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palestinians for parrots a very protester shot dead by israeli forces. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera life and also coming up. former president little to silver ignores a court order to turn himself into police to serve a twelve year prison sentence. russia promises a tough response after new u.s. sanctions zero in on targets close to the kremlin. and the escalating dispute over the oceans well causes waves between senegal in mauritania. generals are due to be held in gaza for the ten palestinians killed by israeli forces during friday's protests near the border twenty nine people have now died since last week when the protests against israeli occupation began thirteen hundred
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have been struck by gunfire from israeli soldiers. hotel maid joins us now from a hospital in gaza so the reports have been continuous at the hospitals are really struggling just to deal with the number of injured palestinians and people that have ended up dying what else can you tell us about how the hospitals are coping. well certainly it is a very difficult time for the hospitals because the. giving an example of yesterday the vast majority of whom did happen in just two to three hours so all of that force at the same time in the hospitals and did they receive are they sustain are very critical just to give you an idea we had the shifa hospital which is the main hospital here in gaza and they have carried out a hundred and fifteen surgeries in one day alone now do you and you many terry in
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coordination office here in gaza say that the hospital has actually declared a state of emergency because it's missing absolutely everything it soon also going to run out of anesthesia and we also spoke to the world world health organization and it said that they are choosing million dollars worth of drugs and essential equipment that is needed urgently to come into this trip and at the moment that is impossible why is it so difficult to get this this badly needed medicine hoarder. because it's a very complicated system basically the health ministry in gaza has to put forward their requests to the palestinian authority in ramallah then the palestinian authority has to coordinate with israel forward to shipments to come into the gaza strip because anything coming in and out of this trip comes through one crossing to
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carry my was salim crossing so it and has to have prior prior approval from israel now that crossing has been closed for the past eight days because of the jewish passover holiday it's due to reopen on some day but the state of the hospital here ok no wait until sunday there are some of the injured who are in a very critical situation there's also another issue here which is the let's say the tense relations between hamas and the palestinian authority so from what we understand there from the health authorities we spoke to you know everything there are for is actually approved and shipped by the authorities in ramallah so it's a very complicated situation where you have a humanitarian situation which is also hostage to a political situation and i do bowman as he said earlier the hospital has declared a state of emergency all right how to tell him a life rests in gaza thank you
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a palestinian journalist says among the twenty nine people killed by israeli forces fourteen other internal list including this man had been injured while covering the violence. of the demonstrations in gaza are inspiring more people to protest it's also reminding palestinians of previous struggles. reports in the occupied west bank. in gaza palestinian demonstrators did what they could to frustrate israeli security forces. burning tires to obscure the view of soldiers using mirrors in an attempt to blind snipers tactics that reminded me of an earlier era of resistance and i'm so proud of the fact that now all palestinian groups including come out of jail had thought that everybody i don't think this up which of peaceful nonviolent resistance which has proven to be the most effective way of dealing with that is that i will keep patients with dealing with those that are a little bit ashamed of the palestinian people and this definitively brings us back
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to thirty principles. said for the alliance and for going to sion and defiance of. these exactly where the three principles that govern the feds. and that led to changing the balance of power. in the first intifada which began in december one thousand nine hundred seven marked the first time that palestinians from all parts of society began such an intense resistance to israeli occupation. in the beginning boys threw rocks and people marched later fighters began attacking israeli soldiers and military targets it ended in one thousand nine hundred three and by the time it was over more than one thousand one hundred people had died tires were also burned in the occupied west bank just outside the illegal israeli settlement of beit el where a small crowd of palestinian protesters gathered throughout the day it was a game of cat and mouse that has become almost a regular occurrence on fridays after prayer incoming tear gas from israeli
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security forces would force them to run only to return a short time later hurling rocks despite calls by palestinian political factions for residents of the occupied west bank to come out and protest today attendance at the demonstrations was relatively low which really underscores a growing like a faith and palestinian political leadership activists say palestinian officials need more than ever to build trust one of the main things is just like to show them . met honestly away from the situation to to executive people what how we can go out of the situation to see to people who want to see an end to twenty five years of useless. but hectic negotiations that has been good thus the situation while officials may be disappointed at the dearth of demonstrators outside gaza they also feel their message this time will resonate with the international community what helps us a lot is the social media that ability of young palestinians to use social media
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and put on summit to the world. actual. objectivity ality on the ground the fact that israel is a ruthlessly shooting civilians shooting peaceful demonstrate that this is unacceptable the expectations are high the great march of return will inspire more unity for the moment at least there is a small semblance of hope that seems to be rising above the usual political divisions mohammed atta and a mullah in the occupied west bank. president lula da silva is expected to hand over to police later on saturday and his twelve year prison sentence for corruption at all is our. dad line that was set by the investigating judge and reports. his many supporters defied the oath or it is for as long as they could hear the metal workers union headquarters in sao paolo he missed the deadline to hand him self into the authorities he and his supporters maintaining his innocence of the
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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 out the legal team is exhausted all appeals he will attend the ceremony to mark the birthday of his late wife and more trouble for the southern city of. a 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 of those feel that he's the victim of a political prosecution to stop him running in 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
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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 guilty or innocent for him or against him the sight of being taken to prison is still one that will shake brazil . russia's foreign ministry is promising to respond firmly to u.s. sanctions targeting president vladimir putin's inner circle the white house says the sanctions from response to moscow's hostile actions are white house correspondent kimberly how could reports. for weeks relations between the united states and russia have been deteriorating but this time for russian president
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vladimir putin it's personal and friday the administration of u.s. president donald trump announced its third action in his 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 an 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
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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 trump 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 the 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 would be a time when i'll let you know you're going to find out very quickly the white house
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says despite the new sanctions against russia donald trump how's 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 at least fourteen people have died when a truck collided with a bus carrying a canadian youth hockey team. were traveling to a game this happened near the town of northeastern so scotch won canada's prime minister justin trudeau is among those paying tribute to the twenty eight people on board. still ahead on al-jazeera. i'm wayne hay in a rebel held area of me and with a cease fire agreement with government soldiers isn't holding and there is skepticism about a peace process that appears to have stalled. and home at last a remarkable discovery leads to the return of two ancient nepalese statues.
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hello there we're seeing a lot of very heavy rain over parts of thailand recently but there is now beginning to clear away the showers here that have given us all to wrench of the heavy outbreaks some places seeing what over one hundred millimeters of rain and that system though slowly sinking away towards the south so for sunday looks like it should be dry for most of us in the northern half of thailand and as we head through into monday that rain sinks away further towards the south so definitely drawing up now for us in thailand bangkok will see the temperature a bit around thirty five degrees on monday for the south oh plenty of showers here they're still wrestling through many parts of the montra and plenty of them over java even if you head up towards the philippines it's not looking particularly joy at the moment lots of heavy showers and there's
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a feeding their way towards the west australia though is looking quite dry the satellite picture really isn't picking up a great deal of cloud to talk business in the south that's making things a bit wet force in tasmania it's also rather cool here but just to the north of that it's pretty hot melbourne up at twenty nine and force in adelaide we're at twenty nine well we do have this area of cloud is trying to edges way towards us not making much headway for now i think that which is to choose day still staying warm for monday. i'm counting the cost why the gender pay gap is the u.k. names the company's web and the paid more than women the new blood diamonds found that electric cars and small phones whilst facebook c.e.o. . says some big questions. counting the cost.
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you're watching al jazeera let's recap the top stories for you funerals are due to be held in gaza for ten palestinians killed by israeli forces during protests near the border at least twenty nine people have now died since last friday when the protest against israeli occupation began. summer president lula da silva us expected to head themself over to police later on saturday to began his twelve year prison sentence for corruption apollo's alwar some negotiations after he missed a deadline to surrender russia's foreign ministry is promising
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a tough response to the new us sanctions targeting targeting president vladimir putin's inner circle his son in law and a friend among thirty eight people and businesses targeted at the u.s. says the measures are an response to moscow's hostile actions. malaysia's parliament has officially dissolved on saturday paving the way for a general election within sixty days as said to be a contentious fight between the prime minister najib razak and his former mentor oh hammett and she has been plagued by corruption allegations this party has been in power for more than sixty years or slowly has more from the malaysian capital. all across the board this is becoming a familiar sight flags of the ruling coalition nearness bars on you know but i think it's a point trindle in the last few years at last it's two things majority in two thousand and eight and in two thousand and thirteen 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
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four and a half billion dollars has allegedly been siphoned from the fund set up by prime minister not yet not yet has denied any wrongdoing and malaysian investigations have not found any evidence of impropriety challenging not 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 pontiff opposition politicians say the odds on stacked against them the government has changed. it's into the used a new and fake news lol and mock 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. rebel groups and meehan mara threatening 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 on revenge and solidarity army and merchant two thousand and sixteen when it attacked police outposts and rakhine
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state they say they're fighting on behalf of the muslim or hendra minority further north there is the catch and dependence army they've been fighting the government for control of the region and its resources another front lies to the east where the nationalities democratic alliance army is defending the ethnic group and confronting it with calls. for calls for against government oppression and then there is the qur'an the national liberation army that's been fighting since one nine hundred forty nine for the independence of myanmar second largest ethnic group wayne hay reports now from territory held by iran rebels. 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 careen 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 and
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so sure. we 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
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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 on. 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
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directions when hey al-jazeera korean state me and my. level markets have fallen sharply as the trade dispute intensifies between china and the united states president trump has threatened to impose another one hundred billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese imports but beijing says it will counter attack with great strength ever elizondo reports from 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 it 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 in 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. is seriously misjudged the situation and taking an exceedingly wrong action the
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result of this kind of behavior is like picking up a piece of stone and smashing your own foot with it even if the threaten tariffs don't become 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
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terror 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 practice. the markets are now closed for the week but nobody is clear where they or this trade to spew will lead. how do you see it your hundreds of extra police officers will be on patrol on the streets of london this weekend the cope with the rise in violent crime there are special magic increase in the number of murders in the u.k. capital more than fifty so far this year for the first time ever more murders in london in one month this year than in new york. we have not lost control of the street so i can understand why some people are very worried at the moment. and particularly in some areas of london we've had some ghastly home sides as you know
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a petition in the last few days including those and really young people that is bound to be very frightened. disputes over fishing territories between senegal and mauritania are threatening plans to exploit a giant offshore gas fields mauritania coast guard shot and killed a cynical fisherman and this has led to violent retaliation on shore reports in the city of san luis appearances can sometimes be deceiving fourteen in shopkeepers. 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 angry this is mobile phone footage of the attack in february a crowd of senegalese fishermen gather around more italian owned businesses. they
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chant arabs out go home you don't belong here they're protesting the killing of five to enjoy a sudden fall that 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 call 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 in mauritania territorial waters who finally find them they've been out all night their catch is bigger. 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
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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. just noticed. they say it's menacing. just about a fishing dispute it's about who controls these waters and the precious resources that. the largest gas 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 now also in distress after five generations of shopkeeping in salary these mauritanians no longer feel welcome.
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nicholas hawk al jazeera sunday. two ancient statues that were stolen from nepal thirty years ago have been returned to katmandu iran display at new york's metropolitan museum of art until historian sounded the alarm. been stretched on the courts. in case one is busy streets it is still don't you need to find archaeological wonders this is done by agent waterspout statues of gods and goddesses decorated but many a replica of the statue of. your still comes from says this is the site of the turn it's already starting at the hindu gods shivah and his wife barbara was told of the early one nine hundred eighty placement was put here for devotional purposes these are gods and goddesses and they're living it when suddenly they get lifted and taken away what is tragic is that it's not only a stealth from museum it's from a living museum it's from
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a living culture many of these statues are several hundred years old but most are not secured even one hundred sixty seventy's and eighty's thousands of statues and other heritage items were stolen from government of value many of them are in museums in the west most of them never make their way back home but the 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 at the standing order as a gift to the end of two thousand and fifteen. in reviewing the offer of gift ideas 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
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discovered that will move the house for that which was living you know a storage room in the bin in the museum full thirty years. all of those had the same the same history i refused to register it for the collection but rather suggested that we would initiate a conversation with the governor of nepal about a church here the return statues were unveiled at the pasta partment of archaeology museums i didn't know a legal obligation to return cultural artifacts but your quest for repatch nation can't be made if there was proof that they were stolen not just the pretty hard i got the account we don't know how many of our statues are scattered around the world we have records of some of them and we'll try to get them back through the interpol the statues of buddha and she even parvathy will be displayed at the national museum and that might do but some community elders from tonga haiti want to see she vanished by back on the street where they used to be before they were snatched and taken to the united states al-jazeera katmandu.
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these are your 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 twenty nine 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. made has more from a hospital in gaza. the shifa hospital which is the brain of most of the year in gaza they have carried out a hundred and fifty surgeries in one day alone now do you and your many tarion coordination office here in gaza say that the hospital has actually declared as. because it's missing absolutely everything it's also going to run out of. brazil's former president will the silvas expected to hand him self over to police later on
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saturday to begin his twelve year prison sentence for corruption follows our some negotiations after he missed a deadline to surrender. the latest parliament was officially dissolved on saturday paving the way for a general election within sixty days and it's said to be a contentious fight between the prime minister and his former mentor mattera mohamad and she has been plagued 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 targeted at the u.s. says the measures are in response to moscow's hostile actions the market on later karla's courage to manas calling for a dialogue with the spanish government after its release on bail in german a huge demand has been detained on an international arrest warrant but a german court refused to extradite him back to spain to face a charge of rebellion because that is not a crime in germany urged on as wanted by madrid for his role in
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a succession referendum to split catalonia from spain. at least fourteen people have died when a truck collided with a bus carrying a canadian youth ice hockey team broncos were traveling between towns in saskatchewan for again twenty eight people were on that bus at the time. those are the headlines the news continues keep it here on al-jazeera counting the cost is next. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera.

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