a visit by the us defense secretary ah, on the ball, this is i'm just here alive from london, also coming up. russia alone. she's a new wave of missile strikes across ukraine. can at least 6 civilians and knocking out power, including to this upper region nuclear plant. if we allow these to continue time after time, then one day our locked, we run out why georgians is still protesting this, despite the government dropping plans for foreign aging laws, similar to russia's, ah, voting to the program. israel police say in a taca has opened far and central tel aviv. what that cooling us, specter terrorist attack. 3 people have been injured. the large numbers of police, the medical workers rushed to the see where the gunman carried out the attack. police say the government has been quote neutralized will israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has reacted to the shooting while on a visit to rome. i have a very serious attacking televi, a terrorist attack, sending recovery wishes to the injured. we are strengthening the police and security forces. this will not wake in our determination to plant roots in our homeland. let's get more on the shooting in tell of even ran con is live and occupy to east jerusalem. any moran, we have more details from when i last spoke to you a short while ago. we now believe that one of the 3 wounded are in a critical condition and we will ass hearing that they that police will apparently looking for a 2nd possible shooter to we have any more details to the police. well the police have said is that yes and 3 people have been critically injured. um they say they've neutralized the suspect by that. they mean they've actually show to him dead. we don't know the identity of the shoot to so far the attack took place in the last couple of hours in decent golf street in tell of even central television. that's normally a very, very busy place, full of balls and cafes and restaurants very popular place on a thursday night, which is the beginning of the weekend. but because of the protests have been taking place today, it would have been even more busy. now the man of television has austell to protest is to go home to leave the area. in fact, what we're hearing is that a lot of people in those restaurants actually fled mid meal. they just got up and i left as soon as i had those shots are ringing out. and he also said that he'd sent the police down that police and medics all still on the scene in deezen golf street . we don't know whether they are still looking for a 2nd active shooter. that was report that came out about 30 minutes ago. but we don't know. again the identity of the shoot up except the police have said that this isn't a criminal. this is a political, this is a suspected a terror attack. any brown as we try to establish ship the back ground to the shooting will of this, of course happens at a time of mass protests across israel against that proposed legislation to hold the country's judiciary a tremendous amount of pressure, the authority governments under isn't it absolutely and they are feeling the pressure, we seen it, the more bang there, the national security minister actually reshuffle one of the commanders in television who is responsible for the on the ground strategy to a different position. he's long been very critical of his own police chief saying that they're simply losing control of the situation in telling me that the protesters are walking all over the police that they blocking rosa, blocking highways. it's actually worth a taking a closer look at all the events of today, cuz this came on the day that c, u. s. secretary had events visited israel. genevieve was brought to a standstill as protest is blocked, roads and highways. seems like this repeated across israel and just let the highways they want to block the judicial reform bill the would if pulse did the kinessa, the ability to overrule some supreme court decisions. ah, a power the protest to say is anti democratic. the protest this like widespread, they disrupted the visit of u. s. secretary of defense, lloyd austin. he was supposed to arrive on wednesday, but that was changed at the request of these riley's meetings like this would normally take place at the ministry of defense. instead, the venue was televi tv's main airports and prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and his team had to be brought in by helicopter. soon, after the meeting, the prime minister treated saying that they spoke about the threats to the wrong israel. and it was a united front on iran as well, both the u. s. secretary of defense and these really defense minister i spoke to the media. you on ames to gain nuclear weapons. and threatened, not only is well, but the entire world, whether it's worth noting the iran insisted nuclear program is strictly for civilian purposes. u. s. secretary of defense however, did bring up the issue of a recent violence in the occupied westbank. i remain concerned about what we're seeing in terms of those escalation of violence. and i did discuss those concerns with the, with my colleagues. ah, and we're urging everyone to deescalate and in terms of activities in the west bank. our focus remains on working with israel and the palestinians and other regional partners to deescalate and restore call. but despite that concern from the u. s. navy nightly rates by the israeli army continue in the occupied west bank as does the protest movement against the proposed judicial changes. the govern refers to the protest as, as adequate and says that the anti democratic, but that's not stopping the protest is from coming out on to the streets. it's been 10 weeks now and the protests are just getting bigger. it is putting prime minister benjamin netanyahu under a tremendous amount of pressure, but he's sticking to his guns. he says that this bill will become low in ron con, out 0, western islam. and in the occupied westbank, violence continues to escalade funerals have been held for 3 palestinian fighters killed by a ready forces in java, south of jennine. when it says said the man was shot in that car by snipers on rooftops. and on thursday morning, the 3 men were all in their twenties. yes way. the army says they were suspected of carrying out shooting attacks in the area. abraham, is that the job a village in southern jeanine? we knew graves were dug up here in job bout after 3 palestinian were shot and killed by israeli forces earlier today. just next to them are grades of 2 other palestinians who were killed in january. okay, in and is way the way they're part of what's known here as the battalion. it's a recently established fighting group here and we're seeing a growing phenomena of armed men working together, uniting and we're seeing that phenomena expanding more than just in gene annapolis . we want to be free and get liberated and breathe, but don't what we're seeing is of pressure. all this pressure will only lead to an explosion. oh, there will then a coming parts of the daily life here in the occupied westbank with more than 75. but i simeon feel just this year alone with spoken to the mother of a one of the palestinians were killed earlier today. she says she was one of the. 6 first to see him identify him, she rides that's good, at least we will. it is neck chest and abdomen. this is the funeral procession and the other 2 men also a. 6 14 year old i during and it's a way to read in a few days ago. he's a minor to be in the beginning here and no one is wrong with the army with the situation even further. ah, to some other news now and russia has launched another wave of missile strikes across ukraine. it's 1st in weeks killing at least 6 civilians and knocking out electricity. moscow confirmed it used hypersonic congeal missiles, 11 cities were hit across the country and attacks as far west as river ne and live . the kremlin says they were retaliation for an attack which killed 2 people in rushes, brianne screech, and last week ukraine said it down nearly half the missiles launched by russia. this apparition power plant was knocked offline for several hours. ukraine's grid operators as power has since been restored, but it prompted a strong statement from the u. s. nuclear watchdog demanding action to avoid a potential disaster at the plant. charlie angela has more 700 kilometers from any battlefield west of live. if a russian missiles struck this house while the family slept, killing 5 civilians, some still buried by the bricks. sister i am, we are little up with one. m is cavellas. my sister called me and said that her rocket head or fell on my other sisters house. she said, our holla taught us and florida may were under the rubble. they still haven't found them hard and we were hoping that they're alive, but they're not alive. liberal in was, were political. russia launched 81 missiles across a sleeping ukraine early on thursday, hitting infrastructure and residential buildings in 10 regions, including keith, ukraine's air force. they stopped almost half of the missiles, but 6 were hypersonic, traveling up to 8 kilometers a 2nd. the type ukraine can't intercept many homes were left without power, and the japanese a nuclear plant was off grid for several hours before being we connected. prompting a start warning from the international atomic energy agency. this is the largest nuclear power station in europe, operating for the 6 time under emergency diesel generators. what are we doing? each time we are rolling a dice. and if we allow these to continue time after time, then one day our luck will run out and casts on 3 people were killed, waiting for a bus or me. no good mom, super slow. it is just 50 steps away from my house. i feel so sorry for yona. she was such a good girl, and more people died in cost deanton, if currently on yet residence, clear up, they feel overwhelmed by the destruction would not be road work. they're destroying our city, destroying the police every day. there is shelling every day general evening, morning all the time. and here are the results of the shelling. everybody is in shock. sure everybody is afraid to see, but we have no words to describe it to the address. i go to bed and i don't know if i will wake up the next day. elsewhere in the east, the battle for back murder is intensifying with the russian saying they now control the east of the besieged city. the ukrainian military though, still hanging on for now, but russia has reminded ukraine with this latest set of strikes. it has the ability to strike anywhere. charlie angela al jazeera, the president of belarus, has extended the nation's death penalty to cover officials found guilty of high treason. alexander lucas shanker has signed the new law as part of what's described as a fight against extremist, an anti state crimes is also bringing in laws similar to those in russia. making discrediting the armed forces, a criminal offense galleries as russia's closest ally and the ukraine war, allowing its territory to be used as a base for the initial invasion protests as are back on the streets of george's capital. tbilisi for a 3rd night. as despite the government saying it's dropping a controversial bill, opponents of the so called foreign agents law say it would silence independent media and criticism of the ruling party. but protests as a vow to keep demonstrating until there's proof the bill is actually been paul. john hall has more oh, 3rd night of protests in the george and capital tbilisi, despite a government promised to withdraw draft legislation that opposition media and civil society group said would stifle press freedom and silence descent. oh, no one was taking the government at its word. i came upon them, the fight will continue until these bills are withdrawn and even the minimum legal opportunity to reverse that decision is rolled out. for many, the draft bill has echoes of russian legislation criminalizing foreign funded media and, and g as it would force those receiving more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register as foreign agents or face heavy fines. and there are concerns, it might jeopardize daughter's pro western aspirations were ready to go on with the protest because it's not about that particular organization. it's about george in european and you're atlantic aspiration and we're not, we're not going to put that graham, that, that issue on their question. wednesday night so violent confrontations with police using t, a gas water cannon and stung grenades. and even as protest has gathered, again, the ruling georgia, dream party chairperson, spelled out the plan to kill off the bill. oh, good trish. i got to the government, the legislation will come out for it 2nd hearing and it will fail. let me once again make these political statement. the law will fail because no one will vote for it and that will procedurally resolve the issue with trouble. the party denied it had an anti europe agenda, blaming, fake news, and the deliberate efforts of the opposition to link its draft legislation to russia. prime minister directly gary bashfully had said the law once enacted would help route out those working against george's interests. interests that appear to differ from those on the street journal al jazeera. okay, well let's return to our breaking news story. now. the shooting in tel aviv tell, schneider has the diplomatic and political correspondent for the times of israel. she joins us now. live, welcome to the program. i appreciate which will still trying to establish the circumstances and the motives around the shooting and televi for what you're reading, what your understanding of what st happened. hi, good evening. you're, it's a really nice for what the, you know, we don't want to now from the tell of the police. the shooting is a torah attack or probably a gun down by police and other soldiers. soldiers that it wasn't a vacation in nearby location. we have a 3 israel is when did 2 of them in a severe situation and one of them is like the one that i don't have too much details. other than that, probably the attacker is probably from the west bank not completely sure. as to his as to his region, but the not a, from the west bank, that's what we know app and you know, what, what about the, the location of this attack, dissing gulf? i gather it. so what are the busiest parts of the city? right. it's right in the middle of, you know, one of the busiest time cafes and restaurants and then parties, location. we are in the midst of a holiday, the israeli so called holloway and it's like the costume holiday. it's actually ended yesterday, but people because it's already and we can, people already started writing in the street with questions and everything and a lot of bars and restaurants. so i think that when did, and the casualties are probably young people who part in the area. also it was a very, very long day in israel because i don't know if you were following. we have huge demonstration all over the country. and the protesters announced this day to be their resistance. and so you had to police was busy with blocking roads and demonstration all day long. so lots of people were in television due to the practice. and actually the mayor of the city came out to do today at taylor at that location and say, i call on all of the protest stores to go back home. because right now we are in the middle of a situation. so does a mix of, you know, a very, very long day with a lot of the demonstrations, including in that it was a huge march just couple of hours earlier. i'm talking about tens of thousands of people to march, to, to still be the same location. and then wants to read it again, the government who plans to take, you know, some of the liberties and, you know, plans to do addition overhaul and change israel's democracy to something that is not really a democracy. so lots of demonstration and then the 2 are on the top of that and the prime minister is not in the country. so lots of events. as you say, they're the immediate effect as announced by the mayor of tel aviv, is that these protests saw cooled off. as you mentioned, residents have been urged to go home. the seems to be sort of counter intuitive for a palestinian to, to want to see an end to these protests against this government. so new overhaul. busy for legislation, i don't think it's related to a tax. if we are, you know, it is dra are, you know, it's a car, i'm still shred it here all the time. you know, it doesn't really matter if it's a practice or should, saturday or sundays happens. every couple of days. so it can be a jerusalem or television. i don't think service, you know, sharon, how about a dish chill overhaul or anything like that and related. the fact is that there were, there were many people in districts for many hours and the fact and you know, they look rock, not all of the brought, this is like nice in marching. some of it went into the highways and blocked the roads. and another fact is that the tell of the police were very, very busy today when, you know, taking care of the demonstrators and trying to get them out of the rows and so on. so, you know, some people tried to block the airport in order for the prime minister to get out of the country for his meetings in rome. and you know, it's been ongoing for 10 weeks now by the way. but today was one of the biggest day of threat this brought this all over the country from the northern part to the starting part everywhere. so people actually kind of went on strike and were a district all day long, right? i want to ask you another question about these protests, of course, we've seen days of mass protests, not any until a b, but other locations as well against this proposed change to legislation. the strength of feeling is clearly very, very high about this. and we've seen oversee the visit to the us defense secretary, lloyd austin, that concerned about an escalation of violence. what would potentially an oval whole of this law actually mean? what continues to force people out on the streets? i will in your eyes, the protest continue in spite of an attack of this nature. yeah, it's interesting that you mentioned that lloyd austin. he had to change his plans. he was supposed to be in his room yesterday because of the math test. he only came to the airport meant to the prime minister at the airport in a nearby location for an hour. and then both of them both leaders to cough. prime minister, either a pregnancy took, took off to italy and austin took off to his next. next stop or maybe back to the states, i'm not sure. but anyways, he couldn't get out of the article because everything was blocked. and when you asked me if does protest will continue? i think they will. i think that was the huge resistance in israel to the judicial overhaul. it's not just want to be able to trying to change the entire system, the entire regime in israel, into something that you know, up to 75 years of very vibrant democracy. they are trying to turn it into something more like hungry or poland, or turkey, where the executive power have everything they want to nominate the judges and they want to control department and so on. so they're trying to race the separation of power. and if you ask me, this will continue the practice. i am pretty sure they will. the bills might be done within $2.00 to $3.00 weeks at the parliament that these really can s it the voting on them. you know that we call it the 2nd reading and a 3rd reading might take place before the end of march. so if you did this will happen. you will see even a whitening protest where we see people in the military refusing to serve. and we see economist, you know, in turning a shoulder and, you know, pulling money out of the country. and this is really a devastating process at the moment. so it's both on the street, but it's also in, you know, in other location, in the military, in the economy to high 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