within israel itself israeli foreign ministry has dismissed the report as biased stand baseless harry fawcett reports from occupy used to escape. anti palestinian racism was on show in jerusalem last week with hundreds of israeli far right activists chanting death to arabs the far right thanks to an electoral alliance sponsored by the prime minister now has a foothold inside parliament but it is new report human rights watch makes a broader accusation that the israeli government itself practices apartheid and persecution and we started looking at it we saw the reality in which a single government rules of the road the area between the jordan river and the train you see roughly 6800000 jewish israelis and 6 for you in it and across these areas is really authorities systems. in the typically privileged jewish israelis the report focuses on 4 arenas in israel where it says palestinian israeli citizens are discriminated against particularly in terms of land use. in the occupied west bank where palestinians unlike israeli settlers a subject to military law and where settlers have preferential acce

people had arrived by thursday night with more due to turn up on friday let's go live to paris harry fawcett who joins us from the scene on mount meron so harry any more details as to what exactly happened that caused this tragic event. well some are emerging the prime minister's spokesman has been tweeting about it saying that it was the overcrowding that led to a stampede which in turn led to the partial collapse of a structure that people were standing on so that is the closest thing we've had to sort of an official proximate cause of what took place but of course there are much wider questions being asked about the nature of all this as well briefly just just let me tell you where i am we're on a road heading into the site itself and there have been buses after buses and police vehicles and emergency vehicles coming down here still parts of those that huge crowd still struggling no way out of the at the event itself this is the road up here that that leads to the events of the. to the tomb of the 2nd century rabbi which is being which is that the the center of this celebrate 3 event ever

to our breaking news out of northern israel more than 38 people have been killed in a stampede harry fawcett is on his way to the scene he's just stopped off to speak to us and give us an update harry what are you hearing about what set off the sound of a stampede. well still the reports are relatively unclear there is no question though that there was an enormous number of people at this very significant religious event last year it was severely curtailed because of coded 19 restrictions so this time there were more than 100000 people there by most estimates some suggesting it was even a greatly higher number than that and certainly the videos bear that out you see people gathered at this new site close to the tomb of a 2nd century rabbi a religious figure appeared figure whose death is marked every year in this large boehmer festival and so these crowds were swaying together dancing together jumping up and down there were images of people falling into each other as they were channeled through very narrow areas so the precise cause is still to some extent on the question there were early re

adding it's time for international action we'll bring in our guests in a moment 1st this report by harry fawcett in occupied east jerusalem. anti palestinian racism was on show in jerusalem last week with hundreds of israeli far right activists chanting death to arabs the far right thanks to an electoral alliance sponsored by the prime minister now has a foothold inside parliament but it is new report human rights watch makes a broader accusation that the israeli government itself practices apartheid and persecution and we started looking at it we saw the reality in which a single government rules of the road the area between the jordan river and the train you see roughly 6800000 jewish israelis and 6 for you know you look at it and across these areas is really authorities systems. in the budget we privileged jewish israelis the report focuses on 4 arenas in israel where it says palestinian israeli citizens are discriminated against particularly in terms of land use in the occupied west bank where palestinians unlike israeli settlers a subject to military law and where settlers have preferential

festival in northern israel it happened in mounds meron where people gathered for the holiday harry fawcett has more from western of them it is an extremely serious and large scale incident one that the prime minister of israel has cooled a terrible tragedy it took place after midnight so we understand there are some diversion reports as to exactly how it happened some reports of those collapse of the stand other reports talking about a roof collapse but the most current reporting seems just that it was in fact a stampede. the palestinian president mahmoud abbas us for spelling parliamentary elections scheduled for next month cited a dispute with israel over voting in occupied east jerusalem says rejected the decision calling it a coup brazil has become the 2nd country to surpass 400000 deaths related to cope with 19 after the us health officials warn the daily toll could remain high due to slow vaccinations unloose social restrictions current virus cases and deaths across india have reached a new high as the country grapples with a devastating 2nd wave despite the surge millions of people

there is harry fawcett is at the scene in mt marathon. well this precipitous pathway is the bottleneck on the way out and one of the main events that was taking place last night is where thousands upon thousands of people were squeezing their way through trying to get out of the event itself and where it seems the focus of the scrutiny is now on as they came down this pathway they were confronted by these steps and beyond these metal sheeting spare again we saw images of police ripping those downs with a little bit get through this tiny guard and try and save themselves and escape what took place this is. is a major disaster here for israel for its ultra-orthodox community there are calls for a wider inquiry not just a police investigation into the precise details of what took place on the steps but how this whole situation was allowed to proceed the levels of government intervention and regulation criticism that there was not enough and criticism too about some of the police actions the police commander for or than israel has said he wil

jews and monk met on prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called the stampede a great tragedy harry fawcett has this update from the scene all the way up to here we've been seeing stragglers from the events overnight trying to get lifts getting on buses and we're talking so to a couple of them one young man said it was a crime carried out by the police accusing the police of preventing people from from getting access to one potential exit routes out of the the crush another man said that he had watched it take place from a distance and he saw people slipping down a set series of steps on top of each other palestinian president mahmoud abbas has delayed parliamentary elections scheduled for next month abbas blamed a dispute with israel over voting in occupied east jerusalem hamas rejects the decision calling it a coup. brazil has become the 2nd country after the us to record more than 400000 deaths related to covert 1000 health officials warn the daily toll could remain high because of slow vaccination rollouts unloose social restrictions. the 1st batch of emergency supplies from the u.s. ha

ready to work with its ally to ensure any new deal with iran does not undermine regional security harry fawcett reports from west. flying into the major foreign policy issue confronting israel's alliance with the united states the divergence in approach to iran and its nuclear program u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin is the most senior bitin administration official to visit israel since the new u.s. president was sworn in. after 4 years of a trump white house which fave it is ready line on iran these at different days as the u.s. explores options for reviving the iran nuclear deal as a major strategic partner for the united states are by light bilateral relationship with israel in particular is central to regional stability and security in the middle east and during our meeting i reaffirmed to minister gantz our commitment to israel is enduring and it is our inquired. austin's opposite number israeli defense minister benny gantz pledged cooperation in confronting what he called a threat to international security and region and israel. and we war closely resolve american allies to ensure t

under president trump when they were very much cleaving to the same line harry thank you for that harry fawcett live for us in west jerusalem let's cross over to tehran correspondent big aside iran is threatening retaliation for the incident in a ton so what can we expect and what could this mean for the negotiations with the u.s. over the 2050 nuclear deal. with iran has said that the have the right to retaliate although we don't know what shape or form that will take in terms of the negotiations it was definitely a layer of complexity and make it much more difficult iran doesn't want to be seen to be negotiating from a position of weakness and the leverage that they did have while they may not be able to use that but again it may make them less likely to compromise and has been a bizarre day or so since we heard about this incident initially we've we were told that it was a an electrical incident of fault of sorts around is trying to play down but slowly as that yesterday passed and today we've been getting more and more information and we have this report for you to sum up what's been happen

than half the population vaccinated infections been declining steadily from west jerusalem here's harry fawcett. another landmark reached in israel's response to the corona virus pandemic on sunday with the dropping of the outdoor mask mandate people are still being told to wear masks in indoor public spaces or if they gather very tightly together in large numbers outside but in settings like this you can dispense with the mask as well as that schools are now back to normal or catch feeling has now stopped class sizes can return to normal and for face to face teaching all of this been made possible of course by the tumbling case numbers at the height of the pandemic there are more than 9000 new cases a day on friday it was just over 100 and that of course being made possible by the vaccination campaign more than 5300000 israelis have had at least one dose that's 57.5 percent of the population with a further 1000000 people having had the disease recovered and therefore have immunity as well and need to go we'll continue wearing it for at least 2 months until the world is making progress like us.

harry fawcett is in west jerusalem and we'll have more on the u.s. defense secretary's visit in just a moment but 1st we go to our tehran correspondent asaad big so what more iranian authorities saying about this incident accident at the natanz facility. well let me just update you with what the latest that we're hearing now a written statement has been given by the head of iran's atomic agency cheering in media here. now what he said is an admission that this is not an accident this is an attack and no he didn't use those words but what he said is today's act against enrichment facilities shows the failure of those to oppose iran's nuclear progress it also shows a failure of those that oppose iran's negotiations to have those sanctions lifted he went on to say that the international community the i.a.e.a. must confront this nuclear terrorism and that iran has a right to respond to those behind the attack and those that ordered it this is come after we 1st initially that this was an incident it was being investigated we thought it was an accident but