and then in one thousand seventy one the bank you beat and they said no no no we don't need to charge you know the market will discipline us banks love to make loans to some friends why because behind the sovereign a millions of taxpayers we can see reaction to the liberalisation of finance just as we saw in the one nine hundred twenty s. and it's going to be getting to ready is ugly in many parts of the wound where people are saying if my government went off to my interest then i will look for a stronger she's a fascist i don't care if he promises to secure the stability of my life and my people i will fight for him i think that's where we are heading and i think our leaders have the vision to understand that's the threat that we face.

this is al jazeera live from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha santa maria welcome to the new street it is the march for their lives thousands of young americans and their supporters out on the streets of major u.s. cities this saturday pushing for stronger gun control after the pump from school fees we will be live at the main event in washington d.c. and looking at how the movement is playing out across the world and. also on the grid the democratic republic of congo where violence goes on people remain displaced the president still hasn't stepped down and now the government is causing a united nations donor conference in its name because of what it feels on negative connotations and all over the world eight thirty pm is earth hour sixty minutes what i want to turn down strong attention to planet earth from the environmental issues that yes it is quiet. but does it get people thinking about our plate. and. she was seen as

a symbol of resistance for palestine we'll tell you how people online are reacting to the passing of singer and activist kareem and i am has left us throughout the show using the hash tag aged we spent. here with these great live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live in a ground zero dot com it is just gone eleven am on the east coast of the united states and at midday in washington d.c. students will begin marching for their lives taking over city streets demanding a change to the u.s. gun laws hundreds of thousands of people expected not just in washington actually these pictures we just received maybe about half an hour ago from a similar rally in miami the students leading the charge of course from marjorie stoneman douglas high school in park in florida with seventeen of their classmates and teachers died last month in a mass shooting but as we say the main allies romney is in washington d.c.

will be live there in a moment first this from dianna's to brooke. thousands of teenagers their parents or grandparents are lining pennsylvania avenue between the white house and the capitol for the march for our lives today. asking for tighter gun control laws here in this country and joining me now are some kids who came all the way from north carolina for this protest this rally today what do you want to see happen here i want to see tighter gun laws i want to see change in the government we do not need to arm teachers that is not helping the problem what we need is tighter gun laws we need for politicians to recognize that guns are not as important as chodron lives are you optimistic that you're going to see those changes yes i really hope that this march really brings to the attention of the politicians that there needs to be a change erica thank you. since the columbine high school massacre

a nineteen ninety nine there have been one hundred twenty two students. faculty members shot and killed on campuses around the u.s. so this is something that these kids are very passionate about and they say they're not going to give up until they see tighter gun control laws here in the u.s. . so let's go around the world as well rummy's not just taking place in the u.s. we've got london sydney as well hosting rallies hundreds of people attending there showing some solidarity with fellow students on the other side of the world well i'm up for a live shows just how america's youth have turned a tragedy into a social movement here from major plots it's how some of them explain why you. talking to politicians they're always going to try to talk around in circles and say that you're wrong because of x. y. and z. but that's not true they don't know what it's like to be twenty feet from an ar fifteen they don't know what it's like to have somebody you love die because of

laws that aren't adequate and it's hard it should not be normal for everybody in this room to have been affected by gun violence it should not be more columbine happened nothing's changed sandy hook happen nothing's changed parklane happen nothing's changed i went to school yesterday and i was late and i want to write to the office who knows i could have been walking in with another nickel is cruise it in check my id then check my bags we just walked through we have to do something this cannot happen again so if we have these gun laws that make it more harder for us to obtain these guns then we will have to hear another long live forever so. i wish my brother was with me we can agree that most americans want to save lives who want to ensure the safety and security of our nation but when we allow these lobbyist groups like the n.r.a. and the gun owners of america and so many others to own our politicians and take

our voice. they continue to allow the slaughter of our future and our children to these cameras. i mean and his government officials. who were trying to reach yeah yeah we're looking for you and we're so on and that's the of growth for the people and we watch out of so. i thank you and for more on those students leading the charge this saturday julian has the demo spoke to some of them for al-jazeera dot com put it together into this nice little feature piece they are the ones who are with them that day in parklane by other relatives of those who died this stories are powerful the stories are undeniable you will find links to that story imbedded in pretty much anything concerning gun control or the much for our lives which you see it down to zero dot com where off to washington d.c. now and the gallagher reporting from there and pointed this out before randi you've reported on so much of this from florida immediately after parkland now seeing the

fruition of an incredible movement that's not a down there in florida. yeah we've come a long way from that day on february the fourteenth when we first reacted to that school shooting and pachmann florida marjorie stoneman douglas high school and we've really followed the students on their journey to this point these are eloquent passionate children who've really done so much for gun reform of course in conte being responsible for changing gun laws in florida something that is perhaps unprecedented and it's all come to this the march for our lives in washington d.c. around half a million people at least expected today in washington and this whole thing doesn't really kick off until midday about an hour from now but the crowds are already building hugely and of course this is more than just an event here in washington d.c. it's turned into a global phenomenon you've got about eight hundred other events across the world

from australia through to china through to the middle east and europe so these children here these students that have gone through so much receiving so much global support of course it's not the first time we've seen marches like this back in two thousand there was the million mom march that was something that was said to be the beginning of a movement that didn't happen all too often marches like this don't confer the skeptical they confirmed the faithful but nevertheless i think it's pretty hard for politicians to ignore what is happening here today despite the fact that it is bring break and there are no politicians here in washington d.c. the president himself is in west palm beach for the weekend but the goal of all this is to really bring attention to what campaign is call commonsense gun reform more than anything else they want to see assault rifles ban they want to see more background checks and again that refrain of never again is something that's really at the heart of all of this of course seventeen lives were lost in the park on shooting fourteen students and three teachers back in february the fourteenth and

these students have indeed come such a long way since then and is it very. staying in the hands of the students today i suspect this is the type of thing which a lot of people would want to support i think it's a lot of celebrities have come out and boston as well but is it still driven by those kids today. i mean i think yes in large part it is they they received a lot of help from people like the giffords foundation gabby giffords of course was the congresswoman who is shot in the head in arizona and their organization has given a great deal of money to these children a great deal of logistical support because organizing something like this is it's just not easy i know these marches to quite often but i still think at the very forefront of this at the very heart of this at these students are still the tip of that spear the beginning of a movement but the question is can they keep the momentum going after this momentous day can they actually affect change which is why i was talking about the

million mom march which was eighteen years ago and didn't really lead to any change in seoul but i think it's significant that in florida in a republican controlled house of representatives that were legal changes remember the minimum age for buying an assault rifle went eighteen to twenty one that's almost unprecedented in a state run by republicans now whether they can effect change on a national level is the big question but the students here are the ones i've got to know and spoken to over the past few weeks are determined that this is really their life's effort from now on that they will keep on campaigning for change of course getting things like a ban on assault rifles will be very difficult when the house and congress is controlled by republicans but politicians i think a beginning to feel a mood change of public opinion change republicans a recent poll i saw said sixty percent of republicans are now for some kind of common sense gun reform but i think today's more about the unity of the students are feeling not just here in washington d.c.

but around the globe. quite a movement isn't it and again like i live in washington d.c. thank you for that so we've got really here i think it would've been really easy if we'd sit today don't find all the support online because it it's huge the flipside of the coin if a lot of critics as well that specifically coming from the national rifle association come all this is the powerful gun lobby group in the united states and they've been pulling out all the stops ahead of this march is in publishing an old video of the n.r.a. vice president this is wayne la pierre calling for security in schools and rejecting calls to ban samy automatic weapons and then they go to have the n.r.a. t.v. twitter page it's using the slogan take back the truth as part of its strategy to counter what it calls the liberal media narrative and it's also including the hash tag made by the students march for lives but it sharing its own version of it with a video dubbed a march for their lies the spokespeople had some strong words for the student

organizes pro-gun control groups and celebrities have a listen to some of these clips. appear to a mature to carry a firearm you're too immature to make policy about firearms that ultimately i think isn't that what this is discussion the discussion is centering around is maturity and emotional awareness and at what point are you able to actually carry a firearm but to anyone who thinks that somehow just making people wait a couple of years is going to solve the issue of psychosis isn't correct whatever power they give to this group they're advocating that take power right away from you make no mistake about these groups planned parenthood is far left groups that are providing some kind of support here their sole purpose is to take away your right to protect yourself and defend yourself if you want to save innocent lives take the millions of dollars go into this carnival of a march and hire armed guards in schools all over this country but then these kids would have to shriek from the spotlight and go back to their homework and the

forces funding them would lose the opportunity to further an agenda that's million times bigger than the guns and then there's another clip that's getting a lot of attention right now from an n.r.a. t.v. presenter called grant stansfield he's talking about david hog one of the students survivors and he criticizes david for swearing during an interview about gun control. it is profanity laced and about as harsh as you can get i want you to hear some of it ok think what six bears are out there that want to continue to someone guns murder more children and honestly just get reelected where what type of person are you when you want to see more in money than children's lives what type of person does that so as they call for boycotts over us for simply speaking the truth from the heart will anyone boycott tomorrow's march over david's comments will oprah and george clooney denounce his hate for n.r.a.

members for gun owners across america will companies refuse to support the march tomorrow of course the answer is no but the bigger question is will the media ask david about his n.r.a. target profanity laden tirade no the media will ignore it now there is a lot of support online for the students has come all said shannon has said that the only way the n.r.a. can fight the wave of gun sense sweeping the nation is to attack and dehumanizing their opponents but we're also seeing protests against this march kevin says that the n.r.a. fights for our constitutional rights and provides gun safety training to help keep america safe while liberals fight to disarm america and fight to tear apart constitution and they have cory who adds that a good guy with a gun saved our lives at great high school not the gun control not the gun free zone the good guy with a gun well let us know what you think sending your thoughts use the hash tag new

script thanks for here to something we considered when we were looking at our coverage of this story today is that the young people who have organized the march have grown up with school shootings everybody they are what you might call the columbine generation. columbine of course the nine hundred ninety nine high school shooting in colorado in which thirteen people were killed in fact the washington post highlighted that this with its saturday front page now saying that apparently more than one hundred ninety seven thousand students have been exposed to gun violence at school since the columbine attack now in my generation but about yours but we only have things like fire drills at school but for these kids in the us active shooter drills are completely normal to the point where examples are posted online by law enforcement with it is it one such video small selection view from bergen county in new jersey.

children school. invaders school lockdown procedures now in effect i repeat the lockdown procedures now in effect. here if you're yeah it's hard to imagine that that would be part of everyday life but it is for a lot of students in the united states if you want to get in touch with us on that topic or any of his hashtag a.j. newsgroup on twitter the tweet is out there from at a.j. english you can reply to that thread with the news grid nihad is looking out for

your comments facebook dot com slash down to zero the live stream is up and running for you to watch and comment and this number plus months of info find a wonderful one for our maybe you know someone who's at the match today maybe you could send them a message say hey give them this number send a video to us tell us what it's like there just a quick selfie video thirty seconds or so that would be fantastic. like hash tag a.j. new script for everything else well hey we'll move on now on friday is great we talked about a ceasefire in syria and now it's becoming more of a surrender of syrian rebels in the southeastern part of eastern group there are giving up their positions surrendering they have a second opposition group to do so in recent days as a result thousands of fire like a ham and fighters and civilians are being taken they will go one hundred fifty kilometers north to this leaves duma as the last rebel stronghold outside of the capital damascus they know how to with more from beirut now in neighboring lebanon . three rebel factions were controlling the eastern huta and clave two of them have already surrendered the third racial 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 assam 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 fishless them didn't want to be evacuated to adlib that is the province in the northwest of the country under the control of the opposition general islam 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 heard a 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 and 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. now as the battle for continues the hash tag saved is growing as well this picture of a young syrian call so habe is getting a lot of attention right now he died in a bombing in eastern guta this week and he shot this picture on facebook carrying

a sign which says i am a civilian not a target now so he was one of many social media uses trying to raise awareness about situation in eastern huta many people have been following him shed their condolences saying that he won't be forgotten and then you're at hama syrian journalist has also been using social media as well to post updates about the situation on the ground there and this is his latest video from facebook right now i am there i am on their own trying to fix the internet so keep posting and. you think turning. their warplanes i don't know if you can see. there are.

i don't know if you saw the. situation here is very miserable. and then we found another clip on twitter where a man in eastern guta is distraught about his country's future second listen to what he had to say. they feel one of them will. fall into what has our hearts apart is what has been happening to unsuspecting civilians how women and children is treated the resistance has not come together it's really saddening is people are killed and the world what she's on. and then this is cartoon from a twitter account looking at the situation in a single as you can see a child is also her mother what is the security council to which she replies our imaginary friend and then there's this figure from noor who you may recognize from

her previous posts on the fighting there and she says that help is needed. there is no one to tell her not that. i want. to be. somehow. to want to save. julie. and seven children and products today. if you are in syria to get in touch with us use twitter facebook or telegram i'm all back to you. thank you we have a page down to zero dot com it's called these things go to what's happening and why pretty much does what it says very good central resource for all our coverage of this particular battle in syria video maps documentaries constantly updated just search for eastern al jazeera dot com or look under the tab which is syria's civil

war speaking of wars yemen's war entering its fourth year in the north south divide is becoming more prominent in addition to the incredible humanitarian suffering and destruction hundreds of northern is have been forced from their homes and businesses from the southern city of aden brunt's groups are calling for an end to their mistreatment and discrimination some of it as our report. jimmie's have been trying to free central ties 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 mining. she i was working and i didn't at

a restaurant i was kicked out i was harassed in the end i urge 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 help 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 have calculus off the bus and kept a standing we ask an officer to have some mercy were 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 i'd my given when we showed them i.d.'s they said these want forty years ago the elected government called in the saudi alliance 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 was its own 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 as the old cracks reappear in war torn yemen its people find themselves stranded between competing interests saddam and job as their . plenty of your comments coming in on the issue of gun control as the much for our lives goes on we have heard from on facebook like someone saying gun control or where did it go if they keep up with no gun control in america it could just become a big war zone like syria gun control does work take a lesson from australia that's true they had a massacre about war twenty odd years ago in australia now more guns after that and there have been more massacres since then and births are on twitter has said i'm glad to see the youth active politically they're bringing awareness they are

bringing motivation for voting as well remember the midterms in november kids are ready to join this voting process it's wonderful these school shootings are horrible to keep the thoughts going in the hashtags a.j. news good be a twitter facebook what sam or telegram this is the news good for those of you watching us on facebook live welcome as always one group of ethiopians have come up with a musical way to address some very sensitive topics about freedom story and then later zimbabwe's former first lady may be in legal trouble it's in relation to a smuggling ring that plenty more to come. had some very hot southerly winds pushing in across the levant recently temperatures seen beirut chandon israel getting up as high as thirty seven degrees celsius this was the scene in tel aviv as the scorching conditions came three

people flocking to the beaches similar conditions that to ensue into beirut as the heat set in ny state cooler air is now in the process of coming through we have got an area which is sinking its way further east words but skies to come back a bit high but this is system moves through we lose the southerly winds we'll see the will conditions being regimes of beirut getting up to around twenty one degrees celsius jerusalem at around eighty degrees so much fresher air coming through but at least it will be. fine and dry a little bit of wet weather making its way into an open piles of iraq having said that i have it's was an old in areas all round up towards the caspian south of that generally settled and sunny karate thirty seven degrees or so over the next couple of days even in cabo still getting up to around twenty six even though the cloud will spill through notice temperatures recovering in by right i'm sorry slip by the time we come to sunday highs of around twenty six twenty seven degrees by this date thirty one celsius the high end of all the warm weather set to continue through the

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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 lot children a family are 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 than 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 former 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 re 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 challenge bellus al-jazeera. it will background for

you on the day you say fighting in different parts of this mineral rich country has led to more than three million people being internally displaced more than any other country in africa the u.n. is warning of a catastrophic aids crisis for the thirteen million people in need of humanitarian help but that warning is one of the reasons the government is boycotting the ide talks next month in geneva president joseph kabila remains in power as well even though his mandate ended back in twenty sixteen mm a catholic church helped broker a deal that would allow him to stay in power as long as elections were held in twenty seventeen last year they keep being delayed though we have got harry verhoeven with us now professor at georgetown university author of a recently published book called why comrades go to war nice to have you with us first of all let's deal with this u.n. donor conference it seems a little odd at the very least that a country would turn down the opportunity for assistance from the international

community. well indeed that's that's correct and that's also the very unfortunate part because this is merely the latest episode in a long series of instances where both father could be low who used to be the previous president as well as his son was the current incumbent find ways of somehow being more concerned with the international reputation or pristina of their country than with the actual living conditions of the vast majority of the of their citizens is an incredibly long track record unfortunately of the congolese government shooting itself in the foot and missing very important opportunities to engage the international community to get the assistance of very urgently needs to deal with the multiple crises that you just saw referred to by your by your correspondent and so in that sense yes it's entirely a great symbol but but not surprising that the president is more preoccupied indeed with holding on to power in. that in striking up some constructive relationship with with the outside world which is more than ever an essay given the very weakness of the state of

a inability of the state to provide basic goods and services to its own people ok so we're looking at all these symptomatic things at the moment let's deal with the root cause of the root problem at the moment which is certainly this violence in terrific violence across the country three hundred people dead since january well explain to our viewers what is that the the root of all of that. well through to all of that is exactly the same problem that i just referred to and in the context of skipping the conferences organized but for congo by the international community namely it's the inability and the on the willingness of the current government of the current regime in contrast such actually take the concerns of the vast majority of its own people seriously the reason why you see violence in the north east as referred to in the program but also in the southern parts in katanga or in in the middle of the country or and go in the western part near that the atlantic shore is essentially the same it is the the government the state that is so weak that it is unable to provide the basic sense of security for its own people and the way tries

to compensate for that weakness is played by playing ethnic or sometimes regional divide and rule and of course as always with these kind of strategies you can light a fire but you can very seldom control it almost always spirals out of control and leads to a wholesale bushfire and this is exactly what we're seeing at the moment many of these of these different instances of unrest are actually started by by government or by government agents in attempt at manipulating local political dynamics they've taken on a dynamic of its own and this is the reason why so many people within the international community of a very gravely worried that congo is heading for an absolute disaster not just humanitarian but also in a in a political and in a military sense so we did leave unfortunately that i think unless sorry to interrupt you is there appetite for political change there these elections have been put off and put off and put off you're describing a government that is ineffective and unable to to address the problems election

seem like what are needed here to the people want that is there or is there a strong challenger out there. absolutely no congolese people live in the streets fiest a protest many people saw this coming back in twenty sixteen when the president kept delaying and playing for time and kicking the can down the road because everybody knows that all going izing elections in congo is a fiendishly difficult logistical and financial challenge i mean don't remember if the remember the congo is about the size of western europe and so to organize elections in the rain so vast with vast swathes of the country that are of the century covered by a rain forest means that it's very difficult on the even under normal circumstances when you have an incumbent who is willing what we're faced with here is a president who has consistently played for time as i said who is now been in office for two years outside the term limits that have been stipulated by by the constitution and that is not even a start been made in trying to organize these elections and this is why people are

are so fed up and so angry and why or most every week you have marches and protests in contrast as well as another major major urban centers the problem on the international community side is that no one really dares to call the bluff of president kabila and to organize some kind of concerted strategy to really push him out and to force him to ultimately listen to what is what his people are telling him which is which is deeply frustrating build the all the problems the hunger that you just saw the unemployment the ethnic violence the displacement they're all symptoms of this much much much deeper problem of an unable and unwilling states and president however talking democratic republic of congo with us really interesting to talk to you harry thank you. and a couple of months ago on upfront with net the. communications minister lambert men they was interviewed and this is really worth a watch if it'll load quite uncomfortable at times because meth they typically does

not let the minister away with anything in fact he tweeted himself at the time my interview with the congolese minister men day on the killings in his country is one of the most contentious lively interviews i've ever done up front do you watch the whole thing you won't regret it i promise that's what metti says they go for it up front in the show's section about jazeera dot com now zimbabwe's former first lady has been accused of being involved in an ivory smuggling ring grace mugabe's party and it is being investigated following a journalist's three month undercover mission malcolm webb has that story recently . when adrian stern went undercover as an ivory fire 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 thieves or pilfered or from live elephants being killed by poaching syndicates the syndicate within sale to 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 who 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 vault 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 had 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 throughout his iraq in a written statement that the government of zimbabwe will seek conscience from all

parties were 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 with 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 stands as 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 web

al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. just keeping an eye on the march for our lives in the united states at the moment looking for more gun control first box we've got here young lady speaking this is in park and this is in florida where the shooting happened on february fourteenth this is where the whole movement grew from and is a lot of students there who are speaking today and let's see if we got the other shot we have a look at that one that's washington d.c. in fact that the capitol building there. all being done in the shadow of the people who can make the difference the politicians fortunately they out there at the moment nor is president donald trump at the moment but some amazing pictures from that jeb camera we call it a little bit of t.v. term for you there as it sweeps over the crowd all right let's go to sue turton in london now here she is with more international news so thanks kemal french case have arrested a second person in connection with friday's supermarket shooting attack in southern france thousands of people have paid tribute to the actions of

a police officer who died after offering himself up to the gunman in exchange for another hostage forty four year old nobel tram was one of four people killed in the shooting spree in the towns of caucus on and tread. 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 the. your love for me i laid flowers to support the family. well. that has more 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 such a thing such violence could happen on their own doorstep and of course that sense of sadness as well with the news that our nobel to this forty four year old police officer french 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 a car bomb has killed two people and injured other five others in northern egypt the attackers a security convoy as it passed a police station in the center of alexandria interior ministry says the city's security chief was the target explosion comes two days before monday's presidential election china has accused the u.s.

of a serious political and military provocation after an american warship sailed near disputed territory in the south china sea the u.s. says the naval destroyer was carrying out a freedom of navigation operation in the spratly islands washington has criticised china for building military facilities on artificial reefs in the area saying it restricts shipping the chinese government says it has sovereignty over the islands which are also claimed by the philippines. 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 us 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 or even accidents this is

a serious political and military provocation the chinese military is firmly opposed to it. federal prosecutors in brazil are investigating whether a consultancy firm at the center of a facebook data breach acted illegally in the country cambridge analytic denies improperly accessing the information of fifty million facebook users to target voters in the twenty sixteen u.s. election prosecutors want to find out whether the company and their local consultancy is data in the same way ahead of brazil's municipal elections last october. a giant soviet era television tower in russia has met a spectacular demise. of. the two hundred twenty meter structure in yet catherine burke was brought down with a controlled demolition construction started in the one hundred eighty three but the tower ceased operations in one thousand nine hundred one making it the world's tallest abandoned structure at the time the regional authority ordered the

demolition calling the town disfiguring to the city landscape. that's it for me for now back to come all in doha thank you with us that's extraordinary my goodness we're going off the grid now with the story i got a bit spiced up where they were going off the grid with the heat of the passing of a prominent palestinian singer songwriter and human rights activist yes rain. people have taken to twitter to remember her and using her name as a trending hash tag now but performed around the world how music was known for playing a role in the palestinian resistance movement she was often seen wearing traditional attire and. this is a symbol of palace and independence taken us. what. was.

now people are praising reims activism online mona has says that withheld voice she resisted occupation and sang for freedom thank you for your legacy you are a daughter of nazareth and the voice of palestine and then you have mahmoud who said that we lost a palestinian giant she was only fifty one and she left a strong legacy. and there was another one from hala she says that palestine and the world lost an amazing singer artist and human rights activists warning rest in peace he will live in the us the how will you remember reamed by anna get in touch with us use the hash tag news grid or you can let me directly i'm at it thank you and. the eiffel tower the sydney opera house the empire state building in new york all going dark at various points on saturday in what is known as earth hour the idea is that cities and towns around the world turn off their lights for one hour

at eight thirty pm a symbolic show of solidarity for the planet the world wildlife fund is encouraging everyone to get involved it's coming up seven o'clock so about ninety minutes time here in doha now earth hour itself began in australia in two thousand and seven sydney was the first place to turn off the lights this year that's where andrew thomas's. we're right at the tail end of our here in sydney any moment now you should see the landmarks of the city behind me including the harbor bridge lights back up but that doesn't mark the end of a overall this is obviously a global day and every hour somewhere else in the world at eight thirty goes dark and there is the bridge now just beginning to light back up but from here this movement will travel across asia you'll see the skyline of hong kong shanghai big cities like that going dark then into europe landmarks like the eiffel tower going black and then the americas times square for example should go dark at eight thirty

pm new york time now the electricity saved in this hour is pretty minimal amount put it to the head of the w w f who runs this campaign here in australia whether this was anything more than mere symbolism what it is it's a symbolic gesture to send a message to the whole world that we all need to come together and do something for our planet and we all realize we still have a long way to go and this is the moment he would like to well think about what we need to do turn major also told me that acts as a brand lots of local campaigns environmental campaigns attach their cause around the brand and that gets them a lot more traction so though it only last one hour on they stay in mid march in fact the impact is felt around. right if you're watching us on facebook live we're going to return to the issue of gun control now and the new security measures being posed at the florida high school where that mass shooting

happened you'll see it on facebook dr and then far as here with sport we'll be looking at. what's the big deal with march madness and college basketball in the u.s. first a quick look at some internationally. a key figure of the early twentieth century arab literary scene.

and a feminist right. ahead of her time. so why do the story and in such tragedy. how does or won't expose the life and why of maisie at this time on al-jazeera. it really is the international perspective that sets al-jazeera arts other news outlets beyond thorsten says about every outing up on the plates of power outage screens or was m is about public service and making a difference in people's lives i'm amazed every day by the porting on al-jazeera and the places that my colleagues go it inspires me to take a different approach to how i report news more.

personal i'm glad you're here to talk about march madness because i had no idea what it was i thought it was maybe a cyo something like that it sounds like. they have let me explain basketball in the united states as we all know is huge college basket. all in the u.s. is massive known as march madness at the top level tournaments and the national collegiate athletic association or the n c w a it has become one of the most watched and most talked about annual sporting events in the u.s. north carolina are the current champions but they've already been eliminated from the competition here's a bit of background on march madness and why it's such a big deal the tournaments first started in one thousand nine hundred thirty nine and began with just eight teams today it involves sixty eight teams thirty two are

regional conference winners with the rest being invited based on a rigorous merit based selection process it's a knockout tournament with six rounds it's unpredictable nature is the reason it's become known to fans as march madness the most successful team in the competitions history are the u.c.l.a. bruins who have eleven titles t.v. audiences are huge for this three week competition last year's final junior only twenty three million viewers with the n c double a announcing it made one billion dollars in revenue for the first time ever last year fishel march madness social handles got over seventy four million interactions throughout the tournament that's an increase of over forty two percent from the previous year and this year as you can see from the heat it continues to be a hot topic on social media in fact four of the top trends on social media in the u.s. today were about march madness but it's still very much us thing there's not a whole lot of chatter about the tournaments in other places in the world let's

bring in robert let's hala he's the editor of black sports online he's based in l.a. and robert why is a sport at university level like college basketball is so incredibly massive in the u.s. . well it's very much a they did versus goliath type return of you know cinderella type of story and it's really connected with people over the years because it's an opportunity to see small schools go up against the traditional powers and it's really connected you know with people in this is stage this is a time of year in march where you can if you haven't watched a lot of college basketball you can see a team kind of come out of nowhere it kind of grab the attention of the nation and also there's an aspect of it as a gambling aspect of it and you know i am pretty sure you guys like to get it was older as well but everyone likes to fill out a bracket everyone likes to have all these tournaments it's one of the whole bet on

. the last eight years so it's kind of a culmination of a lot of different things and what it does it give those bands that are not necessarily college basketball hard corp and an opportunity to enjoy getting graduates playing what a bracket what is that how does the popularity of college basketball compare to the n.b.a. . well in this particular instance college basketball's popularity is really march i mean why just want to call it watch back in be a popularity is kind of spread out over the entire season but in this one particular case in march this is one of the n.c.a.a. takes over is we're college basketball and takes over so is this particular term is kind of inside of a little bubble yes a lot of college basketball fans but everyone gets involved in it try to read your grandmother your cousin and your manager at your job everyone talks about the

tournament everyone feels out of whack and everyone gets excited when the the smaller little team beat the established our it becomes a lot water cooler topic jobs at schools and everything so in this particular month college basketball rules the sports world ok it is very quickly and our prayers really hoping to get noticed by the n.b.a. what are the players that would consider top level potential in the a process there are already are going to be n.b.a. prospects but if you're from any smaller school. team that's more well now as a lawyer or less chicago you maybe never been on national t.v. you've never been on you know the t.b.s. or t.n.t. or c.b.s. of our big channels here this is definitely an opportunity to make a name for yourself to possibly get drafted in the n.b.a. some key it's especially for those lower level schools that don't concern

a lot and i'm sorry robert i'm sorry robert very interesting to get your thoughts but we'll have to leave it there for now but thank you so much for doing without. as always we like to hear your thoughts on anything you see here on aging news great you can tweet me directly at after school or as well be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but now it's back to you thank you farai i am putting my out of office on right now because i'm gone for a couple of weeks the news group continues there with you right back here tomorrow at studio fourteen fifteen hundred hours g.m.t. tomorrow sunday. there were seven candidates vying for egypt's presidency. now there are just two

and with president abdul fattah el-sisi poised for his second term in power international rights groups are calling this election a farce we'll bring you the latest coverage and analysis of the egypt election on al jazeera. when the winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media and state p.r. machine it's going to overdrive. but just who is influencing. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what can be said and what conduct that. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for access the polling the media opinion the listening post base time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every.

we're talking about ivory poachers who have decimated populations of elephants in africa they almost always ship the ivory out of a different country from where it was poached because that's where you start to search for looking in the wrong place this radiocarbon dating method can tell us if you trade ivory is legal or not then we have a place you can focus law enforcement on take those out and perhaps choke the source of the id from entering the network take no at this time on n.z. a myth.