israel ramps up military pressure against the garza strip with ground forces joining the air assault on the border children caught in the crossfire we get reaction from rock legend and peace activist roger waters. when we're talking about gaza which was in the barrel full of fish and you should really. be busy sitting in on the boats are busy at this time is no one for nothing on the streets . sirens television bringing life there to a standstill gaza militants say nearly 1800 rockets have been fired into israel since tensions flared on monday. you know the news u.s. military officers say that they're tired of the state of the nation that has been

censorship and border crisis in the toilets of a question with the current president's health allows it to perform his duty. by their great to have you with us you watching r.t. international. violence continues to rage between israel and palestine as the region teeters on all out war and disturbing scenes victims including children was seen being pulled from the rubble in gaza following israeli air strikes video emerged of medics and emergency workers recovering the bodies of 6 victims in pleading for children following attack on thursday local media say that they were all part of the same household. the latest strikes ambulances and other emergency vehicles have been ferrying the wounded to a local hospital early on friday morning since monday 109 people have been killed

in gaza or according to the hamas health ministry 28 of them are said to be children. meanwhile israel says it is massing troops along the gaza border and calling up 9000 reservists as fears grow of an imminent ground invasion of the mass ruled garza strip israeli troops though haven't entered the enclave yet but artillery and tanks have been firing into the strip overnight and. the israeli army claims to have destroyed several kilometers of underground tunnels in and around the israeli border with gaza during strikes carried out in the early hours of friday morning the i.d.f. released footage showing a large scale operation involving ground forces artillery and $160.00 aircraft according to a statement that would make it the largest round of strikes against gaza so far in this 4 day flare up the israeli air force including drones helicopters and fighter jets have been targeting the strip since monday after the militant palestinian

group hamas began launching rockets into israel is a very 5 video of israel's intense bombardment of gaza overnight israel's bombed more than 650 targets in gaza destroying several high rise buildings in the densely populated palestinian enclave the i.d.f. said it strikes killed dozens of militants including some top amass commanders and local journalists and is this report from gaza. the scene where where i am is very tense for the moment as this really were planes and israeli tank or infantry have intensified their shilling and the ball boggled by argument of the palestinian gaza strip the population here are being forced to endure because of the intensity of the chilling in the 2nd day of their 30 or 8 and actually it is one of the largest israeli attack on gaza in the last a few days and the people of guards are as i said this door and did following

government answer from the news on the social media people are saying that children are screaming out of the volatile situation of the of the loud and around them around the cities and towns where the death toll in gaza is on the rise the women are being killed children are being killed inside their homes because of what is being described by international organizations like the i.c.r.c. as being indiscriminate fire against palestinians which is which is illegal according to international law the infantry troops israel has beefed up their presence on the bull did lines and it is likely that israel will take a sort of action on the ground the ground invasion for the gaza strip and i would like to mention here is that the palestinian resistance factions including they slam mr bass and the islamic jihad have warned against such an invasion by the

israeli troops saying that there will be some sort of a retaliation a strong retaliation to any ground attack by capturing more israeli soldiers by by air by by attacking israeli soldiers who are to attack the gaza strip palestinians here are being very concerned about there in action by the international community especially by. then i did a state which described as really actions against gaza as being not exaggerated and giving a chance for more talks to happen in order to continue to be able to contain the volatile situation and the region that's the update for the time being. of the number of casualties has been rising daily since monday so far $109.00 palestinians have been killed in the conflict 7 israelis have also died including a soldier killed by an antitank missile in a 6 year old child it in

a rocket attack you will have us says it has already 550 rockets into israel in the latest exchange of fire. the way when i looked in. the. air raid sirens rang out on thursday throughout several cities warning people of incoming fire from gaza including in terms of where all this listen to this report. the sirens are sounding here in tel aviv i've just woken up and i'm just going to walk through the apartment to go outside and see what's happening so i'm just switching on the lights because it's about 1 o'clock in the morning and they're coming from that direction and there's usually a pause after the sirens and then an explosion as to where the rockets have landed this is not the direction one should be moving in actually most people are sleeping in sheltered rooms i was shit i was sleeping and as a shelter been up until now people should be hunkering down but i just want to show

you what it's like here when the rocket sound so if we go here. and you walk with me. you can also seeing the roads are completely quiet tel aviv is a busy city and only the roads are busy at this time there is absolutely no one or nothing on the streets now is the pause i told you about and then after a moment or so they should be an explosion and that would be the iron dome anti-missile defense system intercepting with the ruckus they were it is there it is it's quite far away so it doesn't seem as if the rocket landed in tel aviv it sounded a little bit off to that direction. but for this reason at least 5000000 israelis are hunkering down in bomb shelters tonight while that sounds a bit loud that's coming from there so that's quite close to where we are and really shouldn't be outright now i should make my way back to the shelter where i

was sleeping up until a minute ago. policy out r.t. tel aviv. this really city of lourdes become a flashpoint of clashes this week it's one of the cities with a mixed arab and jewish population farm and we've seen dumping down a synagogue that have been torched israeli security forces have been patrolling the streets tension has eased compared to previous days but the situation remains fragile in the local earlier like indifference on the streets to a civil war in a pink floyd front man and activist roger waters thinks the israeli occupation of palestinian lands is untenable. unless some pressure is brought to bear upon the israeli government to stop the ferocious murderous attack upon on gaza they're not going to stop of their own accord their will is not going to suddenly disappear but clearly in the long term. these really occupation of palestine is

untenable it is not a future that compulsively survive public opinion is changing all over the world and they are not going to be allowed to get away with it by the by global civil society in my view i can you understand i have to give israel's point of view all not they say an israeli court has ruled thought prior to 948 land was in jewish. and the hearts because of jordan has taken away from them and this is not an equal conflict this is not and when we're talking about gaza what to look in a barrel full of fish in the israelis is shooting into it with hugely efficient weaponry and them and you talking to me about what some israeli spokesman is saying about what's going on in ghosts or and how that the next thing you'll be telling me is that rockets rained down on jerusalem or some it's equally nonsensical.

story which they've been to say they've been saying the same thing over and over again a single state from the rivets of the say a proper democracy with equal rights all rights equal equal human rights for every rich single citizen all people citizens all the jews all the arabs all citizens of a single state from the rivets of the sea that would. that would have a chance a real real chance of working you know why because it speaks to the collective management of our human affairs that we're all going to have to adopt to put in the save this fragile planet from this from what we're seeing on our screens here and i.d.f. spokesperson told r.t. it's a mass that triggered the violence and israel is simply trying to protect its people that safe not under siege it's all it's all it's a security blockade we have nothing no interest in the streets really think about

it not a holy place a tiny place we want to live in peace but in the street the risk from us it turgon ization if the muslim brotherhood and they disagree to have israel hine me the only jewish state on earth and from time to time they launch many many sites on the neighboring state settlement and now it's escalation about the ground forces we have to consider it because you have to think what will be next if you ask me i don't think that we really see israeli troops in gaza i think that our forces are trying to do the best not to harm the population but to harm the stockpiles in cetera but you know the whole must use that population

is human shields but i i want to say something about the country is ok. i saw in international t.v. they always try to look at it like a ball or basketball image is just 7 the cousin is in israel and it's 4 in the palestinians aren't and i think it's not fair ok because these really just trying to make the civilians in every house to be have a new house we have a show like in my house we try to pick our civilians and they deliberately. endangered. a british army veteran who has taken his own life after attending funerals of 9 comrades killed in iraq 34 year old father of 2 lunch england have been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder since leaving the army in 2008 his mental state have been further strained since attending the

funerals of each of his fallen comrades who was killed in action in iraq he was found collapsed at home in february this year and died a short time later in hospital his widow helicopter shared what happened i was a he left the army and it populum has become quite clear after he left the army. and he was diagnosed back in 20 tal for. well when he was diagnosed it was certain it wasn't a break you know. it don't write it up should be none of our streets really even when i was in remember it sounds like. a book that could be used before he died that's when it was really really bad was he actually up massive some on this go as well because he went to the end that chassis went to combat straps and not one person in any open i was actually not can't you help that he's up. according to

the campaign group veterans united against suicide $67.00 former servicemen took their lives last year in the last 2 decades there are almost $300.00 suicides among serving personnel during this period the u.k. have been involved in several conflicts including iraq afghanistan and syria really got the game thinks the veterans just aren't getting the support they need the why these veterans are treated for me these boys and girls who go into quite frankly and that combat these horrific memories that none of us will ever you know not comprehend not what happened. but you know they're literally thrown a start would that be taught that such a complex there's no one that can deal with veterans and to me that's not good you know. i've had to sit 2 children down. because it wasn't helped. and you know in years to come that's going to be a difficult conversation to have impartial but you know not that it could have been saved if it wasn't for the organizations out there to how completely.

they were if you can more news coming your way after the break. you've got the end of the spanish empire the end of the british empire the end of the roman empire and you have some similarities and differences but the 3 cities traffic we talk about the rise of one nation in this case china and the fall of the ruling at the time this case the united states we've got all those kinds of things happening right now the people who are least informed about this are the americans themselves because the cable news network of mars the corporate news it's not in their interests to actually prepare people for this they're just considered to be expendable. join me

every 1st week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back questions about president joe biden's health are against. america this is after $124.00 retired military officers signed an open letter claiming the administration's launched an all out assault on their constitutional rights and they questioned the president's fitness to rule there would serve angered other military servicemen and the democrats explains. well you watch the news so you

know joe biden's the best we see with president biden he's demonstrated to the country what a difference. the change of presidents has made president biden is confronting this enormous loss directly and publicly help americans heal on any front that something that joe biden is uniquely qualified to do as a job. giving america a message tonight them and one i think that only this president president could give not the former one the thing is apparently the mainstream media doesn't speak for everyone shocking so what bones does this lesson have to pick with the current us administration well quite a few ranging from joe being too buddy buddy with beijing to killing off thousands of jobs and along with a big percentage of americans thinking that the ongoing border crisis is biden's fault open borders jeopardize national security by increasing human trafficking

drug cartels terrorist entry illegals are flooding our country we must reestablish border controls and continue building the wall and while the white house won't call it a crisis 10 times more migrants will court last 7 month at the border compared to a year ago border patrol says it's a crisis and people in texas a teaching their children to shoot here just in case but totally not a crisis though at least at the wool oh yeah didn't you hear by to the man who said there will not be another foot of will construction on my administration is a surprise constructing ok not a wool but a barrier which apparently is very different but while biden's building back better on the border the letter claims that freedom of speech is crumbling down. censoring speech and expression distorting speech spreading disinformation by government officials private entities and the media is

a method to suppress the free flow of information a tyrannical technique used in closed societies which is strange because he promised to be a president for all americans want americans except subscribers to paula anyone who's up and a red cap or donald trump that banned and given all these mixed messages coming from the white house the letter ends often the question is if biden up to the job. the mental and physical condition of the commander in chief cannot be ignored he must be able to quickly make accurate national security decisions involving life and limb anywhere day or night now one simple video can prove that joe's not sleeping at all. but that there was a star group of democrats who spied him to think about giving others the authority

to launch a nuclear attack not exactly a vote of confidence in the commander in chief so as you can see a fiery laughs with some serious allegations that have got people a bit angry that was where you bors and i was expecting some of it is very antidemocratic they are absolutely violating the norm to be a political they're being used for partisan purposes they're going against their constitutional oath all very good points very very good point that was not raised last year when almost 500 national security need has decided to publicly dump trump the current president has demonstrated he's not equal to the enormous responsibilities of his office he cannot rise to meet challenges large or small let me guess that was different isn't it always in a country like america has a leader who clearly has some sort of cognitive decline who is not evil to

independently lead up to alone can cause great instability in the global arena and a global leader one of the biggest problems we have is the mainstream media outlets in the united states who have not only there are no longer journalists there's no journalistic integrity within mainstream large media outlets in america and some of their allies and progeny they are have now become an arm of the democratic party in news. it's a thing out because our american mainstream media outlets are propaganda arm for joe biden and the democrats when the news coverage of the now people are going to have to make up what that is and so they're going to come up with what are they trying to cover up it might make it much worse than it is or maybe better than it is and that will cause so much more instability so many more risk and that that's what's dangerous dangerous to the citizens of this country it's dangerous to people throughout the world because of the role the united states is played in the world.

to bonds also feeling the heat at home over his pandemic recovery plans for the economy now several u.s. states are looking to slash emergency benefits in a bid to boost their job markets restaurants across the country have been struggling to harness stuff despite hiking pay rates to attract applicants critics claim generous unemployment checks are leaving many reluctant to actually look for work although that argument has been rejected by the white house has a way of know that people are just choosing not to provide for jobs because get stronger when the benefits are so we don't see much evidence that the extra unemployment insurance is a major driver in people not rejoining the workforce in the mid to covert restrictions being eased the more people vaccinated the u.s. saw 266000 people find new jobs in april but may sound a lot but it's a long way off the market economists predicted they expected a 1000000 to find work in the short 4 months there was

a little improvement in the overall unemployment right. through until the autumn americans are receiving an additional payment of $300.00 a week which is sometimes higher than what's being offered by employers child care issues schools being closed and no vaccination yet are also said to be discouraging people from returning to work president biden system erika's economy is headed in the right direction and the low job figures there for justify his new spending plans it's an issue the one of how the u.s. government should move to a post pandemic economy that we put up for debate. when you have not working haying almost as much if not more than working that creates a disincentive for people to go and get jobs in the economy and that was on purpose during call that we didn't want everybody flooding in after you got disruptions and hospitality and travel but we need to be thoughtful about how we

move out of that covert economy and back into a more normal economy and i think wages are going after rise in order 'd for that so move forward properly the schools have not really opened in the u.s. and most of the places they say they're open but for maybe a couple hours or a couple days a week well that means parents have to continue teaching their kids they can't go back to work i suspect a lot of the recalls to work business isn't just testing the market and bringing people back and part time in other words their weekly earnings are far less if you want these people to come back raise the minimum wage for these people pay them a decent wage just so they can afford childcare make sure they have the same hours of work that you did before and the people are welcome back to work the idea that all these benefits isn't having an impact on the unemployment numbers is absurd sure there are other aspects of this and that there are other factors in this

equation but yes they do need to start moving more towards getting people back to work which means not paying them to stay home and we need to reopen our schools that is a that is a factor as well that is a good point so it's not so this won't fix the problem as far as just removing the benefits but we also need to reopen schools there's also the fact that there are a lot of people especially here in austin texas who are just afraid to go back to work one because again the benefits and because they're still afraid about coded so it's a variety of factors but we can't say that that that the benefits have nothing to do with this. investigations continue into a mass shooting that occurred at a school in the russian city of cazan this week it left 9 people including 7 children and the 19 year old suspect appeared in court for a pretrial hearing on wednesday he pleaded guilty and was remanded in custody his mental states currently being assessed at 3 claimed he was acting as god the

massacre occurred tuesday when the former student went to his old school and opened fire along with the 9 deaths war than 20 people were injured most of them children 8 of since been airlifted to moscow for specialist treatment with some said to be in a critical condition. following the horrific events the mother of a local teenager who committed suicide last year has asked for 30 to investigate a possible connection between the tragedy is her son and the shooter studied at the same college both proclaim themselves as god's best to get as have already expressed interest in the case and promised to relaunch the inquiry the mother of the boy who took his own life believes there may be parallels in their behavior out of there you know reveal that when i saw the video of the shooter lying a detention center in a cage with his hands behind his head half naked in the way he said all those wires and his behavior i saw my son he was saying god i am god the same words i heard from my child for about 2 years that he was both god and the devil in one person

and that he knew everything and he knew how to live and he knew what was going to happen he said something like that i can't just remember everything right now but i just saw my boy at that exact moment my son wasn't quiet he was on the country hyperactive but when he left school and went to study programming he changed he dressed all of black and had a hood covering his head you could only see his eyes he was always wearing a mask. the teenager killed himself last may his family says he had problems with his girlfriend and that he tried to commit suicide several times before after the neil's death his mother found an app on his phone that gives instructions on how to use weapons welcome back to normal like it was in college when my son became very distant from his family he completely pushed us away and didn't want to communicate at all he began to call his stepfather my 2nd husband by name although from the age

of 7 he called him dad suddenly daddy became just max to him his last words were mother you'll be fine when i'm gone you'll live in peace my ex-husband said that on the night of the death my son came to him with the red painted face he stood for a while and that fit for him he found out our son was not at home in the safe where the gun was had been opened with a key. give up on your other state for this new south and so much for a company that sold for made ford now don't forget we do have a lot more news stories that we have covered for you squeeze more than on our website you can check them out at all. americans love buying homes.

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