whether over the southern parts of africa recently particularly over parts of namibia botswana but the shower is a moving their way northwards and so for many of us here it should be a little bit drier there will still be some showers in the eastern parts of south africa though so jo'burg is likely to hear the audible bit of funded during the day for the west is following force in cape town at twenty two. shot running away from israeli snipers one of the on armed palestinians targeted by troops and killed seventeen people and injured more than fifteen hundred. and we shall carry this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. fifty tons of

much needed relief supplies are destroyed in a fire in yemen one of the poorest countries in the middle east. the u.s. and south korea kick off their largest annual military exercise following a month long delay. last living in the shadow of radiation we look at the dark secrets of one of russia's most polluted rivers. videos emerged which palestinians say shows a demonstrator being shot as he was running away from israel's border with gaza it was filmed on friday as thousands of people began their protest against decades of land grabs by israel israel military says the man was a member of the armed wing of hamas his family have denied the claim and say he was unarmed and shot in the back israel warned it would use lethal fire on protesters and it did seventeen people have been killed more than fifteen hundred others injured the u.n. says half of those were wounded by live fire the united nations has called for an

investigation into the violence but the u.s. blocked a security council trafford solution condemning israel's use of force. to delaminate has more from the gaza israel border. grief anger and defiance as gazans mourn their dead it's a scene that has become all too familiar adding pain to what do un calls and unlivable situation among the bodies being carried for one last time through the streets of gaza the one of mohammed abu amr an artist who took part in the so-called great march of return his friends say his art would be forgotten in all more than thousand four hundred people were injured more than half of them shot by live ammunition some suffocated by tear gaius the highest casualty rate in a single day in gaza since the last war in two thousand and fourteen israel had prepared for days sending reinforcements to the border area the army had warned

gazans against approaching the border fence as a matter of national security now the military threatens that if the violence continues it will escalate its response and go deeper into gaza. bus drivers receive voice messages from these really army advising them against moving people to the border area or else as this voice says they and their families will be held responsible but gazans fed up and exhausted from life under siege vowed to continue protesting civil tents were erected along the border and thousands of people planned to camp there many of them refugees who are demanding their right to return to the homes their families were evicted from generations ago that the so he still carries dickey of his parents' house in there is about now an israeli town that i go to but i will keep it until we get back there and die there

if not me my children will have been waiting for nearly seventy years and still nobody cares about us i live under siege with not a single aspect of a decent life. about sixty eight percent of the population in gaza are refugees the protests will continue until may fifteenth the day of the creation of the state of israel palestinians refer to it as neck back or catastrophe everyone on both sides is aware that this standoff can spin out of control at any moment but up to. along israel's border with gaza a large fire in yemen has destroyed tons of much needed humanitarian supplies the fire burnt out warehouses in the rubble help. has more. yemeni firefighters did all they could to stop the flames. but more than fifty tons of critically needed food and relief supplies were lost. the five warehouses in the

rebel held port city of what died were being used by the united nations food program the red sea port has been a lifeline for people in the war torn country. had the farming controlled from the beginning it wouldn't have reached this extent by sunrise the fly was huge warehouse isn't getting in the fall is expanding integrating from store to store. the u.n. says it's investigating but some port workers are blaming an electrical short circuit. and that has. caught the news of this fire from the governor right a parade when we arrived here we found a lot of safety and security negligence and this has led to a huge spread of fire all over the place. the internationally recognized government of yemen is blaming the rebels not hold the port it says the criminals behind this fire should be punished yemen is one of the world's poorest countries.

the three year war between iran backed with the rebels and the saudi backed yemeni government in exile has left more than ten thousand people dead there are also outbreaks of cholera and diptheria. this warehouse fire is a further setback for those trying to help civilians in what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis paltrow dirge on al-jazeera. the u.s. and south korea have military trials after a pause during the winter olympics and twelve thousand u.s. troops will join south korean soldiers for the largest annual exercises between the two nations. kathy novak joins us live from seoul pardon me. so tell us more about about the scale of these exercises. well when these exercises come around every year north korea usually reacts very

angrily so they were initially delayed as you mentioned because of the winter olympics the fear was that it may inflame tensions with north korea while the winter olympics and paralympics were happening here in february and march but not only were they delayed it seems they've been shortened as well so the overall scale we're told will remain the same but instead of going on for two months they will only go on for a month and that seems to be in light of the more peaceful atmosphere that is prevailing here on the korean peninsula in the lead up to a summit meeting between the leaders of the two koreas and with plans for a meeting between kim jong un the leader of north korea and the u.s. president donald trump so i think the sense of between the u.s. and south korea is that they must proceed as planned with these drills but perhaps try to keep them a bit more low key richelle so there is this cultural exchange there that is happening between the north and the south tell us more about that. well that's right that's just another example of the improving relations between the two koreas

so this is an art troupe that is visiting north korea from south korea the first time in more than a decade that this has happened that it's sort of a part of a developing series of cultural exchanges between north and south korea we saw in north korean performers coming to south korea around the winter olympics and now there are musicians they'll be a take quando demonstration interesting lee among the performers will be members of a popular k. pop group and at times of heightened tensions we saw k. pop being used as a propaganda tool of south korea blasted into north korea through speakers at the border trying to show north koreans what is basically happening in the outside world the sort of thing that is usually kept from north koreans well now we're seeing the north koreans welcoming these performers with open arms and there are planned plans for a joint performance on tuesday as well richelle. kathy novak live for us in seoul thank you the last remaining staff have left the u.s.

consulate in russia's second largest city st petersburg as the diplomatic fallout continues over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in the u.k. moscow set a saturday deadline for the closure as part of its response to the expulsion of more than one hundred fifty russian diplomats around the world the u.k. accuses the kremlin of being behind the nerve agent attack on sergei scruple moscow denies involvement. the governor of russia's care of. me region is resigning following a mall fire in this district last month to kill sixty people in a video address he said his resignation was the right conscious and only true decision forty one children died when a fire erupted on the top floor of that mall and. russia's investigative committee says fire exits were blocked and that serious violations have been discovered. in

the southern region of russia and the river basin to a water system that serves hundreds of thousands of people yet it is considered one of the world's most polluted waterways spreading radioactive contamination all the way to the arctic ocean john a home reports from russia's. region. is no ordinary river. it has a dark history the tensions waters also contain radiation levels up to eighty times higher. that's thanks to the my ak nuclear plant seventeen hundred kilometers east of moscow originally producing plutonium for the soviet union's nuclear weapons program they produced many types of nuclear waste these nuclear waste high level nuclear waste inside there really were. the to cherry now does the kuttab of us father was a worker at my ak he and her grandmother died of cancer she campaigned for

compensation for victims but fled two years ago accused in the media of being a traitor she spoke to al-jazeera in paris finally they understood that it's very dangerous because population died to begin to have and begin to. children the defects communities were moved new villages were built but even sixty years later the residents of new mystery don't feel safe in reno rama zone over used to swim in the toxic river as a child yes in a private i think it was the wrong decision where only three kilometers away what is it a clean zone here. not everyone was relocated the learned done by of still lives in what remains of old muslim of a on the banks of the techo these days he's careful to use only bottled water it wasn't always the case and no one ever told us anything then in one thousand nine

hundred three a drunken yeltsin came here he climbed up on a table in the street and told us i'm going to me it's a contaminated area cancer right in communities that didn't even know why they were getting sick many died unnaturally young and that would be extraordinary enough as a story from a long time ago except that the mayak plant is still functioning still potentially leaking hazardous waste its operations still going on under a shroud of secrecy last october a crowd of mostly harmless ruthie me i'm one of those six was detected in the air over western europe scientists believe it may have been released at my act during the refining of spent nuclear fuel but russia denies any leak occurred activists believe miacca mace still be dumping waste into the region's water system russia's

nuclear also says it complies with all relevant safety guidance little has been done to compensate victims of contamination jona whole al-jazeera in the chelyabinsk region of russia. so ana has an r. rated a new president in the ceremony designed to highlight a smooth transition of power. taking over until elections next year he was formally the vice president and comma stepped out on saturday after serving the maximum time allow under the constitution catherine so is following the story from us she joins us from the capital of botswana thank you catherine so this eighteen months into the general election why is this handover happening now and is there really going to be any type of a shift in policy. richelle over there is just about and now. the president the new president is going to inspect. just to give you

a sense of how. it's been raining very very cold morning but a lot of people braved this. to witness this event it was supposed to be outside the. building but then they had to move to the. rain and yes it's all on the line this event the ceremonies all in line with the constitution and it comes like you mentioned eighteen months to the general election whether people go to. the. majority vote for. a president so sisi has the support you need to do so i'm sorry see strength then he's position as president should the people well if you do. that. because a lot of people yes man you've been very loyal to the president and.

so he wants to show that he can and as you often. we don't see and this is from talking to. i don't think that he's going to deviate very much from the. income of public education and things like that that. he is going to have his own ideas on the radio in the speech that he gave he said that he thought power if you will be a creating jobs. dealing with the unemployment issue and i think he wants to test. on wednesday when he gets to name how connected maybe the vice president of the shop. catherine saw him live for us in botswana catherine thank you. international criminal courts in the hague has detained mali and man accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity the indictment is over the destruction of

religious sites in timbuktu in two thousand and twelve and two thousand and thirteen and he's also accused of enforcing policies that led to sexual enslavement and women and girls. still ahead on al-jazeera iraq's christian community tries to resurrect from the ruins of war for easter. pasar the world's longest bridges opens in china but it's creating divisions instead of bringing people together. the a. hello there we're going to big swirling mass over europe that's bringing us a lot of rain and a fair amount of snow to this huge area of cloud here that works all the way back into the eastern parts of england three giving us some heavy rain snow over the alps and some of the wettest of the weather has been across parts of italy and

across the other side of the asiatic as well that system is pushing up into the eastern parts of europe there for sunday still giving some of from heavy rain on the northern edge a fair amount of snow too as that one works its way eastwards we've got yet more rain working its way in from the atlantic so some more very wet weather particularly across the british isles there on monday and some snow to be found as well the other side of the mediterranean though it's very different hair it's fine and settles twenty eight degrees the maximum in cairo and further west we're looking at around twenty one in robot i do think we're going to see a bit more cloud over the northern parts of morocco and into algeria there for monday and hear that also be some rather brisk wind so it could be rather dusty but for most of us at least it looks like it should stay dry a bit further south and they're all some showers here quite a few of them around the coast of west africa and then some very lively looking ones over parts of nigeria and into cameroon i think this region is going to be particularly wet.

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which palestinians say shows a demonstrator being shot as he ran away from israel's border with gaza he was one of seventeen protesters who died on friday more than fifteen hundred palestinians have been injured in two days of protests. a fire has destroyed fifty tons of you humanitarian aid in yemen x. believes a short circuit sparked this fire at the warehouses in the rubble help port city of the data. botswana has inaugurated a new president and a ceremony designed to highlight a smooth transition of power about same assisi took over from him comma who stepped down on saturday. a deal has been reached to evacuate the wounded from the besieged syrian town of touma opposition fighters are holed up in the eastern ghouta on clay which borders the syrian capital damascus duma as their last stronghold in the area where government forces conducted a major onslaught over the last few weeks thousands of rebels had to surrender.

u.s. media say president has ordered the state department to phrase two hundred million dollars of funds to help rebuild syria trumpets eager to end u.s. involvement thursday he said troops will pull out soon outgoing secretary of state rex tillerson announced the recovery funding in february during a meeting of the coalition fighting eisel. many christians in iraq can pray and gather together at easter for the first time since the defeat of beisel and the northern city of mosul the armed group destroyed many churches and christians fled the area now the community is on a mission to rebuild itself but as a man congress boortz it is not without challenges. for many easter is a time to mark the resurrection of jesus christ it's a time of rebirth and reflection and for the christians of home to neo in the nineveh plain in iraq's second city of mosul it's particularly relevant the christian community here is going through its own rebirth when eisel took over the nineveh plains in two thousand and fourteen it tried to destroy the christian

community. some fifty five thousand people fled isis violent role from hamdani alone when the group was defeated late last year they started to come back and this is what they found destroyed churches and homes. there is no government support at all it seems that the government does not care about the people here the people here are helpless people return to our hamdani and they only see their houses burned and destroyed and their properties looted and stolen people are spending from their pockets to rebuild their homes while the government did not show any care so far it's a common complaint from iraqis who feel the government has abandoned them the iraqi government is seeking money to rebuild for meisel areas it's appealing to the international community for help and says it needs one hundred billion dollars nowhere near enough cash has been played so. people like no idea how to contact in

return because there's nothing to return to her house is destroyed in a family scattered across refugee camps and rented accommodations in northern iraq she herself lives in erbil but this is home to me often. have. all of my belongings were looted and the house is destroyed i'm left with nothing at all i live in a rental and there have been fifty i can't return my health is deteriorating and i need medical attention my husband suffers too in baghdad the christian community was spared much of the violence the others faced on the eisel even here in baghdad churches are hidden away behind lost walls and tight security now religious leaders in the faithful will be praying that things get better iraq's christians are actually one of the most established religious communities on the entire planet in two thousand and fourteen almost all the christians had fled the nineveh province according to the patch. there were no christians remaining in mosul for the first time in the nation's history today in mosul and across the nineveh province they

come together this easter to mark important holiday and pray for a better future of iraq's christians in al-jazeera. there's been another day of protests in the u.s. city of sacramento against the shooting of an unarmed black man by police a fear for the streets and i got a feel for the cops you know how do we explain to our kids that because the color of your skin people are going to like you. i was organized by the black lives matter movement on friday an autopsy found stuff on clark was shot six times in the back it contradicts police accounts that clark was facing them and holding a gun which turned out to be a cell phone that means traders were demanding the officers involved be fired. so full rights leader martin luther king jr was assassinated half a century ago this week in the u.s. city of memphis his death was one of many events that defined in one nine hundred sixty eight is the year of political social and emotional chaos i was there as well

as in jordan looks at what shaped that year and the parallels of modern day america . one thousand nine hundred sixty eight the year the world was watching the united states was violently and psychologically falling apart it was a pivotal moment that saw changes in nearly every aspect of american life chris formative. as transformative. it was a paradigm shift as moral and political heroes were being gunned down the public discovered it could no longer put its blind faith in its political leaders who want to build a map of america. nixon's victory in sixty eight which arguably is only made possible because of these assassinations really takes that play book and parlay that into national power university students in the streets and in campus halls protesting what they called the u.s. is disastrous war in vietnam. african-american snapped and rioted

several cities throughout the country were left burning women took to the streets to demand equal treatment equal pay equal rights throughout the year and we will explore these developments and delve into how fifty years later the u.s. is fighting these fights all over again politicians stoking the very worst racist sexist and class stereotypes and divisions in order to gain power. young people ditching classes and marching on capitol hill to demand universal gun control we either voice it changed me i am peace is the fisherman says i should not make it was women naming the men who have sexually harassed them and pushing for ways to stop the systemic abuse. and yes

african-americans latinos asians and native americans still fighting for a definitive and to racial profiling discrimination and prejudice is the biggest difference everyone is weighing in in real time and on social media making it harder to ignore the fault lines in us society the view. war was so prominent in the concerns of young people in society and others was it was on t.v. every night fast forward twenty eighteen everyone is in their own personal bubble on their device in two thousand and eighteen in this is the question how much has the us learned from the divisions of nine hundred sixty eight and how well is it applying those lawsons today another volcano has erupted in hawaii but this time land spouts have been spotted swirling columns of ash are a rare event that happens during intense wend and high humidity as hell in

central india has collapsed killing ten people a four story building came down in the diet protests media reports say a car ran into the building just before it collapsed the government has ordered an investigation. it's billed as the world's longest crossing bridge after seven years of construction at the new link between hong kong with cowen mainland china is finally completed says the twenty billion dollar project travel time and half critics say it's war in the border at a time of growing tension star clarke reports. it's fifty five kilometers long six lines wide with four tunnels and four artificial islands the mega bridge between hong kong macau and china was built using more steel than sixty eiffel towers and is being hailed as an international partnership. on the border where we have included

a lot of foreign experts from the united kingdom united states denmark switzerland japan and holland they are from around fourteen countries mainland china has set the road rules unlike in hong kong and macau traffic to drive on the right and tolls must be paid in chinese currency the project's been fraught with delays overspending even fight a lot since the charter is proud of the finished product inviting foreign media to inspect it we hope that friends from the present. us take this opportunity to see the new accomplishment of china you know a new era. for us progress of the one country to the twenty billion dollar project is part of the broader push by china to integrate the delta region forty thousand vehicles a day are expected to use the bridge including shuttle buses running at ten minute intervals the travel time will be halved can use of less than an hour this mega bridge is one of two major infrastructure projects set to open in this region they

fear the other is a high speed rail link between the mainland and hong kong biker being hired as major transport links between the mainland and hong kong but critics say it's yet another attempt by china to blur the border the main criticism of the link is the plan to allow the chinese into. russian facilities to operate in central home tome no on the some side that undermines hong kong told me under the one country two systems agreement it's a kind of infrastructure telling the people of hong kong or even the people in maine and that you know hong kong and china is no longer two places they are to do part of them off the main in the children says both multibillion dollar transport projects will deliver home combe more dividends with its integration using one bridge to link three of the region's biggest economies. al-jazeera china

the family and friends of the renowned scientist stephen hawking have paid their final respects at his funeral in the u.k. more than five hundred people attended the service at a church near cambridge university where he was a fellow for half a century thousands of people lined the streets outside to say goodbye stephen hawking is known for pioneering work to help us understand the universe quite a legacy. visit our website when you get a moment to al-jazeera al-jazeera. keep it or. pick up the headlines on al-jazeera video has emerged with palestinian say shows a demonstrator being shot as he ran away from israel's border with gaza is one of seventeen protesters who died on friday more than fifteen hundred palestinians have been injured in two days of protests. a fire has destroyed fifty tons of humanitarian aid in yemen it's believed

a short circuit sparked that blaze at the warehouses in the rubble help port city of who data. no i'm sorry but all of them know that i had the thought of being controlled from the beginning it would reach the sixth and by sunrise the floor was huge with houses and with files expanding and spreading from school to school. maybe negligence was the cause of fire security and safety procedures were not required to live with this by its existence of stickers and logos the theming safety measures botswana has inaugurated in a president in a ceremony designed to highlight a smooth transition of power but it seems sisi took over from me and comma who stepped down on saturday governor of a region in russia as resigning following a mall fire in his district that killed sixty people last month a month said it was the right conscious and only true decision forty one children died when a fire erupted on the top floor of a mall and. russia's investigative committee says the fire exits were blocked and

that serious violations had been discovered. the international criminal court in the hague has detained of mali a man accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity the indictment of server the destruction of religious sites in timbuktu in two thousand and twelve and also in two thousand and thirteen he's accused of enforcing policies that led to sexual enslavement of women and girls. a deal has been reached to evacuate the wounded from the besieged syrian city of duma opposition fighters are holed up in the eastern good on clay which borders the syrian capital damascus last stronghold in the area after government forces conducted a major onslaught over the last few weeks thousands of rebels have surrender the hotel in central india has collapsed killing ten people the four story building came down in the diet pradesh media reports say a car ran into the building just before it collapsed and the government has ordered

an investigation. those are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera inside story is next. on counting the cost of crude futures contract was launched in china this week find out what it all means for the dollar and. a look at africa's biggest companies technology under scrutiny the latest on. hundreds of palestinians during. a two state solution. refugees are ever allowed to to return.