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israeli security forces killed five palestinians and injure at least seven hundred eighty more during protests along the gaza border. a law i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up the u.s. treasury department announces new sanctions against several russian government government officials and companies are on the wrong. wrong south africa's former president jacob zuma remains defiant outside court after appearing on corruption charges over a multi-billion dollar arms deal. form a south african private a former south korean president park geun hye is found guilty of abuse of power bribery and coercion and sentenced to twenty four years in prison. we begin at the border between gaza and israel where five palestinians have been

killed as the israeli army continues to fire live ammunition and tear gas at protesters at least seven hundred eighty palestinians have been injured with seven said to be in a critical condition it's a week since demonstrations first began to mark palestine's annual land day an act of resistance against israeli occupation and land seizures charlotte reports. 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 palestinians twenty one would die. a week later they're back with a smokescreen and stretches the casualty numbers quickly climb. injuries turn to

fate tell us what's going to the stars they are seeing we're not bringing them for war anything we brought them to protect ourselves from israeli snipers. last friday's killings happened on what the palestinians called lend it's an annual protest an act of resistance to israeli occupation and the seizure of land for illegal jewish settlements. this year israel warned that opened fire if anyone approached the border fence and then they followed through. fourteen hundred people were injured many shot by more than one hundred israeli snipers some in the back as they ran away another is he price given the large number of injuries and deaths the ominous statements made by israeli authorities in the days leading up to the protest as well as indications that the individuals killed or wounded were unarmed or did not pose a serious threat to well protected security forces and in some cases were actually

running away from the green line fence there are strong indications that security forces used excessive force. israel has ruled out any investigation by the united nations over the european union and to disproportionate use of force it blames him us for inciting its people is a travesty for the palestinian people that the hamas government is encouraging its people to attack israel is encouraging its people to commit acts of violence and encouraging them to actually storm into israel to try to destroy israel and kill as many people as possible palestinians will camp here until the fifteenth of may the day israel was created seventy years ago others will continue to press on the border taunting israel security forces and remembering what the lost loved ones and land they hold mirrors to blind the snipers hoping the world can see as they reflects the violence shot at dallas al-jazeera. joins us now from

inside gaza had a can you describe what's happening there at the moment. well it is reaching the end of the a lot of that at least the families that were here are leaving this this encampment now still you can see at the border down there where you see the ambulances are they are still the young protesters they have been throughout the day trying to get as close as they can to the phones but they haven't been able to because israel's retaliation was pretty swift barrage of tear gas fired from across but also drones dropping canisters from above and also there's been several cases of people getting hurt by live ammunition now the latest figure we got from their health ministry as you mentioned earlier seven hundred eighty wounded in children of which two hundred by live ammunition it is not as high as last week but

certainly a very high. and we know that these very minute train has said it's determined to prevent people getting too close to the fence the protesters that must be aware of the risks involved in doing this. they are and i asked over and over again why are you going there you've seen what happened last week i mean the bullets used by these really high velocity bullets we were in the hospital a few days ago and they actually they it's not just the wounded they mainly at people nevertheless the many young people said we have nothing to lose at this stage one young man was telling me i am sixteen i finished school i dropped out of school because simply it was a point for me to study there is nothing for me there is frustration that is anger not only had the blockade by egypt and israel but also at their own political

leadership at the fact that nothing is getting better people here young people did majority of those who are down there teenagers or in their early twenty's have only known war since they were born has only known hardship and they see no end in sight so many will tell you and it's quite shocking to hear especially when you're looking at the face of that person and he's so young that they have nothing to lose at this stage they will keep on getting the taking of the grievances right judy headphones for everyone to see obviously many of them are quite i would say ambitious day say that at some point they will be able to cross that says and you have to bear in mind that all of them are descendants of refugees so all of them have an original home town across the fence. thanks very much how do i mean bring us the latest on what's happening there in side gaza we're now joined by beilin

a former israeli minister of justice he joins me live from tel aviv thank you very much for speaking to us was the israeli military justified then in using live fire against unarmed civilians. well the question of whether or not it is excessive use of power. and i must admit that most of the israelis. you know it is a palestinian provoke. having the programs we would go on. with but a studio authority they're all coming close to the to the fence are still we actually we drew from gaza destroyed all the settlements a true that we are still having some a limb and so for a ruling through the sky and the sea but this is not

a reason. to have these demonstrations against us especially when they ask so all what at judy these young people who are really suffering we all admit the suffering in the small street because so densely populated but what do they really want to form us if they want peace if they want negotiations well we are with you claire question mine is i suppose at the moment they just want to be able to have the right to demonstrate peacefully that's what they're asking for right now and you know the pictures that we were seeing mr beilin are just that behind our correspondent it they what they want soldiers or activists so much as women and children and families who gathered it's not the first time that live fire was used on a protest as many more died earlier on in the week does there need to be an inquiry . so first of all the girl should be at least an

internal inquiry and my policy merits is the amending but i cannot tell you that this is the general view we are in of my in the minority in this demand because it is very difficult for most of the israelis to understand what do they really want from us now the point is that one has to be very very wise he smiled hill and clever and i see that the law at the level of consultation is much lower then a week ago and i presume also that it is not only because of the palestinians but also because of the israeli army which is more kill for than last time and that is of course a little bit better but if you ask me what should be the bottom line it is the following one if the palestinian leadership is not ready to recognize us all to

negotiate with us at least we should have with them and. with them for a few years in which there will be no exchange of fire and that they will be able to develop their own needs our help which is much better than the current situation see us into a very modest this is not my dream my dream is that gaza would be part of the palestinian state eventually but it is it doesn't seem like something which will happen tomorrow. is the least kind of a solution and the solution is what we need to thank you for sharing your thoughts your perspective with us mr beilin joining us there from tel aviv. united states has impose new sanctions against russian businessmen companies and

government officials including associates of president vladimir putin the sanctions target seven russian oligarchs and the twelve companies they control as well as seventeen senior russian government officials washington is saying that it's targeting russia's malign activities which include alleged meddling in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election. correspondent kimberly hulk it is live for us now washington what more do we know about the sanctions that are being imposed and of those that are being targeted here. well i think what we can take from these sanctions maryam is the fact that these ones are particularly personal for vladimir putin is seems that they have been designed to send that message they are targeting those that are really key allies of putin including one of his personal friends and even a former son in law in regards to his personal friend his name is oleg deripaska he's the billionaire founder of

a group that operates siberian power plants but you remember also to his name from last year when it made headlines for being potentially tied to paul matter for trump's former presidential campaign chair so that is certainly notable and again the former son in law of lattimer putin now all of this is something that has been encouraged by the u.s. congress. donald trump was given this power by the congress last summer but didn't start to take action under this law that he reluctantly side until last month that we are getting some congressional reaction from this both democrats republicans applauding this action that has finally been taken in fact the republican senator marco rubio saying that these sanctions really are designed to send a clear message to putin that the illegal occupation of ukraine support for assad's regime in terms of war crimes efforts to undermine western democracies and militias cyber attacks will continue to result in severe consequences so it seems that very much these are designed to send a message to putin the russian president personally all right thanks very much can

really help in washington turning then to all the developments the former russian spy at the center of a diplomatic row between the u.k. and rusher is no longer in a critical condition doctors say sergey script holds health is improving a month after he and his daughter will poisoned with a nerve agent in southern england britain blamed russia for the attack but continues to deny any involvement meanwhile the u.k. foreign office has confirmed scruples niece has been denied a visa to come to britain she was planning to take her daughter you back to russia . still to come for you on the program counter nine years from me to participate the monster is freed on bail after german prosecutors ordered his immediate release from prison. and residents out of the philippine terrorist island shut down fed cleaning suggest the government may have ulterior motives.

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 which will see a little more cloud coming into hong kong quite breezy day there on sas day key northeasterly wind temperatures around twenty three degrees celsius woman weather as we go on into sunday the winds falling lights and we should see very pleasant weekend in store that's a hong kong getting up to around twenty five degrees much of central and southern china looking fine dry and sunny also dry weather to across a good part of south asia we have got some live the 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 to two 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 my say want to see showers creep in the way into schrank or on sunday maybe some sallis to into bangladesh and maybe also into new poll because the somewhat weather across the arabian peninsula over the next day or so as well so the a possibility here on saturday doha with a high of thirty degrees. stories of life. and inspiration. a series of short documentaries from around the world that celebrate the human spirit against. al-jazeera selects express yourself.

welcome back let's recap the top stories for you this hour five people have been killed and hundreds injured after israeli security forces fired live ammunition at palestinians protesting near the gaza border. the united nations human rights office has warned israel against using lethal force saying that it violates international law. and our other top story the u.s. has announced new sanctions against russian businessmen companies and government officials close to president let him in. at will for more on this story now

the protests in gaza are our top story today al-jazeera is senior political analyst marwan bashara a marwan how how significant are these protests in terms of the way they came about and the way in which palestinians are choosing to express themselves here i think it's quite significant for a number of reasons one they are part of a long series of all protests in various kinds over the last several decades of peace since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven when the gaza strip the west bank of these jews there were all compiled by israel so the palestinians have seen a number of. means of protests some of them were armed some of their were very violent some of them were in fact acts of terror and a lot of the most of them where acts of civil disobedience or peaceful protests like what we've seen today and i think it's shows a certain maturity on the part of the palestinians to be embracing such peaceful means such creative means because really last friday they were almost bikini king

on these very borders erecting tents and chanting and singing and so on so forth if that annoys israel and of that brings the attention of the international community i think that's a probably of rebellion and i'm just looking at some of these pictures now i suppose the question many people are asking is whether or not they will stay this way to take if there's an essential factional body that organize the demonstrations could it possibly morph into something else most probably especially that the israelis are already moving in to various parts of the west bank preempting activists in other palestinian areas from joining the. palestinian brothers and sisters in gaza look as long as the causes continue to exist i think the palestinians will continue to resist and your earlier guests your civilian who is an israeli left its peace is loving apparently israeli a part of the peace camp

a source of war was asking almost torturously the same question again again so what do they want from us i think it's kind of interesting not to see astounding that a former politician like yossi beilin would really insist on this question of course is not expecting you to answer that but yet he insists on what do they want from us now. after several decades of occupation for an israeli former politician peacenik to say what do they want from us i think it's amazing what i'll answer mr bell it i think the palestinian want justice i think the palestinians want freedom i think people in gaza want freedom from drones they want freedom from shelling they want freedom from want bargaining they want freedom from blockade they want justice they don't want crumbs from the israeli table they want to be able to share their historic land palestine with the israelis on equal footing all right thank

you very much marwan at least twenty four people have been killed after government as strikes hit the syrian town of duma in eastern this according to search and rescue teams on the ground women and children are thought to be among the dead syrian state media is also reporting government forces have retaliated after a faction within the armed rebel group jaish al islam shelled a government held area. well now the former south african president jacob zuma has appeared in court to face corruption charges they relate to a two and a half billion dollar deal in totally faces sixteen charges including fraud racketeering and money laundering catherine so he has more on this now from durban . i mean. this is a significant moment in south africa's history for the first time a former head of state is in the dock facing corruption charges jacob zuma looked subdued as a judge adjourned the beginning of his trial to june to give lawyers time to prepare. regions through the eighth of june twenty eighth.

outside the courtroom he supporters waited when he came on stage he said the court proceedings had been politically instigated. by internet thousand and five i was in this same court facing the same charges i have never heard of anyone having charges dropped then reinstated the judge dropped the case because it had been politicized. zoomers african national congress party has kept its distance unlike in his previous scandals but party members arrived at court dressed in a.n.c. regard despite warnings not to from party headquarters. come from across this region. stronghold of the former president they've. been. vilified and that that was done by him till the very end zuma has

been implicated in a two point five million dollars arms deal in the late ninety's he's accused of receiving bribes to use his influence in the a.n.c. in favor of a french arms company and later to protect the company from investigations. this group in fighter jets filmed a few years ago were part of the deal some legal and political analyst say that the state has enough evidence to. a conviction one must remember that is former financial adviser should be a shaikh was in fact convicted of corrupting him the state at that time showing four instances in which it said it could prove and did prove that zuma had circumvented his duties under the constitution by doing favors for shake and his business interests as a consequence of being on what the state termed as a sort of corrupt retainer this is a matter that has divided south africans but many of them including zuma supporters say they are tired of waiting for so long for answers they hope they would have to

wait many more years to get a verdict no matter what that verdict is catherine. for macand i need a car as vigilantes calling for dialogue with the spanish government following his release on bail from a prison in germany who was detained last week after crossing the border from denmark spain is seeking his extradition on charges related to his role in catalonia as illegal independence referendum last year german judges have ruled can't be extradited for charges ever badly and could be on the grounds of misuse of public funds dominic cain has more from outside the prison in germany. colors pushed the most surprised everyone by taking a considerable time to actually obtain his freedom to walk out to address the waiting media we would be led to believe it would be at some point early in the morning after he would have posted the bail of seventy five thousand euros and agreed to meet the stringent conditions that would be placed on the his release

from incarceration here at the prison in. finally once he had complete complied with all the formalities and did emerge from the prison doors and when he did so the message he could he came across to the media with was one of the need for dialogue to resolve this situation. the time for dialogue has arrived we are demanding that daily from the last that she hears and we only received a violent representative response now seeing the form of that response it's time to do politics so carlos has managed to get himself released from the confines of this prison hartstein where he spent much of the past two weeks since his arrest he says now is the time for political dialogue to try to resolve the crisis and indeed the german government has sent that there needs to be a regional government created in catalonia to help resolve the crisis but for the

moment at least the direct future. himself in his hands but it is by no means certain that in getting out of this prison it doesn't mean he might still not end up in a spanish prison sometime soon. south korea's former president park and has been sentenced to twenty four years in jail and ordered to pay millions of dollars in fines she was found guilty on sixteen of eighteen charges of abuse of power bribery and coercion for her part in an influence peddling scandal that shocked the nation kathy novak has more from seoul. this is a scandal that has gripped south korea since twenty sixteen and the nation watched the climax live on television but park in haiti boycotted the trial and wasn't in court to learn her fate but the court sentences the defendant puck and head to twenty four years in prison and fines her sixteen point eight million u.s.

dollars. park was found guilty of sixteen of the eighteen charges including abuse of power coercion and of bribery and said to have taken millions of dollars from the country's vegas conglomerates in exchange for favors the corruption scandal sparked months of protests in central seoul culminating in parks impeachment was also found guilty of leaking sensitive information to her longtime friend chess and she'll as president park allowed to dictate policy even though she had no official government role the pair was found to have conspired to extort millions of dollars from major companies including samsung in february chair was sentenced to twenty years in prison samsung's air and group leader jay wiley was tried separately and convicted of bribing pock through payments to foundations check controlled he was sentenced in august to five years in prison then released on appeal. some of these protesters pointed to that ruling asking if lee was released why was

parked found guilty and been an angry reaction from outside the court from these supporters of poc and hey there are conservatives who dislike the current liberal president moon j.n. and they're demanding parks release. they represent a generation a style just for the time when pox father park chung hee was president he was a military general who came to power in a coup and was eventually killed by an aide a traumatizing event for a young poc and hey. we will keep fighting until there is a new government in power men jane will not let her out. we need to fight injustice but the number of park supporters paled in comparison to the hundreds of thousands who regularly turned out for the candlelight protests president came to office on a liberal agenda promising to stamp out corruption in a statement his spokesman said they say history not remembered repeats itself we will not forget today kathy novak al jazeera sole the philippines is closing one of

its most popular and profitable tourist destinations for six months present roderigo to territory says baraka island is a cesspool and needs major cleaning but locals who depend on the area to make a living and not sure of how they'll now cope going has been to visit the island. boruc i may be just one of the more than one thousand islands in the philippines but revenues here make up more than twenty percent of the total tourism industry in the country would spoken to tourists here many say they won't even notice the political turmoil that the island is facing with the government but local workers here feel differently obviously then up among that president to turn to what's going to happen to us i hope you can help us thousands of us workers will be jobless six months. i hope they don't totally close down the island because so many

of us employees will go hungry along with our families president of the good that there does this scribed boracay and they quote a cesspool has ordered his government because the island for the next six months for rehabilitation that means thirty five thousand workers are expected to lose their jobs and we've spoken to workers who say who would like to know what sort of assistance will they get from the national government or whether they will even have a job to return to they also criticized the government for granting two licenses to two chinese mega casinos they say that medical simos like this one have no place in a small island like boruc i they demand a plan they say from the government was made drastic measures they say without the long clear policy as to how it wants to end it.

but look at the top stories for you now five people have been killed and hundreds and get after israeli security forces shot at palestinians protesting near the gaza border it comes one week after twenty one palestinians died and fourteen hundred were injured by israeli bullets on the annual land day an act of resistance against israeli occupation and land seizures given the large number of injuries and see. the ominous statements made by israeli authorities in the days leading up to the protest as well as indications that the individuals killed or wounded were unarmed or did not pose a serious threat to world protected security forces and in some cases were actually running away from the green line phones there are strong indications that security forces used excessive force the united states is imposing new sanctions against russian businessmen companies and government officials including associates of president vladimir putin a target seven russian oligarchs and the twelve companies they own or control as

well as seventeen senior russian government officials doctors say sergey scruples health is improving a month after he and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent in southern england britain blamed russia for the attack on the former double agent but moscow has consistently denied any involvement the former south african president jacob zuma has appeared in court to face corruption charges they relate to a two and a half billion dollar arms deal in total he faces sixteen charges including fraud racketeering and money laundering is lawyers say they will challenge the decision by the state to reopen the case after more than a decade. at least twenty four people have been killed after government as strikes hit the syrian town of tumor in eastern guta that's according to search and rescue teams on the ground women and children are thought to be among the dead. in the

form of cattle anita collars but don't want is calling for dialogue with the spanish government following his release from on bail from a prison in germany where jamal was detained last week after crossing the border from denmark spain is seeking his extradition i'll have more news in just under half an hour's time coming up next a.j. selects with three short films about music photography and filmmaking.