>> new video new allegations that syria's government is using chlorine gas on its own people. hello, i'm nick clark you're watching al jazeera live from doha. migrants were saved from drowning in the mediterranean. also women and children rescued from the boko haram camp. and the fight of the century.

pacpacquiao takes on mayweather. in the most expensive bout in history. syria, government helicopters have been attacking people with chlorine gas according to activists rebel groups backed by turkey, qatar around saudi arabia have been winning on the battlefield. hashem ahelbarra has the story. >> dropping bearls barrels containing chlorine gas. in 2013, united nations investigators confirmed the use

of serin nerve agent without establishing who carried out the attack. the u.s. and many other countries though have repeatedly accused the government of bashar al-assad of attacking the people with chemical weapons. last month, united nations security council ambassadors were shown this video. doctors trying to revive three child victims of an apparent chlorine gas attack. it was too late. rebels say chemical attacks have increased in northern syria increased by the opposition in idlib province. this is a military parade ton outskirts of damascus, only

weeks after capturing the city of idlib. the army of islam is tasked once the regime of bashar al-assad is toppled. >> translator: tonight we stand united against the syrians, they want to establish a regime here, i can assure you we will defeat them. >> army of conquestions to capture idlib. now their uses are set on attack here. the u.s. has in the past refrained from arming syrian opposition fighters. it was concerned about weapons landing in the hands of groups like the el nusra front. but nusra is now joining

moderate groups in their fight to repel i.s.i.l. from syria. saudi arabia, qatar and turkey provide significant assistance for syria's rebels. i.s.i.l. still holds ground in major cities. more rebel groups are now considering joining forces to defeat saud. assad. hashem ahelbarra, al jazeera. >> near the town of serin was hit, it also says that children were killed and not a single i.s.i.l. fighter was injured. no confirmation of the report but it is investigating the claims. two explosions have killed at least 13 people in iraq's capital. officials say the bombs went off just minutes apart in the public commercial area of baghdad. first suicide car bomb,

detonated near cafes filled with customers. second car bomb also struck in the neighborhood. egypt's army says it has killed 29 fighters in 11 days of raid in northern sinai. 113 have already been arrested in a year long crack down. egyptian security forces sim presidentsincepresident mohamed morsi was overthrown in 2013. unprecedented numbers of people this year crossing from north africa to europe. stefanie dekker has more from catania in northern italy. >> rescued at least 2400 migrants. we are told there were no fatalities but it is a huge number unprecedented and we are only in the beginning of may

the summer season hasn't started and those numbers are expected to rise. one italian official told us do expect those numbers to rise, it's an incredibly concerning situation, what has really changed here on the ground? not much. there is that one french naval vessel but not much else has arrived here and that is a concern. the italian government will keep stressing the issue that this is a european problem that needs to be dealt with by all european nations, the italians they have shown a lot of goodwill towards the migrants. of course migrants have been arriving here throughout the years but the numbers are becoming unbearable. and of course there is anger that they feel they are having to do it alone. so of course we'll have to wait and see how europe responds but no fatalities on saturday, but that concerning age agencies, to the european, union not a

lifesaving but a face saving one. doing more to help. >> in yemen troops loyal to abd rabbu mansour hadi are gaining ground. here is erica wood. >> reporter: walking through the rebel of salwan, struck by saudi-led air strikes on saturday. those living here say the attack on their homes leaves them with little sympathy for he either side of the fight. >> translator: we're able to live together whether houthi or from any group. we are not waiting for any outside country to come in and legitimize any power. what we saw and the congregation of whataggression.what we saw cancels whatever

goodwill we have for hadi. >> an area regularly used for celebrations and military parades. and the port city of aden houthi fighters and forces loyal to the previous president, ali abdullah saleh were blamed for the bombardment of residential areas like dar ass ad. and in the southern city of ta'izz hospital took direct hits on saturday. medical officials say they are already struggling to get the medical supplies they need to treat the wounded and sick, but making it more difficult to keep generators running during power cuts. but speaking in have i la sri lanka that could be difficult because of the numbers of number of groups now involved in this war. security forces have split loyalties. many have stayed loyal to the

current president, abd rabbu mansour hadi, while others have sided with the fighters of the houthis and the former president, ali abdullah saleh. coalition forces they are trying stop including being bombed by other groups including al qaeda al qaeda. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. erica woods, al jazeera. >> about 300 nigerian women and children who had been held captive by the armed group boko haram have been brought to safety the group arrived at a makeshift camp in the northeast of the country. the arrivals included two newborns. >> we are still in the process of sorting them out. but we can tell you that majority of them are children. but they are mostly, they are

all women and children. but the majority are children. >> more than 7,000 people are now known to have died and more than 14,000 injured in the nepal earthquake. it's been more than a week since the 7.8 magnitude earthquake. al jazeera aps fez jamil has been speaking to an independent source in kathmandu. >> it's not being run by an international organization or the government but by a local business organization. i'm here with shanka ginuray you are handling most of the distribution yourself. why is that? >> because we have a proper channel to distribute to nepal. we have over 1,000 people

medical representatives they have a member there so it is faster than the government channel. that is why we are distributing through them. >> reporter: the association has sought help from business groups in other countries but have actually turned down offers of money. >> yeah, we don't need money we need the goods. because money we can't buy blanket, we can't buy tar pall tarpaulin here. >> most of the access to remote area slowly opens up, the plan is to deliver supplies directly. >> there's been a significant change of mood at rallies in the u.s. city of baltimore. they look towards what they say as justice for freddy gray, the 25-year-old black man.

john hendren sends us this update. >> one day after the announcement of charges against six police officers in the death of freddy gray demonstrations of joy. caesar goodson was charged with second degree murder, the most serious charge. that is not about black and white but about blue, the color police wear, and about police brutality. there were speeches and the police union saying this is a rush to judgment. these charges came unusually quickly in a case like this. homicide cases charges are rare against police officers. the charges themselves were a victory. that celebration will continue. what happens next may depend on what happens in the courtroom where as i said those charges it is very rare to see a conviction for them.

>> plenty more coming up here on al jazeera including: the asylum seekers in south africa, refuse to leave their camp. and easing into a new life in the south by learning english.

>> every day is another chance to be strong. >> i can't get bent down because my family's lookin' at me. >> to rise, to fight and to not give up. >> you're gonna go to school so you don't have to go war. >> hard earned pride. hard earned respect. hard earned future. >> we can not afford for one of us to lose a job. we're just a family that's trying to make it. >> a real look at the american dream. "hard earned". premiers tomorrow, 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> hello again and welcome back. top stories on al jazeera. syrian activists say the syrian government attacked people with

chlorine gas. a march for victory has been held in baltimore one week one day after five officers were charged with the murder of freddy gray. rescue of 2500 migrants from the mediterranean sea on saturday. crossing the mediterranean is not the only legal route into europe migrants are heading off into turkey and greek islands. turkey is a part of the european union. >> the distance between despair and home for new life in europe via a greek island can be just 25 kilometers. but overcrowded boats, coast guard patrols and a resultless smugglers make for a perilous

crossing. abu sharif is a smuggler. this time if he makes it he'll blend in with the passengers and claim asylum himself. >> translator: i've never sailed a diesel engine boat before but i have to sail it tomorrow. i've never sailed out this deep. the sea is scary i will be scared particularly because 35 to 40 people's lives will be my responsibility. when i go out to sea i'll either make it or i won't either way i'll make money. >> he sent us these pictures after a couple of days at this migrant reception center they will be free to go on to athens and beyond. migrants will pay between 900 to $2,000 to be squeezed onto a small boat that will sail them over to greece. that's kios island just over there. if they get intercepted by the

turkish coast guard on the way they'll be brought back here, and turkey stopped 15,000 migrants last year but they will just try again. there is no shortage of possible passengers. at a western sea port people wait with bags packed, many will be from syria. but there are also iraqis, afghans and people from northern africa. mohamed is scared of the journey he will have to make. >> the u.n. and the international community haven't offered any alternative way to get to europe. that is why we are forced to take this road to death. >> the turkish government says more migrants are taking to the sea here because it's closed its land borders. you can't of course throw barbed wire across the sea so these

routes will only get more popular into the summer. bernard smith, al jazeera on turkey'sturkey's aegean sea. >> displacement camps in the south african city of durban. so far there have been few reports of successful reintegration. charles stratford reports from durbin. >> the fences started coming down in the early morning. the government wants to move these people to the last remaining camps in durbin for foreigners who flood the recent attacks by local people. nahamin najimi came to south

africa in 2003. she has four children. she came to the camp omonth ago. >> how can they remove the tents from the kids, they are sleeping, in the night it is cold and kids are getting sick every day. >> reporter: many of these people are asylum seekers or refugees from the democratic republic of congo and burundi. they fled their home countries and then atax against a foreign country where they hope to be safe. the government plans to move these people to another camp and this earnest they are pulling this tent down and as can you hear, these people are still refusing to move. >> our country there is a feet. we can't go to congo, there is a fight, burundi, there is a fight. we need another peace country to be there.

>> i'm telling you no. >> united nations refugee agency has been trying to convince people in this camp to do what the government wants. there is little food left and the aid volunteers have been told to stop cook. >> one of the guys from the ministry of defense came and said do not cook because they have already closed the camp. >> we like to ask more water because no water no life. we have so many kids and now they say that they going to take away the water. >> police stood guard as the last tent came down. buses were sent to take the people away. they refused to go. they still fear being attacked. they want to leave south africa and they don't trust the government. it says it wants to register each person here as part of its reintegration program. >> reality is we are putting all

our energy and resource to get them back into the communities to the communities where they came from and to tell the communities to provide the safety and security for them. >> as night fell the men lit fires and families huddled together for warmth. there is no trust here. these people have heard promises of protection many times before. charles stratford, al jazeera durbin. >> for decades cuba's government has kept a tight grip on what its people can see read and listen to. as daniel schwindler reports from havana they still get uncensored glimpses from the outside world. >> this is the common view, how tourists keep themselves, gathering on the malacon the sea front. there's not much to do.

but the weekly packet, what's important is that people have what they want, the latest. people need to be entertained and cuban television doesn't usually provide the entertainment that people need. carlos not his real name, is a distributor working from his apartment. filling his customers' hard disks and pen drives from the latest u.s. drama series and films. it costs a couple of dollars monday morning when its content is fresh and the price drops. this is a cuban film that was going to be released in the cinema it's excellent but then i realized they banned it, but people already had it, they saw it. it's a great film. with great actors. he wants to maintain a low profile and the authorities seem happy to see the weekly package spread across the island.

while it contains no pornography or overt political messages. what pretty much everybody else in the world watches soap operas, drama and sport. how they get it remains a mystery. very few know and those who do are not telling. for the weekly packet has not been sanctioned by the authorities but its contents are purchased openly in places like this one. although they refused to be interviewed or let us film inside. some are even advertising on the package. >> translator: the weekly packet is so diverse and varied itself so widely across the country but you're guaranteed a huge number of viewers will see and appreciate the service you are offering. >> reporter: the cuban government has said that with its economy opening up to greater foreign investment it wants to see a dramatic

improvement in communications, unrestricted access to the internet the weekly packet will provide all the information they need. daniel schwindler's havana. >> the biggest fight of all time, taking place in las vegas floyd mayweather against manny pacquiao. let's join jamilla allendogan. it's the seventh round and it must be an extraordinary atmosphere there. >> definitely. everyone is saying general santos, this is where he grew up first learned boxing at the age of 12. right here behind me this is a small gymnasium but it is teeming with people.

public viewing that has been made available by local government here. people have planned their holidays again for this day alone. there are a lot of people that have come home from the philippines to watch. this is considered an unofficial holiday, every time there's a pacquiao fight. there is zero crime the streets are deserted, so right now, this is one of the biggest dates of the year ohere for this country. >> it's hard to say just how popular he is in the philippines. >> yes he is extremely popular. he is in fact considered a unifying figure in a country that has been long held back by electoral political violence as well. he is considered what you would call a symbol of hope for many people imagine 10% of the population actually go abroad to work as overseas filipino workers. more than half the people live below the poverty line.

someone like him who used to sleep in cardboard boxes who used to sell bread and water to help support his family and his mom. when he entered the ring just earlier, he was good natured, in fact there is a song of his from his album, that is quintessentially filipino. he is very religious like most of the rest of the filipinos in this country. still a congressman in his home province. a lot of people say if he wins he will be a step closer to the presidency. >> we're into the eightth round and from the feed i see it's four-3 mayweather. plenty to adjust to. a good demand of the english

language is very important that's what all south korean schoolchildren learn. harry fawcett has the report from seoul. >> in seoul a group of students tell their story of painful stories of physical abuse families torn apart. stories told in english to an audience of nonkoreans. it's the result of this program pairing volunteer teachers with north korean refugees who want to learn english. shireen yang the settled in the united states. she's learning english during an extended stay in seoul. >> to be honest i had to give up my english study in the u.s. because i was struggling to make ends meet.

i think defectors living in south korea have better opportunities. >> reporter: english education is stain seriously, south koreans spend some $6 billion a year on it. for new residents ultracompetitive, language obsessed acknowledge more than that says the co-founder of the program it's offeredden a necessity to get ahead. >> english, south korea is english-crazy, people need to learn english for jobs for academic reasons. so a lot of them get cut off from the very beginning if they don't learn english. >> as well as improving their chances of make a success of their new lives for many of the graduates learning english is a way to communicate the traumas

of the old lives. harry fawcett, al jazeera seoul. >> let me nudge you in the direction of getting all the news aljazeera.com lots of comment as well as the stories we're running as the day goes on. aljazeera.com. aljazeera.com. >> this week on "talk to al jazeera" nasa administrator charles bolden. >> getting to space is very difficult. getting to mars is very, very, very difficult. >> he's been aboard the space shuttle four times. his missions included helping deploy the hubble space telescope and flying the first joint us/russia mission. >> i think we've always gotten along with everyone "off the planet" better than we have "on it" for one simple reason, we're mission focused. >> now he runs an agency that has transitioned away from space shuttle missions to