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the me ah was, ah, this is the w. news lies from berlin. germany joins desperate to stop the bombing in gaza, and israel's foreign minister, high call man flies into the war zone, attempting to cease fire even as the fighting continues. israel is pounding garza while millison keep that over night attacks. also coming up pressure on the board f morocco that some security net disbursing people attempting to enter spain. but north africa unclaimed. we hear from some of the thousands who are trying to swim
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around the barrier and opposition to the toe kick 11 pix grove is japan sees a spike in new cove at 19 cases, but the head of the international olympic committee in the summer games will go on ah i'm a new cook mckennan. thanks so much for joining us. german foreign minister hiker math is in israel today and he will later also visit the palestinian territories in the hope of brokering a peace agreement between the 2 parties. over night, more rockets were fired from garza injuring several people and israel launched another series of asteroids early this morning. but at least one death reported despite this, senior official says he expects his group will reach a ceasefire with israel within, quote,
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a day or 2. since the fighting started 10 days ago, more than 200 people have been killed. and many of those victims of children. o, a young girl, rescued from what was once her family's home, destroyed in an air strike. she was buried in the rebel for hours as her siblings and mother died around her calling for help. the 2 days later, she's recovering with her father in hospital severely traumatized. her name is susie also on the matter of folly meant that along the way i heard the voice of my children. from beneath the rubble calling me, i heard my son's voice calling, dad, dad, before he suddenly became silent. he's 2 and
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a half years old. what and my daughter was calling me, dad, dad, a few words. then she went silent too. i can imagine these really army has been showing the gas a strip targeting how much this tunnel systems there. they reported that they took aim at about 50 targets, but there's no guarantee there won't be innocent deaths to say we don't, we hope we can restore quite the open. can we start with, please? i want to say that we're doing that while doing the utmost to avoid civilian casualties. palestinian president, my food boss, has called for an immediate end to the fighting with the attacks and destruction and gaza, or is really occupation led to terrorism in a war crime that is punishable by international law. what the media had out, however, and into hostilities in the middle east still seems
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a long way off. meanwhile, and gaza. susie still isn't talking. she's only just started to eat and drink again . the doctor say they can't get her the psychological help she needs. because of the fighting, if any victims are innocent here, it's the children. and some more of this, we're going to cross traits to d, w correspondent, tanya kramer, who is standing by in jerusalem for us, tanya, we understand that there have been no roka, sire. and since 1 am in israel is this possibly assigned the hostilities are decreasing there was no real could fire for several hours been broken for it has resumed in the past hour or so, they have been launched towards the southern part of maybe area surrounding towns surrounding the go to strip at the same time the so that individual would
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have continued its s strike during denied, especially in the morning hours. so of course, there is some speculation because there was a long period of quiet that this might be a sign of willingness to pricing down and strikes, at least from the side, from the, from the gaza side. but at the moment, you know, it has resumed from both you know, we can only speculate or whether this, you know, whether to lead to any kind of fight at anytime soon. and yet, huh. says that they expect to reach us these fire with israel within a day or 2. they say is that plausible little while they're not conflicting reports and also speculations, but have seen such reports open the costs, say, and now they're reporting that if possible. so it might be part of the maybe by
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friday, but nothing is confirmed. we understand that egypt as one of the main media just stepping up. it's at 1st that is also happening behind the scenes that are being hammered out. but it's not clear, you know, it's such what would happen, is it just a formula, for example, quiet wise? or will there be some more conditions from either side? so nothing confirmed on that front. so a bit of whitening down, but it's cute as we start at any moment again and also the position of israel with the israeli prime minister. benjamin saying that with continued carrying out trice, it's not clear how this with regard to a possible fire anytime soon. the german foreign minister. hi core math is in the region this morning. can you tell us how significant it is having him there? obviously putting on pressure for a thief. why he's not the only foreign minister
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coming today. we also expect this live. i can foreign minister and the for a minister from the chest republic. so from what we hear from the israeli side, the foreign minister of us to know if he was what comes the german for a minister high come out this morning. they see this as a visit of the board solidarity the german prime minister monster, such as also in previous days spoken with counterparts in so high and a man and in car was. so it's clear that the mediation efforts here are based in the region, but at the same time, nobody seen a lot of calls were for the de escalation and for ending civilities from several countries also from you countries. but the housing translated really in anything here on the grounds to contest it to fire. all right,
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the w tonya claim i in jerusalem, thank you so much. take a look at some other stories making headlines at this hour. the us secretary of state, hampton, the lincoln has held his 1st meeting with the russian foreign minister gala ralph in iceland. they said that countries can find ways to work together despite the differences. leverage called the talks. constructive preparations would begin for possible meetings between the 2 countries needed. and demonstrators have tracked with police and the colombian city of met 18 as nationwide. protests entered the 4th week. they were triggered by a government plan to raise taxes that have since been fueled by the over policy inequality and police violence. 40 people have been killed in a secure se crackdown. protests had taken place in denmark against the repatriation of syrian refugees. authorities recently revoked the residency of more than 200 syrians, many have lived in denmark for years. earlier this year,
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the danish government declared parts of theory a safe enough for refugees to return and clashes have broken out between moral can security forces and people attempting to reach your p and territory by swimming around board of fences. this week, thousands of would be migrants forced their way into the spanish enclave of future . in north africa, marco appeared to loosen the border controls with a territory following a diplomatic dispute with spain. but security has now been stepped up. desperation just outside of soda would be mike. when scuffle with moroccan security forces pushing them back. they were blocking the border off the spanish enclave. as they turned to night, clashes broke out. police eventually managed to regain control and disburse the crowds of most young men. to decided to get across the board as great
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migrants who reached the spanish enclave often said they have no choice but to leave morocco. giving them more people from here to look for a better future than in my country. then we have no rights on anything best, nothing, no work, nothing. okay. what are you going to do? you know, think of me father, when we meet you local spanish, residents say the situation is tense, many feel overwhelmed outta currently there's so many arriving. it's really unusual . we in a kind of state of emergency here, and many residents are really afraid of me. other people and not personally, i feel safe out on the street. i'm not afraid, but i'm a teacher. and at the moment, many of my pupils are not coming to classes because they're scared. those attempting to swim to so on now immediately picked up by spanish soldiers, the number of people crossing into. so to reached a peak earlier this week with some 8000 entering in a single day,
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spain has since deployed the army to patrol the border and send the migraines back . when you're speaking to parliament in madrid, spanish prime minister pitcher sanchez, we're going to go to the store order and set them nearly 5000 micro and simple had been returned. i'm not going to this funding, but i remind you that the border with soda is not only a border between spain and morocco, but also a european border. and that in this case, the lack of control by the moral can authorities is not only a lack of respect was being, but also to was the european union. officials in madrid say they are reinforcing so as borders to prevent more rivals. the w correspondent, young philip shalt says in the spanish enclave of theater and says that tensions that are likely to continue. it seems like a simple fence between morocco and spain, but it has become an important symbol of world politics. over the past day,
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thousands of my friends have swung across the border. you can still see some of that close here. it seems. the price that fade has to pay for out sourcing some of its, bought a protection and paying millions of euro to morocco, to prevent migrant from passing the border. now, during the diplomatic dispute, morocco that started to make use of its power and test started to let migrants pass . thousands have arrived over the past days. and the challenge doesn't seem to be over to tech care. now, way spike uncovered 19 cases. it's fueling the mom for the cancellation of this summer, lympics and power lympics. doctors have also joined calls to stop the event, but the head of the international olympic committee insists the already delayed games will open in july. the i o. c is thomas bock and the upper left loomed large over the start of the tokyo meeting, insisting the games will go on. we are now fully focused on the delivery
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of the olympic games. it is after all box international olympic committee holding the ultimate se into whether to hold the games. the host city contract says so signed by all interested parties in 2013, when tokyo won the rights to host. in the termination section, it says the i o c has sole discretion to terminate should safety be threatened. i in the midst of a brutal 4th wave of corona virus infections poll after poll show a clear majority in favor of terminating the games over fears. it could become a super spreader event box. some said should cancel the olympics while in tokyo for this week's meeting. he actually stayed home though in switzerland. what it isn't coming means he cannot come and that implicitly recognizes japan's emergency situation. so thinking
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a video to show all will be well for the japanese people during the olympics and paralympics box points to event rehearsals in which athletes competed and were housed in a strict bubble. and he added, most teams will now bring additional health professionals. should corona, virus infections occur with our company? so partners in france, i can only re emphasize these 40 commitment of the i as the to organize together. they've olympic and our role in the games for everybody. momentum. so important in many sports events is not on box side at the moment, but it's still the i o c's call, whether to cancel the games, which have cost at least $15000000000.00 and are now just over 2 months away. in watching d, w, and use as a reminder of our top story, the japanese foreign minister has joined diplomatic efforts to broker
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a ceasefire between israel and have us military bombings, have continued from both sides was more rainy as strikes and brokers fired from garza into israel. the stay tuned for a documentary film looking at these in the hidden dangers of the nami konami's. thanks so much for watching the w news. ah infinity species and explanation. look into the language of your research team to the pacific mood.

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