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i'm sue chance and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up nine people are killed in an attack on a coptic christian change in egypt a president under pressure supreme court ruling spells more bad news for south africa's jacob zuma and apple issues a rare apology for slowing down old i phones as the number of lawsuits. israeli tanks and aircraft have fired on targets in gaza in retaliation to rockets being fired into israel the israeli army says its aerial defense system intercepted two rockets launched from the gaza strip it caused panic among civilians on the ground in israel a third rocket hit a building in the south causing damage but no casualties the unrest comes as hundreds of palestinians across the occupied west bank took part in protests for

the fourth friday in a row there are great u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel malcolm webb has more from gaza. the edge of gaza city is just a couple of hundred meters over there and this is the border with israel the separation friends wall surrounds gather all step aside to the camera can zoom in a bit for the fourth friday in a row people gathered at rallies in the city after friday prayers coming from the mosques and then some people from those rallies came here to the border to demonstrate it's been like this for the last month ever since president trump announced that the u.s. would recognize to use them as the capital of israel and demonstrators are trying to get as close to the fence as they can to throw stones and plant palestinian flags. start fires as well those plumes of black smoke you can see here from fires and burning tires and the israeli army's response with tear gas and some gunfire

we've heard that more than ten people have been injured in the violence today in the on rest here and in four other places along the border. and there were both so being protests against traumas decision about jerusalem in the pakistani city of rubble pending thousands took part in the demonstration which was organized by a charity group linked to the main suspect in the two thousand and eight mumbai bombing half a silent how to hide the has more from raul pindi. crowden of paper left gathered. to throw their support for the palestinian cause the product didn't ambassador to pakistan at all communal y.j. who had read the crowd that had come from all four corners of the country all pakistani people from all walks of life have strongly reject it trumps decision of jerusalem as their capital of pakistan is the only country in the muslim world who has officially condemned and rejected this decision and brought resolution in their

parliament against the irresponsible act there is a dream to then burn a cross on a flower make word and project on is no except for many from the pakistan defend the looting of. the leader of the modern art program for their support that this was a good deal to make to receive the music rails coppertone we cannot tolerate this at any cost we are trying to awake all the muslim community and to unite them and we want to send a strong message to trump that muslims won't accept it in any shape they're going to thereby support for the french didn't god yeah and revenge against the american move to move the embassy personnel are going to limit my duty. i was given i just got this right that was muslim yes it is together and we want to give you a strong message that we are god and we have given you. the

people here say that. is the capital of falun the leader. people should. sacrifice their lives for making sure their girl for eleven days they are near three hundred. also. gathering by far stronger so far on this particular day for. nine people have been killed in an attack on a church in egypt five others were wounded in the shooting just south of the capital cairo and then man was also killed by police. of a suspected attacker lives on the ground it's believed he's wearing a suicide vest which you can state t.v.

these pictures field outside the coptic church of modern mena in a sudden cairo suburb. two gunmen reportedly on a motorcycle opened fire outside the church as a service was taking place one was killed in an exchange of fire with security forces another was reportedly arrested from the sound of beer. thank god they locked the door there were hundreds in sight if getting close the door on time it could have been worse than did jack and the road the mosque in china. this is the latest of a number of attacks on egypt's christian minority which represents about ten percent of the population the likely suspects are two organizations really that has been consistently targeting since twenty fifteen and sinai so this one i province or the spall the decentralized cell of affiliated with isis but but heating in the valley and the primaries to small and cells one in cairo and one in central delta

problem is that there's no clear counterterrorism and counterinsurgency policies so far dealing with this threat and. for a while egypt has been discontinued the same bondeson same mistakes egypt has been under a state of emergency since april when suicide bombing struck two coptic church is killing at least forty five people on palm sunday a local affiliate of myself claimed responsibility the government has deployed more security forces outside churches in recent weeks in anticipation of attacks over the christmas period egypt's christians have a long accuse the authorities of not doing enough to protect them this attack will likely make those accusations louder chaunce trafford al-jazeera south africa's top court has ruled that parliament failed to hold president jacob zuma to account in a scandal of a multi-million dollar upgrades to his private home last year the court concluded that zuma had violated the constitution when he benefited inappropriately from

state funding for his own candler home it's one of a series of presidential scandals that have tarnished the reputation of the ruling african national congress on your page has more from jerusalem. the constitutional court south africa's highest court has found that the national assembly that's parliament failed to take appropriate action against president jacob zuma and relation to gross overspending of text payers dollars on his private home called income for the constitutional court says the first thing that should happen is that the national assembly needs to come up with a comprehensive list of rules and regulations which perhaps could lead to the impeachment of president zuma away but they didn't go so far as to say that's what should happen because that would be in breach of the separation of powers the opposition parties who brought this legal action we're pleased with the outcome

nonetheless the constitutional duty quint mr zuma in no time will be scrutinized will be brought before parliament to be accountable because his own political party has actually failed to hold you accountable and we can with the other day longer we need to be in parliament in no less than did today's before the state of the nation and as of twenty eight. in their defense president zuma and the speaker of parliament both said it wasn't true that the national assembly had done nothing multiple votes of no confidence in president zuma have been held and they have all been defeated and that's what it comes down to it's a matter of numbers in parliament because impeaching a president is a parliamentary process so even when there are rules in place that could lead to impeaching a president ultimately that would require

a two thirds majority and the reality is that the governing african national congress holds the majority and so it be extremely unlikely that the numbers would be able to be gathered for an impeachment. aid agencies have finished a series of medical evacuations from the besieged damascus suburb of eastern ghouta twenty nine critically ill people have been moved sponsor of a deal with the syrian government they know how to report. on an appeal from a grieving mother. out flaws. in the darley and so she hopes that all the sick children in eastern huta will receive medical treatment so that their parents don't lose them. lost her daughter but tool was ten years old when she died her parents say her life could have been saved but they live in an area besieged by syrian government forces where there is no proper medical care.

her sickness with pain in her teeth nice and hot doctors said there was something wrong with her nervous system and antibiotics didn't help the medication didn't work and she passed away. it's too late for batool but twenty nine critically ill patients are being given the chance at survival that was agreed after a deal between the syrian government and the armed groups. that involved the rebels prisoners in exchange eighteen of those transferred to hospitals in damascus were children. hundreds more are of treatment there's a severe shortage of medical supplies the medical facilities in the area have all but been destroyed by the siege and the bombardment just over one hundred doctors provide care for an estimated four hundred thousand people half of them are believed to be children and. the children are always the ones who are the most vulnerable and affected as a result of the siege there are many children who have cancer they can't be cured

because there is no medicine to treat them there are diseases because of the pollution even the water is polluted there are many cases of severe malnutrition in the united nations says one in eight children is going hungry up from one in fifty eastern huta has been besieged since two thousand and thirteen but in recent months pro-government forces tightened the blockade closing smuggling routes and tunnels that were being used. humanitarian organizations have been pleading for months with the syrian government to allow the critically ill patients to leave it workers are hoping that the evacuations will be the beginning of more to come they're also asking for safety guarantees from patients are worried of arrest if they go to government controlled territory. rama doesn't have much time she is four years old and her sickness requires treatment that is not available in eastern huta it's a difficult time for her mother him of the law who is hoping that her daughter was

on the evacuation list into my house on the phone for them to come to the set of my daughter has a kenyan throat cancer doctors told me she needs surgery to remove her throat because that she is too big and the cancer cells are spreading i hope someone helps me my child also needs chemotherapy and i concert for it please whoever is hearing me now i ask for your help and is that already almost twenty patients among them children have died while waiting for evacuation. route. still to come on the program filling the void how refugees may be the answer to reviving the struggling workforce and turning trash into political art to meet the haitian eltis who are using their surroundings to send a message about social justice. welcome

back as we take a look at the weather across southern and central parts of china the weather jerry looking pretty good at the moment little bit of rain affected northern parts of vietnam but i think for most part sunshine hong kong enjoying some nice weather fuzhou too heading into sunday i think which is suitable drizzle along the coastal parts of vietnam otherwise across indochina the weather conditions looking pretty good yank on there thirty one just a low risk of a shower across into south asia is also looking largely dry visibility problems continue to be an issue across northern parts of india into pakistan otherwise looking largely fine chin i should be drawing bright twenty nine the high as we head into sunday not a great deal of change no showers expected across sri lanka here in the arabian peninsula is also the king fine at the moment temperatures twenty five is very nice light winds here in doha house where we've got plenty of sunshine we're looking at thirty three years of my son in mecca a great deal of change expected to head on through into sunday so let's move up

into the levant region here more in the way of cloud spilling in but otherwise looking dry finally back your highs of eleven sixteen and sunshine expected in tehran and he'd only ceasar the mediterranean should stay generally drawing some sunshine expected in beirut in lebanon highs here of nineteen. documenting st john this book. was inspired to transform. we had to change the. culture now is one of the people that. i'll be giving a speech to to all of us this is where. the new african photography. at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back remind of the top story on al-jazeera israeli tanks and aircraft to find on targets in gaza in response to rockets into israel israel's aerial defense system intercepted two rockets a third hits a building in the country. nine people have been killed after gunmen stormed a christian church just south of the gypsum capital and south africa's top court says the country's parliament failed to hold president jacob zuma accountable over allegations of corruption. liberia's vice president joseph. and his rival george weah on winning the west african nations presidency former world footballer of the year where comfortably won tuesday's runoff muhammad zero

is in the capital monrovia. was celebration on the streets of the liberian capital monrovia was the supporters all full mind some national football adored with greeted news of his victory in tuesday's runoff election with song and dance was brought down in tea is a soon as the results won last he's seen he have been consulted by his running mate if you will take that who is an ex-wife or former liberian president charles taylor who's currently serving a fifty year sentence in the u.k. for war crimes committed in neighboring sierra leone. nice up tilt as it's a dream come true and a struggle they say that started we back in two thousand and two has finally succeeded because you certainly need. for years that you can't check was sick

but this time in a trip the two of them to it was such a chance we had a president talk here at the electoral commission had just announced the preliminary results we're all busy and it is our c.d.c. thank you mr president is sixty one point five percent for the c.d.c. and thirty eight point five percent for the unit body and now his opponent and current vice president joseph bloch i says he has had deep misgivings about the elections from the beginning he contested that is also the fuss around and supported a case taken to the supreme court by the county they took him out in the race we've gone into an election that we knew from stacked it had a lot of problems we were now side as far i would wear that on that day as trucks on the supreme court will follow we were. constrained to go into it but why do we want to see what we wanted we had all hoped for

a free fair transparent election i bow seriously. if that is where we're going to get the vice president and his unity party of not say whether they will challenge the results in court judge where is said to succeed ellen johnson sirleaf africa's first elected female president who led liberia for the past told fees she is credited with presiding over the longest period of uninterrupted peace in liberia since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. where played fostering all football clubs including s.c. milan chelsea and parties and german he's the only african football to have worn the feet for world player of the roadway as victory in the presidential race is attributed mainly to his support base with in the countries the youth who are calling for up to sixty percent of the population he grew up in want to be a slums and he success against all odds appeals to many in what is one of the world's

poorest countries. where anti-politics up to his retirement from football in two thousand and two and is currently a senator in liberia's pilot. would be the first time since one thousand four to four played at home but by freed us slaves in the mountain century will have transfer of power from one elected president to another. one groovy liberia south korea has confirmed it sees uninspected a hong kong registered ship which is suspected of carrying oil to north korea last month south korea's foreign ministry says it's an example of pyongyang using illegal networks to get around un security council sanctions blocking oil imports u.s. president all trumps accuse china of violating u.n. sanctions by not sending or supplies to piano and bryant has more from beijing. china will not be happy with this latest criticism from president trump coming in

such a public stinging manner but it's true to say that china has become used to dealing with the united states in a different way over the past year and has been accustomed to president trump's tweets at the ministry of foreign affairs regular press briefing friday in beijing there was no specific reference or reply to this latest attack but the spokes person was asked about the allegations concerning this hong kong registered vessel seized in south korea for allegedly dealing in illicit oil with north korea the ministry said that it has been investigated to the chinese customs have no record of this vessel visiting a chinese port since august although it has no records of it whether it visited other ports as far as it knows the chinese government does not know of any illicit activity that this vessel has been involved in repeating that the chinese government is still very much committed to enforcing the u.n.

sanctions whether china has known about any trades that might be taking place it's difficult to believe that any illegal activity or transfer of oil at sea could take place without china's knowledge and it would fit with the general narrative of china quietly supporting the north korean regime not necessarily out of any loyalty to an old ally but really as a pragmatic measure to shore up the regime as far as china is concerned it comparable live with a nuclear armed north korea not an ideal situation but for china the unacceptable situation is a collapsing regime that still has access to nuclear warheads that for china is the worst case scenario. apple has issued an online apology to customers following week seven go over intentionally slowing down old i phones the tech giant says the slowdown is to preserve the life of degrading batteries apple is now offering

a discount for replacement batteries a demand is a freelance technology journalist who says it's rare for apple to issue a public apology. we're it's unusual you don't normally get such a full. explanation from apple it's hard to get any press reaction out of them let alone something this detailed they clearly feel it can really hurt they're facing legal action in israel for on and eight cases already in the states. so in the short term it doesn't look good they. offer to cut the price for just the year of having i phone six is all later upgraded they say that we would never ever slow down the device deliberately or shorten the life rather of a device deliberately i think that's a little bit rich they do their absolute damnedest to stop third party

manufacturers repairing their products not very successfully but they try and very very quickly as they sort of well before they get really to end of life they make the prices of apple chanche to repair them so brevity that you would really want to upgrade so while they may not deliberately cripple devices they're not really exactly going the best efforts to extend their lives by any means greece has been struggling to deal with high unemployment and a weak economy for years but one group now thinks the new arrivals could play a crucial role in filling the workforce lowenstein reports from kill case in northern greece. language class for this group of refugees in northern greece jason from it live in syria has decided to seek asylum here they all need greek anyway because they'll be here for months or even years so slow is the bureaucracy. jason said he wants to study and maybe become

a hairdresser or fairness act but he's open to suggestions for work. across this country similar scenes are happening the rest of europe has decided the greece can cope more or less greece has got a big problem the economist on the whole more than forty percent youth unemployment and at the same time greece is having to deal with the brunt of the refugee influx and the european quota system for sharing them out has fallen apart completely so here's the big question if there's not enough jobs for greeks and what to expect refugees to do. in the absence of any other bright ideas some people here have decided to celebrate the new arrivals farmer dimitrius makes sun dried tomatoes and grows herds but he has a problem his village like hundreds of others has shrunk by half since the economic crisis as a young people moved away or empty houses here waiting for families to move in to breathe new life into the community he'd love nothing more than refugees from rural syria to help him out you think you could help each other yes if they're if you

just want to us to stay here we can do it many thinks together. so the idea came from a local organization working with refugees it argues that greece's economic crisis could be partly solved by the refugee influx not cheap labor but co-operative farms giving the new arrivals an economic stake and encourage them to stay refugees that used to live in areas on their original country or they have experience in farming we think that they can also assist the locals and the locals going to then and in developing the future for both in the camps it's becoming clear what happens when refugees can't access the jobs market a groups are warning of a huge spike in drug abuse by refugees stuck for years in a shipping container cannabis is sold alongside fruit on the roadside of the noses of the police of the camp. male refugees selling their bodies has become common as

well they are buying the drugs there are some people using headline also or. in their camp and they are just because they're players and just because you don't have any hope they think here these last life of. their life. they don't have any hope. many greeks here claim refugees get special treatment while they're left to suffer in poverty and their life in the camps hard looks generous there are apparently no greeks to work the fields in this agricultural land and to grow the economy it's only one idea but maybe they're starting to realise you can make a virtue out of a crisis barnsley al-jazeera in northern greece. artist in haiti are turning trash into politically infused arts and existence movement originated in the slums of the capital port au prince gives a creative flourish to everyday objects from their surroundings trees about things

. in one of the poorest areas of haiti's capital port au prince a place where people live surrounded by trash. and part of a resistance movement against social inequality using art something is not is love with a new society it is just fighting every time someone. and it's just these. many of his cultures are based in what he describes as voodoo because of the special place the religious practice has in haitian history and society. all asian people because you don't forget asian people fighting for get your freedom because the first one to me the message here is that art can be done with anything and with culture for example are done with all the vehicle parts bottles toys and even some of them with human remains you can see right here this calls for

example are from the earthquake back in two thousand and ten. an earthquake that killed more than three hundred thousand people the remains are from a mass grave in port-au prince. showing reality is crucial ojo says he's using old clothes sent to haiti by foreigners in his latest painting with my objective is to show haiti to the world through art is not only about voodoo but it is showing the talent and diversity that exists here and they send us old clothes and we send it back turned into art. this is a considered no go zone in the capital mariel were many foreigners do not want to go. but art has inspired some teenagers who say they would rather use brushes instead of weapons and it's you know i would love to become a good artist when i can paint something and do it perfectly. every year we charge

more is bring some of the pieces from the artist to his hotel so tourists can take a closer look at the movement where you live in garbage that's the economy they have created an economy where you and your neighborhood your people your friends your family they live in garbage and you have taken this garbage and you've turned it into a beauty you've turned it into art you've turned it into messages. the work done by resistance artists has been displayed in new c.m.s. around the world. but they say despite their success internationally life continues to be a struggle in the areas where they grew up. as prince haiti. let's get you a reminder of the top stories and i'll just there are israeli tanks and aircraft to fight on targets in gaza in response to rockets fired into israel israel says its

aerial defense system intercepted two rockets launched from the gaza strip it says a third rocket hits a building in southern israel causing damage but no casualties the unrest comes as hundreds of palestinians across the occupied west bank have taken part in protests for the fourth friday in a row they're angry at u.s. president omar chung's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. thousands of people in the pakistani city and royals haiti have also run it against the u.s. decision it's the largest protest pakistan has seen since a decision earlier this month the demonstration was organized by a charity group linked to the main suspect in the two thousand and eight movement by bombing a face. nine people have been killed after gunmen stormed a church in egypt five others were wounded in the attack in hell one province just south of the capital cairo one gunman carrying explosive vests was killed by police

egyptian state television is reporting a second attacker has been arrested. thank god to lock the door there were hundreds inside if didn't close the door on time it could have been worse than did track and roll down mask in china. south africa's top court has ruled the country's parliament failed to hold president jacob zuma to account and a scandal over a multi-million dollar upgrades to his private home last year the courts concluded that zuma violated the constitution when he benefited in appropriately from state funding for his candle home it's one of a series of presidential scandals that have tarnished the reputation of the ruling african national congress apple has issued an online apology to customers prompted by weeks of anger after the company admitted intentionally slowing down old i

phones the tech giant says the slowdown is to preserve the life of degrading batteries apple's now offering a discount for placements stay with us up next it's artscape with a look at the latest photography in africa. twenty first century africa a continent on the going great change and finally seizing control of its image but it's been a long box that he has a go photography was a colonial to god and after got about a trick pony. i'm not competent if an incompetent. in the post-colonial euphoria photographers.