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all this is because we love football. the kick off on youtube, join us the news . this is the w news live from berlin, israel, and amongst the proof fire. and the more than a week of fierce fighting the dale just came into effect seconds ago. israel secures and cabinets voted in favor of a mutual and unconditional truth proposed by egypt. we'll get the latest from jerusalem and washington dc. ah,
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hello, i'm here 100 residents in israel and then garza and look into the scar right now to see if a newly announced the si fi can enter some of the regions worst garlands in years. the deal between israel and 2 militant groups in gaza, hamas and islamic jihad just came into effect at the top of the hour. you're looking at live pictures from gaza right now. the sci fi was announced just hours before it came into effect. broken by egypt comes off the days of international efforts to find an end to the fighting. well, straight to d. w correspondent, tiny kramer who is in jerusalem for us. so tiny, what is going on there at the moment? well i think people were waiting at this moment and you said just to am your local
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time to see why it should be no in effect, but up until then the air raid sirens as well. alerts from incoming rockets as well as still is really as strikes in gaza as who people are. now of course, there's also a bit of uncertainty about disease. sorry, a deal or what kind of agreement it is. but people waiting hear that it becomes quiet. now. do we have any more details on the terms and conditions of the ceasefire? what we heard from official statements that it's a mutual unconditional sci fi, as it seems to be based on the prospect of it on the principle of quiet for quiet for no, we don't have further details at the moment, but there's a lot of token speculation, but it might also include and the 2 sides will continue to work or to work with addictions on further talking about more conditions
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on disagreement in the coming days. but this is for now it's not confirmed and tiny . what's the likelihood that this would last and also what happens if it doesn't while if it doesn't, i think we could see another round of violence, like we've seen many times before. it's not always long around l. so many assured rounds of hostilities in the past years and gaza has already seen 3 wars know almost a 4th one. so, but you know that is an internationally push to solidify now this cease fire and maybe the upcoming agreement, depending on the conditions that will be maybe set. there is also extensive damage, especially in garza, that will have to be assessed now in gaza. and of course
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a loss of flies. so i think there is an interest right now that this will last, at least for the time being. and just take us back to how this all started. and i think it's important for an international audience to be reminded as well about the human costs on both sides of this conflict. well, the human koster on the palestinian side, figures from the ministry of health saying that at least 230 people died among them . according to the ministry, 65 children, that's in garza, and on the very side we had 12 people who were killed in these hostilities. and of course you have extensive damage, especially in gaza when you look at the struction. but of course, we also have seen lots of tensions leading up to this 10 days, almost 11 days of hostilities. so there is a hope here that this cease fire at least will lead to some quiet. but of course it
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needs to address. and i think this was also the concern of many people in gaza, wondering what is next? what does it mean for this situation as well? will it change anything for the condition on the ground when it comes to example to the issue of the blockade that has been imposed in god for over almost 14 years? so there are a lot of questions being asked tonight and details. of course, coming out on, on the see saw itself. right. tiny kramer speaking to us from jerusalem. thank you tanya. meanwhile, us president joe biden has praised the see fire reached between israel and thomas by just saying, i quote, genuine opportunity for progress towards peace. you know, we've held intention, high level discussions our by our literally egypt, the palestinian authority and other middle eastern countries with the name of avoiding this sort of prolong conflict we've seen in previous years when hostile it
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is broken out. these hostilities have resulted in tragic deaths of so many civilians, including children. and i sent my sincere condolences to all the families, israeli, and palestinian were lost love ones. my hope for a full recovery for the wounded cross over to washington dc and speak to d w. all of a solid house a difficult and is the statement from us president or vice oliver will review. this was the 1st time the president by an address to conflict at length from the white house in a speech and was really a strong commitment to israel. once again, he reiterated the right that you ask the position that israel has the right to defend itself. but also move beyond the ceasefire. really easy is that you believe that there is an opportunity for enduring peace between israel and the hamas. also looking ahead, he promised gaza humanitarian aid. and at the same time,
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promised israel to help replenish it's rocket shield on on that by didn't say that he spoke to netanyahu around 6 times. and he also spoke to palestinian president my boss. but he did reiterate his support for israel. that's exactly right. and the u. s. has historically always been a strong supporter of israel, but what we could hear here coming from the white house in recent days is a slight change in tone. first, it was, israel has the right to defend itself. later it was joe biden saying that he was hopeful that a ceasefire could be reached and then just 24 hours ago, he demanded a significant de escalation within one day, really exerting pressure on both sides. and he's now also facing criticism from within his own democratic party and why he didn't act as decisively earlier. and oliver, the us said it felt the best way to get through this was through
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a quiet diplomacy. can you talk us through that? yeah, this is exactly what we have experienced in recent days, and this was some kind of private and diplomatic conversations. we hear that 80 phone calls have been made in the wide house talking to him on yahoo to my boss, the palestinian president exerting pressure. but that always largely limited to phone diplomacy. that was one mid level state department official sent to the region. the strategy is very clear. it was support for israel while at the same time ramping a pressure that both sides commit to a piece deal to commit to, excuse me, sees fire. and that is exactly what we've seen here in the recent, in recent days. and speaking of pressure biden has also been facing significant pressure from the democratic lawmakers to limit weapons sales to israel.
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that's why there is a $735000000.00 us dollars. weapons deal with israel. that is on its way. there has been pressure growing from within the democratic party, especially on the progressive side on the progressive. i'll to pack this deal to conditions really so. so for instance, conditions about a ceasefire, and this will be at length of course, congress had the opportunity to intervene here today the deadline is running also, it really seems like this arms deal will go through as plans, right? d, w is all of a senate speaking to us from washington, d. c. thank you, oliver. now berlin is expecting demonstrations in the coming days from groups wanting to show their support for israelis as well as palestinians. on thursday evening, several 100 people gathered at the brandon gate and called for the daring with
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israel. various parties called for the rally, japanese vice chancellor of shells also attended. the w is farming young with this . concern about the conflict in the middle east is definitely reach the streets of germany. pro palestinian protests have happened in several cities, sometimes accompanied by anti semitic words in the burning of israeli flags. people at this demonstration of solidarity with israel say that worried about growing anti semitism and they want the government to do more to combat it. many also feel european governments could work harder to cut off high mass from its sources of funding. politicians and civil society representatives repelling this crowd. germany stands with israel and they'll be 0 tolerance for anti semitism. but in the current atmosphere, many using germany as well as many who are not jewish feel that words are not enough. let's take a look at other stories making headlines around the world. a wildfire in greece has
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destroyed homes and forced many to flee a glazes, 70 kilometers west of the capital, athens, and close to a popular tourist and thought. authorities ordered the evacuation of 18 settlements and to monasteries there have been no reports of injury so far. such warnings are in place across the south central united states off the days of heavy rain storms caused flooding in texas and louisiana and cut power to thousands of households. the bad weather is full cost to continue through the weekend. the central african republic has launched its covered 1900 vaccination program. it's one of the last countries in the world to receive vaccines. the prime minister was 1st to get the jap, health workers, the elderly, and those this pre existing conditions will be put on the priority list. now a german soldier suspected of plotting attacks against politicians while posing as
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a syrian refugee has gone on trial, known as franco a. he's accused of stock piling, weapons, and planning acts of violence. the case is raised, the 10th has res, attention across germany, and in europe, the end sulphur res concerns of right wing extremists and extremism in the military . never had the trial opening, franco, a proclaimed his innocence in front of the press. he denies the charges leveled against him by the prosecution. i know, and we have an indictment that deals with an offense, preparing an active violence that endangers the state. i taught for years franco, a lead a double life while working as a soldier for the german armed forces. he registered himself as a syrian refugee. prosecutors accused him of planning attacks on high ranking
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politicians with the intention of blaming them on migrants and asylum seekers. my mother had to finish my client dressed as an immigrant. i can't see anything in that that's dangerous to the state. what i do see as a danger to the state is when parts of the government and work together with criminals. and that has unfortunately happened here. some of them lies about us, legacy and franco. a faith is up to 10 years in prison. the trial is expected to last until august, while the case has led to increased scrutiny of influence on the far right within the german military. d w. thomas thorough sentence, this report. it certainly is a big problem and german authorities are aware of that despite the fact that german authorities have been criticized. not only now, but in the past as well for what people are analysts describe does turning a blind eye to the threat of fire right extremism within germany. security forces,
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the franco, a case led to authorities revealing some networks where, where other officials were also present far right. networks and it has also led authorities to present report. they presented that report in 2020, and a stress that over 1400 suspected cases of far right extremism within germany. security forces were registered between 2017 and the beginning of 20. 20, however, and this is important as well. it's a stress germinal for it. he said that while every confirm case was very problematic, indeed, they did not see this as being a systematic structural problem with in germany. security forces and enormous iceberg has broken from an ice shelf in antarctica. the iceberg is the biggest in the world. european space agency says it's larger than the spanish island of my jo . come, scientists believe that it was caused, naturally, rather than a result of global warming. watching t w. news. his remind of our top story,
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sci fi between israel and tomas took effect just minutes ago. the 2 sides hoped the deals broken by egypt will bring an end to the fastest fighting they seen in years . and the 250 people were killed. most of them, palestine watching dw needs live from berlin up next is related business with steven. it's kind of supplying much more on that sci fi between last and israel on that compromise. who's the me the me
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ah, the me the where are all the workers? that's what american companies want to know is they try to meet the pent up demand of a recovering economy. could more generous jobless benefits to keeping otherwise good workers from rejoining labor force. or might there be other reasons also on the shows gary alternative over the stores and it's trading they view as investors hope
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to cash in on the growing popularity of big and food products. and every minute counts as startups, race to deliver fresh groceries to crack. the dominance of big supermarket chains, lowball to show busy in berlin, new filings for jobless claims in the u. s. had another pandemic low last week. it's the latest side of the country is growing demand for labor. employers are holding onto more workers as consumption picks up. workers meanwhile, can change jobs easily without having to go on benefits. in fact, demand for workers is so high across the country that many businesses remain understaffed and desperate to find help. w oliver salad visited one such workplace . the finally some normalcy boardwalks of the jersey shore. people are dreaming of the summer sun and wait ah, the books, the peers on human park has be opened in wildwood,
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new jersey. and it seems like the rosy side of life is coming back again. but for the business owners, there still is one big problem that keeps them from going back to normal operations . the biggest obstacle we have right now is hiring. we are struggling like we have never struggled in our 50 year history. we cannot get enough people to fill our rosters and hiring has become the new pandemic. mores piers has 1500 job openings to fill. the amusement park is even offering $15.00 an hour more than the minimum wage with little success. i think that it's not so much a wage issue as just the supply and demand issue, and there's less people in the workforce. so even paying more, we're not seeing the numbers that we need to see. 8000000 job openings are available in the us, but they largely remain unfilled where there are many reasons for that. it seems
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that the large corporate relief payments are one reason why many low income workers believe they're better off with unemployment. 8 done working a paid job correspondence, oliver solid sense that report any joins me now from washington. oliver, good to see you. the amusement park there, mores more he's point, i believe. i believe they're looking for $1500.00 employees. what happens to their employees from before the pandemic? good evening to you. so that's right. they're looking for a lot of employees and most of the people that work there before, we're seasonal workers, and that is part of the problem they're having right now because many of them do not want to come back. that has a variety of reasons, but that is exactly what the human resources president, they are of the amusement park set in the south in the sound 5. when she said that hiring is becoming the new pandemic. so a lot of businesses, like the amusement park all across the united states are struggling in part because
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of the unemployment a that is currently paid $300.00 per week. we know that one out of 4 workers currently make more of this unemployment aid, them working a paid job and that's why the u. s. chamber of commerce called for an end of these jobless benefits that americans are receiving right now. because simply, it seems that for some workers, it's not attractive to work right now. all right, so this $300.00 benefit potentially raising the wage floor for workers and forcing companies to adapt by raising their wages. this already sounds very controversial in the u. s. yes, it really isn't, as it has always been debate about this minimum wage has a real political dimension here in the us. some democrats have been calling for raising the minimum wage, including president biden. other democrats and the republicans say that this would add another burden, especially for small businesses who have been suffering
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a lot throughout the pandemic, and then paying a higher minimum wage, of course, would potentially send them into the fault. oliver. you said that the higher benefits are perhaps just one reason why employees are returning. what are the others with regards to the amusement park, they have always employed a lot of work in travel students. so in that specific case, one of the reasons why they can't find students right now is because the borders are closed because these are processing takes longer than the usual. another aspect that's very important, and that applies to all businesses that a lot of people are still concerned about. coven, simply so the safety perspectives are important. 35 percent of the americans are vaccinated right now. businesses are opening up, but it still remains risky. and that is another reason why people prefer not to work. you know, be correspondent oliver solid. washington. thank you. let's take
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a look now at some other business stories making headlines. the european union has finalized a 3rd contract for bio tech advisors cove in 1900 vaccine walk is now set receive an additional $1800000000.00 doses to be shared among its member states. with the exception of hungry, which opted out of the deal, present brazilian drug maker when yell timothy has made his 1st batch of russian coven vaccine, budnick b. russia supplied the active ingredients and technology for the brazilian made doses. it will be exported to other latin american countries, result health authorities are yet to approve. sputnik fee, which is registered to $66.00 countries dairy, alternative brand only sorta and it's public listing in new york on thursday with shares briefly selling as high as 30 percent above its opening valuation. swedish company produces based milk yogurt and ice cream. as soon as well poised to take advantage of growing interest in vegan diet. i. p. o gets evaluation of roughly $13000000000.00. let's go to our financial correspondent,
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yann's quarter in new york for more on this. it's good to see you this, this high demand for only is this based on the company itself and it's financials, or is it based more on the market and how much potential seen in their well, pretty much the answer is both. if you look at the market for old mill, especially in the united states that has exploded in the past year, i believe are roughly the market to drupal to just within the united states. and then when you look at only in particular, hop off, their business actually comes from the united states. and in the past year, they did a double revenue. i'm having that set one of the big question boxes a deal. how only wants to become a profitable because not just the revenue doubled in the past year, but also losses double ot overall is affecting story. i mean they were already founded in 1994,
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but they really started to kick off for 3 years ago. when they decided to really expand onto the u. s. market to before that all the labeling was done in swedish, then they changed the packages all the packaging to english, and that really got the much bigger market to for the overall. and then also marketing work quite well and we have some celebrities to we're early investors like the rep for jay z and that department at the actress a pro and for you're also a former a starbucks or howard assault. but lady, the starts for the stock was the very successful and yet, so let's see if that's going to continue and they might find a way to also be profitable in the near future quarter in new york. thank you. back to europe were top you trade official thought is to prosecute said thursday that the block can set aside a 16 year old dispute with the u. s. over airplane subsidies by july. the comments
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followed a video meeting with us counterpart, catherine high and other european trade officials. both sides have suspended tariffs to work on the dispute. they're also working on resolving us imposed metal terrace by the end of this year. that's according to brought to dom beraskigy. now in that case, you has already valid to lift counter terrorist. here's d g, d, w brussel correspondence game matters. according to the german trade minister, today's meeting with top us officials has been one of the most constructive meeting in years of the strange trans atlantic ties on the former president donald trump. today's talks may well spell the beginning of the end for the long standing dispute over steel and minium imports. many hurdles still remain like the us blocking the world trade organizations court system. but when it comes to tariffs, both sides of it, the pause button with the you temporarily. suspending planned increases in tariffs on u. s. goods including holly davids motorcycles and bourbon whiskey process. corresponding
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care matters. has the pandemic sped up the transformation of food retail? a new army of grocery delivery businesses have benefited from the past year to disrupt the traditional supermarket. back by billions and venture capital, their rival could crack the domination of big chains. it's a race against time from this south london depot pickers, packages and delivery stuff have 15 minutes to get fresh food to the door of a nearby customer who's ordered via the we the app wheezy like it's london, rivals get here. deja and gorillas. stocks, goods from major suppliers and local producers in so called dark stores in town to supply customers at similar prices to convenient stores, at least for new rapid services oper, right? in central london alone, friends has taken root in cities across europe. the big challenge that they're facing is around profitability. and i think in order for this model to be
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viable, they need to scale. and there are a lot of horses in this race at the moment. so i think when we look to the future, we're certainly going to see some consolidation. and these rapid delivery providers might even be requisition target for some of the big markets. of course, the pandemic has helped enormously the arrival of the services, mac, the demand for convenience, and we'll drive for the next transformation in food retail. but they are likely to replace the weekly food shop because speed comes with a trade off. in order to be so quick, these rapid delivery companies have to offer a vastly reduced product selection, one or 2000 items, compared to around 50000 on the shelves of a traditional supermarket. but for shoppers with a need for speed, anything longer than 15 minutes may seem to slow. and finally get this a german start up called modus and tars ya. makes high in fashion from dog here.
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you heard that right? and has an interesting supply chain. hundreds of pet owners contribute the raw material needed modus and harshly. it says over $500.00 tons of dog fur can be recovered each year in europe. it sorted by color before being turned into clothing . top dog fashion nieces can expect to pay as much as $120.00 euros for a hat or a scarf. i've got that all of my apartment. thanks for watching. ah . me. into the conflict with the bottom of the conversation between israel and the palestinians gone into the 2nd week. i guess this week from jerusalem is michael freeman, policy advisor to israel's foreign minister country. now listen to the key criticisms being leveled by the by ministration and go back to seeking
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a 2 state solution. the w to the point and strong opinion, clear positions, international perspective. the past 10 days, i've seen the worst violence between israelis and palestinians in years, a deadly flare up between the israeli army and the militant group that has people the world over asking middle east crisis to can stop the cycle, the, to the point, the ending stick on the w ah, the news the we're going to go beyond deals yet as we take on
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the world, we're all of our stories that matter to you. the police much here we are here is actually on fire. for mines when a fire itself is not an aid, your government has the intention of allowing yourself in palestinian state to be creative. does it? the palestinians are refusing again to come to negotiate with violent confrontation between israel and the palestinians has gone into its 2nd week with consulting mounting around the world at the high number of civilians that especially in god i guess this week from jerusalem is michael freeman. policy advisor,
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israel's foreign minister, when he comes here now listen to the key criticisms being leveled by the biden administration, and go back to seeking a 2 state solution. the michael freeman. welcome to comfort zone. thank you for having me. last sunday, israeli forces killed at least 4 people in gaza, including at least 10 children that was in one day. your prime minister is on record as saying, hum austin, islamic jihad paid and will pay a very heavy price for the belligerents, their blood is forfeit. well, by now the death toll is well over a 100 and the 61 children reported that is not enough blood that's been forfeited. this is not about, you know, that the death of innocence for us is a tragedy. and this is about how much you've been firing rockets. it is right and
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making and making sure that come on. can't do that again. you know the 3700 rockets fide from within garza into israeli towns and cities and villages. and so the civilian population and we are doing what we need to do to defend our civilians. any country would do in order to do that, i understand. but what's an acceptable level of casualty for you among the palestinian population for this punishment operation of yours? well, there is no acceptable level of casualties. we don't want any casualties. every civilian casualty, every loss of life innocence is a tragedy before i'm israeli, before someone's palestinian what human beings and the death of an innocent human being is an absolute tragedy. and we need to do everything we can to try and avoid those civilian casualties and do everything we can. and that's what we're doing. and that's what we will continue to do when we, when we, when we're carrying out this operation to reduce come off capability. this is about
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and trying to make sure that you don't have the ability and don't have the rockets to carry on attacking us. if you want to reduce civilian casualties, why not accept the si, fi that's been offered in those whose father? countries around the world, a cooling for when a thing fire in itself is not a name. the a must be just all the time. but, but every time, every time we've had a cease by the sea, fire is only ever lasted 2448 hours a week or 2 weeks, or it's ended up being that is wrapped as the see thing and come off do the firing . we need to make sure that, that we, whatever happens now, we have a sustainable period of calm so that this is not something that happens again in a few months time, but rather come off understand that attacking israel is not worth their while. and they will then we will have a long period without any conflict that's in the interest of both is right event, palestinian. the death of so many palestinian children, raises questions about whether your response has been proportionate. a key factor
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in determining whether you acted legitimately did you because in the face of it, there's nothing proportionate about killing and injuring 20 times the number of people killed by your enemies. what the issue about proportionality is the ordinance, the number of rockets that have being fight us on the threat, the way receiving, you know, ultimately there's a fundamental difference between the democratic state of israel and the radical terrorism is terrorist of come up. whereas we, human beings are the same villians. we're talking about human being worried about human being, whether they were palestinians really absolutely, absolutely. the death of human beings on each side is tragic. you know, i'm a father of 2 young children. and when i look at my children, i think about their future, me what i want for the future. but i also think about palestinian children about their future and about what is important for them. i want to see them grow up with hopes i want to see them grow up with the future. i want to see them grow up with the, with, with, with better ideas and opportunities there. but it was the freeman my, my,
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my point. but in order to do that, we need to, we need to make sure that there is come out of there, come after the ones who are stealing the future of palestinian children to freeman . you make that point. my point is that you can argue justification and self defense, but it's hard to argue that the scale of damage and bloodshed that you inflict is proportionate, isn't it? that's not much harder to argue what we are doing. everything we can, as i said to avoid civilian casualties, we're using the difference between us is this, that we use our weapons to defend down civilians and how much uses their civilians to defend their weapons. your hospital is a primary care centers. you're hitting hospitals and primary health when, when, when we're not when, when, when, well, when, when we are making sure that what we target weapons supplies and we are targeting, where come after putting their command and control centers. they're deliberately putting their weapon places into into next to schools in next to hospital was into
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civilian areas. that's what i must do. and if we're going to try and stop, come us from having these weapons and to give the palestinians a better future. we need to destroy these weapons stores and there's going to doesn't really know civility, even if they put the military installations close to hospitals, it doesn't relieve you of the responsibility of sparing those hospitals and medical centers. in the complex situation, you have that responsibility. you don't seem to be following that. what as far as i'm aware, we haven't had any hospitals and in gods, there are 2 things that we do. firstly, we check the number of civilians that are there. and if we see, there are a number of indians in the area we call off any air strike or any, anything we're going to do because we want to avoid civilians and we give warnings to all those in the area. if we're going to destroy a building and we're going to do a command and control center from phoning people from giving warning shots in advance, we do everything we possibly can with,
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with those kinds of things. and as you well know, tim, when western countries face and fight against the terror organization embedded in civilian populations, israel is doing very well writ written relatively in terms of avoiding civilian casualties compared to other western countries have had face the same situation. mr . freeman, let's take your destruction of the gaza building, which has the associated press and al jazeera. you claim that hamas also operated from there, but the n g o reporters without borders says it has reason to believe your military, intentionally targeted media organizations and intentionally destroyed their equipment. is that true? i completely reject that. that's. that's a proposed with suggestion. israel is known for a free and open press. you've been here number of times your sales, you know, the press, they have complete freedom. we have a democratic system. we have debate, we have numbers of newspapers and televisions,
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and everybody is free to go about. we have absolutely nothing against the press quite the opposite. we encourage the press to operate air and to shine a light on things. if anything, it's how much to do not want the press and do not want people looking at what they're doing. that point in the house reproaches without borders with challenge that it said by the 17th of may, your forces had destroyed the offices of 23 international and local media organizations. that doesn't sound much like an accident. does it more of a pattern? is it we the building that you refer to we targeted that could come up, come off, had a command and control into that. they were planning terrorist activities against the communities outside the inside is run outside of the god of border. they were planning specific tara operations from within that building and noticed event, our citizens, we decided to stop them being able to attack us. we gave everybody plenty of warning and plenty of time before we destroyed that. i'm not just the future that
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you gave a warning, but us secretary of state blinking and said he's not being given additional intelligence material about the attack on this building. but he has pointedly declined to support your declared motivation for this strike. my question is, will you assist an independent investigation which is calling for but when, when we have provided, as you said, we provide intelligence information to our allies in america, which clearly show the status of that building being used by the terror organization. and we hope that we will be able to, in the near future declassify more of that information. so the world can see exactly how come up with cynically manipulating the media, manipulating the civilian infrastructure in order to put themselves in that building is supreme. and let's just look at some of the background to this latest violence that we're weeks of clashes in east jerusalem before the fighting began in the gaza strip. and in some of your cities, why was no serious attempts to deescalate the growing tensions when actually we
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made a number of attempts to de escalate the putting out, putting a barrier palestinians gathering in the evening at the damascus gate. that was pretty inflammatory while we when and after a couple of days we removed the barriers, but we did. we took another a number of other steps as well. we banned jews from going to the temple mount the holiest sites in judaism. we banned them from going up there, including during the jerusalem day, the jerusalem dry day parade that we hold every year. we change the roots of that, the court case that was going on in the supreme court. we delayed it for, for a month. the number of in century balloon attacks that were being fired over from gaza, setting fire to voc swain's of agricultural, agricultural land in the border inside israel. we didn't respond in any way to that . we did everything we possibly could to de escalate, but how much you did would you everything did you because you had police firing rubber bullets inside the mosque, the 3rd holiest shrine in his lamb,
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and in the middle of the holy month of ramadan. now that wasn't calculated to come tension, was it with tim, from ever since israel has been in control of the the old fifty's since 1967, we've guaranteed freedom of religion and freedom of worship. and every year, hundreds of thousands of muslims come to the temple come to the temple mount and they pray at the alex and most during ramadan, hundreds of thousands of once every year. you know, my question, i'm talking about foreign robin, i'm coming to it. now i'm coming to it, i'm coming to it. i'm coming to hundreds of thousands of moves and pray peacefully . this year. for some reason, the. there were a small group of people of agitators, big, big, dictated to by comma, who decided to gather stones and gather rocks. and gather fireworks and gather slaves and to throw them on the jewish worship. visit the western war below, to throw fireworks at them to throw rocks at them to attack the police, who were in the area. and the police, like any other country,
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decided to restore order because praying is something we encourage. praying and worship is something we want on the temple mount having a group of radicals and extremists who are going to be attacking and preventing people from worship. that's not acceptable. when we acted as any country would to restore lauren or the lower orders important, i'm very wrong and they say they were being provoked by jewish extremist. mr. mr. freeman, even though the fighting has gone on the white house's signal, serious concern, not just about your evictions. of palestinians, you mentioned the ongoing court case which, which was delayed, but about the frequent bulldozing of palestinian homes. or may, the 11th joe biden spokesperson said, us officials had spoken candidly to you about these issues and about how those evictions and demolitions work against what she called our common interest in achieving the solution to the conflict. in other words, stop it. are you going to stop it?
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these evictions well nosing while they then the situation and shake gera to court case. we have a number of palestinians who live in and in this, in these buildings and changed our policy. and i was, we live in east jerusalem. and there is an ongoing court case, and there's a number of them who say that they don't recognize the rights of the jewish people who say they own the building. there are a number of people who are number be assigned the lease with the people who are in the building and therefore recognize. but it stopped paying. it's gone through the court over 10 years. and the supreme court in israel will make a ruling on this. and the supreme court, and the judiciary is right, is recognized as an independent judiciary, which is well respected throughout the world for it's for it's independence and for it's judy prudence. and so just it's just shake gera, the white house he's talking about last year, according to the you and you demolished $848.00 palestinian structure in the west bank and jerusalem. displacing almost a 1000 people, as i said,
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according to you and are you going, are you going to stop doing this? because this is what is causing concern at the white house, the highest levels of the us administration, the way we, we will, we want to encourage a piece processing discussion with the palestinians when people are building illegally, then the civil, the civil authorities, make sure that people don't build it equally, those buildings can often be dangerous. they can be in stable or unstable, and they can cause a dangerous both to the inhabitants and to the people around them. but the reason i know all of these issues that you're talking about need to be discussed in conversations with the palestinians face to face and the palestinians refusing again to come to negotiations with us. you know, my, my, my boss, the, for the foreign minister was called repeatedly for the palestinians to come to the table and to intimate goes jason's with us and to move these issues forward. so that's really what we would like to see happen. this whitehouse once
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a political settlement that leads to a 2 state solution. but your government has the intention of allowing a sovereign palestinian state to be created. does it what the 1st stage needs to be? the pallet thing is comes to negotiate and table. there's nothing we can't talk about where what the end of the process and you can, you know, we've had a raft of contradictory statements from your government over the years about how they're not going to allow a palestinian state in 2015. your prime minister said benjamin netanyahu, if i'm elected, that won't be a palestinian state. in 2017. he said, what i'm prepared to give the palestinians isn't exactly a state with all the past, but a state minus and your cabinet minister saki headache me, said last june, is where the settlers don't need to worry because there will never be a palestinian state. so that's why i asked you whether you have ruled out a 2 state solution. it things from these comments that you.
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