but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and she's close to the story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu suspends a deal with the united nations over african asylum seekers just hours after down saying it on national television.

looks a whole robin you watching al-jazeera life one headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes saudi arabia's crown prince says he recognizes israel's right to exist in a further sign of all the relations between the two states. and we as south africa over all in mourning remembering south africa's a former first lady when we look back at her legacy also. france deals with a national rail strike that's expected to cause chaos for commuters. could have you with us welcome to al-jazeera israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was suspended a deal reached with the un's refugee agency which would have seen thousands of african migrants under saddam seekers resettled in western countries now the prime minister made the u.-turn within hours of announcing. the agreement under pressure

from members of his own government to not replace the previous plan to forcibly send a sixteen thousand people to countries in africa if they did not leave voluntarily most of the migrants affected are from eritrea and sudan well stephanie decker is our correspondent in west jerusalem following this story and stephanie it's less than what twelve hours and we were talking about this a surprise turn around and one really has to question why the prime minister has changed his mind so soon after making such a public announcement. yes i think this is quite significant two major u. turns in the first one as you mentioned so public the news came out that this policy the mass deportation was reversed because of a deal with the united nations refugee council within about two hours the prime minister and the interior minister made an address on television laying out you know what the plan would be and why you know they've gotten to that point well in the middle of the night it was around eleven pm midnight the announcement that it had been reversed he wrote it on facebook and yes as you mentioned because of

opposition from his right wing coalition members from his own the coup party also naftali bennett the education minister from the jewish home party saying basically that this would be israel would give paradise for infiltrators because basically throughout this last eight to ten years so the name given to these asylum seekers as you mentioned most from eritrea and saddam were illegal infiltrators israel trying very hard to give a message to them that there was no future here in terms of refugee status they never really processed most of them i think the numbers are around ten were given refugee status out of forty thousand so yes a major u. turn basically because of opposition from his right wing coalition and also his right wing base which is very important to him because you touched on the whole sort of political aspect of why this turnaround has happened despite the the very large amount of public pressure that's been put on the government to look with us

to kind of. what is this now telling us about the way netanyahu is dealing with the various factions within the cabinet and with his government large. well i think this two things here one the prime minister is an under investigation for fraud he's in a sensitive point right now it's fragile he is hugely dependent first of all evil on his coalition also his right wing base people will tell you that a lot of his base took to facebook not happy about this move about the reversal which would see around sixty to twenty thousand asylum seekers remain within israel at the same time i think it also highlights the complexities not just when it comes to israel of course it has different dynamics here but when it comes to the policy of dealing with migrants yes you have a sympathetic element of the population here certainly you have civil society n.g.o.s have been really fighting to get this reversed but at the same time you

have people who do not want them to be here and i think a lot of criticism on this policy that's been over the years from groups like n.g.o.s and civil society saying that this is an inherently racial policy and it all has to do with the identity of the jewish state but of course a lot of these the solemn seeker so had her rest ik horrific you know journeys to get here rape torture abuse so it's a very sensitive situation we'll have to wait and see how it all plays out indeed for the moment first we'll leave it and come back to when the situation certainly develops in west jerusalem. saudi arabia's crown prince says palestinians and israelis all in total to live peacefully on their own learned and haven't been smuggling the commons in an interview with the us magazine the atlantic it's seen as another sign of warming toys pursued in saudi arabia and israel in it he said i believe the palestinians and the israelis have the right to have learned but we

have to have a peace agreement to assure stability 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. fifteen people have been killed by israeli troops during protests on gaza's border on friday more than fourteen hundred others were injured friday was the first day of a sit in that is expected to last for several weeks protesters are camping near the barrier that runs along the entire land border guards are now israeli soldiers including some one hundred snipers are stationed there protesters set up their camps about seven hundred meters away and plan to stay there until israel's independence day on may fifteenth. has more 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 didn't exceed squeaks or until may fifteenth which is actually

a day the palestinians refer to as nec but look at that strophe 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 for women to he's element dela the anti-apartheid campaign who played a leading role in the battle against the want minority rule of south africa. died at the age of eighty one she had a long marriage to nelson mandela the nation's first black president born in the eastern cape province as

a young social worker when he mandela enjoyed the humiliations and limitations of racial segregation shortly after marrying the lawyer nelson mandela he was handed a life sentence for his anti apartheid activities with her husband in jail she became a leading voice of the air and sea and her jailed husband in one nine hundred sixty nine she was imprisoned tortured and sent into exile by the apartheid regime many say this harsh treatment had hardened her she was convicted for charges relating to the one nine hundred ninety one kidnapping and killing of a fourteen year old suspected informer stomping work at sea the following year in the shock to the nation south africa's first couple split but she retained a loyal political following within the a.n.c. sometimes putting her at odds with her ex-husband archbishop archbishop desmond tutu another veteran of the struggle says her courageous defiance was deeply inspirational to generations of activists while tributes are being paid to winnie

mandela as mourners gather outside her house and sweater catherine saw is there. a vigil for we need. in some way till the very heart of the idea apartheid struggle president cyril ramaphosa came to pay his respects as we say in the african culture . a gigantic clearly has fallen and this is the women there like three that provided shade for the people of south africa mandela will be given a state funeral next saturday and before that will be a memorial services in the hills across the country she has been. one of the strongest women in our struggle who has suffered immensely and there parted the 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 remained strong she remained determined she was courageous. i mean our act she 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 but also a very controversial figure she's been accused of being involved in human rights abuses during the i pod times she's also been accused of having a very militant leadership style a song say this could take her legacy. even one of their parts height system she fought draft hotshot cummings. it would understand. itself was violent. it was natural.

against. comes to mind is that she defied an apartheid 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 will 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 of people here for them she is the mother of the nation catherine saw al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. well the beast of a good as a researcher at the al-jazeera center for studies joins me now here in studio and expert on south africa and african affairs. could have you with us let's just briefly discuss the legacy winnie mandela how should we remember her well to be fondly remembered by minister africans because she should render struggle in the

absence of the political leadership in south africa when most of the a.n.c. leaders ainslie leaders were arrested and many of them in exile women there were together with the likes of other witnesses who knew where the faces of the south african black struggle against apartheid so she'll be swallowed remembered by many many many south africans. following his following in the death it's interesting how outside the borders of south africa the international public may have a different impression of winnie mandela yet within the country she is the face of the apartheid movement when her husband was incarcerated for nigh on three decades for many who were born during that period that generation she embodies everything about finding a way against apartheid indeed yes she was a face i think people misunderstood misunderstood her role after the release of many political prisoners and those would return from exile women in the only

struggle she was the one who was basically in front of the struggle in south africa and when these people came back men by and large they then wanted to serve that control and power from her and that's when she became somehow defiant because she was for decades i mean of my generation for example no no other face of political leadership but when the mandela of course that there was a sort of meek mild you dare i say housewife whose husband had been incarcerated and then there's a slow period. she say of defiance. how did that change the woman that we remember now because she wasn't always like us yes and she wasn't and i think a.b.c. is to blame in this regard because when they came in they totally disregarded the existing political leadership in south africa and they wanted to impose themselves as a legitimate leadership of the organization and that's when the. conflict started to

of ideas and conflict of who isn't supposed to be leading the struggle one thousand and one when everything else was was was was opening so women the law was to an extent a power house on her own and she did not need the backing of the retaining from exile and those who came from from prison to dictate to her how to continue leading the struggle against apartheid in south africa actually with it being a very male dominated society set in the politics of the a.n.c. how did her role as a woman influence the next generation of either a.n.c. female activists all those that wanted to pursue a political career while it did it did influence some in the she was one of the people who redefined feminism for example i learned from her that the feminism's is the end of feminism because people from the global south have got seven different social political agencies compared to the people in the khobar north so she was a inspiration to the gender justice movement in south africa and to the women to

the to the many women who then became a political activist and social commentators in south africa but we'll leave it there for the moment for cooter knowing that when you mandela will be getting a state funeral we'll talk more about this through the day for the moment that could have to be so thank you. still ahead here on the world is there a tangled up in that house loan sharks that prey on strong because of its vulnerable entrepreneurs. or to its last straw kill the jews in iraq's second largest city give us a look at what was damaged or destroyed during arsenal's right to stay with us. hello there we've got yet more wet weather that's pushing its way across europe we haven't even got rid of the first system yet you can see it swirling away over the

eastern parts of europe it is still giving us some strong winds some heavy rain and a lot of snow as well and there's only a small break before the next system is pushing in this is already giving us rain over the britain and ireland down through france and into spain and portugal as we head through chews day that would be pushing up into scandinavia still more rain and snow there and that cloud also dangles for the south through parts of italy and into the mediterranean as well in this whole region again still staying on settled as we head through wednesday so so rather messy temperatures not too bad those thirteen degrees as a top temperature there in paris now across the other side of the mediterranean we're also seeing some of that unsettled weather you can see the thick cloud that we're expecting of a parts about geria and china sea of their own cheese day that will be thick enough to give us the old shower gradually that clears away there and wednesday does look brighter looks like we'll get to twenty degrees in the sunshine in algiers a bit further towards the south we have plenty of showers here as you'd expect some lively ones over the coast of west africa but also some further east as well all

the way across into ethiopia some of the ones across uganda look heavy.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera it's a whole robin a reminder of our top stories israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has suspended a deal reached with the un's refugee agency which would have seen thousands of african asylum seekers resettled in western countries it replaced a previous plan to forcibly send thousands of people to countries in africa also saudi arabia's crown prince says palestinians and israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land they haven't been made the comments in an interview with the u.s. magazine the atlantic it's being seen as another sign of warming ties between saudi arabia and israel. also tributes are being paid to winnie. and the and the apartheid campaigners who played a leading role in the battle against white minority rule in south africa she'd been married to the nation's first black president nelson mandela. train

commuters across france will be experiencing a difficult time getting around with rail workers kicking off three months of rolling strikes four point five million train passengers will be affected with state rail employees planning stoppages two days every week they're angry at french president manuel merkel's plans to reform the industry around half of france's rail stuff are striking the tasha butler is following events forrest she joins me now from paris and commuters will be at the forefront of the disruption what will they be facing on tuesday morning. well i'm outside one of paris's main train stations and i can tell you is a lot quieter than it normally would be on a weekday morning no surprise because as you say four and a half million people are expected to be affected by this strike you've got ninety percent of the high speed trains that connect the major cities in france are simply not working they've been canceled and many of the regional train lines as well so

people have really kept away but this affects commuters tourists travelers and of course the economy and it's likely to get worse because we are facing now three months of rolling strikes the railway workers the essence therefore because it's cool they say that they will down tools for two days every three days you can imagine the disruption in fact is going to be so bad that the head of the s.n.c.f. him self a said that he may offer train drivers bonuses to not strike and actually drive the trains well the anger from the train workers is all about the fact of the government want to try and reform yes and see if this national railway network and scrap some of the privileges that those well workers have benefited from over the years in particular the fact that they can retire much earlier than most of the population of course is real test of wills is it not between the president who wants to stamp his or forward on the issues like this and the unions.

yes in fact many people in france say this could be the biggest challenge for the french president. since he came to power in may look he came to the presidency promising to transform and reform france he has been pushing ahead with a very ambitious reform agenda the government says that the s.n.c.f. the national rail network has to change it must reform it has fifty million dollars worth of debts and it must also get ready because in twenty twenty under the e.u. rules the french rel network will be opened up to foreign competition so it must be more efficient but it will not be easy for the french. present to reform the s.n.c.f. and that is because in a way this company it's state owned it really represents the kind of french working social model that many people simply feel very attached to and past presidents have tried and failed to reform the s.n.c.f. because they have met with very strong opposition from the unions we are going to

see these rolling strikes macro says he is determined to push through we're going to have to see what way the public opinion opinion falls from now supporting the government but of course that could change as the strikes go on indeed it will fall over this with you through the day natasha but are there in paris thank you. let's head together now a saudi led coalition strike has killed at least fourteen civilians seven of them children unicef is calling the attack one of the deadliest on children since the conflict in yemen escalated in twenty fifteen the missiles hit a building which house which houses displaced people in the rebel held city of data the coalition spokesman says the independent investigation into the bombing. headed south asian or back is that where government have killed four people in an attack in a mainly christian neighborhood in the city of quarter least three of those killed were from the same family they were outside a relative's home when their rickshaw came under fire i still say as it carried out the attack and in a separate shooting which police say was unrelated five people were also killed.

accessible small loans known as micro financing of help countless entrepreneurs around the world to launch will develop their own businesses but it is true lanka unregulated companies charging high interest rates are leaving some communities struggling to survive but smith reports now 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 demand to be bought got lost so we took another loan then the loan collector started had to sing us so we mortgage the house and took another loan when you

start the interest rates are low but to 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 consumption like 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 fearful excess people. and

misinformed 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. burnet smith al-jazeera jaffna now russia's president vladimir putin is on his way to turkey for a summit on syria ties between the two countries have been steadily improving even

as their relationships in the west strain further iranian president hassan rouhani will also be joining the summit later on wednesday rebuilding efforts in iraq have been slow since the defeat of assault last year but it's not just about reconstructing schools and homes archaeologists a iraq's very heritage is at stake as it were in congress from the country's second largest city mosul. it might be impossible to know what has been lost here. the grand mosque of our laurie has stood since eleven seventy two. it was the location from where the leader of eisel aback al baghdadi declared an islamic state in july two thousand and fourteen the iraqi military says i saw fighters blow up the mosque as they retreated i still blame the damage on the americans the archaeologist the loss of the mosque is a loss for the whole of iraq could have been unlucky until now we don't have an exact statistic of what has been looted or destroyed artifacts the reader on

display at the most museums and in other places were damaged or destroyed by eisel generally or information tells us that at least eighty archaeological sites were sabotaged beisel before the military campaign to drive them out began in late two thousand and sixteen. eisel is alleged to have sold off the tax on the international black market in two thousand and fifteen the university college london institute of akio logy reported that antiquities from areas controlled by eisel while openly on sale in london iraki all kill it is say the government has done little to assess the loss because it has more pressing concerns then though has the local authorities and the government of iraq artifacts is something of an accessory and not a crucial issue to worry about the issues of displaced people and security are at the top of their agenda nowadays but if we give it a second thought then we have to admit that the heritage of native day is its identity and the country's heritage even before iraq was

a country sites were looted by europeans and more recently priceless artifacts were hidden away behind closed doors because of the security situation even today in iraq a museum in baghdad this is a few but those who do come make the most of it the people's head a taking a group for say that's actually quite a rare thing and something they've only been able to there recently this museum were shot in two thousand and three because of the u.s. led invasion and occupation when looters came until things from the museum now is reopened in two thousand and twelve on the very tight security very very recently the people have been able to come back here. officials with iraq state board of antiquities understand that a huge effort will be needed to document the losses but also to protect the remains anonymous or a walk in and our main obstacles and challenges are funding some of the historical sites on areas of unexploded munitions and we need

a security effort to clear them we also need international support to restore these artifacts we need international effort for the restoration and bring back looted artifacts from iraq we need more aerial surveillance and more manpower to secure the remaining historical sites across iraq. without that effort iraq's heritage could likely be lost for future generations like these children who have come to learn about their country's rich and diverse history iran car which is there. and you can find all of the stories we're covering here on our website al-jazeera dot com comment and analysis to have a look at. your challenges their arms the whole robin these are all top news stories israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has suspended a deal reached with the un's refugee agency which would have seen thousands of

african migrants under silence seekers resettled in western countries the prime minister made the u.-turn within hours of announcing the agreement under pressure from members of his government it replaced a previous plan to forcibly send people to countries in africa if they did not leave voluntarily most of the migrants affected are from eritrea and sudan. saudi arabia's crown prince says palestinians and israelis are in town to live peacefully on their own land mohammed bin still man made the comments in an interview with the u.s. magazine the atlantic it's seen as another sign of warming ties between saudi arabia and israel also tributes are being paid to winnie. mandela the anti-apartheid campaigner who played a leading role in the battle against white minority rule in south africa she had been married to the nation's first black president nelson mandela train commuters across france will be experiencing a difficult time getting around with rail workers kicking off three months of

rolling strikes four point five million train passengers will be affected with state rail employees planning stoppages two days a week they're angry at french president mandela back a man well micron's plans to reform the industry. cited a coalition air strikes in yemen have killed at least fourteen civilians seven of them children unicef is calling the attack one of the deadliest on children since the conflict in yemen escalated in twenty fifteen the missiles at a building which houses displaced people in the rebel held city of who data gunmen in pakistan have killed four people in an attack on a baby christian neighborhood in the city of cueto at least three of those killed were from the same family they were outside a relative's home where the rickshaw came under fire eisel says it carried out the attack. russia's president vladimir putin is on his way to turkey for a summit on syria ties between the two countries have been steadily improving even as their relationships with the west strain for iranian president hassan rouhani

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