♪ tens of thousands of palestinians took part in the first friday prayers of ramadan as israel eases restrictions. ♪ hello, i'm rochelle carry and this is al jazeera live from doha and also on the program tempers flair and scuffles breakout in geneva as war in factions in yemen fail to find a peace deal. prayers across the united states after nine people are shot dead at a black church in south carolina. eyes to the skies and take you to the paris air show and tell

you how the french maid export stacks up. ♪ tens of thousands of palestinians have parked the mosque in the occupied east jerusalem for the first friday prayers during the holy month of ramadan and allowing men over age 40 and women of all ages to cross the border without permits and at the damascus gate one of the main entrances to the old city of jerusalem. >> reporter: israel has significantly eased restrictions on the movement of palestinians from the west bank and gaza in what it is describing as a good-will gesture after what it calls a positive security assessment carried out by the israeli army and the shinbet and allowing palestinians from the west bank, thousands of them to come to jerusalem to perform prayers at the mosque during ramadan without obtaining pre

preapproved permits except for men under the age of 40. they are supposed to get these permits beforehand. women are not facing any age restrictions at all coming from the west bank. as for residents of gaza israel has also eased restrictions of movement on them hundreds of them over the age of 60 will be able to come every friday during ramadan to pray and a few others allowed to visit family members in the west bank during the holy month. israel is describing this as good-will gesture and analysts say israel in the absence of talks between israelis and palestinians is trying to contain and absorb frustration by palestinians living under occupation and living under these restrictions but if you talk to palestinians who made the long journey here whether from the west bank or gaza they will tell you while they are happy about an opportunity to pray here which is considered a

privilege for muslims they say that this is their right and the restrictions on their movement should not be placed by israel in the first place and that the rights to worship and the rights to movement is guaranteed by international law. the u.n. says it needs $1.6 billion in humanitarian aid for yemen to prevent a catastrophe. it comes as the war in factions resume talks in geneva to try to reach a truce and both divisions are deep and scuffles on thursday when a shoe was thrown at head of delegation and we report from geneva. >> reporter: from the mountains of sanaa to the united nations office in geneva a journey that sums up the houthi rise to power. houthi is a senior member of the houthis or the party of god as they call themselves. his fighters and troops loyal to former president asleh have a growing influence in yemen.

he is on a charm offensive saying he is here to talk about peace and turn the chapter of war. >> translator: we are committed to dialog and to a political agreement between all the factions. we want partnership. we don't want to exclude any party. >> reporter: the government in exile remains skeptical saying the houthis are buying time. >> translator: talks have not started yet because houthi and representatives had no vision and we hope they join talks brokered by the u.n. and recognize the legitimacy of the government. >> former president saleh and ally control the republican guards and elite army unit blamed for shelling civilian areas. we have been firing rockets at neighborhoods in thai to repel a push by tribesmen loyal to hadi and the talks say the army should stay intact to protect

yemen. >> translator: military establishments which is constantly being pounded by the saudi-led coalition is the only guaranty against a political vacuum in yemen. the army is the backbone of any transition to democracy. if there is no army and police the next government will be under minded by malitias and al-qaeda al-qaeda. >> reporter: the houthi press conference turned into a scuffle once the session from the south accuse the houthis of killing people in southern yemen. as fighting continues across yemen talks are stalled in geneva. the united nations hasn't been able to narrow differences between the rival factions. in the offices of progress here in geneva yemen's only hope is an agreement between the region's key players and the international community on a humanitarian truce and have them

accept it and stop the suffering of people. al jazeera, geneva. tunisia says it will close the consulate in libya following the kidnapping of ten of its staff, seven of them were freed on friday while the other three released a day earlier and the prime minister says they are back home and release after a tunisia court talked about the libya dawn malitia allied with the tripoli government. prayer vigils across the united states for the nine victims of the charleston church shooting, candles and cards and flowers in south carolina where the black worshippers were shot during bible class, a 21-year-old white man questioned about the hate crime and barack obama is condemning what he calls a senseless shooting andy reports the u.s. president says americans must face the fact that frequent incidents of gun violence don't happen in other advanced countries. >> reporter: these are the first pictures of dylann roof

since he was arrested on thursday morning by police in north carolina. he is suspected of carrying out a fatal shooting of nine people who were attending a prayer group at a church in charleston south carolina. >> i'm very, very pleased to announce we have made an arrest in this case. we arrested dylann roof roof from lexington, south carolina. >> reporter: the 21-year-old spent an hour at a nighttime prayer meeting at the historic emmanuel ame churj church in center of charleston and police say this was a hate crime. >> we woke up today and the heart and soul of south carolina was broken. >> reporter: as police worked around the scene of the massacre nationwide alert was sent out. the alleged shooter was pulled over in a traffic stop in north carolina the three-hour drive

from charleston, his uncle recognized the picture police issued from the church cc-tv and alerted the authorities. >> that awful person that terrible human being who would go into a place of worship where people were praying and kill them is now in custody where he will always remain. >> reporter: for the 14th time since he became president barack obama had to talk about a mass shooting in america. >> at some point we as a country will have to recon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries and it is in our power to do something about it. >> reporter: in a facebook picture roof is wearing a jacket which carries a flag of apartheid south africa and told one woman in the church she would live so she could tell the

story of what happened. community leaders in charleston insist this is the time for unity. >> we've got to pray but we got to get up off our knees and we got to work and legislate and protest because enough is enough! this is a church that was founded by african/americans who fought to be free of slavery and today its leaders remain defiant in the face of tragedy. dylann roof will be interviewed by police and the key questions are whether he acted alone and why he allegedly did what he did. andy gallagher, al jazeera, charleston, south carolina. health minister says the first patient to be treated for middle east respiratory syndrome has shown some improvement but his son and his brother are also showing symptoms although it's not yet confirmed whether they are infected. thailand is the fourth asia country to report cases of deadly mers virus and we have

the latest from bangkok. >> reporter: officials confident they have been able to isolate the first case of mers in thailand and identified the 75-year-old as a potential mers patient the first day he arrived and taken off to a special hospital as three members of his family that he traveled here with. also 50 people who have come in contact with him here in bangkok being monitored very closely. obviously the concern is that anyone with mers and the general public in bangkok a congested city of 10 million people and minister and minister of public health are confident with mek mek mechanisms and told people not to panic in thailand and as the friday morning commute shows they are listening. called emergency meeting next week as deadlock over greece's debt becomes more urgent talks between euro zone broke down on thursday without a deal and has less than two weeks

to come to agreement with its creditors or default $1.8 billion it owes at the end of the month and athens has more than $380 to international monetary funds and bank from bail outs it received in 2011 and 12 and the debt equals more than $34,000 for each greek citizen and john reports from athens. >> reporter: thursday's meeting ended with no agreement but greeks left behind a proposal they believe could be the basis for a deal. >> recognize there is a problem of trust within the euro group. in order to overcome it in today's meeting we put on the table a radical proposal, a proposal that has never been discussed before, it was not asked of us by the institution an innovative proposal that came from us and it is this: in the

context of our agreement that we should have our fiscal council, the independent fiscal council, something equivalent to britain's office for budget responsibility monitor the execution of the budget. >> reporter: council would automatically trigger spending cuts making future deficits impossible and illegal. creditors have rejected a series of greek proposals over four months saying they rely on legal or financial slight of hand to dodge issues keeping up tax revenue and making the economy more productive but there is still a glimmer of hope they say. >> today in our meeting we send a strong signal to the greek authorities that it is really up to them to submit new proposals, additional proposals in the m coming days to fully engage with institutions within the framework of the statement of february the 20th. >> reporter: in athens greeks who fear the left wing cities of government is running too close to deadline gathered before parliament chanting greece

europe democracy and believe they are protecting political clients in a bloated and expensive state and don't believe they can blackmail with suicide and want to reform on the euro zone and means more government and reasonable taxes for the private sector and suffered from the 25% unemployment rate. >> translator: honestly i don't know what we can accept and what we can't but we need to avoid leaving the euro zone at all costs. >> reporter: fears that the brinkmanship may bring greece to its knees by targeting controls over the week and cyprus was forced to go to austerity two years ago but how far apart the greeks can be was demonstrated earlier in the day when parliament's truth committee on the greek dead says greece neither can or should pay it, a position at odds even with the government. the dead it says is as a result of austerity, not the cause.

these people however believe the political standoff over the debt is slowly poisonening the economy. john in athens. coming up, in the program protests in the dominican republic where hundreds of thousands of migrants face deportation to haiti. and why there are more than just points on the line when chile faces bolivia at the copa america. ♪

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now on al jazeera. tens of thousands of palestinians are taking part in friday prayers for ramadan in occupied east jerusalem and decided to allow men over 40 and women of all ages to go without permits as a good-will gesture. u.n. needs $1.6 billion in aid to prevent a catastrophe and they made no progress so far. prayer vigils in cities across the u.s. for the nine victims at the charleston church shootings, a 21 year old white man being questioned about what police say is a hate crime. secretary-general ban ki-moon refused to answer questions about why israel was left on the list of violator in a report on children in conflict zones. more than 500 children died during israel's military operations in gaza last year. a diplomatic editor james base reports from u.n. headquarters.

secretary-general publically presenting his report in the children in the conflict zone to security council. it's a deeply controversial document as it leaves israel off its list of worst violators despite detailing how the israeli operation in gaza last summer caused the death of more than 540 children. later later ban ki-moon addressed reporters. >> i hope you understand my suggestion that i talked about an urgent meeting where i have to participate now and i turn the floor to over my special representative. >> reporter: secretary-general we have been told it's your report so it's you we should ask the questions to so claiming he was too busy u.n. secretary-general left his special representative to answer questions even though she recommended that israel be on the list of worst violators and it was his decision to take israel off the list. did the secretary-general bow to

pressure and remove israel from the annex? >> i will not answer the question and i stand by the report and i stand by what is in it and i think that we said already and i think in the report you have the response of the secretary-general and i will stick to the report. >> reporter: in the security council meeting the palestinian ambassador said he was anguished by the decision not to put israel on the list. >> if you meet the criteria then you have to be there. not for political consideration to remove it from there. >> reporter: israel has given its response to and managed to keep itself off the black list israel ambassador to u.n. has complained about misconduct in the office of the u.n. special representative which he accuses of bias james base, al jazeera united nations. india 33 men have died from drinking cheap alcohol in the

slum in mumbai and dozens of others also fell ill. police detained a man suspected of illegally brewing the alcohol which is often spiked with chemicals to increase its potency. invest issues and officials are in st. petersburg for russia's biggest economic forum that kicked off thursday and despite sanctions they are at the event and prime minister is also attending. he just met with vladimir putin and russia and greece signed a gas pipeline deal intended to carry russian gas through europe through greece and turkey. center right opposition is celebrating victory in thursday's general election. the block includes anti-immigration danish party who wants to limit this and the prime minister schmidt resigned as social democratic party

leader. european union criticized plans by hungry to build a wall along its border with serbia to shut out undocumented migrants and tens of thousands crossed over so far just this year. the planned four meter high wall would stretch 175 kilometers along the frontier and eu and serbia say it's not effective to control migration but hungry insists the wall is necessary. >> translator: hungry is a front line country and everything must be done to protect the hungry people and hungry from this uncontrolled and uncontrollable flow of illegal migrants. >> translator: what are we supposed to do to build a wall to macedonia and bulgaria and we will not build walls and don't want to close ourselves and don't want to live in auctwitz. funeral has taken place and he was a dominant figure in turkish politics serving as president from 1993-2000 and

before that he was prime minister seven times. two of the governments were over thrown by military coups. he died on wednesday at the age of 90. some of the hundreds of thousands of migrants who face deportation from the dominican republic protested and a new law stems illegal migration from neighboring haiti and human rights groups say it's phobic and many rushed to register with the government hoping to stay and work legally. adam reports from santimingo. >> they told al jazeera they have not begun deportation operations in the first 24 hours since this deadline passed despite the fact perhaps hundreds of thousands of people perhaps of haiti decent are at risk of being deported across this island of ispanol to the haiti side. now the government says about 300,000 people filed their paperwork trying to prove their status by the deadline on wednesday but that only about

10,000 of those applications had all the necessary documents. we spoke to a man who falls into that category earlier on thursday and spoke to a man who said he was there up to the deadline and fired all paperwork and told it lacked some proper documentation and now he says he is very worried and afraid he could be stateless or sent back to a country he knows little about and not speaking creole and the government is sending mixed messages and have government officials saying they are going to be patrolling areas where people of haiti decent are known to live and work and those people could be sent over the border to haiti but at the same time we are not seeing deportations because they are weary of having all this international media attention and scrutiny show massive deportations at this time. it might be something done much more quiet or the risk hangs over people's heads for days and weeks. we saw a protest on thursday on santimingo and at the protest

many people of haiti decent feel dominican and are dominican and this should not be allowed to happen and sent back to the country they know very little about. the paris air show wraps up this weekend. and the focus has been on how many planes boeing and air bus can sell there are plenty more deals happening behind the scenes military sales are also a major part of any air show and in france the big push is to sell more of the home grown fighter jets and we report on a french aviation success after many years of trying. >> reporter: rafal is a french fighter jet and used predominately by the french airforce and until recently no one else wanted it. performance wise it did not stack up against competitors like the euro fighter or f 18 even if the company which makes it thinks otherwise. >> i think the capability has been recognized by our customers.

problems in some areas in the world has also pushed some government to buy and to reenforce their own defense. >> reporter: and this is the key, not so much to rafal in the air success but export success. the war in libya in 2011 was a key moment when they saw what the plane could do in combat and they could buy them with much more flexibility. >> functions, we are ready to develop and then we propose a contract for the the specificities and we need to permission to sell to countries. >> reporter: the people who come to see rafal is testing the amount of interest in it and aviation spent $45 billion just on developing the raf an al and

that is well spent and cutter and egypt bought 24 and india boith 36 of them and there is talk of a fourth major deal in the pipeline as well. but while the number of new jets in the sky is known what they are costing the countries is a little less obvious. >> a modern fighter like this could cost $80-120 million but it's very difficult to say because the negotiations are very secretive. in addition when people buy the plane, basically they will have to invest some of that money back into the host government for example in the case of india they put 30% of the contract value back into india because governments if they spend this money they will want to receive something in return and not just the aircraft. >> reporter: no doubt it's a popular plane and view from the paris air show is what is good in the sky is also good on the ground for the french economy al jazeera. and you can see more from

kamal and team at the paris area show in a special edition of counting the cost this week. the first screening is at 2230 gmt on friday. chile facing off bolivia in an futbol tournament in a few hours and countries have plenty of problems off the pitch and lost access to the sea after the war of the pacific against chile more than 130 years ago and we report from the chile capitol and how political disputes shaped the rivalry between the countries. >> reporter: bolivia trying since 1879 to regain access to the coastline it lost to chile in the war of the pacific. it's also been trying since the last victory 15 years ago to beat chile in a game of futbol. they are levelled with four points each from the opening two games and in the clash at santiago national stadium. >> translator: definitely to beat chile would be a great

achievement for us and not just futbol but symbolically too. >> reporter: the two countries signed a peace and friendship treaty in 1904 designed to resolve the issue of the disputed coastline. but more than a century later it's far from resolved. ♪ these bolivia children sing a country hymn to the sea and the bolivia navy in the waters and chile holds all the negotiating cards and more than 6,000 kilometers of coastline. >> translator: when bolivia says it must get its sea back you have to interpret that because what they want is a sea that was never theirs, the uerka coast and chile cannot give them territory that was theirs because it would cut it in too. >> reporter: a success story thanks in large part to its copper.

bow live yeah claim -- bolivia says it came from land that is theirs and met on the pitch winning to bolivia 26, here there is little desire to negotiate with bolivia over their access to the sea, chile has enough social and political problems and they are happy for now to deal with their differences on the futbol pitch and the countries are meanwhile waiting for the court of justice and the hague to rule but that ruling whichever way it goes is unlikely to resolve the 136-year long dispute. >> translator: at the moment relations between bolivia and chile are not at their best but i would say that the popular level chilly people are not being unusual negative towards bolivia. >> reporter: it's only a game some say, 22 men kicking a ball about, but there are those in both chile and bolivia who

believe that the 19 minutes of play may symbolically at least represent something more than just a game of futbol. daniel with al jazeera, santiago. be sure to visit our website when you get a moment, al jazeera.com. >> the face of a suspect killer, dylan roof returns to south carolina where he's set to go before a judge tailed as new details emerge about the details behind a shooting at a black church. the community mourns want deaths of the nine people as it tries to mend old wounds reopened by that the shooting. >> police are