children of course in the crossfire as the deadly spiral of violence between israel and palestinian militants enters a 2nd week with no end in sight. to our children we are true 34 years old what did they do that played it necessary to kill them they were torn to pieces israel launches its worst onslaught so far while rejecting international calls for a ceasefire while the israeli say that spares responsibility for the tragic escalation. i want to say is a former commander in the i.d.f. to the citizens of gaza we love you we want you to leave a normal life you need to know that your leadership hamas leadership making all the

problems. and anti israel protests break out across europe as thousands take to the streets calling for the killing of civilians in gaza to stop. that afternoon just gone 5 o'clock in moscow you're watching r.t. international now israel unleashed a series of u.s. strikes in the gaza strip on monday in the ongoing tit for tat it followed militants firing rockets at its neighbor palestinians say at least 198 people have been killed in the coastal enclave in the past 7 days including 58 children and israel dead including 2 youngsters well here you can see the aftermath of a palestinian rocket strike on the city of ashdod in southern israel a residential building was severely damaged and at least 3 people were injured and merchants he workers say people. managed to evacuate quickly preventing further

casualties we're about to show you now to this a news writing strike on gas which killed several residents including children a word of warning my final speech is to steady. the others about the life of the of the below the will of the world is the fault of. the top of the food. was this just silly thing to say that. you. love for almost their children they are 234 years old what did they do that made it necessary to kill them one of the targets the israelis were after they targeted their missiles at small children who did nothing wrong they were torn to pieces this is street of many buildings have been destroyed already by the israeli warplanes including 2 main building the

residential buildings this one and the other one next to it as really intensive area strikes are killing women and children inside their homes and it is important to note that israel did not send out free warning for these buildings vision board before they bombarded them which is something only precision did as israel used to a warning to people before they attempted to strike the building there is. i mean a nearby who is living next to my house his wife told him i want to make it easy time to his wife wanted to go to visit her if either one here mother so she went to this building deliberating the aid and unfortunately she is now under the rubble and instead of celebrating piccies now under the rubble they're still searching for her by the way look fuelers now this machinery have been has been drying attempting to rescue the people deep inside. it's rival of this forest or rebuilding in

a way that street as you see here it's it seems to it seems to these people are trying to risk you their risk europe aeration is a bit difficult their house is been totally completely destroyed and this machinery is attempting to save what could be saved of the lives of the inhabitants of this particular of this particular building that is this scene for now for the moment in gaza city where the destruction is widespread destruction is largescale horse noise then and since we began the rescue operation we've seen a lot we've pulled 4 survivors from the rubble there have been many deaths to report from local journalists now families in gaza to continue the desperate search for loved ones in the aftermath of these strikes and after hours of scrambling through the degre one father here was finally reunited with his injured child the

infant survived a strike on a residential building in which his mother and 4 siblings died we spoke with the father. of one innocent children were targeted while they were going to visit their uncle and cousins the israeli army bombed their uncle's house which led to the martyrdom of 4 of his sons and his wife as well as 4 of their uncles cousins and his wife dr model bibi omar god survived and is now lying in hospital was of children done to deserve being bombed with missiles from a 35 aircraft what have they done to this child by rockets israel what did he do to be targeted by missiles what is happening guys is a crime against humanity houses of being bombed in collapsing on their residence without warning or nutrition no only crime is that they are children of gaza and while the palestinian prime minister has called on the international community to step in to help stop the bloodshed. so want to flog the gory images and pictures of those children whose clothes have dripping in blood and of died so soon one of the

biggest crimes punished by the international law if we follow what is going on minute by minute and call upon the international community to intervene but israel until this moment is not responding to anyone when we discuss the situation with his writing political analyst good enough he does think though that palestinian appeals that the foreign support will be left unanswered. question who really doesn't care enough about. this. to look at both you know if their vote is true to see you know which way to how would you think you could carry it through 14 years this. year but now i wonder if. you really. seem to be.

very. very. good you know as well as now that. you're. getting the same conditions very. well really just buildings were also destroyed in the latest israeli air raids a mosque in the north of gaza was leveled with surrounding buildings suffering massive damage at least 3 civilians were reported died here. about a 2nd wave next to the mosque and the street separates marsh partment from it i hug my children and my wife think you would die from the intensity of the bombing but thank god they were not harmed unfortunately missile killed 3 of my brothers to my sisters and one neighbor i told the jews that you're destroying the mosques of got and not bombing the security forces inside the right children the elderly and women their homes destroyed the seris severe wind and there is no mildred presence for the resistance fighters in the 2014 war this house was bombed but it was rebuilt

again and the syria does not fire on the troops and no rockets came out on what basis was the smallest destroyed remark the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has defended his country's actions saying that israel is doing everything it can to avoid civilian casualties and blaming hamas for using people as human shields netanyahu added to he sees no clear end in sight to the violence now armed groups meanwhile in gaza or including how mass continued to target israel with rockets with the southern city of ashkelon here a recent focus there a synagogue was damaged numerous cars were destroyed no casualties they were reported and in east jerusalem a palestinian rammed his car into israeli police on sunday injuring 6 offices the driver was immediately shot dead after what police had called a deliberate attack a mass later praised the driver. our correspondent paula seer spoke to

a former i.d.f. officer about his experiences in gaza and more generally to you about the current tensions. when i'm seeing what's happening now in the gaza border it is killing me from the inside because you know i'm thinking. about what i read through and about the friends i lost fighting for this country for our ups and jews in the same way. i'm asking myself sometimes if it will all work to last part of your hands to do last part of your body the last part of your soul if this situation will continue and i'm uncertain myself every single time that yes as if she spent 6 years in the israeli army 3 of them in gaza where he commanded 130 combat soldiers and id improvised explosive device ended his service and almost his life it was 6 in the morning id of tanks were

waiting to return to israeli territory and because of sniper threats xiv advanced alone to open the gate separating gaza and israel the id blew up in his face i opened my eyes and you know the pain filled my body i medically noticed that the my left hand was missing there was blood everywhere around and i remember myself trying to reach and apply pressure on the room but nothing happened and i looked on my right arm i realized exactly why it was also almost disconnected lying on the flaming hot soil hanging all small pieces of skin and flesh for days it was touch and go no one thought he'd pull through $700.00 surgeries and nearly a year of intensively habitation has lifted with 10 percent movement in his left arm and a prosthetic arm on his right now he's taken it upon himself to make sure the world understands what it's like for israeli soldiers fighting in gaza i risked my life

so many times just to make sure that no civilians from the palestinian side really hurt and they were very complicated operations i risk my soldiers we walk. exposed completely instead of send sending a tank or a missile from a plane just to make sure that no child all no innocent people will be on disposition a place in the gaza border here and recent video of the israeli army stopping a strike after seen children playing in the area looking at where it is going to be going to where it will be my own that i don't know when i. want to go and see some members a 14 year old child riding a donkey and approaching him and his soldiers they yelled at him repeatedly not to come any closer after we decided not to shoot this child oh he ran

away and the donkey was close to us and it was explode. in. such a powerful way that it. destroyed completely the fence we will rock you that really was under shelters and not to me and not my soldier was harmed by this incident if israel won considering only the power of the army. as it could be finished in 24 hours but we're not doing we're not doing it just because we know that many civilians live there i want to say for them a commander in the i.d.f. to the citizens of gaza we love you we want you to leave and know my life you need to know that your leadership hamas leadership making all the problems as contrasted

to continue the prospect of returning to normal life. we spoke you say to you donna rice now he previously worked for these round defense forces and does say that hamas makes it impossible for the i.d.f. to avoid civilian casualties the idea of studying or does that only allow time military targets not not everyone will know what the target was because sometimes it's it's intelligence information but there have to prohibition on attacking civilian targets even when they attack a military target they do everything they can to verify the minimum number of civilians all most civilians preferably is a mess and unfortunately because hamas is placed all its military installations in the middle intentionally in the middle of the civilian life of gaza it's incredibly

difficult they create an intentional b. level thought i'd only dogs i about which obviously what they're looking for or what we do fire back you would see the tragic judgment of the lateral and incidental tragic. for hamas it's a win with i know we go mad all you'll show long pictures and you'll see. meanwhile major european cities witnessed pro palestinian protests over the weekend with thousands to manning the attacks on gaza stop some demonstrators burned israeli flags and threw stones and bottles and police responded with tear gas and water cannon and a number of arrests were made it. was. the outline. i. will.

ok well let's look at some other world news now and so far almost one and a half 1000000000 coronavirus vaccine doses have been given to people around the world but there are big disparities between countries and it is happening as problems are mounting for one of the main supplies canada is now considering giving away unwanted supplies of astra zeneca the astra zeneca vaccine that after the jab fell from favor into its provinces and indonesia to it was posing distribution of a batch of the jabs after the death of a young man well in the latest episode of going underground we did talk to a scientist who developed the astra zeneca vaccine among other matters adrian hill explains why he thinks reports of blood clots are emerging. i don't know what's happening yes there's a huge amount of research going on my own view is that you need both. the spine got

to. contribute to the us it's a very interesting it appears to be emerging just in the last few weeks but the 2nd dose of vaccine most people have to as you know doesn't seem to do that's. that's a clue as to what's going on i do sing so that we will be able to address this hopefully in the coming months either it was reducing the dose of that scene or giving it a different route or some other maneuver that's overly immediately or why does it not work so well against a south african variant do we know why because these initial trials and phase are in would earn or so far the chinese one was good your one novak's johnson and johnson don't seem to be effective against a south african variant as well as what we've got a very small trial 2000 people out of the 60000 to you know trials with the taxi

which i stood in south africa and all we were able to do was to get really small number of cases. disease so what was measured in that small south african trial was protection against mild disease which was not statistically significantly present but the numbers which was small so very much. at the international energy agency has clashed with joe biden's team aver whether the u.s. should spend trillions of dollars accelerating a clean energy transition comes the watchdog issues a report that does question just how green the country's policy actually is more his saturday. if we take drastic action right now to address the climate disaster free tsunami should you know by 23 the united states will be 100 percent. calling me with new mission. of the world's clean energy was that probably 7 to turn into

a green tizzy and it does sound great wind turbines solar panels electric cars a green new wild the problem is green energy not so green i'm not so clean and these thoughts the conclusion of a new report by a top and a g 8 policy adviser and it's a bits of blow to the countries on the climate bandwagon who have already committed trillions to the fight. the building blocks of a clean energy future a mineral z. i'm talking things like nickel kobold and i'm talking a whole bunch of them because if you will buy it and thought that the average car on the street was a gaza while introducing green energy machines the typical electric car require 6 times the mineral inputs of a conventional car and an on shore wind plant requires 9 times more mineral resources than i guess foreign power plant so to feed this we need to mine more

will the report alleges that the future president wants will see jamaal and explode by 2014 lithium supply will rise by full 1200 percent graphite by 2500 these are some serious numbers on the wild card catch up but even if we do have enough it will be a very insecure future why well movement 3 quarters of critical minerals lie in the hands of 3 produces that's a whole lot of pressure on very few sources what if there was flooding or a war the supply chain shuts down and what if you fall out with one. there's 3 produces something probably that washington's mind is on since china mines more than 60 percent of raw minerals that's one trade war you just can't win. but even if we started building the mines to match the rising demand tomorrow the earliest we'd see actual results is 2035 the same year that might imagines we'll

have 100 percent carbon free electricity an innocent mistake or a political promise to please his party and put in the photos and i wonder what those voters would think if they knew the price of that guilt free electricity mining and mineral processing o'flynn generates toxic and ready active materials these can leak into groundwater causing major health and safety issues including fake teletubbies environmental impacts including biodiversity loss and social disruption due to land use change weather depletion and pollution waste related contamination and air pollution like i said green energy not exactly what it says on the box. and what do the minerals for biden's utopia come from if we take an electric car what does it need a battery what's the core ingredient of a battery lithium why do you find lithium in kopel but who is getting your

cobalt. the real frontier of the battery revolution is in the unregulated coal mines of the d.r. see where children as young as 7 work in perilous conditions earning a couple of dollars a day to work in narrow tunnels at risk of collapse it's an acceptable for businesses to shrug their shoulders about their supply chains consumers deserve to know that their cars are not powered by human rights abuses the mining of many minerals is mired in slave labor allegations which will only get worse when demand increases ahead of the price for someone to drive around with that carbon free conscience in a tesla so going green is a great slogan it's definitely a great way to get you some voters and it's great p.r. for an administration that wants healing but dig a little deeper and biden's clean future has got a whole lot of dirty little secrets what we heard from journalist charlie paul 2 to

say that the report leads to more questions than answers. the biggest issue from a sort of economic perspective that i can see is that if you're running a large business that happens to be in renewable energy and you come across the stumbling blocks for example or lack of supply or inflation issues you're going to have to out quite a lot of governments or or around the world in order to get out of these obstacles because whichever way you look at these companies. make money one way or another so it's not it's no use governments like the u.s. saying now i'm saying right right will you not find what's. manual only if you don't know 510 years down the line mr soren got the money anymore so i think these problems will be resolved one way or you know the other we have to get close to these to these targets but it's going to need government support rather than just so short term gesturing which which is what i'm seeing at the moment. now a top french police officer has lashed out at former officers for asking for more

help for the police just under $100.00 have signed a petition to the president asking that stations be protected from hordes of massed individuals charlotte n.c. as the story. this is another warning of a security threat faced by front by what's described as being a violent minority. everywhere that's the warning from around 100 retired police officers that we've had warnings in the last few weeks from retired generals and also from currently serving soldiers that there is a looming civil war here but what's different on this occasion is unlike back then when the majority didn't keep their names didn't keep their ranks the police officers with this letter this petition to present not going to have not just signed anything but also the ranks of the chiefs before they left office they calling for affective measures to be able to reclaim the country today the

authority of the state is undermined by violent minorities laws are no longer applied in the last 7 years of the republic the increase in attacks and the violence directed against guardians of the public peace demonstrate rejection of our republican values our customs and our model of society in the entire sectors of our nation that wrecked and not just highlights 2 recent attacks so the deaths of police officers in ram lake which was being treated as a terror attack and also just off the bat in having you were a police officer was shot as you try to stop a drug raid but it also talks about the continuing attacks the open attacks on police officers generally on their cars and also police stations which it says is now becoming a regular occurrence to. 6 go 2 6

. well the pretty. those calling for reform of the people who code in front saying it was the sentence is to refer back to verity of the crimes that he committed and not only has it gone to more than 40000 signatures to date it's also attracted the attention of police is top officer here in france this is said to be who is unhappy with this letter from this retired police officer saying that he does more to damage the institution of the police than it does to strengthen it and he's talked to them about the idea of looking at what the government is implementing at the moment saying that these measures should to make things better for the police he's perhaps referring there to the controversial global security law which has been passed by parliament ariens but it's not yet been ratified into law the so-called

seat separatism rule and the fact that the prime minister has that in the last week or so said that he would be looking for tougher sentences against those who attack and kill police officers but despite that of course this reflects a war issue this is now the 3rd time in the last month the so the rulings about right you wrong this time coming from retired police officers previously soldiers and retired generals to really you can imagine that is a lot of consternation immediately say at the moment about what they can do to perhaps stem the tide of people deciding that they not doing enough to protect the security services. now the czech president has cast over some serious allegations made against moscow relating to an arm step of explosion claims of russian involvement led to a series of tit for tat diplomatic sponsons last month and although it's now far from clear who the czech side thinks was to blame for the 2014 incidents let's get

more on this now with dan hawkins he joins me in the studio down quite a complicated story this is going on for a few weeks just break it down for us. 7 years in fact. 2 explosions in a sort of public in october and december 24th at a very large ammunition depot in which 2 people were killed the liquidation of that explosion took several years and during that time it was pretty much all but forgotten by many people until last month when prague be prime minister accused russia and russian special services of being somehow involved in this explosion and within just days of this an arm of announcement prague announced the expulsion of 18 russian at doing my text off in retaliation for this alleged involvement calls for answers though quickly emerged on the latest call came today once again from the czech president me or someone who said once again there are several possible

theories several possible causes behind this explosion which he'd been told by other officials in prior previous times needs to be investigated as opposed to just 1. 1 cause which is the russian special services this is what he had to say earlier unlike others and not drawn to any single line of investigation it's a meeting this week with the justice minister i asked her what she meant by this 3rd version she said there could be a cover up for a supply shortfall it's clear there could be several versions several reasons as to how this explosion could have taken place those involved in those investigations only without justice minister that claim and say even if at one point there may have been multiple versions of multiple causes under investigation so there is only one and that is the russian trace i explained to the president of the police are

investigating one version there may have been other versions during the investigation but now there is only one maybe that created a misunderstanding. it's not the 1st time the president has gone against the tide of russia accusations calling on all versions to be thoroughly investigated before a diplomatic standoff takes place his calls so far though seemingly have gone unheeded ok so confusing remarks then from the czech side what's been the reaction from moscow. has been forced to respond in kind it's customary in these sorts of diplomatic standoff stick without expulsions restrictions on the work of embassies and consulates of the czech republic in the russian federation that creation of a list of unfriendly states on which the u.s. and start republic or currently only 2 countries following those sanctions expulsions top russian officials though have really repeatedly questioned why prague has really jumped the gun and go ahead with initiating this quite serious

diplomatic start of the most serious in many many years before according to them officials have come up with a consensus on what has really got all this was russian foreign minister earlier. was that i'm sure you can see the sense of shame with which this tour of the explosions that took place 7 years ago has now been disentangled public and no one has yet been able to explain what the investigating authorities have been doing all these years confused in their testimony. more and more new persians they should 1st sort it all before expelling diplomats accusing them of something that hasn't even been established in their own investigation and judging by the way they're going about it it's unlikely and with any concrete result regardless of what happens next if any new evidence emerges that at least on the check side vindicates russia the diplomatic damage is done you can't go back in time and the ramifications go beyond just prague and moscow.