the caliph episode one on a. al-jazeera . where ever your. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching the news live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes hospitals overwhelmed with casualties from friday's attack by israeli

troops in gaza with sixteen people killed and at least fifteen hundred injured. at least twenty are dead in violence in kashmir off the indian army operations against separatists. in the. south korean pop stars perform in the north for the first time in a decade but it's kim jong un who steals the show. also ahead back to the chinese space station breaks up on re-entry to the atmosphere on its fall from orbit. ok let's get going hospitals in gaza are struggling to cope with the influx of palestinians injured by israeli troops fire at the border doctors say they're running out of medicine and supplies to treat the patients many of whom were hit

with live ammunition or to a bill hamid has been speaking to some of the injured. she had it to the protests with her best friend wanting to vent her frustration of growing up under siege and armed with that reckless courage of a teenager mariyam defiantly walked towards the fence where the israeli army was warning against it and i wanted to show the world that we are still here we are not dead i didn't expect such a reaction from them i kept on walking towards the fence carrying a flag the boys followed us the soldiers could see me the snipers were pointing their weapons i had a backpack i took it off so they didn't think i was carrying something suspicious i threw some stones hid and then started walking again i turned to look for my friend and i felt an excruciating pain in my leg two beds furder sabrina's recovering from a bullet in her arm another in the foot and shrapnel in the stomach at only

nineteen her lack of hope is painful to hear. before going out i told my mother i wasn't planning to come back home i told her i wanted to become a martyr i even said my last prayer when i was standing next to two young boys one of them got shot i got angry they weren't doing anything we were just chatting together. the boy was carried away and sabrina walked up a little closer to the border fence this by did tear gas being fired in her direction and then. like mariam she fell to the ground it was the bloodiest day since the war in two thousand and fourteen with israel firing live ammunition at crowds of stone throwers hundreds were admitted to hospital doctors say most for gunshot wounds the hospital is overwhelmed by the amount of injured that arrived here in one day but doctors also say they don't have enough equipment

or medicine to give the wounded the proper treatment. most of the injured. these are in the lower part of the body but the doctors were shocked at the extent of the many patients had large gaping exit wounds doctors say they hadn't seen this before because of the type of. bullets which in. the one. around fifteen centimeters. ok so here comes. of that issue of the. anything and. for some the damage was so great that the limb couldn't be said. ibrahim is now back home he didn't know doublemint he was targeted while praying was colton video. we went there to ask for our right to return we went to ask for

the siege to be lifted to lift the pressure on the youth we are depressed and suffering there is no work we can travel overseas only increased my result i will return to the fast even if the shooter. degrade much of return is a planned six weeks demonstration cooling for refugees and their descendants to go back to their family homes in what is now israel. prize eight suspected to return to the border on friday to commemorate did dead and honor to who did everyone aware that it could unravel in the same way that many in gaza say they have nothing to lose but that the honey. despite facing widespread international condemnation israel denies using excessive force against palestinian protesters stephanie second our reports from west jerusalem. little boils down to security this is the argument that israel always uses when it is accused of using excessive

force it's not the first time it has been accused of that it's army certainly and we had the defense minister avigdor lieberman said that the soldiers basically did exactly what they had to do and that in his opinion they all deserved to magill now the opinion here of these radio leadership and the army is that groups that they deem terrorist organizations like hamas and other islamic factions inside gaza are using these protests or hijacking them so to speak to sort of you know breach the border the you know the fence the barrier fence whatever you want to call it and even israel goes as far as to say planting explosive devices but the reality is you've got tens of thousands of people who are now protesting peacefully at this barrier if we're going to see these protests continue it is a different challenge israel is facing this hasn't happened in gaza before to this scale they're going to have to be very careful as to how they go forward also because the international community has already condemned israel saying it is used

excessive force and there should be an independent investigation which of course the defense minister is very clearly said there won't be one. the turkish president richard type erdogan has called israel's leader a terrorist in response to the attacks in gaza earlier benjamin netanyahu criticized turkey's ongoing military operation in the northwestern syrian region of a freend the israeli prime minister tweeting that his army quote will not be lectured by those who have indiscriminately bomb civilian populations for years a reference to turkey. don't joke so you say netanyahu we don't have the shame of invading and you are an invader you are a q pieing those lanes as invaders at the same time you are a terrorist hate in the air you are very weak and very strange first of all pull yourself together we are dealing with terrorists but you don't care about terrorists because yours is a terrorist theat and there's a terrorist state it's obvious what you've done in girls it's obvious what you've

done in jerusalem nobody truly loves you in this world and use of minea is executive director of the us campaign for palestinian rights he says there is no justification for the use of lethal force if protesters pose no threat to the israeli soldiers. what we know is that well ahead of the events israeli soldiers in fact one hundred snipers as the israeli media has reported more sent down outside of gaza and given orders to fire upon anyone who even came close to. the demarcation so the israeli sources will who were actually given marching orders to use lethal force against people who did not pose a threat and i think what we've seen. in the days an hour since this

march began is plenty of video evidence that shows many on armed individuals being shot by snipers from hundreds of meters away including many individuals who were killed and hundreds of people who are hit by live fire were injured as well but i think also importantly is that what we saw on the ground the other day in the gaza strip was a massive mobilization of people very well organized and organized under a single flag a palestinian flag and i think this represents for palestinians a wave or that this might just be the beginning and i think that's a prospect that scares the israelis very much as one of the reasons why they attempted to quash such overwhelming legal force from the outset because they simply do not know how to respond to a massive nonviolent popular who's right and you know the palestinian organizers

were behind this event if this is the beginning of things to come it could provide a great deal of leverage for them moving forward really hitting a achilles heel for an israeli state that is very much a lie it. christians muslims have joined together in the occupied west bank in a mileage in memory of the people killed in the israeli attack. as this report for those who came out it was a display of prayer and protest this peaceful interfaith march in ramallah a striking reminder of how a day usually reserved for festivity had instead been consumed by morning at the start of the gathering father's amount of public told us why a memorial of this type was so important today is but on sunday and usually at noon we have a procession in the streets of ramallah to celebrate about sunday but we decided to

cancel the procession and to replace it with this you know march in protest for the massacre of that happened in gaza two days ago palestinian officials who had also assembled we're grateful assad our brother and their christians insisted that the activities of this day be limited and to light candles to remember the mata's because we are all a united people whether in gaza old was bang christian or muslim those bullets that are coming out want to kill everything that is palestinian and there is no distinguishing between a muslim and a christian our blood is one of the somber mood highlighted in the faces of children and adults was palpable everybody we spoke with here today said that what was most important to them was to come out and to show their solidarity and to commemorate those who were killed in gaza. among the faithful there was also denunciation. and i mean should out today we condemned threw

a holiday at palm sunday what happened and demand international protection for the palestinian people and to stop message against palestinians. demands that for those who congregated here seem very unlikely to be met anytime soon. from a line in the occupied west bank. pope francis has used his easter message to call for peace around the world about eighty thousand people were in the vatican simply to square to hear the address in a reference to the violence in gaza he urged reconciliation in the holy land and he called for an end to the war in syria. you know you don't mind them off. today we implore the fruits of peace upon the entire world beginning with the beloved and long suffering land of syria whose people are worn down by an apparently endless fuel. by the light of the risen christ eliminate the consciences of all political

and military leaders that a swift end may be brought to the carnage humanitarian law may be respected and provisions be made to the aid so urgently needed by our brothers and sisters while also allowing the return of the displaced. the syrian rebel group in the last opposition stronghold in eastern is not yet reached a deal with the asset regime jaish al islam denies reports by the government and lebanese armed group hezbollah that its agreed to evacuate duma and says negotiations are still ongoing more than one hundred thousand civilians are said to be trapped in the town which has been severely damaged by a government gone bad mount the leader of jaish al islam told the neighborhoods of eastern ghouta on sunday explaining what's happening to the people left inside the enclave. there. we made a decision we will be here if we get it through negotiations it's good but if we do not get it what should we do we are now negotiating with the regime and trying as much as possible to protect our people from danger. separately fighters from the

failed rebel groups have now left duma these pictures from syrian state t.v. is said to show the fighters and their families on government buses heading for it live province. five soldiers from saudi arabia have been killed in the city of jism close to the border with yemen and saudi state media did not specify what course that it's humans who the rebels have released a video showing an attack on a military vehicle in the same area. world food program official says all relief supplies stored at a yemeni port facility have been destroyed in that fire the blaze broke out early on saturday in the who's the whole city of data footage of the after massive smoke and flames still eating through piles of burnt food the fires a further set back in what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis. a course in kuwait has sentenced to people to death for the murder of a filipino made of the body of joana demo fellas was found in a freezer in their abandoned apartment in february more than

a year after the murder of a lebanese man and his syrian wife were arrested in damascus and convicted in absentia the case triggered a diplomatic crisis between huey and the philippines last month present thirty ordered all philippines workers to return home from kuwait and banned citizens from working there was more ground still to cover for you on the news hour including rebuilding their lives the people in northern myanmar who fled war and fear they will never go home. and why france is reexamining how it treats children with autism. also the spurs make history against chelsea santa has all the details in the sports news in about thirty minutes. china has slapped terrace of up to twenty five percent on more than one hundred twenty u.s.

products including pork and wine it affects around three billion dollars worth of imports the move comes after the u.s. raised duties on foreign steel and aluminum imports last month beijing says it's safeguarding chinese interests and balancing losses caused by the u.s. tariffs. beaching correspondent adrian for people spending money in china what does this mean. well of course chinese people are big consumers of poor peter so potentially this is going to really hurt them in the pocket but but as you pointed out in your introduction the value of these imports are going to be hit with new tariffs amounts to just three billion dollars that is you know peanuts what china is doing i think it's not taking us to defcon you know one it's more like def com four or three there is still a long way to go i mean china is responding to that first round of sanctions that president trump announced last month affecting chinese alimony and steel china

hasn't so far responded to and trump's decision to impose tariffs of up to fifty billion dollars on other imports particularly areas of technology now that at the moment has not happened because the united states has said we need another six weeks or so for public consultation to work out you know the details of the second round of sanctions that is much more serious these sanctions were imposed by president trump following the outcome of his three zero one trade inquiry into the chinese trade practices in particular covering the area of intellectual property rights now this is a much more dangerous area this is where china really is concerned but so far there's been you know no suggestion that china is going to cancel orders it's placed with boeing it's not going to be imposing for now tariffs on things like products manufactured by apple or you know raise or hitting other big u.s.

organizations in the here in china like starbucks at the moment it seems to be contained but analysts are obviously worried that we're seeing the opening stages of a tit for tat trade conflict is the feeling where you are adrian that those predictions of a full on trade war are now coming through. no i think i have to say that overall a lot of the people you know in the know you might say seem to feel that actually this will remain for the time being you know serious trade friction not an all out trade war but that said china has said one it doesn't want a trade war it is fully prepared to fight one and of course under the under with president xi jinping now arguably the most powerful leader that china's had in four decades he has that added confidence of being able to stand up to the united states not just in areas of defense but also in key areas of trade but for the moment it

hasn't come to that adrian thank you south korean pop stars have put on a rare performance from north korea's leader kim jong un one hundred twenty dancers musicians and martial artists traveled to pyongyang on saturday for two concerts is the first musical delegation to visit the capital in more than a decade is peter shop. this was a cultural charm offensive that would be set to music after months of escalating military tensions the north korean leader kim jong un seemed determined to enjoy himself as he arrived for the first concert in pyongyang by a team of south korean entertainers. and from the north korean audience starved of a little light musical entertainment were loving it. was the singers and dancers weren't the troll card tonight.

i. talk kwon do maybe an acquired taste in parts of the world. but enthusiasm for this martial arts display. unites north and south thank. you and they're beginning our first performances in pyongyang today and i find it very meaningful the south and north take one has said the origin but the process is a different i am proud and happy that we got to display to the north korean people our taekwondo or the three through. north korean officials passing on their thanks to the visitors from the south a little evening distraction before the serious stuff a meeting by the two leaders later this month and face to face with president trump judging from a thanks it was the sight of olympic athletes from north and south korea marching under a unified flag at the opening of the games marked

a significant thaw in relations and that momentum appears to be continuing but all that didn't stop the u.s. and south korea kicking off a so-called low key joint military drill on sunday in last a month that featured the deployment of fewer strategic weapons peter shop al-jazeera. well the performance in pyongyang comes as south korea and the u.s. begin their annual joint military drills which were delayed by the winter games nearly twelve thousand u.s. troops are joining south korean soldiers as more on that force 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 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 donald trump says there will be no deal to protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants who arrive to the u.s. as children now the president made the announcement about the so-called dreamers on twitter it also threatened to pull out of the free trade agreement with mexico if

it doesn't do more to stop people from crossing the border estabrook reports now from washington. president donald trump began easter sunday with a holiday greeting on social media that later degenerated into a twitter rant over his proposed border wall with mexico and threats to dream or immigrants saying these big flows of people are all trying to take advantage of dhaka they want in on the act when asked about the tweets as he headed to church the president had this to say it's a go it's got to open at the border. a lot of people are coming in because they want to thank you ben. we're going to really see a great democrat. and a great great. deferred action for childhood arrivals or daca has been a bone of contention for president trump his threats to end it have spawned protests across the u.s. doco was created under president barack obama and shields undocumented immigrants

who came to the u.s. as children before two thousand and seven last fall president trump gave congress six months to fix dhaka but it failed to do so after negotiations with the white house broke down over immigration policy the administration tried to get the u.s. supreme court to intervene but it refused last month that was forced to renew some docket permits under court order president trump has vacillated on dhaka in meetings with congressional leaders earlier this year he seemed open to a permanent fix but in recent weeks his attitude seems to have changed yet again prompted by security issues at the border with mexico and a proposed border wall with america's neighbor to the south that still remains largely unfunded dian estabrook al-jazeera washington. well there was a swift response to those comments from donald trump coming from mexico from the man who is the favorite to win the presidential election in july and reyes manuel

lopez obrador says he will demand respect for his country. no matter what the it got no no no no. we're not going to rule out the possibility of convincing donald trump that his foreign policy is wrong and in particular his contemptuous attitude towards the mexicans. we're going to be very respectful towards the government of the united states but we're also going to demand respect to mexicans neither mexico nor its people will be opin yatta for any foreign government activists in the u.s. city of sacramento are keeping up their protest over the police killing of an unarmed black man last month in the latest demonstration a woman was injured after being hit by a police vehicle rallies organized by the black lives matter movement demanding justice for the killing of twenty two year old stuff on the clock his death has renewed calls for an end to what many see is systematic racism within u.s. police forces. at least twenty civilians rebels and soldiers have been killed in indian administered kashmir during the deadliest antigovernment protests and

fighting there so far this year the violence broke out civil tamia slee in several villages in the shopping on a hill district his poll should judge and. security forces in indian administered kashmir opened fire on villagers trying to stop the arrest of suspected armed separatists. hiding when the gunfire started we saw security forces everywhere since then early ambulances were seen on the roads carrying the injured they are firing directly. the violence that started the gunfight between rebels and soldiers while the houses were rebels were holed up burned soldiers fired bullets or guns and tear gas. it all several soldiers along with more than a dozen rebels and civilians were killed in three villages and i suspect that as we were offering funeral prayers and tear gas shelling started they fired pellets and

tear gas and didn't allow people to participate in the funeral they fired directly at people. during a funeral procession for one of the rebel commanders crowd chanted that those who died are heroes hindu majority india and muslim majority pakistan both claimed the entirety of the now divided territory as their own. was sitting they think that the kashmiri struggle for freedom will end by such means but god willing the freedom movement will rise like the sun and this struggle belongs our youngsters. hundreds of villagers along the defacto border between indian and pakistani administered kashmir have been forced to flee their homes because of cross border shelling in recent months. both countries accuse each other of targeting civilians tens of thousands of people have been killed in the decades old conflict and now the indian government is

anticipating more violence. paul chugged urging on al jazeera in one gerry a gunshots and explosions have been heard in the northern eastern city of my dignity security forces a said to be battling a large number of fights as believed to be members of boko haram as they try to infiltrate the area a common interest has more now from freetown in sierra leone. the fight is suspected to be members of boko haram sneaked into the villages of jimminy and ballet shoe ari under the cover of darkness and then launched at least ten bombs and it's suspected to be suicide bombs and launch on these two villages now this is coming just a few days after book war on fighters suicide bombers in fact four of them launched attacks close to what i gather it's an area they have targeted several times on the outskirts of my degree one woman was killed in that attack and the four suicide bombers now this is one of the large scale operations we've seen around my degree

area in months bible koran there were gunshots and it's not clear whether the fight is also known. to tax and in addition to the suicide bombs that went off in these two villages now this is coming at a time when the nigerian government is also offering amnesty to book why don't fighters who decide to surrender or who are willing to surrender and the question many nigerians are asking why to a group that has been technically defeated i looked up and i didn't question the rationale behind the declaration by the nigerian government over a year ago that boko haram has been technically defeated was seen book or on launch this attack they have duction of the death she goes girls are going to school in northeastern nigeria state of your b. state as well as similar types we've seen on isolated communities in northeastern nigeria the now i did military is battling them in several on several problems and addition to other responsibilities of attack or other containing the violence

between farmers and herds and as well as bandits in other parts of nigeria still ahead here on al jazeera stranded so close to home the harsh conditions still confronting people forced to flee during libya's civil war plus i'm john hall and this is russia's radioactive. it's one of the world's most polluted water ways. and in sports the toll. and this gets thrown into chaos santa will tell you while you know what happens later in the program. from the waves of the snow. to the cone towards the beast. hello there is still warm for many of us across china at the moment the temperatures there in shanghai will be around twenty five degrees as we head through monday just towards the west there is more in the way of cloud we're going to see quite a few showers around particularly active around the one queen province there is

gradually break up though as we head through into tuesday so more of us will get away with the drawee day still will move shanghai up to twenty six and force in hong kong will be around twenty eight degrees abit further towards the south and there's been plenty of cloud of rain over parts of time recently you see the time that we've seen there a very thick cloud bringing us plenty of wet weather now over the next couple of days we're going to see yet more cloud and yet more wet weather so for many of us here do expect things to be wrong of the great and at times a little bit wet towards the south also showers across so many parts of somalia and those are still gradually working their way across jobs as well which acosta seeing some pretty lively downpours at times and we head out towards the west we can see a fair amount of cloud is just edging its way eastwards a propulsive pakistan not a great deal of what weather to that at the moment but as it works its way over into the northern parts of pakistan in the northern parts of india we are going to see a little bit more in the way of wet weather to the south of all of that though it's fine and dry and just rather hot now forty. the weather sponsored by

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after school armenia is part of the rebel education series this time on al-jazeera . you're watching al-jazeera he said i'll be here in doha with a quick reminder of your top stories hospitals in gaza are struggling to cope with the influx of palestinians injured by israeli troops fire at the border many of the patients are being hit by live ammunition to say they're running out of medicine. these four civilians have died in protests in southern villages in indian administered kashmir them straightens broke out after indian forces launched counter insurgency raids overnight killing thirteen rebel fighters. south korean

pop stars have put already performance from north korea's leader kim jong il and one hundred twenty dancers musicians martial artists travel to pyongyang on saturday for two concerts it's the first musical delegation to visit the capital in more than ten years. now an abandoned chinese space lab has really entered the earth's atmosphere and burnt up over the south pacific china's space agency lost control of the vessel in twenty sixteen his gabriel elizondo. in the two thousand and eight fictional thriller gravity sandra bullock plays an american astronaut stranded in space in one of the final scenes she's seen catching a ride back to earth in the chinese space station tingling one that then breaks up in a fiery pieces as it hurtles towards planet earth and gone one space station is real and it really did crash into earth. it was launched in two thousand and eleven and it was china's first space station it served as

a laboratory base until controllers lost contact with it two years ago ever since it's been a giant piece of space debris about the size of a school bus and as this animation shows it's been slowly pulled into earth by gravitational force before a final uncontrolled reentry while dramatic it's not the first such manmade space object to crash back to earth unplanned the largest was a one hundred thirty five ton russian space station mir they broke apart in st erth in two thousand and one. the most spectacular perhaps this unmanned cargo spacecraft that broke apart into streaks of fire and debris as it crashed into the pacific ocean in two thousand and eight showing that what goes up even in space often comes down space is increasingly becoming a very busy place this is a computer generated model time lapse from one nine hundred sixty eight until today

showing all of the man made objects that are circling around earth in space right now all of the blue dots represent the more than sixteen hundred satellites that are currently in space all of the yellow dots represent debris scientists estimate there are more than half a million pieces of debris in space about twenty thousand of which are big enough to be tracked space debris. ranges from things as you know as big as a rocket to as too small fragmentation debris if it's human made and we put it in space. then it's debris every day something's coming down we typically see almost a daily reentry of one of the objects china hoping one of their future spacecraft end up in movies and have the same fate cables on do. are. to me and civil war and rapid development in the north has left many internally

displaced people fearing they'll never be able to go home in catchin state the military and rebels have been fighting for decades with thank you say sions of land being confiscated and exploited by the governments as the story. in northern maine people displaced by civil war are preparing to stay for the long haul more permanent structures are being created as they find they no longer have access to their land sixty five year old camorra look again fled his home seven years ago he would often sneak back to tend to a herd of cattle that is until last year he says his property was taken over by a government linked banana company with chinese investors read them all like they were i don't want anyone to take up on our land i need help to keep the company off my property i can't farm or feed the pigs or cattle or more is one of more than one hundred thousand people driven by fighting to camps like this one along the border

with china the rebel could chin independence army has been at war with the million man army on and off for decades fighting for control of the resource rich state. as ceasefire talks stall and development moves forward a spokesperson for the rebel leadership says they're negotiating to get their people's land back but proving ownership may be difficult and. they have the land registration documents but many lost them when they fled the village because of the fighting even though they lost their papers the government land office still has the original papers when the i.d.p.'s go back home they should get the landing rights documents back in civil society group is advising some of the key chain in the camps on how to apply for their original plan documents so they can return home resolving land disputes as same as came to achieving peace in the war torn region and are prominent issues in the country's

economic and political transition but the organization doubts they'll be progress without change to the army written two thousand and eight constitution. we were trying to produce a new. in order to constitution which ground the. all right these live in rice a distant possibility for now leaving many in this camp facing an uncertain future and perhaps no home to return to yeah al-jazeera hundreds of libyans forced to leave their hometown of to wake up during the civil war and are stranded in the desert libya's internationally recognized government in tripoli negotiated the return of the families but that is now looking into doubt his brother barbara and go pop. there's worry blowing through this does a camp people here were promised they could return to twerk six years after they

were forced from their homes but they have been blocked and even shot at by uniformed and plain clothes forces just twenty seven kilometers from their hometown you would imagine. part of you here for the sake of our return based on the presidential decree issued in december for return to target on february first. all the aid agencies are delivering food water and medicine conditions are harsh. here we will remain and maybe we will take a decision to travel on ones we will have a white flag and an olive branch in the direction of twaddle. the siege of misrata was one of the bloodiest episodes in libya's civil war twerk a fight has many of them descendants of black african slaves for tickets misrata militia to defend the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi some of them were accused of rape and other atrocities against misrata residents in an act of

collective punishment the entire city of up to forty thousand people was emptied after gadhafi is for the sake of the wood people were used to a certain way of life and suddenly it changed we were used to houses air conditioners t.v. and cars but now we live in tents there is dust cold and strong winds and we live in very difficult conditions and this is what awaits them into it's a ghost town but for those determined to return it still has. al-jazeera. a river in russia that serves hundreds of thousands of people is considered one of the world's most polluted and it's spreading radioactive contamination all the way to the arctic ocean journal reports now from russia's chelyabinsk region. is no ordinary river considered one of the most polluted waterways on earth the stench of open sewage rises from beneath the ice. 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 produced many types off nuclear waste. nuclear waste high level nuclear waste inside their area where. in one nine hundred fifty seven my x. suffered what's the to be the world's third worst nuclear accident contaminating a vast area affecting hundreds of thousands of people it was covered up for decades now does the type 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

a day on this that it's very dangerous because population died. and began 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 irina rama zone over used to swim in the toxic river as a child yes. i think it was the wrong decision where only three kilometers away what is it a clean zone. not everyone was relocated and he 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 mean it's a contaminated area done by of suffers from

a litany of health complaints from stroke to heart and bone marrow problems that his doctors have linked to years of exposure to excessive radiation cancer became 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 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. so what of the future dangers posed by my act and oksana sits there is an expert on

nuclear pollution. but it applies to this region and also goes all the way to the icy northern seas these materials never existed in nature before the human made and no one knows how they're going to behave over time activists believe my committee still be dumping waste into the region's water system russia's nuclear or storage eros atom says it complies with all relevant safety guidance little has been done to compensate victims of contamination jonah how al-jazeera in the chelyabinsk region of russia. elsewhere in russia thousands of protesters are demanding the closure of a landfill site that's leaking toxic gas the authorities declared a high alert on friday in the town of follow colombo that's about one hundred twenty kilometers west of moscow after dozens of children were treated by doctors for dizziness and nausea but officials say there's no need to evacuate the area and the air pollution is within permitted limits demonstrators city authorities need to

take immediate action must i believe good it should be available to our duty we have four labs in the city the labs always show that everything's amazing that everything's within limits but we're suffocating and these gases is slowly killing us everything's been silenced we can't get through to anyone. monday is world autism awareness day intended to increase knowledge of a condition which is frequently misunderstood the brain disorder affects an estimated sixty seven million people around the world it has an impact on how people interact with others and the experience the world around them they may have trouble reading non-verbal cues facial expressions or jokes will become overwhelmed in social situations the condition may also show itself as repetitive behavior or as a learning disability people with autism are often misunderstood autistic children may be misinterpreted as naughty while autistic adults report discrimination even

human rights violations it is called a spectrum condition meaning it affects different people in different ways and it cannot be cured but advocacy with education and proper support autistic people can live fulfilling lives in france campaigners say the state's treatment of autistic children is shameful and fifty years behind some of the country's autistic children have little access to mainstream schools and often placed in psychiatric hospitals now the government wants to tackle the problem with a national plan being launched this month natasha butler has that story. from paris . when he goes two years old his parents discovered that he had autism a condition that affects behavior and communication doctors told the couple to place their son in psychiatric daycare psychologist blamed them for his behavior called wrong. the psychologists who say you're making things up or it's your fault

or that you've caused this condition because you loved him too much or not enough you breast fed him too much or not enough we need to get out of this cycle analytical approach today you go attend his local school with a carer but that's rare in france where most autistic children have no access to mainstream education. on saturday families marched in paris they say the french state treatment of autistic children is shameful and they want change. keys are high that a man on the putting children in psychiatric hospitals has to stop it makes families suffer and children want to fellowship in a saver progs is around fifty years behind what for is i'd like to state when it comes to diagnosing and treating autism i wanted a big reason they say that is the problem still focused very much on a psychiatric treatment not of the educational. system. but

psychiatry say that they have an important role to play when it comes to a distant children you have to really ignore facts to say is it's not suffering when people tell me what islam is just as a way of being in the world or just a different type of intelligence trivializes it. mohammad such was so fed up with the lack of support and options in france for his son sami he set up his own school the emphasis here is on behavioral therapy and integrating children into mainstream school and society. the new government must decide to break with the old system and create a new public hell. strategy for autism that means extra money new training and new methods which some of us in france are already using. the united nations recently condemned france for violating the rights of autistic children the government says it's taking the matter seriously it's preparing to launch the new autism action plan this month but few people here dare to hope that it will provide

the support and financial help we've been waiting for this so it's all just sirrah paris. a former labor minister carlos alvarado will be costa rica's next president the electoral commission says he comfortably won the run off with more than sixty percent of the vote alvarado from the center left governing party defeated and evangelical preacher who opposed same sex marriage. scientists found the world's oldest known cases of two types of cancer in the remains of egyptian mummies and for apologists use c.t. scans to analyze the bones of two mummies which were discovered in an acropolis in the city of r.'s one the research showed the female mummy died of breast cancer in around two thousand years b.c. the earliest known case of a type of bone marrow cancer was identified in the male he died probably about two hundred years later. 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 people who died to develop society which took care of them until they died. still ahead here on the news. stay with us.

it's time for sports is some. thank you very much tossing them have beaten chelsea

for the first time at stamford bridge in twenty eight years in a game that could go a long way in deciding which of them will play champions the football next season all chelsea could have moved to within two points of spurs it with the win and opened the scoring throughout a viral morata christian eriksen score the long range a stunner to equalize a right on half time. then a bad the brace within the space of four minutes to give tottenham the three one victory i think that's the. massive three point. i think we have in the race for going forward to achieve. the end of the season that is a word challenge and today we had a great chance and to be used again we did we thought and. we lost these this chance to get their hands and we have to know that until the end that we have to

take to do our best to train these ascending games to to do everything to try to. take a place in champions league but it won't be easy as have a look at the table and spurs on the eight points clear of their london a rivals are in the final champions league qualifying spot arsenal now turn their attention to thursday's european league quarter final with c.s.k. moscow after this three nil win over stoke success there is the size only a realistic way of now qualifying for the champions league massive he can claim the premier league title by beating my knighted next saturday. well it's been quite a week for john isn't there the american has won his first mosque as one thousand title on home soil but he had to do it the hard way off to full see that xander is that ever came the first sets in a tie break then fold back to beat his german opponent six seven six four six four

in the biggest win of his fourteen year korea all australia in a real trouble off to the third day of the fourth and deciding test against south africa and to harness the well regardless of one south africa chooses it to the class trainers new look side already face a record chase at the wondrous south africa indeed the series two one are looking for the first test series win at home of australia since nineteen seventy and today just roy is now focused on becoming the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world after his victory over joseph paca has taken it to the final round for the first time in his career before beating paul call in points in front of eighty thousand fans in cardiff the briton now holds three of the four major wall titles and after the fight he said he wanted to take on w.b.c. champion while the who he needs to be to become undisputed champion however just

when his promoters say they aren't convinced the american is ready for the fight they're not negotiations can go nova social media and television stuff but i think that in terms of when you do serious business you have to. copy the privacy and discuss terms of conditions. and we can see. people don't take it but. if they stepped up and actually was serious about a boy and serious about their morning bats well for them because. we've been this already an unpredictable. well high risk i have not defending champion services out of the rugby's european champion cup. status called in just the fourth minute off a seventy meter team effort to their run in three tries in their third to nineteen quarter final win and will now need the scarlets in the semi's harassing at ninety

two will play munster in the other semifinal off to beating twenty eight to seventeen. american ryder cody where better has been crowned this soup and world champion three riders were in contention going into the final round in sweden the americans and nearest rivals crush does suffer the breakers just as they dealt with the multiple obstacles but webb's results across three races were enough for him to claim the title and the women's tour of flanders that was marred by a large crash midway through the hundred and fifty one kilometer brace the reigning olympic champion on the brigand winning by minute and twenty seconds or whether also cause crashes in the men's race at but the two men nick head of state i was able to pull away on the two kilometer cobblestone climb for his second win in a monument a classic and that's as well from we'll have more later on and if you want more

news comments sport and analysis is on the website al-jazeera dot com it's always there for you that the top story you can see it at the top of the page the last rebel group agrees to leave east and utah that's it for me peter dhabi and the news our team we're back twenty three g. hopefully see you then i will see you very soon. when winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media state machine it's going to overdrive. but just who is influencing who. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what can be said and what can just that. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for outside the media or opinion the listening post on al-jazeera we hear to jerusalem

bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we cover this story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of the story we have presence here all the time apart from being a charmer and it's also very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens there matters. the last time i spoke to him he told me he was thinking of going to syria the world wants to see syria's fighters up close and personal but those behind the camera pay the price filmmaker yes it is you made these chillingly intimate footage on and behind the front lines cost him his life his body was riddled with bullets and exclusive documentary syria the last assignments at this time on al-jazeera it's impossible

to underestimate the size and scale of the economic crisis it's not just about the billion trillion dollars of debt it's not just about the banks it's not just about the government to my real. benefit. people. see. documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. hospitals are overwhelmed with casualties from friday's attack by israeli troops in gaza with sixteen people killed at least fifteen hundred injured.