right. south african celebrate the woman who led the fight against apartheid winnie matic is delamont della has died at the age of eighty one. hello martin elisha without you there live from doha also coming up

a dozen members of one family in yemen a killed in saudi led airstrikes seven of them a children. israeli prime minister suspends a deal with the un over african asylum seekers just hours after he announced it on television. the strength in numbers a thousand central americans cross into mexico on a journey that seemed raged the u.s. president. but first tributes are being paid to winnie medical. the anti-apartheid campaign and played a leading role in the battle against white minority rule in south africa she had been married to nelson mandela the nation's first black president throughout his twenty seven years in prison mourners have gathered outside a house in silhouette and katherine sawyer. a vigil for we need.

to wait till the very heart of the idea apartheid struck president. to pay his respects as we say in african culture. a gigantic three has fallen this is the women mandela three provided shades. for the people of south africa he told the wilder that south africa has lost a giant and has sent off the great legacy mandela will be given a state funeral next saturday and before that will be memorial services and across the country she has been one of the strongest women in our struggle who suffered immensely under the parted regime who was imprisoned who was banished who was treated very badly separated not only from her husband but from the children as well and their people

but notwithstanding all the she remains strong. she remained determined she was courageous. i mean our act actually became the face and voice of nelson mandela and come pain while he was in prison for twenty seven yes all these people say they are here to celebrate the life of winnie mandela was also very controversial figure she's been accused of being involved in human rights abuses during the times she's also been accused of having a very militant leadership style a song say that these kids paid for legacy there's a. lot for people here that even one of their parts right system she fought hotshot cummings. would understand. itself was fired. it was natural.

violence against. a comes to mind is that she defied a project system which isn't such a huge negative impact on our country and the biggest project still lives on today . she might have lived a checkered life with her own political and past struggles but many people in south africa want to remember half of the role she played in the fight against apartheid and the impact she had to know people here for them she is the mother of the nation catherine saw al jazeera john is back south africa. more now from barbara and goodbye who looks back on the life of winning a medal. when mandela the former wife of nelson mandela spent years in the public eye as an anti-apartheid campaigner my husband has been fighting for the liberation of the african people for their work and how when you

speak of all the russian troops in this country she'd been suffering from a long illness for which she spent much of this year in and out of hospital she was revered and controversial in equal measure your husband got up here through this morning. testimony. office really out of our government. but area has failed our country during her husband's twenty seven year imprisonment in robben island when it made a crucial role in directing the anti-apartheid struggle. in one thousand nine hundred ninety now so mandela was freed and the world watched as a jew i walked out of prison hand in hand but by the end of the next year when he was found guilty and fined for her involvement in the kidnapping of forced to wear to school children and the killing of a boy in a stumpy by had team of bodyguards the necklacing method in which he was burnt to

death with petrol filled tires horrified south africans. in one thousand nine hundred ninety two allegations of corruption and mismanagement forced her out of all executive positions in the a n c but shortly after she was appointed as culture minister in mandela's unity government she was sacked a year later for insubordination but kept her position as a member of parliament and head of the women's league had marriage to mandela and that in one nine hundred ninety six when he however remained a strong figure in south africa's social and political circles the reality we see out today. i think our worst problem today is crime and of course what goals we had in the end with that is the poverty of our people. we are far from. fighting the battle of poverty in fact we've missed revolution in this country is a revolution ok supporter for people there she faced controversy in the latter

parts of her life for millions of south africans winnie mandela holds a special place her brave fight against discrimination and for equality. to relieve. this struggle a hundred times more if at the end of it i would that achieve precisely worked we achieved as the african national congress the liberation of south africa the liberation of my people well it is jane is do we ver is author of the book how exceptional black women lead and she says when he made it his elemental became an international symbol of resistance. she should be remembered as a bold courageous freedom fighter a woman who faced the just horrors of apartheid and face those horns with courage

and with resolution to push through them to to fight for the freedom that ultimately her efforts and her husband's efforts and so many others over protected period of time ultimately resulted in victory in a free south africa apartheid was not angelic ok you know i would hate to have all that she did and all that the cycle feist for her nation and for the freedom of her people reduced down to those specific events which i would argue that she herself. openly was not proud of i guess you would say perhaps but i would argue that the psycho fight tremendously for her country a murderous government that killed and banished people for decades while the rest of the world looked the other way if that created somewhat of a very militarized approach one could argue that given the circumstances that she

faced and lived through is it that surprising at the end of the day she fought for freedom and that's exactly what she ultimately want to yemen now where a saudi led coalition air strike has killed at least fourteen civilians including seven children the missiles hit a housing compound in the rebel held city of data pulte dodgy and riffle. emergency workers say more than a dozen people from the same family including several children were killed in the strike in the yemeni port city of what data that as soon as we were at home having breakfast in the building all safe and sound when the coloration hit the apartment building a neighbor was in use car and he lifted and ran and when he came to take his family mistaken strike hit and the woman were running an old erections it was a big strike. and two other adults were also killed in the attack on the housing compound. we were sitting down in the planes were flying above us as soon as

i decided to go to sleep a rocket had i only gained consciousness when the whole building had collapsed on us i started digging in the rubble and burnt my leg in the process in the second rocket has us. many people living in this with the rebel held area are displaced civilians from other provinces. here in the ministry ospital we have been treating those in critical condition mainly from severe burns loss of organs and amputation of legs and hands. more than ten thousand people have been killed since saudi arabia and the united arab emirates intervened in yemen's war in two thousand and fifteen the coalition is supporting the internationally recognized government of president of a drop of months or heidi against who the rebels the airstrikes helped turn yemen one of the world's poorest countries into what the u.n.

calls the world's worst humanitarian disaster. struck back at saudi arabia after the attack on four data human rights watch has called on the rebel group to immediately stop their indiscriminate missile attacks on populated areas of saudi arabia. but the saudi led coalition has received the brunt of the international community's criticism unicef says the strike in holidayed on monday was one of the deadliest attacks on children since the escalation of the conflict three years ago falter dirge on al-jazeera the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has suspended a deal reached with the un's refugee and agency which would have seen thousands of african asylum seekers resettled in western countries it replaced a controversial plan that would have deported the men to a third country in africa the prime minister made the u. turn within hours of a of announcing the agreement under pressure from members of his own government

most of the migrants affected are from eritrea and sudan seventy deca has more from west jerusalem in members of his own party seem to be unhappy about this they weren't consulted naturally bennett who's the education part of the jewish home party and that israel would become let me say exactly said a paradigm for infiltrators in this is because this is these these are asylum seekers have throughout the course of the last eight years or so been called illegal in traitors by authorities here not my cause not seekers and that's one of the points which today was interesting that the prime minister actually started calling migrants in starting to now move forward and not do this mass deportation plan which had come under such criticism it was hailed as a success by the n.g.o.s by the civil society to in argue against this however they did say it will be see how this will unfold while now in a dramatically churn i think it's safe to say it's simple on hold because of his

right wing likud not happy about this saying that you know they need to discuss this further it will need to be consulted in the needs to vote on it in the cabinet . we got a lot more to come here without is here including tangled up in de kalb loan sharks are preying on sri lanka's most vulnerable communities plus i think trying to destroy the sun the very measured response to beijing's tiris on american goods and u.s. stocks tumbling is seen as growth of a possible trade war. hello again we're expecting some more snow across parts of north america we've just seen some all thanks to this system here that gallop through pretty quickly but still

gave us some fairly decent amounts of snow in places and as that plays out the way we'll see yet more but this one will give us some more widespread snow and some heaviest snow some places could see around thirty centimeters of snow from this system eventually on cheese day and wednesday will begin to pull away towards the east but still giving us some heavy falls as it does say for the south where of course it's far too warm for her still see some snow here will see a lot of rain for the west generally a little quieter weather wise here but seattle will still be seeing yet more rain and over the mountains we'll see some snow further south and we've got our trading system here that's gradually sinking its way southwards bringing some of us some showers including force in jamaica is gradually working its way eastwards though and for the leeward islands it does look pretty wet as we head through wednesday some of the showers will be very very heavy there's also some very heavy showers over south america at the moment to this stretching from the northeast around forty days and then all the way back down down towards the southern parts of brazil as well so around rio it looks really quite wet for the south as warm ascension up at

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take a look at the top stories tributes are being paid to south africa's former first lady winnie mandela who's died at the age of eighty one she played a leading role in the movement and was married to the nation's first black president nelson mandela twenty seven years in prison. twelve members of one family have been killed in a saudi led coalition air strike in yemen seven of them were children the missiles hit a housing complex in the. data. israel's prime minister has suspended a deal with the un's refugee agency to resettle more than sixteen thousand african asylum seekers in europe and north america benjamin netanyahu made the u. turn within hours of announcing the agreement under pressure from members of his government. the number of people killed by israeli troops during protests on the

border on friday has now risen to seventeen more than fourteen hundred others were injured friday was the first day of a sit in there is expected to lie. also several weeks protests is a camping along the barrier that runs the entire border of gaza israeli soldiers and snipers a station their protest is set up their camps about seven hundred meters away and plan to stay there until israel's independence day or may the fifteenth hodder abdul hamid has more from. people here in gaza are pinning a lot of hope on the so-called long march of return which is basically staying along the border for dinnick six weeks or until may fifteenth which is actually a day the palestinians refer to as snack bar or catastrophe because it is the day of the creation of the state of israel the cabman's are about five hundred to seven

hundred meters away from the border fence which is just there in the background there you see some people have gone a bit further down and they are basically at the limit at the still called buffer zone about three hundred meters posed by israel they don't want the army doesn't want to see anyone in that area but you can see that some of the young people have actually gone defiantly a bit closer to the border now organizers and the people coming here want to make sure that this remains a peaceful nonviolent sit in many people i spoke to said you know we had several wars here in the gaza strip over the past ten years there was a lot of violence we lost a lot of our own people we are going to try this new way and nonviolent long term protests in the hope that maybe it will change something many people will tell you that they are sort of fed up of living thanks to humanitarian handouts they want

to take their own future and on hand they want to have life in the gaza strip like life anywhere else as specially they want to be able to have at least freedom of movement so certainly they're pinning a lot of hope what will unfold is not clear but what from what we understand people will continue to come here for the next six weeks. meanwhile doctors in gaza say many of those hurt on friday have injuries medical staff had never seen before surgeon mohammed kalou says mace people were hit in the lower body with large gaping x. it was because of the type of bullets here is exclusive bullets which in around the one one or two millimeters but outlet around fifteen centimeters out of it so here comes the damage severe damage of the tissue civil

division of the nerves and severe damage of the arteries anything and the bone. an annual crossing by more than one thousand central american migrants into mexico has prompted a storm of criticism from the u.s. president the same called easter caravan is organized by activists who want to highlight the plight of people escaping crime and poverty donald trump and mexico are failing to do enough to prevent them from entering the united states john homan reports from mexico city. the become any which way they can on foot in buses and trucks central american migrants crossing into mexico looking for sanctuary here or in the united states they usually go in small groups but every easter activists organized this caravan to bring awareness to the plight of those fleeing poverty or criminal gangs in their homelands particularly el salvador and honduras. it started with threats and i'm

a woman and well men can do more than me and we couldn't figure out any solutions except to come here and that's it i think a lot of the caravan organizers hope that the sheer numbers will keep them safe from the cartels which often kill and extort migrants and mean the authorities let them stay or pass through so far they've been granted free passage that's impurity to the u.s. president donald trump who tweeted mexico is doing very little if not nothing stopping people from flowing into mexico through their southern border and then into the u.s. that on the whole is not true over the last four years mexico has drastically tightened up its southern border with the help of funding from the u.s. usually migrants accord in a web of patrols and checkpoints there have been many accusations of human rights abuses the tolerance for caravans like this one is exception not the rule something mexican foreign minister luis v.

that i highlighted on trump's preferred battleground he tweeted every day mexico in the u.s. worked together on migration throughout the region. the facts clearly reflect this the government here would hope that its efforts to stop migrants heading through mexico to the u.s. would help the relationship with the northern neighbor but president trump doesn't appear to see it that way after learning about the caravan even threaten to cool off a trade deal between the countries it's impossible to know how many of the tweeted threats will turn into policy but it's another headache for the mexican government and an unhappy signal for those who say going home is not an option john home of. mexico city well meanwhile the u.s. department of justice has announced that it will evaluate immigration judges on how many and how fast they deal with cases more now from our correspondent in washington alan fischer. it's estimated there own six hundred eighty thousand cases to be dealt with by the immigration courts the department of justice wants to see

that number significantly reduced they want to see the number of people hanging around waiting for their court dates essentially to go away because they can apply for work while they're waiting for the case to be hammered know what the department of justice would like to see is a judge's processing somewhere in the region of seven hundred cases a year at the moment the average is just under about six hundred eighty so the department of justice says this isn't a huge leap this is just probably dealing with three cases a day for every judge and they point to the fact that some judges deal with more than a thousand cases in the year but the difficulty is some immigration cases are a lot more complicated than others no immigration judges when they signed a new collective agreement with the government there greed to the introduction of some quarters and so the department of justice is saying from the beginning of the new financial year and tobar we want to see this going forward it could be open to challenge in the courts particularly from people who would be concerned that judges

are more interested in processing the number of cases rather than jus a process in their courtrooms sore though the department of justice issued this statement to all immigration judges on friday before the easter holiday in the united states it's clearly something that could well play out over the coming months as we see likely illegal challenges to the side from donald trump's the partment of justice. police in thailand say they've made their biggest ever seizure of illegal drugs with an estimated street value of more than thirty million dollars it includes more than a million so-called gabber pills now these are a mixture of methamphetamine and caffeine they also sees more than six hundred seventy kilograms of cocaine as well as other drugs and most of this was bound for malaysia looking at the scene live now in bangkok where police are presenting for

the media the vast amount of drugs that they have collected malaysia the destination for these drugs apparently because that is a country that is used by smugglers as a transit point. so u.s. stock markets have been rattled empowered by news of new china terrorist on american goods beijing impose tariffs of up to twenty five percent or more than one hundred twenty products they followed president trump's imposition of higher duties on sale and last month adrian brown reports now from beijing. the list of u.s. goods targeted by china is in line with what officials here proposed last month that's when president donald trump applied new levies on chinese on a million and steel imports the latest measures would affect around three billion dollars of u.s. imports but that's less than two percent of the value of u.s. trade with china from monday the chinese government began imposing additional

judi's on one hundred twenty eight kinds of products the highest tariff of twenty five percent will be on u.s. pork a fifteen percent duty will apply to fruit nuts and wine but not soybean imports worth around fourteen billion dollars annually to the u.s. analysts say china's response appears measured i think the key here is targeted what they have done as a package i mean one hundred twenty eight or a rather small items but you'll notice that apart from the scrap aluminum they're mostly agricultural in areas that will that voted for trump i think china is trying to send a very measured response last month the trumpet ministration announced a second round of trade sanctions against china a twenty five percent levy on more than fifty billion dollars of chinese annual imports the white house has not yet specified which products will be affected but targets will likely include sectors like robotics artificial intelligence and

electric cars industries at the heart of the new made in china strategy chinese leaders say they don't want to trade war with the united states but won't sit back . if the economy here is hurt for now though they appear to be trying to prevent tensions rising still further if it came to a trade war china would have more to lose as it exports far more to the united states than the other way round some chinese shoppers we spoke to though did not appear concerned would you be able might help if the u.s. wants to fight a trade war i will never buy their products no foreign products japanese korean american we have our own products. i think we should give up buying american products i'm chinese a muslim court our own products it is not a trade war yet but the coming few weeks could determine whether one really will happen adrian brown al jazeera asia. now microphone and sing has helped countless

entrepreneurs around the world to launch or develop their own businesses with small loans but in sri lanka unregulated companies with a high interest rate leaving some communities struggling to survive but as smith reports from the northern city of jaffna these nets cost a thousand dollars each a fortune to fishermen who make as little as two dollars a day depending on the season. so they're a perfect target for unregulated micro financing lenders who charge interest rates of up to two hundred twenty percent. the more these communities in northern sri lanka struggle to repay the money the more entangled in debt they get going to the need to be bought got lost so we took another loan then the lawn collectors started how to sing us so we mortgage the house and took another loan when you start the interest rates are low but the put them up after two or three repayments. this

group's combined debt is seven thousand dollars the women first started taking loans of a few hundred dollars each five years ago. micro financing flourished in jaffna after the end of the civil war in two thousand and nine the loans helped fund consumer spending but have been stalled by thirty years of conflict one theory was that encouraging micro financing would help stimulate the economy but what's happened is that any extra cash that's been generated has been spent by the people talk out the loans servicing those very high interest rates all the profit with the micro finance companies. they want money for. the central bank knows that there's a problem but it believes market competition will rein in interest rates apart from controlling the interest we have to defeat the people and people are. misinformed so we have. to face on people are

betting people will financial. support them and i thought this meant and not. the existence of entire communities is taken up with repaying debt. mentally these women are distressed they can't socialize i wonder how they will educate their children and even provide food because of the loan issue they can't even concentrate on looking after their own children. this year the government has budgeted to channel low interest loans through local credit cooperatives a pilot scheme has yet to get started without more manageable the loans these communities may find it hard to develop beyond a subsistence economy burnitz with al-jazeera just. these are the top stories here it out tributes are being paid to south africa's

former first lady winnie medical. has died at the age of eighty one she played a leading role in the n.t. apartheid movement and was married to the nation's first black president. nelson mandela throughout his twenty seven years in prison catherine soy has more from somewhere today. it's going to be a night vigil in so whether the very heart of the struggle for liberation in many many people are dancing and singing and saying that they're just celebrating the life of president cyril ramaphosa was here and you see that they really. you know we knew my dad has been aging for a while that in and out of hospital but the president said that she appears to have been doing well that's why these has so many south africans unaware of the shocks they say that devastated the heartbroken twelve members of one family have

been killed in a saudi led coalition air strike in yemen seven of them were children the missiles hit a housing complex in the who's the held city of new data israel's prime minister has suspended a deal with the un refugee agency to resettle more than sixteen thousand african asylum seekers in europe and north america benjamin netanyahu made the u.-turn within hours of announcing the agreement under pressure from members of his government and i knew crossing by central americans into mexico has prompted a storm of criticism from the u.s. president the so-called easter caravan is organized by activists who want to highlight the plight of people escaping crime and poverty in a series of tweets donald trump accused mexico of failing to do enough to prevent them from entering the united states for a trial today those are the very latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming

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