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and mayweather beat pacquiao 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 and saudi arabia have been winning on the battlefield. hashem ahelbarra has the report. >> syrian activists says, it is not the first time the syrian opposition has raised concerns. in 2013, united nations investigators confirmed the use of serin inner agent outside the

syrian capital damascus 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. accusations dismissed by the leadership in damascus. 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, following major gains by the opposition in idlib province. this is a military parade ton outskirts of damascus, the biggest show of syrian rebels only

weeks after capturing the city of idlib. the army of islam is tasked once the regime of bashar al-assad is toppled. >> translator: today we stand united against the syrians, they want to establish a syrian regime here, i can assure you we will defeat them. >> army of conquestions to -- conquest to capture idlib. now their people 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 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. rebels still hold ground in major cities. major cities. more rebel groups are now considering joining forces to defeat assad. hashem ahelbarra, al jazeera. >> the syrian observatory for human rights, says the saudi attack children were among those 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 -- popular 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. 133 suspects have also been arrested, in a year long crack down. groups based in sinai have been attacking egyptian security forces since president mohamed morsi was overthrown in 2013. >> migrants were captured, 2500 in number over the past few days in mediterranean. 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 for the italians here. we had the eu emergency meeting following hundreds of migrants' death in the past two weeks. 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 number extremely concerning some criticism also from eighth agencies to the european union, not a lifesaving but a face saving one.

to do more to help. >> in yemen, troops loyal to abd rabbu mansour hadi are gaining ground. gaining ground in other parts of the country as well. here is erica wood. >> reporter: walking through the rebel of salwan, struck by saudi-led coalition air strikes on saturday. those living here say the attack on their homes leaves them with little sympathy for 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 aggression lends no credibility to hadi. 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 al assad. 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 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 houthi fighters and the former president ali abdullah saleh. coalition forces they are trying stop, including being bombed by other groups including al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. brut until there's resolution they will keep captured into this battle for power. 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. they are among the 600 that the nigerian army says they have rescued. 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. >> thousands of protesters have

attended what is called a victory rally in baltimore. john hendren has this. >> baltimore streets have turned from riots to rejoicing. what a difference a day makes. thousands filled the street and a neighboring park. in a country where homicide charges against police are rare and convictions even rarer demonstrators considered the charges themselves a victory. there was simmering anger. >> it has turned into a rallying point, we want justice and whatever that was, it was

something beyond, i'm japanese and my husband is black. >> the protest in baltimore streets was mirrored. in new york, chicago, ferguson missouri and other towns where unarmed black men had been killed by police, the celebrants are black and white. >> my grandmother was a young woman during the you know civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s and i wanted to ask her when i learned in school what she did. it turned out she didn't really do much of anything that was very disappointing for me, i didn't want to say i did nothing when my grandchildren asked me what i did. >> prosecutors say the unusually swift determination a rush adjustments. white police officers brutalizing young black men took

an unexpected turn, when it revealed that three are black. demonstrators say this changes nothing. it is not a cait of case of black and white, but blue, blue is the color ever police. >> no matter your race ethnicity, where you come from. >> for baltimore now a case that spans the country a court system where police brutality cases are notoriously hard to win. john hendren, al jazeera. >> relying on ancient canals for modern living in peru.

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>> weeknights on al jazeera america. >> join me as we bring you an in-depth look at the most important issues of the day. breaking it down. getting you the facts. it's the only place you'll find... the inside story. >> ray suarez hosts "inside story". weeknights, 11:30 eastern. on al jazeera america. >> hello again and welcome back. top stories here on al jazeera. syrian activists say the syrian government attacked people with chlorine gas. the attacks happened allegedly in idlib province on friday night. this year has seen unprecedented people trying to cross from north africa into europe. thousands of protesters have attended what they call a victory rally in baltimore. prosecutor charged six police

officers in the death of freddy gray. suffered fatal injuries while in police custody. moremore than 7,000 people have died in nepal fez jamil has been speaking to an association who has been independently speaking to people who need it. >> this is a distribution point where medicines are being given out to residents and local health centers but not run by an international organization or the government but a local association. i'm here with the vice president of the local medical association. sir you've given some of the medicines to the government but you're handling most of the things yourself, why is that? >> we have over a thousand people working mr, medical representative even they have a member here, so it's faster than

the government channel. that is why we are distributing through them. >> 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 goods. we can't buy tarpaulin here, blankets here, better to bring in the items. >> access to remote areas slowly opens up the plan is to follow in government and international organizations and deliver supplies directly. >> burundi's government has called for an end to violence in the capital vowing it will vac down and arrest protesters. malcolm webb has more from the capital. >> quite interesting they said the army would continue its work with the accusation and the arusha peace deal from 2005,

that was the peace deal that ended burundi's 13 year civil war. all political actors should also uphold these two judicial documents. the significance of that is the president who is trying to run for a third term, his supporters say the accusation does allow it. there's some question whether the burundi accusation will allow him to do it or not. that 2005 peace deal it's clear that presidents in burundi can only serve two terms. the army saying they will continue their work to uphold that peace agreement and urging all political actors to do so, implies that they are not supporting president pee 8 nkurunziza'snkurunziza's statement tonkurunziza's teamed to donkurunziza's

attempt to do so. >> hundreds of refugees and asigh legal seekers from the democratic republic of congo and burundi, so far there have been few reports of successful reintegration. charles stratford reports now from durbin. >> reporter: 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 have fled the recent attacks by local people. nahamin njemi came to south africa in 2003, she has four children. she came to the camp omonth ago. >> how can they remove the tents for kids? they are sleeping, in the night it's cold. kids are getting sick every day. >> reporter: many of these

people are asylum seekers or refugees from the democratic republic of congo and burundi attacks against foreigners in a country where they hope to be safe. the government plan to move these people to another plant has now started in earnest and they're pulling this last tent down and as you can hear these people are still refusing to move. >> our country there is a fight. we can't go to congo, there is a fight, burundi, there is a fight. we need another peace country to be there. exactly. >> i'm telling you no. >> united nations refugee agency has been trying to convince people in this camp to do what the government says. 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 pray we as a church. >> 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 that 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. >> one of boxing's biggest fights ever is over, with the american floyd mayweather beating manny pacquiao. we have got jamila andogan standing by in manny pacquiao's home town. but allen did the fight live up to its billing? >> i think maybe it did. this was a fight five years in the making. people were waiting for a long time. they wanted to be part of it in any way they could. fans flooded in from anywhere. what we saw were 12 rounds of world class fighting. floyd mayweather they say he fights like a businessman and he certainly did that in las vegas tonight.

his defense was did. he simply landed more punches. pundits said what they wanted was a good fight a decisive victory for whoever won and something that would reiterate and reinvigorate interest in the sport of boxing and i think that's what we got here tonight. floyd mayweather simply outclassed manny pacquiao. in the end a victory for floyd mayweather. >> there was an enormous purse. will there likely be a rematch? >> i don't think so. i mean, it seems pretty decisively that was it. it was the one everybody was waiting for. it was a decisive victory for floyd mayweather. he proved at the end of the night he was the better boxer. but there was no clear winner, the prize money was something

like 240 million 60-40 split between mayweather and pacquiao. this was a billion dollar weekend for nevada. >> jamilla allendogan, jamilla in the end disappointment. >> yes indeed. and of course as expected there will be millions and millions of filipinos across the country disappointed but here, in manny pacquiao's home town the mood is not as somber as people would expect. to people with whom he grew up, it didn't matter what the outcome of the fight would be. many always what he has been, that symbol of home, he is hundreds of millions of dollars more richer, he is a congressman the his home province and very vibrant in politics and even in

acting. when he entered into the ring his good natured appeal his song from his own album, that is exactly quintessentially filipino that hasn't changed much and that has what endeared many filipinos to manny pacquiao started from nothing and became an international superstar. not much has changed not that disappointing, everything went on peacefully. >> i think he won a lot of friends tonight thanks olot. for north korean defect organization trying to settle into south crea, one volunteer group is trying to help north korean refugees bridge the gap. harry fawcett reports 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. shiree yang is one of the relatively few north korean refugees settling 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 taken seriously on the southern part of korean peninsula. internationally focused

ultracompetitive, education obsessed, more than that says the co-founder of the program it's offered 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 their old ones. harry fawcett, al jazeera, seoul. >> peru's capital lima, now looking to tap ancient canals to increase their water supply. marian sanchez went to visit the farmers working to restore the

centuries old canals. >> ancient peruvians knew how to store water. it is their main source of water. >> we are cleaning the way from rocks so the water runs and doesn't overflow. >> up 4,000 meters above sea level ancient residents led this water through the ground is a sponge. the technique is known as mamentao. the bottom is porous, that allows the water to filter into the ground. that same water will resurface weeks or months later in springs down the mountain. a spring still centuries old reservoirs during the rainy season.

nongovernmental agency has helped restore the canals in the area. >> the investment is peanuts compared to the large investment in the reservoir at the base of the mountain. it is a win win situation. >> helps the water to end up in the river one of only three rivers that provide water to the capital. largest city in the desert, experts say water is guaranteed until 2025. but if these canals could be replicated throughout the andes lima and the whole cost could benefit. >> if we compare the capacity to store water in a dam versus in the ground throughout all the high lands then the capacity for storage would be much larger than building reservoirs. >> most utilities companies in projects like the namantena

people here like 85-year-old filoperto castenata are already feeling the effects. >> we have water running down ra convenience. five years ago i used to carry water to water the have ravines. >> guarantee the right for millions of peruvians to live with running water. al jazeera peru. >> just a reminder you can keep up to date, put in aljazeera.com, all the news we've been covering, plus plenty of analysis and comment aljazeera.com. aljazeera.com.