or the benefit of people. who witnessed documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. israel insists its troops acted appropriately at friday's protest in gaza only shooting at palestinians who posed a threat. hello

i maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up. deadly anti india protests break out in kashmir after government troops launch operations against separatist rebels. south korean athletes and. shows in north korea is that country resumes its military drills with the u.s. . and sydney takes outside tending into the hottest ticket in town even if it means watching it in the right. hospitals in gaza struggling to cope with the influx of palestinians injured by israeli troops at the border nearly fifteen hundred people have reported. been

injured since landay protests turned violent along the gaza israel border on friday doctors say they're running out of medicine and supplies to treat patients many of whom were injured by live ammunition israel says it will step up its military action if there's more violence along the border. from day one of the protests the strategic stock at the hospitals especially sheaffer hospital have been running out of because of that we're calling on donors to supply hospitals with medicine and other medical supplies for the sensitive departments like emergency operation rooms and the intensive care rooms in order to be able to continue serving these injured people. israel's defense minister has rejected international calls for an investigation into friday's violence of a door lieberman says the troops acted appropriately firing only a palestinian protesters who posed a threat a twelve year old boy hit by israeli gunfire says he was about thirty meters away from the border and thought he would be safe as long as he didn't touch the barrier

or throw stones were you i was just standing there when i felt something hit my leg and it pushed me to the ground because of the. on the abdel-hamid has been visiting the engine inside gaza. does for those here in gaza overwhelmed health officials say that eight hundred and five people were injured by live ammunition now the doctors i spoke to say that it seems that the israeli soldiers have used high caliber bullets they deduct that from the extent of the wounds that they have seen on many of the patients now speaking to the. doodoo wounded as some of them would tell you that they never expected such a response from the israeli soldiers i spoke to some that said that they actually did to hurl some stones but they were quite far away from the fence at least about a hundred meters away one girl said that she was carrying her flag she even went to

the extent of taking off a backpack for the soldiers not just think that she was carrying something suspicious and she stood there and that's when she got shot actually her blood was caught on video now when you ask people are you going to go back to defense are you going to continue that six week long sit in which is dubbed as the long march of return and well everybody seems to say yes they will they say that they have no other means at this point to negotiate for themselves that they have been under siege now for more than a decade the nothing is getting better and it is actually no hope for them when they look to defuse or so days say that they will continue doing that research and we also heard from the had a mass it's my linea believe their said that friday was the first step that actually the palestinians have showed restraint last friday but they don't know

what will happen next that was probably in retaliation to the statement issued by the israeli army in. just a day before it was the army also said that it had children strained and if this situation and that tension continues of the border it will actually also retaliate with force. so let's go live now to stephanie decker in west jerusalem and stephanie as we're hearing that israel has denied the use of excessive force what more can you tell us about the political reaction to this. well the israeli prime minister's applauded the action of that of the soldiers in the israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman he said that there will be no independent inquiry that has been called from the united nations to look into the fact that such a high number of people were killed seventeen dead and over eight hundred injured

by life fire from. authorities so basically what they're saying is that this was a major security breach that this was not a normal protest that this was an attempt to break the border fence between gaza and israel but of course looking at the video what you see is unarmed protesters running away there's various different videos and some of them show different angles of people running away from the border fence and are being shot at that seem to pose no threat so i think it is a sort of new kind of confrontation if you will or challenge for these really army that you have tens of thousands of un armed protesters standing at the border fence basically just reiterating calling for recognition of the desperate situation they have been enduring for many years now and i think this is going to be a challenge going forward because the international community is looking and of course these protests are expected to continue for at least six weeks now so how

they're going to react to this with the numbers remain the same whether their excessive use of force remains the same we'll have to see right and as you were saying the u.n. the e.u. international bodies have been calling for an independent and transparent investigation into what has happened it has attracted a great deal of international attention what has been the reaction of the israeli public. well i mean people don't really discuss it very openly i think when it comes to security of israel when it comes to the army in particular people are very much united in defending their army because the nature of it here marian mayors conscription you know sons and daughters mothers fathers of all served in the army so there is a real sense of i think almost family when it comes to doubt there's been incidences here many incidences when the army has been accused of using excessive force things quote on camera and even though people privately might say well that perhaps wasn't quite the right way to act there will never be a big acceptance of public finger pointing at the army at particularly young

soldiers of acting in an inappropriate way so i think yes because you now have this international spotlight on friday we're expecting more protests particularly every friday i think will be something to watch while the numbers remain the same and again it's unprecedented really looking at the numbers and the fact that these are civilians usually confrontations that israel has with gaza is armed factions is rocket fire israel has deployed in the aryan dome this is the system that intercepts rockets well there's been no rocket fire so far since friday it is all a very different move and i think it is a challenge for israel and the army to sort of contain it in their eyes moving forward certainly if the numbers remain so big they cannot simply open fire on tens of thousands of unarmed protesters thank you very much stephanie deca with the latest from west jerusalem.

several people have died after a massive anti india protests broke out in the southern villages of indian administered kashmir demonstrations kicked off the indian forces launched a counterinsurgency operation overnight killing at least thirteen rebels three soldiers also died in the gun battle and kashmiris say they openly support anti india rebels. several protesters tried to march to the gun battle sites to help the trapped fight as escape residents then began throwing rocks at indian forces who responded with live ammunition shotgun pellets and take gas at least four civilians have been killed in the clashes. at least ten people have died after a hotel collapsed in the indian city of indo local officials say up to five people may still be trapped under the rubble indian media say the four story building came down off it was rammed by a vehicle the government has ordered an investigation. north korean leader

kim jong un and his wife sold to of joined hundreds of people who watched south korea's k. pop stars perform in pyongyang for the first time in decades kim who is the first north korean leader to attend a concert of south korean before ms reportedly enjoyed the two hour concert and was seen clapping along to some of the songs one hundred twenty dances musicians technicians and martial artists arrived in pyongyang on saturday in a reciprocal visit after the north sent athletes to the winter olympics well this comes as south korea in the united states begin their annual joint military drills which were delayed by the winter olympics twelve thousand u.s. troops are joining south korean soldiers kathy novak 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 the time when 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. the governor of russia's kemmer of a region has resigned over the fire in

a shopping center a week ago at least sixty four people died in the blaze making it one of the worst in russia's recent history investigators say the alarm was turned off and fire exits only going to be blocked even children locked inside the cinema i've been lodged protests over the way the authorities handled the night and see present like jim of pollution is that it was caused by criminal negligence and is promised that those responsible will be punished so you would. choose that today you know i want to tell you but i offered my resignation to the president of russia i consider this decision to be correct deliberate and the only thing to do because it is impossible to hold a post governor with such a heavy burden which is impossible moly. well in all the developments russian diplomats expelled from the u.s. have arrived back in moscow president donald trump ordered sixty russians out of the country in response to the poisoning of the former russian double agent service cripple and his daughter in the u.k.

last month dozens of russian diplomats have been expelled by persons allies russia in turn has told diplomats from twenty three countries that they have to leave. still to come for you on the program botswana's new president pledges to ream a country off its dependence on diamonds as he's sworn in. and cloudy with a chance of space debris. china's defunct space station is forecast to crash back to earth in the next twenty four hours but no one knows where. the. hello there is still rather warm for many of us across china at the moment it will turn cooler over the next few days bazza for monday we're looking at twenty eight degrees in shanghai there are a few showers just to our west over there on hwy province but those gradually dissipates as we head through into tuesday say more of us will get away with

a dry day shanghai temperatures twenty four degrees this time but over the next couple of days is when we're going to see the temperatures drop away over towards the west and there's a fair amount of cloud in the eastern parts of india and up through bangladesh but that melts away on the satellite picture and then if we see the old shower over the next day or so will be unlucky really most of us seeing fine dry weather but it is now getting very hot look at this thirty eight tonight poor force in new delhi thirty nine for the phone northern parts of india and some of us in the northern parts of pakistan there will be more clouds during the day on tuesday and that might just squeeze out the old shower towards the west there's also a lot of cloud around the arabian peninsula at the moment to mostly over parts of saudi arabia but it does stretch further north across. and eventually it works into iran as well it may give us the odd shout perhaps particularly likely over saudi arabia here in doha looks like the winds are really that the dust should begin to drop out as well still thirty four.

in twenty sixteen when he's revealed that girls from me and some as young as fifteen were trafficked to singapore to work as males it's illegal and costing lives so why does it still continue in law abiding singapore want to win east on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you.

top stories now hospitals in gaza struggling to cope with an influx of palestinians injured by israeli gunfire during protests along the border at least sixteen people were killed and fifteen hundred others wounded. four civilians have died during anti india protests in indian administered kashmir after government forces launched a deadly operation against separatist rebels thirteen rebel fighters and three indian soldiers were killed in the fighting. and north korean leader kim jong un and his wife are resold to have joined hundreds of people watching south korea's k. pop stars perform in pyongyang for the first time. now pope francis has used his easter message to call for peace around the world about eighty thousand people were in the vatican sent peter's square to hear his address in an apparent reference to the recent violence in gaza he called for reconciliation in the holy land and he also called for action to bring the war in

syria to an end you know you. today the fruits of peace upon the entire world beginning with the beloved and long suffering lead to syria these people are worn down by an apparently endless fuel. by the light of the risen christ illuminates the consciences of all political and military leaders so that a swift and maybe boot to the carnage humanitarian law may be respected and provision. needed by brothers and sisters also allowing the return of the displaced. when meanwhile the united nations humanitarian office says that conditions are deteriorating in refugee camps for those who have been evacuated from the besieged rebel held on klav of eastern ghouta just near the syrian capital . well the situation is extremely volatile and we have been watching over the last couple of days tens of thousands of people coming out of school we estimate that

over one hundred thousand people have left school since march the majority of them have gone to collective shelters and brought damascus but we also asked in may that about thirty thousand of them have been evacuated to where is the direction of it live so all of these people need humanitarian assistance also billions don't need humanitarian aid many of them tell us that they have been living in basements for more than a month many of them are in poor health and have chronic diseases that need immediate attention oh for christians in iraq this is the has extra significance it's the first time they've been able to observe the celebration since the defeat of i sell the on group destroyed many churches in the northern city of mosul and the community is now looking to rebuild and run khan has more from baghdad on the challenges they face. the 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 i saw 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 my celerity is 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 at no idea how to contact in return because there's nothing to return to the house is destroyed in the 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 a bit city i can't return my health is deteriorating and i need medical attention my husband suffers to. in baghdad the christian community was spared much of the violence the others faced on the ice or 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 if you thousand and fourteen almost all the christians had fled the nineveh province according to the patch we seiko there were no christians remaining in mosul for the first time in the nation's history today though 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 iran caught al-jazeera. at least four people have died and five are missing off the storms caused severe flooding in fiji tropical cyclone josee has brought strong winds and heavy rains to the west of the country hundreds of homes are without power and more than seventy roads a shot well now to botswana where the new president has vowed to tackle youth unemployment and reduce is country's dependence on the diamond industry worldwide see my c.c. was sworn in on sunday and will rule the country until elections next year for

president in comma step down on saturday after completing the maximum term of ten years in office catherine sawyer reports. president zuma sissie inspects the troops of to being sworn in as bullets won his fifth head of state he takes over from former president comma in another peaceful transfer of power in iran of africa's strongest democracies his inauguration a proud moment for many who braved the heavy morning rains to witness the ceremony and in his facet dress to the nation she said tackling joblessness would be the fast priority at the moment youth unemployment stands at around twenty eight percent. well jennifer is a mere dog of challenges such as unemployment poverty crime hiv and aids alcohol and drug abuse amongst others. therefore one of my top priorities as a present of this country will be george just the problem of unemployment

especially among the young people who constitute the majority of our population don't know dressy callout was one of those listening to that speech has been jobless for three years and hopes the president believes up to his word negative my expectation is that he will improve government efficiency in order to create job opportunities for the youth i hope we will improve social services to deal with implement some opposition members of parliaments keep the event partly because of a corruption scandal that involves the national petroleum find something that is rare in botswana those who did attend say they need to keep the president and his government on asked we feel that we are going to continue playing our overside will continue to seek more clarity from the president in terms of the way forward in terms of the how part of it how he intends to create employment because this country has been experiencing what has been termed a jobless growth has eighteen months to

a site his authority within the ruling democratic party before the national elections in october next year may be one. very far away from the former head that he had promised. he was very. common eradication. broad areas that people expect that the president. very much even in line with but they also. learn my d.s. is going to resign as well in the last ten years his predecessor has overseen policies that have helped reduce poverty he says he wants to go father his best asked will be this week when he names his vice president and copy that katherine sawyer al-jazeera. puts one. scientists have found the world's oldest known cases of two types of cancer in the remains of egyptian mummies anthropologists use c.t.

scans to analyze the bones of two mummies which were discovered in an accomplice in the city of aswan the research showed the female mummy died of breast cancer in around two thousand b.c. while the first ever case of a type of bone marrow cancer was identified in the mail it's thought he died around two hundred years later oh one of the important it's an important finding because it shows cancer already existed long before we thought and of course cancer is part of the human genome and has been part of humanity since its inception another important thing is the appearance of these cancers and how advanced the disease was it shows there was a society behind the two people who died to develop society which took care of them until they died. and abandoned chinese space report tree is set to crash back to earth within the next twenty four hours but no one knows for sure where the debris will land experts say china's space agency has lost control of tiangong one it was supposed to be decommissioned in two thousand and thirteen but its mission was

repeatedly extended so it hurtles towards our planet a nine ton spacecraft is expected to hit speeds of over twenty six thousand kilometers per hour before the disintegrating in a final blaze of glory the european space agency says the debris could land anywhere from new zealand to the american midwest but chinese authorities say there's no need to take cover and the debris won't be large one place to hang on one is not expected to crash is this lonely spot in the pacific ocean point neemo is a spacecraft graveyard which is farther from land than any of us buffalo globe. well the chunk on one was launched in september two thousand and eleven to carry out docking in orbit experiments as part of china's ambitious space program it performed three successful dockings with the shans a spacecraft including missions for china's first female astronauts and was finally decommissioned in march two thousand and sixteen can go on to which is very

similar is still in orbit but plans for a far more ambitious third vessel are already well advanced china's just on the all the cool module of its first proper space station at the tianjin air space town in northern china it plans to start assembly in orbit in two thousand and twenty and bring it into service two years later today we are up by the spacecraft is like a car was. worn in chiang going to a mall like mumbai dream apartments the space station is an apartment with three bedrooms a living room and a store room one will and one of the hottest tickets in sydney australia is for opera on the harbor it's become so popular that sales are outperforming shows inside the world famous sydney opera house and it's attracting a new crowd to the arts as andrew thomas explains. the sydney's opera house is the city's most famous building but sydney's most successful oprah's a shown here not in soit the opera house but using it as a backdrop this year it's lab o.-n.

showing on a stage overhanging the harbors water on the edge of a city park this is the dress rehearsal for a full week run last year when common was shown here most performances sold out this is what opera was originally about it was a very very popular art form and here three thousand seats were doing twenty six performances of the one opera means that it's it's reaching the people but i think are important opera australia says engaging a wide audience is vital and outdoor pro with subtitles here is what brings in the crowds is nothing's going on and i'm just trying to focus on what's going on so i don't sound french unfortunately certain this kind and i'm going to have what you think is an italian initially but. then for other reasons and what do you think of the setting yeah it's amazing it of using saying i'm going to nothing nothing at all now that i just love seeing is i don't understand to tell you no french or

anything that i like that. i like the fact that it's translated for me. but outdoor acoustics can never match those inside the best opera houses and it's hard to suspend reality and be in la bohem is paris with the real sights and sounds of sydney on either side of the stage. and then there is the weather for no refunds if it rains the show only stops in dangerous lightning storms so cannot for ever really be enjoying it if you're sitting what she gets some cool whites for the dress rehearsal many were you never going to control the weather they're going to be nice they get rained out it just happens there are probably some people that are snobby about it and that's fine if they want to be. enjoy the experience for what it is like. a totally different experience and it's a wonderful experience and enjoy it forty days most do the reviews have been almost universally good andrew thomas i'll just sit. if the day for real fake

news people around the world are trying to trick others with jokes and pranks april fools day and even the european union has joined in by poking fun at u.k.'s post breaks it passports european parliament the all member countries will now also have a dark blue passport making the british redesign a lot less symbolic person is changing the color of its passport from burgundy to blue the prime minister to resign may calling it an expression of independence and sovereignty off the brakes it has never stopped member state and member countries from designing their own hospitals a. quick look at the top stories now hospitals and gaza are struggling to cope with an influx of palestinians injured during fighting with israeli troops nearly fifteen hundred people have reportedly been injured since landay protests turned violent

along the gaza israel border on friday doctors say they are running out of medicine and supplies to treat patients many of whom were injured by live ammunition. away. from day one of the protests the strategic stock at the hospitals especially sheaffer hospital have been running out of because of that we're calling on donors to supply hospitals with medicine and other medical supplies for the sensitive departments like emergency operation rooms in the intensive care rooms in order to be able to continue serving these injured people. and all the top stories several people have died after anti india protests erupted in the southern villages of indian administered kashmir demonstrations kicked off after indian forces launched a counterinsurgency operation overnight killing at least thirteen rebels three soldiers also died in the gun battle. at least ten people have died after a hotel collapse in the indian city of indoor local officials say up to five people

may still be trapped under the rubble four story building reportedly came down after it was rammed by a vehicle. north korean leader kim jong un and his wife have attended a south korean cable performance in pyongyang kim who's the first north korean leader to attend a concert of south korean performers reportedly enjoyed the two hour concert and was seen clapping along to some of the songs. the governor of russia's kemmer of a region has resigned over the fire in a shopping center a week ago at least sixty four people died in the blaze making it one of the worst in russia's recent history investigators say vietnam was turned off and fire exits illegally blocks leaving children locked inside a cinema. and pope francis has used his easter message from the vatican to call for peace around the world in out of power reference to the recent violence in gaza he called for reconciliation in the holy land and he also

said that action must be taken to end the war in syria as the top stories more news coming up in about twenty five minutes time off they want to win east which is next . they are young vulnerable girls from myanmar's rural villages desperately poor they are sold a vision of money and adventure all they have to do is sign up to become maids in singapore. but for many the reality is far darker. and steve check out on this episode

a one in one east we find out why girls who are too young to work continue to be traffic.