of prague as the gunman opened fire at charles university s faculty of arts in the city s old town a major tourist attraction. authorities evacuated staff and students, who were told to stay put and lock themselves inside classrooms. as you can see from these pcictures, some climbed on to rooftops and window ledges to escape the gunfire. police said the gunman was a 24 year old student who s been named by local media as david kozak. the shooting is the deadliest in the czech republic s history in a country where gun crime is relatively rare. sarah rainsford reports from prague. the centre of prague was suddenly transformed into a major crime scene. armed police rushed towards a university building as a gunman stalked the corridors there. at this point, he was still on the loose. and these were the scenes at charles university. desperate students clinging for their lives to a ledge. their fear of falling overtaken by the fear of the gunman metres away on the roof. as the
close quarter combat has seen fierce fighting with gunmen as they target outposts, headquarters and other hamas infrastructure. with the fighting intensifying there s been strongly worded criticism of the humanitarian situation emerging from the united nations. seven human rights experts have said that they believe that the palestinian people in gaza are at grave risk of genocide , and that time is running out to prevent this. israel accused them of repeating hamas propaganda. meanwhile the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is back in israel for his second visit to the region since the war began. he plans to talk to israeli officials about how to pursue their military and security goals in gaza while limiting civilian casualties. and people across the region are waiting to hear from the leader of the lebanese islamist group, hezbollah. his speech in the comming hours will be closely watched, and could have huge consiquences for the conflict. our gaza correspondent rushdi
of a wider conflict. it s mr blinken s second visit since the war began. he s thought to be talking to israeli officials about how to pursue their military and security goals in gaza while limiting civilian casualties. meanwhile, the israeli military says its ongoing ground offensive has now completed the encirclement of gaza city , the most densely populated part of the palestinian territory before the war began last month. the israel defense forces says close quarter combat has seen fighting with gunmen as they target outposts, headquarters and other hamas infrastructure. with the fighting intensifying there s been strongly worded criticism of the humanitarian situation emerging from the united nations. seven human rights experts have said that they believe that the palestinian people in gaza are at risk of genocide, and that time is running out to prevent this. israel accused them of repeating hamas propaganda. and people across the region are waiting to hear from the lea
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Community action to you with an interview of sorts and the heart and we will have an opportunity for question and answer some say you are particularly interested in to follow up you will have that opportunity. And the privilege to be a part of the 50th the anniversary event. A great way to get things started. Without further ahead do we go get into my introduction of our guest. Known as Sister Simone campbell is part of the National Catholic Justice Group of religious leader and attorney and poet with expense assyrians of advocacy for systemic change and in washington she lobbies on Immigration Reform and health care and economic justice. She is a noted speaker of Public Policy issues and since the 70s she has founded or served as lead attorney for serving or protecting Public Policy needs. She has traveled to the middle east and with Health Care Reform she authored the famous and none better than supported the reform bill persuading 59 other leaders to sign on it was considered critic