the deadly conflict between israel and palestinian militants shows no sign of letting up with. both sides in clashes on the ground. also ahead for you in this program on t.v. it's a day of mourning in the russian republic. reeling from a school shooting that killed at least 9 people including children. shooting people teach. school.

classrooms. leading to. do. this campaign against immigration there's no project no idea everyone is wrong. and. it is just after 3 pm on wednesday here in the russian capital this is. a very warm welcome to. a confrontation this escalating 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 hamas and the i.d.f. exchanging more than a 1000 rockets. we understand 5 israelis and at least $43.00 palestinians have been killed since the cross border flare up again. a little.

while we're going to bring up a map for you here to give you a better idea of what's going on at the moment there are several hotspots in a conflict we can tell you about of course you've got gaza then you have jerusalem and you have tel aviv and lot of that right here the last part though has been the scene of some of the fiercest fighting yet ultimately leading the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to declare a state of emergency in that city. now in this mixed arab and jewish city 3 synagogues and numerous shops and cars were reportedly torched as intense rioting by the arab community broke out some residents reported powell was caught in their homes and petrol bombs were actually thrown through their windows the local mayor has likened the entire situation to that of a civil war this is the 1st time in motion super powers have been used against the arab community in israel since the end of the military administration back in 1966

early on wednesday morning a rocket fell in lodi killing a man and a child. well the riots of also gripped with the city of jerusalem now for a 5th day in a row this is the worst on the rest of the city has seen in years. 2 . now the confrontation between palestinians and israeli police 1st began over for strictly the access to a key holy site during the month of ramadan as well as the possible infection of palestinians from their homes in east jerusalem and we understand more than a 1000 palestinians have been injured in the past few days in east jerusalem meanwhile hamas has fired hundreds of rockets towards televisa and its suburbs as well meaning at least one person dead this is according to israeli local media

reports now israel in retaliation has continued to pound the gaza strip with missile strikes targeting police and security installations. ah. well for more on this let's cross live now to our producer a pack of on the right side of the screen here and middle east senior correspondent paula sneer as well now paul it was an assault of paul it's been a very tense 24 hours and beyond that as well can you bring us up to speed what's the latest where you are. well it certainly has been very tense and here in the city of give a tie in which is just outside tel aviv at the moment things are calm but it

certainly hasn't been that way for the cost 24 hours today we are hearing from the israeli army that more than a 1000 rockets has been fired at israel since monday evening and those rockets have been targeting not only is weight communities on the israel gaza border but also increasingly so that means israel including same to israel where i am now the israeli army says it has responded with at least $500.00 strikes over gaza and it saved it among those killed off the 15 hamas leaders now we are hearing from the gaza health ministry that the majority of those who have been building cars in the figures be receiving a $43.00 did including 12 children that the majority of them off civilians but the israeli army says that this is the place of mass is choosing to the launched its rockets from among raise additional areas and in that respect it has been plaguing lots for using its own people as as human shields at the same time we ought hearing

that hundreds of palestinians in gaza have been injured. in these 11 churches didn't have those so those i was with my brothers and there was an israeli bomb i think it was or 2 rachelle when i saw the horrible scene of my brothers lying around i couldn't say it was like a massacre so many people were coming to see what happened and there were no ambulances were medical aid at the scene went to sleep confirms i've been i'm shocked i can believe it our children were playing in front of our house peacefully they were hit by a bomb after we heard 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 this children that 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. 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 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 landed right in the middle of them got my heart is broken i lost my heart along with my children god help me. now sirens have been sounding throughout the morning particularly along the israeli gaza border and the communities there mobile people are trying to make a way option the bolts of this well to try and get out of harm's way in the only house this morning they were silenced here in st louis as well most people in the same to the country and we talked about millions hunkered down in bomb shelters open eyes and although at the moment things are a little bit that single well there is certainly still

a tension in the air last night say for rockets exploded over to that we've and neighboring cities and neighboring towns of the rockets that exploded here where i'm standing if you keep it silent one block it was intercepted by the israeli and missile defense system at the job and fragments of that rocket so on a house here injuring 4 people and not in the face and where a rocket was fired to was into the city all along it struck a bus fortunately the bus was the bus went completely insane and just weight loss and also talks nearby and completely then tossed a number of cars that had he was all in the boat there were at least a few people who were bystanders who were injured in that attack i reached the like haitian top off and now up to the rockets landed. i'm just on science these radio

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 a loss on the floor and there is a bit of destruction the whole area has been closed all 5 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 150 rockets fired by him us and it says. it was in retaliation for israeli airstrikes so you can see here and be glass has shattered on and number of businesses the bed lined this road not this is exactly where the bulk of the rockets landed. now is rained out 60 swap the country has also seen confrontations one of the lowest has been often yet in the city at large which is actually 50 situation and the since i would be israeli army has now moved into the

city it has to create a state of the agency it had to get that wait some of the jewish residents of the city after they came under attack and off to their shops in the book and the number of his grade school have still to date now listen to 6 it includes a soldier whose tank this morning was hit by a rocket fired from gaza the osce hearing on the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu that must be 8 d. a price for those horrid well apolo you are in a suburb of tel aviv right now but all it's he produced. is actually in the heart of tel aviv in asio in the past 12 hours or so you really found yourself right in the thick of it didn't you. exactly you know we've drawn a sopwith to you rollins all the time. always hello being from my home i asked that of course hamas is. why i have

a ranch of rockets into the israeli territory on monday and 1st there were only. southern state is on the border with gaza like ashkelon ashdod and they're all why don't you state. the entire country came under fire and i have this. air which is called red alert so it shows you exactly where the rockets a lenda and and imagine this every 2 minutes a far iraq it is being fired into the israeli territory so it's all over the place and on tuesday night prime minister benjamin netanyahu vollard a fierce response to the attacks but so did hamas take a listen. of a judge hamas 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. and foremost and michael with collation between israel and the palestinians following the decision by the israeli government so if they expel us any answer from the shade jarrah neighborhood in east jerusalem on a drill. buses have been erupting here and there mainly focused on temple mile and a lots of compound interest the last since then however they spilled into this confrontation between israel and hamas. as i understand you've really lived most of your life here in the russian capital you're actually a fairly new resident there in israel if you would just bring us to a personal level how was it for you personally in the middle of the night last night when you found yourself in the thick of it. rory i must tell you it was absolutely horrifying and look we knew this was coming and 24 hours before i got

a contact from my my builder telling me what exactly i'm supposed to do but. on tuesday night i was caught up in the city away from my children away from my shelter and i was walking along the street and i was actually dragged into the shelter by a passer by and it was so. it was so terrifying because when the siren when the siren goes off it's just the sound is overwhelm and it's all over the place and really main idea and this is what they tell you is not to rush not to run for shelter because this is how you can actually enjoy yourself because when people panic they set running and they fall they stumble and that's how they get injured so you have to proceed quickly but calmly. in the 90 seconds after you heard the siren go off and you have to stay in the shelter for

about 10 minutes on tuesday night there was a barrage of attacks it was common on and on and on and it was like 6 attacks in 30 minutes so when i left you know you had this pinch of. haneke in your god and it's a it's really terrifying the 2nd attack happened on 3 am and i was home i will sleep . a good premise that we have a shelter room in our apartment it's actually all that's wrong and what it looks like it is it's a normal room but it has this. code on on the window you just roll it down and then you close the door and it's not a normal door you know it's like a stage you know it's messy if it's iran you still it off you lock it and then you completely say. so this is this is what it's been like it's scary. today it's a beautiful day people go around. you know like as normal as they can but schools

have been canceled children stayed home and people try to keep ask loath to hold as they can in case they need to go into the show quickly because there is this feelin old an imminent attack and we don't know what's going to happen. in that you are right. of course also the senior correspondent in the region paula split both of you thank you. well the founder and leader of the palestinian national initiative mustafa barghouti has been talking about the escalating situation this in the latest episode of going underground. then who problem which solves the gulf which will solve all the problems and stop this is coalition would be that is the. issue and i'll boast used loosely they're all dependent state that with problems that bind us in 60 fortieth's does do is fully it is either his own will allow us to have a stooge of our all in and then at will state solution as the world speaks or we

should be allowed to live in one state was full democracy quotes thought oh you work for it's do you have to choose either one solution or another but one thing they should know and the world is that we as in you people will never accept to be slaves of vision and updates that of in my opinion the world has to stand up to its disconsolately and stab soon too as their only interest is must come up to be in punitive to international and israel cannot be allowed to be above international task of the recount of the load is the other currency. it is a day of mourning in the russian republic of tatarstan as his capital cousin comes to terms with a horrific mass shooting at a local school and 9 people were killed most of them children while more than 20 others were injured the sight of the tragedy has become a makeshift memorial for thousands of locals commemorating those lost a quick timeline of how the shocking events unfolded.

yeah. let's look for the clip key i was in the close on the 2nd floor we heard bangs that sounded like explosions 1st because the caution doors and not let the children get near the windows we tell them to sit down along the walls and try to calm them down to look at what's on the street a man with a gun ran into the classroom and started shooting people who didn't shelter anything but before he did this we shared an explosion right on to our classroom after that our teacher told us to hide under the desks yeah.

the 5th if you like this you know. it was. the more i thought my uniform going to like. you feeling like you know you look good i know but it's a little. because you see from the liberal political views from numerous ambulances emergency crews

and fire trucks are at the. site later isaura teacher covered in blood getting pulled out of school and about 4 children being carried away. he is a model because there has been following the tragic events from the cousin he reports now on the day of mourning currently being observed in the city which of course is still in a state of shock. well as you would expect the city's heart has been shot and today's may be 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 long long before that 7 pupils as well as 2 teachers and the others are still in hospital several of them in here if you condition i mean if you read the list of injuries you can understand 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 their backs to their legs broken hips costume trouble cuts to the face and neck because they had to move in human care simpatico as they jumped 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 how could down behind desks the teachers stand god next have barricaded doors with admissions shouting into the loudspeaker system for people to get in the cupboard for teachers to clues

those nor do put them for 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 safeguard 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 and 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 he will worry they were concerned they were in fear and terror of what what happened to what could happen you know that all 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 to kids myself his

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. going through so that when i had the news and 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. for you on the stage this neighborhood is quite calm we did not expect to 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 these odds of us is about how this was allowed to happen why new red flags were raised when the 19 year old bought a shotgun how he was given a valid realise and how impossible the psychiatric tests the drug tests the medical evaluation the background check how this person was able to buy 350 reportedly 350

rounds of ammunition a shotgun without raising any red flags this is a person who lives in the middle of a city why this 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 and 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 here there were already huge shortcomings in the security at the school as well as perhaps what people suspect shortcomings of the work of law enforcement agencies nevertheless these early to jump to conclusions the investigation has only begun but people here want to. know the cause on shooting a suspect has been identified as a 19 year old he was

a former student of the school where the attack happened he used a pump action shotgun for which he actually had a legal license now after seems he t.v. footage did emerge online it turns out the suspect was brazenly carrying the gun in the open all the way on his walk to school will bring up a map for you here on r.t. international you can check out the route that he reportedly took from his home a journey of just over 10 minutes and yet during this journey he's carrying a big pump action shotgun so clearly questions remain as to why nobody called the police to and then when there's a man walking down the street with a pump action shotgun as one of a number of issues the incident has raised including what might have led the suspect to actually carry out such an attack those who knew him they said it went totally against his character. thank you i think we met this boy before he was 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 head in knowledge with any dubious people he was

a good boy and also always so quiet he also held me in the past with a tonsil language i don't know why he became like these i don't know what happened to him a very good and well mannered family i only had the good at being in of him the russian human rights commission has now proposed raising the age for owning a firearms license from 18 to 21 and in the light of the tragedy because i know we debated the broader issues surrounding our gun control mental health and 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 side effects of psychotropic medications have been found to be the predominant causes of violence 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 if you may have struggled the recent loss who may be a victim of bullying you 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 we can provide them with resources and support that they need and hopefully ventra that violence are occurring what was it that motivated the individual copycat attack possibly but only if the individual was following what was going on reading. budgets and everything else most copycat attacks tend to happen within the days weeks and months after a major incident so it's the police will be trying to do the got the individual

secure it work on 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 this to transfer those motivations more guns you have in our society the more likely 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 these and if you give these people guns you've got to expect at some stage 2 things are going to go wrong so you. less cans in society the safer we all are it isn't a secret that you're on the internet i know 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 you know the less likely codes the sort of incident took place because of course we have an awful lot of people with mental illness but also a lot of radical as well who might want to go out in a series of waves of glory. austria has strongly rejected

a plea for other e.u. countries to take in migrants from italy it follows a surge of arrivals to the small island of lampedusa more than 2000 mostly african migrants have reached the island off just off italy's southern coast overwhelming the reception center at least and the local mayor explained how they are trying to deal with the situation. too much especially because there are quarantine ships and they cannot dock imports because the wind bad weather and rough sea there are many difficulties already and if the ships cannot take migrants in quarantine it becomes even more difficult because our island cannot accommodate more than 250 people and there are already over a 1000 however we are working to ease the pressure both as a ride and as transferring my goods from the port to take them to a core unseen ship. lampedusa is one of the main landing points for people trying to get into europe from africa the latest arrival was supposed to be transferred

elsewhere in italy however there's a lack of unity among the members on whom all vend take the refugees from their land produces may or again says there is absolutely no help right now from brussels . and is into zoom in immigration's of brussels is perceived differently to how we experience it in italy until now brussels has only been interested in refugees not economic migrants whenever we talk to brussels they don't want to hear about economic migrants but at least 90 percent of the people arriving on our shores of just economic migrants. so how is it possible to solve the problem if we do not look at immigration globally the problem of immigration has never been properly addressed neither by the italian government nor by the european government so now there is this sort of ruthless campaign against immigration there is no program no project no idea how to solve it everyone is wrong with you telling governments and the e.u. as a whole. there isn't your top stories for this hour live from moscow here on r.t. international thank you for sharing a time with us we.