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live fire from israeli troops on the border with gaza as palestinians renew protests after a week in which soldiers killed twenty one people. when you're watching all of this their life my headquarters here in doha also coming up a south korean court jails for president park going to pay for twenty four years for abuse of power bribery and coersion also. far south africa's former president jacob zuma remains defiant after appearing in court on corruption charges over a multi-billion dollar arms deal. and german prosecutors order an immediate release of catalonia the former leader.

good to have you with us the israeli army has fired live ammunition as well as to get the garza israeli border as palestinians renew their protests 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 tens of thousands of palestinians are holding a six week long protest in tent encampments along the fence the border the u.s. has urged israel not to use excessive force and says firearms should be used as a last resort let's get the very latest now with our correspondent on the scene need just paint the scene for us harder because a lot has happened in the last few hours. well certainly the number of people actually pushing closer to the fence has increased over the past few hours as you see they have burned a whole lot of tires at the moment the hope is to create this smoke screen that will stop the visibility of the israeli soldiers who are just where the sand berm

is there all some of the protesters are also holding mirrors in the hope that they could blind this sniper is who are deployed station all across all along that border fence there now health officials tells us that the number of injured has increased to ten so far and most of the injuries are exactly like the ones of last week in the lower part of the body but the israelis are actually using the same type of ammunition this high velocity ammunition that actually causes these big gaping holes in really. a human being but that is the minority of people nevertheless if you look move the camera a little bit more you see that on this side there's more of a festival atmosphere going on you have all these food vendors you have people who are watching from our vantage point events unfolding abide by the border fence there and then you have these tents where you have entire families who are sitting

there having lunch spending the day why their prayers have just finished so people more and more people are expected to come here later in the day a specially that they will be i mean morial for the fall and of last week and also for to honor the wounded of last week and that will start in a few hours so certainly we do expect more and more people to show what these five different think up and indeed how do we can use a home of course plumes of black smoke from another location along the sands black smoke billowing from the ground we think the israelis using water cannon to try and downs the slaves that are coming from those toys local officials local palestinian officials have been on the side of caution in the days leading up to this second wave of protests what is they've been saying. well actually i mean earlier in the week especially hamas officials have been warning

that this time this friday everybody will be more and more young people will be more ching and getting closer to that fence but last night here security branch of hamas here in gaza actually issued a statement telling people not to get closer to the fence and to try to keep this as peaceful as possible now certainly i think all sides have come under criticism for what happened last week surely israel has taken the brunt of that the israeli army said that it will keep the exact same rules of engagement of last week that means that anyone who comes close to the fence will be shot at as we have seen last week there were more than eight hundred injured by live ammunition but israel came under a lot of criticism for that there were a lot of statements issued by the un by the e.u. by many different parties to try to ask israel to measure its response to words

these protesters i haven't seen any weapons in this in this camp here i spoke to other of our colleagues who are in different camps they also say they haven't seen any weapons there they haven't seen any people approaching the federal trying to get felt so far but it was a very very high toll for gazans the highest since the war back in two thousand and fourteen hospitals are overwhelmed and i think that there was a lot of criticism from the organizers was the political factions here the organizers being the civil society certainly with the support of political factions but they want to keep it a civil movement so what we have seen this week is that we have seen some of the political leaders show up at some towns but they stay very little wanting to put this civilian movement to do for fun. this is just the second week this campaign is

supposed to go on until may fifteenth so certainly i think they want to put some order into this to keep the pressure along the borders and to get international support and the organizers certainly those of the civil society do say that wars have happened this time we're going to try to do a peaceful movement and they doing their utmost to keep it as peaceful as possible the problem is down there the young people are angry are frustrated many of them tell me you know if i die i don't have any problem because i don't have any future many would tell you they graduated from university but they can't find a job they have nothing to look forward to and it's very sad to hear but many young people boys and girls will tell you that they don't mind dying at hul and i'm talking about young people who are seventeen eighteen sixteen but that's a problem and i think organizers are going to try to make. to keep control as much as possible but an hour ago was talking to you most of the youth were outside that

three hundred meter buffer zone now they quite deep inside the buffer zone so certainly a source of worry here but we'll leave it may be told and come back to us when that situation develops again thank you. let's move on to our other top story now that's the former south korean president park geun has been found guilty in a corruption scandal and sentenced to twenty four years in jail now the court in seoul also find her more than sixteen million dollars after convicting her of bribery abuse of power and coercion park wasn't in court for the verdict which was broadcast live on national television let's take a look back at the former president's fall from grace park going hey became the country's first elected leader to be forced from power when she was arrested in march twenty seventh teen during her four years in office she colluded with her long time friend to a soon sale to get bribes and extort tens of millions of dollars from south korean companies more than fifty high profile figures have since been caught up in the

scandal and are either in jail or facing trial for me i don't have to pay could be mental as parker and hayes wrongdoings were revealed one by one a mess of chaos to the order of state of fears were brought and led the impeachment of the president which was unprecedented in our constitutional history park abuse to presidential power and trusted by the people and abandon constitutional responsibility and choice soon still use parks power and pursued private interests are responsible for the situation. has more from outside the courthouse in seoul. well 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 hay was found guilty of sixteen of the eighteen charges against her including abuse of power. bribery and leaking presidential information to her longtime friend. sharon did not have any official government role but was said to be meddling in state affairs and also used her presidential friendship worst major companies into making massive donations 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 companies including samsung and this was a very convoluted set of cases 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 protest i imagine would be satisfied with this heavy sentence against parkin hey. the corruption case against south african president jacob zuma has been adjourned the money laundering fraud and racketeering charges relate to a multi-billion dollar. two decades ago. you know he's challenging the decision to prosecute the case. from the former president stronghold from the city of. jacob zuma has addressed his supporters outside. for this region is called. and zuma stronghold so people have been bought from across the region to comment

support him to comment on it has told them that 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 you to say that this case has been around for such a long time and it hasn't move forward you say in a sense and he's going to prove that now the quad task was the beginning of the try all. june eighth it was very much expected that this would happen this is a very preliminary seating and was not even expected to take a piece of these decisions to postpone the case so that to give a lawyer is time to prepare. that they are going to challenge the all of the state to reopen the case and they're reviewing that division and a lot of legal experts have been talking to us saying that this is the one case this is one. that is going to take very long to read very complicated to be

very many witnesses i'm sure a lot of to ing and fro ing from some of the best lawyers in the country but many south africans including those who are here jacob zuma supporter let's say they have waited so long for answers and they hope that it's not going to take another many yes to get this on to get a body to get justice which ever way to goes. now the trade standoff between the world's two largest economies is a us president donald trump has ordered his administration to consider imposing an extra one hundred billion dollars worth of tyrus on chinese goods that beijing responded by saying it would pay and he called stern into the new measures to safeguard itself if the us didn't back down well just hours before threatening further tyrus against china spoke of his desire to strengthen a strengthened out of me trade issues. in many respects i think we're going to have a fantastic relationship long term with china but we have to get this straight now

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 looking 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. brown has more from 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 tariffs 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 who warming far if the insist on unilateral reason and the treaty 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. but brazil's former president luis in silver is considering his next move after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest i supporters of governor outside the metal

workers union building in san paolo. retreated with some of his political allies he has until five o'clock local time on friday to hand him self into police after the country's top court ruled that he must begin a twelve year jail sentence for corruption while the prospect of jail time could deal a fatal blow to plans to run for a third terminal tobis presidential election in america editor you see a human has more from the capital brasilia. barack obama described lisi nasser. 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 the piece off 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 current president paymah 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 said job model was quicker on the draw he said that out of respect for law as a former president he would allow him twenty four hours to present himself voluntarily to federal police in the city of where he is supposed to serve his sentence if he does not go then he says federal police will go out. 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 . with lula 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 the party insists remains a political force. this very day 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. well still ahead here on al-jazeera no deal one sit on egypt and ethiopia have failed to reach an agreement over the

controversial renee's holds also. but in this particular instance beyond sinister wishes to investigate the same fire a heated exchange between london and a u.n. meeting over the nerve agent attack only former russian spy. hello the weather is looking a little changeable from north asr at the moment we've got some bands of cloud making their way across the korean peninsula through the sea of japan and on into japan itself mostel area of low pressure in place a quite a brisk morely wind coming in behind say freshening up we'll see some bright skies eventually coming through but she can see temperatures into single figures there across the korean peninsula just thirteen degrees there for beijing plowden rang

this pieces of sleet and snow moving away from japan temperatures around twenty two celsius for on saturday off and they should broaden up a little more as we go on into sunday because see the possibility of want to see wintry sallis coming three just sixteen celsius in tokyo at this stage meanwhile we got a little bit of wet weather still in place across central and southern parts of china physically down towards the southwest and rather heavy showers setting a possibility temperatures pipe back on what they have been raised with quite a brisk north or north easterly wind twenty three degrees there for hong kong things recovering to around twenty five by sunday as it brightens up pleasant sunshine coming back through various sunshine into southeast asia want to be a possibility central and southern parts of the philippines where weather looks like across southern areas of borneo we said big time polls in these. a story fourteen hundred years in the making. a

story of succession and leadership. tells the story of foundation and the emergence of an empire. the caliph episode one on a jersey the. welcome back you're watching of is there i'm still robin a reminder of our top news stories the former south korean president park geun hye has been found guilty in a corruption scandal and sentenced to twenty four years in jail the court in seoul

also find her more than sixteen million dollars up to convicting her bribery abuse of power and coercion parker was in court for the verdict which was broadcast live on national television. also brazil's former president luis in arceo 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 paolo where lula was a house were treated with some of his political allies and some palestinian protesters in gaza have been injured and see israeli army fires live ammunition and the gaza israeli border people in gaza have reviewed protests after these twenty one were killed over the past week or more than fourteen hundred injured half of them hit by israeli gunfire now the un has urged israel not to use excessive force and says firearms should be used. as a last resort well not use for hearing as an associate professor at our university

and joins me here in studio good to have you with us again on the surface it seems like yet another face to face confrontation that we've seen before always ends of bloodshed as it has in the last week the underlying reason for this just seems to continue to be the ongoing frustration the palestinians have with their own plight absolutely i mean the station as. the place where it is easy to call it. because. it remains where it is from egyptians people they don't have even the basic need for their life the world is not paying any attention to that so that is basically it's and outcome of this for the station for years and years so i think what we are seeing seeing now and last week and today is actually this kind to continue with your frustration and showing the world that there are you know one point five million people and there really. severe pressure from the very least you know the blockade is an example of

a blockade in contemporary history actually talk so it is of restoration and this is one of the outcome of this for the stations indeed the international condemnation of israel's action has come in thick and fast over the last week but the underlying causes for the palestinians would be the lack of international help over the years as political infighting which is another huge frustration for them and that perhaps the free rein that israel has to do what it wants with america's blessing because nobody can help them sort of if you if you yesterday the white house sent the message that the palestinians should not go out today and the israelis should be to introduce you know should calm down because of this such a statement is giving actually the israelis the green light to do whatever they want and i think that is a lack of support of international community because basically the truth to reason behind it. one is the position of the united states would basically the united

states has a different agenda to the region now the artist beacon about the grand bargain from speaking about this because about the role of saudi arabia and that bargain this become about the role of the palestinian president that. grand bargain that is not nothing about what's happening it was the reason i think international community is busy with a lot of fires also a crisis syria crisis iraq a crisis yemen it cries and i think russia is involved in syria they have little focus on pakistan of course and i thought i think they should realize that if instability goes on in the order was bank this will have it on if occasion and we have a result of a vacation and international ramifications. that stability requires large bodies international governments or organizations to step up to the mark whether it be the arab world or oblique as a group or the organization of islamic conference as well as the likes of the e.u. and america and there doesn't seem to be any movement there except the fact that

they are important in being able to help move the palestinian process forward that's right i mean by the way if you look at the you know all development in the last sixty years there always late actions from bleeding from the international community i think that is that's the reason why israelis and americans always used to do whatever they want i think that the delay of action is an indication that there is no serious attempt to stop it and there is no serious strong position to stop this way of doing what they are doing now which is see what happens as those pictures of plumes of black smoke. but you swearing from qatar university say thank you. the diplomatic crisis between the u.k. and moscow over the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter has now moved to the united nations security council russia's ambassador warned london that it was playing with fire

moscow had called for the meeting to refute accusations that it was behind the attack on diplomatic editor james bays has more from new york. 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. this monday a dozen new. 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 has 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 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 of seoul 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 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 begs al jazeera at the united nations . catherine is former leader morris free to leave

a german prison after posting bail court rejected a spanish extradition request judges rule that the rebellion charge that pujol faces in spain is not a criminal offense in germany he could still be extradited on a lesser charge of misusing public funds those wanted over his role in the illegal referendum for catalonia secession from spain let's go over to dominic casey in muenster where we're expecting. to speak or certainly see him when he's released or what seems to be the hold up. and that is the question we have been expecting him to emerge from this prison here no mentor for several hours and several hours indeed since the judicial officials who've been looking after this case confirmed that he was at liberty to go that he met the conditions of the stringent conditions of bail that had been set out namely a seventy five thousand euro bond as it were and then commitments that he would

inform the authorities where he would be staying in this in this city that he can't leave germany all that sort of thing so we're still waiting. to find out when he will come out in front of the media as as it were a free man and the uncertainty underlines what we don't know what he intends to do next is that to be clear one of the charges the german courts say are not things that could could see him extradited but the other one about fraud embezzlement is and he still is at risk of being extradited on that charge of but we'll leave it there dominick and follow events with you from germany through the day. you're watching or does there i'm still robin these are all top stories some palestinian protesters in gaza have been injured as the israeli army fires live ammunition and tear gas at the garza israeli border people in gaza have renewed

protests after these twenty one were killed over the past week and more than fourteen hundred injured half of them hit by israeli gunfire now the un is urged israel not to use excessive force and says firearms should be used as a last resort. former south korean president park good has been found guilty in a corruption scandal and sentenced to twenty four years in jail the court in seoul also find her more than sixteen million dollars after convicting her bribery abuse of power and coercion parker was due in court for the verdict which was broadcast live on television. as you just saw catalonia is former leader is free to leave a german prison after posting bail because there rejected a spanish extradition request the judges rule that the rebellion charge that faces in spain is not a criminal offense in germany. 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 more was two decades ago zuma denies any

wrongdoing and is challenging the prosecution decision. so dolls a foreign minister says talks with egypt in ethiopia on the controversial grand old stamp of failed the project was originally slated for completion the sure but disagreements between egypt and ethiopia have led to the two year suspension of talks those were the headlines more news in half an hour next on al-jazeera it's inside story with during the stay with us. this week the world has been honoring the memory and legacy of martin luther king jr but fifty years after his death how much progress have black americans made in

the struggle to achieve racial and economic equality.