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this is al jazeera. i'm adrian finnegan this is that he was live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes syrian government forces tighten their grip around the country's last few rebel held areas. tributes in france paves the policeman who died trying to stop the supermarket attack. hundreds of thousands of people expected to join marches in the united states and around the world to protest against gun violence. and tens of millions of dollars worth of ivory why zimbabwe's former first lady is being investigated in connection with a hole. in sport defending a formula one world champion lewis hamilton is in pole position for the australian grand prix but has missed sadie's teammate valtteri bottas hitting trouble ahead of the season opening rice in melbourne.

syrian government forces are closing in on the few remaining rebel held areas of the country in eastern close to the capital damascus rebels are surrendering in a southern part of the own plave there the second rebel group to stop fighting in recent days feel like iraq when we're in control of the bean fighters in surrendered on thursday and that paves duma which is just northeast of the capital is the last rebel stronghold in the area well to deal with rebels around also involves safe passage for other fighters and their families in the north of the country those people headed to the last main rebel stronghold in syria's north us despite the fact that intense bombardment there has killed dozens of people over the past few days more now from al-jazeera who's in beirut in neighboring lebanon.

three rebel factions were controlling the eastern enclave two of them have already surrendered the third official islam is close to surrendering this is what we understand they are engaged in negotiations with the russian military and they are close to a deal fishel islam in the russian military have been talking for the past a few days but the talks collapsed over a main sticking point and that is. didn't want to be evacuated to that is the province in the northwest of the country under the control of the opposition does not have good relations with the rebel groups which dominate province so what we are understanding is that they may be sent to the eastern region there is a rebel pocket there close to lebanon's border so a deal is close with a third rebel faction. man another rebel faction which has a surrendered the southern pocket preparations are now under way for the evacuation

of up to seven thousand people fighters their family members as well as opposition activists they are getting ready to be bussed to. that opposition controlled province in the northwest the on wednesday i started sham handed over the town of harasta so the pro-government alliance close to recapturing the entire eastern huta enclave but these people who who are choosing to leave and choosing to be evacuated they're not going to a safe place at lib is not a safe place that has been coming under attack from the skies for years now and it's not just that it's overcrowded more than a million internally displaced syrians who are there so most of these people are going to the unknown and many of them will not find any job so it is a very very difficult situation for those people but the pro-government alliance already declaring victory french media reporting that a second person has been taken into custody in connection with friday's supermarket shooting attack in southern france meanwhile picked people in. city of caucus song

have been paying their respects to the police officer who died after offering himself up to the gunman in exchange for another hostage forty four year old a no but tom was one of four people killed in the attack when the gunman took hostages in the town of crab. i don't need a new me i haven't slept all night since what happened yesterday he was marvelous he was a hero obviously the military the police officer i would like to pay my respects to be. your love for me i laid flowers to support the family. i was there as natasha butler reports now from caucus on. 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 this 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 a 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 to madeleine out 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 at least half a million people are expected at an anti gun rally in the u.s. capitol in the next few hours the march for lives demonstration is being led by students from the florida high school where seventeen people were shot dead last month. an interfaith service was held

at the national cathedral in washington d.c. ahead of the rally it was attended by relatives of the florida victims and by others affected by gun violence let's go live now to washington d.c. al-jazeera as diana estabrook is there for us so that what are we expecting to happen today. will it rain right now we're seeing many of these tens of thousands of marchers who were going to be here today assembling if you can see behind me on pennsylvania avenue between the capitol and the white house so what we're going to be seeing today is speeches many speeches from teenagers from around. the country many of whom were students at marjorie stoneman douglas high school where that shooting took place in park one word about a month ago they'll be speaking up but we're also going to be hearing from teens who live in other communities where there has also been gun violence in fact a student here right from right here in washington d.c.

whose brother was killed a year ago we're also going to be hearing from entertainers who speak to this generation. common will be performing ariana grande day demi lovato miley cyrus so the event the main march is going to be kicking off in about three hours around noon washington d.c. time and this is really an amazing gathering and really think about it this really began the momentum for this began about of months ago and was started by students so they've really done a phenomenal job organizing this and bringing all of these people together in a very short time that there is this protest of the protests we're likely to see today around the world and the protests that they've been since the florida school shooting and they're going to have an impact a tool. well that remains to be seen but it seems like it is already

shortly after the shooting last month in florida of the protests in the outrage from the students prompted that state that governor to sign legislation that increase the minimum age that you could buy a gun in florida and put some other gun control measures in place it may be coincidental but yesterday president trump tweeted that the department of justice is going to be banning bumps dogs on automatic weapons that's a device that can turn an automatic weapon into a machine gun and that was the the device that was used in the mass occurring in las vegas last fall so maybe the big no no maybe not a coincidence at all but that he tweeted that yesterday before this protest there was also legislation currently winding its way through congress looking at maybe tireder. more enhanced background checks a better be eye background checks which is. what these kids are looking for but

they want a little bit more of that now they want to see a ban on assault rifles and once all this while rivals they also want to see the minimum age that you could buy a gun increase from eighteen to twenty one like we saw in florida so they're going to have to keep pressure on congress to see those kind of measures passed on they're going up against a very very successful and forceful gun lobby the national rifle association here in the u.s. but student protests and in the past have been effective the student protests that took place back in the one nine hundred sixty s. really against the vietnam war really turned the tide of public opinion against that war and so you know these kids say that they're a good message for the long haul they're hidden to women and they want to see change diane estabrook bravely battling the couple times to beat out the coach requests for cold place fix your. is that what i was many thanks dave that.

i guess mounting in the u.s. city of a sacrament of sacramento over the police shooting of an unarmed black man twenty two year old stuff on the clock was shot at least twenty times when offices cornered him in his backyard they say they thought he had a gun i'll just go as well brunell reports now from sacramento. yes there is no demonstrators marched through the streets of sacramento california capital city for a second day friday they were protesting the police shooting of an unarmed twenty two year old black man last week he was judge he was sentenced and he was executed the protesters blocked traffic and shouted slogans and dented a car that tried to pass through one group attempted to block a major highway but were prevented from doing so by california highway patrol officers in riot gear stephan clark died in his own backyard killed by a hail of police bullets i don't care what color he was you know no person on this

earth to be sat down like that. because both of you. think of this newly released video from a police helicopter shows clark running and climbing over a fence in a neighborhood where police were responding to a report of a man breaking into cars. police wearing body cameras cornered clark and within seconds the encounter turned deadly. the policeman did not identify themselves before firing twenty times they said they believed clarke was holding a gun but he was only carrying a cellphone shortly after the shooting another officer tells the policeman to silence the audio of their body cameras. clark's family and friends want to know what was said after the sound went off you're muting something you don't want the public to hear what you're saying and that means that if you don't want

the truth to come out all of it is a lie police are promising a full investigation where asking for the community to be patient clark death at the hands of sacramento police is the latest in a long series of controversy over police killings of on armed black men the deaths gave rise to the black lives matter movement and have heightened racial tensions in communities all across the united states robert oulds al jazeera sacramento california this is the knees out from al-jazeera still to come on the program stuck in makeshift homes the plight of masses of people who fled violence in the democratic republic of congo. historic hysteria we'll look at the changing face of it gyptian politics ahead of the third presidential election since the revolution. and in sports world cup holders germany remind us why they'll be so difficult to beat this.

zimbabwe's former first lady grace but gabi is being investigated of accusations that she was involved in an ivory smuggling operation that follows a three month probe by. undercover job list welcome web report's syndicated excluded us when 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 which is being sourced either from the national parks vote bank the food or from live elephants being killed by poaching syndicates the syndicate within sale to grace mccartney's clientele she would then be able to pack that and

send it 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 on the cover videos and testimonies which she showed to al-jazeera 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 there how they mean 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 he 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 mango took over three weeks later this shipment of two hundred kilograms of ivory was seized harare's airport stern says investigations on covered evidence which appears to connect it to grace mcgarvie in 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 the challenge to the mugabe family dynasty malcolm web al-jazeera johannesburg south africa let's hear now from will travers a conservationist and president of the born free foundation a wild animal welfare organization in southern africa he joins us via skype from

docking in sorry in the u.k. we'll good to have you with us it seems quite frankly astonishing that someone as high up as grace mugabe could be involved in something like an ivory smuggling ring what do you make of these allegations. well obviously one doesn't want to prejudice the outcome of the investigation which is ongoing but it wouldn't surprise me at all and it wouldn't be the first time that relatives of the most senior person in a country have been implicated in this and the wife of the first president of kenya was also involved in ivory trade illegal ivory trade and it's a pretty dangerous occupation to challenge this we've had a friend of mine murdered in kenya just recently another friend of mine murdered in tanzania last year and the policeman in zimbabwe this in bombay and policeman who was investigating these goings on and was over in mozambique as died under

mysterious circumstances so i have to say you know you have to be a very brave person to take this on and i take my hat off to adrian stern has brought this all to our attention throughout jazeera it's important news and if the president is going to be good for his word which i believe he is i believe he is well intentioned and determined to root out corruption then he has to do that without fear or favor he has to take on even the former president's wife given the danger that you're talking about basically the crimes. go on unchecked if particularly high ranking officials are involved it. yes i mean that would appear to be the case i mean of the the cases that i've mentioned to you of people being murdered i think it's not unreasonable to assume that they were getting very close to some very high profile targets people involved in the illegal trade in wildlife

products whether that's ivory or rhino horn and then of course you have to look at the you know the role that the diplomatic service can play or plays and of course diplomatic bags are a notoriously not inspected and stuff does leave the country and have been implications of north korean diplomats and others involved in the smuggling of wildlife products out of africa so if you've got this network of high ranking officials involved in this illegal trade what what are the implications of that for the for the work of people such as yourself conservationists. well it it it's it makes life more risky than it should be but you know it really does start at the top if the person in charge of the president takes this on and makes it a symbol of his willingness to tackle corruption wherever corruption is found and he's willing to put people away for a long time if they're found to be guilty and the reaction of those who thought

that they can exploit for example wildlife trade with impunity will be pretty dramatic because nobody wants to spend ten fifteen or twenty years in a jail in zimbabwe or anywhere else for that matter so if the if the president of zimbabwe takes this on and makes it a cause that he sticks to i think he will gain the respect of the international community it will encourage and build confidence in those of us who work for wildlife conservation have done for over thirty years and it will put the fear of god into those who try to use their position of power to abuse wildlife and and and other resources to talk to well many thanks indeed for travis the president of the born free foundation. government leaders from the democratic republic of congo are refusing to attend a conference in switzerland that's meant to raise money for their country prime minister. says that they won't be there next month because the u.n.

is overreacting about the humanitarian needs on the ground president joseph kabila still log on to a refugee camp in more than a tory province that he promised to visit. us reporters. she tried to run but marie last child fell and 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 law children a family among the tens of thousands of congolese who have been injured and displaced during clashes between rival tribes the haman's and lenders who are based in atory province is the latest flare up in land disputes that date back to the early one nine hundred seventy s. villages have streamed into domestic displacement camps and over the border into uganda. we've been living in a very difficult situation and 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 cool elections critics argue he's doing little to prevent the ethnic violence. yeah. 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 member. 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 is an epidemic of cholera and secure violence if it troubles in a terry province just one crisis within many for a country wrecked by conflicts chalo ballasts al-jazeera a car bomb has exploded in the egyptian city of alexandria killing a policeman and injuring four other people the interior ministry says that the device was aimed at the city's security chief the explosion comes just two days before the country's presidential election will that will be the third presidential vote since egypt's revolution seven years ago and to syria's come all santa maria looks now at the political ups and downs in egypt since the fall of hosni mubarak. but remember this it's hard to forget really an eighteen day revolution it's hot in

cairo's tahrir square which brought down a president so firmly entrenched in egyptian life i call them the pharaoh but equally a revolution can be something which goes full circle and it's hard to argue that's not happened in egypt seven years later the play is largely the same just with a different cast. after president hosni mubarak stepped down in two thousand and eleven the army took power but for months the protests continued egyptians were not happy with the slow pace of reform they eventually got a national unity government by the end of that year followed by a presidential election in june of two thousand and twelve which was won by this man the muslim brotherhoods mohamed morsy think about how big a deal this was the leader of a party with islamic principles which had been banned in the mubarak years was now the democratically elected president of egypt but perhaps not surprisingly this didn't sit well with the old guard nor did it help that morsi dismissed the defense minister the chief of staff and trying to limit the influence of both military and

judiciary by only twenty thirteen the protesters were back this time against morsi and in july the president was overthrown by the egyptian army and it is at this point that we are starting to see the beginnings of that full circle which we talked about the muslim brotherhood it was declared a terrorist group political parties based on religion were banned so again that only really affected the muslim brotherhood and when a presidential election was held again in may of twenty fourteen egyptians elected a former army chief bill fattah el-sisi as their leader with nearly ninety seven percent of the vote though it does have to be said there was a low turnout and a massive crackdown on campaigning and the media meanwhile morsi was sentenced to twenty years in prison over the arrest and torture of protesters when he was in office as well as being condemned to death a ripper a count of muslim brotherhood prisoners that sentence was overturned in november of twenty sixteen in a retrial ordered but morsy does remain in jail to this day and all the while sisi

has strengthened his grip on power journalists have been arrested including our own let's not forget while potential political opponents have been i have a banned from running or arrested themselves sisi will run for a second term in this presidential election and right now there is very little to suggest he won't win. as the war in yemen and as its force here that all south divides becoming more evident hundreds of northerners been forced from their homes and businesses in the southern city of aden rights groups are calling for an end to the mistreatment and discrimination sullivan jahvid reports. jimmie's have been trying to free central and northern provinces where the saudi led coalition is battling with the rebels but many have been denied entry into southern cities including aden and hundreds of northerners already in the south have been forcibly displaced in testimonies provided to al jazeera some business owners say they were told they'll be killed unless they pack up and leave. behind

a shop but they stormed our places and kicked us out they even took my medication for money. she forgot i was working and i didn't at a restaurant i was kicked out i was harassed in the i urged them to fear god they confiscated all stalls which belong to northerners this is my mother they took all our money and human rights watch says yemenis with more than backgrounds face difficulties and aid in the checkpoints sometimes held for hours questioned occasionally turned back or called there are good three names. i was trying to travel to saudi arabia but was turned back i had visas papers everything but they refused to allow me to access the airport then let me go we have guy took us off the bus and kept a standing we ask an officer to have some mercy we're old men but after he saw the id he said you're an old man and i don't want to put you in jail but i don't want you in aden either. when we showed them i.d.'s they said these won't be enough they took us to prison and left us without food or drink and care they said they would

hold us for a little while and then they would deport us. forty years ago the elected government called in the saudi airlines to help defeat to the rebels but fighting continues in the north and no single party seems to be in control of the south. the south of the old country until unification in one thousand nine hundred. and now many there are again openly calling for secession divisions have also appeared in the saudi led coalition despite repeated denials in january secessionist backed by the united arab emirates took over most of aden they took it from the forces of the internationally recognized government which is ironically supported by u.s. coalition allies saudi arabia and if the old cracks reappear in war torn yemen its people find themselves stranded between competing interests which haven't been job there well that report is part of our special series on yemen next we'll take a look at who is backing the newest groups there fueling lawlessness in the poorest country in the middle east which is already torn as you heard between who is in the

north of the u.n. backed government in the south you can see that report throughout the day on sunday here on al-jazeera china has condemned the u.s. after one of its warships 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 operations 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 movements spot the chinese government says that it has sovereignty over the islands. you know law 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 after some very unsparing like weather in parts of europe where we soon be able to put away our coats hats and scarves here to tell us al-jazeera meteorologist everton fox yeah well it is warming our page and i'm pleased to say nasa should do it is spring time of course and the clocks change tonight which is always a nice thing to see with the spring with the warmth we get some lively storms if you take a look at the satellite picture here this lovely little swirl of cloud that we have just off the bay of biscay the swiss roll it's a nasty system this one that's piling its way through into that southwestern corner of france pushing down across northern parts of spain bringing some rather lively storms in the process so some very strong winds damaging winds some very squally showers as well some real stiff showers roll in the way through and that will continue to do that as we go on through the next twenty four hours or so we've also

seen some other live the storms the other side of here we come across into book rest snowstorms here we have a southerly wind course we've been talking about those recently and as that warm mild air was pushed up into the cold her dumped a fair amount of snow you can book arrest we have struggled to get on with everyday life here we should the things quieted down as we go on through the next couple of days or so two degrees celsius there in bucharest next area very wet weather there there's a storm that's pushing down across the western med into central parts and all knows its way further northwards as we go through sunday and on into monday so it's going to ease further north as little bit of snow for a time as it pushes up towards the other the north and notice some warmer air adrian getting right back into the u.k. . everybody thanks still to come here on the news hour why the prospect of an end to the nuclear deal doesn't seem to bother some iranian businesses. rallying for justice for decades after argentina's dirty war

a battle that's pitting people against their parents'. added sport of h. hits his worst run of form of all the decades. what makes this moment this era we're living for so unique all this is really an attack on truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion even of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important level right to publish it on the cheap to be offensive or provoke it's all about the nice people do setting the stage for serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. with bureaus spanning six continents across the globe.

to. al-jazeera is correspondents live in green the stories they tell. me are fluent in world news. good to have you with us a dream to get here in doha but the news hour from al-jazeera our top stories this hour syrian rebels. in the southern part of eastern goods surrendering thousands of faile are called up on faces and civilians being taken to. at least duma as the last rebel stronghold outside the capital damascus. tributes have been paid to the

policeman who died after offering himself up to the gunman in exchange for another hostage in france on a bell from was one of four people killed in friday's attack on a gunman to costs just a supermarket in the town of the. democratic republic of congo is refusing to go to its own donor conference in switzerland next month which aims to raise nearly two billion dollars the prime minister says the un's overreacting about that humanitarian needs. us president donald trump's new national security adviser is a strong critic of the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal john bolton the spoken out against the agreement at once even supported the idea of bombing iran but as it is there is a must read the reports now from teff ron many small businesses that feel that the deal hasn't helped them much anyway. to develop a strong economy support small business that's one of the trickle down effect

iran's leaders were hoping for when they signed the nuclear deal with world leaders three years ago but for most businesses operating at this level the kinds of marketplaces that represent the majority of iranians and the benefits of the nuclear deal have passed them by. the expectations of the private sector have not been fulfilled. he has been working with the government and private companies to attract foreign investors to iran when the deal was signed iranian leader said they had reconnected the country to the global marketplace the reality is different. the jam being the political side of the nuclear deal carried more weight than the economic one i'm not a political expert but in economic terms especially in the private sector we have not witnessed any tangible achievements. trade fairs like these are a common sight all year round producers from every province in the country travel

to teheran trying to drum up more business here the nuclear deal has been good for iran's public image but not much else. to everybody and others the americans didn't let his realize our expectations in the shadow of fear hanging over the europeans from the u.s. has affected the implementation of the nuclear deal regarding the taking of office by trump it has made things worse a crazy man is at the top. others say they're worried that if the deal falls apart or if there's new sanctions imposed the few gains that have been made will be lost . a raw materials most to come from europe we don't have the same industrial steel in iran it's all imported from europe after the nuclear deal importing has been easier and there are more sanctions industry will collapse. addle most no cost to himself donald trump is costing iran dearly by scaring away potential investors

well we're going to see what happens iran deal is coming up. it's. probably another month or so and you're going to see what i do try to run has not been treating in that part of the world or the world itself appropriately lot of bad things are happening in iran the deal is coming up in one month and you will see what happens in vegas but ominous threats like this have created uncertainty about iran's future and that is bad for business. when the nuclear deal was being negotiated iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei warned his government that the deal may not work because he said the other side might stab iran in the back but he gave his blessings in hopes that a negotiated solution would bring an end to decades of confrontation with the west now supporters of the deal are worried the company's prediction may soon come true xin boss ravi holds his ear at dinner on north korea has agreed to hold high level talks with south korea on thursday it will take place at the border village of john

earlier this month north korea's leader kim jong un met with senior south korean officials for the first time since coming to power in two thousand and eleven tensions over pyongyang's aggressive nuclear program of eased in recent months both sides marched on the a unified flag during february as winter olympics the united nations has recorded an increase in attacks by israeli settlers against palestinians in the occupied west bank since the start of the year the perpetrators are rarely course to serious heart of the honeyed has been speaking to palestinians who say they face a daily struggle to protect themselves. taking the sheep to pastor has become a daily gamble for safra young 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. zuffa i was wounded in the head and says he lost a third of his life stuck 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 un says the weekly average of settler attacks has increased by fifty percent since the beginning of the year these are not isolated incidents such 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 zaphod is in the so called area b. which means that palestinians have only civilian control security matters are indeed hands of the occupying forces but. 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 it's our harmony the 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's state controller criticized 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 people in argentina are rallying to remember victims of the so-called dirty war in the one nine hundred seventy s. it's believed that around thirty thousand people who were against military rule either died or disappeared children of those in charge of the crackdown want to testify against their parents to find out exactly what happened as a pro reports. where are they ask these people outside a courtroom when a site is the question is directed at the former military officers on trial for

human rights abuses committed during the dictatorship in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's when a. father we know was an intelligence military chief during the dictatorship who is under house arrest. he told me he would do it again and i was in shock. would you kill again would you rate again. it took years to accept her father's. that's why she's campaigning to change the laws so that she and others can testify against their parents in court if it was i was embarrassed to say who was my father that he committed genocide i approached human rights groups because i believe we should be able to testify against our parents. if we had any type of information that could shed some light on what happened during those dark days arjen time legislation prohibits sons and daughters from testifying against their parents in

court and that's why a group of people whose parents were members of the military during the dictatorship are hoping to change the penal called only in cases where human rights abuses have been committed they believe that their testimony can help shed light on what happened to thousands of people that were killed at the time. and it's not just finding their remains that victims want it is also finding the who are now adults born to mothers who disappeared. son who had lost both his legs amputated in a train accident he was a political activist in argentina in one nine hundred seventy eight he was kidnapped with his wife and daughter. was able to find her granddaughter twenty two years later but many grandmothers are still trying to find missing children. we thankful for anyone who can provide us information that can help us

find our grandchildren even if it's my son who did something wrong he deserves a trial but stealing his daughter i don't understand how these months is can continue to stay silent. there is a pact of silence among members of the military involved in abuse says that's why information is precious for those trying to find their loved ones. changing the penal code would allow new testimonies to be given which may not only lead to your arrest provide the answers they've been looking for decades. the eighth ward was a forum has wrapped up in brazil's capital brasilia where more than three million people are facing water shortages they're hoping that replanting vegetation will at least go some of the way to solving the problem reports. there's plenty of water here about three hundred kilometers north of the national park

brazil is a land of raging rivers and expansive lakes. it's outside the world to form in brasilia residents demonstrated over water rationing. and several national human rights organizations in a letter to the un pointed out that thirty four million brazilians don't have access to clean running water or more than one hundred million have an adequate sanitation the water level at this time of the year the end of the rainy season should be up to about here but we can see if we went down to the water level that it is now the simply not enough water in this reservoir to see this region through for the rest of the year forcing many to look for alternative methods to keep the water flowing. this is where brazilian was created in the one nine hundred fifty is the city is still growing much of the habitat that was damaged in the rush to build is now being replenished by simple replanting. we faced

a serious drought in brasilia and this dam was on the at four percent of its capacity today it's around sixty eight percent we know that the vegetation will help to produce water in the region we expect this project will help to recover the water capacity in the basin at that serves brazil's capital the seeds grow to strengthen the soil. to retention where it's needed and preventing flooding. maybe the idea of throwing seeds into the soil is a way of reproducing the vegetation instead of cultivating a plant in a greenhouse which is a controlled environment before transferring it to the land this plant will grow in this space and adapt more easily than a transplanted plant the seeds are collected by hand and stored which also provides much needed was. when we started in two thousand and twelve we had one family which collected six hundred kilograms of seeds in twenty sixteen on the other hand

we worked with more than fifty families who collected twelve tons of seeds the results have been positive and the project is growing with turning to pass methods to the very source of life itself for a solution to a very modern problem that is why there are central brazil marine wildlife experts in western australia trying to ensure that five pilot whales don't get stranded again the whales were part of a part of boredom one hundred fifty which beached themselves at hamilton bay on friday a sixth whale that survived from that point had to be euthanized the after it stranded itself again bulldozers are being used to remove carcasses from the beach. still to come here on the news all dressed up for the movie premier the first a rocky made movie in twenty five years. and in sport fighter has been hitting the target of the world golf championships in austin.

the final. and mundy pointed wealth on i j z the u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for dr evil bad case one five years on the syrians still

feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the work. again now some say films provide a universal language of hope and entertainment millions of people in iraq could use a bit of both the country's cinema industry is making a comeback up the decades of conflict that our correspondent in run kong reports from baghdad. the anticipation on the faces of the cinema goes says it all. they've dressed up and come out to show support for the first iraq

a major film in twenty five years sanctions international boycotts and the security situation have all combined to destroy the cinema industry the journey is one man's dream mohamed el dorados he is both director and producer he says the film gives a sober moral perspective on the wall that devastated iraq killed a million people according to human rights groups as well as creating a refugee an orphan crisis. at the premiere earlier this month he thanked his costing crew and explains why he made the film we have to boycott the sanction. and then and then after that the war of the occupation and after nazi you know about what happened and the sectarian violence and then we end it with doris but we many know us and aki to get back again and that's what you learn us iraqi and we are. coming to the more point we go in to challenge our limits and to go further and thought of that and thought of that and this is this is the hope that we are

looking for and you know. for iraq e. filmmakers and producers working to revive the industry persuading audiences to watch is going to be an uphill battle particularly when the subject matter is so serious as the end credits roll some critics deemed it a success i'm going to have more up and get him and everyone dreams of watching an iraqi produced film because for a long time iraqi cinema had no productions at all we need to see a film we don't have film festivals and we don't have stations that show rocky films in the three weeks after the premiere of the movie made in iraq has failed to capture the imagination of many who prefer foreign films baghdad has a thriving cinema scene in shopping malls hollywood and egyptian film productions dominate to make money and their popular iraqi cinema was once regarded as some of the best in the region filmmaking used to take place across iraq and indeed baghdad then they would edit them and distribute them to places like this the cinema all

this was one of the most populous animals in baghdad it's now fallen into complete the through her and on occasion bootleg western movies but there really is no iraq in film industry to speak of that the filmmaker was able to get the movie made is remarkable but it would seem only a small audience is interested in what it's about. iraqi filmmakers say they will continue to try and persuade iraq your audiences to watch domestic productions that means competing with hollywood blockbusters and egyptian films that are popular across the arab world is one hollywood saying goes we don't make art we make money iraq on al-jazeera baghdad lights camera action here's andy with a sport thank you so much as you're not defending formula one world champion lewis hamilton is in pole position for the australian grand prix but his teammate valtteri bottas heading trouble ahead of the season opening rice in melbourne crushing his mercedes at the start of final qualifying the fame it will start tenth

at best how often is best lap was six tenths of a second quicker than his ferrari rivals can be right can and will be second on the grid with sebastian vettel third that see red bulls of much to stop in and danny recalled i were in fourth and fifth this hamilton's fifth consecutive pole in australia. you would think that with. the results we've had for these years it would be the norm but it doesn't it's still just as intense and i'm like my heart's racing i wish you could feel it right now but it's great to see this crowd here thank you so much for coming out. is not the best way to start the season but. yeah i was trying i was pushing the limits when the bit over the limits. exadata and one went to the bit too wide and lost the rear of the car and it just happened so quick . well champions germany have extended their unbeaten run to twenty two games ahead of this year's finals in russia they came from behind to draw against spain and a friendly rodriguez putting the spaniards who are also on the roots of russia had

early on. long to respond a really good affair from thomas millar leveling at a one one. they've now not tasted defeat since losing to france in the semifinals of euro twenty sixteen germany kick off their world cup campaign against mexico. he told the w.c. it's over the fees where we think this world cup will be an easy story is totally mistaken just look at spain the teams the top with a billion euros you realize how well they play of the team together players from real madrid and barcelona played together for a long time so they have a great understanding what choosier beat around one know both teams had into the world cup and they were unbeaten in their respective qualifying campaigns and i'm goal here enough to end iran's eleven game unbeaten run chain is here it will be taking on england belgium and panama in russia run a group of actual spank on the rocker. as mentioned morocco

also in action ahead of the world cup they secured a two one victory over serbia in its early serbia will be grouped with brazil costa rica and switzerland in russia rocco now on base and in six years. come a came from down speed france three to argentina beat italy two no most sila had put egypt on course for a win against portugal only for christiane are now going to score twice in injury time and clinch a two one victory host nation russia where they were beaten three nil by purcell in moscow england winning one nail against the netherlands. i was pleased i knew we'd have peace and energy in the team. but i was really really pleased with the composure especially the playing through the first two thirds of the pitch. at times but with more quality in the follow through it was needed but i think we deserved to win never lost three consecutive matches on the men's tennis circuit

for the first time since two thousand and seven the twelve time grand slam champion beaten in straight sets by ben more power in the second round of the miami are open at all and he's won six times during his career he wasn't the only one having a bad day on call so. you have several hours ago emergencies but what i mean is you're and then you say then you need less then you don't think so you think god would give you that he meant for them of russia not happy despite winning his match against stephanus is it's a mid match toilet break taken by said particularly annoyed medvedev at last year's wimbledon medvedev was hit with a big fine after arguing with and then throwing money at an empire. in the women's draw defending champion jana concert is through to round three but australian open winner caroline wozniak is out the world number two beaten by the unseeded monaco appearing as nakheel winning at the first set six love but the puerto rican recovery time when you face us. to this season's form size in basketball's

top pro league the m.b.a. faced off on friday the boston celtics coming out on top against the portland trail blazers marcus morris top scoring for boston power for getting a game high thirty points the celtics have already sealed their place in the playoffs winning its one five if he wants. the world golf championships in austin came into the events on the back of victory at the on the palmer invitational but he went south in the group stage of this match play events after a five and three defeat there by brian harmon mack should always through to the last sixteen helped by a hole in one in his match against ross fisher i mean two of the top ten saints made it into the knockout so. they can tip their strokes why get all in one game two shots on the field and up a little more than normal but you know my opponent maj floyd i think they kind of shake their head a bit at

a loss of all that for all on ross fisher was awfully pleasing if ever you lose a hole you don't mind losing one dollar one ok more score throughout the day but that is it for now anybody thanks to date now there is one a vent that the entire world is playing a party on saturday earth hour hong kong has become the latest to turn off the lights for sixty minutes to try to help the environment some famous landmarks around the world are being unplugged and people at home are being courage to embrace the darkness as well three hours to go here in doha six and a half hours to go in the u.k. that's it for the use of it backed up to each of the day's top stories just. april on al-jazeera. from the stories beyond the headlines phone lines examines the u.s. is role in the wilds fifty years since the death of martin luther king we examine

the impact of his assassination and the state of race relations in the u.s. today the award winning show thrives returns for another season with stories about solutions to some of the greatest manmade environmental problems as the first meeting since the brands that vote is set to take place in the u.k. we examine how relevant the commonwealth is today between corporate and public interests up to the last drop unveils the longstanding rule for water in europe april on al-jazeera. it looks ugly it sounds ugly and scares people from america's high streets to mexico's on the world record holder to the side and who controls the other side people in power follows the smuggling routes and test the ease of acquiring untraceable weapons on american soil the weapon that was designed for war and it took you about five minutes to buy it listen to america's guns arming mexico's cartels on al jazeera congressman on your interest

in stopping crime it's impossible to underestimate the size and scale of the crisis it's not just about the billion trillion dollars of debt it's not just about the banks it's not just about the government about real people. a key figure of the early twentieth century arab literary scene. and a feminist writer. had ever had time. so why did a story and in such tragedy. al-jazeera weld expose the life and why of maisie adda at this time on al-jazeera.