now where paul brennan is standing by for a sit in london where protesters are expected to march on the israeli embassy a poll that said this march coming in may dramatically heightened tensions what are the authorities expect. the march that was. is going to set off in about 40 minutes corner where i'm standing now and head down to the israeli embassy which is just the way. numbers expected between 10000 even 20000 by the organizers. among the having seen what they've seen on the television over the past week. people gathering. on the t.v. . and the. civilians being bombed of children being incinerated they have. people. around them a touch. from their homes. this is. not to solidarity with the palestinian people but in a in a message to the government. for their almost a week saying what is it you hope to achieve by marching to the. civil. rights over the past few weeks. in the context of. 3 years of the imposition of a system of power of people even human rights defining as meaning the legal definition of a party. without the complicity without the political. and . policy. and. all.

last 14 months where it's been desperate for many of those tourism census ok thank you so much paul brennanbritain's governing conservative party has secured an election victory in what was considered an opposition labor stronghold voters in the parliamentary seat of hurdle pool in england's industrial northeast selected the conservatives for the 1st time in its history ballots are still being tallied though in scotland's parliamentary elections and the results could have a significant effect on the u.k. the scottish national party says it will seek a 2nd independence referendum that's if it wins a majority despite the british prime minister boris johnson saying he won't allow it so how has this update from edinburgh. well a number of constituency seats due to declare on friday include some that the scottish national party nicholas sturgeon's party must win if they are to improve their position in the holyrood parliament behind me shy of an outright majority going in to this election and remember it is that focused on a majority a majority for independence that is really the point of this e

a kind of covert passport that would allow people much more free movement ok thank you so ask paul brennan or coronavirus restrictions have been extended in japan's capital just 77 days before the scheduled start of the olympics a state of emergency was due to end in 4 days in tokyo but cases are still surging as rob mcbride reports. the restrictions were due to be lifted next week but with japan still grappling with a 4th wave of the pandemic this announcement had been widely expected for prefect use including tokyo and osaka will have the state of emergency extended to the end of the month. while 2 more will be given emergency powers but you would think the. about the holding of the games there are concerns raised by the people of japan which i know 1st the current expansion of new cases has to be curtailed a particular limpid games the most important thing is preventative measures for the athletes and their teams and to protect japanese nationals. the restrictions were introduced to curb the spread before an important annual holiday period at the end of april while the government says t

only news in the iraqi capital but let's go to paul brennan who's in london where protesters marched to the israeli embassy what was the atmosphere like. well i i hesitate to call it a carnival atmosphere that said there were sound systems and there was dancing and there was chanting but the mood was very stern and very angry because the pictures that people have been watching in the past 7 days as far as the you know that the attacks that have been taking place. of really galvanized i think opinion about the state of the situation particularly in gaza and the organizers estimated that they would have somewhere between 10020000 people come out here and it was difficult to judge because the streets that they were marching through were rather narrow and difficult to actually count people but i would estimate there were as least 10000 people turned out that we just had a rain shower in about the last half hour and that's thinned the crowd out where i am the israeli embassy is about 120 meters 200 meters over my shoulder there and there's still a gathering of a couple a few 100 people do

thousands of protesters also took to the streets in london after their as paul brennan was there i know there are says this march in london had hoped for between 10 and 20000 participants and it looks very much as though they've achieved that goal and this is one of more than 30 marches taking place up and down the u.k. today saturday the point of this is anger and solidarity and go about the pictures that people have been seeing on the television screens for the past 2 weeks both as the tension ramped up in occupied east jerusalem but also as the conflict has erupted on the bottom of the gaza border now what are they asking for what are they demanding well that amount of action from the u.k. government that the u.k. government no longer deals trades and arms with israel. and that the essentially saying that everybody should take them to suit zach to what is happening in the israel they're very pragmatic the people here and i've got to say it's a key. such a population from very young to very old they'd know that 1 march alone is not going to solve the middle east conflict so they say t

of view of non-essential travel starting to reopen in europe it's a start ok thank you so much paul brennan reporting from london. on to more head on the news hour including an attack on democracy the multi-use president denounces an explosion that injured his predecessor the biden administration southern border challenge to have the latest on high level meetings between the white house and mexico and a blow for chelsea and manchester city fans hoping to watch their teams of the champions league final have more details on that in sport. but 1st coronavirus restrictions have been extended in japan's capital just 77 days before the scheduled start of the olympics the state of emergency was due to end in 4 days in tokyo but cases are still rising as rob mcbride reports. the restrictions were due to be lifted next week but with japan still grappling with a 4th way but the pandemic this announcement had been widely expected full prefectures including tokyo and osaka will have the state of emergency extended to the end of the month while 2 more will be given emergency powers. i think. about the h

shocked and appalled by what happened over the last 20 for us, pull brennan, they're following things for us. from london, thanks so much paul. while us secretary of state anthony rincon is traveling to the middle east days into the israel palestine cheese fire. president biden has said his quiet and relentless diplomacy helped and the conflict. but his administration is still facing growing criticism over its support for israel israeli attacks has killed 248 palestinians in gaza, while 13 people have been killed. and israel, as rockets were fired from casa brink and has twisted that he's trying to jerusalem ramallah, cairo, and amman. adding that the united states has engaged an intensive diplomacy to bring an end to the still it is and reduce tensions. while there's also been a significant arab diplomatic activity on monday with the egyptian and jordanian foreign ministers meeting in amman to discuss the situation in the region. both have said it's important that both israel and palestine respect the cease fire agreement roof was egypt and george and we'll continue working together to keep an up put the legitimate rights o