happiness is her greatest revenge because what i truly want is not her but. it's a world free of violence that's free of labels thanks subsurface despite our differences as human beings but i was with say this woman also you know commit to get this for now it's a dream that feels a world away but things because of the last minute because there's finally hope on the horizon. you're watching your every news this is a reminder now of our top story this hour israel has launched heavy bombardments on gaza i minister benjamin netanyahu said the country's military campaign is continuing at full force meanwhile israel's ambassador to germany told d.w.

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