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people during protests along the gaza border. november carves al jazeera live from doha also coming up u.s. treasury department announces new sanctions against several russian government officials and companies. finally. for dialogue has arrived for. release from a german prison and calls on the spanish government to hold talks. sentence of twenty four years and prison for former south korean president park geun hye convicted of abuse of power bribery and coercion. to begin with the vents on the border between gaza and israel where three people have now being killed as the israeli army continues to shoot and take

a protesting palestinians at least two hundred and fifty people have been injured with seven left in a critical condition over the past week at least twenty one people were killed and more than one thousand four hundred injured half of them hit by israeli gunfire tens of thousands of palestinians are holding a six week long protest in tent encampments along the fenced border the u.n. says there's a strong indication that the israeli army has used excessive force hoda abdel-hamid joins us from gaza so one of the death toll just seem to keep rising hour by hour what's happening. well it certainly is a situation of sort of count cat and mouse game over the last fifteen minutes or so to israelis had fired barrage of tear gas that has pushed everyone to do back but i suppose somewhat used carrying it last summer. tyros towards the borders i'm sure in new mexico minutes we will see again that sort of thinking blacks what did they

use as a as as a screen to block the vision of these really soldiers are on the other side of the fence now you were talking earlier of the number of injured children fifty so far according to the health ministry here that most of that happened in the last two to three hours we've been here since the morning it was quite calm but really the tension has picked up in the afternoon and we've seen ambulances going and coming close didn't leave for the last three hours and i'm from what we understand the same is happening in the other four camps along the borders i'm sure that number will keep on rising now the tactics used by the israelis seem to be the same as last week most of the injuries we're told from the health ministry are in the lower part of the body once again there have been some who have received bullets in their back and in the neck but by and large the israelis are targeting didn't know were

part of the body but these are high velocity bullets that really caused a lot of damage and could mean people what are the words of the nature of these protests i mean are you seeing them being or hearing of them being provocative or are they non-confrontational. well certainly there is a certain level of defiance among those who actually venture all the way to defense and by and large are very young people boys and girls are teenagers or just in their early twenties and anyone you speak to will give you that same answer we have nothing to lose you know do unemployment is about sixty percent among the youth in the gaza strip there's very little chances for them to. have a better life there's a lot of frustration because they are they're basically blocked in

a strip that is forty kilometers long and eleven kilometers wide that's all they see that's all of most of these young people have seen since they were born or at least since they were children so there is this anyone will tell you that it is a day boy it's boiling over they can't take it anymore they have nothing to look forward to so they are just taking their grievances all the way to the fence for the other side to see how angry they are obviously there is a dream that eventually some of them will be able to cut through that fence and basically as an another act of defiance that has been extremely difficult because anyone ventures too close to the fence is immediately emerged with live ammunition but the root of all this is a lot of popular anger and yes political factions could be banking on that but that doesn't take away how much people are frustrated and how much people are desperate in the gaza strip so the desperation is something the protesters are very keen to

highlight what else are they demanding than. but certainly that is the right of return you know that did occur in population of this trip is one point nine million out of those one point two are refugees or descendant of refugees and many of them come from actually towns and villages that are now in israel that are twenty or thirty kilometers away from here i woman earlier an elderly woman was telling me that that sample and in some areas of this trip she can actually see her hometown but she hasn't been there in sixty years ago children say they have always heard these stories about that place and they want to go and see it so there is that also going on here do you know the right of return of refugees has been a very thorny issue during the peace negotiations and it was actually part of the five. final status agreement at the moment the peace negotiations are dead deadlock there's nothing going on so certainly people are taking things in their own hands

and there's also anger towards a different palestinian faction the fact that there was so much hope that national reconciliation would come about now do fatah and hamas are not talking to each other or at least are threatening each other ever since that act back on the convoy of the the prime in palestinian prime minister about three weeks ago so it reaches a point where each time they have a bit of hope well that foothold gets dashed and now de extremely angry i have to say dead at the interior security branch of how mass had issued a statement late last night asking protesters not to go too close to defense and to do that to avoid the high number of casualties of last week well it doesn't seem that anyone is really listening anymore to anyone and that is probably one of the most dangerous things because people say we have been let down by absolutely everyone now we're going to do it ourselves and this is really every movement that

is led by the civil society is civil organizations certainly the political factions have co-opted part of it have given them the green light and also want to be seen part of it last week for example armande than the twenty twenty one day that you mentioned will have mass as claimed and five of them were their. own fighters but. india is a they are you get a really a feeling that it is something new going on it is people led and you also get a feeling that even the factions here don't know what to do anymore organizers are doing their best to try to convince to used to stay at least if not completely out of the three hundred meter buffer zone but at least do not go too close to the first but you will see people crawling to the fence one thing to put the palestinian flag on the bones you will see those who will take the risk ok many thanks for joining us from gaza protests carrying on on the border between

gaza and israel close to the fence just back from three hundred no three hundred mi to no go zone the harder it was just talking about you can see burning tires there in the corner of your screens ambulances also out in force taking the injured off to hospital the death toll has risen now to three palestinians killed and more than two hundred fifty people injured by israeli live fire. superbly milton edwards she's a visiting fellow at the brookings doha center specializing in security sector governance in the middle east she joins us here in the studio we heard harder saying that there's a sense that something new is happening here do you get that feeling. something in terms of the young people that she was talking about and in fact they make up the majority of the population of the gaza strip over fifty percent of the population

is under the age of fifteen certainly it's something new for them but actually if they would stop and asked their uncles and aunts and their mothers and fathers and their grandparents what we see is a cycle of palestinian protest we think back to nine hundred eighty seven and the first intifada which was nonviolent mainly nonviolent protests we think about the second intifada way in fact we did see violence begin to come into protesting activities and take a very deadly and lethal turn in particular for israel is so in many respects this is a pattern of protest because there has been as your reporter pointed out there's been no progress on the ground in terms of into palestinian reconciliation all the larger issue of israel and the palestinians making peace with each other and bringing stability to the wider region which of course of course includes egypt who in turn a worried about security issues as it relates to their gaza border in the sinai desert. the political parties we heard from holder we've seen they're keen to

capitalize on these protests but what is how masses role here i think the masses role here is yes definitely to leverage to leverage the protests in terms of their claims against their internal rivals which include fattah and some of the other factions as well as israel so i mean that's that's quite clear and i think we saw one of the senior leaders of hamas mahmoud zahar greeting members coming up to the rallies today after after prayers so certainly hamas are going to try and capitalize on that but again as your reporter pointed out it's really important to remember that there is a huge amount of distrust and dissatisfaction amongst most of garza's the majority of gaza's residents against. it's against the palestinian authority against egypt against israel because for them they feel that at least for the past decade they've been as they call it living in the equivalent of an open air prison with little

hope for peace little hope for prosperity and little hope for a future protests have garnered international reaction just earlier today the united nations office for human rights released this statement saying there are strong indications that security forces use excessive force it went on to say remind israel of its obligations to ensure that excessive force is not employed against protesters and that in the context of a military occupation as is the case in gaza unjustified and lawful recourse to firearms by law enforcement resulting in death may amount to a willful killing every what you make of the international reaction so far well i think the international community is concerned that the extent to which israel has responded to the protests in its management of the protests the proportionality of force that it that it's employed the international community and security experts all of the global well aware of israel's capacities in terms of military responses

intelligence responses to palestinian protests it's not as if this is the first time that israel and its military forces and intelligence community have encountered widespread civil protests from palestinians whether they are armed or unarmed so i think that's where the concern lies the concern lies with that international rules and norms that israel should be seen to abide by in terms of the need for use of force and excessive use of force and i think human rights watch director has pointed out that it's not justified to open fire with live ammunition for example if people are approaching the fence if there's no apparent threat to you know serious threat to life or or injury so again. i think it's about the question of proportionate use of force against the level of protest is not about israel's right to protect itself because israel has the do legitimate right to

protect itself it's about how it manages these protests what about the west bank what are you hearing from the powers in all thirty president mahmoud abbas on all of this well i think that president abbas of course like everybody in the west bank supports people in the gaza strip supports the same causes and president abbas of course in terms of the peace process president and basses been the man that always promoted peace by negotiation accord trumps to be laid down and perhaps what he's finding is a deaf ear with with with israel you know this as was pointed out earlier this is a key issue for the resolution of the conflict between israel and the palestinians the refugee issue so i think that he will continue to walk on the political and diplomatic side to see if a resolution could be reached in that way ok beverly milton edwards thanks very much again for joining us here in doha. ok still ahead here on al-jazeera.

long. as former president jacob zuma remains defiant opera pairing in court on corruption charges over a multi-billion dollar on this deal plus. brazil's former president says he can still run for office again even though he's been ordered to go to jail. united states has announced more sanctions against russia for what it calls the country's malign activity around the world that includes measures against seven oligarchs seventeen senior government officials and twelve companies a total of thirty eight individuals and have been sanctioned shortly. by in the russian capital see what reaction to the sanctions there is but first let's go to kimberly halakhah she's live for us in washington d.c.

can because a bit more about who is being targeted here. well it really boils down to anyone that has a significant business or foreign policy tied to the russian president vladimir putin seems to be in the spotlight with this latest round of sanctions by the u.s. treasury department targeting dozens of russian companies officials tycoons but really this boils down to seven all of our concluding one that is notable that is a personal friend of the russian president his name is ole darragh pasta he is a billionaire and founder of a group that operates siberian power plants but he also made headlines last year laura when it was discovered he also had ties to the former campaign chair paul mann afford for for the u.s. president but not at the time the campaign trail for donald trump his campaign chair paul man a force of that significant now the other thing that's significant is this is that

we're seeing seventeen senior russian government officials targeted as well as one state owned trading company and as you point at the start of the show the u.s. treasury department the trumpet ministration saying that this is for russia's malign activity as they call it the malign activity is will there why is this coming now i'm getting real mixed messages from the white house as to the way they approach russia. right we are getting mixed messages because you'll remember just earlier this week when the president had a joint press conference with the baltic leaders he said no one's been tougher on russia than i have but you have to remember it's taken donald trump a bit of time to put these sanctions into place this is the third round of some sort of targeted action in his many weeks but he's had the power since august when the u.s. congress gave it to him through a law which he reluctantly signed then the treasury department kind of dragged its heels saying look at we're preparing these but it's taken quite a bit of time we saw first round of sanctions in the mid march then we saw that

collective action with the international community that the u.s. participated in expelling diplomats in response to that attack on the. the former russian spy living in the u.k. and now we have this latest action but again the president has also well doing this said that he is open to having a meeting with vladimir putin possibly at the white house this is something that was brought up in a telephone call between the two leaders confirmed by the white house press secretary so those plans are in the works even as the president the trumpet ministration is taking taking this targeted action against all of arcs against officials and tycoons ok kimberly many thanks ring is the view from washington let's go live now to moscow that we can join rory sort of or if we see the russian response to this new set of sanctions. you know there has been those being response from. an organization that

basically lets kind of technology exports from russia it was specifically talking about the sanctioning of or also borne exports which is. basically the the russian states. exporting and city now it says stitch the u.s. going off to this particular organization is essentially competition trying to squeeze. yes russia rounds of the international arms markets we've also heard from the trade ministry which says that there is of course going to be support for the businesses that have been sanctioned state support and we've heard from nikolai patricia who sanctioned himself he is the secretary of the security council national security council he said this doesn't mean that russia is not going to talk to the united states anymore and he's either the the businessmen the only dogs that have been sanctioned of course as businessmen often do they're going to find

other ways to make up for their losses now for anyone who's been watching russian oligarch interests recently and have seen the infighting that's been going on perhaps what's going to happen in the future is that the big fish here will start swallowing up the smaller fish it's going to perhaps get vicious in russian oligarch it circles ok how isolated do not perhaps the only gods but russia as a country the kremlin putin how isolated to they fail at the moment. this is a difficult question is this going to actually have any effect on russian foreign policy who can tell we'll have to wait and see there is a wider debate that goes on in western circles when it comes to how you can actually put pressure on the kremlin and lots of people have been arguing for some time that the only way that you can really squeeze the kremlin is by going after those that are closest to it these oligarchs people like deborah pascoe people like

superman to carry more people like the rotten birds all of those have been sanctioned in this list but there are others who say that actually this will benefit the kremlin that if you sanction these individuals they will be forced to bring their assets which at the moment are spread around the world often income in countries like the u.k. in financial centers like london if they're forced to bring those back into russia which is experience horrendous capital flight over the last few years then that actually benefits the kremlin the criminals been trying to get all of this money that's been spread around the world a by all accounts rich russians who are just too scared to have it kept in russia itself because they think the government might go after it what if they're forced to bring about the country that eventually strengthens department's position it's a difficult argument and i don't have the answer so we'll have to wait and see where well many thanks for joining us from moscow. the diplomatic crisis between

the u.k. and russia over the poisoning of a former spy has now moved to the united nations security council russia had called for it to meet to enable it to refute accusations that it was behind the nerve agent attack on one of its former agents and his daughter in england they were hospital in salisbury taking care of second scrapple says he is no longer and a critical condition under spays reports from the u.n. . a greeting between the british and russian ambassadors but 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 monday a dozen news no good to come in theaters 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 sole sprit case 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 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 spy 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 or miscreate 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 bays al jazeera of the united nations four people have been killed in syrian government as strikes on the town of duma in eastern and state media says syrian forces retaliated after for a faction within the armed group josh ehlers them shelled of regime held area the group has rejected the deal that saw the evacuation of opposition fighters and their families to live the russian brokered agreement had seen hundreds move to it lead but that's now been suspended 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 has responded by saying it would pay any cost and has hinted that new measures to safeguard

itself if the u.s. didn't back down or just hours before threatening for the taps 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 this straight 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 our 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 now 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 google me far if the insist on unilateral eason 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. catalonians formulated colors possible has been released on bail from the german prisoners called for talks with spain the court rejected the spanish action request judges rule the rebellion charge that huge amount faces in spain is not a criminal offense in germany he could still be extradited on the lesser charge though of misusing public funds as one of their its role in the illegal referendum catalonia succession from spain. the time for dialogue has arrived we are demanding that daily from the last eight years and we only received a violent and representative response now seeing the form of that response it's time to do politics there is no excuse for the spanish authorities to a start

a political dialogue with the catalan political leaders in order to find a political solution of our demands not by criminal lol. so i had hair on al-jazeera to bring you more on the violence that's taking place on the gaza israel border. i'm rosalyn jordan in washington the nation's capital exploded after the assassination of martin luther king jr some reflections from one man to try to help keep the peaks. squaring off and hungry as two very different men like to lead the country. however we've got some slightly dry weather coming into central and southern parts

of china now sees a rather big downpours recently just around chengdu sliding further south towards will see a little more cloud coming into hong kong quite a breezy day there on sas day chemotherapy wind temperatures around twenty three degrees celsius warmer weather as we go on into sunday the winds falling lights which is see very pleasant weekend in store that's hong kong getting up to around twenty five degrees much of central and southern china looking fine dry and sunny also dry weather too across parts of south asia we have got some live these showers just cropping up into india so they see some warnings on the indian met department here i mean possibility of seeing some big down poles in places maybe underneath one of these shower heads pushing up towards the northeastern quarter still pretty warm thirty eight celsius there for not cool thirty five in new delhi but not quite as hot as it has been recently mice you want to see showers creep in the way into schrenker on sunday maybe some sallis to into bangladesh and maybe also into new

poll because a somewhat weather across the arabian peninsula over the next day or so as well setting a possibility here on saturday with a high of thirty degrees. 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 set there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating base is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who is an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

well you're watching out there i'm laura reminder of our top stories this hour at least three people have been killed and at least two hundred fifty others wounded several of them critically this israeli army continues to shoot live fire and tear gas at protesting palestinians along the gaza border over the past week at least twenty four people were killed and more than one thousand four hundred injured half of them hit by israeli gunfire. united states has announced against russia for what it calls the country's malign activity around the world those talks is include seven although darks seventeen senior government officials and twelve companies. and doctors at a hospital in the u.k. say the former russian spy sergei script hall is no longer in a critical condition

a month after he and his daughter were poisoned it was a u.t.i. is also in a stable condition british investigators say there were exposed nerve agents but the u.k. government blaming russia. back now to our top story on the tensions along the gaza israel border and these protests started a week ago for the annual day as an act of resistance against israeli occupation and land seizures charlotte dallas has more. palestinian words meet israeli bullets in gaza. from behind the border fence israeli snipers have palestinians on these sites they shooting a guest in life fire and rubber bullets. but still reeling from the bloodiest day in years this was the area where last friday israeli snipers shot seven hundred .