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♪ so we begin in iraq where the government sent in reenforcements to battle islamic state of iraq and levante in anbar and in control of 90% and if it falls it will be 100 kilometers by baghdad and carried out suicide attacks and people are fleeing and over 100,000 displaced in the last month alone and we are live with the latest from baghdad and dana what more do you have for us right now? >> reporter: well what i.s.i.l. did really was a message of defiance. now the iraq question government is putting on a very defiant attitude pushing them out of ramadi city and according to the

iraqi spokesman reenforcements sent to the city and forces being helped by u.s. led coalition air strikes what he called painful air strikes but what we understand from sources on the ground is that the government has still not launched any kind of counter offensive,, in fact, i.s.i.l. is still pushing forward. yes, i.s.i.l. controls the government compound in ramadi and houses the government headquarters and the government is held newspaper the headquarters of anbar command operation and control an adjacent neighborhood but i.s.i.l. is targeting that headquarters and targeting that neighborhood, this is going to be a very difficult fight. we heard from the u.s. which actually leads the coalition against i.s.i.l. playing down the significance of i.s.i.l.'s games in ramadi saying our strategy is still working and this is propaganda on the part of this armed group but at the end of the day what i.s.i.l. did was control the symbol of

government authority in ramadi and it's not just ramadi eyes are focused on it but carrying out attacks across anbar province. >> what now for the government? >> reporter: we have been hearing from sunni influential leaders in anbar province and blaming the government for the fall of ramadi and calling on politicians who represent to resign and there is a lot of anger and said they did not heed warnings and calls to provide with weapons and the people believe they can win the fight alone but needham anythings and the government is reluctant to do that and politicians in baghdad do not have trust in the sunni tribes in anbar and think they sympathize with i.s.i.l. the regular forces are just too weak to carry out this operation, at the end of the day this was a problem from the start, who will wage the war in anbar and if the iraq government

used malitia it will inflake secretary intentions further and the government needs to reach out to the people and needs to be reconciliation because without the support of the local population they will not win the battle. >> thank you very much and dana reporting there and in anbar i.s.i.l. carried out suicide attacks targeting an army and sheesha malitia and 25 died when they rigged the main gates of the post and i.s.i.l. has been in control of the provinces since last year. a truce in yemen is in the fourth day and broadly holding but fighters includes a lot of areas and will end on sunday and that is when yemen tribesmen to describe the crisis but houthi rebels will not be taking part. egypt stepped up security outside of cairo court where

morsi is expected to hear verdicts in two trials which could carry the death penalty, the court is expected to rule whether he was spying for other countries and collaborating with hamas. peace has returned to the country after a failed attempt to over throw him and ziza decision to seek a third term in office sparked two weeks of protest and says life the back to normal and urged the international community to show support for his government. >> translator: we ask to be friends of burundi because if they stop supporting it will be like opening doors to trouble and seize power by force and brings power that is not democratic and refuse to acknowledge the voice of the people and bring war, poverty and other atrocities we have

seen in the country. u.n. says 100,000 people fled burundi since april and many of them are staying near the border with rowandi and harry spoke to some of them. >> reporter: the ration of beans is made to feed one family for a week and many more refugees from burundi wait for their share and thousands come to neighboring and feeling it will get worse and more people will die. >> when there is violence and if they leave the country and they can fight so when you go on a fight or just when you go in any part of the people who are incompetent you just have to flee. >> reporter: nearby he is worried but relieved his wife children and some members of his extended family escaped. >> translator: i did not feel safe in burundi. i criticized the president at

night armed men attacked and threw stones at us and said they would kill us and our family was traumatized and afraid. >> reporter: she is around the corner and she wasn't physically attacked but threatened and remember the again size in burundi and ruwandi in the 1990s. >> if someone tells you they will kill you what can you do you have to run away. in 1993 people were killed and it could happen again. >> reporter: other countries in east africa have take end in refugees from burundi and the u.n. says thousands have fled. this camp has around 5,000 people 2000 of them are children. some say they cross into ruwanda late at night not seen by people trying to hurt them. aid workers are worried more are still coming. >> translator: this is meant to be a transit camp families stay for a few days then remove them to another area so far we are coping but if more come it will

get worse. >> reporter: those loyal to burundi president ziza want him to have a third term and some refugees believe political instability in burundi is far from over and means they won't be going home soon al jazeera on the burundi border. indonesia navy stopped a migrant boat with hundreds on board from entering indonesia waters and fishermen rescued more than 700 other people at sea and we are at the center where they are being treated. >> reporter: they were on the boat for three months and their condition is very, very weak. they are here at a temporary shelter after they were rescued by fishermen, initially indonesia navy and malaysia navy rejected them but now the action is authorities are helping them giving them medical assistance. great relief when they finally manage to call their families

and tell them they are live. they were very lucky they met the fishermen first before indonesia navy because they said until now they will send away every boat that will answer the water and give humanitarian assistance at sea but will not accept it here. it's hard to imagine what the people went through three months on the boat bringing smallest children on this horrific and very dangerous journey where they were facing fighting they were facing hunger and facing this and now a very uncertain future in indonesia. the united states has urged thailand to shelter muslims who fled persecution of man maryann 6,000 of them are in boats in indinosha, malaysia and tie land and we have a report from bangkok. >> reporter: there may be as many as 8,000 people on boats right across the sea and the

straits but one particular boat that has been the focus of media attention and international attention is one that the royal thai navy found off the coast of the province and you will remember the pictures of thai helicopter dropping food packets to the 380 people on board. as food was delivered, the people spoke of the immense deprivation they had suffered and had run out of food and water ten days previously and spoke about how one person mad ended by grief and throwing themselves overboard and that two more people were dying of starvation we have now heard that on board there are three particular men whose families are in refugee camps in bangladesh and taken it upon themselves to write to the thai government and plead for the thai government to rescue them and save lives. this is a situation though that

is spread right across this crisis. indeed, one official from the international organization of migration has said if something isn't done urgently we will have boats full of dead people. u.s. secretary of state has met chinese leaders on saturday and john kerry has a tough stance of building of islands in disputed waters in the south china sea and we have more from the chinese capitol. >> reporter: mr. kerry's message has been this please show some restraint in a south china sea in the interests of regional stability. the obama administration has been alarmed by the dramatic expansion of artificial islands in the south china sea. now aerial photographs in resent months have seen evidence of chinese dredging and work going on around some islands as well as evidence potentially of a rum

wave being built. the united states is worried some eye atlantas cause be used to station missile systems and to force an exclusion zone should beijing wish to do so. now almost all of the south china sea is claimed by beijing but this area also contains some of the world's busyist shipping lanes and the united states is worried about freedom of navigation in the south china sea so mr. kerry has come here with essentially a very blunt message and that is to pull back, to hold the construction work that has been going on. now in resent days the obama administration has spoken darkly about the need to send u.s. ships and war planes to the south china sea to potentially challenge beijing's sovereignty claims, beijing has reacted angry to that saying it won't be passive in the face of such, and we will defend its sovereignty.

it also points out that other rival claimants to the islands in the south china sea have also been doing much the same thing, namely the philippines and vietnam and beijing says washington has been silent in the face of action proving that it's a cold war, knee-jerk mentality. still to come in the program southeast mexico to find out the trout of 23 people and surrendering to police. with low prices hurting venezuela they hope another oil-rich nation will be able to lend a helping hand. ♪

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♪ hello again and welcome back we have breaking news that morsi has been sentenced to death for charges of the jail break of inmates from a number of prisons in the early days of january 2011 uprising the court has been expected to rule on the former president's spying for others and collaboration with hamas today and now we are hearing that he has been sentenced to death over these charges. we will bring you of course more on this as we get it but that is news just coming into us right here on al jazeera. now the boston bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev has been sentenced to death for his role in the 2013 attack which killed three people the jury took 14 hours to come to the verdict and we

have this report. >> reporter: dzhokhar tsarnaev sat stone faced as he heard his fate death by lethal injection, survivors of attacks which killed three and injured 264 were at the courthouse. >> happy is not the word i would use, there is nothing happy about having to take somebody's life. i'm satisfied. i'm grateful that they came to that conclusion because for me i think it was the just conclusion but there is nothing happy about any single bit of this situation. >> she going to hell and where he wanted to go but will get there quicker than he thought. >> reporter: the lawrence never argued their client was innocent of attacks only he came from a troubled home and would not have taken part without pressure from his over bearing brother who died trying to escape and argued for life without parole but they heard from witnesses that were

blown off find the crimes cruel and depraved and it will be appealed and the death penalty is controversial in the state of massachusetts where no one has been executed in 70 years. >> we know there will be appeals about whether the death qualified nature of this jury that is to say everybody who served had to be able to impose the death penalty but the majority of boston people are against the death penalty so was this a trial by a jury that wasn't capable of reflecting the conscious of the community? >> reporter: usually it's the judge who decides the sentence in u.s. federal court but not when the punishment is death. all 12 jurors must be unanimous in their decision and in the end they all agreed 21-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev must pay for his crimes with his life. al jazeera new york. mexico will pay $3 million in compensation to relatives of criminal suspects who were killed by soldiers last year and

human rights investigation found they shot the groups after they surrendered and we have more in southeast mexico. the town is buried deep enough in the mexican countryside that few had heard of it before the killings of last june and soldiers shot 22 people in a shoot out with gang members they said and authorities praised their victory over organized crime. >> translator: he acted bravely and managed to rescue three kidnapped people one soldier was injured but army defended itself legitimately and killed the criminals. >> reporter: it became obvious that the army wasn't telling the whole truth. this is the warehouse where the incident took place and these are the blood spattered bullet holes that indicate that something more than just a haphazard shoot out took place here they are chest high and a close range and subsequent

investigation found the army lined up and then executed 12-15 people here after they had laid down their weapons and surrendered. now the government said it will pay compensation of over $3 million to be shared by the survivors and victims' families. it's the biggest payout by the armed forces since they were deployed with mexico violent cartels and complaints of human rights abuses and torture have mounted against them. >> translator: they decided that the army and navy should do the job of the police but they have not changed the soldiers' education, they have to teach them to respect the citizen, to hear and understand that people have rights. >> reporter: more than 2000 people have asked to be part of the government's national victims' register looking for recommend nation and combination for human rights abuses by authorities but many more cases

go unnoticed says francisco who lives across the road romney the -- from the place where the killings took place. >> translator: you only see the big cases but there have been other shootouts in the region with two or three dead but do not appear in the press and are forgotten because they don't have the same power. >> reporter: the only person we found who would talk to us here. others said speaking out meant risking retribution from government forces or organized crime. in this violent area many people still don't know who they can trust. john with al jazeera. a woman living in the united states has been reunited with missing daughter after a cross border battle and was found in mexico and father took her there

against her will and she is the daughter who lives in texas. the venezuela president maduro is trying to persuade regarding the oil and trying to boost investment from oil nations like qatar and we have this report from caracus. a state visit by qatar to venezuela was a back drop for maduro to rally support to push crude prices back to $100 a barrel. >> translator: then venezuela said it was great interest to stabilize in $100 in media term and the greatest exporters of oil will ensure the oil market functions in a stable manner. >> reporter: during friday meeting with amir there was no

mention of any concrete alliance with regard to the cuts. instead speaking outside the presidential palace president nicholas maduro emphasized investments in areas ranging from oil to agriculture. >> translator: we have taken stock over several topics from issues within opec and the recovery of the oil market to collaboration in the feeds of oil and gas and mining, and agriculture to materialize with strategic alliances. >> reporter: despite the recession hit economy and evaluated currency some say the country still has potential. >> translator: the qatar people are great administrators and great investors and know the crisis pass and are aware of venezuela incredible wealth and

resources. >> reporter: the tropical fruit and cocoa are areas for qatar investment but oil is the country's biggest asset, in spite of current financial woes venezuela has the greatest proven resources in the world and important natural gas reserves, with opec summit scheduled this june they believe venezuela main and only interest is to get members to agree to cut production. previous attempts by venezuela to rally the support of fellow technicians to cut production is unfruitful and it's unclear if it signals acknowledgment ahead of the opec summit this june. rescue in columbia have recovered six bodies from an unlicensed gold mine and it has been three days since the accident happen and 15 workers were trapped after water flooded the under ground shaft as we take a look at why people are risking their lives to work at

these mines. >> reporter: unlicensed gold mine flooded on wednesday workers have been working day and night with rescue teams to find their colleagues. >> translator: their guys work with different mines and not just this one day in and day out and it hurts so much and god knows the next time it can be me. >> reporter: this is a way of living and most of the miners first entered as children and through the years tried their luck in a work environment with virtually no safety procedures. informal mining, is not necessarily legal in columbia but either operating on the fridges of the law or far outside of it workers are always taking major risks but they say incidents like this one are just part of the way things are. for 80% of the gold produced in the country comes from small and informal operations, some of

them have existed for decades. and we have worked in almost all the mines in the region her husband and children are also minors none of them have ever had a formal conference. >> translator: it's a hard and dangerous job but what else can we do, there is no other work here, we just managed to get enough to put food on the table. >> reporter: most workers get 50% of the value of the gold they find, the rest goes to the owner. the colombian government started a campaign to try to formalize the informal mines and improve safety but many here are skeptical the government is acting in good faith. >> translator: every so often the police come and take our machines and treat us like criminals and all we are doing is working to support our family if they want us to change they need to put us in the conditions to do so. the rush for gold in columbia stretches for centuries and

continues today on as it was back then there are winners and many risking their lives to just scrape by, al jazeera, columbia. peru president says controversial mining, project will go ahead despite weeks of protest and he did call on the company developing the tia-maria mine to talk to farmers and leaders and fear it will contaminate their crops and exhaust water supplies. a black comedy about life on the gaza strip is being shown at the cann fill festival and based on events in 2007 and we report. >> reporter: set in a hair salon in gaza it's a story of 12 women and how they unravel over the course of a day trapped inside because a lion is on the loose hamas forces have it surrounded. >> small scene. >> reporter: a black comedy

said the identical twin who directed the film and born in gaza and were film makers who never went to cinema. >> for us it's like something beautiful and from this we build and we have the idea of the salon because the idea of the salon to go there is to become beautiful, to cut your hair and talk about many thing and have relations and the like but we choose this place, beautiful to gather. >> reporter: dark humor is a recurrent theme in palestinian film and the film time remains is a particularly good example. >> translator: its director says where there is despair human is often the last

resort and winner of awards in the south he is excited by the talent and drive he sees in the next generation. >> i get my tease when i see a good palestinian film because it's just basically another chance to get liberated and that is quite poetic and it's something israelis cannot really arrest. >> reporter: cann is known for launching careers and the hollywood movies and big bucks commands lots of attention they are fascinating by the artistic talent coming from the middle east. >> the area of palestine and israel, you have such a number of very good men and women. >> reporter: palestinian films often stand out from the crowd here at cann two years ago omar won a prize for in films in the line up and despite the challenges facing palestinian

film makers and relying on foreign funding the palestinian cinema relies on wealth al jazeera at the cann film festival. a push in the direction of our website al jazeera.com, all the news we have been covering and plenty of comment and analysis too, al jazeera.com. [ ♪♪ ] too many debates, too many candidates, and in the end a compromise nominee. looking back at the 2012 presidential race, republicans said "we are not going to do that again." fast-forward to 2015 - depending on the day, there's almost 20 prepared, declared or rumoured candidates.