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international a very warm welcome to you as we understand it the palestinian group hamas has fired at least rockets into israel in just the past hour its. forces to withdraw from the mosque in jerusalem this follows 3 days of clashes on temple mount over wash access to the holy site. east jerusalem let's get more on this now he's joining us live now from. quite a dramatic escalation as we understand we've heard the israeli parliament has now been evacuated after these rockets were fired what else can you. well it all happened exactly an hour ago at 6 o'clock this evening local time here in israel suddenly the sirens stopped it sounding over to slim which is quite unusual and as you correctly say a number of rockets had been fired from gaza we did hear

a number of explosions we think it was the dome into sifting those rockets and as of yet there's been no reports of injuries or damage but correctly as you mentioned the israeli parliament known as the knesset has been evacuated can we say should was immediately disbanded and at the same time there was that to use in the march taking place and participated in even he ran for cover while i am here in arab east jerusalem and very different thing happened when those sirens went tolls we saw people coming out of their homes we saw young palestinians come 30 on the streets cheering and clapping because that was the hour that hamas gave an ultimatum to the israeli security forces have mustered if israeli security forces are not out of the some mosque compound by 6 o'clock they will respond and certainly that was the response that came not at the same time international condemnation against israel has been increasing we have heard from amnesty international for example that they

hear on the ground that the israeli forces have been using to quote excessive force united states has also reported that in the last 3 days 43 children have been injured in the clashes that have been taking place yet taken up. stop violations in occupied east jerusalem i'm misty's been on the ground and witnessed israeli forces use of excessive force against protesters and by saddam does israel must and use of unlawful force and force to fictions of punish stimulants the international community must hold israel accountable and additional 14 palestinian children injured in jerusalem's old city today bring in total to $43.00 children in past 3 days unicef urges israeli authorities to refrain from you. in violence against children. now one attention today has been focused on the 2 cinemark which is an annual event that sees mostly white when his way these tens of thousands of them march through jerusalem eventually ending up at the most holy sites in 2 days and

the call told the way it's going to war with the march was planned to come through this area arab east jerusalem and in they have an hour it was canceled not the mosque but the direction in which it would go to prevent that kind of confrontation happening in this kind of neighborhood but tensions are still high we might not have seen jewish protesters here today but we certainly have already seen clashes between the israeli police and palestinian youth in the last hour there have been block that has been blocked throwing the youngsters have been throwing glosses have been firing water off those and they see the number of stun grenades that the police have been responding with at the same time they have used the water cannon which is this can put smell in the air the smalling monday they was at least 300 to the sting is injured and some 16 israelis injured when there was a confrontation at the hour the mosque was pretty great for israel parties to into the mosque compound but they did it because they said that they were fired on with

homemade weapons that had been stored up there overnight the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has spoken out quite harshly against the protesters. will no we will not allow any extremists to destabilize the calm in jerusalem we will enforce law and order decisively and responsibly we will continue to maintain freedom of worship for all faiths but we will not allow violent disturbances in the same way i am telling terror groups israel will respond forcefully against all acts of aggression from the gaza strip and. now there are signs that the violence is spreading to the west bank the israeli army has seen 2 reinforcements there at the same time we have seen demonstrations happening in the north of israel so certain eat what it was witnessing. and should we see them is beginning to sprayed this is the 4th day of fighting trashes and we haven't seen this kind of findings in israel for the 4 years so it certainly is very worrying for these waiting for you to see

trying to keep a lid on things. are totally alive in tel aviv thank you let's take this a bit further on our international we can now speak with nora palestinian political analyst joining us here live on the program good to see you today you probably just heard paula's reports now hamas saying it's fired rockets into the jerusalem area and that's bound to draw deadly retaliation from israel just how dangerous this situation become. well i mean we've been warning for years that israel is playing with fire that it is testing the. religious chant demands of palestinians of muslims and christians in palestine around the world i thought it was very interesting that you played that clip from benjamin netanyahu speaking about calm in jerusalem and about respect her freedom of worship that perhaps exists for israeli settlers living illegally in east jerusalem but it's certainly not the reality of palestinians muslims and christians and it hasn't been for over

50 years of occupation and daily reality of palestinians is one of violence and repression and now there is more international attention being given because of the nature of the events of the of where these events are transpiring of the fact is this is you know that the natural deterioration of things. of things that have been accumulating for months because of israeli practices because the israeli authorities have allowed settlers on the loose chanting death to arabs across occupied jerusalem and attacking palestinians in their homes and they certainly aren't under so so i'm so sorry to interrupt you for a 2nd i do apologize i do but i want to ask you though because ultimately some might say that there are 2 sides to every street here 2 sides to every argument but what about the role of the palestinian protesters on temple mount israel says that they've been they've been throwing rocks and attacking checkpoints with makeshift weapons i mean do you think that's

a bit of blame that should be apportioned to that side as well. i have serious reservations about this false equivalency situation right now in palestine in an up some mosque compound is one between occupier and occupied there is no parity between the 2 israel is the occupying power it has all the weapons it has the armed forces it has the the power to control the situation and to carry out policies that make sense that do not treat press and discriminate against palestinians that did not provoke religious sentiments that did not obstruct people's right to access their holy sites especially during these holy days i'm not sure what what the homemade weapons that we refer to are about if you're talking about fireworks then i've seen one or 2 of them and maybe a few rocks but we have to put this in context and the context is that throughout the month of ramadan israeli forces in jerusalem in particular have employed very

harsh measures against palestinians they've impeded access to a lot so mosque they provoked palestinians at the damascus they try to. distance from gathering at the damascus which is a tradition of the mud on the floor for centuries so misidentifies if i can just try this one more time i do apologize because i really want to talk to you but i just don't have enough time for an enormous conversation but you used the word provocation i had an israeli spokesperson talking to me last hour and he was he was saying that the palestinians are provoking the israelis you're saying the israelis are provoking the palestinians but if i can the mideast quartet which includes the united states is urging israel to exercise restraint and to try and deescalate the situation should a note be making of the fact that washington is now potentially leaning on television have to calm things down. well i mean that that should be expected

of washington the quartet is made of international players who understand at least they should that they have international obligations under international law these are permanent represented permanent members of the security council and biden administration has thus far chosen not to lean on israel not to even talk to israel . it's illegal measures in jerusalem and elsewhere and to you know talk about the escalation and restraint in my opinion falls far short of what is required specially given the the testimony we've heard from amnesty international and from other human rights organizations among the hundreds of palestinians injured civilians i have to stress we have people who have lost their eyes we have had injuries targeted by israeli forces these are trained police

officers who know how and when to employ force how and when to use non lethal force and they also know that you do not direct rubber coated steel bullets at someone's eyes unless you want to take it out so these are the israeli spokesperson i had on the program last hour because i asked him about israel using a heavy handed response he said no and i said well hold on i said you've got palestinians lobbing rocks 2 israeli i.d.f. troops you have machine guns i mean so clearly the must mean some one side is using a heavy hand on the other would you say. yeah and this is been this is the trend this is the how israel operates but again the fact that it never israel never assess the situation as. you know or accepts the accusation of using excessive force even when international reports accuse its forces of committing war crimes and i think we have to keep in mind that that goes back to the racist mentality that maintains this colonial occupation palestinian lives are not seen as of equal

work and that's why these are repressive measures are taken that's why legislation is passed that systematically discriminates against palestinians that's why the courts almost always a rule in favor of israeli settlers and against palestinians trying to keep their homes that's why israeli military courts also are conveyor belts of convictions of palestinians including children the whole system is designed to maintain the palestinians oppressed and controlled and any semblance of resistance even if it's popular nonviolent resistance is crushed and crushed violently and immediately because otherwise the system of control and colonial occupation would be in danger and that's what israel does not want to happen it wants to maintain control it wants to maintain the palestinians quiet or quiet to end it and it does not want to hear any kind of reproach even rhetorical from the international community and so

far it hasn't paid a price hasn't felt any real pressure and that's why it continues to carry out these measures with impunity so do you as you mentioned a few moments ago though you basically said that the store the aggression or the call for between israelis and palestinians has been going on for many many decades now but israel is still locked in a bit of a political stalemate after yet another fairly inconclusive election do you think the lack of a stable government has made matters worse or is just is this just the same old thing happening day after day. well this is the more just look around i right now for the israeli regime occupying regime there's you know a rulebook basically or a playbook that it plays out of but sure of the internal politics i think has helped fuel the flames because netanyahu probably you would would love to go to elections again rather than see his power go and and face charges of corruption and

others in court so if people cannot form a government then he has another shot at staying for even more time in power and to do that he has done a you know nominal job if you will from the perspective of the right wing of appeasing israeli settlers of appeasing the most racist right wing elements in the israeli settler movement including those who came to the knesset with his you know by forming an alliance with liquid likes muttered she was known for his racist views and who was visited chippers or had provoked the residents there and even came close to it to entering a not some mosque today along with his followers so the situation in israel surely is playing in the favor of more volatility of encouraging settlers for more impunity. and so long as no real pressure is applied to it so long as the cards

that the international community can play are not being played then unfortunately the situation on the ground does not look promising nor oday a palestinian political analyst joining us live here on r.t. international thank you very much for your time we appreciate it. thank you for joining us here on r.t. european leaders have dismissed a u.s. proposal to waive patent rights to vaccines and splits about the move appeared during an e.q. summit this weekend with the german chancellor angela merkel saying it would not solve the ongoing shortage of injections around the world. for me for me questioning patient protection here is not the path to lead us to more vaccines and that's a vaccines i have made it clear that i do not believe that the waving of peyton's is a solution to make that available to more people this was an idea mooted by the by i didn't ministration last week they said you know what we can do is we can wave with the paint and okumu vaccines which will allow the vaccine production to be

ramped up in other countries because the portuguese who hadn't created that back scene would then be able to produce it it's an idea that the world health organization has welcomed but generally. welcoming this to all the could germany be left out on its own in the cold over this issue taking the opposite side to this was france's president michael who suggested that the idea of wavering vaccine peyton's could be a good idea opiate he flip flopped on this quite a few times of the weekend so it's yet to be determined where he will land on this particular issue he seemed to be incensed infuriated when he was pressed to the press conference by journalists as with a europe should be following the us is a leader on this and he basically said us follow them i think you'll find it's the opposite way. i ask you the european press and almost psychological question when

a year ago we europeans lost access to tools accelerated you didn't say oh you europeans have moral leadership and the u.s. isn't following you and when the u.s. follows us which is in fact what is happening you say are the u.s. is showing leadership emanuel mark on though had his own criticism specifically for the u.s. when it comes to the export ban on covert vaccines and all essential ingredients needed by european produces to make the vaccine here drop them is what he demanded . i call it very clearly on the. states to win the export bans not only on vaccines but on components of those vaccines that are necessary for production we've killed back today saying it can't produce a vaccine in europe because components a block from the united states lift the export battens. just about this in context the e.u. has exported around 200000000 doses of the fat scenes around the world at the same

time the white house has pretty much put a blanket ban on any cooking vaccines to leaving its shores and that comes at a time when this incident this growing frustration this tension in the e.u. over the idea that basically the party didn't administration is not pushing forward its gender is if it's the one the needing to charge all the way through the code health crisis and some might be questioning whether in the future when this is. the story that will be painted is that this is a. covert war that america one thing what's really happened. well meanwhile a new poll in france suggests 40 percent of noses want to change their profession due to low pay and harsh working conditions we spoke to people who says discontent among health workers has been building for quite some time. but you know when i read in the newspapers that 40 percent of nurses want to change their jobs i'm

terrified if they leave and want something else not because of the code crisis it's huge frustration that's been building up over several decades and they have already expressed that by going out into the streets and demonstrating that those protests were violently suppressed in france the police often not too forceful repressive methods you saw what happened to the yellow vests and the demonstrations of medical personnel were also brutally suppressed with john's arm and special forces clearly these in their powers so when the crisis hit employees who already tired and devastated by then demanded recognition of their work and the pay rise but it never happened it was like somebody poured ice cold water on them the french health care system which was ranked 3rd or 5th best in the world has turned out to be a fiction medical personnel are exhausted salaries are miserable and people are starting to understand what is really going on according to the poll 51 percent of

nurses see no prospects of career development nearly 2 thirds consider their job as thankless and more than 1002 percent believe the ongoing health crisis shows that the role of nurses needs to be reviewed the issue of salaries is also a major concern more than 75 percent of working nurses and less than the national average of us you caused widespread protests among health workers last summer the government then promised to spend an additional $8000000000.00 euros to boost wages erica twinkle again so if you're thorough he's failed medical workers. you want to do more operas we were called heroes during the 1st wave and now they're demanding that we do more than ever before and the directives that come from the government are a catastrophe bordering on criminal we have an invisible common enemy could be 1000 and specialists from different fields of night to fight and so on and only the government failed to provide the medical staff with the necessary protective

equipment and did not revise their working conditions i am simply horrified that the prime minister is talking on t.v. about some kind of victory they say we did not have to introduce an awful lot down and this is a victory but let me explain that to those who have lost their relatives to be honest i don't understand what kind of victory we can talk about here people we have. a former olympic weightlifter from new zealand claims female athletes are being told to be quiet of any issues they have about transgender people participating in women's competitions whenever we have tried to speak out we've been told that we can't say that anything we do say but it seems to lately have been taken so that human rights courts so we've been distant carriage every step of the way and even to this day it's still being told to be quiet and not talk about it laurel was overweight less than before the transition so having

transitioned in the thirty's that athlete would have still had the benefits of case tossed her own or 30 years so there's no way of a woman making compete against a transgendered athlete who's had the benefits of space tossed around for that long even with having to lower the load of maoists still male 18 times the amount the average female is a reason why ends what we do have male and female character e. and by allowing this to happen it's just earlier in the lines. issues were 1st raised when transgender athletes law roll hubbard was allowed to compete as a woman before transitioning in 2013 hubbard took part in men's weightlifting competitions and later in 2015 he or rather she was permitted to take part in the olympics after the international olympic committee released rules for transgender athletes allowing them to compete as women and anyone who transitions from female

to male is allowed to compete with other males without any restrictions but those who transfer from male to female do face certain conditions for their gender status has to be confirmed as female and it must have changed for at least 4 years and the level of testosterone has to be below a certain limit of the weightlifter you heard from just a moment ago tracy lumberjacks thinks the rules need to evolve as the sports continue to change any more research just. looking into the facts and making sure that everyone is on the same pay whether or not the rules of say that's what needs to be discussed these roles were i think developed in 2013 or 2013 we're now in 2021 so i feel like the ball should be evolving as the sport has and as. people of all because people are coming out now

or transgendered and i think that we just need to keep up with the times why should i compete when i'm never going to be able to when because the this is what i'm up against and i think it if there is the between shots or have women dropping out of sports which is not what we want we want to increase in women planes or. when it comes to relations with russia the e.u. is sending out mixed signals slovakia's foreign minister says it's time for cooperation with moscow to be fixed but the czech prime minister has suggested that all member states should be expelling at least one russian diplomat and try and make this easier to understand a bit earlier in the program my colleague neil harvey discussed the issue with ati's saskin it's. if you're trying to understand policy towards russia in recent days good luck because for a block his premise is unity and cooperation that's the real splintering here on monday is foreign minister came out in a century said that brussels needs to stop pushing ties with russia to an

irreparable brink we're certainly in a difficult phase of our relationship with russia between slovak and russia but collectively between the european union and russia we need to stop the negative spiral for relationship now germany supports the sentiment says it's time to mend fences with russia so there's one camp that's working to repay rebuild news that the kremlin welcomes but on the other hand another camp has emerged and it is the czech republic weeks off to prague out of the blue and without any evidence accused russian agents of being behind an explosion at a weapon step in 2014 and expelled russian diplomats as punishment it's now asking all the e.u. nations to jump on its bandwagon and also kick out some russian officials on top of that it's also apparently going to demand financial compensation from moscow for that explosion to the tune of 30 $9000000.00 euros now whether the whole block will take a sledgehammer to its ties with russia and fulfill progs wishes is pretty unlikely

partly because the whole explosion story is so far from watertight 1st off it was a case that ran cold for 7 years and suddenly it was resurrected from the dead the 2nd thing is that the investigation is still ongoing but already the blame has been laid at the kremlin still strip but the most bizarre thing is that the czech president himself came out and said he see nothing that would suggest russian responsibility and that this anti russia hysteria has to stop this is the czech president himself why would he want to undermine his own country for that state and he was actually accused of treason so like i said good luck trying to get to the bottom. what it was what it is that the e.u. wants from russia is it dialogue or is it a deterioration of ties individual states understandably i think at times looking after their individual interest but of course they're all part of this union has there been any kind of unifying message to come out of brussels well i think 1st

off we need to talk about what russia's position is because russia has made very clear from the beginning that it's always open to dialogue but when prague expelled the russian diplomats when talk of sanctions and much it did speak out pretty strongly it said that this was all an effort for e.u. states to quote please that western leader now off the back of that regarding brussels and its statement i do want to listen to something that we heard from one of its representatives our relations with the u.s. is changing now we have a strong partnership this became especially clear after the g. 7 summit will discuss russia with which the country relations are not improving what we just heard from guerrero is an incredibly strange statement because essentially the suggestion is that good relations with the u.s. are dependent on bad relations with russia and that kind of rhetoric does nothing to dispel rumors that a western leader is pushing e.u. russia ties to the cliff so like i said it's really entangled infighting within the

e.u. infighting within the czech republic and with prague diverging so much from its neighbors setting up its own campaign you have to ask is it doing it for itself or is it doing it as someone else's behest. a protest has been held outside tokyo's national olympic stadium against this summer's games which are due to be held in the city it's less than 3 months before the event gets underway following last year's postponement due to the pandemic of demonstrators marched around the stadium at the same time as a test event was being held inside with around $400.00 athletes an online petition in japan calling for the olympics to be cancelled had already collected more than $200000.00 signatures just since friday it all comes as japan has just extended a state of emergency in tokyo and other areas until at least the end of the month amid a surge and covert cases a recent poll shows that almost 60 percent of those quiz to want the games to be called off just over a 3rd think they should go ahead and of those around

a 5th think there shouldn't be any spectators so we hit the streets to gauge people's reaction. in my opinion this is because the lives and livelihoods of many people have been neglected for the sake of their lympics of course the pandemic masses and for their lympics the outdoor sleepers the homeless people and the people in their apartment complex as they were in the exit from here there are many problems like that happening i believe that they're leaving fixed must be stopped immediately and must be abolished. it's a celebration of nationalism i just criminal therea and exclusionary event it's also a very near liberal ultra capitalist event where only a small percentage of people will benefit in order to make money and we will all be cut off that's why i'm against that and. thanks for sharing your time with us here at r.t. international that's it for me you know neil is here in half an hour's time with an action packed program for you hope you can join us.

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