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former south korean president park geun to hey is sentenced to twenty four years in prison after being found guilty of abuse of power bribery and coercion. logs a whole robin you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in also coming up former south african president jacob zuma faces trial on corruption charges over a multi-billion dollar arms deal plus. palestinians for pavel protests after israeli forces killed twenty one people along the gaza border in the last week and . standing by supporters rally in brazil as the deadline for former president to go to jail edges closer.

to the program we begin with breaking news coming out of south korea where former president good to haiti has been found guilty of abuse of power and coercion the decision was made after the chief judge read a lengthy statement by ending the eighteen charges against park. the proceedings which were broadcast live. outside the courthouse in seoul. where the prosecutors had been asking for thirty years the judge gave her twenty four it still must be said this is a hefty sentence against this former president who was swept up in really the biggest corruption scandal to hit south korea this really captured the nation's attention months of mass protests in central seoul and these proceedings were televised live for the first time because the court found there was enough public interest in doing so and that this was a significant case packin hey was found guilty of sixteen of the eighteen charges against her including abuse of power coworkers and bribery and leaking presidential

information to her longtime friend will share did not have any official government role but was said to be meddling in state affairs and also used her presidential friendship to ko worst major companies into making massive donations to to corporations to foundations rather that she ran and that is where the bribery accusations came in part was found to have accepted bribes from major company. including samsung and this was a very convoluted set of cases chest and she'll herself was sentenced to twenty years in prison over this scandal separately the head of the de facto head j. wiley was sentenced to five years because of the bribery allegations and then later released on appeal so this really as i say captured the public's attention and people were angry at what was seen as these links between the most powerful

companies in south korea and the president so those that had been protesting for months as part of those candlelight protests i imagine would be satisfied with this heavy sentence against park in haiti. so the corruption case against south africa's fulminated jacob zuma has been adjourned the money laundering sold in racketeering charges relate to a multi-billion dollar deal as well as two decades ago zuma denies any wrongdoing on his challenging the decision to prosecute the case correspondent catherine sawyer joins me now from outside the courthouse in that it does seem that those proceedings have stopped sooner than we thought. oh i'm absolutely always so hale ah supporters of jacob zuma they've come here saying that they feel that he's being targeted and banyan gas as you mentioned on the stage has postponed the case to june eighth the defense lawyer of

jacob zuma has said that they will challenge the decision of the prosecutor's office to open this case their current t.v. viewing that decision and will be responding to the court at some point and this is likely to be appealed and things like that so that it was expected really that this is not going to stocks because basically it was sort of a preliminary procedural are kind of getting jacob zuma was not expected to take a peek and he had a very he had a very somber face a seething odd god talk and he says that he has been charged unfairly and that is what he's pushing his lawyers to argue for us so people here on a lot of people in south africa may be disappointed by this but then again the legal experts i've been talking to him told me that this is going to be a very long a lengthy process is a complicated case a lot of odd was

a lot of witnesses that going to be in full of and then on the back and also here i swallowed by some of the. so that we can best be neuer so long process of law so that i can say that they want closure they have waited so long for answers and they want the funds not after many many many other yes of him ok with that we are expecting of course jacob zuma to make a statement catherine we're seeing live pictures of him getting on to what we think is a podium of some sort for in preparation for that statement will go to it when he makes it but of course how do people view this very complicated court case in terms of trying to see justice against those people who think it is a witch hunt. it is it has divided south africans obviously there his supporters here and they are many of

them we are our and jacob zuma stronghold of cars were knocked out and many of these people have been passed from across the region they say that he is innocent and they save mistakes are made in that arms deal then he can be the only one who was involved they also say that it's a bit dubious that the prosecution and the prosecutor's office has reopened this case after such a long time they're wondering what the new evidence is but then they are the south africans who say that there needs to be someone needs to be whiles to account especially when it comes to that case it's been since one thousand nine hundred nine when zuma was first accused he was a deputy president at the time of that i'm still so a lot of people are saying that really they are fatigued by it all they want answers and they want this on so soon but then it's going to take like i said much much longer to get this answer sawhill over levy that's not katherine and come back to you and to jacob zuma once he speaks for the moment that katherine sawyer and.

said to the middle east now a palestinians are preparing for more protests along the gaza israel border prompting fears of more violence a week after the bloodiest day any year. as many are burning tires to create a smoke screen making it harder for israeli snipers to see them at least twenty one palestinians have been killed over the past week and more than fourteen hundred injured half of them by israeli gunfire tens of thousands of palestinians are holding a six week a long protest in tent encampments along the fenced border as sort of correspond to meet who's in gaza just bring us up to speed on what we're expecting to see there today. well as people are expected to come to d.c. five in campaigns that are all along the border fence with israel now this is still a bit early you can see in the background and there's a ready some young special to do youth who had gone

a bit closer to defense on the edge of that so-called no go zone a buffer zone imposed by israel about three hundred meters from the fence now as you mentioned earlier the idea was to burn a lot of tires to create that smoke screen so to youth could go a bit further and a bit closer to defense but we have seen some of the tires burned but the wind is actually eastward to moment i think they're stopping from that for at least a while simply because older smoke is coming on the cap meant which is just here where i'm standing so we're about six hundred meters away from that border fence now we've been to are doing comments earlier this morning there was a similar presence at the moment but we do expect much more people to arrive here after friday prayer well of course we'll come back to you for an update later in the day. still ahead here on al-jazeera no deal on

egypt and ethiopia have failed to reach an agreement over the controversial. but in this particular instance the arsonist wishes to investigate the same fire a heated exchange between london and moscow as a u.n. meeting over a nerve agent attack on a former russian spy to stay with us here on al-jazeera. from. winds to an enchanting breeze. how i would call some lovely warm spring sunshine across a good path. so here we do still have some showers around some showers there just around the balkans another area of disturbed weather rolling in from the atlantic some wet so it's times when the weather will come in here but we were dragging in a warm southerly fadal now when so temperatures in paris twenty degrees celsius

sixty eight and found that eighty in syria that's not too bad ninety four madrid even in london were getting up to around sixty degrees but you see some wet weather not really too far away here's another area where weather just around the balkans pushing down into greece over towards rumania over towards ukraine that will make its way further case was brought to skies come back in behind nine hundred s. getting up to fourteen in kiev five in moscow but bear in mind we could be touching the uppity mid to upper teens in moscow by the time we come to monday say things only improvement here is well into the teens mid to high teens there across central parts still could have to fifteen in london bits and pieces of cloud of robert twenty or twenty one there for a paris and fours year a little bit of that wet weather that we do have creeping its way towards spain and portugal may just brush across the far north of africa with the top temperature of eighteen degrees with one or two shallots. the weather sponsored by cattle and he's

. paid the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people 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 who's close to the story joined the global conversation at this time on al jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera arms the whole robin a reminder of our top stories south korea's former president park good behavior has

been found guilty of abuse of power and coercion a court has sentenced her to twenty four years in jail for her part in a corruption scandal the park who didn't attend the proceedings has been given a week to decide if she'll lodge an appeal. palestinians are preparing for more protests along the gaza israel border prompting fears of more violence a week after the bloodiest day years at least twenty one palestinians have been killed over the past week and more than fourteen hundred injured half of them hit by israeli gunfire and south africa's a former leader jacob zuma has appeared in court on charges of corruption in arms deal the judge agreed to adjourn the case until june to allow lawyers to prepare denies any wrongdoing. brazil's former president luis in our salute to silver is considering his next move after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest. i supporters

gathered outside the battle workers' union building in sao paulo where i was treated with some of his political allies he has until five o'clock on friday local time two hundred self and police after the country's top must begin a twelve year jail sentence for corruption although his closest allies the former president dilma rousseff spoke to the crowd. it's a political persecution aimed at putting him behind bars and i want to tell every one of you gathering here that i'm sure that president luiz inacio lula da silva is an honest strong and brave person and that he will know how to face this moment with courage and serenity of an innocent man. by the prospect of jail time could deal a fatal blow to list plans to run for a third term in october the presidential election in america to receive a new human has more from the capital brasilia. barack obama described.

as the world's most popular president the left wing little worker rose to become a global example for others who dream of lifting tens of millions of people from poverty. to presidencies were haunted by corruption allegations they never stuck hence his reputation for having a teflon shield but with the supreme court's decision to send him to prison while he appeals a twelve year corruption sentence it's clear the shield has crumbled the messages you all are equal all. soft legislation that you have been busy you on the law so now we are talking about the former president lula to morrow we can be talking about the cure and president taylor or even the future president list legal team said it would request a series of injunctions to block his arrest warrant hoping to buy more time but judge says. was quicker on the draw he said that out of respect for the former

president he would allow him twenty four hours to present himself. to federal police in the city of where he is supposed to serve his sentence if he does not go then he says the police will go out to arrest him given brazil's complex legal system anything could happen in that time remains the most popular would be candid ahead of october's presidential elections. when he was the best president in brazil's recent history it's not fair to end things like this. apparently out of the race the new frontrunner is an ultra right wing former military officer. of chile's former dictator pinochet. but the senator from party insists remains a political force. this very day which has amended leadership look at.

he was twenty seven years in prison. did not immediately respond to the supreme court ruling but given his temperament it's safe to say he won't go down without a fight. brasilia. the plight of hundreds of thousands of muslims who. captured the world's attention but the crisis in recalling states has been going on for decades more than sixty thousand. to find out about their hopes for a better life. came to malaysia by boat four years ago with children as. she was stateless and faced persecution she didn't want to leave. but had no choice . in my village life was good then to myanmar military started making things difficult for us people burned homes. so that's why i came to but

life here is just stuff if not more. she has health problems but bad enough money for medical treatment and she worries about her children who can't go to government schools or work legally. malaysia is not a signatory to the un convention on refugees so the refugees here have few rights and no access to public services the government has declined to comment but many non-governmental organizations filling the gap. this school is run by muslim aid groups the teachers are volunteers who get a monthly allowance the rohingya have been fleeing the decades many of them end up living here in the northern state of several entry points from thailand which is often a transit route. despite the difficulties summer when you have secured a better future. has been here for seventeen years making

a living doing odd jobs last year his application for asylum in new zealand was approved. i'm comfortable with life here about my children. future if we continue to study here. he's looking forward to starting a new life in a country that actually wants him. al-jazeera. north malaysia. well signals for a list of talks with egypt beyond the controversial ground. have failed the project was stated for completion this year but disagreements between egypt and ethiopia have led to the to your suspension of talks are concerns about the impact the data would have on the sharing of water from the nile river well howard well is our correspondent following events for us from the sudanese capital where these talks are taking place i mean where does this actually leave any future negotiations.

there is no doubt about that so there have been about ten meetings in the past there are they all have failed and none of us were surprised at the venue yesterday seeing the mood of the place and how much time it took about seventeen hours of continuous talks behind closed doors the mood was grim and we have seen that on the faces despite many reassurances and statements of optimism by sudanese. of officials during the last few days. could drive a sea discord of her son sticking points has taken the lead during these talks particularly the one related to the feeling of the reservoir of the dam egypt wanted that feeling to take about eleven years so that it does not reduce the amount of water that flows downstream ethiopia on the other hand wanted to fill the

reservoir in only three years remember that this reservoir can retain up to seventy four billion cubic metres that's the equivalent of the entire amount of the river flow during one of the highest years in terms of rainfall so that's of deep concern for egypt it thinks that this is going to compromise its share of the water it's going to cause scarcity of water along the nile and. going to cause that as watchers of the us wonder and the other dams even in sudan not to fill up properly and it's going to have very damaging consequences to the interests of egypt this has been going on for many years but now time is of the essence both to egypt and to eat european eat your pierre doesn't need these talks it would normally want want this these talks even to take place in the first place they don't think there is something to negotiate they think that this is their own right suffering right to deal with their own resources and to do what they want with those resources

egypt and so that on the other hand particularly egypt they believe that you know there are historical ties in this what it is shared between several countries and nobody has to change the course of this of all those the flow of the civil and how much water flows in it without proper consultation with the other countries egypt at a certain time in the past wanted to have a share in the administration of the of the dam itself but that was refused by your peers so there is a lot of things to discuss and we expect many more talks to take place well thanks for the update but i wish hundred well that in the cartoon. the diplomatic crisis between the united kingdom and russia over the poisoning of former spy has now moved to the united nations security council moscow's ambassador warned london that it was playing with fire russia had called for the meeting to refute accusations that it was behind the nerve agent attack on one of its former agents and his daughter if england our diplomatic editor james beings has more from new york

a greeting between the british and russian ambassador is what it was clear when the meeting started that that is where the cold all relations ended russia called for the security council meeting to strongly reject u.k. allegations that russia carried out the nerve agent attack. because mother doesn't know good good good good. ladies and gentlemen i don't even know what to say about this. some sort of theater of the absurd could you come up with a better fake story we all know what the worth of british intelligence information is based on the experience of tony blair we have told our british colleagues that you're playing with fire and you will be sorry diplomats tell me they see this council meeting as part of a pattern when russia is backed into the corner it goes on the diplomatic offensive we've seen fresh comments in recent hours on the soles pre-k. seen from foreign minister sergei lavrov and from russia's ambassador in london on wednesday russia called

a meeting of the international body that oversees chemical weapons the o.p.c. w and brazenly suggested a joint investigation by the u.k. and russia the idea was quickly voted down but the british ambassador at the u.n. again referred to it using a very british literary reference the villain in the sherlock holmes books allowing mesh and scientists into an investigation when they are the most likely happy traitors of the crime insoles be would be like scotland yard in fighting game professor moriarty so i don't think that's a tenable way forward instead i fear that the russian motive in calling for a security council meeting today is another step in the pattern of obfuscation and contempt for international institutions it was at the beginning of march in the british city has sold spree that the former spies surrogate script file and his

daughter were incapacitated by a nerve agent known to have been developed by russia yulia is getting better an hours before the security council met british police released a statement from her it reads i woke up over a week ago now i'm glad to say my strength is growing daily i'm grateful for the interest in me and for the many messages of goodwill that i've received rusher in. the u.k. of painting very different pictures of who was behind the attack on miss script and her father the investigations by the u.k. authorities and by the o.p.c. w. are likely to be long and detailed but even when they report their final conclusions i think there's a strong chance russia will reject them james al-jazeera at the united nations though a german court has rejected a spanish extradition request for catalonia is formally the colors of more judges ruled that the rebellion charge that more faces in spain is not

a criminal offense in germany he's not being released on bail but could still be extradited on a lesser charge of misusing public funds he's wanted over his role in the illegal referendum session from spain dominic cain has more from berlin. this decision by the german court means that mr bush will soon be able to walk free from the prison in that he's been held in for more than a week now since being picked up by german law enforcement agencies on the twenty fifth of march he has to post a bail of seventy five thousand euros and he can't leave germany while the case is still active the point to make here is that this ruling states that the charge of sedition or rebellion is one that is not recognized in german law and therefore has been thrown out by the german court but the other charge that was proffered against mr push them or they may have been best all meant of the funds that we used public funds that we used to allow what the spanish government considers an

unconstitutional referendum to be held all that this court ruling in germany suggests well that is grounds those are grounds for him potentially to be extradited but they say they need more information the question now will be what mr push them all does next he will emerge can emerge from the prison the earliest on friday then the question is what will he do next the deadline under the european arrest warrant scheme for his case to reach culmination is in late may the question will be what he does next. u.s. president all trouble lines from his presidential term day. about tax cuts speaking of the state of west virginia he referred to a larger group of migrants who've been traveling through mexico in a caravan trying to suggested that the group is the seeds with violence and sexual assault similar to what he said in twenty fifteen when he claimed that mexican immigrants are rapists. football clubs are being caught

up in a child abuse scandal it's alleged other players were forced into prostitution a local charity reported minors were allegedly abused at the river plate and it depends it depends youth divisions from two thousand and four till two. i board is much more than a sporting argentina it's a national passion that in the last week has been shaken to the core. a seventeen year old player within the told the club psychologist that he and another young player had been encouraged to sell themselves for sex at least seven miners were prostituted and ten others are relieved to have been potential victims prosecutors say there could be more. if we don't know many children were contacted but did not fall into the trap and we are also investigating the potential of the

crime grooming in many cases they were not successful in carrying out their attempted activities but we are going to ensure that these people no longer have the chance to grow children. but the sex abuse investigations have spread to other clubs. runs a rape victim association and filed a complaint against river plate when she received information that young players were also abused between two thousand and four and two thousand and eleven. a doctor that worked at the club wrote to us she had proof that children are also part of a ring she had to take time off because she was told not to get involved we also received a letter where a former player says that children were forced to prostitute themselves to be allowed to move forward in their careers. has been receiving threats since she can talk to the authorities and is now using what is known as a panic green. river plate is one of the most famous clubs in the country it is a sport that operates whole stealth for young players recruited from other parts of

argentina or abroad the sexual abuse can both involve young players that live here because they do not have any relatives in what. has been investigating the abuses and says there is a calm. so look at. there are two cases where we see a similar situation we see individual cases but they happen inside the club with children that have a very vulnerable economic situation who are not from where cyrus for example or thirteen year old that is from choco who has no money transfer two hours a day and pedophiles try to take advantage of that. they dream of becoming a bigger star as. has left hundreds of children exposed in argentina and even though the argentine football association says it will now look at conditions in the host us where young players live that won't prepare the damage that has already been done. it is how well.

your geologist their own cell robin these are all top news stories south korea's former president good day has been found guilty of abuse of power and coercion a court has sentenced her to twenty four years in jail for her part in the corruption scandal that park who didn't attend proceedings has been given a week to decide if she will file an appeal. the corruption case against south africa's former leader jacob zuma has been adjourned the money laundering fraud and racketeering charges relate to a multi-billion dollar arms deal from almost two decades ago zuma denies any wrongdoing and is challenging the decision to prosecute the case. palestinians are protesting along the gaza israel border prompting fears of more violence a week after the bloodiest day in the years many are burning tires to create a smokescreen making it harder for israeli snipers to see them at least twenty one

palestinians have been killed over the past week and more than fourteen hundred injured half of them hit by israeli gunfire tens of thousands of palestinians are holding a six week long protest intended encampments along the fence border. brazil's for president luis de silva is considering his next move after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest supporters have gathered outside the metal workers union building in sao paolo. retreated with some of his political allies. friday two hundred sells it to police after the country's top court ruled him must begin a twelve year jail sentence for corruption. it's a political persecution aimed at putting him behind bars and i want to tell every one of you gathering here that i'm sure that president luiz inacio lula da silva is an honest strong and brave person and that he will know how to face this moment with courage and serenity of an innocent man. german court has rejected

a spanish extradition request for years formally to the judges ruled that the rebellion charge that faces in spain is not a criminal offense in germany that he's wanted for his role in the illegal referendum for catalonia is independence those are the headlines course you can follow all of the stories on our web site at al-jazeera dot com back with more news in thirty minutes next on al-jazeera is the straight to stay with us. getting to the heart of the matter if the turkish cypriot leader calls you today let's have would you accept given. the terms of. realities are you willing to call the always ready for told. for taking decisions here their story on talk to al-jazeera . u.s. gun. violence in mexico.