on al-jazeera. the. goodness it's impossible. for a third. person or to. show documentaries from around the world about those who will give up their fight for justice. al-jazeera selects justice. all set for more evacuations the day after the second largest rebel group in syria's eastern go to surrender.

jane dutton this is al jazeera live from and also coming up. the french police officer who was held has a hero for trying to stop a supermarket attack and dies of his injuries. tens of millions of dollars worth of ivory why zimbabwe's former first lady is being investigated in connection with the whole. florida high school students take the lead in washington d.c. as they prepare for a series of anti gun rallies around the world. syrian rebels in the southern area of eastern go to surrendering they the second opposition group to stop fighting in recent days feel like a rocket man was in control of the mocha and been fighters in harasta so. ended on

thursday now that leaves duma as the last rebel stronghold outside the capital damascus rebels and their families have been given safe passage to as part of the deal the area is the last rebel hold province in syria but it's facing intense bombardment and dozens of people have been killed in recent days has the latest from beirut. up to seven thousand people are expected to be evacuated from that southern pockets in the now divided enclave of the towns of malka and jobar fighters along with their family members and civilians who are too scared to stay behind civilians who fear arrest because they were involved in opposition related activities so they will be bussed out of this southern pocket after. the rebel faction in control of this pocket agreed to surrender and evacuation deal is how some people call it but it really amounts to a surrender the united nations criticizes such deals saying this is nothing but

force this placement rebels really were under a lot of pressure the government offensive there was relentless bombardment for over a month civilians were trapped inside these pockets there was little aid little medical supplies so the second rebel faction to surrender on wednesday are not a sham handed over the town of harass the to the government the last rebel factions racial islam which is the main and biggest rebel faction in eastern it controls the northern town of duma what we understand is that negotiations stalled over recent days but they're back on the table right now and they're discussing the possibility of exchanging three thousand five hundred prisoners prisoners army soldiers as well as their family members even government supporters in the hands of racial islam in return the government is going to allow three thousand medical cases to be evacuated so jason is now back on the negotiating table with the russian military the french policeman who swapped places with a hostage during a supermarket seach has died the gunmen. hijacked

a car and shot at police officers before taking hostages in the southern town of tayeb on friday. was the officer who took the place of a hostage at the supermarket the twenty six year old attacker was later shot dead by police forensic teams have been searching his home at an apartment complex in nearby. four people were killed in the attacks natasha butler joins us now from. london how people are feeling there and attention. well the people in this community are really just trying to absorb the events of friday when that gunman shot dead four people taking hostages in a supermarket and then pledge his allegiance to i saw you know people here have seen attacks similar to this across france over the last few years but no one would have imagined that such a thing such violence could happen on their own doorstep and of course that sense

of sadness as well with the news that i want to this forty four year old police officer friend has now died of his injuries now he was the police officer who went into the supermarket very bravely swapped himself with a female hostage he left his mobile phone open inside the supermarket and that allowed police officers outside to follow events inside and he was one of the last people to leave but very sadly as we have heard he has died of his injuries the french president a short while ago put out in fact a statement paying homage to his bravery and the tash of the gunmen what do we know about him we are hearing reports that he was under surveillance for a while. right a one lakh dem is his name twenty five years old he was born in morocco but he grew up here in calcutta so on in rural france he lived on

a housing project and what we know is that over the over the years over the past few years i should say he did serve a couple of short prison sentences for drug dealing having a weapon petty offenses and then in twenty fourteen he was put under police surveillance now the paris prosecutor on friday evening said that he was suspected to have been radicalized and that is why police were watching him but a year ago it seems that police stopped watching him because according to the paris prosecutor he was no longer deemed to be a threat and therefore he simply slipped under the radar and that is something that many people in france will now be talking about and questioning why did they stop watching him they thought that he can carry out an attack but in the end there was such violence here on friday so they'll be wondering why this man was allowed to obtain weapons why he was allowed to slip under the radar and then carry out the sort of carnage that we witnessed here thank you for that natasha butler. china has

condemned the u.s. after one of its warship sailed near an artificial island that beijing built in the south china sea the u.s. says the naval destroyer was carrying out a freedom of navigation operation it says it came within twelve nautical miles of a reef in the disputed spratly islands the u.s. accuses china of building military facilities to restrict shipping the events but the chinese government claims it has sovereignty over the islands. by repeatedly sending military ships into these areas without authorization the u.s. has seriously harmed chinese sovereignty and security violated basic rules of international relations and endangered regional peace and stability what the u.s. is doing will damage the atmosphere of military to military relations and cause close encounters by and naval forces of the two countries which could easily trigger miscalculations already been accidents this is a serious political and military provocation the chinese military is firmly opposed

to it north korea has agreed to hold high level talks with south korea on thursday it will happen at the border village of panama and john earlier this month north korea's leader kim jong un met senior south korean officials for the first time since he came to power in twenty eleven tension between pyongyang and so has eased in recent months both sides marched under a unified flag during last month's went to lympics in south korea. zimbabwe's former first lady has been accused of being involved in an ivory smuggling ring grace mccartney's part in it is being investigated following a journalist's three month undercover mission like a web reports recently granted this group of us has never been adrian stern went undercover as an ivory buyer in zimbabwe he says he received more death threats and he can count he's a wildlife photographer who began investigating the illegal ivory trade in december speaking exclusively to our zero he says young covered

a poaching and smuggling syndicate which he believes is led by the former first lady grace mugabe ivory which is being sourced either from the national parks vote being the food or from live elephants being killed by poaching syndicates the syndicate within sale to the squad till she would then be able to pack that it's into out through the airport anything through that airport that was the property of the first lady was not searched or scanned in any way stern got the documents undercover videos and testimonies which she showed to al jazeera as investigative unit he says they expose the syndicate and the former first lady's involvement this is the vote from where he says tens of millions of dollars of ivory and rhino horn was stolen when he presented evidence to zimbabwe's wildlife authority they allowed him in to allege smugglers have since been charged with possession of ivory and investigations been opened

a special advisor to president emerson. confirmed to our dizzier in a written statement that the government of zimbabwe will seek answers from all parties implicated in this matter including former first lady grace mugabe about their knowledge of the illegal export of prohibited items from our country. al-jazeera contacted grace mcgarvie staff lawyers and relatives for comment she didn't respond during the presidency of a husband robert she was a controversial figure earning the nickname grace for her extravagant shopping sprees hopes of succeeding him were dashed when the army forced him from power in november and one cargo took over three weeks later this shipment of two hundred kilograms of ivory was seized harare's airport stern says his investigations on covered evidence which appears to connect it to grace mcgarvie and the smuggling syndicate the new government keen to clean up its international image after decades

of mugabe rule since the change of power the poaching in the smuggling investigation is the first major challenge to the gobby family dynasty malcolm where al-jazeera johannesburg south africa at least half a million people are expected at an anti gun rally in the u.s. capital in the coming hours the march for our lives demonstration is being led by students from the florida school where seventeen people were shot dead last month. an interfaith service was held in washington d.c. ahead of the rally the service at the national cathedral was attended by family members of the florida high school victims and others affected by gun violence and in australia hundreds of protesters have gathered in sydney to stand in solidarity with those demanding gun control in the u.s. australia changed its gun laws after a mass shooting in one thousand nine hundred six that killed thirty five people it's not had a similar attack since then. there is

a new president is vying to fight corruption at any cost martin visit karo sworn in on friday after pedro public kocinski resigned in the face of threats of impeachment now this caravan is to restore the public's trust in the government money on a sanchez reports from lima. mckinney scatter was greeted with a standing ovation it's the same congress that pushed him out of his post as transport minister less than one year ago. the fifty five year old former governor of a tiny southern state took the oath amidst the deepest political crisis in decades in the end the a nation. will it's time to say enough is enough what has happened most marked the time to put an end to the politics of hate and confrontation that hasn't done anything else but damage the country. was the other bridge corruption scandal led to the resignation of. former president. and congress

approved the extradition of another former president. from the u.s. at the end of the night on friday the new president said he would be tough on corruption. the grave situation that we've been true merits the clarification of responsibilities and that any type of regularity committed should be taken to justice. many peruvian say they're ready to move on just almost down south with pam but we're tired of being so underdeveloped of so much corruption we want martin to be our hope that he really improves our country's development education health and agriculture should be the main issues to succeed analysts say the big question for carol now is where will he get the political strength to govern with this congress or the mahdi a popular fourth party hold the majority only gets you a majority that former president. accused of impeding his ability to govern his party peruvians for change now support but with very few votes. and the

challenges for change are many from reigniting the economy to fighting crime and pushing forward rebuilding the country left devastated by the phenomenon last year . however many say the scotus greatest challenge will be to get the people's trust and opinion poll says that in early march eighty one percent of peruvians didn't even know his name but innocent just just. still ahead on. why donald trump's new man in charge of national security is raising questions about u.s. foreign policy. and the u.n. reports an increase in attacks on palestinians by israeli settlers in the occupied west bank. by the skyline of invasion harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera.

however still got some rather lively showers across parts of europe down into the mediterranean big storm still a rolling away with this system here just around italy on the other side of the attic down into the balkans and greece is in some rather still be weather recently so much kwacha into central and eastern parts high pressure dominating the weather here and then i'll move out of the way you can see this neary yeah the fronts bringing some rather stormy weather into that western side of here so deep area of low pressure brings a very wet and windy weather into france and all the parts of spain and portugal looking a little murky too across a good part of the british isles but you can see it's on the mild side that the cells just there for london thirteen degrees there in paris come further south still we waltzes choppy seas there into that western side of the bed it's regular that will make its way a little further east which is rico through sunday fourteen celsius for paris at

this stage eleven twelve degrees there for london started pretty summer time of course least attempt is going in the right directions not looking too clever down towards central parts of the med still some very heavy showers into southern areas of italy into greece and some of that wet weather of course will happen to the shoals of northern africa we got some wet weather then for northern areas of algiers and hot and current. the weather sponsored by cat time release. when the winning the wind if the people hinges on the mass media state p.r. machine it's going to overdrive. just he's been feeling saying. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what can be said and what kind of. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for access polling the media opinion they're listening brightest based time on al-jazeera.

we're going to take a look at the top stories this hour syrian rebels in the southern part of eastern go to art surrendering thousands of fighters and civilians are being taken to it leaves as the last rebel stronghold outside the capital damascus. the french policeman is swap places with a hostage during a supermarket siege has died. is the fourth person killed in the attack the gunmen hijacked a car and shot at police officers before taking hostages in the southern town of tab china's condemned the u.s. after its was near an artificial island built by the chinese in the south china sea

the u.s. accuses beijing of constructing military facilities to restrict shipping movements around the disputed spratly islands china says it has sovereignty over the islands . chance appointments of hardline john bolton as national security adviser has raised questions internationally bolton previously pushed for preemptive bombing of iran and north korea but he's not the only recent addition to the u.s. president's team with a more aggressive tone our white house correspondent has the story. recent appointments made by u.s. president donald trump to his cabinet have left many in washington nervous i'm really at a point where we're getting very close to having the cabinet others say that i was on his most recent appointment john bolton as national security adviser underscores that concern. the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations was the chief architect of president george w.

bush's justification for the two thousand and three us invasion of iraq and appears ready to construct the cases for other wars the national security advisor among whatever other functions he or she might have has two critical roles number one making sure that the president has the four range of options in published editorials bolton has called for the bombing of iran and north korea last month in the wall street journal newspaper he called north korea an imminent threat arguing it is perfectly legitimate for the united states to respond to the current necessity posed by north korea's nuclear weapons by striking first but it's not just bolton surrounding trump with aggressive ideas trump's new pick to lead the u.s. state department is equally hawkish mike pompei o as cia director favors confrontation with iran tearing up the iran agreement and supported trump's moving of the u.s.

embassy to jerusalem will not a cabinet appointment in pompei as place trump has left gina housefull to take over the cia during her intelligence career she once ran a cia black site in thailand. with a brutal practice of waterboarding took place trump's defense secretary james mattis remains in his cabinet and although he's considered by some to be the moderate voice mattis also holds hawkish views on iran even the recent a dish. larry kudlow is white house economic advisor has the u.s. position for an aggressive trade war to counter chinese trade practices but one analyst argues the changing face of the trumpet ministration may actually help the one thing we do know about koreans and russians and iranians is that they do respect strength and perhaps the show of strength will be enough to call them tensions rather. already this week donald trump has picked

a fight with china and now seeing tariffs and dozens of imports into the united states but fears of a trade war are small compared to the big concerns about the fight donald trump now appears to be positioning with north korea and iran can really help at al-jazeera at the white house democratic republic of congo's refusing to go to its own donor conference in search of switzerland which aims to raise nearly two billion dollars prime minister jos emma killa says they won't be they won't be there next month because the un's overacting about the issue manage tarion needs president joseph kabui that bolt on a visit to refugee camp in northern it to the province this week reports. she tried to run but marie last child fell out trying to escape her attack is. one of the london militia cut me with a machete my brother helped me run away but i was also hit by two arrows on my side four of my kids were killed that same day lost children

a family are among the tens of thousands of congolese who have been injured and displaced during four months of clashes the violence a summit for decades fuelled by disputes over land sharing between haman herders and ninety farmers and a tory province villages have streamed into domestic displacement camps and over the border into uganda. we've been living in a very difficult situation we don't know what the president thinks about resolving the situation so we can go back home but. president joseph kabila promised to visit the displaced this week but he has battles of his own many congolese a furious with him for clinging to power after his term expired two years ago and for refusing to call elections critics argue he's doing little to prevent the ethnic violence. problem we had problems between the two communities even before two thousand and three we controlled it's because the government was absent today

all the legal and security forces are present there how can we justify then these level of atrocities this is why we're saying it was done willingly by the authorities. a leader with one of the tribes says both sides are being manipulated . we have form a militia members without jobs in our community and it's easy to manipulate them the enemy of our province is profiting from the unemployed young boys in order to destabilize it to every province where the un is warning of a worsening situation thirty million people need humanitarian assistance four point six million children are acutely malnourished and there's an epidemic of cholera and secure violence if nic troubles in a terry province just one crisis within many for a country wrecked by conflicts shallot ballasts al-jazeera. nations has recorded an increase in attacks by israeli settlers against palestinians in the occupied west bank since the start of the year i don't know whom it has been speaking to there's

protecting themselves is a daily struggle taking the sheep to pastor has become a daily gamble for. his village i know bruce is surrounded by several illegal jewish settlements up there on the hills and more and more often settlers come down . in one week he came twice the first time i was alone and there were eighteen of them i told one of them that i had called the police but they didn't go away my main worry was the sheep then six more attacked me and the others headed towards the sheep still some i couldn't do anything alone zaf it was wounded in the head and says he lost a third of his life stock this video shot by the organization rabbis for human rights shows the second attack a few days later about twenty settlers many must seem throwing stones at palestinians with israeli soldiers standing by. the u.n.

says the weekly average of settler attacks has increased by fifty percent since the beginning of the year these are not isolated incidents such as attacks happen a bit all over the occupied west bank and there's very little people can do simply because israel is in charge of the security in about eighty percent of the palestinian territory and palestinian security forces are not allowed to operate in those areas the village of zeph it is in the so-called area b. which means that palestinians have only civilian control security matters are indeed a hands of the occupying forces bible school who are the among the army itself attacks palestinians with tear gas and rubber bullets even when it's the settlers who are provoking and the palestinians are trying to protect the villages no settler is ever detained only palestinians legal proceedings rarely reach a conclusion only eight percent of all complaints filed have led to an indictment

less than half to a conviction it's wide families say they never filed a complaint at a time when they come under attack by the neighbors settlers on a nearly weekly basis they have reinforced all their windows with metal netting and bars and the string to quickly pulled the shutters in case of trouble it's been a long time since we had them wide open we don't feel like we're in a prison that we will stand a house harm this israeli army told them that it takes such incidents very seriously and will operate to bring the suspects to justice but in his latest report israel state controller criticised israeli police in the west bank for failing to investigate crimes against palestinians which violate international law but at that hamid al-jazeera in the occupied west bank. as one who invent the

entire world can play a part in on saturday. some of the most famous landmarks will be plunged into darkness turning the lights off for an hour to try to help the environment but it's not just buildings people at home are being encouraged to switch off light to experience kerry made his campaign manager for earth australia of the world wildlife fund she joins us from sydney very good to see you what's this all about. so earth hour in australia it's really the it started here in sydney and it's just the world's largest grassroots movement for the environment started by douglas turly and twenty zero seven just one city since then it's grown just huge to over one hundred eighty countries and territories last year in it's really an event where everybody can take part you know everyone could just switch off businesses landmarks schools buildings and this way everyone can stay in and be counted and do

your part for the planet why do you think there's so much enthusiasm for it is because it is as simple as switching off your lights and feeling as though you part of something bigger and what is that thing that everyone is part of i mean what's the ultimate aim here. well definitely jane i think sitting at a light is one simple thing you can durie but then you know you go on to do a lot more because all as we all nerds there's a lot more that we need to do for our planet earth our aims to raise awareness of biodiversity loss and how climate change a celebrates that and i think that resonates with a lot of people around the globe and it's just grown bigger and bigger every year and so people want to stand up and be counted and be part of this movement because we all realise and we all understand that when everyone does this together every little bit counts and does this get people thinking i mean are you seeing a shift in the way people are looking at the environment and their own responsibility. well definitely jane i do think that's the

case because earth hour happens every year now and people just use that moment to pause and reflect you know what can i do in my everyday life you know what more the suspended need what more can i do and what work in my family to protect the planet and we start thinking about the everyday actions our individual actions and as we know that somewhere you know from little things big things where our thanks for talking to us we look forward to seeing absolutely nothing for an hour when you will switch your lights off carry major thanks. rescuers in western australia are scouring beaches by air and sea to try to ensure five pilot whales don't get stranded again the whales were part of a part of more than one hundred fifty which beached themselves at hamelin bay on friday as well that initially survived had to be euthanized after it stranded itself again bulldozers are being used to remove carcasses from the beach.

and the stories can be found by going on to our website constantly updated twenty four hours a day our correspondents contribute to that too as well do interesting editorials zero dot com is where you can find. this is these are the top stories syrian rebels in the southern part of eastern go to surrendering thousands of. fighters and civilians are being taken to this leaves duma as the last rebel stronghold outside the capital damascus sent from beirut. up to seven thousand people are expected to be evacuated from that

southern pockets in the now divided enclave of the towns of malka and jobar fighters along with their family members and civilians who are too scared to stay behind civilians who fear arrest because they were involved in opposition related activities so they will be bussed out of this southern pocket after. the rebel faction in control of this pocket agreed to surrender the french policeman who swap places with a hostage during a supermarket seach has died tom is the fourth person killed in the attack the gunman hijacked a car and shot at police officers before taking hostages in the southern town of crab china's condemned the u.s. after its warship sailed artificial island built beijing in the south china sea u.s. accuses china of constructing military facilities to restrict shipping movements

around the disputed spratly islands the chinese government says it has sovereignty over the islands. north korea has agreed to hold high level talks with south korea on thursday the meeting will happen at the border village of. earlier this month the north korean leader kim jong un met senior south korean officials for the first time since he came to power in twenty eleven. at least half a million people expected an end to gun rally in the u.s. capital so today's march for our lives demonstration is one of about eight hundred around the world it's been led by students from the florida high school where seventeen people were shot dead last month. an interfaith service was held in washington d.c. ahead of the rally this service at the national cathedral was attended by family members of the florida high school victims and others affected by gun violence. rescuers in western australia are scouring beaches by air and sea to try to ensure five pilot whales don't get stranded again the whales were part of

a pod of more than one hundred fifty which beached themselves at hamlin bay on friday those are the headlines the news will continue here on al-jazeera but first let's turn it over to the listening post. as the u.s. has withdrawn from the transpacific partnership deal others has committed to it for small countries countries with small populations such as yours is this actually a better deal without united states signatories of the world's newest trade block al-jazeera. that data breach involving millions of you write. down your mark on it. it's appropriate. to try.