stop the madness that's the play from the israeli president as chaos reigns on the streets cars have been torched in one hour a driver is dragged from his vehicle and severely beaten. the streets are almost empty and the people are just inspecting the damages that have been inflicted by israeli warplanes or strikes the gaza strip enjoys massive aerial bombardment with hundreds of targets hit according to israel palestinian shower israeli cities with missiles a total death toll on both sides and i runs into dozens and funerals take place for the victims of a mass shooting at a school in the russian city of that is medics continue to fight for the lives of

those critically injured in the attack relatives of the victims have been speaking of their heart or. her name was she was 15 she was a very resolute girl she had big plans for the future. they're just gone 6 o'clock and even here in the russian capital you're watching international and we'll start with the latest then on the fighting in the trial. and also cross border onslaughts with her mask because what you see now plumes of smoke from israeli air strikes in gaza early this afternoon early to tell you how mass about to hit israeli cities in response to israel destroying a 13 story apartment block in garza now the building was reportedly where senior hamas officials had their offices as of now though israel has destroyed 3 tower blocks in garza the palestinian authority president said israeli aggression and

yorkie patients of palestinian territory had crossed every line a local journalist sent to this report from gaza. here is that. which was completely destroyed by the israeli army by the israeli warplanes yesterday and today is day 1st day of the way to liberation and the territory after the end of ramadan the streets are almost empty and the people are just inspecting the damages that have been inflicted as you see on the 1st day of it all for true when i'm supposed to be meeting my customers all i'm doing was inspecting the damage and salvaging some of the things so left intact i was not here when the book was here it came as a big surprise to me i had never imagined how much damage such a shelling could do not only my shop was damaged but also the nearby stores you see

plumes of smoke a still billowing from the destroyed apartment lot this is actually a very sad scene to see here in very mild neighborhood of gaza city one cannot describe what's going on here and the territory as is really war of planes continued to attack different parts of the palestinian gaza strip the latest of which was the strike against 3 branches of 1 may one bank woodchuck which is called the national the palestinian national bank that is due. to belong to gaza there strikes are continuing into gaza streb and in several and intensely and and actually no one can predict when this the ceasefire is reads as there are international efforts to contain that explore the volatile situation and the region in both sides of the region only that be the people of gaza just chilled with these

these things will come to an end soon and that they can rejoice that people can rejoice with their for their. families as most a majority of the people stayed indoor in this very special day of their aid and only the little numbers of the population of the locals managed to a pray at them or 6 very limited numbers of people prayed at the most read airlie and the morning only some were children in the front of their houses are a silly grating their way no cars in the streets no vehicles no movement in the streets of gaza because of the jency of the situation so that is the situation for the moment and. no one can project so far when this will come to an end. well hamas meanwhile says it targeted israel from on

international airport in the south of the country and their raid sirens have also been heard across several cities in israel including in tel aviv from where poor slayer now reports i was out in the streets and you could see people just rushing from the cars and throwing themselves on the side of the road to have any kind of barrier preventing them selves from those incoming rockets these sirens has been sounding throughout the course of the day it to caylee in the south of the country and also as far afield as a lashing out so far as many as $100.00 rockets were fired at israel today they are also some $20.00 to $30.00 a long range missiles that were shot one of them reached a large now that is the longest ever long range missile it's some 250 kilometers away from the gaza border and there are reports of 4 people who were injured in a it comes as the israeli warplanes continue to pound gaza they are targeting

a number of high storey buildings and we receiving reports from him us that they've also hit and israeli guests platform in the mediterranean sea so the situation at the moment shows no signs of letting up the numbers we are receiving are that so far 7 people have been killed in israel and 84 palestinians have been killed including members of the masses military wing there were a number of so-called suicide drugs which were attacked with explosives that were sent into israel they exploded over the same term of the country and all major airlines have now canceled this flights to benghazi in international airport the main court here in israel just outside tel aviv and planes that are still coming has been diverted to the airport in a lot later tonight there are a number of israeli solidarity marches that has been planned throughout the country . and they continues to be concerns over the growing and race between arabs and

israelis at various towns and cities throughout the country yesterday i visited the israeli town of beit jala which is just outside tel aviv where a jewish mob had attacked and i would drive in all these radio prime minister benjamin netanyahu has denounced what he stated was an attempted lynching and he has see it that there's no place for this whether it is g.'s attacking arabs or arabs attacking james in the israeli town of that young which is just to the south of jaffa and outside television jewish youngsters have gathered here and they are smashing cars that presumably they think belong to arabs there's also an arab owned ice cream shop down the road and the glass has all been destroyed b. i'm fittings in front of the building they've come here with israeli flags to show their support and this is in the tele ation to the violence we've witnessed in the last few days which has been predominantly arab on jewish violence so the so the

police are firing stun grenades and trying. the police firing stun grenades and they trying to get people to run away from here at am and you can see the security officers coming down the road and they are trying to push the crowd further and further away from here and a lot of the youngsters have moved down the road over the they have finally come in to try and deal with the situation and bring order and calm back to back to yum. yes i think that removes the image in our the arab driver wanted to drive into us he pressed the pedal to the metal and wanted to kill us luckily he couldn't do it because another car stopped him because otherwise he would have killed us this is our country and they come. to kill us in our own country arabs who live here want

to kill us no small children died in the streets because of the arabs now we've come here and the army and police are against us. we can't continue like this and it's not good what the jews are doing not good what they are observed doing the government is not doing anything so this is what is happening each side is doing what they want for 70 years weeping good neighbors it's a really big pity that this is happening now we have to make sure the things remain good between us. this card here was being driven by an arab men they took him out of the car and in an attempted lynch that he has been taken to hospital in the same happened over here. the same happened over here with this car down the road here and now the attentively and share tensions high they've been also shouting at the journalists and checking which channels we all belong to so we're going to make our

way out of here it's not the safest place to be. r.t. . well this is your backyard we heard about there is not the only seen a violent riots in the israeli town of lot for example a mixed arab and jewish area the mayor there has likened the situation on the streets to a civil war 2. that was. heal you. israeli border police are enforcing a state of emergency in law aimed at curbing a surge in. the country despite his radical clash with police and a vehicle resource i set on fire unrest has spilled on to the streets in

palestinian territories security forces respond with stun grenades and take gas to disperse the crowds there 7 palestinians are said to have been arrested the president has a local and religious leaders along with citizens the way everything they can to stop the violence. do all you can to stop this terrible thing that's happening before our eyes we're dealing with the civil war between us without any reason police stop this madness. ok but we can cross live now to jerusalem to speak with micky rosenfeld he's a police spokesperson we are very grateful for your time this evening firstly just tell us about the situation in jerusalem at the moment as it stands because we have seen an awful lot of violence haven't we in the last few days. as of this often in an early evening there is a large police deployment in and around the area of jerusalem in the old city in order to prevent any major incidents from taking place. there was the end of

ramadan which was yesterday evening things gradually arm down i don't mean there were a number of incidents that took place in and around the area of the old city where police units had to respond to a number of disturbances. as far as the israeli national police and we are mainly focused on preventing largest you know incident from thinking place across all the different our israeli cities and i'm referring to from normal and central part of israel. as well as down south towards the area where. the police deployment is absolutely necessary in order to be able to respond to any acts of violence as we've seen by the. local israeli arab residents who have taken the law in their own hands because attach police officers that are on the scene as well as attempting to kill a number of raiding from their homes that's like the situation is absolutely

unacceptable in a democratic society where the different communities are living together so closely together there has been criticism has been there at the place of being heavy handed particularly after the storming of the moscow on monday what's your response to that criticism. well if you look back to just the year ago when the 119 was being dealt with here across the country the israeli arabs who prayed on the temple mount came and things were quiet and calm and should place the ramadan in a respectable manner fortunately this year things have got out of control by local israeli arab residents who have taken to the streets and have gathered rocks and stones on the temple mount and on the jews and celebrations they went ahead with a full scale riot on the temple mount this is border police used only western weapons to respond to those incidents in and around the old city and that was absolutely necessary from that same event there were

a lot of incidents that took place not just in jerusalem's old city but also in the sharon neighborhood where we saw a lot of people involved in disturbances and all of that continued until the hamas decided to take the initiative initiative and rockets into jerusalem. that was a major situation that the israeli national police and its units down south to respond and go into a mode of emergency mode all across the country inside the civilian areas as well as dealing with the rocket threats that it needs hearing also until today this evening we are expecting a crisis only this evening in terms of the challenges that the police facing chiefly you'll you'll facing organized violence against you is it sporadic can you sort of explain to us the sort of things that. you face. we've dealt with mostly sporadic incidents sporadic with 10 or 20 people that are arriving to get and all of a sudden taking the initiative to try and either murder israelis jewish people or try

and damage their homes own burned vehicles or attack israeli police officers there on duty that is something that we are fully aware of we know that that is what is taking place goes to turning to the leaders of the different communities to take calm and speak to the local residents as well we can respond with our units our tactical units of border police units we know it's work fast and when there is a scale riot we are taking a step back and we are saying to the local residents don't get involved. and for example around the city of load there is a scale shutdown a lockdown curfew which is being implemented already from 5 o'clock this afternoon where we're not letting anybody inside the city and from 8 o'clock in the evening when there is a full lockdown until 3 in the morning to grand scale riots and in your experience is a police officer have you seen violence on the scale the full. absolutely not we've seen people murdered in the streets literally programs this is not 948 not 1967 we

need been a democratic country with no one order that is what we expect from our citizens the israeli arab society is our side we have offices in the muslim society that serve in the israeli national police and our news radio national force we live together we work together we celebrate together each one with their own religions and that's why we are putting up on people to respect one another but if not and if people take the law into their own hands we won't have any choice whatsoever the israeli national peace from the rule from the north to the south we will respond if necessary to violence we will let it continue and i know that the israeli prime minister has suggested that detaining people with that charge could be approved i think that was him with reference to was have a necessary steps possible off to carry out security assessments if we have intelligence and we understand that things are going to get out of control people

who use live ammunition which is something that we certainly don't want to reach that point then further measures will be taken and implemented we want to keep the streets and we don't want to see what happened yesterday not in a crow where we have an israeli man who is always been there and the situation that we also saw in the tampa area where an israeli arab man was injured what do it mean when he was beaten as well those scenes we definitely don't want to see of course is focused and committed to prevent wide scale disturbances we have enough of this is who are trained well enough to deal with large scale riots on all levels and of course we don't reach a situation where the only life i used inside populated areas we don't go that way . and i don't appreciate your time this evening thank you for coming on to micky rosenfeld a piece speaking to us from jerusalem. thank you. now nothing. this evening president putin has described a school shooting in the russian city of his than as

a barbaric crime adding that control over arms sales needs to be more strict 7 students and 2 teachers were killed and more than 20 others were injured most of them children while on wednesday 19 year old in the year pleaded guilty to the attack during a pretrial hearing people in the court did say the suspect showed no signs of emotion during the proceedings down hawkins's been speaking to some of those who were caught up in the tragic events. shock pain grief on the faces of all those who came to pay their condolences the images of children jumping from windows of floors covered in blood shocked the world here in the accounts 1st hand was worse. before we came to school as usual heavy thing was fine when the class began the teacher called me to the blackboard and just a few minutes later we heard several explosions but no one was concerned and the class continued only some time later we had the school director telling us to

needed to close everything and leave the room. but everyone was deeply shocked we owe our lives to our math teacher who saved us she ran to the door and locked it she was holding it very firmly alina and still seem in a state of shock and they were among the lucky ones for them the nightmare is over though nobody can say just how long the mental scars will remain for others the nightmare has just begun. its race to the school when he 1st heard news of the attack hoping he would see his sister evacuated to safety and bring her home she was too late. communicative there which is the doors of the room where my sister was together with her classmates weren't locked so the attacker broke into the room and shot the students. her name was sold for you and mine is still fun that's

because our parents wanted our names to sound similar she studied in a forum she was 15 she was a very resolute girl she had big plans for the future to finish the 9th form and get an education and i teamed. nose on the day school staff did all they could to protect the pupils risking and some losing their own lives in the process he would be the only one asking questions though could more have been done to prevent this tragedy and how can it be stopped from happening again. we should probably strengthen the school security as now we have mainly elder people working there also we should organize drills like the ones for fire safety and explain to children where they should go and hide if such tragedies happen. the bloodbath in school 175 how to clear a villain but also some unlikely heroes the son of the local imaam escaped the

killer who broke right into his classroom only to run back into danger to rescue his injured younger brother who thankfully survived despite being badly hurt. after we were taken out of the school to safety i went to search for my classmates the ones who managed to survive when i found them i went to search for my younger brother when i failed to find him i searched for his class teacher and then together we put my brother in an ambulance and the teacher sent me with him to there were 4 people with me in the ambulance one was my classmate who jumped out of the window on the 3rd floor to escape that nightmare the other was my brother who had his chest injured also there was a boy with his lip badly hurt by a glass fragment and one girl was sitting there with her hand almost torn apart. everyone i spoke to had one question why how was such cold merciless cruelty possible towards anyone let alone children. was confident that good prevails over

evil and that khazan will emerge from the nightmare stronger. this tragedy has united everyone regardless of their ethnic origin or religious belief people from other cities are coming to mourn with us we must stand together in order not to witness such events in the future he invites us to evening prayers at the mosque today and tomorrow or holy days for muslims either or breaking the fast understandably though the focus of today is on one of the darkest days in total stuns modern history. outside crowds continue to turn up an endless stream and aside from the pain on this day of mourning determination is also present not to let evil break the city's spirit which today has showed its strength daniel hawkins r.t.

because. he she surrounding muslim veils the one to get highlighting deep divisions in france not just in society but also in president macro ruling party that after it refused to support the candidacy of a woman who appeared in a campaign poster wearing a face covering with more his seanad a bit scary. the muslim veil has been drawn back into the fray here in france now merkel's own party has gotten itself wrapped up in a controversy so wrapped it over one of its candidates in the local elections in a move that some see is being the belt it's a board a muslim woman from running on one of its tickets why because in this campaign the flies she is committed apparently the ultimate heresy. a hit job the values of the republic called the move party is not compatible with the ostentatious wearing of

religious signs on election campaign document he that these candidates change their face so all the party will withdraw its support this is a view that being echoed point several prominent government figures from this report political party stand for separation the free leeches and political issues when you are elected you represent everyone and you do not need to show things that are really to try to tell me. would you not wish to present a candid with a conspiracist religious symbol it's a political choice the road though has a reopened place a divide within my own party with not all supporting the leadership has been on this matter. rather than making the decision inside the party the discussion went to social networks lumping together separatism and the veil which we denounce this is a serious political mistake i disagree with my political party when you have a young female engineer volunteers who joins

a party to promote progressive values whether she's veiled or not she has a place with us it's an explosive subject political islam is a reality it is a simmering threat in some neighborhoods and we have to be very firm french law doesn't prohibit someone who's wearing a hijab or indeed any other religious symbol from appearing in a campaign flyer this isn't by my. party is purely political what it really shows is just how sensitive issues around islam have become here particularly ahead of next year's presidential election for many this is another clear example of how much calling his party have moved towards the right some have described this latest move discrimination so what people here in paris think it's a form of discrimination and yes france is a secular country because i think it's a form of discrimination everyone has the right to introduce themselves regardless

of their religion no matter their origins and stuff like that when we go abroad we have to do what they require our face out of respect for the way things are done in such countries. she's a french origin i do not see why she would not have the right to be a candidate in the elections whether it is a french person or a foreigner everyone in the world has the right to be able to present themselves plans by from whence they could also see the banning of young girls wearing a hit job in public spaces have recently triggered international outrage on social media the hash tag hands off while he job save would single out france's minority muslim population while the international said the proposed idea was a serious attack on rights and freedoms whichever way you look at this this raul has put my corns party in

a pretty difficult and tricky position charlotte even ski all see paris. with france because parliament there has approved a controversial health pass potentially lying citizens to travel abroad and visit mass gatherings raising concerns though about possible discrimination of non vaccinated people. we're told this bill will manage our exit from the health crisis yet it is the most cost control since the beginning of the crisis the destructive madness of this majority decision has just ducked at this never ending their action the drugs into a permanent digital tracing bonjour is box is open well the health path is supposed to be implemented in paper or digital form and contain information about either vaccination or recent negative test or recovery from kovi it is promised it won't be used as a way to visit restaurants cinemas the stores and if the senate does adopt the bill it will come into force from june the 9th the government says it will help france

return to normal and won't be restricting. the health but this will allow us to reopen places welcome in the public to 1st of all some gatherings without this health bias we would have to wait much longer the french health pass is supposed to be part of a europe wide campaign with the introduction of universal digital certificates to finally travel within the block the passes are planned to be implemented in summer for no longer than 12 months however the initiatives are getting a mixed reaction. this is a good idea because it will help those who still don't dare to get vaccinated to be finally inoculated we have to coerce people because otherwise they will never get their jobs because french citizens don't believe in fact soon this has already been the case with bird flu and other similar vaccines. it restricts human rights it's against the freedom of choice this is free and informed consent we're not forced to be vaccinated s or taken to heart tests every time we go to

a restaurant we travel or take the train at some point it becomes to be tiring and above all it's inconvenient the news elysia if they force us to issue health passports and don't respect our freedom of choice i prefer after all not to go to a restaurant or theater not to travel if i have to do something for it i won't be part of the system we are not sheep where people who are responsible for our health our lives and they have no right to force us to do anything i am against this initiative we also heard from a member of the french national assembly who does think that local authorities already have excessive power over people's lives and should give them more freedom when the more they go to the authorities or completely disconnected from what all french people feel right now questions about these health passes remain and their introduction will inevitably lead to issues of inequality so far we haven't managed

to vaccinate the entire population and it won't be possible to do that in the upcoming months the government already has excessive powers in dealing with this health crisis as it can make laws by passing regulations as it wishes stop taking french people as fools i don't think anyone wants to put themselves in excessive danger people just want to finally get back to a normal social life that's it watching r.t. and europe today and i just got half past 6 in moscow more from us at the top here . the government has.