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israeli snipers killed thirty and injured more than thirteen hundred others during more than a week of palestinian protests. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera life and also coming up there's also more president always analyse a little to civil ignores a court order to turn himself into police just to serve a twelve year prison sentence. russia promises a tough response after new u.s. sanctions iran on targets close to the kremlin plus. i'm wayne hay in a rebel held area of me and my where a cease fire agreement with government soldiers isn't holding and there is skepticism about a peace process that appears to have stalled. funerals

are to be held in gaza for the ten palestinians killed by israeli forces during protests near the border at least thirty people have now died since last friday when the protest against israeli occupation begad palestinian representative in washington has warned that the situation is explosive from gaza hoda abdel-hamid reports. the black spoke started billowing since early morning as gazans was dubbed as the friday after tires and for a second week in a row they took to grievances right up to the fence despite these radio warning that it will change its rules of engagement. mainly tear gas and live ammunition sending the protesters running for their lives. some of them had mirrors to blinder snipers positioned across the fence at least a hundred according to the army and many hurled stones sixteen year old mohammad was among them during the week he goes to school and on fridays during his weekend

he comes to the border area. they fight us with advanced methods we have slingshots and we have stones but they have bombs we want to eat to drink to work but we have no life there is nothing for us here i'm angry at everything that anger is the main driving force behind these protests have mass and other political faction seeking to gain leverage and israel fearing the demonstrators will storm the fence throughout the year these last three hundred meters leading to the border fence are a no go area for gaza and now this fight the threats made by israel that it will use exactly the same rules of engagement that it did under first there the protests people came here and that is where most of the casualties happened. at times there was euphoria among the protesters but as they drew closer they were immediately pushed back. and the wailing sirens replaced the charts it's in the afternoon

that the tensions were highest hundreds of casualties in just a few hours many here are refugees who were pushed out of their homes by new born israel back in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight going back is a dream passed on from generation to generation omar samad was kicked out from ny today known as ashkelon in southern israel she was a child then and now she's giving support to do you think fighting for her rights morgenthau thing that is your mom getting them about it throughout the year the three hundred meters around the fence are a no go area for gazans despite the threat by israel that they would use the same rules of engagement as they did in the first day. people have continued to come here and this is where most of the casualties happen. garrisons frustrated by did never ending blockade know that in the short term nothing will improve for them but by risking their lives at the fence they hope to refocus the world's attention on

their plight as perpetual refugees under siege would have been to me. earlier the u.s. walk to un security council statement endorsing calls for an end of pending investigation other fourteen security council members had agreed to the statement which also supported the right of palestinians to demonstrate peacefully the us which is israel's closest ally blocked a statement last week as well. brazil's former president lula de silva is expected to hand over to police later on saturday began his twelve year jail sentence for corruption follows hours of negotiations after he missed a deadline that was set by the investigating judge. to learn his many supporters defied the oath or it is for as long as they could the metal workers union headquarters in sao paolo he missed a deadline to hand him self into the authorities he and his supporters maintaining

his innocence of the corruption charges leveled against them. here we are here we are with the world looking at us everyone is accompanying us closely closely monitoring the situation that threatens our democracy. but lose options of run outs if you legal team has exhausted all appeals he will attend the ceremony to mark the birthday of his late wife and more trouble for the southern city of. the special jail cell awaits him to brazil is a country very much divided with many here believing that justice will only be done if his twelve year is a one month sentence many all those feel that he's the victim of a political prosecution to stop him running in the presidential elections elections they fail he would almost certainly win. support for lula has also come from abroad from the left wing politicians in office across latin america what he led from two thousand and three to two thousand and. eight is an absurd trial that they have

done to lula they have condemned him without any proof and the reality of what they're doing is outlawing the greatest political leader from being president. however many in brazil celebrating what they see is justice being done that even the once mighty must pay for their crimes. i came here just so i could see close up. when these corrupt men lulac goes to prison. for him or against him the slice of loot being taken to prison is still one that will shake brazil. elations parliament has officially dissolved on saturday paving the way for a general election within sixty days at a set to be a contentious fight between the prime minister najib razak and his former mentor tear muhammad has been plagued by corruption allegations his party has been in

power for more than sixty years. has more from the malaysian capital. all across the board this is becoming a familiar sight flags of the ruling coalition known as barzani but i think it's important to know in the last two years it lost its truth as majority in two thousand and eight and in two thousand and thirteen it lost the popular vote for the first time this is the first election since news of a corruption scandal surrounding state investment fund one m d b broke more than four and a half billion dollars has allegedly been siphoned from the fund such a broad prime minister not yet not just has denied any wrongdoing and malaysian investigations have not found any evidence of impropriety challenging not is his former mentor and former prime minister mahathir mohamad the ninety two year old was angered by the scandal he's returned to politics and sets up a new party opposition politicians say the odds on stacked against them the government has changed. its into the used

a new and fake news lol and not his opposition party has been banned for thirty days elections have to be held within the next sixty days but they're widely expected to be held soon. russia's foreign ministry is promising to respond firmly to new u.s. sanctions targeting president vladimir putin's inner circle the white house says the sanctions are in response to moscow's hostile actions our white house correspondent kimberly halkett reports. for weeks relations between the united states and russia have been deteriorating but this time for russian president vladimir putin it's personal and friday the administration of u.s. president donald trump announced its third action in as many weeks against key allies of putin including his own son in law what we would like to see is the totality of the russian behavior change the new u.s. sanctions target thirty eight russian entities seven all of guards are named including putin's personal friend oleg deripaska he's the billionaire founder of em

group the largest operator of siberian power plants dura pasta made headlines last year for his reported links to paul mann afford trumps former presidential campaign chair seventeen senior russian government officials and one state owned trading company have also been singled out the latest move comes in response to u.s. accusations russia meddled in the twenty sixteen us election its intervention in ukraine malicious cyber activity and its backing of syrian president bashar assad who the u.s. accuses of using chemical weapons against civilians the russian government calls the latest sanctions a mistake and has always denied meddling in any us affairs nobody has been tougher on russia than i have but it took months for trying to get tough on russia he was granted the power by the u.s. congress last summer. but waited until last month to impose sanctions the white

house escalated its response weeks later joining nearly two dozen other countries expelling dozens of russian diplomats and closing a russian consulate in seattle yeah actions were a collective international response to the recent poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in britain still when asked this week if putin was a friend or foe trump replied we'll find out a legit. i mean it will be a time when i'll let you know you're going to find out very quickly the white house says despite the new sanctions against russia donald trump has invited vladimir putin for a meeting here in the united states time and date still to be determined kimberly helped get al-jazeera at the white house the former russian spy at the center of that diplomatic route between russia and the u.k. is no longer in critical condition doctors say circus cripple is responding well to treatment russia denies prisons accusations that it was behind the nerve agent

attack against him and his daughter it triggered a tit for tat diplomatic expulsion scribbles nace who was planning to take his daughter you know your back to russia has been denied a visa by the u.k. foreign office. still ahead on al-jazeera under attack more tang is in senegal feel the effects of an escalating dispute over fishing rights class. a misdemeanor threatened gotten under way to ancient for centuries statues to one hundred thirteen and nine hundred eighteen have found their way back over. the weather squatting down nicely warming up as well across central and eastern parts of you before this little area showers just around the balkans cincy greece as well little further east as high pressure coming in behind that's settling

things down meanwhile over towards the west there is a low pressure just part of the unit from the atlantic will bring some outbreaks of right into the person into the far west of france and also into spain and portugal but warm air coming in you can see temps going up to twenty twenty one for paris and for syria sixteen celsius in london with some bits and pieces all right for the central and eastern parts you can see slushy five and dry temps going up to eighteen in berlin fourteen in kiev five in moscow moscow will warm up to around twelve eighteen degrees by the start of the new working week getting up to nine celsius on sunday here's a nice big area of high pressure washing things down brightening things up lots of spring sunshine coming through not quite sunny further west still some rain around temperatures still thanks to patty seventeen eighteen degrees there for london and paris the weather that we do have just around spain and portugal just lapping on to the northern shores alten iraq temps getting up to around eighteen degrees celsius and bats on sas day similar temperature on sunday will see wet weather for northern

parts of algeria.

watching out to zero these are the top stories this hour generals are due to be held in gaza for ten palestinians killed by israeli forces during protests near the border at least thirty people have now died since friday when the protests against israeli occupation began. are sales from a president always the osceola to silva is expected to hand him self over to the police later on saturday to began his twelve year prison sentence for corruption and follows hours of negotiations after a missed deadline to surrender russia's foreign ministry is promising a tough response to new u.s. sanctions targeting president vladimir putin's inner circle his son in law and a friend are among thirty eight people in business as targeted the u.s. says the measures are in response to moscow's hostile actions. global markets have fallen sharply as the trade dispute intensifies between china and the united states as spent on a trump has threatened to impose another one hundred billion dollars worth of

tariffs on chinese imports the beijing says it will counterattack with great strength every elizondo reports in new york. so is it a trade war or not for wall street on friday the answer to that question didn't matter it's close enough to being one between china and the united states was enough to send the dow tumbling yet again the third time this week that followed president trump's threat to escalate the dispute even further with an additional one hundred billion tariffs against china on top of fifty billion already proposed china is angry it's made it clear it will fight the u.s. at any cost. we feel the u.s. action is extremely unreasonable the u.s. has seriously misjudged the situation and taken an exceedingly wrong action the result of this kind of behavior is like picking up a piece of stone and smashing your own foot with it even if the threatened tariffs don't become a reality the rhetoric has left a market volatility in its wake on friday at one point the dow dropped over seven

hundred points the us president told a new york radio station the proposed tariffs could cause some pain but are needed to help us we've already lost a trade war i'm not saying there won't be a little pain but the market's gone up forty percent forty two percent so we might lose a little bit of it but would have a much stronger country what to a finish and that's what i'm all about the trumpet ministration has various officials giving off different signals just on friday the director of the national economic council said this was not a trade war and there's still plenty of time to negotiate with china before the tariffs go into effect but on the very same day the treasury secretary said the tariff threat could lead to a trade war it's that kind of uncertainty that left the markets tumbling and the white house struggling to defend its actions we know that there could be some

fluctuation but at the same time the president has said enough is enough china has to change this illegal and unfair practices. the markets are now closed for the week and nobody is clear where they or this trade dispute will lead gabriels on to york. donald trump has signed a memorandum telling agencies to end the practice known as catch and release the policy allows immigrants caught in the u.s. without proper documents to be released while there and then gratian cases play out in the courts but instead trump is asking the defense department for a list of military facilities for the undocumented immigrants can be held alan fischer has more from washington d.c. donald trump has been talking about catch and release for a very long time in fact since the election campaign what is it well it is the policy of catching illegal immigrants as they come across the border undocumented migrants is another phrase that people use they're held by border patrol

immigration officials their names are taken and then they're released until they get a date for their immigration hearing the donald trump has criticized this law in fact in a tweet just a couple of days ago he called it a dangerous liberal democratic law that he wanted to change and actually dates back to when george w. bush was in the white house but no donald trump has issued a memorandum to say there must be no more catch and release now add that to the fact that the department of justice has sent out a memo on friday to see that they want a zero tolerance approach to illegal immigration law longer will people because of phone back across the border but they will face the full might of the american legal system for essentially breaking the law by crossing the border illegally and the fact that we know that the white house is sending a number of national guard troops to the border particularly because of this caravan that is heading through central america through mexico towards the border at the moment but generally to help with border security this is donald trump

delivering on election promises to get tough on the border and get tough with the issue of illegal immigration. the texas national guard has sent troops to the us mexico border in response to calls from president donald trump to beef up security two hundred fifty personnel have been deployed trump has suggested sending more than four thousand national guard troops until his proposed border wall is built. two hundred extra officers are on patrol in london this weekend in response to a dramatic increase in murders since the start of the year rising of violent crimes in the u.k. capital is putting pressure on political leaders and on police officers day five stabbings took place in separate locations within a few hours earlier in the week two teenagers were shot while another was stabbed in the city's northeast. we have not lost control of the street so i can understand why some people are very worried at the moment in particularly in some areas of london we've had some gosling home sides as you know

a petition in the last few days including those and really young people there is bound to be very frightened. rebel groups and me and martha to walk away from peace talks with the government saying they're frustrated by a lack of progress fighting with the military has kept the country in an almost constant state of conflict for decades iraq and the hengist solidarity army emerged in two thousand and sixteen when it attacked police outposts and rakhine state they say they're fighting on behalf of the muslim or henge a minority further north there's the catch and dependents army they have been fighting the government for control of the region and its resources and other front allies to the east where the myanmar nationalities democratic alliance army is defending the paying talent coke hang ethnic group and confronting what it calls government oppression and then there's the karen national liberation army it's been fighting since one nine hundred forty nine for the independence in myanmar second largest ethnic group i mean hey reports now from the territory health care unravels

. for almost seventy years fighters from the korean national liberation army have been taking up arms against the government they want self-determination for the people of korean state most of which is controlled by the rebel group the government says it wants peace in the ethnic minority areas but in the remote villages of korean state rebel fighters aren't so sure. when worry about fighting are happening again at any moment so we have to keep our soldiers prepared how can we trust me and large government and military everyone in the world knows about them and even their own citizens can't trust them one of the main problems is that the government led by state council our own son suchi doesn't have control over its own military the army ran the country for almost fifty years and is still the most powerful body in me and mob the relationship between the civilian government and the military is not good a source connected to the army has told al jazeera that has to be resolved before

peace talks with rebels can make progress. so far the myanmar government has held two peace conferences with rebel groups there's also a so-called nationwide cease fire agreement in place so-called because there are still many groups that haven't signed that deal among those that have these guys the qur'an national liberation army and yet fighting continues as this footage shot by a korean fighter last month shows the cease fire agreement isn't holding. as always it's civilians who suffer the most with almost one hundred thousand refugees living in camps across the border in thailand. we want to go home but we don't dare because the ceasefire agreement hasn't brought peace we cannot trust the c.f.r. . in the meantime soldiers in rebel areas a holding their ground like they have for decades the most experienced fighters never believed the armed struggle would still be going but. we have fought against

them for so many years so we know that myanmar will not give us a quality easily not only the karen but other ethnicities too so we have to fight for our rights but if we cannot make peace in our time it will be up to the next generation. for rebel armies disbanding permanently seems a long way off as many in this divided country continue to head in different directions wayne hay al jazeera korean state me and ma a former head of. them artists calling for a dialogue with the spanish government after its release on bail and determining he was detained last week when he crossed the border from denmark is to extradite him on the rebellion charge he faces in spain because that's not a crime in germany he could still be sent back on the lesser charge of misusing public funds. disputes over fishing territory between senegal and mauretania are threatening plans to exploit a giant offshore gas field martin and coast guard shot and killed

a cynical fisherman and this has led to violence allegations ashore. in the city of st louis appearances can sometimes be deceiving mauritanian shop keepers of the fall. brahim in the med may put a friendly smile when a customer walks in but they fear being attacked again. for my own customers who are trying to kill me they stole goods and destroyed the shops some of them i've known them since they were children they were so i hope this is mobile phone footage of the attack in february a crowd of senegalese fishermen gather around more italian owned businesses. they chant arabs out go home you don't belong here they're protesting the killing of the two n.j. son father he was shot dead by morton in coastguards they say he was fishing in mauritania waters. i want justice and someone needs to pay for the death of my

son this is how the fisherman delivered justice for father's death. the shopkeepers called the police station across the street for help to take them an hour to show up the damage is already done. we go out to sea to meet the men behind the attack. were somewhere between senegalese and more to indian territorial waters we finally find them we have been out all night their couch is weaker and we have to go further ranch to find fish but the mauritanians are putting pressure on us if they find us they control our boats sometimes they steal our catch we don't trust them. the more tin coast guard shoot on sight fishermen caught in their territory dozens of fishermen have been killed hundreds arrested and their haul seized in these boarding waters mauritanians illegal have still not found an agreement over fishing rights. they

say it's menacing this isn't just about a fishing dispute it's about who controls these waters and the precious resources that. the largest field ever found in west africa was discovered here last year it contains over fifty trillion cubic feet of resource potential sufficient for thirty to fifty years of production both countries have agreed to share their resources politicians promise this new wealth will bring the communities together but with no fishing agreement in sight and growing resentment towards mauritanians in san louis the fight over the oceans well is for sowing distress after five generations of shopkeeping and. mauritanians no longer feel welcome. nicholas hawk sounded. a french company says has come up with a possible solution to the global water crisis using the sun to still water that's unfit for consumption consumption that isn't make

a tranquil high temperature and kills germs and bacteria and it was inspired by supermarket salad bowls several countries including south africa and the united arab emirates have shown interest in this new technology. to each and statues that were stolen from nepal thirty years ago have been returned to katmandu are on display at new york's metropolitan museum of art del historian sounded the alarm i'm katmandu reports. in case one is busy streets it's still don't you get to find archaeological wonders this is done the haiti and ancient waterspout statues of gods and goddesses decorated but many a replica of the statue of beatrice years still comes from our eyes he says this is the site that turns a loose the hindu gods shivah and his wife barbara was sold in the early one nine hundred eighty placement was put here for devotional purposes these are gods and goddesses and their living when suddenly they get lifted and taken away what is

tragic is that it's not only a stealth from museum it's stealth from a living museum it's from a living culture many of these statues are several hundred years old but most are not secure even one hundred sixty seventy's and eighty's thousands of statues and other heritage items were stolen from government devalue many of them are in museums in the west most of them never make their way back home but the obama show statue which was with the new york's metropolitan museum of art has found its way back to the museum discovered an eleventh century statue of buddha had also been stolen. we were awful who's standing as a gift. of two thousand and fifteen. in reviewing the offer of gift cards that went back and looked at the bangles from various seminal publication and discovered the work was published as having as having stolen in the summer of two in the mid

nineteen eighties and in the course of that investigation also discovered the room of a house for that which was living you know a storage room in the bin in the museum full thirty years. so all of those are the same the same history i refused to register for the collection but rather suggested the initiator called though so shouldn't. about hear the return statues were unveiled at the pasta partment of archaeology museums i didn't know legal obligation to return cultural artifacts but your quest for repatched can't be made if there was proof that they were stolen there are just people you know what i got the accord we don't know how many of our statues are scattered around the world we have records of some of them and try to get them back through the interpol the statues of buddha and she even parvathy will be displayed at the national museum and doesn't do but some community elders from want to see she back on the street where they used to be before they were snatched and taken to the

united states to others era. these are the headlines on al-jazeera funerals are due to be held in gaza for ten palestinians killed by israeli forces during protests near the border at least thirty people have now died since last friday when the protest against israeli occupation began thirteen hundred people have been struck by gunfire from israeli soldiers earlier the us blocked a un security council statement endorsing calls for an independent investigation at their fourteen security council members had agreed to the statement which also supported the right of palestinians to demonstrate peacefully or sales former president little to silva is expected to hand them self over to police later on saturday to begin his twelve year prison sentence for corruption apollo's hours and go after he missed a deadline to surrender. he's won some kind of i suppose you

could call it a humanitarian reprieve early on saturday morning. supports holding a remembrance ceremony. late wife. who died in february of last year she was a very popular figure within those workers policy so little with attended that ceremony as it does seem as though his lawyers have indicated the will behind him self in. parliament has officially dissolved on saturday paving the way for a general election within sixty days it's said to be a contentious fight between the prime minister. and his former mentor mohammad. past and played by corruption allegations russia's foreign ministry is promising a tough response to new u.s. sanctions targeting president vladimir putin's inner circle his son in law and a friend are among thirty eight people and businesses being targeted the u.s.

says the measures are on response to moscow's hostile actions president donald trump has signed a memorandum telling agencies to end the practice known as catch and release so that policy allows some regrets caught in the u.s. without proper documents to be released all their immigration cases work their way through the court system as asking the defense department for a list of military facilities where the undocumented immigrants can be held instead . those are the headlines news continues keep it here on al-jazeera inside story next. here is a very important fourth of information for many people around the world. have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. the u.s. president raises the stakes in his trade this.