a ah mm israel launches, attack against lebanon, gaza saying it's targeting hamas militant the infrastructure, who they say are responsible for earlier attacks on his territory. so with cities in france are in golf by violent those half a 1000000 people take to the street in nationwide protests from across the ukrainian conflict on his visit to china. we have the impression that emanuel micron has absolutely no interest in what is happening in his own country. on my

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updates. i'm fear ella is about it's great to have you with us. we start with the breaking news. the israeli military has launched several air strikes against gaza following recent strikes, coming from the palestinian administration and lebanon, reportedly in retaliation for israel raids on all ok, so worshippers. ah, here are the latest images of the rocket strikes and gaza. no casualties have been reported. israel says it targeted hamas training sites and underground complex is used for weapons manufacturing. ah, and here are the latest pictures from neighboring lebanon where israel claims it

had to arrest infrastructure. but local media outlets reported a palestinian refugee camp came under fire. some of the rockets damage civil infrastructure. i really meanwhile, israel's missile defense systems have been activated. it is really settlements bordering gaza with multiple rockets intercepted earlier benjamin netanyahu said israel's enemies will pay a price for their actions. a good solution for money will regarding the aggression against us on other fronts. we will strike our enemies and they will pay the price for any active aggression. our enemies will discover again, that at moments of truth, the citizens of israel stand united and unified back the actions of the i, d f, and the other security services to defend our country. and our people. earlier i spoke to israeli and palestinian journalists to understand the reasons behind the

strikes and their potential consequences. it goes on say, they know, cut her students and gather manley, them women, and children. and they lived and witnessed a very a. i rounded them in all the areas and it is it bit handle that and it would continue if it continues, it's a tag. say again together i pain can maybe have math will also that kid isn't a list it is, but there i'm to now and say gives them a chance for the mediators name initially, porter a you have to cut out and maybe they can then push out and to stop it, say at that, say again, and then they can do a deal and they can reach here. i see it's fired with the broker's and

idiot. those are the latest attacks on gaza and lebanon justified. i think that that is there as things for on the side that that should do something because if it will not strike then the next time there will be more violence as israel sees it against that. and because of that striking good, this is their best chance that these reli possibly reach at times to forget all the problems and to unite when they have a military operation or a war means rarely, school of other problems it's leaving is that also the kinds of minorities rather than have their own troubles than israeli problem. so is so angry at these riley government, that's right. now, to do this, to all get hold of the judicial system that would need,

that is from being the only democracy in the middle is to some kind of dictator. she would, we see an escalation into a large scale war, who, in your opinion, would be the possible allies of both palestine and israel. if such a conflict does take place. i actually am as to life same mainly on iran owner as well. and even on all the muslim in the islam care world who support they been athenians as up as being on people and who i consider that there alex, i'm lost and jerusalem and the holly to places for them saw. and now how may i say, i'm not, i'm you had, they also understand is it succeed in there and collected in collecting all that a lot in the world, like iran and like a turkey law, it on turkey cutter. and it even has the law and even in yemen, emergency services are at the scene and gaza were locals,

are seeing the consequences of the recent strike with civilian buildings and private property damaged by israeli shelling. we spoke to a local whose house was damaged in the attack. listening to the others, we heard an abnormal explosion as if it was at the door of the house and we were confused. i looked out of the window, so smoke and suddenly after 10 minutes there was an explosion followed by another watch would have heard and the house shook, shattering of the windows. so farmer and curtis was a good sort of come on the way is rarely strikes have also damaged buildings in lebanon. on this video, you can see one of the victims near their damage house following these really attack. his house was damaged by a rocket during the air strike we spoke to several international political experts to get some more insight into the latest escalation of violence. it heard from lebanese has below, which is the dominant armed force there that they support the palestinian

resistance in their actions and in their baffle against israel. so this opens up a scenario essentially where israel knows that responding anywhere inside of lebanon to the rocket, fire from lebanon could mean dragging as below into the fights and has the law is armed with a arsenal of hundreds of thousands of missiles. many of them extremely advanced and could do the sort of damage that we see israeli missile is doing inside of the gaza strip. so they had to tread carefully the counter from israel was overly and and this is just unfortunate that a holy time both the passover for israel were all from a don or for the, the muslim community as well. so it's not a good time, but i think this is, i think the escalation is probably intentional to distract away some of the

political are going through right now. moving on to other stories and france, half a 1000000 demonstrators march on thursday for the 11th j. a nationwide protests against pension reform ah demonstrations flared in cities all across the country. the clashes between protestors and police drawing concerns from the council of the e. u. human rights commissioner. protestors disruptive traffic near the capitals made airport as police responded with arrests sent here gas. the clash is cut,

emitted deadlock and debates between them across government and french groups that walk the pension reform scraps on wednesday. union officials met with the prime minister for talks, which the activists later branded as a failure. protesters claimed the french government isn't communicating with its people, and is undermining democracy. due to, oh, you're doing that office today. we have the impression that we are faced with a deaf and dumb government that is not very good at communication. we have the impression that emanuel micron has absolutely no interest in what is happening in his own country. at the end of the day, the government is taking advantage of the nuances of the law to go beyond democracy . did they did. that's how it's done to force its way through. we are trying to show that we are many and we are strong in the face of this government. i'm here for the 11th time because this reform is unfair, creates inequalities in a lot of injustices. it is part of a political project that is unfair. meanwhile, the french president is in china holding talks, where she is,

you being on ukraine and accusing moscow of escalation, claiming nuclear weapon should not be based on foreign territory. referring to the recent agreement between russia and belarus, different doctors, french shares, the opinion that nuclear weapons should be completely excluded from this conflict that all international treaties and this issue should be respected and the under no circumstances should nuclear weapons be deployed outside the territories of nuclear powers, especially in europe. in this regard, it is necessary to remind every one of the responsibilities in particular russia, which a few days ago announced its desire to deploy such weapons to bell roofs, which does not comply with the obligations it is assumed to you and to us and to international law, however, this contradicts the policy of some european members of nato, which have been hosting us nukes for decades. washington has been basing its b 61 tactical nuclear weapons in germany. italy, belgium, the netherlands,

enter. kia, flat nuclear weapons deployed in europe, act though everyone is well aware nor ship with china is not directed against any states. we stress that all the time, we want the constructive approach to prevail and for the west to stop pursuing its interests at the expense of developing states. we are categorically against it. a multi polar world has become a reality, and only the united states and his allies are trying to cling to a self proclaimed us supremacy. no one appointed the united states as the world's policeman, arab countries understand the crises to which such self appointed world policeman lead. we oppose had gemini, we stand for a just peace, for indivisible security, for a security architecture that is fundamentally different from what the united states and nato allies are trying to impose. the ties envoy to rush us as europe is in no position to lecture beijing while the chinese foreign ministry has pointed out

nato's role or the you can conflict as beijing pushes back against calls from the u . s. lead block to take sides over the conflicts legions and to me as further responsibility on the ukrainian issue, i think that the united states and the military blocks such as native should take responsibility. nature has no right to criticize china or put pressure on it. great job powers are not exactly on everything regarding the car you should not a saying care for example processing sanctions providing arms to your friends. i. 7 or hawaii economic, huge economic age to, to keep all, none of which our child has compromise in the chair age to going, but not as little bizarre offer. sure. formal assistance to key or china's position as charlie on power certainly is different. as you already know. there was

just a minister or a nato foreign minister meeting a few days ago. i know that this is something that they just very concerned about. that is nato's it clearly, nicholas is food expansion into the asian pacific region. back to our top story, the escalation between israel lebanon garza. let's discuss the latest updates with ali gay, a political analyst and international affairs advisor. i welcome ali. so what in your opinion is lebanon's position in this escalation with israel? thank you for, for this interview. well, actually is why i targeted many do so many open an area 11 on and south of lemme home. and one of our starting point is jeanene cam at which being that is why i don't want to go to an open war with level on and want to

prevent any a comprehensive escalation with hunger law. but at the same time, you're going to restore that. and with level office will be after those are off workers that target is the 2nd man south of level on yesterday . and i can and in my opinion even is why lamed ham ours. so there's a pack, but no one can carry on. launch workers from start to lab on, on without the, without the, without any coordination, without any reading from has a lot on this area, which means that it can be, it could be an inbred, get my message to even after was happening in a while the u. s says israel has a right to defend itself. in fact,

the majority of the western world also says that in response to attacks on lebanon, but they don't seem to apply that to other countries in groups such as periods and palestinians. what do you make of that? well actually, how miles faction they didn't, they said that they didn't do it, even hezbollah. he didn't know that he carry the attack anyway, the head of the executive council of law. and now that actually is a wed line. and that any attack on the will inflame the reason that that has the law is watching the development in alaska. and so that depends on the lady development. well, you just mentioned any talk on know ok. so what inflamed the region, should we expect then this violence to move towards a larger scale war,

despite the u. s. claims that both israel lebanon wouldn't want that what steps could be taken for potential de escalation then? yeah, for the moment, the lebanese faith and know that they was the $1701.00 decision and they don't want to go to any escalation, especially that level on have it living in a deep, quiet since 2019. but anyway, many a level of things that i saw is a wed line, and i think that is a wed line and he can just keep watching, usually aspect on it. well, the violence, as you mentioned, appears to have started with the israeli raid on the moss and then clashes between palestinians and israelis. is this how it was perceived in lebanon. and this, that there's some sort of unity rising up between all of these countries. when

actually and that i don't have a deep division as is while they have their own division between the white and the left and level. we have also division many bonding and don't think that palestine is the case while other at least the house or when the police people. they think that palestine is their case and they were responsible for what's happening. and that's why i think that i didn't and mouth clearly his responsibility for the folks off of live on yesterday. and he keep a job there is a lot going on in the geo political stage. what do you make of the timing? giving that it is the holy month of ramadan. yeah, yeah, i think i think that will go to the collision is going on and it depend on, as i said on what's happening in most and what's happening between the

and the is what you forces. how is watching while at the moment menu they, they are trying to keep peace between lab and on. and he's like ali, yeah, a political analysts and international affairs advisor. thank you for the it seems the 2 main rival us parties have a consensus on the countries global power status as new democratic party candidate for the 2024 election robert kennedy and former president. now candidate donald trump have land biden's foreign policy as an abject failure or to respond to kayla mop and has more a blast from the past. robert f. kennedy junior, the nephew of j f. k is running in the democratic primary. he's going to contest joe biden. for the presidency,

the nomination or the democratic party in 2024. the 69 year old says that you as head yamani is deteriorating because of what he calls neocon projects in iraq and ukraine. the collapse of u. s. influence over saudi arabia and the kingdoms, new alliances with china and iran are painful emblems of the abject failure of the neocons strategy of maintaining you as global had you money with aggressive projections of military power. the neil con projects in iraq and ukraine have cost $8.00 trillion dollars. hold out or middle class made the laughing stock of u. s. military power and moral authority. put china and russia into an invincible alliance destroy the door as the global currency cost millions of lives, and done nothing to advance democracy or when friendships or influence. now on the republican side, many of the candidates, including former president, donald trump, say the country is headed off a clip fast, a country is going to hell or currency is crashing and was to no longer be the

world's standard, which will be our greatest defeat, frankly, and 200 years there will be no defeat like that. that will take us away from being even a great power. countries moving away from the us dollar is a big deal and it's happening fast. brazil, china, india, and other major countries are starting to do their transactions and different currencies. saudi arabia is making the shift as well. all of this comes on the heels of a very important meeting between chinese leadership in king and russian president vladimir putin. now the favorite tool of us leaders to smack down countries, they don't like sanctions may be rendered useless. as we see ongoing landmark political and economic shift. we won't have to talk about sanctions in 5 years because it'll be so many countries transacting and currencies other than the dollar, that we won't have the ability to sanction them. so who is actually responsible for this? well, the united states can only really point fingers that itself. the real threat was

the unprecedented economic sanctions that joe biden was allowed to. in fact, encouraged to impose those sanctions. you'll recall we're supposed to hurt russia. but even in march of last year, it seemed obvious they were going to hurt united states much more than they hurt russia. here's what we said 13 months ago. we should prepare to lose our position as holder of the world's reserve currency. these policies have driven russia, china, india, turkey, and other countries to accelerate their flight from the us dollar. not to be clear, that's the majority of the global economy. this may be the most reckless and destructive thing. any american president has ever done with united states, and let's not forget the national debt, sending billions of dollars to you. crane isn't helping that out by any means, as pointed out by some american politicians. among them is us senator joe mansion who says he's considering

a presidential run. he says that running up the payments owed to creditors for the country. is downright malpractice. america is fast approaching another needless emergency, the raising of the national debt ceiling, ignoring the debt and deficit implications of these actions as the time news to raise the debt ceiling isn't only wrong. it's policy and political malpractice, a bipartisan group of presidential hopefuls who all agree on one thing. the current administration is running the economy into the ground. and joe biden has a lot to answer for, even as the white house says that the 8 year old still intends to run for a 2nd term. caleb martin party new york and tragic news from the russian city of daniel for at least 4 civilians have been killed and 6 more wounded in the latest ukrainian shelling. according to local officials, a warning you might find the falling images distressing. the civilian side on the

spot on a residential street after ukrainian shells landed scattering, shrapnel across a wide area. he had tubes fired, a barrage of heavy rockets at the city hitting a civilian car repair center. affording to russia's investigative committee ad russian forces have advanced on the dawn bass front, targeting ukrainian troops and armored formations with artillery and air strikes in over $100.00 areas. while p. m. c. wagner's forces continue to dislodge calves forces from the key city of our fuel. mosque also known as black, moot in the daniel republic, artes more gosti of follows, the russian advance in the region. these town has died. none of its original inhabitants remained. but amidst the ruins and craters hidden in the shadows, a spot us always watching. no,

i spot and correct the enemy is now 5 kilometers away from us. i track the movement of armor and infantry. i semi report and we hit them mainly armored vehicles, pill boxes, firing positions, and machine gun points. he is with as much to watch. every shadow, every shrub, every window could be hiding the enemy. boy yes, by sitting here on my back. got it resolves if it was in support of the threads of thou on the way it gets to ukrainian held settlement just south of dave. got the offensive vis ongoing.

all the sort of thing with mass true judges rather the so ongoing thing we're building off the building a cleared credit troops may right now drive to discourage grade in reinforcements from approaching areas where they can fall a troops of russian troops approaching the settlement. this is the laser guided co net a t m with a range of up to 10 kilometers. it comes with various missiles. i'm a piercing and exclusive ah, warehouse law to day and night,

they keep watch changing positions regularly. they keep the ukrainians guessing where the next strike may come from. sooner we target to to enemy sports positions that we had identified earlier. we got them both. it's a very effective system. if he uses right, it's devastating. the coronet is a scalpel, small mobile and precise. just 12 in a devastating arsenal. ah, please footage was shot just to the north in buck mort, where arguably the fiercest battle of the century is being waged. this video shot by euclidian soldiers chose rhodes lined with destroyed nate who supplied vehicles and armour. inside the city is pandemonium. ukrainian forces have been pushed back to the western edges of the city by russia's wagner,

p. m. c. group. according to reports, cubes, troops have begun to retreat from the city. tens of thousands of ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries have been killed and injured here. this is the final chapter in the battle for the city. a battle that has seriously mold and exhausted the ukrainian military for kiev. it is a desperate moment. the feat here will cost presidency landscape politically, both abroad and at home. so he waits, refusing to sanction retreat, feeding the fours of back more, more and more ukrainian soldiers or ad gazda of haughty from de niro creegan. to the often called venice of africa, a nigerian village in the middle of the lake, which locals can only leave and enter by bo. art is horrible at ally explorers, the local waterways. welcome to marco. go. the only place in

africa when the residents live on water. this whole lace is build on filth, often called africa's venice because of the numerous pathways and the houses that have been build fair on the still so much for africans can flim well well, well, you're about to get the shock of your life with this is the only way to get about. you wanna go to school, get on a boat. you want to go to church, get on a boat. you wanna go to shop. you gotta get on a boat, but you just look around the poverty that's around this place of cause takes it away from what you might know. as the romance and beauty they tally and begged rob

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