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killing people. >> Hey fred, I appreciate your time. As always. I know it's busy, but thanks for coming on the program and giving us your thoughts on this today. Thanks so much, todd. Really appreciate it. Fred hahn the president of cupe ontario. The canadian union of public employees. All right, meantime in quebec and again in a related story, a judge there has ordered pro-palestinian protesters too, make some space at an encampment that they have set up at a university in quebec. It's known as the university of quebec at montreal. Or you the got a big campus in the downtown core. Take a look. They set up their camp about 2 weeks ago in a courtyard school object it and has been granted an injunction. The dow forces, these protesters say at least 2 meters away from buildings clear all access to doors and windows. The judge says the city fire inspector's have to be allowed into the camp to conduct safety to university personnel as well. It's not just you can, of course, but we have seen a major encampment set up at mcgill university that's been there for a better part of a month. Now. And that situation is also stalemated. The trudeau government says it will grant temporary visas to up to 5,000 people who are living in gaza as part of a special program for canadians, relatives who are living there. That is up from 1000 temporary visas that were a lot of under a program that was announced back in december. It's all in preparation for when people are able to actually leave gaza currently, that is not possible. Canada's immigration minister saying this increase 1000 to 5,000 means the federal government will be ready to help more people as the situation evolves. We're tracking a major international story from the south pacific. More than 2000 people believed to have been buried alive after a massive landslide in papa new guinea, which is north of australia. A landslide happened 3 days ago, heavy rain and the remoteness of the area where it happened or making rescue and recovery efforts even more difficult. >> They're trying to rescue whatever they can >> By using the taking 6. States. At the cultural forks. And their hands. Of course. >> A country's government has now put out an international call for help, but papa new guinea is somewhat remote. And so it's going to take some time people in this region of also been hesitant to bring in heavy machinery. Instead, they've been taking on the task of actually looking for those buried by hand. There are also fears that water flowing below all this debris could lead maybe to another landslide. There's a lot of difficulties. Well, getting an accurate estimate of the local population in this part of pop. And again, that's because the country's last census was almost 25 years ago. And a lot of people live in remote mountainous villages. Let's bring in ctv's tony grace is in our national newsroom and has more on the devastating pictures out of the region. Tony, bring us up to speed on the latest year. Well, todd, yes, about landslide hitting friday. While many people were sleeping, the devastation and the scope of it becoming a lot more clear today. The. >> Government in papa new guinea now estimating more than 2000 people were buried alive underneath the debris of that landslide. Here's a little map showing you where it happened. This is a very mountainous region, as you mentioned, not a lot of reliable census data to to indicate how many people may be missing or to to check that against figures provided by the local communities. So right now I'm a sense of desperation setting. And here's a look at the aftermath. By the way, this is 6 to 8 metres of earth. And debris. That's that's covering up dozens of homes in the area and part of the problem is that this is such a remote area in the mountains, that it's been difficult to get heavy machinery up there. The first excavator, for example, just arrived yesterday. So active desperation. In the meantime, people have been digging with their hands with sticks with with garden shovels, anything that they can gather together in order to try to access the area beneath the rubble to try to see if they can get anyone out alive. At this point, we understand that only about 8 people, 8 bodies rather, have been removed from the debris of that landslide, which happened after weeks and weeks of heavy rain. So then there's the question of getting aid in as well. And that's a whole complicated thing itself, todd, because there is a tribal warfare in the area and that means aid workers and experts who are trying to assess the stability of the land have to be shuttled in often with military escorts. So that slows the process down papua new guinea's nearest neighbour australia has been among the first to pledge support to offer aircraft, which are expected to be mobilized today and more equipment into the area. But you can just see by these images, todd. But it's just an absolutely devastating and and absolutely unthinkable task and its magnitude to try and help the communities that have been devastated by this landslide. That happened friday. All right, tony grace with the latest from papa new guinea. Thank you, tony. For that. It's a major problem right across much of our country, particularly in ontario. And now we're getting an update from police just

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I can understand why the pattern of life was an obvious that it was in the area full of civilians. And that is if mister netanyahu says something's gone terribly wrong, he's probably got it right, because I can't imagine that the tolerance for civilian casualties is in in the high 40's. What do you think this might do in terms and we certainly know that israel has been facing more and more condemnation. General thompson. But what this? >> You know, it will do in terms of reaction to israel. More pressure brought on the country. I talked about the world court just on friday saying they need to stop these sorts of military offensives. Well, both of the courts are are no longer. >> Lined up at in israel's favour. So the international court of justice, as you quite rightly pointed out, he's israel to halt its attacks. And of course, the icc, the international criminal court has indicted both mister netanyahu and his defence minister as well as by the way younger son war with the leader of hamas. So there's an awful lot of pressure, political pressure from these international organizations. And as you know, back in march, there was a security council resolution that was passed because united states abstained to work towards a humanitarian ceasefire. None of this seems to have put the brakes on israel. And I don't get to that will be any change in their way forward. And by the way, you mention that in the reporting, but they've moved a million people out of the gaza gaza city in towards a humanitarian area as I think of as we've discussed before that area called alma. Al-mawasi is about 8 and a half square kilometres and is basically a beach. It's a big sandy area. So it's hard to imagine how you can push a million people into an area like that and expect him to survive. How do you think this see israel is losing the war, the narrative carry out well for tell me if if you can, how you think this particular incident and certainly what we've seen general thompson recent days. >> May or may not have an impact on, you know, any plans for for a whether you think that's pretty much at this point dead on arrival. I think they're still going to be an awful lot of work towards. He's far it may, ironically, it may not be in the interests of a massive, certainly in the interests of the palestinian people. >> And it certainly in the interests of israel, who would like to get some of their hostages back. So that is a probably don't think it's going to continue despite all of these studies reports and snow different front. Then the attack that took place on the al-shifa hospital a ton. So the israelis a penny. And by the way, its interesting that hamas is still able to strike against the idf inside of the northern gaza strip. Where they were they had apparently cleared him out once before. So in the paradigm of clear hold build is really still haven't held a lot of the ground that it cleared and it's forcing him to go back and wework areas that they thought they had cleaned out. Appreciate your insights as always. A general thompson, thank you for this today. >> All right, take care. Thompson, their montreal will go to ottawa in a moment. But first, a toronto because an 8:00am deadline has come and gone for demonstrators who are at a pro-palestinian encampment at the university of toronto. They were given that deadline to clear out they've been there for almost a month now. And the university of toronto adopting a different type of strategy that we saw elsewhere. Ke alberta, for example, work the protesters were cleared out within a day or 2. Toronto had a more conciliatory approach, bought the protest only grow to now more than 100 different tense. Here's what some of the protesters are saying here. They say they will hold their ground. >> We do owe this to community that all fell at a rally with us earlier this morning, where we had hundreds of workers come out or fell. Of course, that represents over a million workers. 54 unions, it shows admin to the people are on our side. We have another meeting scheduled with administration at 5:00pm. And we're hoping to continue negotiation with them at that time. >> The university seems to have enough, though, of and they, in fact, have gone to a superior court to adjust, to request an injunction to remove the demonstrators. We mentioned you heard there from that demonstrated and some labour groups have rallied outside as well in solidarity with these protesters. The university is saying they will meet with the protesters. But ultimately this is an authorized. This is now trespassing and they have to go. We spoke to one former toronto police officer who had this to say to me. >> You've seen the university of toronto allegedly take recent steps to try to mitigate or prevent the situation from continuing. That's the first thing, you know, with the motion that the courts would consider is what steps are being taken sauce far. And as the process continues to pending a what u of t's legal team swat articulate. You got

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