free 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 riverbeds like this 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 lure. of. our. own the benefit of people. so they see being polled and all these. witnesses documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera.

hundreds of thousands demonstrate in the us demanding tougher gun laws sparked by the recent school shooting in florida. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. only one rebel group left in eastern good as pro-government forces edged closer to taking control of the enclave. gyptian is prepared to head to the polls in the presidential election since the revolution plus. the words of history still open and demands for answers and justice for those who disappeared during argentina's military dictatorship.

hundreds of thousands of people had taken part in mass protests across the united states and more than a dozen other countries calling for stricter gun laws the march for our lives events were inspired by calls for action from teenage survivors of last month's school shooting in florida are seventeen people were killed and the gallagher reports in washington d.c. . on the streets of washington d.c. crowds swelled and voices rose in unison. the march for our lives protest was led by the students of marjorie stoneman douglas high school in florida with seventeen lives were lost and the gonzales survived the shooting in face the crowd into full silence for six minutes the time it took the gunman to take so many lawyers you know i could comprehend the devastating aftermath or how far this would reach our where this would go. for those who still can't comprehend because they refuse to i'll tell you where i went right into the ground six feet deep and my.

back. protesters came from across the country to show their support many here have been touched by the plague of gun violence and of long campaigned for change i just think it would be great if they enacted certain gun regulation that kept weapons of war off of our streets i have a young son who's about to be in can there gardening so making sure that the places that he goes actually safe and secure is among the speakers eleven year old niamh wilder has pledged to take political action at such a young age resonated with many my friends and i might still be eleven and we might still be in elementary school but we know we know life is needful for everyone and we know what is right and my. wife. we also know that we stand in the shadow of the capitol and we know that we have seven short years until we do have the right to that by the students of marjorie stoneman

douglas high school may have started this protest alone but the voices of far from solitary here in washington d.c. hundreds of thousands joined the coals for gun reform and around the world eight hundred other events made this a truly global affair the refrain never again from this new generation has never been loud my name's cardioids ali i'm marching from my best friend meadow paula back in parklane florida the students of marjorie stoneman douglas simply read out the names of classmates and teachers that were killed last month this was as much a remembrance for those lost as it was a cool to action on the gallacher al-jazeera washington. there's a good reason. in

this city. because the. pictures. of shooting incident. in the past they have.

to change the nation's. protesters are rallying worldwide in solidarity with demonstrators in the u.s. more than eight hundred official marches were held in several countries one of the first rallies took place in the australian city of sydney and london a minute's silence and a lion were held outside the newly built the u.s. embassy and paris families gather near the eiffel tower calling on u.s. politicians to protect children and not guns a car bomb has exploded near the center of the rebel held city of idlib in northwestern syria killing at least fifteen people that of the local civil defense agency says it happened near one of the main hospitals in live province is syria's largest remaining rebel stronghold and more buses have taken fighters and civilians

to elope province from eastern go to in the south it's a way this withdrawal under an evacuation deal with a government that's expected to see seven thousand people leave the besieged enclave syrian forces are close to gaining full control of eastern after stepping up their military offensive last month and a hold over ports. they are being sent into exile the forced transfer to the rebel held province of idlib in the northwest of syria as the second deal of its kind in eastern huta. one of three rebel factions that controlled the rebel enclave agreed to surrender what was left of its stronghold in the southern pocket up to seven thousand people fighters their family members and opposition activists who don't want to live under the government's rule or are afraid to are leaving. we will leave but one day we will return they have managed to silence the revolution but will never die we will return to liberate our land and the revolution will return to repeatedly asked the international community for help but they didn't do

anything very difficult time for us but we will return thousands more were bussed out of another rebel pocket in eastern huta the town of harassed which surrendered on wednesday they are syria's newly displaced but. they used every kind of weapon against us in an eastern water in general families who were hiding in underground shelters were killed in the bombardment the civil defense was not able to retrieve their bodies from under the rubble down there saying. it was a very bad situation the children were hungry because of the siege and scared because of the bombing they didn't have milk we pleaded with aid agencies but no one helped us they were sent to the rebel controlled northwestern province of idlib which is already crowded according to the united nations one million displaced persons who left other opposition held areas after they were recaptured by government forces live there it's also not a safe place airstrikes on have increased in the past week killing dozens of people

many of them children. unicef partners report that seventeen children were killed yesterday when heavy violence near a unicef supported school for students to flee to an underground shelter in a nearby building which then came under attack. around one million children live amid escalating violence and. it has been attacked from the air for years and a few months ago government forces have their allies launched a limited ground offensive for the first time in years if the pro-government alliance launches an all out offensive to recapture adlib many warn it could be an even worse humanitarian catastrophe it is a deescalation zone according to an agreement between russia and turkey to reduce the violence across the country but so was eastern hota violence continued in both areas despite the agreement the syrian government has now consolidating its control

over eastern huta the third rebel faction jaish al islam will soon hand over the main town of duma the pro-government alliance is declaring victory but it came after years of siege five weeks of relentless bombardment and almost two thousand civilian deaths. beirut. marches are underway in cities across australia to call for better treatment of people seeking asylum the palm sunday rallies are expected to take place in several towns and cities across australia australia resettles almost one thousand thousand refugees each year but its hardline policies designed to tear irregular migration have come under criticism from the un our andrew thomas is live for us in sydney where one of those marches has been happening over the last few minutes so andrew tell us more about what it is that that they're protesting for that they want. they really processed in for the rights of refugees that australia has saying to so-called chill detention centers prisons in

the eyes of the people here on the other end of the room in the pacific and man a saw that in papua new guinea these are refugees who tried to come to astride the jewels by boat australia wouldn't let them in it instead sent them to these offshore as well between about five or six thousand people in one sydney pollack over the last hour and as you can see they're now making their way out of this they're going to wind their way through city streets and by the way to another part on the other side of sydney c.b.d. and this is just one of many rallies taking place across australia this one or possibly melbourne's is likely to be the biggest but they're all refugee rallies going on right across the country and the people here complain that only the government for what it has done and continues to do it's been now boy is since many of those refugees were sent to the prison camps but also the media in australia as far as i have say you we're the only professional television crew here on sunday this is a pretty big rally six thousand people in the middle of sydney and this was all

i've seen with the only television crew here but people here want more coverage of opposition to australia's government's policies so wow enter into that to that point to have this many people and not be able to get more attention how frustrating is that for these people what do they feel like they have to do to get a larger audience to really pay attention. to this issue. they put it very frustrating the reason is that there is bipartisan support for australia's tough refugee policies at the top of australian politics and both the government here and the main opposition policy agree that these tough policies on needed to deter us from coming to australia now they say it's about saving lives at sea many refugees trying to come to australia they drowned on routes people had i don't buy that they say all australian government and by implication the opposition is doing is pushing the refugee problem to other countries to other parts of the world but i think there's a humanitarian and restoring old abased i think it is simply cruelty of cruelty

site and politics because like you don't know these people are the exception in australia being toppled refugees is politically not like that but that's how they feel they also think that there is a more than a change of racism about a little bit australia's immigration minister man cool peace stuff and last week he said that perhaps a strike they should look to take in some white south african farmers that were being dispossessed of their land he thinks that they have a very rough time well these people here say he has never said anything as compassionate about refugees or many others who tried to come to australia chose by boat and yet he's saying that south african farmers in their eyes because they're white should get to the top of the queue i think that's a dog whistle in terms of politics that i don't like it and that's another thing they're protesting against here today ok enter thomas live for us in sydney andrew thank you and thousands of people have protested in tel aviv against israel's planned mass deportation of eritrean and sudanese migrants african migrants were

among the estimated twenty thousand demonstrators in front of city hall the israeli government has ordered more than forty thousand undocumented migrants to leave in exchange for money on a plane to take it over the country supreme court has suspended those deportations demanding more information on the plan before it can go ahead. still ahead on al-jazeera. yet there is no anger mounts in the us over the police shooting of an armed black man. and tributes to the french police and him was killed baby the gunmen after taking a hostage at a supermarket. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. hello we've had some scorching hot weather recently just around the

western side of the levant we're seeing some very high temperatures temperatures in beirut getting up to thirty seven degrees that's ninety nine in found high people flocking to the beaches trying to cool down and enjoy the warmth is going to cool off over the next couple of days the southerly winds moving out of the way this band of cloud eases a swiss and then will pull him over a westerly wind by skies to come back into harbor temperatures will struggle to get to around twenty celsius should be about that at this time of year for beirut that area cloud will bring some rain into northern sections of iraq i think back that will generally states twenty eight celsius naughty but twenty nine celsius there for kuwait city the clouds will make its way further east was clouding over in afghanistan warming up behind there for baghdad temperatures at around thirty one celsius as a source of temperature we can expect here in concert maybe thirty to thirty three over the next couple of days right across iraq in peninsula plenty of warm sunshine

in the coming days and for the very pleasant said he going to be the case for the present same across a good part of southern africa the eastern cape still seeing some shop showers stays dry for the western cape cape town eighteen. the way the sponsored body counts on these. what makes this movement this era we're living through so unique this is really an attack on truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion of what free speech is supposed to be about the context is hugely important we have a right to publish it you have a duty to be offensive will provoke just about it as people did stashing the stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. watching

al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you this hour hundreds of thousands of people are taken part in mass protests all across the united states and in more than a dozen other countries calling for stricter gun laws they march for our lives events were inspired by calls for action from teenage survivors of last month's school shooting in florida are seventeen people were killed. more buses have taken fighters and civilians dead live province from eastern guta in the south it's the latest which are all under an evacuation deal with the government that's expected to see seven thousand people leave that besieged on clay. and thousands of people have protested in tel aviv against israel's mass deportation of eritrean and sudanese migrants israeli government has ordered more than forty thousand undocumented migrants to leave in exchange for money and a plane ticket. a car bombs killed two policemen and injured five others and

northern egypt in the attack at a security convoy as it passed a police station in the center of alexandria insure a ministry says the city's security chief was the target the explosion comes just ahead of monday's presidential election. the vote comes seven years on from the revelation that ended the three decades long presidency of hosni mubarak mall santa maria looks at egypt's political ups and downs sense mubarak's dramatic fall i 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 a cold in the pharaohs but equally a revolution can be something which goes full circle and it's hard to argue that it's not happened in egypt seventy years later the play is largely the same just with a different cost. 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 and a retrial ordered but morsy does remain in jail to this day and all the while sisi has strengthened his grip on power and 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. francis and paying tribute to a police officer who died in a supermarket on friday our nobel traum was shot by

a gunman after swapping places with one hostage he's been hailed a hero by president men. the gunman was killed in that scene in the southern town of trade after he went on a shooting spree three other people were also killed and a second suspect has been arrested in connection with that attack. hundreds of football fans have march in the u.k.'s second largest city in a protest billed as opposing extremism but some accuse the football ads alliance with organized the rally of spreading hate as catherine stansell reports from birmingham counter-demonstrators right on the streets as well i call fans uniting if they say and extremism the football lots alliance was formed last june after the attacks in manchester and london bridge the group wants the government to do more to prevent so-called terror attacks and are calling for tighter controls on those who might be considered a threat but here in birmingham one of britain's most diverse cities the march is

seen by many as promoting intolerance something the group's founder denies time to be the demographics and a michael will be my reason because apart from that we can go about a country where no they're not rice individuals will always be people who try to touch them so why are you up there i'm richard goes off the cusp berkeley so you go so i'm all right ceased and in terms of cities my rices and my thoughts are so we've right from the outset the football ods alliance was formed only a few months ago but already it's gained a very large following in social media tens of thousands of people have attended the last two demonstration but despite their message of unity some people accuse them of harboring racist messages an offshoot of the f l a confronting an anti-racism counter-rally held a few steps away group chants and it's this aggression that many say is on the rise in the country right wing material on the internet fuels the attack at a mosque in london last year when

a man drove into worshipers killing one person and the former head of counterterrorism policing says that far right extremism has become a significant threat to the u.k. something anti racism activists say needs to be addressed. the group of people for whom again something that completely people don't start to decide how we run only by lawyers who want to live together in peace and harmony but it shaving that will be difficult as nationalist voices in the u.k. and across europe grow stronger catherine stansell al-jazeera birmingham. anger is mounting in the u.s. city of sacramento over the police shooting of an unarmed black man twenty two year old stefan clarke was shot at least twenty times when officers corner ten minutes back yard and they say they thought he had a gun and also has more 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 serve to be shot down like that. if you're running. for the 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 that all of it is a lie police are promising a full investigation or asking for the community to be patient quark's 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 at least seven people have been killed in a shootout with police in rio de janeiro security forces say they were searching for suspects involved in the recent police killing and their patrol came under attack the families of the victims deny the police account of various weapons have been seized including grenades and sales military take command of the city and state last month and a bit to curb rising violence driven by drug gangs. disgraced former president. has been barred from leaving the country while under investigation for corruption prosecutors searched his home in the capital lima resigned on wednesday rather than face an impeachment vote he's accused of money laundering linked to a bribery scandal involving brazilian construction trying to bridge the seventy nine year old former wall street banker it's in the eyes any wrongdoing. argentinians have marched in memory of victims of the so-called dirty war on this one nine hundred seventy s.

tens of thousands of people were tortured or disappeared during the military dictatorship laws giving amnesty to those who committed the abuses for scrap more than a decade ago. reports protesters have never going to but given up looking for answers . where are the asks these people outside a cool team when a site is the question is directed at the former military officers on trial for human rights abuses committed to doing the dictatorship in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's when the. 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 crimes that's why she's campaigning to change 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 have 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 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 joke until they decided 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 abuses that's why information is precious for those trying to find their loved ones. changing the penal code would allow a new testimonies to be given which may not only lead to new arrests provide the answers they've been looking for decades.

back to the march for our lives rally and washington d.c. let's take a look now at some of the scenes and young voices from that emotional about. no one could comprehend the devastating aftermath or how far this would reach or where this would go. for those who still can't comprehend because they refuse to i'll tell you where i went right into the ground six feet deep. welcome to the revolution. leaving me and all those rules. changed let's put the usa over the n.r.a. . this is the son of the spring and the blossoming of our democracy will. not listen he's done a single day in the span of history this is

a movement this is a movement relying on the persistence and the passion of its people. shall carry here let's recap the headlines on al jazeera hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in mass protests across the united states and more than a dozen other countries calling for stricter gun laws the march for our lives events were inspired by calls for action from teenage survivors of last month's school shooting in florida are seventeen people were killed. when the first rallies took place outside of the u.s. it was in the australian city of sydney and in london a minute's silence in lyon was held outside the newly built u.s. embassy at paris families gathered near the eiffel tower calling on u.s. politicians to protect children and not guns more than eight hundred official marches happen worldwide. a car bomb exploded near the center of the rebel held

city live in northwestern syria killing at least fifteen people that of the local civil defense agency says it happened near one of the main hospitals and look provinces syria's largest remaining rebel stronghold and more buses packed with fighters and civilians left for syria's adler province from eastern guta it is the latest withdrawal under an evacuation deal with a government that's expected to see seven thousand people leave the sea on klav. marches are underway and say it's a call for better treatment of people seeking asylum the palm sunday rallies are expected to take place in several towns and cities across australia australia resettles almost nineteen thousand refugees every year that it's hard line policies designed to tear irregular migration have come under criticism from the un. at least seven people have been killed in a shootout with police in rio de janeiro security forces say they were searching for suspects involved in a recent police killing when they are patrol came under fire at families of the

victims deny that police account brazil's military command at the city and state last month and a bit to curb rising violence driven by drug gangs francis said paying tribute to a police officer who was killed in a supermarket siege on friday are no shot by a gunman after swapping places with the hostage he was hailed a hero by president mandela macro on the gunman was killed in the siege in the southern town of trade after he went on a shooting spree the other people were also killed as are the headlines the news continues keep it here on al-jazeera front is next. there was 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 of calling this election a farce we'll bring you the latest coverage and analysis of the egypt election on our.