>> thousand us attend the funeral of a palestinian minister who dated after confrontations with israeli troops. >> you're watching al jazeera live from doha. also on the program, taking the fight to lebanon, the army is battling isil and other armed groups. >> hong kong's police clear the last big protest camp, arresting those who refuse to leave. >> i'm in london where scientists are developing a molecule to be added to the food to shush appetite and stop

obesity. first we start with news of a blast at a french school in kabul. a suicide bomber flew himself up inside the school's auditorium during an event taking place there. that institution is near the foreign ministry. let's speak to jennifer glass on the phone for us, and jennifer, a lot of people used this school. tell us what more you know about the explosion. >> the suicide bomber get i go in and blowing himself inside that auditorium. we understand from the police authorities that one has been killed and 19 injured in that attack. there are a couple of reports as to whether there was a performance going on in the auditorium. it is in the afghan capitol

where people gather for those kinds of performances. it is a secure place, going through a checkpoint, often people are searched, so they ever been looking closely to see how that suicide bomber got into this very secure location in the heart of kabul. >> do you have more information about the suicide bomber? i'm getting reports that he was a 17-year-old boy. >> we don't have that confirmed yet. he was a young man. initial reports show his body still lying on the ground. it was quite a shocking attack, just because it is in the very heart of kabul, close to the only five star hotel, maybe a few hundred meters from the street that has the foreign

ministry. it is consider add very secure area of town, check points and high school has its own security, considered one of the only places where these kind of events can be held. >> ok, thank you for that, jennifer glass in kabul. >> thousands of palestinians attended the funeral of a minister who died after a confrontation with israeli troops in the west bank on wednesday. israeli and palestinian officials issued conflicting accounts over the results of his autopsy. the palestinians say he died as a result of a blow to the body. the israelis say the cause of death was a blocked coronary artery. i spoke to the chief negotiator for the palestinian authority, asking about the results of the autopsy. >> the autopsy i just read now

shows without any doubt that he was killed. he had an explosion in his heart due to suffocation and beating and tear gas of the israeli early, so the israeli government, we hold it fully responsible for the his murder. >> how will the palestinian leadership react to this? it's already a very tense time and abbas has said that all options are on the table. what does he mean by that? >> we have defined our options. number one, we will submit the security council a resolution or draft. number two, president abbas will assign it to the court.

number four, president abbas sent a letter to ban ki-moon asking for international protection. the palestinian leader ship decided to fee fine its relations with israel, meaning cessation of security cooperation and at the same time asking israeli it's occupying powers to resume full responsibilities. we have decided to continue our peaceful struggle against settlements and against the occupation. now, the leadership has an open meeting. we will meet either tomorrow or saturday evening to decide whether we do these steps and decisions, going to the security council or doing everything in parallel. the implementation is what they

will decide. business as usual no more. israeli cannot continue occupation. he is the 2,625th killed since june. 80,000 homes demolished. the mosque is being attacked, our trees burned. we have election campaign in israel now that it's likely going to be mobbed with palestinian blood, because they believe the more palestinian blood they have, the more votes they get, so enough is enough. we ask the international community to stand shoulder to shoulder with us. >> you said that you would continue the peaceful struggle against occupation, but in reality, do you think there will be more violence in the short term? >> well, the violence is by

israel. the minister was killed and murdered when he was planting olive trees. there was not a single stone thrown yesterday in that peaceful gathering to plantal live trees north of ramallah. what was he doing? the terror is by the israeli government and israeli army. that's the truth. if such policies continue by israel, yes, we can expect a third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh intifada. people need to defend themselves. >> are you going to ask the u.s. to pressure israel to respect palestinian rights? >> we are asking the united states to rethink its position vis a vis the security council.

they have been against passing a resolution. we want the united states to stop treating israeli as above the laws have man and hold them accountable and undermining secretary of state john kerry efforts to achieve a two state solution. >> groups control a mountainous region along the border of syria. we have a report where the army imposed strict security measures. >> the lebanese army is at war. a few months ago, syrian armed groups tried to take over this northeastern border town. since then, it has become a military zone. soldiers guard the entrances to the area. this is angering the town's residents. we are under siege. they say they are punished for supporting the syrian opposition and giving shelter to reef gees.

>> the army is not allowing everything to go in and out and treated as suspects. they detain us for nothing. why doesn't the army control the border with syria instead of ladies and gentlemen siege to our town. >> there is an active front line here. the ice sill and al-qaeda affiliated groups like al-nusra control outskirts between lebanon and syria. they have repeatedly attacked the army and killed four of the 29 soldiers they are holding hostage. >> the lebanese army is engaged in an open ended war with what it calls terrorists. military officials believe up to 1,500 fighters are based in the mountainous region in the border with syria. this is not an easy fight. >> it is a front that the army needs to defend but also needs to convince the people that they are not the targets. they accuse the army of being a tool of the lebanese shia

movement hezbollah fighting alongside the syrian government. >> the siege is destroying our lives. should we just get rid of our lebanese i.d.'s? we aren't treated as citizens of this country. >> it is home to more than 100,000 syrian refugees. the army has detained some for allegedly being a security threat. >> they were successful in catching 40 sleeping cells from within those syrian refugee camps, which was a threat in case they were mobilized and decided to create some kind of in stabilities inside the lebanese territory. >> the military said its fighters are using it as a logistic space to capture territory like in iraq and syria. lebanon has a sectarian divide. it is a dangerous one. especially when the institution that be supposed to hold the country together is being seen by some as part of the conflict.

>> in hong kong, police dismantled most of the main protest sites, but activists say the site for a free vote isn't over. >> the last act of defiance after more than two months of protest, campaigners, many lawmakers among them waiting patiently to be arrested for obstruction. for calvin young, it was the second arrest in as many weeks. >> will it be worth it? >> i think it will, maybe we will decide 10 years later. >> earlier, police moved into the site as they said they would. many of the thousands of protestors who have made this a temporary home are simply melting away. >> this time yesterday, this whole highway was very much in the control of students doing homework, listening to speeches. now the police are very much in charge, clearing away the last of their incamment.

soon this highway will be open to the buses once more. >> what used to be the temporary study room was deserted, soon to be a memory. the organizers of this movement remain unrepentant, promising more acts of civil disobedience. >> we will not cooperate with such an unauthorized government. >> as dusk grew near, protestors forced out of their camp were left to shout from the side roads. the main highway, for so long their domain being made ready for traffic once more. al jazeera, hong kong. >> still to come here on the program, under sanctions from the west, russian penalty boosts economic ties with india. >> in northern italy, the once small village, the slow marsh of time has finally caught up with high speed internet.

>> at least one has been killed and several injured at a french school in kabul. a suicide bomber flew himself up inside the auditorium in a high security area near the presidential palace. thousands attended the funeral of a palestinian minister in the west bank. officials i should conflicting results over the autopsy.

>> hong kong police arrested demonstrators reverses to leave one of the main protest camps. thousands of officers have been deployed as city workers are moving barricades trying to clear a main road. >> russian president vladimir putin has met the indian prime minister in new delhi. putin hopes to boost economic ties with india as a time with sanctions from the west over eastern ukraine. >> we have signed a very important document for strengthening are you sure you is that-india cooperation. the peaceful users of atomic energy, it outlines the plans to construct more than 20 nuclear power units and to cooperate in constructing nuclear power plants with third countries, to work together, to mine for uranium, and to handle nuclear

waste. >> >> a senior fellow of the research foundation in new delhi says russia has been one of the motor important partners for india. >> they are signing not process of several framework agreements, one of them will be on civilian nuclear cooperation, and now that the united states has done all the heavy lifting and as they remove sanctions for cooperation in this area, the

russians seem to be the first off the block. they have already signed a deal for two more reactors. on the eave of president putin's visit, they are offering india 24 more reactors. in india, the current mantra is development, development, development and russia has been a very important strategic partner in many areas of the economy, not only the military, industrial sector. if the russians are able to write themselves into the story of development, then there in russia, their relationship will be on a good footing. >> the president of brazil broke down in tears after a report was released on human rights abuses that occurred during military rule, detailing illegal arrests, torture, executions and forced disappearances. an amnesty law prevents military

leaders from being prosecuted by the truth commission. >> the final report of her country's truth commission, according to the detailed three volume report, the military regime that ruled brazil committed crimes against humanity. the report carried a call for amnesty laws to be revoked. the president was clearly touched by the moment. >> we who believe in the truth hope that this report contribute it is to ensuring that the ghosts of the sad and painful past may no longer hide in the salad dough of the silence. >> the truth commission was tasked with investigating as far back at 1946. the report took more than two and a half years to complete. the commission held the armed forces and each of the

presidents who ruled during the dictatorship responsible for crimes committed by the regime. the president was imprisoned and her brother killed. she sees it as a starting point, not an end. >> the delivery of the report is an historic and important step, but we need to keep fighting. we cannot stop until there is a trial and opening of the files and the transformation. >> an estimated 20,000 people are thought to have been tortured, often with electric shock and chemicals. 500 brazilians were killed or disappeared during the military rule. >> the worldwide web foundation has launched its annual web

index. banking countries around the world, 86 countries assessed. the darker the color, the higher they scored. the lighter showed poor connectivity. the report drew a link between web access and economic inequality. not all of europe is as plugged in as it can be. >> one italian village decided to take matters into its own hands. we have a report. >> if you'd come to northern italy eight years ago, you'd have found a village cut off from the digital world. not everyone's idea of a bad thing, perhaps. then all that changed.

this is why, a scientific experiment began using recycled parts and borrowed band width. >> there was no internet at all. >> it now has a government license so it can grow. >> we wanted to use this place as just a living lab to test our facilities. we ended up with something that is such important social value that we translated that into a social experiment. >> broad band has brought real change. property prices have risen. >> young people now can have

more of what they have in the cities and it's a good motivation to remain in the countryside. >> the internet has touched hearts in the village. this 85-year-old uses google for his sermons and facebook to keep in touch with parishioners. >> it's not just important, it's very important, because the village is very spread out. everyone is far apart. this connection is a force that links families together. >> an as to know issuing 50% of rural italy is still without an effective internet connection, the mountains blocking the signal and small pockets have population seen as not profitable enough for the big telecom's providers. the community based internet model is breathing new life into the countryside and that in the end does seem to be most people's idea of a good thing.

jonah hull, al jazeera. >> obesity levels continue to rise around the world, scientists in the u.k. are working to reduce our appetite. we have a report from london on what could be a key ingredient. >> our expanding waist lines are now a weighty economic problem, a problem that will cost the u.k. as much as smoking and war. nearly 30% of the world's population is overweight. in 15 years, it will be almost 50%. scientists are working on a food ingredient to suppress appetites. after 24 weeks of eating it, volunteers showed less fat in their stomachs and livers than the control group. >>er we are interested in a molecule produced naturally in the intestines when you eat fiber. if you maximize or produce more

in the gut, it leads to positive health outcomes. people wouldn't have to change diet and lifestyle in any way if it could be added to what they normally eat. >> the volunteers blood is tested showing and increase in hormones that make us feel full. >> this is where the molecule is mixed into the food. it's a white powder that doesn't smell of anything, but tastes a little sweet that. it's taken scientists four years to get it to this stage. they put it in fruit nothingies, fruit drinks and bread rolls. eaten on a regular basis, it could curb what we eat by 10% to 15% a day, just enough to stop us from becoming obese. >> a coach motivating others to achieve their goals says this. >> what's the reason that you want to make this change? >> she went from 180 to ate

kilograms. she said her problem wasn't her large appetite. >> for me, it's about your mind and mentally thinking about why you're eating, because very few of us eat because we're hungry. we just eat unconsciously. >> modern life also has many of us reaching for convenience foods. experts say there's no single solution to the problem. >> these can stretch from fiscal measures, taxation, to reformulating measures which are improving food, to weight loss measures to drugs, tomorrow suit kells. >> this research has food companies excited, but will be some years before it moves out of the lab and into our lives. al jazeera, london. >> a new study revealed there could be 10 times more plastic in the world's oceans than previously thought. data from 24 expeditions was

recorded over six years. scientists included all oceans and say 5 trillion pieces of plastic are circulating. most of this is microplastic, small particles measuring less than five millimeters in diameter. they can be ingested by fish and can enter the human food chain. an ocean on the ground receiver is a co author of the report. >> this is being eaten by little fishes being eaten by bigger

fishes and at the end of the day, we eat the fish. it comes to our plate. the solution would be to clean it up. there's been the ocean cleanup that is coming. working on the source first and also, you know, trying to work on beach cleanups and picking up trash everywhere in the world. >> tribesmen and women demanding action change, traveling to peru for a united nations conference underway. >> offerings given. a goddess referred by the people of the andes. the tribes across peru, brazil,

libya and ecuador gathering to make their point in the capitol. >> here in peru, the government has passed laws many say lure environmental standards. tribal people want more of a say for what happens on their land. >> the people here do not trust their countries leaders. there's talk of double speak. they say the governments are pro in beginning r. ding must on one hand and sanction the plundering of tribal lands on the other. >> from logging to oil extraction to mining, indigenous people say lands are threatened in every direction. >> life cannot be bought. here we say yes, yes to life, no to oil, gold and pollution. >> as talks reached a conclusion, there's a voice yearning to be heard, the voice

of the original peoples of these ancient lands. al jazeera, lima, peru. >> you can keep up to date with all the day's news and developments and sport on our website, al jazeera.com. >> the argument about whether to release the so-called torture report is over. it's now moving to what we do with the information now that it's public. to prosecute or not. it's inside story. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. the senate intelligence committee's majority has received a massive report