Arabs the far right thanks to an electoral alliance sponsored by the prime minister now has a foothold inside parliament but it s a 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 16 you know you look at it and across these areas israeli authorities systems. Indians in fact at least 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 access to land resources and building permits in hamas controlled gaza from which palestinians are barred exit to live in the west bank or east j
The european union and the u. K. Also promising assistance including equipment and is about to run m has more from the indian capital. India may be experiencing the world s worst outbreak of cholera that 19 but millions of people still turned out to elect to regional leaders in the state of west bengal on monday it s one of 5 states that has held elections in recent weeks despite the drastically rising number of infections. Hospitals across the country are facing a critical shortage of beds and oxygen the u. S. And u. K. Have responded by sending live saving medical supplies to india we want to try them all the support because their close friends increasingly important partners but also we need this kind of international collaboration if we re going to get through the pandemic we don t to be safe until we re all safe. Once the aid arrives armed police are deployed to escort the precious cargo that says regional states accuse each other of stealing oxygen i ve. Got a newly opened 19 car
carbon peak to carbon neutrality in a much shorter time span than what might take many developed countries and that requires extraordinary harder for its from china support has been given to encourage peaking pioneers from localities sectors in companies we were strictly controlled coal fired power generation projects we go strictly limit the increase in coal consumption over the 405 year plan period and phase it down in the 15th 5 year plan period brazil s president says his country will reach its goals on climate neutrality by 2050 significantly earlier than expected he says that will be helped by the ending of illegal deforestation clearing of the amazon has soared underboss a narrow hitting a 12 year high last year. our white house correspondent kimberly how chris has been following the day s events she says biden could have difficulty getting his plans passed by congress while the us president has proposed a 2.2 trillion dollar infrastructure plan where many of the sort
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pandemic of the century the worst economic crisis since the great depression the worst attack on our democracy since the civil war now after just 100 days i can report to the nation america is on the move again. republican senator tim scott gave his party s response attacking biden for what he calls empty words and broken promises he says the by the ministration has divided the country more than ever white house correspondent kelly hall that has more on biden s speech. well it really comes down to 3 different plans one that s already been put in place in 2 that the president is proposing it s the american rescue plan that he passed shortly after with the help of congress to give direct payments to americans to help them deal with the suffering of the pandemic but there s also the american jobs plan and the element of the american families plan now the american jobs plan will essentially if put forward allows for americans to rebuild crumbling infrastructure in the united stat