>> g-7 leaders meet in brussels as rebel attacks eastern ukraine. >> thank you for watching al jazeera, live from london. renegade general sacrifice a separatist attack. >> all of us, all nations have a responsibility to try to end this conflict. >> u. announces hundreds of millions of dollars in extra help for countries hosting syrian refugees.

tens of thousands attend a single until hong kong in china's only anniversary celebration o of the tienanmen square massacre. as the violence continues unabated in ukraine's eastern cities, world leaders have gotten together in belgium to try to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis. originally meant to be hosted by russia called the g-8, but it was ex-clouded following the annexcation of crimea. meanwhile germany's angela merkel said that russia must stem violence in ukraine or face

further sanctions. >> reporter: touching down in brussels, abraham will join other leaders of the world's most exclusive club to talk about the country that is no longer a member. russia kicked out in march because of its annexation of crimea so that the g-8 became the g-7 been. poland celebrated 25 years of democracy. >> the days of empire, the spheres of influence are over. bigger nations must not be allowed to bully the small or impose their will at the barrel of a gun or with masked man taking over buildings. the stroke of a pen can never legitimatize the theft of a neighbor's land. we will not accept russia's occupation of crimea nor it's violation of ukraine's sovereignty. our nation also stand united so further russian provocation will

ownly means more further isolation. >> assuring petro poroshenko that the u.s. would be committed to ukraine for years to come. this sets up a question for the rich nations of the world excluding china, who was not invited, at the cost of trade ties and energy supplies. it's the question at the heart of the g-7. agenda speaking in the german parliament, angela merkel said she would not hesitate to impose further sanctions if russia did not act to a rein in fighters from eastern ukraine. >> hand over their weapons and stop the occupation. >> reporter: but at a pre-summit

press conference, indications that no new sanctions would be decided upon now and asked what it would take for russia to rejoin the g-8, it would be for the g-7 leaders to agree on when and if russia has sufficiently changed its course. we will assess on a regular basis the situation, but thi is this only a suspension. >> not the most resounding display of the g-7's commitment to resist russia in the long term. al jazeera, brussels. >> james bays, our diplomatic editor, it's all well to talk about action, but what will happen. >> reporter: president obama arrived.

they are talking about the most important meeting of the summit because talk is the situation in the ukraine. i don't think you can expect there would be any new actions coming out of this meeting. there will be strong words of solidarity with the ukrainian government and with the new ukrainian president, and there will be pressure, fresh pressure in terms of words on russia but no new sanctions coming out of this meeting. that's been made clear by the leaders and briefings before they arrived here. >> there is suggestion, james, about the new president election that they hope will bring an end to the crisis. what are you hearing about that. >> he's already briefed president obama on his plan. i think president obama will be speaking to the other leaders about the poroshenko plan. he's only been in power, only

elected 11 days ago. his plan is to decentralize power, with "v" a wide range of amnesty and will that help in ukraine. you've heard the anger in eastern ukraine. it's a very big question. not only do we have the meetings taking place, of course russia is not here. they will all move on from here to normandy on what is supposed to be a ceremonial event commemorating d-day 70 years ago. but the fact that they are all in the same place and president putin will be there, i think the discussions will continue on friday when they are there for the d-day commemoration. in some ways those meetings may end up more important than what's going on here at the g-7. >> thanks very much, indeed. inside ukraine intense fighting force many people to flee from

the eastern city of luhansk. pro russian separatists have attacked bases which have been abandoned by government forces. >> reporter: after another night of intense gnashe clashes in the city some of the boys and girls ended up on the school bus without their mothers. >> who is going to look after them one woman demanded. >> reporter: they have been driven across the border and will be found in a safe hay no one crimea. a last look at the state and country where they were born. anxiety etched on their faces not knowin knowing what leads on the road ahead but know they will be leaving the city in war. it was a day filled with funer funerals. the people of the city and it's leaders came to pay their

requests to the separatist fighters who died this week the ukrainian government are calling their military offensive an anti-terrorist operation. the base behind me is still refusing to surrender. they're heavily outnumbered and they're being attacked each night. this is the national guard base in luhansk that was overrun during fierce clashes overnight, surrounded by high-rise apartment blocks. the residents here were still shocked and afraid. the treats where they take their dogge dogs for a walk. >> last night we were very scared. we turned off the lights because our window overlooked th the base. >> reporter: the troops inside

must be running short of ammunition and food. despite promises by kiev, there has been no attempts for the ukrainian army to rescue them. we see the funeral of the fighter shot dead around the base. a soldier survived four years of fighting in afghanistan only to be killed in his hometown. his brother cursing the americans and vowing revenge. >> do you hear mer for my brother hundreds will die. we will never forget our fighters. >> reporter: as a final honor a body of shots was fired over his brother's grave. the bitterest war is always a civil war.

>> the republica--the renegade general kahlifa haftar was wounded. we have this report from tripoli. >> reporter: promising a strong response. he gave a short interview to a local radio station where he said he suffered minor injuries, he's fine and they remain in my spirits and will continue in their operations. as we've heard, an airstrike w where there is believed to be a group of what he calls extremists. there have been a change of tactics with suicide-bombing. this has not really been used much in libya before, and i think these groups are giving a message to the former general

that while he's been threatening them for the last few weeks, that they are coming back hard, and it is an issue at a moment when there is political deadlock here in the capitol of tripoli. where there is a feeling of insecurity and no one is in charge. >> in tripoli a rocket propelled grenade was fired in a building. >> we have more from beirut. >> it's the first time that th they have met since 2009. they discussed lebanon and the

boost to the baby niec lebanese lebanon. he pledged $51 million of u.s. money to be given to u.n. agencies here to help lebanon shoulder the burden of the refugees. lebanon said it cannot shoulder this responsibility alone. they have had special elections that took place on tuesday, and he said that it means nothing. that it didn't change anything. the crisis still persists. the refugees are still there. he believes political solution is the only way to resolve it, and when he was pressed that there were all these predictions that bashar al-assad would be

overthrown, they said we cannot determine when he will be overthrown. it's for the syrian people. >> turkish authorities have added syria's most powerful opposition group. the nusra front that they add to the list of terrorist organizations. >> there are those who are inspired by al-qaeda. in december of 2012 united states list it as a terrorist organization. at the time turkey called the move premature. now the turkish government has added nusra on its list of al-qaeda-linked organizations. organizations are down playing the timing of the organization.

they are updating their list to fall in line with the u.n. security. the u.n. did add nusra in may of last year. the turkish government denies it's helping an arming groups like nusra. analysts say this marks a change in political. >> there has been international pressure on turkey since it there was a perception it was helping terrorists. >> it's not just that officials in the west consider these groups extremists and a threat to their own countries. nusra is mostly made up of syrians but western nationals have joined it's ranks. one of its suicide-bombers grew up in florida. but there are those who believe

that the group does not have an international agenda, but it's aim is to overthrow the syrian regime and create an islamic state. >> already there are reports that the man behind the shooting at the brussels jewish knew seem last week had ties to radical groups in syria. this could be the beginning of what western officials fear. radical groups exploiting the security have a couple in syria to take the fight to syria and the u.s. >> still to come on al jazeera, the afghan taliban released pictures of the moment that it

released soldier sgt. bowe bergdahl in a prisoner exchange. keep it here.

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>> good to have you with us on al jazeera. i'm david foster and these are the world's top stories at this hour. meeting in brussels for the gen 7 summit. g-7 summit. president obama promise to go

back allies. new prime minister office was the target of a separate attack in which no one was injured. u.s. secretary of state announced $290 million in aid to help syria. he made the announcement. the afghan taliban has released a video of what he says is the handover of a the u.s. soldier to american troops. sgt. bowe bergdahl was held for five years traded for five taliban leaders held at guantanamo. now bergdahl faces a court-martial. >> his name was bowe bergdahl, and he was a deserter according to his colleagues. the soldier was handed over to his captors to u.s. authorities near the pakistani border.

but how he got to be here is the suspect of anger in his homeland. it's claimed that he deserted his post. there were officials who said that allegation and claims others died trying to save him should be looked in to rather than be speculated about. >> sergeant bergdahl, i do not know of specific circumstances or details of u.s. soldiers dying as a result of efforts to find and rescue sergeant bergdahl. certainly i think a bit unfair to sgt. bergdahl's family and to him to presume anything. >> what is your name? >> my name is bowe bergdahl. >> reporter: it comes at a price to washington, the taliban

leaders held at guantanamo. they are now in qatar, which brokered the deal. they cannot leave for a year. u.s. president barack obama with bergdahl's parents by his said side insisted he would not compromise the country's safety. his critics say this is a p.r. coup for the taliban which has shown the u.s. will negotiate with what it calls terrorists despite claims to the contrary. >> he stands trial for court-martial. if the judges rule him guilty or not guilty, i'll respect whatever decision they hand out. >> reporter: bowe bergdahl may now be out of taliban hands but he may find ultimate freedom when he returns home still el elusive.

>> abdullah elshamy has been in prison for more than nine months without charge. he has been on hunger strike for four months. his family and lawyer visited him on wednesday and said his health is rapidly deteriorating. al jazeera has been calling for independent medical attention for abdullah elshamy. three our al jazeera journ journalists have been held in egypt missouri, al jazeera i rejects the charges and is demanding the release of all of its journalists. the crackdown on protests at te tienanmen square 25 years ago.

>> reporter: they have been holding this candle lit vigil every year since the tienanmen crackdown. now it's the children of those first protesters a half generation on to take on the flame. >> this was a tragedy, and i think i have a duty. >> it depends how how the peop people. >> reporter: the chinese democracy has been focus of an international conference that could only happen here and not in mainland china where all such talk is strictly controlled. >> it's important to remember something that the chinese communist party wants all the chinese people to forget, but, in fact, was a major turning point in modern chinese history. >> reporter: angry perhaps, but people here were remembering this anniversary saw the counter protests. small in number but big on revisionism saying not as many

people died in tienanmen square. tens of thousands believe otherwise. since 1989 the numbers have fluctuated widely. but in recent years they have been able to count on crowd well in excess. people coming to commemorate the crackdown, but it seems driven by growing fear for their own political future within china. >> and maturing generation of local people like stephen and his friends believe they owe it to their children to instill those democratic values. >> we need to know what happened so that it depends on the future. >> with china's increasing influence, so, too, a growing uneasiness among many that the candles one day could be snuffed out for good. al jazeera, hong kong. >> another teenage girl in india has been found hanging from a tree after being allegedly

murdered in her village. we have reports. [ crying ] >> reporter: the wails of these women have filled the village for a week. they're mourning the death of two young girls who were allegedly gang raped and murdered after leaving their home at night. the attack shocked the nation. local police had refused to act because they are what is considered a low caste oh the so-called untouchables. >> if the authorities had wanted my daughters would have been found alive. they told me to wait for an hour and a half and my daughter would return home. but then this happened. how long can i tolerate this? >> reporter: so her 12-year-old daughter and 14-year-old cousin were found hanging from this mango tree at dawn after walking into fields to go to the toilet. he said the neighbor heard their

screams but instead of helping him, the police abused and slapped him for making a complaint. >> there is no doubt that the incident is very unfortunate. the government has taken steps and all five accused have been arrested. the government has started a probe in the case. it is being directed to give justice to the victims. >> reporter: but in the village the people are angry at state government and police to failing to protect women. these men have no fear at all. they think the government is theirs. we can catch anyone's daughter and do anything. they can get away with even shooting someone. they think they can do anything to us. >> reporter: a steady treatment of politic--a steady stream has been making visits to the village promising $8,000 in compensation, but they have

refused to accept saying their daughter's dignity is not for sale. the families of the victims say they want the perpetrators tried and hang. they say there is no fear of the law here and punishment is the only way to stop violent crimes against their women. al jazeera, india. >> so-called zero hours contract in the u.k. becoming more and more common. they are controversial because they offer workers no guaranteed employment. here is lawrence lee. >> the edge of london another flash point in the conflict between employers and workers over zero hours contracts. they want to put more staff on zero hours taking away guaranteed work and benefits like paid leave. the union said it's an outrage. >> our members here found it a threat to their livelihood. it's cheaper to the employer.

there is no stability to the employer, and it's difficult to live on. >> reporter: all over this country businesses now offer work to people without any guarantee of how many hours a week they will get, if any. this man agreed to speak in the dark for fear of what he would lose if identified. he said he has seen the evidence of the. >> i've seen people just bring in bread and slices of bread. >> slices of bread. >> yes, yes. >> it's even been reported that buckingham palace home of the queen is putting staff on zero hours. the palace would be by no means alone. >> reporter: it's just that almost nobody ever used them. yet the financial crisis here and the years that follow have

given employers great and small the opportunity to completely rewrite traditional concepts of employment law. strikingly it's not even clear exactly how many british workers are on zero hours contract. some estimates are that it could be as many as 5 million. the government said it won't ban zero hours contracts. indeed, ministers insist they help get u.k. businesses through the financial crisis. >> the number of employers deflects the ability of the british job market, and enabled them to keep operating during the recession, and to keep people in work by having that flexibility that meant rather than companies going bust and people being unemployed they were able to have the flexibility to see them through the tough times and come out the other side. >> reporter: the government continues to insist that zero hours work suits some people but very many veh they have been reduced to hardship while profits of big employers

boosted. this is in many ways historic and helps to answer a fundamental question so that companies look good on paper while so many complain about getting poorer. lawrence lee, london.

>... i mean, is this doable in the modern age for the average american. i have to believe it is. you're asking the wrong guy. i have a room full of half-finished or lamely finished maker projects of my own. >> better than me. >> the

cigar box guitar looks nasty. i had to fix my daughter's nintendo dx. people are realising, like sherry and mark says, the tools are accessible, it's possible to do amazing things if you have the patients and time, and there's a graving to do something meaningful with your hands. you go to wal-mart and you can get anything you want, really cheaply. in some ways it's wonderful that the mass produced product are available anywhere. there's an emptiness to that, that people feel like, you know, my parents or my grandparents built stuff in their garage, or i made stuff in the kitchen. >> sherry, that makes me think when we were

kids, you had home ec, shop, pottery. what has it done to us, taking all those things out that get our hands on something and establish the connection between how things work and how we make it happen? >> right, i think that that's the rise of, and why maker fairs are important. it's brought the celebration back into the community. i think places like tuck shop or maker space are helping to pull people together so they can collaborate and come up with new ideas. it's been a sthax spa that we -- it's been a shame that we haven't had the classes in school, and we see it through maker programs and education. dale is a cofounder of o'reilly media started maker

education, teaching college students to come in, and they are going out into the community. >> was that tech shop video we were looking at, what was that a minute ago? >> it could be. >> i'm told it was. that's a big place. >> 17,000 square feet of every everything. equipment. >> eight locations across the u.s. >> sherry mentioned maker spacers or hacker spaces. tech shop is incredible. it's like there are these independent noncommercial spacers, hacker spacers . that's a big part of the movement. you go to these places and without paying you an use the

drill press or someone could teach you to code. there's information sharing and tool sharing going on all over the world. that's an important part of the maker movement. >> we asked the community what inspired the most. dennis said a lot is driven by need. amy - it's about curiosity. and: >> there you go. >> what would you do with an empty wine bottle and woir. >> since i'm a te tote ler, i have no idea. i'll probably throw it. >> we'll meet a modern day mcgaver who transformed those items into a small business.

>> welcome back. we are talking about the rise of culture. joining us is ben, founder of home-made mod earns, a business, teaching consumers how to create products. welcome to "the stream." your company was born out of a bet much what was the wager? >> my background is in design. i was talk to to an architectural design friend and he was saying it's impossible to make affordable american-made furniture out of real materials. everything is outsourced and you can't compete with factory production.

i bet you can produce furniture. get it to people. that was cheaper on ikia. we did that, we shared diy media constent. >> where is your company at now? how has it gone for you? >> it's been a lot of fun. still slowly transitioning into a full-time thing, but the feedback from our users has been incredible. so motivating. >> that's great. >> we have two big sponsors, and it's become an effective means of creating advertising consent. >> ben mentioned an idea of made in america. it feels like there's a wave of this desire to have and buy things made in america. do you feel the maker movement is pushing to a return to strong manufacturing in the u.s. >> we have a lot of things working in that way.

the energy costs are cheaper than elsewhere. there are trends like microcontrolers. robots that don't care how complex anything is. you can do short runs. if you tap into a sophisticated supply chain, add in robots or computer numerically controlled machines, you can produce 1 huz or 5,000 in a -- 1,000 are or 5,000 that you could not before. you can use materials relevant to the lobing aing market and compete with anyone on the planet that way. >> thank you make shop for an amazing workshop for the students. thank you for sending in the photo. we have black swamp: >> still better than what i could do. we have:

>> speaking about economies, we have the director. make a fair. offering opportunity for us to see ourselves as consumers. you are the director. what are tangible benefits from the maker movement, that they can provide for small entrepreneurs. >> there are over 100 fairs around the world. this year we are looking about 140. it gets you connected and other people that can help with you from everything from funding, setting up a business to enabling communities. i see her running film and video from maker fair. it's like - it's a new-fangled fair. lisa mentioned something about nostalgia. this is what it's about.

it's coming together. it's sharing. it's celebrating and it's having some fun. there's an optimism that comes from maker fair and making. you can't find that everywhere. so i know through tech shop or what you can make tore do things round to maker spaces. they are actually putting it into the classroom. >> all of you guys worked successfully. who are some of the makers, and what was behind the thinking? >> we like to say because the tools have gotten easy to use, we can run you through your own personal industrial revolution in 90 days, so take time off, come in, go to a maker space. literally it takes 90 days. >> i might show up. >> then we have over achievers,

like patrick saying, "what classes do i need to take to make an ipod case out of bam boo. in 90 days he'd sold a million dollars worth. this was a computer numerically controlled cast. beautiful book binding material from a text tiles class. he did $35 million in year. >> does anyone specially use it. >> the president of the united states carries a case, jay z. >> give us another one. >> what is else have you got? >> the most successful country is square. the little pier to pier transaction merchant banking system. the cofounder came in, took the milling class, learnt to make the prototops, and they got $10 million in series a and got a $5 billion

evaluation, 600 employees. they'll do there 60 billion. >> jack - james' background is a glass blower from st. louis. we live in a day and age where james can go in, take a few class and change merchant banking. my favourite, this came out of a stamford d school. jane and her team came in, after school was over, and they lost access to the cools and came in and affected the blanketed. there's a polymer pouch in the back. it keeps babies at the proper temperature. it's designed for neo-nates. it had been born two weeks too early. literally hundreds of thousands of babies die annual lip, and the idea is -- annually, and the idea is simply.

it keeps a baby warm for four hours. jane chan was named one of the top social entrepreneurs of the year by the world economic forum, and this is on track to save 100,000 babies. >> these are the amazing innovation. here is a comment: >> check this out. this is a harmless drone. bill, mark and i talked about this metaphor, the wild, wild west of innovation. we are talking about 3d printed guns, people making drones. aren't you concerned about the rogue element here? >> you know, i think with any technology you have the aspect where anything that you can - that people can do without oversight, they'll take it in whatever direction they want.

and there are people out there who are making and sharing perhaps for making, you know, making gun parts out of 3d printers. i think that exists. it's probably a real concern at one point. i don't think it represents a majority of the maker movement. to me, it's sort of like - there are always going be people pushing a limit in one direction or another. i don't think it's a reason to be enterprise. >> the idea about unmanned vehicles you can make, there are a lot of people trying to do good with technology and making baby incubators blankets. i major you came across some people with social aspects for what they are making. >> absolutely. i think on the drone area. the categories that are trending are 3d printers, and what can be

done there. wearable. anything from electronics embedded into clothing to sensors, you name it. drones. i think chris henderson with 3d robotics did a great job of going from crisping editor and founder of wired to 3d robotics, and making drones something that are not seen as, you know, terrible things, but actual tools and technologies that cap help us as we move forward. single board computers, as markus said. >> there's a whole host of things. baby blankets. a woman in detroit. she worked with cart heart to get excess material to make sleeping bag coats for the winter, to, you name it, there's ut. >> it's endless.

>> with the rise in innovation that can result, what is the future of america look like. we'll have more on that when we come back.

>> welcome back. we are talking about the rise of do it yourself culture, and what it means for the future of innovation. how do you think it will impact the quality of the products entering the marketplace. will we see a rise in the sophistication of things created operations? >> absolutely. and i would say not only sophistication, but last year there was - the first maker

fair, and i have to say there were 35,000 attendees. we saw design taking off front and center. in addition to very cool products, we have cool products that are well designed. i think that we are starting to see a little bit of healthy, you know, competition between countries and maker's fair. coming. >> how do you see the evolution, do it yourself taking place. what's on the horizon? >> i think a couple of things much one is a hobby from most people that do diy stuff. i think it has the potential to revolutionize, at least in the u.s., revolutionize the way we do technology. it has to be easier. right now in the u.s., at least, it's difficult to find manufacture usering, price competitive with what you can get from china.

the other thing is it's daunting to start a business. when you go from the prototype to i have a business and i have 4,000 or a million orders to fulfil, it's a daunting jump because of regulation and complexity and overhead. >> a lot of this may sell out. one viewer says: >> ben, i want to get you in the conversation. if emerson was alive he may sell pepsi and coke. are you afraid the maker movement may become corporatized. >> no, i'm not. i don't think it's a new thing. when you think of recipes shared for decades, things like the

toll-house cooky. it's slapped on to a bag of chocolate chips. i think the companies are starting to realise that this kind of media content is an effect ty way of driving consumption. the big advantage is that it allows consumers to be selective and consien somehows. we we some groups that want control of all the materials. >> i think of apple, nike, and others, starting in a garage. there must be millions of ideas that never had the avenues to take ideas turn into something. >> we are living in amazing time, i believe in all of whomman history -- human history. it doesn't just impact the diy

segment, but also corporations. ford is putting printers on every designer desk. and the reason is they can reiterate three or four times before lunch. at the end they'll reiterate 1,000 times, ending up with a higher quality product. when i saw innovations coming out of the marketing department, the marketing department. we'll be able to create - instead of 1 huz engineers, we'll have 10,000 engineers. we'll have 100,000 people who are not engineers doing amazing things anyway. everything i thought i knew about innovation and creativity coming out of my n.b.a. did wrong. the risks are lower. access to the markets is lower. the ability to create a product and get it out is lower. the ability to high-quality design is right at the doorstep. >> 3d printing makes it possible for someone who is a ning um

poop with tools, like me, or was. i'm following your lead. it makes it possible for us to create things that are actually quite sophisticated, because all we have to do is work on the computer screen with software or . >> it doesn't make it easier, it just changes the tools. >> everybody is so excited about - see how it taps into something in our being. thank you to all our guests. until next time, we'll see you online at aljazeera.com/ajmstream >> saturday on the stream. the superstars. >> i love the underdog role, it's us against the world. we have this fight and this pride to play for the country. >> pushing for success. >> we've gone so far forward,

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