coming up this hour r.t. speaks to the 10 year old garza girl whose video on the horrors of israel's assault has gone viral. and seems to be helping people but how can they. put out the right so anymore so what do they want to do the time with a fresh conflict now entering a 2nd week israeli citizens struggle under the sound of rocket sirens as hamas hits back pensioners a particularly vulnerable in case of an attack. in the on in the lair and if. it's holiday in town well keeps me strong but not the people the left.

and u.s. weapons sale to israel is causing friction among democrats criticism of tel aviv grows from those concerned about human rights abuses of palestinians. hello there good morning from russia this choose there the 18th of may my name is kevin i would like to be with you without international for the next 30 minutes no you can stick around to take you through those headlines one story again dominating as you heard the death toll in gaza 1st has risen as israeli forces continue to shell the enclave at least 212 people including 61 children have now been killed since the latest violence began a week ago explosions lit the night sky in gaza city as israel launched 30 new airstrikes over night.

the headquarters of a humanitarian group was among the latest buildings hit in the raids the qatar red crescent society saying 2 of its staff were killed and 10 were wounded in a strike came a day after the door funded group allocated a $1000000.00 to support those affected by airstrikes residential buildings as well as gaza's main covert love of also been hit more than $100.00 houses have been destroyed in the area since the start of this latest conflict with many properties severely damaged on top of all that so we spoke to people whose lives have literally been shattered by these latest attacks. well both of us said it was my little children my call wife why were we treated like that the children were asleep and suddenly there was an explosion my wife and i we were shocked the airstrike was very strong we run to the children to drive them out into the street and save them from the bombing we are terrified some donate blood and others helping different

ways as well i came here at dawn and help with the civil defense forces as you can see we're up to now an unprotected children and women have nothing to do with the palestinian resistance or the launching of. anything the 1st thing was them bombing us at night suddenly it became severe get close to us we started being shelled with tear gas canisters we were suffocating from the gas we called the civil defense and 1st state in order to take us and get us out of the place and into the school bus. when the bombing started and everyone was falling of course life is precious to everyone we left quickly we even didn't put on our shoes there was no blanket or anything thank god we got to the school we broke open the doors and sat in the school in fear we spent 5 days without water or food no one who looked after us. a 10 year old girls emotional video about israeli attacks and the

suffering they have caused has gone viral in the danish scene standing by the rubble of her neighbor's home of finesse strike that killed 11 including 8 children she told us about the shock and pain wrought by those onslaughts. i jim about a little better future i dream to be a doctor and i dream to be helping my people but how could that happen i'm pretty good and i want the right to learn any more so what do you tend to do. i'm just trying it with a china shop myself well. i can't. i can't every day at night or at least in theory the missiles in the mornings we hear the cries and screams of people so we try to build check it out so we can help those poor folks even can help people because we can't do anything in this ward we're just

kids in the parents don't know how to raise there's kids in this and this just ration it's hard for them and hard for us no one is safe in power's time no one who can play with our friends all in the streets because every day in missiles our 8th time we couldn't hit us i only say a 2nd any minute now where is always your future in that many or 2nd or our words could be our death so i don't play outside everytime i hear a missile my brother hears those missiles and he gets scared so i charge to let him calm down i put me and my family when we hear missiles we stay away from windows and stay away from the glass doors. and we put in the hallway 2 matches and then we fall asleep or try to sleep but i can't stand the missiles and cries of children out there. those are official say the territory is just days

away from a total power blackout with the only power plant now running out of fuel the relentless bombing raids have also left many without drinking water. reports. that even station by israeli warplanes. homes and different parts of the gaza strip but you can literally hearing gaza city and more specifically right in the street where we are is standing has not only left a range of many people killed and injured including women and children but also impacted the basic services of the community of the palestinian community in gaza. the whole neighborhood is suffering from a water shortage each building houses at least 80 people all of them like drinking water for other purposes this causes great suffering for everyone in the neighborhood the electricity supply it's only on for a couple of hours

a day. and what i didn't have a couple of water containers that will only be enough for a couple of the others. are now forced to by drinking water for extremely high prices the price has gone up 30 times office and this happens along with other hardships and with unemployment soaring i get it and there's. a lot of them. as right know the electricity started coming. in to fill in their things but actually many of them just. say right now we receive a large number of calls from the local residents daily complaining about the power outages they ask us to fix the damage and restore the power supply many residential buildings have already been destroyed or shelled and these damaged buildings are very dangerous now because he looked recently from when deep inside the rubble many international relief organizations mainly the united nations relief and works agency. and ago. as a strip warns against what it terms the shortest sharp shortages of power

supply and water supply for the population of gaza specially in areas like this one that have been damaged by the israeli ever strikes or were planes or strikes against them in the past a few days and this comes under the situation the bad economic situation and the territory with about more than 50 per cent of the people live under above or to line and their employment records have recorded so why in the territory of the over the past years and that's the situation for the moment palestinians year in gaza have been badly affected or impacted by the ongoing israeli attacks on the territory of of the past week. we while the other side of the sirens have been sounding the south of israel as hamas fired back some 90 rockets overnight according to the israeli defense forces palestinian militants have shot more than

3000 missiles into the country since the start of this new confrontation forcing locals to bomb shelters israelis gave their response to this latest escalation. of violence. but it's not marginal that hamas is dictating how we live from 10 to 12 or yeah you can rest then hamas launches rockets and cannot continue linking us and want to attack gaza so they're left with our weapons to launch on us. i live here in the house there was a siren and i went down on floor to take shelter my mom is disabled but she was able to get to the shelter and that's what saved her. the elderly are especially at risk during bomb attacks with health issues or for making it harder of course and of seek shelter in some cases to correspond policy i spoke to one pensioner about her fear of getting caught up in this assault. israel has the most advanced a defense system in the world and the army is amongst the best there is but still

as much as a 3rd of his radius of vulnerable and exposed to rocket attacks from gaza is until clinic is 76 years old she's a retired artist whose husband died 10 years ago she lives alone in an apartment block in central israel unable to reach from a plant or bomb shelter i'm pretty fit really put for the reason that and actually to me politically to italy and the very fear that there'll be a. carriage and i went here it obviously and added the top of the flat on the 1st for the wall and i can't get down to the mic left only go down the stairs to the fickle floor and that. big anywhere between 2 to 3000000 israelis live in homes that do not have a bomb shelter it was only in the last 30 years that it became law for new apartments to build one room that was fortified in older buildings such altars are

either on the ground floor or outside from the moment the siren sounds resume she has one minute 30 seconds to get to safety that's the time it takes for a rocket fired from gaza to reach central israel but for those living close to the gaza border they have just 15 seconds when the bombs fall off you hear the move move and what goes through me back is the end i've been in in fear it's cracking if we knew of the learn if if it hard to entire flat among the 1st civilians to be killed in israel by a rocket from gaza was a woman you know eighty's and her indian caregiver they never made it out of their apartment as in she immigrated to israel from south africa decades ago she's witnessed many wars over the years but feel something is different this time around . she was constantly for her grandson who's in the army but wouldn't have it any other way what keeps me strong the level of this country and

the conflict is that we've got the best defense force in the world and we created we have 3 of them and most of my grandkids are here in israel and that keeps that keeps me very strong and i think that people that i left the biggest wish is that this war will be israel's last seen enough to know that it's unlikely the police. prime minister benjamin netanyahu in assisting attacks are going to continue to as long as needed to restore peace and security for israelis he said he blamed her mass for garza civilian deaths as people as human shields retired is ready colonel so it's not you know who's right. i worry that israeli government may now choose to stop in the next day or 2 or 3 because they are in a mode of trying to finish off more of

a mask for my heart as an israeli goes out well for the palestinian children for the palestinian people who are held there by homes by those leaders not just firing the rockets to me that will reflect reflect tragedy an irony is how some acid invested over the last decade in a sub 2 arena really to protect the fighters the rocket launchers the headquarters . for a child killed underneath their house is going to be a bomb otherwise israel is willing to go forward if hamas starts hamas is now willing to stop hamas wants to destroy me continue to do so and my heart goes out the families to the children. while some members of the u.n. security council of expressed fears of an escalation in the fighting between israel and gaza at the same time efforts to bring it to an end the falling on deaf ears

because not all are expressing a common view about it the u.s. then has blocked for the 3rd time in a week a joint statement from the u.n. security council calling for an instant ceasefire however with bear in mind joe biden himself has reiterated support for an end to hostilities in a phone call with israeli counterpart those stressing to israel has the right to defend itself and reserves the right washington is facing internal scrutiny over its role in the conflict 2 with democrats split over a planned arms sale to israel worth millions while the 1st muslim woman elected to congress illinois has called the sale appalling saying it will provoke the situation further robert naiman an independent consultant on u.s. foreign policy claims biden's team knew what was coming it still went ahead with the deal. he is clear it is even in the book if there is even a bill introduced in congress he would be historic it would be an historic

precedent there's never been a fight like this in congress over a weapons deal to israel and when the binding ministry approved this weapons deal before may 5th they knew what the israeli government was about to do in the era proving it and giving it a green money every day that this goes on and clearly the biden history has been trying to protect the israeli saw. it blocked 3 times a security council statement for a cease fire all other 14 members of the security council square the state so they're coming under increasing pressure both internationally by ministrations both internationally and in washington so i think we could see a shifting picture on this even in the next day if you have to watch the clock this morning is coming to 16 past the hour but hope you can stick around this choose to president biden boasts that washington will give more coronavirus shots to the

world than political rivals what's that about that we'll tell you after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is a very dramatic development. i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful ok to kill time to sit down and talk. one else seemed wrong. just don't. get to seep out just the answer. and engagement equals betrayal.

when some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. president biden wants to make the us an arsenal of global covert vaccine supplies pledging 18000000 doses for overseas use know and exceeding supplies therefore from russia and china not surprising given biden's history of vaccine protectionism in the past caleb maupin has got the story. biden is quite proud of this and says it puts the united states in the shoes of basically being a savior around the world this will be more vaccines than any country has actually shared today more than russia and china we have donated 15000000 doses you know

there's a lot of talk about russia and china in the world bank seeds we want to lead the world with our values just as in order to america's the arsenal of democracy in the battle against covert $1000.00 pandemic our nation is going to be the arsenal of vaccines for the rest of the room biden reminds us of his predecessor donald trump who often boasted about the united states being the number one around the world and in this case it is certainly not surprising that in his speech announcing that the united states intends to be number one in vaccine exports joe biden directly mentioned russia and china it has now been revealed that it was the policy of u.s. officials to prevent a country that was very badly hit by the coded 19 pandemic from getting the russian vaccine u.s. officials lobbied the government of brazil in the hopes of ultimately succeeding

and preventing brazil from importing the russian vaccine this is what has been revealed. the office of global affairs used diplomatic relations in the americas region to mitigate efforts by states including cuba venezuela and russia who are working to increase their influence in the region to the detriment of u.s. safety and security examples include using the office of global affairs health a to see office to persuade brazil to reject the russian copied 19 vaccine now there's also been a recent spat between the european union and the united states when it comes to the restrictions on the export of vaccines and vaccine components we had the president of france and other leaders of the european union calling out the united states for its restriction on vaccine exports india in particular has been badly hit by the restrictions on vaccine components and their exports which have prevented india from manufacturing vaccines and that could relieve eate the suffering in india

there was massive outcry both within the united states and around the world and ultimately it was only in the face of that outcry the ban on exports of that components to india was lifted so it's clear that the priority of the united states is to be number one but the world is now asking at what cost. president 7 affluence los angeles suburb of fear a sort of move to hose vagrants of parks and beaches because fires related to homelessness have tripled in the 1st 4 months of the year it comes as officials defending their plan. house the homeless and cabins and campsites opponents say children would no longer be safe for instance in the areas authorities insist the move is temporary almost $21000.00 people have no signed a petition against the camp sites highlighting the use of drugs and mental illness among the homeless and the risk of fire they also say they don't believe temporary means temporary we've got reaction on the streets to the dispute. the handling of

the homeless situation by the local the county and the state government it's criminal there has been so much money. shoved off by the state government by the taxpayers of los angeles county by the federal government to end this problem we need affordable housing we don't need campsites we don't he's storage cards we need what we were promised 10 years ago i think it's a good idea i mean it's a tricky situation because the homeless people need to live somewhere but i also see the other side of it were some of the homeowners around the area don't want to have the necessary almost people living with them and this whole proposal of just putting homes people on parks and on beaches just like trying to put a band-aid over a gunshot. just seems like politicians trying to. make themselves look good that part can't serve double duty it can't be a full time. homeless camp and serve as

a residential camp where people actually go to have space to spread out you know. an r. t. crew suffered a close shave with a landmine in the central african republic at the time they were accompanying a local military into the center russian instructions to villages freed from rebel control there a corresponding counseling rushkoff at the same. this part of the country is considered to be under government control and that's true for the most part but there are still groups of armed rebels hiding in the jungles sometimes they lay mines in certain roads hoping to blow up a military truck and seize their weapons and supplies. were just to try to say that exploded mine and we almost ran into one of those mines ourselves but luckily our ascared group spotted it in advance and it was destroyed.

before it went off we managed to get some close up shots of it the mine was made in belgium which of course raises a lot of questions like how and where local militias get such deadly weapons because any firearms above $14.00 centimeters caliber let alone anti-tank mines like the one we discovered aren't allowed to be sold to the central african republic under a u.n. arms embargo anyway our days started as we took off any chopper and headed to a gold mine and village that were recently freed from rebel control as we flew over the thick jungle i was sitting close to a supply of hand grenades the crew keep them in case they are fired at from the ground and they need to scare the shooters off i mean it's that tough here. the village we saw was typical for see our poor and devastated people lack basic things like feuding clothes but are still harassed by local gangs which usually come and

take whatever they want and brutally killed those who dared to stand up against them and we heard accounts of entire villages being slaughtered for the equivalent of $50.00 as they had of this village told us they are lucky now to have a military out that was nearby that is run by the local army with. russian instructors who work in the country under 8 un mandate but without us to the government has sent russian forces here for the safety of the population is very quiet around here because the russians are here we don't win them to leave we want them to stay with scale and finally we reached a gold mine that until a month ago was run by militants they work in primitive conditions extracting tiny nuggets by digging clay with shovels and then washing it and small muddy holes the rebels force local villagers to work there as slave space equally and kill

those who refused to do the job or who are simply too exhausted to carry on but it seems like now since the local army and the russians came along the poor miners can finally keep the gold for themselves and it doesn't get that much though and one of them told us that he'll be able to sell what he has worked for for an entire year we only for a $3.00. concert in russia r.t. from the central african republic. such a tough and hazardous life there isn't it just the way things are looking for us so far this morning it's 25 and a half past the check it out got a comment section if you've got a thing to say about our stories or check out our ups today but for now kevin 0 in on the team signing off have a good day. a

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greeting and salutation democrats and republicans are at war with each other little substantive change can happen in this clash of power different visions on basic things like what it means to be a democracy the role of the police what actually even happened on january 6th and who won the 2020 presidential election republicans are leading the charge on misinformation lies and fighting to maintain a white supremacist status quo recently the centers for disease control and prevention c d c added another wrinkle to the growing partisan divide c.d.c. director rochelle wilensky is on the defense after the agency told people who are fully vaccinated against kobe 19 if they can go without a mexican the c.d.c. recommendation comes at an odd time considering america is nowhere near herd immunity to mask or not to mask that is the question.