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was meant to be a peaceful day of protests turns deadly on gaza's border with israel. hello and down this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up turkey's president tells his french counterpart to back off rejecting emanuel macross offer to mediate with kurdish forces in syria. you love me. you love means more than anything to marry. are not i would not be anything without you a tearful apology from the sacked vice captain of australia as cricket team for his role in a cheating scandal plus. i'm john hendren in the u.s. state of indiana where they're trying to do something about the dwindling number of young former.

u.n. secretary general antonio get pettish has called for an independent investigation into the deaths of at least seventeen palestinians shot dead by israeli forces in gaza more than a thousand unarmed protest as were injured by israeli gunfire in a moment we'll have the latest from the united nations where the security council has met to discuss the death but first the honeyed on what happened in gaza. it was supposed to be a peaceful day but as an armed protested march towards the border fence. israeli soldiers opened fire. sharpshooters were deployed but palestinians frustrated by the endless siege to 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 wanted to join 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 is why the people explode the blockade and the siege led to the explosion we either choose to live properly or to die we have no space we have no alternatives but to explode we have nothing except the oxygen in the air. land the is considered the first palestinian popular uprising for the past forty two years palestinians have been commemorating this day but this year after trumps the collaboration 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 in a meeting here 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 nost 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 do us is you to have moved this embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem put up that hamid al-jazeera in the road in israel. well our diplomatic editor james bays reports on the reaction of the u.n.

security council. this meeting was hastily convened on an official u.n. holiday it was called for by the arab member of the security council kuwait because its ambassador told me of the scale of the bloodshed. this is a violation of the international him to the law as occupying power also they are by awaiting the. geishas in accordance to geneva convention what should the council do now we will ask the council to take action originally this was supposed to be a closed meeting behind the scenes the u.s. was blocking a council statement condemning israel and so kuwait threatened to call an open meeting the u.s. being represented by a mid-level diplomat rather than its ambassador nikki haley didn't back down rewards those involved to take steps to lower tensions and reduce the risk of new clashes bad actors who use protest as a cover to incite violence endanger innocent lives the palestinian ambassador was

very clear about his government's view of what happened on the gaza border those who brought the violence and the killing of that israeli and forces our people in the gaza strip raising not a banner of faction but the palestinian flag demonstrate it peacefully peacefully peacefully and they were attacked by the israeli armed forces it's a massacre by them the u.n. secretary general antonio terraces issued a statement calling for a transparent and independent investigation into what happened on the gaza border the un security council however can't even agree a statement with the u.s. as it's done so many times before taking one side that of israel james. or the united nations. now the un security council has blacklisted twenty seven ships and twenty one shipping companies for helping north korea evade sanctions a range of international and u.s. measures have been imposed over the country's nuclear program and missile tests the

latest action was proposed by the u.s. to target the smuggling of north korean oil and coal by sea the company's sanctions face an asset freeze while the ships are barred from ports around the world turkey's president has rejected france's offer to mediate between ankara and kurdish armed groups in syria dismissing emmanuel macro as out of his depth it comes a day after u.s. president donald trump contradicted his own defense chiefs by saying u.s. troops would pull out of syria very soon stephanie decker reports. 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 and offered 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 u.s. 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 soon 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. 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 war in syria is now in. during a phase where russia turkey and iran are in the process of bartering for their strategic interests. the kurdish y p g currently controls around twenty percent of territory in syria the second highest area of land up to president bashar al assad and his forces turkey wants that to change it's anyone's guess how it will play out stephanie decker al-jazeera. a white police officer in the u.s. state of louisiana has been sacked for the killing of african-american alton

standing another policeman has been suspended for three days thirty seven year old sterling was held down by the two officers and shot dead in the city of baton rouge in twenty sixteen michaela reports from washington d.c. . baton rouge police have finally released the body camera footage of the killing out and sterling was selling c.d.'s outside a convenience store when the two officers arrived on the scene a struggle broke out and six shots were fired earlier this week the louisiana attorney general announced no criminal charges will be brought against the two officers but after an internal investigation the baton rouge police department has announced disciplinary steps one officer tempted to use deescalation india's disengagement techniques consistent with policy and procedures in training and one officer did not follow the tactics training professionalism and organizational

standards. simple the officer who wrestled sterling to the ground how we lake has been suspended for three days but his partner blake's alimony who fired the shots that killed the thirty seven year old has been fired from the police and this reaction from the attorneys up elton sterling's family. today was a troubling day. it was a sad day. but it was a day for truth. truth that we don't really see too often. it may have come in the form of a horrific incident. but it was a day for truth the killing back in july two thousand and sixteen led to massive nationwide protests and galvanized the black lives met and movement and to the tens of thousands who took to the streets the disciplinary process may be seen as too

little too late the question to why the police found the officer who fired the shots culpable but the state's attorney general did not mike hanna al-jazeera washington the sox vice captain of australia's cricket team as apologize for the part he played in a ball tampering scandal david warner has been banned for twelve months i'm told he'll never again hold a leadership role in the team he was the last of the three describes predators to front up to the media after captain steve smith and batsman cameron bancroft a thirty one year old says he takes full responsibility for his part in the incident but he avoided questions about what it was he did or to apologize to my family. expression what wife and daughters. your lot of news your love means more than anything to marry. a no oh no be

anything without you. i'm very sorry for putting you through this in our promise you that i'll never put you in this position again plus more so to come here not just there including time to go to russia summons the diplomats it's expelling as a result of a spy rout with britain plus. pouring of emotion from supporters off the top politician in senegal is sentenced to jail for corruption bar in the state. from the waves of the south. to the contours of the east. will gradually see the weather second down across the middle east over the next few days there are little blowy has to be said fair amounts of cloud across iraq up

towards the caspian sea still toppling its way east was ahead of that very warm in tashkent thirty two celsius it will move through and by sunday temps just fall back to around seventeen degrees but temperatures do recover well behind the thirty celsius there in baghdad getting up to the mid twenty's for beirut to reach them at around twenty two degrees celsius he come further south that same line of cloud stretches across the and there robin plains the northern parts of saudi arabia certainly temp just here also falling back thirty one celsius for riyadh falling back to around thirty degrees as we go on into sunday still a little bit of cloud here of greater significance i suspect will be the increasing wind that will come through so we are looking at some dust and sand storms across northern parts of the places including kata come in south africa very wet around the east side of the country here from from taipei hundred thirty two millimeters of rain in twenty four hours and the shower was never too far away as we go on through the next couple of days actually the western cape that looks set to stay

dry showers continue just around the eastern cape maybe some showers to creep into houses but for sunday if it's in the crickets for the last stages. the weather sponsored by qatar and he's. facing the realities of 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 the talk to al-jazeera at this time.

welcome back to remind of our top stories here on al-jazeera the un secretary general has called for an independent investigation into the killing of at least seventeen palestinians by israeli forces and guards more than a thousand unarmed demonstrators were injured by israeli gunfire during landay protests. turkey's president has rejected a french initiative to mediate between turkish and kurdish forces in syria french president emmanuel markram made the offer after meeting a kurdish delegation on thursday. and a wife lisa the u.s. state of louisiana has been sacked over the killing of african american old and still another policeman has been suspended thirty seven year old serling was held down by the two officers and shot dead in the city of baton rouge and twenty sixty . now russia is throwing out different from twenty three countries as the dispute over the poisoning of a former spy in britain grows ambassadors were summoned to the foreign ministry in moscow to be told of the decision the moves in retaliation for

a series of explosions of russian diplomats by the u.k. and its allies london accuses the kremlin of being behind the nerve agent attack on surrogate scruple on his daughter on march the fourth challenge as the latest from moscow. well one after another black ambassadorial cars have been 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 pastor eventually match by the end of the

month the number of russian staff 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 it's the catalyst has been the script all affair but of course there is so much else behind all this march that's gone on over the last few years with the count of 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 let me putin and donald trump are both saying that there is room for 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 russia says it successfully tested an intercontinental

ballistic missile its defense ministry released a video of a launch from press esten the north west a nuclear weapon calls that will replace a soviet era model which is the world's heaviest intercontinental ballistic missile president vladimir putin says the new missile going to strike targets anyone in the world and is difficult to intercept. some of the students who survived a school shooting in the u.s. are hitting back at criticism of the stand they've taken on gun control they've been powerful voices and protests since last month's attack in florida that's made them a target for the national rifle association as well as conservative media outlets cable is on reports. first they survived one of the worst school shootings in history and. then a week ago they organized march for our lives i the student led demonstration in washington calling for stronger gun control if you listen real close you can hear

the people in power shaking now they are facing another attack this one coming from america's powerful gun lobby and its supporters who are trying to discredit them the national rifle association by far the most powerful gun lobby in the us put out this video that mocked the shooting survivors who want to save innocent lives take the millions of dollars going to 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 eighteen year old emma gonzales and seventeen year old david hallberg two of the most vocal survivors of the parklane shooting who have become the face of the gun control movement and i've also taken the most cruel and false smears against them this memo of gonzalez ripping up the constitution that protects the right to bear arms went viral online by pro-gun groups it was meant to portray gonzales as an anti america leftists the only problem it is fake and was taken from this real image of gonzales

ripping up a shooting target and outrage after laura ingram a conservative host on fox news made fun of hog tweeting david hog rejected by four colleges to achieve applied the message read in part ingram later apologized as for the students they're now responding hitting back at their critics were hurts them the most their wallets. if you are my friend we are going to go out to you because we're not going to tour is that we're going to go after the money because that's where the money several well known companies on ingram's t.v. program have pulled their advertisements. and. it's a win for teen survivors turned gun reform activists who aren't backing down from powerful politicians pundits and a gun lobby clearly threatened by them gabriel is on to. washington the

widow of the man who killed forty nine people in again nightclub in florida and twenty sixteen has been cleared of helping him know a solomon was found not guilty of providing support to a terrorist organization obstruction of justice a husband a mom the teen opened fire inside the polls club in orlando before he died in a gun battle with the police on this good friday the family really wants to very first say that we're very sorry for the family members and friends of the forty nine victims at the post nightclub shooting and also the vic the survivors of that horrible attack. really that is the top most important thing the family wants you all to know you regardless of their happiness today at the verdict. the mayor and senegal's capital says he'll appeal against a five year prison sentence for corruption holley for sol was convicted of embezzling almost three million dollars of government money his supporters say the

aim of the trial was to derail sols ambitions of becoming president making a sock reports from dhaka. khalifa sells 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 that you. were going to was going to get i didn't want to i had so much faith in the justice system is being used to eliminate good people how can we trust our government to look at the work the downside 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 might he sell. supporters accuse the ruling party of using the courts to do real his planned bit in next year's election really sit there watching to see how it would get out here was since we can't use coal we

will use political means to put pressure on the government. the opposition marched last month indycar calling for a free fair and transparent election in two thousand and nineteen they chant the name of karim want 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 and putting his opponents in jail the government spokesman says that's nonsense and argues the president is fighting corruption particularly. 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 senegal's justice system is and try says 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 sells lawyers are launching an appeal against the conviction until then he continues to be the mayor of the car his fraud trial has come to symbolize a test for senate girls democracy and justice system. nicholas hawke al-jazeera deckard. the president of the international olympic committee has met north korea's leader in pyongyang kim jong un has agreed to allow north korean athletes to compete at the twenty twenty tokyo summer olympics on the twenty twenty two beijing winter games the meeting with thomas barr comes after the i.o.c. helped broker the partition of the participation of north korea in this year's winter olympics in china and south korea. china is playing down fears its space station could pose a danger when it crashes back to earth a ten and a half meter long tangoing one in the bar a tree was launched in twenty eleven to carry out docking and orbit experiments

it's expected to reenter the atmosphere soon but beijing can't say exactly when and where the space lab has been drifting out of control for two years. rises china is taking the tiangong ones re entry into the atmosphere seriously dealing with this situation in accordance with the related international conventions and in the spirit of responsibility we continually been informing the united nations space agency with the latest information about the tiangong and we have been open and transparent if there is a need we will probably be in touch with the relevant country millions of christians around the world have been marking good friday the start of the easter period pope francis led a solemn assets and peter's basilica at the vatican he then traveled to rome's coliseum for a traditional torchlight procession good friday commemorates the crucifixion of jesus christ. this was a scene in occupied east jerusalem where people walked through the via dolorosa some pilgrims carried crosses it's believed to be the path jesus took before he was

crucified. in the czech republic the easter tradition of the wooden rattling has been given a modern twist an artist was added. to the ancient possessions rattling instruments are used to call people to fair instead of bells. and in southern mexico worshippers carried thorny branches in the march to mark the start of holy week the large bundles way up to fifty kilograms that meant to represent the suffering of jesus christ carrying a cross. the veteran hollywood actor and former politician arnold schwarzenegger is recovering from open heart surgery a spokesman for the seventy year old says he developed complications after going to hospital on thursday for a routine procedure nicknamed arnie schwarzenegger played the tough guy in a number of hollywood blockbusters including the terminator series he was california's governor from two thousand and three to two thousand and eleven now

the family farm has special status in the fabric of american real life but many small pockets of land are being combined to form super farms some agricultural states are trying to change that but face a tough job john hendren reports from 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 a multi-billion 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 dwindling 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 man meant to come back to the family farm and continue on the lawns out 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 so that they just one percent of people are farmers so we have a growing disconnect between our population and food production but i also believe that maybe 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 and you 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 we. watch is what you know you see around around here in indiana. unfortunately really do you have to be born into it. or. extremely wealthy. they're struggling to carry on the family tradition each also works an outside job hoping one day this farm will be running full time as he did for the past four generations john hendren al-jazeera rochester indiana. now an artist has created a twenty one thousand square meter portrait of martin luther king in a field in northern italy it took dario gambar in seven hours to complete and marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of a civil rights leader the artist used tractors to create his portraits this one

won't be around for long though it'll disappear in a few days when the land. of the headlines here the u.n. secretary general has called for an independent investigation into the killing of at least seventeen palestinians by israeli forces in gaza more than a thousand were injured by israeli gunfire during landing protests for those who tried to say balance come on now that is not the case civilian protesters demonstrating peacefully and an armed forces unleashed massive power against them that led to this massacre with this large number of graduate these turkeys president has rejected a french initiative to mediate between turkish and kurdish forces in syria french president emmanuel mccraw made the offer after meeting with

a kurdish delegation on thursday a white police officer in the u.s. state of louisiana has been cited for the killing of african-american alton standing another policeman has been suspended thirty seven year old sterling was held down by the two officers and shot dead in the city of baton rouge and twenty sixteen. russia's throwing out diplomats from twenty three countries as the dispute over the poisoning of a former spy in britain grows bastardize was summoned to the foreign ministry in moscow to be told of the decision the moves in retaliation for a series of expulsions of russian diplomats by the u.k. and its allies russia says it successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile its defense ministry released video of a launch from plastics in the north west president vladimir putin says the new miss out on strike targets anywhere in the world and is difficult to intercept china is playing down fears that space station could pose a danger when it crashes back to earth a ten and a half meter long tangoing one laboratory was launched in twenty eleven to carry

out docking an orbit experiments the space lab has been drifting out of control for two years. vice captain of australia as cricket team has apologized for the part he played in a ball tampering scandal david warner has been banned for twelve months i'm told he'll never again hold a leadership role in the team he was the last of the three disgraced cricketers to front up to the media after captain steve smith and batsman cameron bancroft well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after talk to us is there a statement that so much about. this is really an attack on a food itself is a lot of a sudden the standing of what free speech is supposed to be about the context of hugely important setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. and. you can. see.

i'm sam is very down on the turkish side.