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at least fifteen palestinians killed and more than a thousand injured in clashes with the israeli army along the gaza border. no i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up. syrian rebels deny russian claims they've agreed to evacuate the last opposition held enclave in eastern guta russia's foreign ministry summons western ambassadors to tell them how many diplomats it's expelling. under unhindered in the u.s. state of indiana where they're trying to do something about the dwindling number of young farmers.

welcome to the program our top story at least fifteen people have been killed more than a thousand have been injured in violence between the israeli army and palestinian protesters in gaza the fighting took place during demonstrations tomorrow landay which commemorates the killing of six palestinians protesting against a land grab by. israel in one nine hundred seventy six are the abdel-hamid reports from northern israel. the it was supposed to be a peaceful day but as our protested march towards the border fence. israeli soldiers opened fire was sharpshooters were deployed but palestinians frustrated by the endless siege they live under undeterred. israeli commanders say they issued warnings against approaching the border fence. we will never shoot one bullet against anyone who stays away from the security wall we have wounded during the last few days that everyone who tries to violate the israeli sovereignty or to

infiltrate the israeli territories will put himself and his life in danger but for besieged palestinian demonstrating next to the border is about the only visible means available for the world not to forget their plight. we live under immense pressure that's why the people are angry the blockade in the sage led to this explosion we have now in the one choice either to live probably die we are almost suffocating. landa is considered the first palestinian popular uprising for the past forty two years palestinians have been commemorating this day but this year after terms that their ration over jerusalem it has taken greater significance it all started here in the world in israel after thousands of hectares of land were confiscated from palestinians back in one nine hundred seventy six six palestinians were killed then yet of

a hammy says nothing has changed since palestinian land is still being taken away now more than ever enemies initiate that we came to commemorate this day because we have to confront the state it's important to remember our martyrs and it's important to save our ownership of the land i personally think we should resist until our last breath we shouldn't negotiate anymore we shouldn't give up our rights we need to find new ways many of the people living in gaza today are refugees and they're demanding their right to return home several tens have been erected a little further away from the border fence for what is being called the great march of return people are vowing to stay here until may fifteenth by. dead the u.s. is due to have moved its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem but up the hemi in the order of israel. about the size president mahmoud abbas has declared saturday

a day of national mourning and cold on the united nations to help protect its citizens the security council is set to meet and half an hour to discuss the crisis . which i hold the israeli occupation authority to pull the responsible for the lives of the martyrs who were killed they used far against the popular peaceful protests which were organized to remember and call on the un to provide international protection for armless people against the escalation of the question. and let's get more on that u.n. security council meeting and diplomatic editor james day's james how did this meeting get cold well actually it's quite hard to have a meeting on what is officially a u.n. holiday they are closed the u.n. today because of that but kuwait who is the arab member on the u.n. security council called for a meeting put it to the president of the security council the loons which is obliged when a council member asked for a meeting to have

a meeting the netherlands actually had already have their goodbye party for the finishing the president of the security council at the end of the month but they've decided because of the importance of what's happened and because they're so worried about what's happened they're going to have a meeting it's taken a couple of hours to organize it will be a meeting behind closed doors that starts in about twenty five minutes time is this security council likely to take any action of what's and. certainly the palestinians want to see action from the security council they want to see a strong condemnation i was speaking a short time ago to riyadh man saw who is the palestinian ambassador to the united nations he said given the enormity of what's happened the security council needs to speak out when the security council issues a statement on something like this it normally takes a bit of negotiation over the language and certainly on issues of israel and palestine it has sometimes taken many days to actually get

a statement and sometimes they haven't agreed on a statement at all certainly though it seems the israelis are worried that there might be a statement that might condemn them the israeli ambassador only down on has issued a statement trying to get ahead of things saying the so-called peace march was in fact a well organized and violent violent terror gathering and he says the international community must not be deceived by hamas as attempts to conceal their crimes the israeli ambassador talking about crimes of a mass when of course the people that died in the last few hours were all shot by the israeli military i'm sure there are some members of the security council who will want to speak out about that not just kuwait but our other members too there are also real concerns on the security council about the overall lack of any progress on the peace process the u.s. is taking the lead there we keep being hurt the people hearing that the

presidential adviser jared cushion is coming up with a peace plan and nothing still has emerged all right thank you very much james bays with all the latest from the united nations where the security council is meeting to discuss a day of deadly clashes on the border. i . the syrian rebel group has denied reports it's agreed to evacuate the last opposition held enclave in eastern guta both russia and the syrian government said they'd reached a deal with jaish al islam to leave the town of duma but representatives from the group said the reports were false on wednesday the syrian government issued a three day ultimatum to get out or face a full scale offensive mohammed jump jim has the latest from beirut. another example of just how complicated things remain on the ground in syria the russian military has stated that it reached a deal with

a rebel group jaish al islam and the judicial islam had announced its intention to evacuate. which the rebel group is still holding that they would seize control of that area but a short while after that she issued the slum in fact denied those reports saying any reports stating that their group had in fact reached a deal with either the syrian government syrian pro-government forces or the russian government were patently false we spoke with the spokesperson for jason it's not buy it up that he said this our position is still clear and steadfast the rejection of force displacement and the demographic change of the rest of eastern huta now this really isn't a change from what we've heard from jaisha this them the past several days while they are negotiating to try to reach a deal with the syrian government and the russian government they do not want their fighters to have to evacuate the area this is all coming at a time when there's

a lot of concern of course about the humanitarian impact of what is going on it's still unclear just how many civilians may be trapped in duma how they will be able to get help and of course this comes at a time when there was another deadline given there was a deadline given by the syrian government the russian government saying that if jesuits now did not come to some sort of an agreement with them by saturday evening that they would go ahead and go into that area and attack that area with full force . techies president has rejected a french offer to facilitate dialogue between ankara and kurdish groups in syria saying it's the wrong approach president made the comments after meeting a delegation of kurdish an arab fighters in paris including the white beaches this is president trunk contradicted his own defense chiefs telling a rally in ohio that u.s. troops would have syria that he soon stephanie decker. the americans have long had a presence in this part of northern syria supporting the syrian democratic forces

arrest e.f. in the fight against eisel but turkey views the kurdish y p g which makes up the bulk of the s.d.f. as a terrorist organization and the latest twist french president met with an s.d.s. delegation on thursday night in paris an offer to mediate which isn't going down well in ankara but there's dick. says that he gave guarantee of support to the y p g that france can be mediators between turkey and the s.d.f. who gave you this judy do not engage in things beyond. turkish armed forces have already taking the troll of much of the syrian province of a free in pushing out the y.p. everyone has long threatened to push further east on to members where the us has military bases and all the way to the iraqi border the americans have also been monitoring the potential front line between kurdish fighters and the turkish backed syrian rebels who are nearby and to complicate matters even further the u.s. commander in chief had this to say and by the way we're not going the hell out of

isis will become another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now very very so we're coming now. that boast goes against what american commanders have been saying all along that the u.s. will remain in the northeastern part of syria for now to prevent the resurgence of beisel trump port even the state department of guard and i can't comment on what the president supposedly said i haven't seen and i have to refer you back to the white house. i have not seen it myself and said it i have not seen that myself ok but you know you don't you don't necessarily comment or report on things that have been heard secondhand and i'm not going to do that that's ok that's fine so you're not aware of any. determination to poor to pull the u.s. out if i'm not no no the u.s. presence in syria gives it a stake at the negotiating table as long as troops men tain their presence in the kurdish areas the were. and syria is now entering a phase where russia turkey and iran are in the process of bartering for their strategic interests. the kurdish currently controls around twenty percent of the

territory in syria the second highest area of land up to president bashar assad and his forces turkey wants that to change it's anyone's guess how it will play out stephanie decker zero. russia is throwing out diplomats from over twenty countries as the rao escalates over the poisoning of a former spy and person moves in retaliation for the wave of expulsions of russian officials following a nerve agent attack on sergei script all in his daughter in the city of souls very or a challenge as the latest from moscow. well one after another block ambassadorial cause of the pulling up here outside the rather ornate silver gray doors of the russian foreign ministry and the ambassadors have been walking into essentially get a dressing down from the foreign ministry staff air and be told how many of their personnel has to be packing their bags to leave from what we've seen so far it seems to be broadly tit for tat in line numbers wise with the explosions that we

have heard from western countries kicking out russians over the script all of the british ambassador was told that the total number of u.k. personnel here diplomatic and consular hastur eventually match by the end of the month the number of russian stuff in the u.k. this is on top of the twenty three brits that had to pack their bags and leave some days ago that was of course because the u.k. had kicked out twenty three russians what we're seeing here is this worsening of diplomatic relations tit for tat response its catalyst has been the script fair but of course there is so much else behind all this much that's gone on over the last few years with the come russian campaign in syria with what's been going on in crimea and ukraine that has worsened relations between the west and russia of

course to me putin and donald trump are both saying that there is room so walk back from this of course they have to say that they don't want to go marching off to war but yes we are in a severe diplomatic crisis of the moment and it doesn't seem to be getting any better right now. and taking you now to baton rouge louisiana where police are availing information about the shooting of olsen sterling a young black man who was killed while selling c.d.'s outside a store in two thousand and sixteen your condo. doesn't present gatherings like this conference is not that good. we don't get this much attention for the good. but we have police officers out there every day that are put their lives on. and we ask a lot of our pleas officers we do and sometimes it appears that those

expectations are not reasonable we want our police officers to be medics with the opioid epidemic we want to be crime fighters social workers crime for those marriage counselors and i can go on and on and on about all the things that we expect our police officers to be. and each one of those that i've mentioned each one of those responsibilities require a different hat a different skill step each one up. to accomplish that task and we do what we do as a community. we don't even want to pay our police officers but you know we want to know where all of these different hats pay our police officers they deserve it they deserve it because the officers i'm going to talk about. one mistake was

a lot more grief just any other. you hear about there but you don't hear about the good work that the men and women of this police department doing every day and we're going to work with the mayor we're going to work with the city council we're going to work with our local legislators we're going to work with the union or we're going to work with the community and we're going to put together a plan. to make us want to high speed police departments in this state. and we're going to do our part to show you that we are the professional agency that we can be. to the baton which police officers who are watching right now i will be meeting with each and. all right well upon it. apologies for that we've just been listening to police officer police chief there ambassador on rouge louisiana murphy pull revealing a bit more information about what's going to happen now action that the police

force is going to take and revealing a bit more information about the circumstances surrounding the shooting of alton sterling the young black man who was shot and killed while selling c.d.'s in a store outside a store in two thousand and sixteen so the police officer that just announcing some disciplinary action and potential changes in procedures going forward but we'll try and get back to that back to that press conference a bit later and now. we're going to bring you more news in a couple of minutes stories that we're covering a popular opposition leader is jailed for five years in senegal ruling him out of next year's presidential election. and his mexico's presidential campaign gets underway could it be fair time lucky for the left wing front runner.

the weather doesn't look too bad for much of australia's to go on into the easter weekend just around the coastal fringes of those to carry around the sunshine coast the gold coast could see some rather wet weather over the next few days for the north you can see just out into the coral sea we do still have the remnants of tropical size phone iris and that will bring that on shore breeze and where the of the the beaches have been closed because of the dangerous in place here sunday does look a pretty what they wrote along the that east coast of queensland for many though doesn't it too bad down to the southeast into the mid to upper twenty's tools of southwest generally far to dry so much of australia does look settled and sunny as we go on through the next couple of days settle in sunny to. parts of new zealand not looking too bad here a little bit of cloud just rolling towards south island somewhat weather certainly a possibility that will not just way further north was as we go through saturday on

into sunday not too bad for maybe twenty two celsius the four clean with decent spells of sunshine similar temperatures similar conditions a city into a good parts of north asia japan looks generally set there twenty one celsius there for a soccer getting up to around twenty one in tokyo by the time we come to sunday and not too bad for much of the korean peninsula. on counting the cost of crude futures contract was launched in china this week find out what it all means for the dollar and oil producers a look at africa's biggest companies prospect knology under scrutiny the latest on digital data coleman. counting the cost on a dizzying. new yorkers are very receptive to al jazeera because it is such an international city they're very interested and that global perspective that al-jazeera provides.

welcome back a quick look at the top stories now at least fifteen palestinians have been killed by israeli forces and more than a thousand injured during protests against israeli land confiscation. turkish president worship time has rejected a french offer to mediate talks between ankara and kurdish fighters in northern syria. and russia is throwing out diplomats from more than twenty countries in response to the expulsion of its own staff following the poisoning of a spy in person. u.s. president on a trump has told his supporters in ohio that he might hold off on airing a trade deal with south korea until an agreements reached with north korea on denuclearization trump made the comment just

a day after the calmness deal with seoul was agreed it involves south korea limiting steel exports to the u.s. and opening its markets to american comedy factories. now the mayor senegal's capital the cause says he'll appeal a five year prison sentence for fraud khalifa solus convicted of embezzling almost three million dollars of government money is supporters say the trial is a way of the right wing his plans to run for president and for its fund. khalifa's cells supporters denounced the legal system minutes after sentencing by the judge. the mayor was found guilty of corruption embezzling millions of dollars in falsifying documents. i'm good but it was not until i had so much faith in the justice system is being used to eliminate good people how can we trust our government workers outside said that was not.

outside court police in riot gear control be angry crowd. song is a leading voice of the opposition and a rival to his namesake president mikey cell. supporters accuse the ruling party of using the courts to do real his planned bidding in next year's elections please if i should use here would i do was you since you can't we were not sponsored and means to put pressure on the government. the opposition marched last month in the car calling for a free fair and transparent election in two thousand and nineteen. the name of karim wanted another leading member of the opposition he served time in prison for corruption and now lives in exile and this protest accuses president mikey cell of enriching himself and his family from public funds in putting his opponents in jail the government spokesman says that's nonsense and argues the president is fighting corruption. don't. times have changed state coffers are no

longer up for grabs the message here is that what was possible before no longer is and everybody no matter who you are is accountable to the law. but silly girls justice system is in crisis court clerks on strike over pay and working conditions a prominent judge has just resigned from his position a few days ago saying that the tribunals are not serving the people but rather the government's. khalifa's souls lawyers are launching an appeal it gives the conviction until then he continues to be the mayor of the car his fraud trial has come to symbolize the test for signals democracy and justice system. because hawke al-jazeera deckard. and we don't know of a man who killed forty nine people that again nightclub in florida in two thousand and sixteen has been cleared of helping him nor solomon was found not guilty of providing support to a terrorist organization and obstruction of justice husband teen opened fire inside

the polls club in orlando before he died in a gun battle with police now two of the candidates running for mexico's presidency of launch their campaigns for the elections in july set to be a three way battle between very different candidates but one thing they all agree on is president audible which they say can't be allowed to go ahead john heilemann reports from mexico city. it's going to be the biggest election of mexican history with positions up for grabs from mexico city mayor to congressional seats to the top job itself and all eyes are on the three main contenders for the presidency but who are they the current front runner is familiar to all mexicans at least this is the third bid by and it is money well lopez obrador he's a traditional leftist who wants to raise public workers salaries increase benefits for vulnerable mexicans and worryingly for some hope the current government's

reforms to the struggling education and energy sectors but most of all i am committed to eliminating corruption and impunity privileges and exemptions will be abolished we will put an end to luxuries abuses and overspending in the government but that cries less convincing this time around he's allied himself with some devious trade union leaders and politicians in the hope of widening his support. hard on the heels of the veteran an ambitious youngster because the a ny is all about slick promotional videos and steve jobs speech is what the conservative candidates fronting a left right alliance his main proposals a universal income for all paid for by cutting social programs he's a modernizer but so far short of. the way is clear first sustained economic development based on being more competitive attractive to investment which in turn will be invested in education health and infrastructure

but it. has to defend himself against corruption accusations which he says are a smear campaign from the team at this month third place to hold him tony iommi seen as a competent technocrat he's banking on his government experience when bugs well they're more moral yeah i'll bet we can look mexicans in the eye and talk about twenty years of public service with twenty years of honorable promotions to. want to years of being part of a team. to be seen as lacking charisma this being dragged down by running for a ruling party which is failed to curb corruption will deal with what is the elephant in the room for everyone and that's mexico's on going violence none of the kind of a symbol for much detail on how they'll tackle it it will kill him to focus on other things that spells trouble the current administration had the same approach and today we're seeing record murder levels the candidates are on the other hand more than willing to confront this man and his plan and wolf

a furious mix compulsively demands it but they're also showing some are strained in the end one of them is going to have to work with the neighbor to the north john home of. scarcity the american family farm has been an iconic symbol since the founding of the north american colonies travel the heart and of the u.s. and you'll find yourself envelop by corn soybeans and cattle those farms are increasingly being consolidated into super farms some agricultural states are trying to change that but face a hard road ahead john hendren reports from the farm state of indiana. the weather might be frigid this time of year but the prospects for the american agriculture industry are bright commodity prices are healthy fueling the multibillion dollar industry but here in the plains of the indiana heartland in across the u.s. the fortunes of one of its pillars the american family farmer are fading you see more and more of the farms you know slowly slowly doing going away there's going to

be fewer farmers in the county every year at an average age of fifty eight farmers here are getting older and as massive farms some corporate owned keep swallowing up smaller ones they're getting fewer i do believe a woman meant to come back to the family farm and continue on along so my dad dan and kelly snipes are part of an indiana state program to get more young people interested in farming we have fewer and fewer people who have been involved in farming for the day just one percent of people are farmers so we have a growing disconnect between our population and food production but i also believe that may be shifting here at loyola we see a strong interest among students who are you know late teens early twenty's and they're very interested in getting involved with the food system. young farmers now even have their own dating sites.

but there's a catch starting a farm is expensive a new tractor can cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars a new combine like those over there can go for three hundred to five hundred thousand invent of course there's the land so few young people who have an inherited a farm can ever afford to own one the snipes with the help of a golden retriever named farmer or the fourth generation advance family to work this land if you want to. own a large grain operation and you know corn soybeans. which is what you know around here in indiana. unfortunately really do have to be born into it. or extremely wealthy so. they're struggling to carry on the family tradition each also works in an outside job hoping one day this farm will be running full time as it did for the past four generations john hendren zero

rochester indiana. they look at the top stories now at least fifteen palestinians have been killed in gaza many of them by israeli gunfire during protests against is right the land confiscation of palestinian health ministry says more than five hundred others were injured when israeli forces fired live ammunition into the crowds palestinian president mahmoud abbas says he holds the israeli occupation forces responsible the un security council is meeting to discuss the situation. i hold the israeli occupation authorities pully responsible for the loss of the martyrs who were killed they used far against the popular peaceful protests which were organized to remember and call on the un to provide international protection for armless people against the escalation in question. now the police chief of

bashan rouge and the u.s. state of louisiana has confirmed that one officer has been fired another suspended over the shooting of alton sterling a young black man who was killed while selling c.d.'s outside a us store in two thousand and sixteen as a result of the administrative investigation into the conduct and behavior officer how we leap as it relates to the baton rouge police department training policy and procedure related to use of force it is not sustained. as it relates to command of temper the disposition of this thing was determined in officer how we leak will be suspended three days as a result of the ministry of investigation into the car looking behavior officer blaine salamone as it relates to the baton rouge police department training policy and procedures it probably of use of force has been sustained and

a violation of command of temper has been sustained officer blaine salamone has been terminated from the baton rouge police department effective today. and a syrian rebel group has denied reports it's agreed to evacuate the last opposition held enclave in eastern guta both russia and the syrian government said they'd reached a deal with jaish al islam to leave the town of duma but representatives of the group said the reports were false on wednesday the syrian government issued a three day ultimatum to get out or face a full scale offensive set for myself and the team here in london counting the cost is coming up next. facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter why is activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on a talk to al-jazeera at the.