new under new to ruby creek a movie looking at the birds flying out of the truce. has more of asia pacific remaining rainforest than any other country but special agricultural business leases threaten them they were supposed to be issued to agricultural companies to clear land they intended to follow. is supposed to avoid emotion in reports like this but this is just profoundly depressing. took my breath away i mean just look at it this is a landscape. shot running away. unarmed palestinians targeted by troops have killed seventeen people and injured more than fifteen hundred.

and michelle carried this is. also coming up the u.s. and south korea kick off their largest military exercise following a month long delay. in the shadow of radiation look at the dark secrets of one of russia's most polluted rivers. album. examining race relations in the u.s. fifty years after the assassination of civil rights leader martin luther king jr. video has emerged with palestinians say shows a demonstrator being shot as he ran away from israel's border with gaza it was filmed on friday as thousands of people began to protest against the accolades of land grabs my israel israel and 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 there's

a war and it will use lethal force on protesters and it did seventeen people have been killed more than fifteen hundred others injured the u.n. says half of the wounded by live fire united nations has called for an investigation into the violence but the u.s. has blocked a security council to solution tend to mean israel's use of force out of serious hoda abdel-hamid joins us live now from the gaza israel border so what are the funerals were yesterday as we said seventeen fatalities and now there seems to be a picture that's being revealed about how some of these shootings happened what happened there is video coming out what are we learning about this. well certainly there's a lot of video that indicates that the protesters were on on and were being targeted targeted now whether it was deliberate targeting specific people or just randomly shooting that is something we don't know from the israeli army but

certainly the video you mentioned is another video of a young man who was praying near the border and he got shot for it is also a video that shows a group of women who were sitting somewhere on a bit of a pile of sand next next to the border and they get shot at. israel had warned days leading up to the friday approaches that it will have a zero tolerance policy that it won't allow anyone to approach that border fence that it had also try to deter gazans from approaching that fence by announcing that it had deployed a hundred para shooters that those those are basically elite snipers all along that border fence nevertheless the from what we see those videos and stories emerging out out of gaza is that the protesters we're on on with a we haven't seen any evidence that there was any one armed or hurling patrolled

bombs. as israel has claimed we're seeing actually the opposite an armed civilians moving in groups sometimes alone being shot at a lot in the leg in the back and quite randomly even as they were walking away from the fence so that the tents at the border that you know people intended the plan they say was to stay there at least until mid may might those plans change might people be deterred because of how all of this is playing out. i don't think people would be would be scared off by coming back i mean the tense you can see them here in the background now you have similar scenes at five different points all along this border yes people will come and go because they have to go on with their normal life go to work go to school go to university but will they be scared off even though it israeli army has warned yesterday that so far it says it has

showed restraint it will continue with zero tolerance policy and it has warned that actually it could strike deeper into the gaza strip but if you look at the history of people here about what they've been living through over the past ten years about the wars that have already happened four wars in in a decade they kind of used to this they're kind of used to this excessive use of force but and they say well we have no other choice no one will listen to us no one understand the plight we are living than the plight we are living no one will try to solve this issue unless we make of voices heard and this is exactly what they are trying to do with this long term sit in march along the border ok to tell they live at the border there in gaza thank you. a large fire and yemen has destroyed tons of much needed humanitarian supplies the fire burned down warehouses in the rebel held court city of the data and 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. that had the thought of being controlled from the beginning it wouldn't have reached this extent by sunrise the fire was huge warehouse is returning in the fall is expanding and spreading 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 a to 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 culture 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 three hundred thousand south korean soldiers for the largest annual exercises between the two nations. has more from seoul. these annual joint military drills usually take place earlier in the year but they were delayed so as

not to coincide with the winter olympics and paralympics that were taking place here in south korea north korea usually react angrily to drills like this calling them a rehearsal for an invasion even though the u.s. and south korea say they are defensive in nature but of course lately there has been a more peaceful atmosphere here on the korean peninsula and in light of that it seems that these drills are likely to be more low key the scale will be the same as in previous years but instead of running for two months they are expected to run for one month of course that is a time when will there is a lead up to a summit meeting between the leaders of north and south korea and plans for a possible meeting between the leader of north korea kim jong un and the u.s. president donald trump so another sign of a more cooperative atmosphere between the two koreas and indeed between the u.s. and north korea with shorter drills planned and we're not likely to see what's

known as strategic assets including nuclear powered aircraft carriers this time around at the same time in another sign of the cooperation between the two koreas there is an art troupe visiting north korea for a series of performances they will be performing on sunday night and there is also a performance planned for choose day which will involve involve joint performance between north and south korean artists. asana has been our great it a new president and a ceremony designed to highlight a smooth transition of power. to see is taking over until elections next year he was formally the vice president and comma stepped down on saturday after serving the maximum time allowed under the constitution catherine sorious following the story for us she joins us from the capital so eighteen months catherine told me the actual general election so tell us why this shift is happening now and how dramatic will the shift of policy actually be.

the president will very soon be coming down those steps to ceremonies over there's been a lot of celebrations here this is a very huge deal for the people. and it's very much in line with the constitution the constitution. who is the president to step down when he did to hand over to his vice president now president. so people here are very proud of this moment they say that their country is one of the most democratic on the continent and basically. like you mentioned this comes eighteen months to the general election to be held next year where the public get to the parliament areas and then the party that gets the majority votes

then elect the president and i think this is an opportunity to see a satchel florrie t. and also to show the people to show his ruling democratic party that he is a leader because a lot of people have been saying that he is a yes man who needs to get off the shadow of former president. and in terms of his policies we don't expect and this is from people i've been talking to. they say they don't expect him to deviate much from former president. policies. but then they're also saying that they hope that he's going to have his own ideas as well vision as well and he's also said that he's this perry is going to be alleviate dealing with unemployment and like i said i think that's him. and you can see we lost our connection there with catherine but we will try to

rejoin her throughout the day. sarah leone is waiting to find out who will be the next president in the runoff between two candidates after the first round failed to produce an outright winner opposition leader. who is a former military head of state to lead a coup in one thousand nine hundred six which overthrew the government and put him in charge for three months is up against. the ruling party candidates who service foreign affairs minister and government whoever wins faces a major challenge as opposed to bolus airily own such as fighting corruption poverty and turning around the economy but as reports there has been little enthusiasm for the election. this is as election offices count the votes sort of unions hold their breath this is the last leg of a difficult three months. will bring that the turnout will be high to give legitimacy to the process. when president on his bike arrived the

successor there was hardly anyone queuing to quote those who did left before. the note on out was not lost on the process. my. only concern. is that on the face. the voter turnout seemed to. be no other than what we experience under several we do hope that with all the gains we have made it is incumbent on the candidates to accept the outcome of the elections this is what some say is partly responsible for some voters staying away especially in more rural areas heavily armed soldiers at polling stations we have high presence of security outfits is spinning a number of intimidation checks and all of that and citizens and i mean they're not

so enthusiastic in terms of how the process is djibril kamar lives close to why the president voted but he's not keen on voting. age among them forty five now i. can see not no i'm not in the utan i'm on the. roads i can boast of anything i'm skinny and not an office job. and there are thousands who think that way the recess narrowed to two candidates after the first round failed to produce a clear winner the voters must choose between a former military ruler and a form a government minister they both represent parties that have dominated politics and certainly voters who are mostly young and are eager to change the way things are done here for those who chose to participate like this first time voter they simply want their voices heard i was in the education of what we've been very short and we need any. election officials say results could be out in a few days but we have

a succeeds this man will have to find a way to unite said in the audience polarized by the election as a last addressing the critical needs of the people. al-jazeera freetown still ahead on al-jazeera rocks christian community tries to resurrect from the ruins of war for a start. from coups brisk north and fuel. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. hello there we've got a lot of wet weather across europe at the moment the satellite picture is showing this huge swirling mass of cloud brought us a lot of hail over the northern parts of italy also some rather gusty winds lots of thunder and lightning to this whole system is edging its way eastwards and as it hits the cold air over the northern parts of europe we will see

a fair amount of snow so snow here and a little bit of snow also over there was the elsewhere it's mostly rain but it is rather heavy towards the west there's a little bit of a ridge of high pressure following it so that means it's a little bit more settled behind it should be fairly dry for some of us here and that's we had through monday we're looking at the dry weather across parts of germany austria and down through towards greece as well the next system though isn't too far behind that's working its way across parts of the british isles adjourning the day today and then german the night pushing its way northward starting to snow over the pen there and then we're going to see some wet weather and lots of wintry weather as we head through the day on monday for the other side of the mediterranean there's actually a good deal of cloud expected here over the next few days you see some cloud that's already pushing its way northward and for some of us then as we head into monday we'll see plenty of cloud not a great deal of rain there and more climb for the northwest as well twenty in robot . the weather sponsored by qatar and he's. facing

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emerged with palestinians say shows a demonstrator be 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 and yemen it's believed a short circuit sparked that fire at the warehouses in the rubble help port city after data. that's a lot of has been are graded a new president and a ceremony designed to highlight a smooth transition of power of what seem a c.c. took over from in a comma and step down on saturday. at the u.n. has been reached to evacuate the wounded from the besieged syrian town of duma opposition fighters are holed up in the eastern good on clay which borders the syrian capital damascus to miss her last stronghold in the area after government forces conducted a major onslaught over the last few weeks thousands of rebels have surrendered u.s. media say u.s. president al trump has ordered the state department to freeze two hundred million

dollars of funds to help rebuild syria trump is eager to end u.s. involvement on thursday he said troops will pull out soon outgoing secretary of state rex tillerson announced the recovery funding in february doing a meeting of the coalition fighting eyesore. and christians in iraq can pray and gather together at easter for the first time since the defeat of eisel 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 iran com reports it's 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 a 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 pledged so far people like no idea how to contact in return because there's nothing to return to the houses 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. 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 two 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. millions of christians around the world are celebrating easter sunday. pictures of what's happening right now at st peter's square in vatican city the pope pope francis is holding mass for thousands of program on friday during his good friday address he warned that wars poverty and selfishness are leaving people marginalized all around the world. the last remaining staff have left the u.s. consulate and russia's second largest city st petersburg as a diplomatic fallout continues over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in the u.k. also 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 scriptural moscow

denies any involvement of the governor of russia central kemmer over a region has resigned over the mall fire that killed sixty people last week a month said it was the right conscious and only troop decision russia's investigative committee says fire exits at the mall were blocked and that serious violations had been discovered most of the victims were children who were using entertainment facilities on the top floor when that fire began in the southern region of russia the toucher river feeds into a water system that serves hundreds of thousands of people and it's considered one of the world's most polluted waterways spreading radioactive contamination all the way to the arctic ocean just a whole reports from us shows chelyabinsk region. is no ordinary river. it has a dark history the tensions waters also contain radiation levels up to eighty times

higher than normal 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 produce many types off nuclear waste dump of these nuclear waste high level nuclear waste inside their area where richest situated there is to teach area that 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 on this thought that it's very dangerous because population became to be dyed to begin to have laid kamya and began to. children's with the defects communities were moved new villages were built but even sixty years later the residents of new mystery of don't feel

safe here in a rama zone of a used to swim in the toxic river as a child yes stashed it in a private no 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 a 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 move it's a contaminated area cancer because rife 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 maya 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 my our committee still be dumping waste into the regions water system russia's nuclear also says it complies with all relevant safety guidance little has been done to compensate victims of contamination jonah hole al-jazeera in the chelyabinsk region of russia spent another day of protests. against the shooting of an unarmed black. the 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 probably was organized by the black lives

matter movement on friday an autopsy found stefan clarke was shot six times in the back it contradicts police accounts that clark was facing and carrying a gun which actually turned out to be a cellphone demonstrators are demanding the officers involved the fire. civil rights leader martin luther king jr was assassinated half a century ago this week and the u.s. city of memphis has death as one of many events that defined nine hundred sixty eight as a year of political social and emotional chaos out a serious paulson jordan what shaped that year and the parallels with 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 transformative transformative. it was

a period 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. nixon's victory in sixty eight which arguably is only made possible because of these assassinations really takes that plea and parlay that into national power university students in the streets and in campus holds protesting what they called the us is disastrous war in vietnam. african-american snacked 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 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 a change in the eyes of peace is the fifth fleet in memphis i saw it on me. 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 vietnam 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 and 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 lessons today. family and friends of they were non-scientists stephen hawking have paid their final respects at his funeral and the u.k. more than five hundred people attended the service at the church near cambridge university where he was a fellow for half a century thousands of people lined the streets to say goodbye is known for a pioneering work to help us understand the universe. shall carry here let's recap the headlines right now on al-jazeera video has

emerged which palestinians 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 and yemen it's believed a short circuit started that fire at the warehouses in the rubble help port city of his data but salon is an operator to a new president in a ceremony designed to highlight a smooth transition of power. see missy see chick over for me and comma who stepped down on saturday it is a deep sense of humility that i sipped the immensely responsibility that has just been the student and the trust and confidence. as the fifth president of all the public and. in carrying out my duties might such a touchstone show to mean the only third just me to uphold the constitution the

rule of law and maintenance of national unity good governance peace and prosperity the governor of russia central kemmer of a region has resigned over the mall fire that killed sixty people last week a month said it was the right conscious and only true decision russia's investigative committee says the fire exits at the mall were blocked and that serious violations had been discovered most of the victims were children millions of christians around the world are celebrating easter sunday we have live pictures here from st peter's square in vatican city where pope francis is holding mass for thousands of rounds on friday during his good friday address he warned that war is poverty and selfishness are leading people marginalized around the world 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 on friday an autopsy found shot six times

in the back it contradicts police accounts that clark was facing them and carrying a gun at turned out he just had a cell phone and those are the headlines to keep it here on al-jazeera talk to al-jazeera is next. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current events that matter to al-jazeera. and. with you in the world as we all. look to see. i'm sam is very down on the turkish side of nicosia considered by some to be the world's last divided capital now this is the buffer zone also known as the green

line this demilitarized area patrolled by the un is perhaps the most important symbol of the greek turkish dispute that divided the island of cyprus since one nine hundred seventy.