. >> bodies lint streets in south sudan. the u.n. said hundreds of people have been massacred by rebels. >> hello, we have world news for al jazeera. also ahead the u.s. vice president touches down in ukraine as russia accuses kiev of breaking an agreement on the crisis in the east. syrian government set for elections that could give president assad seven more years of power. we go inside the murky world

of illegal gambling. rebels in south do you san accused of massacring hundreds of people. the army and south you dan are e fighting a number of rebels groups. a warning that some of the pictures we're about to show are you disturbing. showing dozens of dead bodies. we are not showing all of the pictures because they are just too graphic. in one mosque alone 200 people were killed and there were more deaths in a church and hospital. earlier my colleague spoke to the deputy representative at the u.n. mission in south you dan.

he describes what he he saw. >> i just came back from beniu. i was there for 20 hours and went around town quite extensi extensively. it's clear where people were trying to stay safe in churches, mosques, school buildings and hotels, they were deliberately targeted, and questioned what is your identity. if it was the wrong one they were executed. this affected a number of people who were there as traders from darfur. people in darfur were there to help run the market. it's quite atrocious what i've been exposed to many parts of the city. there are still piles of body near street corners near the markets and of course we have to go public on this and call for a

full investigation and full accountability for those who are responsible. >> yes, i'm looking at some of the pictures at some of the things that you've undoubtedly seen. some of our pictures are too graphic. what is more appalling about this, apparently the local radio station was used to broadcast hate comments where people from one community were urged to attack or rape people from another community. >> this is one of the most troubling developments in what we've seen as a quick situation in south sudan. hard to believe that four months ago the country was at peace, and we were all talking about developments. now it's 7 million people who are at the risk of hunger, who are already towards that edge where they simply can't fend for themselves. this month, april, may, absolutely crucial for the planting season for people to fend for themselves. if we lose that opportunity, and with hate speech, violence in

places in bentiu, etc. in those major areas of the country people won't be able to fend for themselves, and we'll have a bigger catastrophe later this year. >> fighting broke out in december between pro government forces and soldiers who back the president. in january, a citizen fire was signed that the cease-fire has not stopped. atrocities have been reported on both sides. armed men attacked a u.n. compound sheltering 5,000 civilians. eight people were killed. >> we've seen a clear pattern

throughout this conflict in all the different areas where the conflict has taken place. widespread attacks on civilians for no reason other than their ethnicity. again, this is what we're seeing in bentiu, these horrific case where is people are pulled out, targeted and killed purely because of the tribes they belong to. both sides are responsible for these attacks on civilians, and this kind of awful, enormous destruction of civilian property, and again and again large killings of people purely because of their ethnicity. what we need to see now is accountability for these crimes. >> the u.s. vice president arrives in ukraine to show commitment to its interim leaders. russia's foreign minister lavrov

said washington must take more responsibility for kiev actions. this is as a second shooting occurred on sunday. one person was killed in a town just outside of donestk. >> the vice president arrives in ukraine at a time when efforts to end the crisis peacefully appears to be faltering. it tries to deal with a rebellion in the east by pro russian activists. where armed demonstrators have ceased public buildings and set up roadblocks. calls on activists come out from behind their barricades in exchange of autonomy. a couple of violent incidents sunday, heightened tensions and mistrust between the two sides. pro russian activists have

called on moscow for help. and russia hinting that there are more calls to intervene. >> those who are leaning towards the start of civil war are engaged in civil violating civil policies. >> reporter: a few held a rally in a small town. they heckled local officials. about 200 meters down the road there is a rival demonstration by pro-russian activists. the splits in this small town reflect the divisions in the region as a whole. these people see the visit as further proof, and they announce

the government in kiev illegal. they want self government, and they want russia to help achieve it. >> the self-declared mayor of ukraine has met european mediators. they're trying to persuade pro-russia separatists to put down their weapons. barnaby phillips is in kiev where he sends this report. >> reporter: joe biden's visit to kiev is a well welcome support of what is a w beleagued government. we talk to people here in kiev about what they would like from this american visit.

they're talking about more economic insistence. they're talking about energy assistance, ways in which ukraine could be weaned off it's dependence of russian natural a gas. obviously that is a long-term measure. in the short term the americans are talking about non-lethal military assistance, and they're talking about further escalation of sanctions against russia if latino week's geneva accord is not followed. activists occupying towns in the eastern part of the country not showing any inclination that they're preparing to anywhere yet. >> syrian parliament has

announced elections, a vote scheduled to take place jun june 3rd. candidates have until the end of april to submit their applications. bashar al-assad has not officially said he will stand again but he has made it clear that he intends to do just that. in 2000 bashar al-assad succeeded his father, who had governed since 1971. he was reelected in 2007, taking 98% of the vote. this year parliaments amended the electoral law. under the new syrian constitution approved in 2012 the president can remain in power for two seven-year terms. that means assad in theory could remain in power i 2028.

in governor controlled neighbo s election preparations are under way. people are asking for at least that is the message from those who take part in rallies held by government supporters. but there are those who do not want assad as their leader. the war is a consequence of an up rising against his rule. >> who should i vote for, a man who killed many people? >> many left their country or are internally displaced won't be able to cast their ballot. >> reporter: the syrian government said the vote will be different. over the past four decades they

could only choose to support or oppose assad, and before him, his father. now parliament has approved laws to allow candidates to run for the post. but not anyone can stand for election. one of the conditions is they must have lived in syria for the past ten years. that means most of assad's opponents, even the officially tolerated ones, are excluded from the race. some of them have formed a government in exile. it's members are not interested in competing with a man they want out of power. but they aren't able to prevent the vote. >> they had no executive body providing services for the syrian people. >> he may remain in power but

the election will not be considered free and fair. it won't end the war. >> the french journalists held in syria for ten months are talking about their ordeal. they arrived back home on sunday after turkish soldiers found them handcuffed and blindfolded on the syrian turkish border. >> there were mock executions with pistols held to the head. for a month and a half we were in shackles continu continuousl, handcuffed and in chains. >> coming up, south korea's president condemns the crew of the capsized ferry and calls

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too graphic to air. russia's prime minister has accused ukraine of violating the geneva agreement. vice president joe biden has arrived in ukraine as a show of commitment to its interim leaders. syria's election will occur june 3rd. bashar al-assad has not said he will run. south korea's president has called the captain of sunken ferry as an the murder. at least 87 people are now con termed dead, more than 200 are still missing. harry fascett reports. >> reporter: dive teams were

hoping to make the best of improved conditions, getting ready for the task of pulling day's old bodies from the sunken wreck. >> right now they're wearing life jackets so it was difficult to bring the bodies off the ship. we need scissors or knife to cut the life jackets to get the bodies out. >> reporter: but they faced a frustrating 11 hour shift. a plan to allow more divers in at the same time was unsuccessful. none of this team were able to make it into the ship. the focus remains on speeding up the recovery effort. the president of south korea turned on the captain and said his conduct and that of some of the crew from tantamount to murder. >> reporter: this was the captain in 2010 on another ferry on the same route. >> just as long as you follow

the directions, i believe the ferry is safer than any other transportation. >> reporter: four years later that's what hundreds of young passengers did, obeying instructions to stay put as the ferry sank while the captain was among the first to be rescued. with the trials still pending the president delivered her own verdict. >> above all the conduct of the captain and some crew members is wholly unfathomable from the viewpoint of common sense. it's an act of murder that cannot and should not be tolerated. >> reporter: she demanded a full investigation into the approval adding another deck and extending the ferry's operating life by ten years. back at the site of the sunken ferry divers had to contend with leaking oil. they gained access to the third and fourth floors. at the dock side the rescue

crews and police were ready well practiced in the solemn ritual of carrying the bodies ashore. each one bringing with it a grief that is at once shared and deeply personal. harry fassett. al jazeera, jindo, south korea. >> three day offensive was carried out, targeting fighters from the fighters in iraq and isil. the government is also battling isil in neary province. the city of fallujah has been under siege for a year with the military closing off up a access routes. in libya, a video o was posd

online. he is one of two diplomats captured in libya in the past month. last week libya's foreign minister said the kidnappers demanded the release of two libyan fighters. al jazeera continues to demand the immediate release of its journalists imprisoned in egypt. they are falsely accused of providing a platform to the outlawed muslim brotherhood. they've been behind bars for 114 days. their case is being adjourned until tuesday. the fourth you al jazeera journalist has been held without trial since last august. he has been on hunger strike now for the last 91 days. his father says abdullah has become a symbol of the fight for press freedom around the world.

>> from this position i call western authorities to give egyptian, how can you say that they will do elections with journalists in jail. it can't be changed when journalists are in jail, it can't. who will watch this election? many journalists are in jail. my son more than 251 days without going to court, without to tell him and tell us what is the crime what he did. he has been 90 days in full hunger strike. abdullah said that what is not

to him but considers himself as a defender of journalists. >> in pakistan anti-gambling laws were created in 1947. but that hasn't stopped gambling and the police are often involved. >> it's pakistan's favorite pass time. whenever there is a major cricket match thousands take to the secrets to watch on screen or anywhere else they can. and although it's illegal, some people place bets in the hopes the national team will win big. >> i was really confident pakistan would do well, but it's not looking so good. god willing i won't lose the $50 bet i made. >> reporter: there are hundreds of gambling shops and book

makers across karachi and dug big sporting events like this, they rake in millions of dollars. al jazeera was given rare access to book makers that were based out of the ho hotel room. once the match is over they will pack up and leave easily having made hundreds of thousands of dollars. gambling with outlawed when pakistan was partitioned from british colonial india in 1947. the penalties are a $10 fine and up to one year in prison. even the relatively lax punishment and poor enforcement illegal betting thrives, and the police have been accused of being involved in and protecting gambling dens and book makers.

police commissioner admits it's a problem. >> constables are badly paid and make it difficult to make ends meet. some do get involved in illegal activities like this, not all but some. when we learn of it we deal with them harshly. >> clearly it's not enough to prevent illegal book makers like these were making big profits. al jazeera, karachi. >> members of venezuela's national guard has fought with security forces at a political rally. a memorial service is to be held in a town in colombia later for the writer gabriel garcia marquez.

>> reporter: she's 97 years old and her memory is fading but she can still were when she was a teenager and a nanny for a little toddler for gabriel garcia marquez. >> he was an envious kid. if he saw something he wanted he would try to get it for himself. >> he was born in this caribbean town in this house that is now a museum. where sisters are tour guides and represent the younger generation for the famous writer from their town. she said she started reading the author's books when she was barely able to walk. >> i wanted to see how good he was.

>> reporter: the sleepy town might not look like much at first glass glance, but it was here that the fictional village in the author's epic novel "100 years of solitude." at one point there was a push to change the name of the town, but it never happened. it seems like everybody here has a story about the man everyone simply called gabrielle. this area meant so much to him, that it was the place he found between reality and nostalgia and he found raw material for his work. >> whether it's young kids in the hometown who now believe they perhaps can write abou, ore who will never be able to see marquez since he left, they

celebrate one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. >> the tribeca film festival in new york is considered a stepping stone for aspiring filmmakers. >> reporter: it's opening night at the tribeca film festival for a movie you probably never heard of, but for this director it could change everything. >> could you have the best night of your life, although it's feeling like the worst night of my life because everything has gone won. >> reporter: the creator and star of "summer of blood," a low budget romantic comedy with a vampire twist. the entire project was made for just $30,000, but many of the actors and crew working for free. >> i made a couple of movies. it's working out. of course i haven't had wild success but they're getting

made, they're getting appreciated. the fact that we're at tribeca is a victory in itself. >> reporter: exposure is everything, and being selected to play at a major film festival can make all the difference. the movie business is renown for being a tough industry to break into. >> playing your film in an audience is more of a rarity these days. i think festivals provide that platform. for filmmakers to have that experience that they've been hoping for. >> reporter: the selection of summer of blood here means that they have been invited to festivals around the world. for this director it's not necessarily winning awards. it's carrying on doing the thing he loves. >> i'm not motivated by money, but i do want to find a way to make money so we can make bigger, better movies, more ambitious movies. >> reporter: and for a city tht often looks like a film set, it's something to aspire for.

>> reporter: it's easier these days to use social media to get some kind of audience, but without the tribeca film festival these potential stars of tomorrow may not get the chance that they now have. >> for more go to our website www.aljazeera.com. the ghosts of men and women fill the wards of government hospitals across india. they stare silently - suspended in limbo between the living and the dead. these patients are the infected - victims of a contagion so lethal it kills almost one and a