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saints in modern times. ♪ welcome to the program. thousands of pro hundred ga refugees escaping the violence in myanmar are adrift in the sea in what the u.n. has called floating coffins. myanmar's government refuses to recognize the group or take responsibility for the growing humanitarian crisis. tiethailand malaysia and indonesia have all turned the boats away win the last few hours the thai navy towed another boat away from their coast saying that's what the people on the boat wanted. rob mcbride is in kuala lumpur. brings us up to tate that the ty authorities said about the people wanting to move to malaysia. >> reporter: the authorities here in malaysia are remaining very tight lipped about this latest arrival. this is a highly sensitive issue here in the malaysian

authorities are also very sensitive to the way that they have been handling this or perceived to be handling this developing situation, there is some speculation in the media here that this vessel might not by now even be in malaysian waters, it might have already headed presumably escorted by malaysian navel vessels towards indonesian waters because the people on board know with this controversial push-back policy they will not ab loud to lands they know in indonesia migrants have been allowed to land there. the malaysian authorities are keeping tight control of the situation. even tho*es those migrants that come ashore and only come ashore from vessels deemed to be no longer sea worth i.e. sinking. and they are kept well secluded. difficult for their supporters, n.g.o. groups, political groups to see them. as they are prepared for repatriation back to myanmar. the authorities here have made it plain they can no longer

accept the kind of numbers that they have been accepting in the past. and that unless they take this tough action now there will be influx of more migrants in the future. >> rob, the malaysian prime minister says this is a regional problem, that demands a regional solution. so how that likely to play out. yes, the malaysian prime minister once again quoted in today's paper saying this is a regional problem it has to be a regional solution as you say there are meetings coming up when the whole issue of people trafficking will be addressed. there cements to be some recalls trans on the part of myanmar in whether they will even take parts in the talks seem to go shift the blame elsewhere. malaysian problem says this problem started in myanmar and has to be solved there. there is an empathy here in this muslim-majority country with the plight of the rohingya. the persecution, the poverty that they have endured. so there is an empathy there. but also a growing feeling here

that they can no longer be on the receiving end of somebody else's problem. this has to be solved in myanmar itself. >> rob, thank you. the united states has launched a raid inside syria in which its special forces killed an isil commander. the u.s. defense department says he was targeted at the oil field. he reportedly played an important role in raising money for isil. and smuggling oil and gas out of syria and iraq. kimberly halkett has more from washington d.c. >> reporter: the white house is telling al jazerra that it was president obama who ordered this attack in the effort to capture but ultimately kill the member of aisles. the elite delta force going in to syria. we understand there was some ground or hand to hand combat that took place that resulted in the death. but the capture of his wife who is now being held in iraq. some good news, the young girl a

young yazidi girl that was held captive by the couple of has been rescued and will be reunited with her family. the united states now pouring overeems of data it collected in this operation. we are told that, in fax, there were computers seized as well as hard drives, hard disks in fact, they are being analyzed in terms of trying to understand just who sbu was. we know that he was in charge of oil and gas revenues a very major source of revenue for isil and its military operations. the u.s. also defending its action saying it worked in conjunction with iraqi authorities. but pointing out that it did not consult syrian authorities saying that, in fact the u.s. views that the actions of syria have contributed to the rise of isil and cannot be a partner in the u.s. to combat isil. u.s. defending its actions saying they are in accordance with u.s. and international law.

there has been a series of air strikes in syria that douma. it's on the out skirts of the capital of damascus. and in the district of idlib air strikes have reportedly killed 30 people. many of the victims are believed to be children. three egyptian judges were shot dead just hours after former president mohamed morsi was sentenced to death for escaping from prison during the 2011 revolution. the attacks took place in the northern sinai, they were traveling to a court hearing. three other judges wounded in the attack on their man. rob has more on the death sentence. >> reporter: mohamed morsi is found guilty of breaking out of jail and sentenced to death. the muslim brotherhood now banned by egypt calls the court's decision politically motivated. it says executing morsi would be

murder and the international community should stop it. it the response around the world is mixed. but some countries say action should be taken. >> translator: european union, western countries haven't you banned the death penalty. since you have banned the death penalty don't you have sanctions against those carrying out the death penalty. why do you remain silent, impose sanction on his them. you impose sanctions on others when it's to your benefit. why don't you impose sanction ozzie i didn't want. morsi is in prison with other muslim brotherhood leaders a few days after egyptians begin a movement that overthrows president hosni mubarak. in 2011n2012 morsi becomes the country's first elected president. almost immediately he begins a series of controversial decisions expanding his own presidential powers. in january 201300s of thousands

demonstrating against morrisey. mating erupts and demands grow for morsi to step down. in july, morrisey is overthrown by the chief of the military sigh-y who is now the president. on saturday morsi appeared in court wearing the blue uniform given to convict. many are given the death penalty including the former leader of the muslim brotherhood and a popular score al. saturday's mass death sentence has been revved to egypt's grand who is -- referred. the court verdict on saturday has been handed down a week after a former ruler hospital my mubarak is sentenced but then freed because he's already served time. in just over a few days, egyptians have seen one president whom they voted in and

then held deposed sentenced to death. another who was imposed upon them is now a freeman. rob matheson, al jazerra. the united states says it's deeply concerned about egypt's decision to seek the death penalty for moore ham he had morsi. a state department official said it considered the trial inconsistent with the rule of law. taliban fighters in afghanistan are just outside the regional capital of the northern province. the government sent thousands of soldiers there but the bat is mainly being fought by local villages. al jazerra's jennifer glasse reports. >> reporter: another day on the frontline that divides the village. these villageers are standing up against the taliban who are so close that they have to crouch behind the wall to keep from being shot. >> translator: the enemy right now is about 100 meters away. do you see the area with the trees, they are there: and there are in other areas and lying in ditches. >> reporter: there are about 170

men against a taliban force nearly twice that. they have only basic weapons and fight from trenches and mud bunkers. these statistic front lines are new this fighting season, when nato was in charge of security, the taliban was usually on the move. to avoid being hit by air strikes or or artillery. there is no risk of that now. there aren't even any government soldiers here. >> the only help we are getting is from the people. the guns we carry or their own guns people sold their cows and life took to buy a gun to defends their village and tribe. >> reporter: this day it's quiet quiet. they negotiate aid ceasefire so farmers could plant their fields. but neither side trusts the other. villagers here feed them. what few there are left. most homes are empty. people say it's bad.

>> translator: we have never been this worried even when the rush around were here and shooting from everywhere, we didn't worry like this. there was fighting but the next day life was normal. people could go anywhere then, now we are trapped. >> reporter: these fighters say the government gives them no support except a little bit of ammunition. they buy what they can and a former leader provides the rest. and pays for care of the injured. >> translator: people are suffering now. they can't farm. most of them have left. we hope the government would bring peace but the government doesn't care. >> reporter: these men say they will hold the frontline as long as they can. that there is no one else to defends their homes their lands and their honor. jennifer glasse, al jazerra afghanistan. lots more still to come here on al jazerra. putting pressure their president. people brave the rain in guatemala city to call on their lead tore step down. plus. >> reporter: i am erica wood on

south africa's western cape coast where over fishing and oil spills have put the continue then's only species of penguin at risk of extinction.

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launched a raid inside syria and killed a senior isil commander. washington says he was chief fundraiser and operations commander for the armed group. united states says it's deeply concerned by the death sentenced hand do you understand to egypt's first democratically elected president mohamed morsi. now, more than 130 michiganer men rescued in indonesia are due to return to myanmar on sunday. they were some of the hundreds of men trapped in to a life of labor to on fishing boats. we caught up to one of the men who returned. >> reporter: everybody the simplest things give him ale sense of pleasure. he's finally home after three and a half years away. away from his loved ones. who he thought he would never see again. >> translator: when i was in indonesia, i was always thinking when will i be able to go home to see my family.

>> reporter: he returned to myanmar several days ago. together with 124 others. and got this reception. they are some of the hundreds of men who were held captive and forced to work in in appalling conditions on fishing boats in indonesia. their nightmare only ended after they were rescued by indonesian officials in april. it's not unusual for men and women here to leave the country for better work opportunities abroad. sometimes they enter another country knowing they don't have the right papers which makes them vulnerable to exploitation. he first went to thailand to work illegally. then went to indonesia because he was told he would make more money. but he never saw a single scents. instead, there were long hours and frequent beatings. >> physically i am okay. but i am not right mentally. i can't concentration, eye try not to think too much. >> reporter: at least he's home.

for his mother, his return feels like a prayer has been answered. >> i am so happy. i cried when i saw him. i thought he had died. but now he's here. >> reporter: he says he's not sure what his future holds. he's only sure he's never working abroad again. al jazerra myanmar. toll burundi now where at left steve sen security officials have been charged in connection with an attempted coup. including senior military and police officers. the where a abouts of the suspected coup leader are unknown. now the later from the capital. >> reporter: some of those arrested include senior army officials and very politicians they have been arrested because they have been accused of trying to force a coup removing the president from power. they are on the police truck they appeared before a judge now they are being taken away where they will be held we don't know

how long they will be held for but their families are saying when they do go to trial they'll get a free and fair trail the families say they are concerned because they haven't seen some of these people in a very long time since their arrest. they don't know whether they have been tortured. they want to know what is real going on. and more importantly if they will get a free and fair trial. the country is tense people are knowing what is happening next the opposition is plan more protests on monday, they want to know whether the president will indeed run for a third term on june 26th. because he says as far as he is concern the he has every right do so and he has no intention of backing down. at least seven people have been killed in northern nigeria after a suicide bomber attacked a market. a woman blew herself up. least 27 people were wounded. thousands of guatemalans have tang to the streets to demand the president step down. it's been one week since the

vice president resigned after one of her top aids weigh link odds a multi million dollars corruption scandal. >> reporter: braving the rain more than 10,000 people descent on caught ma'am a city centers park on saturday. it's the third time in less than a month that guyed mall ans have gathered that their thousands to demands an end to government corruption. many here say they won't rest until guatemala's president steps down. >> we all want the president to go and we want him to lose hissy community. >> reporter: gall mall a is in the midst of its biggest political crisis since 1996. they protests protests responded after a corruption scanned that would led to the arrest of dozens of government officials now people here say they are waking up to their political power. one week as the president

announced that his vice president was stepping down. prosecutors have accused the top aid of being at the center of a corruption scam and say they could face an investigation. the. >> translator: in her resignation letter she says she's wheeley cooperate to clear up her lack of participation. >> reporter: in the wake of the news congress scrambled to select a new vice president but the move might have come too late to restore dreadbility to the presidency. >> the government has suffered strong blows recently. right now they are in damage control mode. instead of planning for the fiscal future as they were a few month ago. considering the revelation about corruption at the highest levels i think the badge done damage done to this party is irrelevant revisible. >> reporter: with president elections four months ago protesters pushing hard for political reforms. if the momentum grows the voice of the people would become

increasingly hard to ignore. david mercer, al jazerra guatemala city. we are getting report of a large explosion being heard in the african afghan capital kabul. jennifer glasse joins us liver from kabul. bring us up-to-date. what more can you tell us about this explosion. >> reporter: the interior ministry says that's target appears to be a convoy of of cars carrying foreigners the interior ministry are believes 15 people are wounded and it's likely to include foreigners because they say there is one very badly damaged vehicle on the scene. we heard the explosion just within the last hour and it could be heard around the city. it sounded like quite a large explosion, the interior minute city thinks it may have been a suicide car bomb. >> all right jennifer glasse there in kabul jennifer, thank you. pope francis will canonize

two palestinian nuns on saturday. they are the first palestinians to become saints in modern times. an explanation as why it's viewed as part of the vatican's attempt to support christies in the middle east. >> reporter: a song of praise in honor of sister mary a palestinian nun built this church and fountained the congregation of the sisters of the most holily jerusalem convent in the ottoman era. on sunday she along with sister maria, who was born in 1846, and founded convents across india will become the first palestinian saints in modern times. the cannon ionization ceremony following an announcement by the cat can that itthevatican saying it would sign its first treaty to pal stain. she traveled from brazil to take part in prayers in honor of the

nuns. she says their lives and legacies are inspiring. >> they are incredible. lying the faithful what they did. >> reporter: a sentiment shared by many here. the decision by pope francis to bestow saints hood to the two nuns is seen as an attempt to give vote to middle east christians after years of war and as part of the attempts to refocus attention on their plights. sister hor tense now runs the convent and shows me where her remains are kept. she is also palestinian and will attends the cannon canonization ceremony and tells me all palestinians should find comfort in the nuns. >> translator: the palestinian people are frustrated on all front, socially, economically, intellectually religiously nationalistically. no matter where you turn people are frustrated they need someone

to lift them up. >> reporter: pope francis is widely seen as sympathetic to the palestinian cause he coffered praise at israel's celebration wall. in his easter address this year he called for a peace process between the two sides to be resumed. palestinian president mahmoud abbas will attends the canonization ceremony along with around 1500 palestinians belonging to the catholic church. many no doubt been praying for a better future. west jerusalem. the prime minister of macedonia is facing public demands to resign. rallies are planned in the capital on sunday to protest against the violence between security forces and armed groups which the government calls albanian separatists. robin forester walker explains. >> reporter: this is what

remains of the barber shop. and his house behind. he is in police custody. a hospital therapist is counseling his family. >> translator: on tv they are calling my husband a terrorist. he's just a barber says his wife. he's going to walk my son to kidser garden now? >> reporter: families like these could you erred last weekend as security forces battled what the government alleges were on albanian separatist says in this he want anything albanian neighborhood. officially eight police and 10 gunmen died. today there is only shock at the damage and resentment at least four local men have been detained. everyone we have spoke to tells all similar story, they heard the shooting. they sought shelter whenever they could in their basements and when they came outside, this is the scene that greeted them.

psychologically this neighborhood has been absolutely traumatized by what happened. the violence comes at a critical moment for macedonia. the opposition is leaking hacked phone recordings revealing abuses of power at the heart of government. prompting resignations. they even claimed that the violence was staged somehow by the prime minister clinging to power. >> translator: we are sid sens, mass down i can'ts al ban cranes turks and all other ethnic communities don't succumb to scenarios that are being prepared guy the boost. >> reporter: that is flatly denied by the prime minister. he says he has the trust of the people of macedon i can't. >> translator: they decide who will be in power and who will be in opposition on thursday. >> reporter: there is still

bewilder. here at the worse violence since a peace del ended a separatist conflict between albanians and macedonians in 2001 this, time communities insist they are united. and that the only divisions are between the pop tingeses. robin forester-walk he al jazerra. now oil spills and over fishing are threatening to kill off africa an only remaining species of penguins in the past century the number has declined by 90%, five years ago it was classified as endangered, erica wood we want to see what is being done to save them. >> reporter: this is a penguin hospital a place where distress tress injured oregon fanned birds come to rehabilitate. some of this facility are being nursed back to health. others are permanent residents. like skipper he'll never return to the wild, he's too tame.

>> the education team are training him to be an ambassador bird. which i think he will be amazing at. >> reporter: after 10,000 children come through her every year to learn about penguins another lessons are carried out over the i internet. >> is skipper a boy or girl? >> we don't know yet. we are waiting for the lab results to come back then we will know. >> reporter: educating young children is important because numbers of penguins are draws lit i cannily, there are fewer than 18,000 breeding pairs in the wild. over fish is this one of the biggest factors. >> it does mean that the adults have to travel furniturer afield and they have to ex-he spends her energy in trying to find enough push for themselves and their chicks. >> reporter: which the tanker treasure sank off south africa's coast in 2,000, 19,000 of the birds were affected most saved but oil stills remain a

constants threat. the island off the west cape coast is well known as an african penguin colony but tourists these days are more likely to sea thousands of seals. this island used to be home to hundreds of thousands of penguins the combination of over fishing and oil spills means there are only about 600 breeding pairs left. in february, a new dedicated penguin rehabilitation facility opened up the closest mainland point to the island. >> because with the african penguin at the moment every bird count. >> reporter: aside from rehabilitatingrehabilitating birds penguin research will also be carried out here. stat say we need to pay attention what the decline be numbers of bird life are telling us. >> penguins are an indicator series they are the ca their is of the sea and we should have taken note a long time ago that something is seriously wrong. >> reporter: like so many of the world's endangered spice savings these passenger wins is a rice against time.

but most of the all the destruction caused by humans, erica wood, al jazerra the western cape, south africa. a quick reminders that you can keep up to up-to-date with all of the news on our website there it is on your screen, the address al jazerra.com. that's aljazerra.com. "america tonight", the real price of prosperity. >> so what kind of damage did that do, permanent damage to the area in north dakota, christopher putzel found a native community tapping its underground riches future. >> this is our home today. i don't want people to come in and destroy it also tonight. >> never before has the air