israel continues. with more than 212 people killed in just the past 8 days. air raid sirens blare across southern israel. forcing people into bomb shelters. 12 died in the. meantime are among the most vulnerable. if. it. keeps me strong. young people in the. us. causes friction among democrats with warnings.

and there's just no letup in israel's bombing raids across gaza where the conflict is now raging for. at least 212 palestinians including 61 children have died since the hostilities erupted while 12 israelis were being killed by palestinian rockets on monday night the sky over gaza city was just. stop explosions. tower blocks in gaza have been left in ruins by the air raid saying looting medical

facilities and more than 100 homes have been razed to the ground and many more are severely damaged so we hit the streets and spoke to the locals. let us settle my little children my poor wife why were you treated like that the children were asleep and suddenly there was an explosion my wife and i we were shocked the air strike was very strong we run to the children to drive them out into the streets and save them from the bombing we are terrified. the 1st thing was them bombing us at night suddenly it became severe and 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. the headquarters of a humanitarian group was among the buildings hit in the latest israeli strikes that cut out a red crescent society says 2 people including a child were killed and 10 wounded in the air strike came a day after the doha funded group allocated a $1000000.00 to support those affected by the asteroids well in the meantime a 10 year old girl has also shared with us the shock and pain of seeing houses being bombed all around her. i dream about a little better future i dream to be a doctor and i dream to be helping my people but. this isn't canada i don't have the right to learn any more so what do you need to do. i'm just crying

every day china stop myself. i know. i can every day at night or at least in 3 years the missiles in the mornings we hear the cries and screams of people so we try to check it out so we can help those. we even turn help people because we can't do anything once more we're just kids and the parents don't know how to raise their kids even in the situation it's hard for them and hard for us no one is safe in palestine no one. just a few hours ago hundreds of palestinians marched in the west bank demanding an end to the israeli aerial campaign of people held up a band those with a message stop the genocide in gaza and israeli forces were seen filling the streets of bethlehem using tear gas against protesters and the gathering comes as the top party has joined calls for a general strike in the west bank and the arab israeli cities in a show of unity. with the un's middle east peace coordinator has warned that gaza

or is rapidly running out of key resources and soon won't even be able to care for those injured in the conflict the territory of suffering constant power blackouts now a lack of clean water a local journalist. reports. that the 1st station by israeli warplanes oh freeze it in shell homes and different parts of the gaza strip but you clearly hearing gaza city and more specifically right india where the street where we are is standing has not only left a injured 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 whom lack drinking water or water for other purposes this causes great suffering for everyone in the

neighborhood as for the electricity supply it's only on for a couple of hours a day. and what didn't have a couple of water containers that will only be enough for a couple of days but others don't even have that they're now forced to buy drinking water for extremely high prices the price has gone up by 30 times and this happens along with other hardships with unemployment soar and people not getting their salaries will them and provide locals with as right know the electricity started coming to lucas who really want to fill in their trunks but actually many of them just cannot afford it so right now 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 of the electricity flowing deep inside the rubble 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 palestinians here in gaza have been badly affected by the ongoing israeli attacks on that originary over the past week. or the israeli military is saying hamas fired more than $13.00 rockets in short succession in the early hours of tuesday into the south of the country 2 israelis are reported to have died bringing the death toll to 12 and we heard from residents living throughout the bombardment. i don't claim either coates look it's not logical that hamas is dictating how we live from 10 to 12 but yeah you can rest then one must launches rockets it cannot continue like this we want to attack gaza so they are left without weapons to launch at us silly i live here in the house there was a siren and i went down one floor to take shelter my mom is disabled but she was able to get to the shelter and that's what saved her with each new salvo of

palestinian rockets israelis have been running to the nearest bomb shelter and for anyone with limited mobility that can certainly be a challenge. i want to speak to one pensioner. 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 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 the maclet bomb shelter pretty fit really put for the reason that and actually to me politically to italy and the very fear that there will be a. carriage and i went here and obviously and advocates of the top

of the flats on the 1st for the wall and i can't get that to the mccann family only go down the stairs to the 2nd floor and for. 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 all the buildings such altars are either on the ground floor or outside from the moment the siren sounds he has one minute 60 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 bomb calls you hear them move move and what goes through me mad if they're being in there in fear it's cracking if we knew of them alone if if it hard to encounter flat among the 1st civilians to be killed in israel by a rocket from gaza was

a woman you know eighty's and indian caregiver they never made it out of their apartment immigrated to israel from south africa decades ago she's witnessed many wars over the years but feel something is different this time around. constantly for her grandson who's in the army that wouldn't have it any other way but it keeps me strong the level of this country and the confidence that we've got the beef defense force in the world i'm a korean we have 3 of them and most of my grandkids are here and it is for them that keeps that keeps me very strong and i'm going to love the people that i love. is that this war will be israel's last seen enough to know that it's unlikely the police. prime minister binyamin netanyahu says the operation in gaza will

continue as long as needed to quote restore peace and security for israelis you blame hamas for the palestinian civilian deaths so in the group using people as human shields we spoke with the israeli foreign ministry spokesperson. every time i hear and every time we need to hear about civilian casualties on both sides of this conflict here in israel and in gaza i am sickened locating themselves deliberately in civilian neighborhoods firing from schools from hospitals from mosques each and every time a war crime in a not itself deliberately firing into civilian neighborhoods in israel we didn't want to be in this conflict and we were dragged into this conflict they knew what they were doing they harm us knew what they were doing providing israel with an ultimatum to to evacuate parts of jerusalem knowing full well that wouldn't happen and telling us that if it didn't happen they were going to open fire as they did with hundreds of rockets on the civilian neighborhoods in tel aviv meant that they

wanted this to happen and that the once we were dragged into this conflict we're not in the mood put a band-aid on it again and i think we need to pursue come to the point they understand that they made a terrible mistake. while some members of the u.n. security council have expressed fears of an escalation in the fighting between israel and gaza efforts to bring it to an end have fallen on deaf ears because not all express a common view for example the u.s. has blocked for the 3rd time in a week a joint statement from the u.n. security council calling for an immediate cease fire but joe biden himself reiterated support for an end to hostilities and a phone call with his israeli town of argos stressing israel's right to defend itself. well washington meantime is facing internal scrutiny over its role in the conflict democrats are split over a planned arms sale to israel worth millions and one of the 1st muslim women

elected to the u.s. congress. has called the sale appalling saying it will only provoke the situation over all but name an independent consultant on u.s. foreign policy claims biden's team knew all along what it was doing but still went ahead with a very lucrative and timely deal. if there is even vote if there is even a bill introduced in congress it would be historic it would be a historic precedent there's never been a fight left in congress over a weapons deal to israel when the binding ministry approved this weapons deal before may 5th they knew what the israeli government was about to do and they were approving it and giving it a green why every day that this goes on it clearly by the administration has been trying to protect the israeli salt. block 3 times

a security council statement for a ceasefire all other 14 members of the security council's where the state so they're coming under increasing pressure both internationally by ministration both internationally and in washington so i think we could see a shifting picture on this even in the next day kind of all still to come here on the channel including a fake vaccination certificate saw selling like hotcakes on the dock web. in about 66.

a new gold rush is underway in ghana thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields hoping to strike it rich here's the book. as they over the bows of our children are torn between gold. from me was very poor i thought i was doing my best to get back to school which side will have the strongest appeal. is your media a reflection of reality. in

a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being led so. what is truth. is. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us and adapt. already made in the shallowness. thanks for joining us here for your news of the international red cross and red crescent movement urging rich countries to share out their covert vaccines with poorer nations of the organization says pharma need to urgently share their

intellectual property to allow injections to be made fast and cheaply worldwide and call the hoarding of doses morally wrong pointing out that the world's poorest 50 countries have only 2 percent of world supplies and we discuss the issues with emmanuel copper young co of the red cross and red cross. right now the world is seeing a very unfair race with reach countries running 30 times faster than then poor countries so 30 percent of people in rich countries are being vaccinated or at least every received one goes and only one percent the poor countries so not having received any n.e.a. i've just received $11.00 though so it's really the issue of inequities a massive issue that requires a sentient. their war ended basic survival from from from bombs or or resize a is

a is the priority and old date public health measures that are normally put in plays that increase times. clearly a group down in terms of priority so more as a group of 8 the ability of communities to respond to emergencies of public health nature and then on avoidably allow viruses be the able and the or c. or or the 19 that to spread more more easily within the communities. the estimate is that around the world around one quarter 25 percent of the population doesn't want to get a vaccine and these are changes of course across countries but it is a huge number of that may really stop but they do need the ability to bring down they need a pandemic now what we need to do is increasing the quality of our communication

and very much what works is quality at the personal level into what our red cross volunteers requests of all of us do in country stalking to people listening to people responding to their questions and trying to to address the young psyche that is there and i think they're more will see the even portent cause if you have affected vaccines then more people will reduce their resistance and decide to go and get the vaccine for those ones that are lucky we have it available. well the u.k. has one of the world's highest covert vaccination rates but efforts to bring infections under control of being somewhat undermined by a black market in fake certificates well there are thousands sellers have been caught in the u.k. offering forged vaccine and test documents for about $25.00 pounds and border staff say they catch around $100.00 people trying to get into the country with counterfeit papers each and every day we spoke with the oded vanunu the head of the cyber security from behind all of these well southern findings we have

a large gap in the war between countries that can still apply and can prisoner to once you have ever seen and once you have. it's created a black market in the global economy and once you have a black market this is create a lot of we need to understand a dark and there is a borrowed economy that is. things that are like a gap between the supply and demand in the global image what we believe that this is likely that they. cannot see the darkness but we can see the trends and the trends are very clear and so we believe that this is much be your operation. that lee land mines in civilian areas are a widespread ongoing consequence of the central african republic is almost a decade long civil war and the government has been fighting rebels in the country

since 2012 in a battle not just for valuable mineral resources but also for influence with neighboring countries it's a situation that is left over a 1000000 people homeless and many more in chronic poverty here's our correspondent artie's a concertina reporting from the central african republic. 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 and certain roads hoping to blow up a military truck and seize their weapons and supplies. or just to be trapped or say that exploded 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 and bargo anyway our days started as we took off in a chopper and headed to a gold mine and village that were recently freed from rebel control as we flew over the think 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 food and 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 notary out that was nearby that is run by the local army with. russian instructors who work in the country under 80 u.n. mandate one with. 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 schedule and finally we reached a gold mine 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 in small muddy holes rebels force local villagers to work there is slaves basically 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 poor miners can finally keep the gold for themselves i mean it doesn't get them much though and one of them told us that he'll be able to sell what he has worked for for it we are only for a $3.00. concert in russia r.t. from the central african republic. residents over an affluent los angeles suburb furious that a move to house. parks and nearby beaches because they say that fire is related to homelessness have tripled in the 1st 4 months of the year it all comes as officials defend the plan to house the homeless and cabins and come sites opponents say children would no longer be safe in the areas authorities though insist the move would be temporary almost $21000.00 people have now signed

a petition against the come sites highlighting the use of drugs and mental illness among the homeless on the risk of fire they also say they don't believe temporary means temporary so we got reaction on the streets. handling the homeless situation by the local county and the state go. 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 pods 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 in the other side of it were some of the homeowners are on the area don't want to have this area homeless people living with them and this whole proposal just putting people in parks and on beaches just like trying to put a band-aid over

a gunshot and it just seems like politicians trying to. make themselves look good bad park can't serve double duty it can't be a full time. homeless camp and serve as a residential camp where people actually go down spaces right out you know. are there are some good news stories for this hour here on r t international it's nearly half past 5 on tuesday here thanks for joining us we're back soon at the top of the hour.

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greeting and salutation democrats and republicans are at war with each other little substance of 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 it actually even happened on january 6th and who won the 2020 presidential election republicans are leading the charge on misinformation lives 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 rachelle alinsky is on the defense after the agency told people who are

fully vaccinated against kobe 19 if they can go without a mask 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 while masking fell along ideological lines from the very start conservative states largely refused to mandate it and those states also have lower vaccination rates but more importantly how do restaurants bars grocery stores and other public spaces know who's vaccinated and who isn't will they be be virtually checking for vaccine cards or operating on an honor system these are the primary questions state and local governments are grappling with now wilensky made her sunday morning t.v. rounds with a stop on n.b.c.'s meet the press and had this to say this was not permission to shed masks for everybody everywhere they.