i am. i am. was. the south african celebrate the woman who led the fight against apartheid when the magic is on the mandela has died at the age of eighty one. hello i'm sure with al-jazeera live from doha also coming up in the program. a

dozen members of one family in yemen a killed in saudi led as strikes seven of them children. strength in numbers a thousand central americans crossed into mexico on a journey that's in rage the u.s. president. tangled up in debt tallow in shops are preying on tremendous most vulnerable communities. tributes are being paid to winnie mandela the anti-apartheid campaign and he played a leading role in the battle against white minority rule in south africa she'd been married to nelson mandela the nation's first black president throughout his twenty seven years in jail more news of gathered outside her house in silhouette to katherine sawyer. a vigil for we need. in soweto

the very heart of the anti apartheid struggle president cyril ramaphosa came to pay his respects as we say in african culture. a gigantic korea has fallen and this is the winnie mandela three that provided shame for the people of south africa and i 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 apartheid 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. every criminal act actually became the face and voice of nelson mandela and come pain while he was in prison for twenty seven years 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. to propagate violence against. comes to mind is that she defied the 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 impasse and all 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 go she looks back at the life of winnie my dk salem and. winnie 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 the working someone in your sphere of all the russian clubs 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 you are here through this morning.

testimony. offered really out of our government. but out here 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 and 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 her 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 then with that is the poverty of our people. we are far from. fighting the battle of poverty in fact we've messed 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.

relieve. this struggle a hundred times more if end of it i would that achieve precisely what we achieved as the african national congress the liberation of south africa the liberation of my people the israeli prime minister has suspended a deal reached with the un. which would have saved thousands of african asylum seekers resettled in western countries it replaced a controversial plan that would have deported them to a third country in africa the prime minister made the u. turn within hours of announcing the agreement under pressure from members of his government most of the migrants affected from eritrea and sudan stephanie decker has more from west to receive them to members of his own party seem to be unhappy

about this they weren't consulted at naturally bennett who's the education part of the jewish home party saying 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 focus not on 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 six success by the n.g.o.s by the civil society to in argue against this however they did say be see how this will unfold while now in a dramatic return i think it's safe to say it's been put 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 . saudi arabia's crown prince says palestinians and israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land mohamed bin solomon made the comments in an interview with the us magazine the atlantic is being seen as another sign of warming ties between saudi arabia and israel he said i believe the palestinians and israelis have the right to have their own land but we have to have a peace agreement to a show civility for everyone and to have normal relations there are a lot of interests we share with israel and if there is peace there would be a lot of interest between israel and the gulf cooperation council now the number of people killed by israeli troops during protests on girls is border on friday has risen to sixteen more than fourteen hundred others were injured friday was the first day of a sit in that's expected to last several weeks protest as

a camping near the barrier that runs along the entire land border of gaza israeli soldiers including snipers a station their protests are set up their camps about seven hundred meters away and plan to stay there until israel's independence day which is may the fifteenth or abdul hamid ripples from gaza. 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 a 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 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 into own hands 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. to yemen where a saudi led coalition air strike has killed at least fourteen civilians including seven children the missiles hit buildings housing internally displaced people i.d. in the rebel held city of her data coach a judge and reports. 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. we were at home having breakfast in the building all safe and sound when the collation hit the apartment building a neighbor was in his car and he left it and ran and when he came to take his family the second strike hit and the women were running in all directions 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 military hospital we have been treating those in critical condition many 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 drug with 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 or died out. 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 . still to come here on al-jazeera i protest as a killed and injured as members of india's lowest ranking col demonstrate against discrimination. i think china is trying to send a very measured response to. beijing's terrorists on american god send us stop

stumbling as far as gravel possible trying to bomb. hello again cloud it's clinging on to the middle east at the moment it's stretching from saudi arabia all the way out towards kazakstan giving some of us some rain but most of us have seen a fair amount of dust instead i think we are most likely to see some wet weather around the northeastern part of our map as we head through chews day and across some of the mountains again some of that will be turning wintery behind it though it's warming up safe attash came will be at around to twenty three degrees further west you can see the cloud that we've got here that feeds all the way up into the southern parts of russia is edging its way eastwards and this still the chance of seeing one or two showers if you're in back to or perhaps if you're a baghdad to the south and around parts of saudi arabia the clouds also being thick

enough to give us a few showers recently that cloud still with us on choose day and then it joins forces with the other one as we head through wednesday so for some of us will be quite grey at times and still the chance of seeing more outbreaks of rain for the southern parts of africa plenty of wet weather here we've seen some particularly sharp showers over parts of angola recently and those stretch further towards the east as well plenty of them all rush of them across the northern part of our map and also affecting us in madagascar mostly in the east but towards the south it's largely fine enjoy just a handful of showers here and it looks like cape town will be dry too over the next few days a top temperature of twenty four. on counting the cost a crude futures contract was launched in china this week find out what it all means for the dollar and oil producers a look at africa's biggest companies plus technology under scrutiny the latest on our digital data economy. counting the cost and i just.

go with al-jazeera and these are our 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 anti-apartheid movement and was married to the nation's first black president nelson mandela throughout his twenty seven years in prison. saudi arabia's crown prince says palestinians and israelis are entitled to live

peacefully on their own land i meant insall man's comments to us magazine seen as another sign of warming ties between silently arabia and israel twelve members of one family have been killed in a saudi led coalition air strike in yemen seven of them a children the missiles hit buildings housing internally displaced people in the who's held city of the data. and. couldn't do this province has killed at least thirty four people the all thora to say that target was a suspected taliban gathering but residents say a religious school this hit with a number of civilians killed several children have been treated for injuries. forty eight girls from a high school in afghanistan are thought to have been poisoned the girls are in a stable condition in a hospital in lashkar gah a doctor says they complained of headaches and vomiting cases being treated as suspected group poisoning most of helmand province is under the control of the

taliban which opposes education for girls. and crossing by more than a thousand central americans 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 accused mexico are failing to do enough to prevent them from entering the united states john home and reports from mexico city. 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 we couldn't figure out any solution 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 infuriated 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 fee that i highlighted on trump's preferred

battleground he tweeted every day mexico and the u.s. work together on migration throughout the region for. 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 and. mexico city police in thailand say they have made their biggest have a seizure of illegal drugs with an estimated street value of more than thirty million dollars it includes more than a million yaba pills and these are pills which contain a mixture of methamphetamine and caffeine he also sees more than six hundred seventy kilos of cocaine as well as other drugs most of it was bound for malaysia

which is used by smugglers as a transit point. at least seven people have died in india during protests against cast discrimination members of the dol it group say a supreme court judgment last month weakens their protection pizza shop reports. was. the protests began in several major cities across central and northern india a style scenes of delegates members of india's lowest cost cutting away lines and roads and attacked buses and government offices. they are enraged by a court order that they say dilutes the eagle safeguards protecting what is already a marginalized community but a large and minus this is the voice of the people every shuttle cost federal tribe member of the country is protest against atrocities being inflicted on us across india there is resentment and anger. and that was visible across the states of

punjab and haryana pradesh as indian security forces reacted quickly. cost discrimination is outlawed but remains widespread as does the anger. a senior government minister appealed for restraint c.f.d. activism and a review petition has been filed in the supreme court i will only appeal to all political parties and groups to not incite an act of violence and i hope everyone cooperates with this. but the effects of this day of confrontation quickly spread shops and businesses were reported to have shut down as protesters cut roads into the capital new delhi and industrial cities making it very clear that had enough we can go back to the old system where the minority that would be the upper caste in those they would dominate the way out i would save solidarity between dalit muslim minorities christian minorities and anyone who cared for equality and human rights

and a democracy in india monday's demonstrations were called by several groups representing the daleks once known as the untouchables they make up two hundred million of india's one point two five billion population and despite anti discrimination legislation going back seventy years still remain at the very bottom of the cost hierarchy. be the shop al-jazeera. protests is a fool's again with security forces in indian administered kashmir after cafes were lifted. the authorities had closed schools and blocked the internet following a weekend of protests and gun battles which left twenty people dead doctors on monday said they treated several people with eye injuries they've been hit by a pellet gun fire. u.s. stock markets have been rattled in part by news of new china tariffs on american goods beijing impose tariffs of up to twenty five percent on more than one hundred

twenty products they followed president trump's imposition of higher on steel and alum indian imports adrian brown reports 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 is 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 chinese a muscle cord our only 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. accessible small loans known as micro financing have helped countless entrepreneurs around the world to launch or to expand their own businesses but intra lanka unregulated companies charging high interest rates and leaving some communities struggling to survive the 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 mid 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 that 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. 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 universe we have to defeat the fearful people. and misinform so we have taken many initiatives on people are betting people will financial and existing programs. 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 they 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. and i'm sure you haven't forgotten but just in case is always the website al jazeera dot com keep up to date with all the day's big stories. these are the top stories here it out as there tributes are being paid to south africa's former first lady winnie matic is an amanda ella who's died at the age of eighty one she played a leading role in the anti-apartheid movement and was married to the nation's first black president nelson mandela throughout his twenty seven years in jail. as we

say in african culture. a gigantic korea has fallen and this is the women. that provided shades for all the people of south africa saudi arabia's crown prince says palestinians and israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land mohammed bin salmen made the comments in an interview with the us magazine the atlantic is being seen as another sign of warming ties between saudi arabia and israel 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 buildings housing displaced people in the fifty held city of her data israel's prime minister has suspended a deal with the u.n. 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 american migrants into mexico has prompted a storm of criticism from the u.s. president the so-called easter caravan is open eyes by activists who aim to highlight the plight of people escaping crime and profit poverty in a series of tweets donald trump accused mexico of failing to do enough to prevent them from entering the united states many are looking for sanctuary in either mexico all of the u.s. police in thailand say they've made the biggest of a seizure of illegal drugs with an estimated street valley of more than thirty million dollars it includes more than a million pills made from a mixture of methamphetamine and caffeine they also seize all than six hundred seventy kilos of cocaine and other drugs most of it was bound for malaysia which is used by smugglers as

a transit point but those are the headlines counting the cost is next. a conflict stunning seven years. of humanitarian disaster displacing more than half the nation. on just zero world meets the children who have become victims of serious of a war. a syrian child on al-jazeera. alone has them so you can this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week.