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that whole robin you're watching all jews there a life of our headquarters here in doha also coming up the former south korean president park geun hay is sentenced to twenty four years in prison after being found guilty of abuse of power bribery and coercion. also of course in south africa returns a corruption case against the former president jacob zuma. but in this particular instance the arsonist wishes to investigate the same fire a heated exchange between london and moscow at the u.n. meeting over a nerve agent attack on a former russian spy. welcome to the program palestinians are protesting a long legal. israel border prompting more violence

a week after the bloodiest. many are burning tires as you can see now live pictures coming from the area 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 hit by israeli gunfire hold the media's monitoring events for us from gaza just bring us up to speed on this live firing that we're hearing about . well it's been a sporadic live fire we actually heard it here in our location. now what has been going on since the morning is that you have a group of young people who are further there at the limit of this so-called no zone about three hundred meters away from the border fence now you probably see the black smoke in the background that's been going on since this morning but not in the quantity that has been predicted over the past few days still early we are

expecting more people to show up after friday prayers now we did hear some sporadic gunfire we saw three ambulances leave here according to health officials so far there been three wounded by live ammunition we've also seen some tear gas fired by israeli soldiers they are just to give you an idea just all along that sand berm you see there in front of it and behind it. that's what's going been going on here now the same situation is in the other four camps that are along this border hold what's called palestinian officials saying to the people about getting close to the fence. well certainly there have been a lot of apprehension throughout the week a lot of anger among gazans because of the high casualty. of last friday now late last night the interior security branch of hamas actually

issued a statement calling on people to get close to do board of. defense to try to keep us far away as possible and not to be provocative and that's actually a first here certainly yesterday throughout the day there was a lot of rumors there was a lot of expectation everyone you speak to would ask you what will unfold tomorrow will we have that high number of casualties now what protesters are doing at the moment is created that black smoke screen they have also mirrors in their hands because they hope to blind the snipers across the border in that way there's about one hundred of them that have been deployed all along the border according to the israeli defense minister and then we've also seen some b. young people carrying plastic buckets to protect their heads now this is still very early in the afternoon you're going to have a commemoration ceremony for de ford dead of last week people are still arriving

so i think in the next hour as we will figure out if actually cool by this is the security actually was heeded by the people here or their anger is so big that they won't listen we'll see what does happen come back to us a situation develops for the moment. in gaza. now former south korean president park geun has been found guilty of abuse of power bribery and coercion and sentenced to twenty four years in jail the decision was made after the chief judge read a lengthy statement outlining the eighteen charges against park who was not in the proceedings which were broadcast live let's cross over now to kathy novak who is outside the court in so guilty as charged but what else has the judge been saying about this particular corruption verdict and sentencing.

where the judge took about two hours to read out the charges in detail his findings this of course was this corruption scandal that really captivated the nation brought hundreds of thousands of south koreans into the streets for months until park in haiti was eventually impeached and removed from office and now south koreans could watch live as the judge handed down this verdict finding part guilty of sixteen of the eighteen charges against her saying that she conspired with a long time friend chose to shill to extort millions of dollars from some of south korea's biggest conglomerates also she was found to have accepted millions of dollars in bribes from conglomerates including samsung and for that she was given that sentence of twenty four years and i think we can hear from the chief judge as he handed down that sentance. we declare a verdict on the defendant part going hey it's the court sentences the defendant part going hey to twenty four years in prison and find his sixteen point eight

million u.s. dollars if the defendant fails to pay the fine the defendant should be imprisoned in the workhouse on find fault. of course kathy lawmakers really trying to find now perhaps a way of redeeming themselves in the eyes of the public and trying to find a way to reform the constitution or limit holdem the way the presidential power. is seen to be used from the blue house. that certainly had been the promise of the current liberal president and when he came to power on the back of that show of people power in the candlelight protest he promised to stamp out the corruption that has really been in demick in the south korean presidency for decades all of the south korean presidents two former presidents that is who were in power since the one nine hundred eighty s. have faced some kind of corruption scandal either personally or because they were

brought into it with association with their families so with harken hey it really seemed to be a turning point with people coming out saying enough is enough we do not want to continue to see this level of corruption at the in the office of the presidency so what. and his party is trying to do now is as you say reform the constitution to try to take some of the power out of the hands of the president so among the things that monday and has proposed is changing the presidential term limits and that is among the proposals that have gone to parliament for approval before they will be put to a popular vote so we leave it there for. you as we get more from south korea thank you for staying on the same theme let's head to southern africa where the corruption case against south africa's formerly jacob zuma has been. now the money laundering of fraud and racketeering charges relate to a multi-billion dollar steal from almost two decades ago zuma denies any wrongdoing

and is challenging the decision to prosecute the case. let's head straight over to catherine so he joins me now from scientists at the courthouse in we were expecting the former president to actually speak he has been speaking in his native tongue do we know what he's been saying. yes he has been speaking to he supposes he has these region where we are is called possible natal and this is a stronghold of jacob zuma people have been passed from across the region to common fools he's had he has spoken to them and he said that this is all about this is all about politics he says that at the time of the on steele he was not in a position of that kind of influence he also told them that this case has been around for so many yet that it has not moved full like he said in a sense and he is going to prove it that as you mentioned so he'll the court has postponed this beginning of this trial to eighth of june to give time to the

lawyers to prepare a he's lawyers jacobs who most lawyers have said that they are going to challenge the decision by the state to reopen the case they are currently reviewing that decision a lot of legal experts that i've talked to a saying that this is likely to take such a long time maybe as it's a very complicated case if they do how many witnesses i'm sure there's going to be a lot of to ing and fro frying from some of the best lawyers in the country so that a lot of south african street aho be including those who are here so he'll say that they're tired of waiting for answers it's been a very long time and they hope they don't have to wait for so many of the yes' to be able to get those answers to be able to get justice to be able to get assad to chip away those do. to certain politicians to create to fractures among society especially when it comes to cold cases like this those that want to see justice and those that would accuse the authorities of

a witch hunt how do south africans actually view jacob zuma now that he's not in power. and that i mean what you've asked me that is exactly what is happening now south africans are divided about this issue this people who are here supporters of jacob zuma and they are many say that he is innocent they say that he is being vilified has been unfairly targeted they say that it seems dubious that the state has decided to reopen the case now after so many have to simming he has so they say that they're very interested in seeing what new evidence is there but they're not the south africans many other south africans who is saying that they hope this is really the beginning of you know south africa really dealing with impunity they say people have to be held to account like i said this steel the scandal is one that has a shroud to. south africa in you know and brought south africa in all of this

problem for such a long time so people say that they want a lot of afghans also saying that they want answers they want justice they want to see a conclusion to this but in the ah the people like corruption a watchdogs like i was talking to the head of call corruption watch here in south africa and he says that beyond holding leaders like perhaps is jacob zuma to account the new president cyril ramaphosa needs to serious carry out a ride you call institutional reforms to make sure and to deal with the systemic corruption in this country so he'll leave it there for now catherine of course continue to follow votes with you through the day thank you. while still ahead here on al-jazeera no deal dog. if you have failed to reach an agreement over the controversial. there could be one step closer to a full blown trade war the white house considers imposing an extra one hundred

billion dollars worth of terrorists on chinese goods those stories on the other side of the break. how we got the usual case of sunshine is hours across southeast asia lots of sunshine around ever since i'm alive kuching with ninety two millimeters of rain twenty four hours the show is a stand there way down into indonesia some big ones there just around job a few showers there up around smart or into the my peninsula bangkok received some rather wet weather recently sixty two millimeters of rain here twenty four hours as more that came from sas stacey's further live the showers in place for a good part of thailand they will ease as we go on into west sunday having said that. a little further south will see some wetter weather coming back into

indonesia so expect to see some rather have to shout was coming down into which a car to go on through sunday temperatures at thirty one degrees celsius we getting up around that mark it's possible straightaway over the next day or two into the southeast and colder slushy dry and fine across much of present should be good just around the gold coast for the commonwealth games looking five. possibility of want to see showers but i think they will be far enough away twenty seven celsius there for brisbane twenty eight degrees in adelaide and twenty four melbourne warms up further in the southeastern corner as we go on into sunday we could touch hard to thirty three degrees in adelaide i mean afternoon. china's big brother is always watching at home and abroad. one on one east investigates how far china will go to control its citizens. on his or.

we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the way around. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera international bringing the news and current of families that matter to you. out is iraq. to back your watching officer i'm so whole rob a reminder of our top stories those railings have been shooting of live fire at the garza's israeli border as palestinians are new protests at least twenty one palestinians have been killed over the past week and more than forty hundred injured half of them hit by israeli gunfire and we're also getting news just out of

the u.n. human rights office. that israel is being urged to ensure we quote security forces did not use excessive force against palestinian protesters that's going from the human rights are office if we believe geneva also. south korea's former president park geun hye has been found guilty of abuse of power and coercion a call to sentenced her to twenty four years in jail for her part of the corruption scandal park who didn't attend those proceedings has been given a week to decide if she'll lodge an appeal and the former south african leader jacob zuma has addressed thousands of supporters outside the courthouse in a judge that has agreed to adjourn a corruption case until june to allow lawyers to prepare for it the former president denies any wrongdoing. sudan's foreign minister says talks with egypt and ethiopia on the controversial grow. failed the project

was originally slated for completion this year but disagreements between egypt and ethiopia have led to the two year suspension of talks now there have been concerns about the impact the down would have on water sharing from the river nile mohammed vile has the latest from the sudanese capital khartoum. could drop a c. discord over some sticky points has taken the lead during these talks particularly the one related to the filling 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 each year opi 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 meters 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 it's going to cause that as of the us one dam 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 each european each opiah 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 suffern right to deal with their own resources and to do what they want with those resources egypt and sudan on the other hand particularly egypt they believe that no there are historical ties to 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. the trade standoff between the world's two largest economies is escalating u.s. president donald trump has ordered his administration to consider imposing an extra one hundred billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese goods beijing responded by saying it would pay any calls to new measures to safeguard itself if the u.s. didn't it didn't act well just hours before threatening further terrorists against china trump spoke of his desire to straighten out trade issues. in many respects i think we're going to have a fantastic relationship long term with china but we have to get the straight net we have to have some balance and that goes for other countries and it goes for other places if you look at the european union it's very solidly against us in terms of trade it's very unfair look a younger shaking your head yes you know about the european union it's like it's almost we can't even do business they send their cars over here they send

everything over here we don't want to take our product. so we can't let that happen well the beijing. well within hours of president trump effectively threatening a third round of tariffs against china the response from beijing was angry and swift president trump said he'd asked his trade representative to determine whether one hundred billion dollars worth of further tyrus were warranted and if so where those tariffs should be applied well a few hours later a statement appeared on the website of china's commerce ministry and it warned that china was ready to pay any cost in any trade war with the united states and its spokesman went even further booming far if the insist on unilateral reason and the trade protectionism against the wishes of china and the international community we will fight to the death at any cost we will resolutely fight back and take new measures and protect the interests of our country and the people well just

a day ago of course the united states had sought to try to lower the temperature with china saying the threat of more tariffs was simply the next step in the negotiating process now we are back to the brinkmanship on friday china's state media which of course is controlled by the communist party sought to portray china as the victim saying trump was simply trying to stop china's rise and the media had another blunt message china doesn't do surrender. results for president luis in a suit is considering his next move after judge issued and a warrant for his arrest supporters have gathered outside of the metal workers union building and how apollo where you learn has retreated with some of his political allies he has until five pm on friday local time to hand him self into police after the country's top court ruled he must begin a twelve year jail sentence for corruption one of his closest allies 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 luis and nasty little of the silver 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. a diplomatic crisis between the united kingdom and russia has now moved to the un 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 to turn on one of its former agents and his daughter or diplomatic editor james reports now from the u.n. . a greeting between the british and russian ambassadors but it was clear when the meeting started 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 knew no good would come into ladies and gentlemen i don't even know what to say about this it's 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 russian scientists into an investigation when they are the most likely perpetrators of the crime insoles be would be like scotland yard in fighting game professor mariachi 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 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 and 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 miscreant power and her father the investigations by the u.k. authorities and by the o.p.c. w a 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 pays al-jazeera at the united nations schools in the u.s. state of oklahoma have been closed for a fourth day as protesting teachers continue to call for better salaries and more resources it's one of several conservative states that are focused on cutting business taxes which has resulted in a lot less money for classrooms and the sheraton see reports that teachers say they simply can't go on.

these oklahoma teachers are on a seven day. each day. with the state. education system decade of cuts funding per student has been cut by almost a huge classes and without the textbooks desks chairs to accommodate them teachers here paid in the country many schools just four days a week and teaches the fifth day of the working week for second jobs and. raising taxes for the first time in twenty eight years for teachers' salaries classroom funding but teachers say this will only amount to an extra seventy one dollars per student across the state barely a textbook specifically you're asking to make sure that. last week was.

not. funded and then they're saying we'd like another investment in our classrooms that's why they're here they're here for. us. in february. resulted in a pay rise for public sector workers in the state. teachers in kentucky have taken public sector workers in these reliably republican states say they've had enough of having to do without as corporations receive tax breaks from legislators. outpouring of labor activities happening in. kentucky what's going on and i think americans are tired. you know our kids are. tired. this isn't just about teaching. but about whether a society can function if schools are sacrificed just so that well connected

corporations can pay less tax. u.s. president donald trump has invoked lines from his presidential campaign as leverage off script during an event about tax cuts speaking in the state of west virginia referred to a large group of my parents who've been traveling through mexico in the caravan mexico's president enrique peña nieto quickly responded to trump's comments. there if your recent statement of the result of frustration due to domestic policy issues to your laws or to your congress it is then that you should turn to not to mexicans we will not allow negative rhetoric to define our actions so we will only act in the best interest of mexicans that is the let me think of. many offices of travel to go to document the hardships faced by palestinians living under a blockade we've. been telling palestinian history through sun sculptures

this is his story. do you want to. draw in the sand is my hobby and i loved doing that since i was a kid i love visual arts. i mean. even though my whole family wanted me just to focus on my education i still wanted to dedicate more of my time to joint after i finished college i couldn't find a job after i graduated so i didn't want to sit down doing nothing that's why i wanted to be different. and so are documented palestinian history through sense cultures and. while i have nothing to do with the local politics but yes i want to use my talent in this hobby to draw more attention to the palestinian cause i avoid dealing with internal issues the partisan politics i believe my mission as an artist is to highlight the struggle of my people as much as i can. my drawings in

the sand these cultures are masses to the world but we have the right to return we have to right to exist. i drew the map of palestine on the sand the biggest so far as a dedication to my dear friend who was killed by the israeli army last year. mohammad the bomber who wanted me to draw on the beach here in gaza he was a childhood friend before he was a colleague and a calligraphy artist he had this touch on that project he wanted to learn more we work together and he think that happening because we work together to highlight it in a sculpture. one day he jew i will return on the sand he took part in the protests . and then he was killed this is why i wanted to finish what he started.

your jihad is there i'm still robin these are all top news stories israeli soldiers have been shooting live fire rounds up the guards of border as palestinians renew protests many are burning tires to create a smoke screen 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 south korea's former president park geun hye has been found guilty of abuse of power and coercion a quarter sentenced her to twenty four years in jail for her part in a corruption scandal parker who didn't attend proceedings has been given a week to decide if she'll lodge an appeal. south africa's former leader jacob zuma says he's innocent that corruption charges against him are politically motivated zuma appeared in court his sixteen counts against him relating to an arms deal from two decades ago now the judge agreed to adjourn the case until june to allow

lawyers to prepare. brazil's former president luis in us here lula da 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 paulo where lula has retreated with some of his political allies he has until five o'clock on friday local time to hand himself into police after the country's top court ruled that he must be given a twelve year jail sentence for corruption one of his close allies 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 the president of the east enough to live a silver 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 sudan's foreign minister says talks with egypt and ethiopia on the controversial brandreth failed the

project was originally slated for completion this year but disagreements between egypt and ethiopia have led to the two years especially of talks now there had been concerns about the intact the dam would have on water sharing from the river nile those were the headlines we have the al-jazeera news hour and a half an hour with laura kyle but next on answers there it's one zero one east to stay with us. u.s. president donald trump has said he will slap new terrorists on imports of steel and . for a five gene would mean the data types about ten times faster than forty we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. and. in china. those seem to be challenging the government quickly feel the heavy hand of state security.