a crackdown. 24 without a new office on friday night. >> we are here to defend democracy and freedom.

pushing through the crowds with water canon and tear gas. by aerial saturday morning, they got into the building. they pushed journalists covering in it has been heavy three or four years. anyone who is against the government posting is facing either court cases or prison or such control by the government the police were acting under a court order to replace the management of the newspaper. al circulation of 600,000 copies more than any other newspaper run by the u.s.-based cleric. he was once close to president

erduoan. he has been accused of trying to thr over dloe the government. being taken over by pro-government managers. >> such incidents have become normal these days. things we never thought could happen have happened. impossible to make sense. impossible to explain by legal means. we condemn it. >> the last headline before the newspaper was raided reads, the constitution is suspended. caroline malone, al jazeera. turkey and iran have agreed to work together, turkey's prime minister met with the officials. relations have been tense. govern of greek says the border

region has asked the government to declare a state of emergency. he says facing a huge humanitarian crisis, thousands of people are trapped at the border crossing between greece, macedonia. they want to continue their journey north. only al few dozen have been allowed to cross. heavy rain is turned al review e camp into a mud bath. conditions are deterating rapidly. >> need to open immediately the borders. mean union needs actions against the countries that are closing borders today whether they are members of the european union or candidate members. >> more from al jazeera. >> reporter: it has been very difficult, 48 hours for the people stranded here a lot of

mud puddles everywhere and kids walking barefoot in the water. the water has been completely, most some of the tents, the water has been seeping in from the top of the tent and people are being absolutely drenched, kids who are sick. there is a lot of severe coughs and colds. the morale among the refugees is very, very low. earlier, a talking point, it is absolutely congested. you can't even walk between the tents anymore. so many people are there. and now, going through, the time has come for those who have entered greece on the 17th of february, so that is more than two weeks ago. just to show you the backlog and backed up over the past few

weeks as the enormity as more and more people keep on arriving on the island. >> from france -- pope francis has condemned an elderly care home as die bolcal. 16 were shot dead including four nuns. >> reporter: from a place of safety and care, this home for the elderly became the latest casualty. gunmen raided the retirement home and killed 14 people including four nuns. attackers surrounded the home, the last to be let in to visit their mothers. they handcuffed their victims before shooting them at close range. >> the men and women outside had their hands tie would. we heard sounds of gunfire. >> around 80 people lived at the home set up by a mother teresa.

some find it hard to believe defenseless old people could be the target for armed groups. >> this is very shocking. it happened at 8:30 in the morning local time while the sisters were serving breakfast. >> aiden has changed hands within the port city, security remains sketchy. surrounding areas are held by the fighters. in the war, more than 6,000,000 yemenis have been killed, and the children and elderly are no exception. china, government has sent a new economic growth target between 6.5 and 7%. that's by economists on another side that growth may be slowing. so scott hideler reports from beijing. >> yongon has been selling fruit

here in beijing since 2010. business is slow. >> my boss, the communist party. where did the customers go? you have to ask the communist party. business was bad the past year. >> he is not alone. it's been a turbulent year for many in china. economic growth at its islowest in 25 years. six kilometers away, the most important event is playing out. china, the last communist nation has changed considerably over the last years. the granted you're of the national people's congress has remained. 3,000 delegates from across the nation attend. china's premier opened the report on the last year and was mildly critical of the communist party. >> there is still inadequacies in the work of the government. some reforms, policies and measures have not been fully implemented. >> he went on to say more work needs to be done on government

corruption and misconduct. and that it's not just china, economy that's slowing. it's global. >> this is the great hall. what's going to take place for the most part is political theatre. that's because the most important decisions of how chinese run in government are even made by top officials. it's mainly a place where they put out the big messages including some new propaganda. the meeting are discussing just smooerl specifics of how to implement these things or tweet it to make it better. >> highlights of the five-year plan to be released. 10 million more urban jobs each year and annual economic growth at 6.5% or above. but some economists think that just won't happen. >> i think there is something of a misnomer and it's starting with the government that somehow this higher level of growth can be maintained, again by our analysis, the 6.5% that they have indicated won't be

achievable. >> the people i will definitely gol back to my hometown, maybe one or two years. beijing is too expensive. it's so hard to make money. >> that's not the direction the communist party wants people to go. they want more people in cities, working, and spending. and what the president calls, the china dream. scott hideler, al jazeera. beijing. >> tibetans have held a prayer ceremony for a young monk who died after setting himself on fire. 16-year-old kos long died on thursday three days in the tibetan. he was protesting. it will marks the second such protest this year. at least sixty people have been injured on water taxi in bankock in the eastern outskirts when the blast happened.

most of those on board reportedly suffered burns. philippines has i am pound add north koreaina shock docked in man ill a, the first time new u.n. sanctions have been enforced imposed after the nuclear missile test. so far, no response from trans. harry faucet is in soma, japan. >> nothing controversial found on board this ship in terms of the cargo when it arrived in the philippines. it was carrying oil palm kernels. that is being delivered. instead, investigators have found various safety breaches. fire safety equipment, electrical equipment and for that reason, they decided not to allow it to leave port. now, it's being impounded and the crews, the 21 north korean members are now being deported back to their home country. it's a tough response by the philippines to what seems like a

relatively minor infraction by the operators of this ship. what we know about it, is it is registered in sierra leon. it's owned by a company in hong kong but operated by ocean maritime management headquartered in pingong. it operates on 31 ships now very much under scrutiny of the most recent sanctions being agreed at the united nations. the ocean maritime management operating the ship which in 2013 was found in panama with various armaments including two elderly fighter jets under a big cargo of sugar. nothing like that found on board the vessel. it does give you an example of how toughly these sanctions can be interpreted if the countries involved wanltsd to do so. the philippines is a staunch u.s. ally. sanctions to the and beyond perhaps to the question is whether other countries around

the world will do the same thing t china with which north korea has by far the majority of its trade. >> ahead here on al jazeera, why words matter. we will report on the effort to save indigenous languages dying out there and take a look at whether russia's economic woes could help the communists make a comeback.

top stories here on al jazeera. police in istanbul set up bear decades outside of the offices

of one of turkey's best known newspapers, trying to clear out protesters who opposed the state takeover. it was raided by police overnight. it has re-opened but under government control. pop fre francis has condemned a attack on a care homerun by nuns. when government targeted the homerun by mother teresa's charity. the governor of agrees dominated the border emergenregion has ca the government to declare a state of emergency. around 13,000 people are stuck at the border crossing between greece and macedonia europe's ref uming e crisis is a major issue in slovakia where the tough talking prime minister protecting from muslim refugees. a report.

daunting decision to travel from syria to slovakia. i tried to find a job intie. i hoped i could work at the hospital. yes collected one day i would be a refugee in europe. the company where i applied for the job gave me an answer. i decided to meet the smugglers. after that, there was no way back. with other refugees, she arrived illegally on the greek island le sp os. that was at the ewasn't the end it was on to mass doaning i can't, sush i can't, and hungary. as she crossed into slovakia, she was arrested. she had spent four months in detension and doesn't plan to stay there long. >> the decision is racist. the police officer told me to go back where i came from. several times they told me i am a terrorist. one ing human rights advocate said her treatment has a lot to

do with the parliamentariee elections i would be happy after elections if maybe i go back and people and politicians will actually turn the page prime minister robert has made the crisis a rachel and relimingous issue. one recent speak he said he wanted to monitor every one in the country. his party's campaign slogan is we will protect slovakia. it's a goal of preventing a muz lick community forming which has confused people in the capitol because the city is already home to thousands of muslims. >> so major of us are married to slovaki a. n william. we speak the language. it was for us a little bit shock. poll suggest the ruling party is unlikely to get enough votes for the majority inpal which means it may have to form a coalition.

s perhaps that's a sign of the tough rhetoric that hasn't gone down well with voters. al jazeera. many have been separated. al jazeera met one man who has returned to gaza. hoping to be reunited with his wife and children in germany. >> i was born in 1951 in gaza after the war in 1967, i have fled to syria and started a new life, got married, had children. things were going well. we knew we weren't safe anymore. the situation in the camp became unbearable and we decided to escape. we were not in access to lebanon because of our palestinian pass ports. we tried to go to turkey, jordan and it was miserable. we maid to fly to egypt and

damascus and then the tunnel arrived in gaza. my wife, originally a syrian and my two songs and their families are with me. we were about 10 people. gaza was our last refugee. the war action destruction. this didn't stop us from coming here we are part of this land, these people. and at the beginning, we received welfare money, $200 per person and $125 as a housing allowance. these were only temporary solutions. we stopped receiving the payments two years ago. our houses and shops were destroyed in 2014. unemployment is very high in gaza. it's not easy to ask people for work. there are about 400 families from libya, syria and yemeni. we all need help. we started to think about hitting the road again. this time towards europe. we had no other choice but to try the dangerous sea journey. it's horrible. a lot of people died trying.

i know an entire family who disappeared. my wife and 5 people got to turkey. 60 sedan car carrying 30 people. i was afraid. i thought lots would suffocate. now some of my family is in germany, some went to the netherlands. i want to join my wife and my kids. as you can see, we live in a house that doesn't even get any sunlight. we are not after a life of luxury or anything. we just want to be treated decently and a place where we can live with dignity. >> turkey government against a pro-opposition newspaper. a committee to protect journalists says yasar acta is from the ruling act party. he opposed many of being

terrorists. >> every day, they are criticizing the government. turkey everything they want to do. i ask them: give me one example. let's look at that. there is no -- there is no number. they are germans. their government, yeah, yeah.

also conducting activity. >> brazil's president has criticized a police raid the popular former president was detained and questioned about a multiple i will billion dollar corruption scandal involving national oil company petrogas. they for the with police outside his home. i am not free mature judgment. they intimidate judicial powers and police and politicians. i said the only way forward was not to be afraid. >> the u.s. city of flint is replacing lead pipes. lead from old pipes tainted water in homes and schools. it can cause developmental

delays and learning disabilities in children. the water supply crisis has become an election issue with the republican state administration accused of ignoring it. a doo bate on sunday. more than a dozen protesters interrupted donald trump's rally in new orleans. they chanted black lives matter and held up banners that read your hate is killing people. trump was in louisiana to really, really voters ahead of the state's primary on saturday. the number of candidates is narrowed again, retired neurosurgeon ben carson has pulled out of the republican race. he announced he was suspending his campaign at a gathering in maryland friday. his decision to stop campaigning comes after a disappointing super tuesday finish. cubeages stranded in central america have begun to enter the u.s. they left cuba wearing their special status which provides

them the u.s. residency will end soon. it's thought out of the 8,000, many will go to miami. officials there say the city can't comb. andy gallacher reports. >> at the church world service in miami, newly arrived cuban families are given all the help they need to resettle in the u.s. it has been a long and per lus journey. many recent rivals made way their way through south and central america and face a series of setbacks. >> perez tells us he was robbed several times by corrupt officials, a story not uncommon among those seeking a better life. thousands of others cubans have started making their way out of central america concerning city officials in miami. resources are stretched. they say they won't be able to cope with an influx of new rivals. >> it's hard to see people living on a parking lot or in

front of a store and we cannot just help them. >> over the past few months, the number of cubans arriving by sea has increased dramatically. it's that combination of so-called rafters and others arriving by land has many concerned. the organizations that deal with the fears say they are nothing short of unwarranted panic. until years past, there were far greater numbers and many are settling in states like texas, kentucky and michigan. >> auscer rivera of the church world certaservices says mostly settle quickly and have somebody to go. >> there has been over reaction this time around. maybe i will be homeless or and put in perspective the fact of the majority have families and are not going to be homeless but with their families here. >> the family is part of the

biggest influx for more than two decades but they have more ahead. they will soon lead south florida to make new lives in michigan andy gallacher, al jazeera. >> miami, florida. >> researchers in the u.s. say they may have found a leak to the zika virus and birth defects. scientists at john hop kibz say the virus targets brain cells that presents it from developing. human stem cells grown in a lab. guatemala has one of the largest populations besides spanish, there are 23 officially recognized languages spoken in the sentence tral american nation. as david mercer reports, some of those are at risk of disappearing. >> determined to save his language from obviousblivian. his people number more than 200,000 but just a handful of elders speak the language

fluently. he hopes to change that and he is starting by teaching the teachers. >> if i die, what's going to happen with this knowledge? it will be lost. but if i share it in the schools, with the teachers and the friends, it will flourish. >> since the rival of the spanish five centuries', racism and discrimination have chipped away at gault guat's indigenous cultures and with that, their languages. they now account for about 40% of guatemala's population, still large enough a bloc to force the government into action. >> in 2002, guatemala passed a law officially recognizing 23 indigenous languages. the law also required the government funds be made available to languages that are in danger of disappears. >> in spite of that promise, the production of dictionaries and other educational materials of indigenous languages has largely fallen to private groups.

moldenero says the government should immediate obligations. >> the government's role is minimal. it has not made community as a prior to. they think the communities don't need more help because they have always lived the same way. >> isabella sanchez believes pride in one's culture is e searchcial. the 26-year-old was never taught the language when he was growing up. he now shares what he learns with his students in his private school. >> i want my children at least to learn the foundations of the language. i know that participating in their culture will open them up to many things in the future. they can share this knowledge with their family. >> shin. a, a language hanging on by a thread kept alive by those who treasurer what it means to them and hope a what it will mean to the generations that follow: david mercer, al jazeera, in guatemala. >> scientists say they found

what could be a new species. research operation off of the islands of hawaii. unlike others, this sea creature has no fins and appears to lack any pigment cells giving it that ghostly light color. >> because it's the biggest question out there. >> scientists analyzing the minds of believers. >> can you tell the difference between the brain of mother theresa versus a terrorist? >> measuring the divine one brain scan at a time. >> this is "techknow". a show about innovations that can change lives. >> the science of fighting a wildfire.