we here to ask. the deadly conflict between israel and palestinian militants shows no sign of. the i.d.f. exchanging airstrikes confrontations continue on the ground. is a day of mourning in the russian republic of. its capital reeling from a devastating school shooting that killed at least 9 people including 7 children more than 20 others injured. ran into that classroom and started shooting people sort of teaching covered in blood getting pulled out of school who were sitting in class went off and there was

a message on the loudspeaker telling us to shut the doors and not leave the classroom. prompted a major review of the current gun ownership legislation by the russian government says the suspect turned out to be a 19 year old student of the school he was licensed to pump action shotgun psychiatric assessment of the attack is also being carried out he compared himself to a god and a monster. there thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. a confrontation that towards a full scale war the un's middle east peace envoy has described the recent conflict between israeli forces and palestinian militants the situation continues to spiral out of control with a mass in the i.d.f. exchanging more than a 1000 rockets for a 2nd day in

a row. at least 35 palestinians have been killed since the cross border flare began . still. just outside the israeli city of tel aviv in a town called hold on where a short time ago a rocket landed and as you can see there is glass on the floor and there is a bit of destruction the whole area has been closed stalls by the israeli police now 3 people were injured at this location including a 5 year old child it was part of a barrage of some 130 rockets fired by hamas and its says it was in retaliation for

earlier israeli airstrikes so you can see here be glass has shattered on and number of businesses that line this road now this is exactly where the bulk of the rocket landed it comes as the israeli government urges people in the center of the country to remain in their bomb shelters overnight and this comes as hamas threatens to increase the number of rockets that it is launching and israel the situation on the ground remains tense driving here they were very few cars on the road so people are edge here into that call not to leave the bomb shelters at the same time the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said he will increase the mice and frequency of israeli airstrikes and we hearing from the israeli security cabinet that they believe the violence and the fighting will continue for

at least a few more days at the same time as one walk of landed here another one now. not too far away and actually killed any israeli women are 50 years old the number of rockets fired from gaza so far has been. $300.00 and it comes as the israeli defense forces. by 1000. soldiers and it's doing this. once the start and soldiers capable to do it the situation on the israeli gaza border and if a true deal with the growing rate in israeli arab. cities the mood on the ground on the israeli side is that the situation is going to go from bad to worse the situation seems very tense for the moment. is being attacked by israeli warplanes and israeli gunships actually this

has come after israel bombarded. this evening. in gaza city which means that israel is intensively escalating attacks against gaza because these are residential homes containing some apartments with of people of inhabitants and it has been reported it has been said that a number of these high rises have been warned against israeli killing in any moment actually one of these buildings high rises was hit by. rockets or from israeli drones in a preparation upfront playful for gunning down or attacking this building completely the situation is very tense in fact for the moment for the whole population in gaza to more than 2000000 people fearing more risk elation by the

israelis the last years of the headers i was with my brothers and. there was an israeli bomb i think it was or 2 or a shell when i saw the horrible scene of my brothers lying around i couldn't take it it was like a massacre so many people were coming to see what happened and there were no ambulances or medical aid at the scene so we can 1st i've been i'm shocked i can't believe it how are children who were playing in front of our house peacefully they were hit by a bomb after we had it we rushed outside to find the children lying on the ground please stop killing our kids for god's sake what would they do if it was their children enough is enough they've done enough to us we're not resistance fighters or militia we're not killing anybody we're peaceful citizens standing in front of our houses peaceful people who did not carry guns knives or weapons were they doing this to us so of. my kids were killed both of them were very young one was 11 and the other was 7 years old playing in me they were playing only 30 meters away from

me my nephews were playing with them too and a young guy called our maid who was getting married in a few days they were playing and i was calling them they were looking at me when suddenly i saw a missile land right in the middle of them got my heart is broken i lost my heart along with my children god help me. riots have also gripped the capital of israel for a 5th day over restricted access to a key holy site in the month of ramadan as well as the possible eviction of palestinians from their homes in east jerusalem on the 1000 palestinians were injured over the past few days the leaders of hamas and israel exchanged threats blaming the escalation on each other. of us. and the islamic jihad have paid and will pay a very heavy price for their aggression. if israel wants to ask only we are ready for it and if it wants to stop we are also ready if they want to release their grip

over jerusalem we are ready. the founder and leader of the palestinian national initiative that's more stuff of our go to spend talking about the escalating situation in the latest episode of going underground you know what problem which the solving of which will solve all the problems and stop this is coalition would be that is the ins it's ok if they should and i'll post used loosely they're all independent state that would problems that is playing us in 60 fortieth's distillers fully it is either his own will allow us to have a stooge of our or him and them at will state solution as the world speaks or we should be allowed to live in one state was full democracy quotes gordo you whether it's you have to choose either one solution or another but one thing they should know and the wallets of is that we as post in you people will never accept to be slaves of occupation and updates that of in my opinion the world has to stand up to its to sponsibility and stab suit was there early enough is enough you cannot be in

punitive the international law and as a whole cannot be allowed to be above international law it has to be account of the local it is the other currency. it is a day of mourning in the russian republic of time to stand as this capital comes to terms with that horrific mass shooting at a local school 9 people were killed most of them children while more than 20 others were injured the science of the tragedy has become a makeshift memorial for the thousands of local school memorising those lost in the timeline of how the shocking events unfolded. here i was in the class on the 2nd floor we heard bangs that sounded like

explosions 1st because the classroom doors and not let the children get near the windows we told them to sit down along the walls and try to calm them down on the street a man with a gun ran into the classroom and started shooting people he didn't shout anything but before he did this heard an explosion right on to our classroom after that our teacher told us to hide under the desks. the feet in. the ceiling. and. difficult. for you to forward your life.

so you really. don't know about what is below. this is from the world one of the usual numerous ambulances emergency crews and fire trucks are at the site later eyesore a teacher covered in blood getting pulled out of school and about 4 children being carried away.

r.t. correspondent right because there's been following the events in khazan he reports now on the day of mourning currently being observed in the city which is still in a state of shock. well as you would expect the city's heart has been shot to the days maybe a day of mourning but it lasted throughout the night as tens of thousands literally tens of thousands of people flocked to these small makeshift memorials burying them with flowers with toys and memory of those who had digested the horrific attack yesterday long before that time long long before that top 7 pupils as well as 2 teachers many others are still in hospital several of them in here if you condition i mean if you read the list of injuries you can have the sad what sort of nightmare took place in this school yesterday as a 9 year old for example with multiple gunshot wounds shotgun wounds to the chest

who lost 3 liters of blood is fighting for his life one of the as well as others who have gunshot wounds to the head back to their legs broken hips costume tropical cuts to the face and neck as they. chaos and panic as they jump from windows down 3 stories to get away from the kids to get away from the shooting there's all sorts of videos online showing shouldn't hunkered down behind desks his teachers stand god next to barricade the door with admissions shouting into the loudspeaker system for people to get in the cover of the teachers to clues those not to put them through anyone we have frantic calls to parents you have parents all over the city literally sprinting running along streets to schools because messages that there may be attacks in other schools to save their kids to get them out of classes to make sure. it was a scene of absolute chaos here in yesterday and things only calmed down towards

towards the evening when the suspect was apprehended in authorities calm people down urging them to remain calm that everything is under control. obviously the people here many of them have kids many of them had kids yesterday in school so they were worried they were concerned they were in fear and in terror of what what happened what could happen you know that was the messages were frightening on live on the internet and all the people here they had to express their support for those who are still fighting for their lives in hospital and again for those who lost their lives in the tragic attack that took place yesterday. i have 2 kids myself 2 sons what can i feel now i feel awful i came here from the other side of town just so i could see this place so i could place into one flowers very good news for sure when i had the news i burst into tears have 2 children one of them is a school boy and when i imagine what the children from the gymnasium went through i

feel very bad. on the stage this neighborhood is quite calm we did not expect we have very surprised that we had such an attack we can say that we are in shock i was at work what people obviously want now is audiences says about how this was allowed to happen why new red flags were raised when the 19 year old boy with a shotgun how he was given a valid a real license how impossible the psychiatric tests the drug tests the medical person you know is described as intelligent calm quiet without without any sort of red flags what pushed him to carry out this this inhuman act. and what authorities are going to do about it you know 3 years ago i reported from gets another school shooting took the lives of unfortunately many more children people thought that lessons had been learned security had been established by law schools all over the country and yet there are gaps gaps in security there already huge shortcomings in

the security at the school as well as perhaps what people suspect shortcomings in the work of law enforcement agencies nevertheless it is early to jump to conclusions the investigation has only begun but people here want to. because and shooting suspect has been identified as a 19 year old who later came to light he was a former student of the school where the attack happened the perpetrator used a pump action shotgun for which he had a legal license to c.c.t.v. footage emerged online it turns out the suspect was brazenly carrying that gun all the way on its journey to school you can take a look at the route that he reportedly to here from his house to the school it's believed the journey would take in just about 10 minutes but questions remain as to why no passers by called police to alert them having said that they'd seen someone with a gun it's one of a number of issues the incidents raised including what might have led the suspect to carry out such an attack those who knew him said it went completely against his

character. but i think we met this boy before he's our neighbor and i remember his face i noticed that he had a very intelligent appearance he was a very tidy i've never seen him heading out with any dubious people he was a good boy and also always so quiet he also held me in the past with the tartar language i don't know why he became like this i don't know what happened to him a very good and well mannered family i only had a good opinion of him the russian human rights commissioner has now proposed raising the age for owning a firearms license from 18 to 21 at large of the tragedy we debated the broader issues surrounding gun control mental health the targeting of schools. bullying we know at least in the research that i've conducted is the leading cause of gun violence in schools so bullying revanche retaliation and and side effects of psychotropic medications have been found to be the predominant causes of violence

for and i think one of the most important things that we need to do as counselors as educators as parents as administrator is we really have to work to intentionally create a very safe school climate working together collaboratively with parents with teachers with administrators to really identify those students who may be withdrawn who may be why it you may have struggled with the recent loss who may be a victim of bullying who may be struggling academically or they have behavioral issues and the more that people can come together and identify the work that we can be proactive rather than reactive and really reach out to and connect with the struggling students that will be turned for by them with resources and support that they need and hopefully ventra back violence from occurring what was it that motivated the individual copycat attack possibly but only if the individual was

following what was going on reading about it and everything else most copycat attacks tend to happen within the days weeks and months after a major incident so it's the police all of the movie trying to do the got the individual secure it work out what his motivation was behind carrying out the attack and then trying to identify if there's any way that they could have put mechanisms in place or could still put mechanisms in place to transport those motivations more guns you have in a society that more like you know you are to have these kind of incidents and of course we've got an awful lot of people with mental illness of one form or another they have extreme views and if you give these people guns you've got to expect at some stage of these are going to go wrong so you know. less guns in society safer we all are it is a secret that you on the internet you find out what to do and how to do it and this is a this is a problem for all societies and that's why i say before the less guns it out the

less likely it's the sort of incident took place because of course we have an awful lot of people with mental illness but also a lot of radicals each of us as well who might want to go out and what they see as a blaze of glory the. official figures show the corona virus has claimed the lives of more than 3000000 people around the world however a recent study suggests the number could in fact be double that that's according to new analysis from the institute for health metrics and evaluation which is part of the university of washington that research assessed figures across the world and claims for example that in the us the true amount of deaths is more than 900000 way above the half a 1000000 currently recorded the findings claim so many deaths go unreported as most countries only record those that occur in hospitals or of patients with a confirmed infection. let's discuss the findings and the overall situation with

covert i'm joined live on the line now by margaret harris is a spokesperson for the world health organization welcome thanks so much for your time margaret 1st of all let's start with this this new study what do you make of it do you consider it credible to believe these new numbers that are being stated that. good morning from the start we've been aware that indeed not all cases of coke and sadly not all deaths from kovi would be picked up in the early stages testing wasn't widespread and also when you get very low breaks as we've seen in the americas in europe and now in south asia 80 india you are testing services are overwhelmed and when we begin to see something like 3040 percent test positive for tb we know that a lot of cases out being missed and likewise people who die particularly people who die at home or people who may have died in nursing homes and so on may not necessarily be included in the numbers considered at the fatality count so

the no the final numbers really won't be fully known until we've done very very deep analyses after this outbreak is the other problem though not them fully understanding the numbers the problems when it comes to deciding how best to tackle the situation well sydney good data is critical no doubt about it the better your data the better your decisions but what is also critical is understanding the trends now if when you see a very rapid rise in infections as we cases as we're seeing now in india that gives you information about preparing your health system and about really doubling down on the actions need to stop transmission certainly. the better of the data the chance you have of making really well fine tuned decisions but the trends of the things that you make those decisions on i just want to you talked about the way the situation can change fairly new story that just come out about the situation in the

seychelles report is the most vaccinated country on the planet that actually the vaccination system there is not helping to reduce the number of covidien infections what do you make about that i know it's very early on and is not really been much chance to assess that. we being a little premature thinking all these vaccinations are going to put an end to the coronavirus. well we've been saying from the start looks a nation is a great tool and the things he expects the nations are doing really reducing the number of deaths and the number of instances of severe disease and that's critical for not overwhelming your health system because as we've seen wherever the health systems overwhelmed not only do many more people die of coat it but people die of other things because they can't get the kid they need now a situation like we're seeing in the seychelles maybe say telling us something about whether the vaccines prevent infection and that is actually different from disease and did you can be infected with the virus but you may not have the

symptoms and if the vaccines doing its job and helping your immune system fight it it will also prevent you from getting to that severe situation where you are likely to die you have very interesting point the regional director of the a w h o for africa warned recently a slow vaccine rollout african a race against time just what is the problem in africa why is it such a problem getting the vaccine to people oh. well africa has many countries that didn't necessarily have the financial wherewithal and the political clout to get vaccines ahead of time so we've been working very much with many of those countries through the code xscape to ensure that they did get allocation now we are facing a critical shortage of doses and many countries are now stepping up to share what they have but indeed it is a race to get those doses to the different countries but having said that and to really a point you can still stop transmission with the standard public health measures

the physical distancing of voiding the social mixing and really testing in tracking knowing where your viruses and if you've got transmission if ever you identify transmit. ensuring you do quarantining and self isolating in a way that you support the community to do it properly so you really break the chain of transmission. the one of 2 scares along the way relating to certain violent scenes the u.k. is now offering alternatives to the astra zeneca job for people under the age of 40 that was linked to concerns about blood clot fears as i understand the w.h.o. as consistent people to keep on taking the vaccine what should be organizations position on it now. so we've seen a plausible connection between a very very rare response in some people to the astra zeneca and potentially it's not clear whether it's

a platform that's being used it's being used in a couple of other vaccines that research is ongoing now we do see there's a close connection there are some people who may develop the syndrome which involves. their platelets responding in the wrong way and and so many clots so it is very important that people know whether or not they are that person at risk and really do get informed and but it is very very it is one in a story in a 1000000. so even though it can happen the critical thing is to look for any signs that it's happening or to know whether you're a person who's more at risk. we've talked about the difficulty of everybody getting access to a vaccine is part of the problem money a poor countries being left behind when it comes to getting vaccinations. well what happened was very early on that wealthier countries of the countries with greater

political clout and political resources and access to the companies essentially picked up all the doses now we did expect that to happen that's why we set up the kovacs facility which enables all countries rich or poor to access vaccines through that facility and indeed because many of the doses were have been taken up by the rich countries that would have a good. of 53 percent of the world's population have probably had a vaccine but the bulk of them are in the high end up in middle income income countries they've received 83 percent of the world's facts scenes and of the lower middle income countries where they've just received 17 percent of world sex scene so the disparity is very very wide and we've got this bizarre scenario where. some people who want the vaccine can't get it others who can get it readily as it enters a called vaccine hesitancy seems to be the popular phrase what needs to be done

about bud is that a big problem that people can get the vaccine and just choosing for whatever reason not to. so effects and hesitancy is something that is always an issue with any kind of vaccine program and there are people who simply anxious some often people who are concerned they're not feeling that they're getting all the if ice oh there are some people in some groups who simply reject all vaccines and we've seen this with such lifesaving childhood vaccines as measles you know we've seen in a big rise in the deaths from a source in children because they had been some beliefs around the measles vaccine so this was another reason why when everybody was celebrating the arrival of the vaccines yes it was a great thing but we knew that that seems a learning and not going to end this pandemic where we all have to work together on everything including helping the people who i notice about getting a vaccine to understand that this is a great thing they could do for themselves and for their communities and that the

very best vaccine you can get is the one in your arm margaret thanks so much for coming on my guest is margaret harris spokesperson appreciate on monger. it's a pleasure speaking with you. it's been a pleasure speaking to you i hope you've found something of interest in what we have to say over the last half an hour or so updates on the top news stories coming your way in 30 minutes.

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