israel has launched air strikes against militant targets in the gaza strip, after a barrage of rockets fired from the territory towards jerusalem. the hamas run palestinian health ministry in gaza said twenty people had died in the strikes. injerusalem, the rocket fire caused israel s parliament to be evacuated as sirens sounded. earlier in the day, there were further clashes between israeli police and palestinians outside the al aqsa mosque injerusalem. more than 200 people were injured, as crowds threw stones and officers fired stun grenades in response. 0ur middle east correspondent yolande knell reports. 0ur blood is a cheap price forjerusalem, shouts this bereaved gaza grandmother. while this woman, who lost four children, can only weep. the casualties, mounting, after israeli air strikes. translation: this evening, | jerusalem day, gaza s terrorist organisations crossed a red line and attacked us with rockets on the outskirts ofjerusalem. israel will react very forceful
also coming up: over 100 civilians who ve been living underneath the besieged steel plant in mariupol have safely arrived in ukrainian territory many are women and children who spent 60 days trapped underground. and in shanghai, the bbc has seen evidence of people in their 90 s some even 100 years old who ve been moved out of their homes after testing positive for covid i9 as millions endure a strict lockdown. the five weeks i ve been locked down, you cannot kill outside the gates, it s shawn hi s down, you cannot kill outside the gates, it s shawn his most vulnerable suffer the most. and most of them are unvaccinated. still, chasing zero covid i9 is the right thing. hello and welcome to newsday broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s six in the morning in singapore, and six in the evening in washington, where the us presidentjoe biden has called for the preservation of the ruling that legalised abortion across the us after a leaked document sug
the met office has said that storm isha is relatively rare because it s likely to affect the whole of the country. the strongest winds are expected on sunday night into monday morning when three amber warnings come into effect. let s take a look at some live pictures from around the uk and this storm begins to hit. irst at heathrow, planes have been coming and going in the wind. a bumpy ride in for some passengers, with some current wind gusts there up to 60 miles per hour. we ve seen some plane divert, and make a go round as those gusts have hit. let s just stay with that, it let s just stay with that, it is let s just stay with that, it is landing but a let s just stay with that, it is landing buta bumpy landing. these are live pictures from the usually picturesque shetland in scotland. you can see the effect this weather system is having on the swell there. a little further south in glasgow, it s been raining. the severe wind warnings are in place there. this is porthl
warning over the country s debt ceiling. this is the amount of money the us government is allowed to borrow to pay for pretty much everything they do. without an agreement to increase what the federal government can borrow, it could run out of money by earlyjune. at that point the federal government might not be able to make wage, welfare and other payments. our north america business correspondent michelle fleury is live in new york for us. we have been here before but once again, a stark warning that if nothing is done, it causes huge repercussions around the world. this is because as repercussions around the world. ti 3 is because as you say it is going to affect the jobs of government employees in the united states and have a knock on effect on the border economy, but then there is beyond the shores of the united states, the kind of ricochets it will have around the global financial system and that is why you have had this increasing drumbeat as we get closer to the kin
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