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this is al jazeera. and live from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha fully back to bowl welcome to the news grid burying their dead funerals are held in gaza for ten palestinians killed by israeli security forces during friday's protests journalist. was among those killed he was head despite wearing a vest marked with the word press we'll take a look at how these really palestinian conflict has been affecting journalists so coverage also on the grid will. surrender the standoff continues in brazil president lula da silva defies a court order to turn himself in to police and sought a twelve year prison sentence for corruption thousands of his supporters have gathered in. we'll have a live report and toughens his immigration policy the u.s. president announces plans to end the practice known as catch and release which allows immigrants caught. in the u.s.

without proper documents to be released while they case is a process that decision caps a week which has also seen troops deployed to the us mexico border and is social media to blame for the rise in mind crime in the u.k. looking at all the details on that conversation on him home it connects us throughout the show using the hash tag. to a and to deal with the news grid live on air and sitting on line three you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com all those stories and much more in just a few minutes but we begin with breaking news this hour out of germany and we're hearing reports that several people have been killed after codd drove into a crowd in the western german city of munster let's bring in our correspondent dominic kane on the line from berlin for us dominic what more do we know. well what makes you say this i'm second in the last hour old so we can lease shit to the mint

then saying that and there are several rooted in this thing to them a chance in the. hopes paul moves to say within the last hour or so let's check with media organizations saying that there may be three dads and maybe as many as fifty injured in this incident but clearly that's not confirmed by any official source but as you say it's science so what's being said is that the call was driven into a group of people who were shot diane and that this happened within the space of the last admiral said crew that they didn't have a specialist a very sure a large operation on the country and people to avoid the area where possible and official twitter to be a police response will be after that since there's a saying that of a dead and then there are several injured in charge what actually was the matrix and what happens there is no generation save fall to any particular course being

started by official sources but clearly given the fact that germany has been living under the threat of what it considers to be terror threats to secular lives there will be those wondering if by might to play some sort of role in this incident but i would say right now maybe since we've merged with his being given cruel temperament which has not been granted in the city of minster in the last barrel ok dominic thank you for that update again if you're joining us on al-jazeera some breaking news at the top of this hour with several people reported killed in the german city of monster after a call reportedly drove into pedestrians there several people injured as well we'll bring you all the latest on this breaking news story as and when information becomes available moving on now and for more than a week the gaza border with israel has been inflamed by violence a total of thirty one palestinians have been killed by. israeli security forces since a sort of protest on march thirtieth when tens of thousands took to the border area

demanding the right of return for palestinian refugees just a few hours ago funerals were held for the ten palestinians who were killed on friday by israeli security forces during the latest protest at the gaza israel border among them was well known palestinian journalist yasser move he was killed while covering the protests shot in the stomach even though he was wearing a blue bullet food vest that had the word press clearly marked on it and speak to our there as hoda abdel-hamid in gaza for she's been covering the protests all this week tell us how to phrase about the mood in gaza as palestinians bury more of their dead certainly there's a some berm mood and there's also more and more anger you know with each day and with each wounded people are getting angrier and actually i would say more defiant if the aim of using so much violence was to have them shy away from approaching that border fence that many here call the segregation fence well that is not

happening for sure at the moment i was spend a morning at the hospital and actually be surprised how the wounded and there were . would say that this has to continue because gaza is basically bursting at this seems people can't take it anymore and there's a one woman said we are in a box that boxes pressured closed on us and we're now we're about to explode you were at the hospital as you said earlier today how are they coping with all these injuries hold of this past week i mean palestinian hospitals were already under a lot of strain even before this latest round of violence i wonder how if things right now for them. things are very difficult and that's not only what we hear from the doctors of the hospital but also international organizations are saying that now bear in mind that on on the normal conditions if you can use those words to describe gaza there is shortages in drugs and medicine well that is now compounded

and you know the problem is not only just the amount of wounded it's the amount of wounded who arrive in a very short time at the hospital many in very difficult conditions with very difficult wounds and maimed and doctors have to make choose they have to meet priorities they have to decide who is in more critical condition then the other and that is extremely difficult now you know everything that comes into gaza is coordinated and approved by israel and they come through these goods crossing one of them being the carrier. crossing when it comes to the health system here what they do is that gaza is the palestinian authority in the occupied west bank for what it needs once the palestinian authority has that ready then it has to coordinate with the israeli authorities to allow everything in but the humanitarian

condition basically in gaza is hostage to the political condition so many of the doctors re spoke to said there is a problem because the relations between how mass and it be a are to low well then we feel that the repercussions are on us they don't get all what they need and that this particular moment the health official the health ministry here in gaza has basically declared a state of emergency and i worsening situation there then i thank you so much harder for that hoda abdel-hamid life or is in gaza and another vigil was held in the occupied west bank this saturday to commemorate the life of yasser morse to john the palestinian journalist who was killed during friday's protests has a report. despite the blue protective vest he was wearing and despite the fact that the word press was in place and on the front of that best palestinian journalist yassin was shot by israeli forces while covering the mass protests in gaza on friday yes it died early on saturday with

a candidate right now at his funeral in gaza hamas leader is a tribute well i didn't want to hide here i salute all the journalists and priests who lost their lives in the same way those who have gone through the road of suffering in order to portray the reality for an oppressed people a frustrated people on the season gaza and all across palestine but it's the image of dignity for a proud people a brave people a straightforward people brave able to turn the table and the hardest of times for palestinian journalists gathered in the occupied west bank to commemorate yassin. according to the palestinian journalist syndicate seven other journalists were also injured in protests on friday the syndicate described them as deliberate crimes committed by the israeli army and called on the united nations to do more to protect journalists in ramallah there was shock and anger. the journalist they want

to send a message say that even the generals in gaza or in with by are the same. for the first of all as opposed to his second as a general has done their duty is to cover up what had been yes it was thirty years old well known and well liked yes it was a gentle soul this is how everybody describes him he was a gifted journalist a gifted photojournalist and a documentary filmmaker in leaves behind a wife and a true year old child. and he has united everybody. in sorrow i'm in mourning because he was so gentle and so gifted and so dedicated journalists stood in solidarity with their dead and wounded colleagues this is not going to make us feel helpless or helpless it will i think as it did before make us

more determined and now the syndicate has more tools at its hand to defend the rights of journalists to expose israeli actions and to attempt to hold it accountable in international forums so that's a new window of hope if you will that we didn't have before the words of encouragement at a time when strength and fortitude may be needed more than ever before. ramallah in the occupied west bank and tributes have been pouring in on his facebook page. facebook page with many people expressing their sadness and calling on the u.n. to do more to protect spanish seanie and journalists and this was one of the very last photos more to talk with his camera an aerial photo of the so-called grand return comes near khan yunis well joining us now on the news great is sami abu salim he's a palestinian journalist working for the national news agency wafa is live from

gaza thank you so much for being with us. what is your reaction to the death of your condo and you know israel says it it's investigating do you think yasser was deliberately hit by the israeli army. i think that this mere door i can call it milled i think this move there is a new evidence that the palestinian journalists are facing a horrible dangers in the palestinian territories especially in gaza a civil kinds of danger number one to be killed to be murdered by israeli occupation this is the first they are facing why i call it murder because they are it is obvious that they are being targeted deliberately for example what

happened yesterday that. our colleague yes him or other six john is have been shot not by accident by israeli sharpshooters by sniper or by israeli sniper sniper means this knows what he is getting at when he shoots what he is shooting at which means that he it is not an accident this is one of the main story yes but you know the israeli army says it only fires at targets that it doesn't deliberately shoot journalists. because he's he was wearing a vest that had the word press on it israel says it only shoots instigate it's involved in attacks on soldiers do you think they will investigate what happened i hope for they have answers as to what happened exactly even if the

israeli occupation army one journalist doesn't give the army. a license or appear mission to murder it's ridiculous from the israeli army does it mean that warning it means that if you did not listen to my warn it means that i have the right to murder you it's impossible. and all donor lists are protected by human humanitarian law or by geneva convention and by their logo by vests they are predicted by more or less they were very clear that they are journalists with their vests with their helmets with their lawyer no go and they were together they were in groups together working in the field but this by that they have been shot one bit and killed right but i mean that no israeli warning does not mean that it is a permanent for them took in the palestinian johnny sami tell us more about the challenges you face as a palestinian journalist covering this conflict these many palestinian conflict and

what would you like to see the international community do to protect the life of journeys of palestinian genesis specially i think. i would like to be the main point that the palestinian journalists are facing at merivale to be killed by the israeli sniper not accidents number two or also there is a lack of. a lack of equipments of safety like helmets and flak jackets and. tear or masks over to you guys and we are for example about palestinian journalists syndicate. syndicate it's best to bring. flak jackets and helmets and the guys must but there isn't any question did not allow. for security reasons this is the their logo for security reasons we are also facing a lot of with trouble of arrests illegal areas like what is called administrative

detention which i mean that it is journalist without charge without without court in addition banning from traveling belen who is the who is talking to you right now it's me i am suffering hypothyroidism i love allow to travel for treatment and hundreds of thousands hundreds of don't and it's also not allowed to travel for treatment for training for work also they are there are facing thermals not only from the from the soldiers but also from the armed citizen that was banned right but in general we are focusing our right now on gaza right that's why the international community and the letter of the division of journalists. or any other or human rights organization should bring those criminals or suspected to be criminals bring them into the court to international criminal court to bring them to the court why they are killing innocent people most people i mean journalists are protected by who in atlanta no. i'm sure they're here your message to me thank

you so very much for joining us and sharing your experience working as a journalist in gaza thank you very much for being on the news great and we've been getting quite a few comments on this story one here from whites on twitter who says surely these really matter of unarmed civilians under occupation must be viewed as a war crimes thank you for your comment would love to hear from me on the stories and others we're covering on the news great connect with us on facebook live facebook slash on just share on twitter our handle is at a.j. english. a.j. news great we're also on whatsapp and telegram at present seven four five zero one chapter one four nine and of course all the latest on the situation at the gaza israel border as well as all the developments on the israeli palestinian conflict our ass pop my page at al-jazeera dot com. not of the war in syria and dozens of civilians including children have been killed in ongoing government airstrikes on the rebel held city of duma syrian civil defense says at

least fifteen people have been hospitalized from the use of chlorine gas is in eastern guta the last remaining rebel stronghold near the syrian capital it's been under ferocious government offensive and that's altered the battle map this was the state of play in eastern guta on february eighteenth when the renewed military offensive began the rebels were firmly in control of the key towns and villages there and this is how it looks right now rebels have lost control of most of the territory except duma city is now the focus of the assad government aerial bombardment and ground attacks. the skies over duma had been quiet for two weeks then this. residents counted more than fifty airstrikes and say twenty barrel bombs were dropped on the city. one day into the assault syrian civil defense reported the use of chlorine gas they took at least fifteen people to hospital. syrian state you said the assault was in

retaliation for jaish al islam or the army of islam shelling residential areas of neighboring damascus it said four civilians were killed and twenty two injured josh i'll islam tonight the attack. the german duma is clearly visible syrian civil defense the white house descended on the rubble dodging the airstrikes . they risk you dozens of people this man was found under what was left of his heart. after the air attack tanks came down the road syrian soldiers tightening their grip on one of the last rebel strongholds in the country this is the most important the biggest city in the area and by capturing it actually they would be just finishing off all of the presence of the opposition in this i mean very important strategic area surrounding the mosque

a defined jaish al islam posted this photo after the u.s. strikes began the caption a commander and officer reinforce the city fronts of duma . but the rebels territory is shrinking and the death toll climbing a russian brokered cease fire has allowed for three waves of evacuations with more than four thousand fighters and their families leaving duma a fourth convoy was mentally on thursday but never did. many doctors and nurses have already left for those people pulled out of the rubble treatment is becoming ever more difficult to find shallop alice al-jazeera. all the latest news on syria's civil war on our special page at al-jazeera dot com and if you get a chance watch this great discussion on outfront with on whether bashar al assad and his allies can claim victory in syria just click on the shows tab at al-jazeera dot com and then on outfront now to brazil where former president. is

expected to hand in self over to police later on saturday to begin his twelve year jail sentence for corruption and bribery these are live pictures from sao paolo where lula has been speaking to his supporters now this follows hours of negotiations after he missed a deadline to surrender its supporters have rallied in front of the metal workers union building where luna has been since saturday let's cross over to our correspondent daniel in sao paolo for us so what's the latest when are we expecting lula to hand him self into police. according to recycle speak up a space for some privilege behind outside the factory workers at least that's right that's called blame him for days maybe not speak for the last couple of years but to speak so it's like everything built on the self into the faculties that they

will that be consequence now to the self sixty five knots like events or anything like the physical she is so glad specially something specific as a way to the by the can see. just flow is what makes sense i think that's the thing he's on that stage again so i think it's a good signal that the figure they call the flux politics politics politics of the life of the felt the feel like he's the felt something else. that's like it made me think that if anything it's not something she thinks tough it's all it's a great economic policy the fat lady think like that to keep a look at the alcoholic it's like palace if it's legal if we can hear the helicopters circling above you that. have seen ph meant revealed deep divisions in

brazil will nunez imprisonment his pending imprisonment will that widen these divisions or when it he'll i mean are we heading towards any sort of resolution in this crisis and to say. well no i don't think that was guilty of the patients if the jails they all very sick they said i would say sorry i'll take such a thing is there a big big ten thousand tons it's a fallacy of missing it's still so fake they still believe the things that i think we should believe that it should it's made. well except for the president elect since it will take a quick there inside maybe i needed to get e.q. skill king galaxy fixed six times the six to the next big sale that would make me think so weak speak for the kitchen sink effects to get the basics down if they still do the research let go of the nonsense about example that although it's

a good cheese of its crimes against the so we're talking visit to cookie very much like you say by going back loads to equal the exact thank you for that danielle strum the lifeforce in sao paulo brazil what's showing you this again if you want to find out more about what this corruption scandal in brazil is all about operation car wash expose corruption across the political spectrum and in this investigation team at people in power explain how and why this scandal became so far reaching it's a fascinating documentary watch it on al-jazeera dot com. not in london where a spike in violent crime has many u.k. officials concerned so far this year more than fifty people have been met as british police say some three hundred extra police officers will be the trolling the streets of london this weekend to cope with a rise in crime for the first time in memory the murder rate in london is higher than new york city for the month of february and march when the mayor of london

city can has called for a significant increase in the controversial policy of stop and search and tweet is a few hours ago this he said i'm angered and heartbroken by the number of violent deaths on our streets and inviting the home secretary in london m.p.'s council leaders and assembly members from across london to a city hall summit on tuesday about tackling violent crime while we'll have more on this so when we speak to our next guest here on the news great in just a moment but first let's bring in our social media producer to see how this has been playing out on social media this violent crime rate in london i start falling now fatal stabbings in england and wales are currently at the highest level since twenty ten this is according to the office for national statistics would say there have been two hundred fifteen homicides involving a knife or other shot object just this year alone at the metropolitan police commissioner says that social media is to blame in an interview with the times

newspaper proceeded dick says that there is definitely something about the impact of social media in terms of people being able to go from slightly angry with each other to fight very quickly. she goes on to add that trivial disputes and insults as well as threats online makes violence happen faster and it makes it harder for people to cool down which she says i'm sure it does rev people up that she's also criticized social media networks for their response to prolific online material and called for a need to take down content that stoked violence now similar sentiment has been echoed echoed by sarah jones the m.p. for court in central in september last year she said that social media was fueling an escalation in the cycle of violence among young people and the u.k. home secretary amber rudd said that incident companies needed to step up their response to use violence and then you children snapped as well as instagram have

actually been listed as key problem sites and one case that's been getting a lot of attention is of fifteen year old jim ain't good paul he was stabbed to death in south london last year this happened during a feud between rival gangs posting mocking videos on you tube and here's a screen grab from one of the gang videos which was discussed in gym ains murder trial it's officially been removed from the site but the clip raises discussion about the issue of glamorized violence with young people as you can see in this picture donned in masks and bought a club as and then you have another recent video with this is a nation melvin a picture of her she's seven she was seventeen years old when she was shot in a shooting in north london and it's reported that gang members boasted about her death on and so graham however critics argue that it's actually the fall in police numbers that is left to forces being unable to deal with the rise in statistics can

last from the metropolitan police federation has said that while some blame should go on social media firms ministers must concentrate on properly funding the police . meanwhile the u.k. government is looking to boost police power and a new toss force of one hundred officers will be brought into focus on violent crime and another six hundred offices are deployed to raise awareness in schools as part of a public health issue they've also launched a campaign which is worth one point nine million dollars at the moment as part of a serious violent strategy policy with a series of adverse to help tackle crime through social media and this is one of them it's called knife free it features true stories of teenagers who have been stabbed and are now steering away from using a knife its website includes various things like advice and support services and there's also a hash tag and various videos being used to raise awareness across various social

media platforms and the mayor's office has also launched an online campaign dubbed london needs you alive pointing out that there are over six hundred thousand teenagers in london and every one of them is important listen. old school b.c. . i'm. not going to see you got a funny person or school my mom is going to die young. boys be around london leave me alive london needs new life london needs me alive so i don't carry a knife so i don't code. so what do you think is social media to blame for the rise in knife crime message just use the hash tag age and use great brain i thank you very much for that we're going to pick this up now with polling peers who is hackneys mayoral candidate for the liberal democrats party his son was a victim of a stabbing thank you so much for joining us from london where you know this is not

a new phenomenon in the u.k. why do you think it's attracting so much attention even internationally with london's crime rate being compared to new york and it's reportedly higher than new york what do you think is going on here as far as the attention this is drawing right now the attention it's drawing for me it's good to highlight it but it's almost glamour thawing it by the way it's been highlighted. as you've said the point system with with some of these things i was sent a clip from a gentleman saying the. stabbing each other to collect points now there was always a point system back in the day it was called to be where you got you got points for wetting a man which made it just sliced demoed given him as a stub. but now this this point system seems to be you directly go

to kill and you get praised for that and obviously if it's highlighted on the news and on the t.v. it's like a bonnie and clyde story you know you know we've done this and they can't find us and it's really distressing to the london metropolitan police has blamed social media for some of this do you agree with that social media plays a large part in a lot of things and yes i was sent list on whatsapp. of various different apps it was like. fifteen apps that these units a using these apps that are known to encourage them to get involved in all sorts of criminal behavior. but i wouldn't say it's all down to that i feel that a lot of the time you find that the us as i say the disengaged people are blaming

gangs people are blaming social media sometimes it is just a matter of belief on the estate you when someone of fallen now or someone's shouted at someone's girlfriend so he's going to have a go and therefore this retaliation thing goes on right now the victims in the past and the perpetrators were young and educated unemployed the crimes as you say were gang related for the majority do you think the profile of the victims has change. the profile of the victims haven't changed really i mean only that it's people keep saying yes we have it's not just they get i mean just two three days ago we had a sixty five year old man killed outside of a. shop in clapton so it's not it has no age barrier i don't know how old the person was that stabbed him but i'm sure i wasn't

told it was a teenager right you know but the fact is there is all age groups out there that have been taken off the streets and it's through this violent knife epidemic that no one wants to call an epidemic that's i know we mustn't call it an epidemic but it's just a way of describing it it is like an epidemic it's like kharaj you scratch it and it spreads a little certainly the authorities seem very concerned this time i mean london's man city kind has blamed the high crime rate on cuts and his call for an increase in the stop and search this has been very controversial in the past because it's a process that's been accused of racial profiling do you think increasing stop and search will make london safer. personally i haven't got a problem with stop and search i just had a problem with the amount of ethnic minorities that were obviously fell victim to

it. because a lot of the time it was proven they didn't have anything or they didn't have what the police was suspected suspect in them of having. but people are saying they'd rather the stop and search be upped and their children come home safely and know that that sort of. some sort of safety guidance has been put in place for them then to have their child get that phone call said your child has been harmed on the road you know so for me yes do the stop and search but make sure that it is done correctly and it's not the same mistakes that we keep on saying all the time ok thank you so much for speaking to us pauline pearce liberal democratic politician joining us there from london thank you for your time. if you're watching us on facebook live coming up the story of

a palestinian boy who created an onion mask to protect himself from these really tear gas during landay protests and still ahead an update on our breaking news story out of germany where a car has rounding to pedestrians will happen later on that for you to stay with the songs beat. we've got plenty of clouds marching its way across the middle east at the moment it's showing up very clearly on the satellite picture here out of saudi arabia there over khatami as well and working its way across parts of iran and then eventually up through afghanistan on up towards kazakstan so plenty of cloud here and a fair amount of wet weather from matter as well mostly over parts of afghanistan that force on sunday but also working into tajikistan as well so lots of cloud few outbreaks of rain and some snow over the mountains as well behind it still some

clouds here giving us just the old shower at times we're also watching more clouds make its way across turkey that will be rolling its way further east will also see some over parts of iraq and that will be giving some scattered rain at times further south the cloud that we've seen here in doha is still with us and it's going to hang around over the next few days not only over catell there but also further south over parts the u.a.e. and over saudi arabia so this region generally prone to cloud really over the next day or so when they could just be the old spots of rain from more rain though over the southern parts of africa in the showers have been quite lively there working their way out of angola down into namibia giving some shop showers as they do so because i will see a fair few more of those as we head through sunday we could even see the ork downpour infantile. white supremacy is on the rise in the u.s. and its adversaries to beating their war drums. faultlines investigates

the anti fascists using force against intolerance. this is and to frack on al-jazeera. non-violence does attempt to appeal to the more conscience of them now the jury's still out. if the nation has won we're here to jerusalem bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we cover the story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of the story we house presence here all the time apart from being a good cameraman it's also very important to give journalists you know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global the onus for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks and what happens here matters.

headlines on al-jazeera and the stories trending on al-jazeera dot com at number one the palestinian journalist who was shot and killed by israeli security forces on friday it was as you can see that his funeral was held earlier today in gaza

also trending twitter mocking saudi arabia's plans to turn qatar into an island and bollywood salman khan granted bail in his case much more on those stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com. now we turn to that breaking news story out of germany as promised a several people have reportedly been killed after a car drove into a crowd in the western city of monster as being in dominate cain who is our correspondent in berlin dominic what's the latest on this. well fully the thing to say here is developments are coming in all the time we now understand the police say that the person they describe is the perpetrator of this incident they say has taken his own life let's recall that the city of minister in western germany it's a sunny day in mosul one of the first hot sunny days of the spring so many many

people would have been in the cities enjoying the good weather the climate we understand the police say that the vehicle involved in this instance they call it a small transporter a van we might say in english which drove into this group of people who were sitting down the police have said that there are deaths and that there are injuries now separately other news outlets have spoken of perhaps three deaths and indeed of up to thirty people wounded that has not been confirmed by law enforcement agents bumps the german press agency the d.p.a. is saying police there at the scene say that the perpetrator their words not mine the perpetrator of this incident has taken his own life so we have in essence a deliberate act by a person to carry out this incident and then if the reports were what the police have said are correct then took his own life as i say a warm sunny day across much of germany the first warm sunny day really great so

far this year and that's why many people would have been in the ash we are in atlanta sat the latest pictures that are coming into us from monster and also photos from social media of the site of this incident this common incident in more instant dominick. germany not no stranger unfortunately took our awning attacks in recent months recent years even you know what what will be the reaction from the public to this latest one. well first thing i should say is that angle america's deputy spokesperson press spokesperson has already on twitter has a message saying that the hearts and prayers of everyone in the government are with those who have been being caught up in this incident a quick reaction they're saying also that the police need to have the time to be able to do sanitize the situation to find out exactly what has happened and to to go to work on this story but as you say the backdrop to this is the sense of

tension in germany which for over many years or certainly over several years now there have been incidents the one that people will recall immediately is the attack on a christmas market here in berlin back in december twenty sixth seen when a person who'd come to this country as an asylum seeker tunisian called and his amry deliberately drove a truck that he had hijacked into a crowd full of people who were attending a christmas market one of berlin's iconic christmas markets so that will immediately come to people's minds the point to make here is that it has been some time since any similar sort of attack involving fatalities has happened in germany perhaps almost eighteen months since the last time that something in which which led to faith tallahassee says happened but that is not to say that the government here has not warned about the elevated threat of violent attacks being carried out in this country we're getting word from the police spokesman in germany here that

about thirty people dominic have been injured after this van ran into a group of people in a monster in western germany but they can't tell us the number of people killed at this moment you talked about the elevated threat level in germany dominate what tests the security situation been like does an elevated threat level mean more security on the streets of german cities. well the point to make here is as i say that in terms of actual direct physical violence being carried out on the territory of germany there hasn't been anything that has led to so large losses of life as we saw as i said in december of twenty sixteen and perhaps there may be have been those who believe that that maybe that threat has had at eb the way ever so slightly but clearly if this incident conforms to previous incidents where vehicles have been driven into large crowds of people

then it suggests that the threat level was high and that and that's something that government ministers have repeated certainly that something that the previous into an interior minister of this country had said at many different stages that that he spoke about the threat of what's called lone wolves individuals who become radicalized by some for some reason and decide that the thing they should do is to is to attack innocent civilians certainly that's something as i say that that the previous interior minister of this government has said so you have the sense that there is this this apprehension amongst government officials amongst government ministers about the level of danger that there physically is in germany but on the spot but by the same token the fact that there haven't been until now large incidents of a large losses of life may have made people think that this threat as i say had receded somewhat thank you they would seem to suggest if the reports are accurate

today might seem to suggest that that threat is still very real and thank you for that dominic a night for us in berlin the latest from german police is that the driver of that van that plowed into a group of people in the german city of mine star on saturday killed himself several people reported injured at least thirty but no word on the number of people killed on this story of course as we have more information. now to the u.s. and crackdown on illegal immigration this weekend hundreds of national guard troops will deployed to the us mexico border in the first phase of the white house's efforts to cut down on illegal immigration on friday defense secretary james mattis approved the deployments calling for up to four thousand troops to be assigned through september thirtieth the deployments come as president signed a memorandum ordering an end to a policy known as catch and release in which illegal immigrants are released from detention while awaiting a court hearing separately immigrations and customs enforcement or ice carried out

a workplace raid at a meat packing plant in tennessee this week arresting some ninety seven immigrants civil rights would say it was a not just workplace raid in a decade now texas is one of several u.s. states that border mexico national guard members spoke to the press about plans to send troops to the border the texas national guard is preparing to immediately deploy with supporting aircraft vehicles and equipment to the texas mexico border within seventy two hours the texas military department will have two hundred fifty personnel along with ground surveillance vehicles as well as light and medium aviation platforms or joining us now on the news grid is leon fresco who's a former deputy assistant attorney general in charge of immigration at the u.s. department of justice under the obama administration his live from washington thank you so much for your time donald trump is taking aggressive action against illegal american illegal immigrants i should say it seems like the president isn't just

offering tough talk any more is actually doing something about this but will the actual policy change in your view. well the problem with changing the actual policy by presidential directive instead of by congressional action is that this was tried already in two thousand and fourteen by the obama administration all of these exact measures and what happened was that the courts said that all of these measures were illegal if done by the president alone but people who were coming to the united states through the mexican border that were seeking asylum if they had made any kind of credible claim they had to be allowed into the united states while their case was pending they cannot remain in the tension indefinitely and so because of that if president trump tries to restore those policies that president obama tried the courts will again tell him that he's unable to do that and so that's why this seems like it's just going to be the same play over again the memo

he signed on friday i believe also ordered a list of existing facilities including military sites that could be used to detain those violating immigration law kenny do that is a feasible. well so what the rules say is that if anybody comes with their children and that's a large portion of who is coming from central america through the mexican border is either children or families with children that the children have to be released after twenty days of the tension so that there can only be an initial twenty day detention period to determine if a person's case for asylum is credible and should continue or of the case is not credible and should not continue and so because of that the if there is going to be more detention in general it's because the trial but ministration will do something that hasn't been done in the history of the united states which would be to separate the mothers from their children and allow the children to be released to

some other adult but keep the mothers in that and the president leon francisco has also called sending troops to the mexican border a big fat but both his predecessors also dispassion optional gone to the border is there something different here this time around are they more troops are they going to stay longer. in terms of is there something different the answer is no their duties are the same because the law requires their duties to be the same as in the prior two missions which is all they can do is conduct surveillance and then notify the border patrol if they see somebody crossing the border because only the border patrol is legally authorized to arrest people inside american territory the military under laws passed during the civil war can a rest americans inside american territory are starting to arrest anybody inside american territory and so because of that the the idea is to have more of a rhetorical threat that they're ministration hopes will deter people from coming

into the united states and the un fresco very good to get your insight on this thank you very much for joining us on the news great. and the removal of undocumented immigrants from the u.s. is at the center of president trump's domestic agenda and i want to point you to this great documentary on al jazeera dot com what does it mean to be undocumented in america faultlines josh rushing speaks to families have been living illegally in the u.s. for decades and the communities also that i determined to fight back a landmark cable car in sarajevo has begun operating for the first time since it was destroyed during the bosnian war twenty six years ago the twelve million dollar reconstruction project has taken just two years to complete bullshit edge and has a story. the serial cable car climbs high above the bosnian capital up the slopes of mount tri babbage the venue for the bob sleigh vents in the one nine hundred eighty four winter olympics it was popular with

families for walks and picnics but when serb forces beseeched the city in one thousand nine hundred ninety two month trouble which became a place of horror artillery attacks were launched from it slopes snipers took up positions to pick off victims and for years after the war few people dared to venture there for fear of triggering landmines at the reopening there were emotional memories. it is a symbol of sorrow and of our generation for those who remember. i remember now that we grew up in the same neverland we were rather mysterious and even used to open a floor and try to get out of the lowest levels because it was some seven meters high our entire generation has missed us we love it that is the symbol of sarajevo . deano remembers the construction of the original cable car almost sixty years ago as a seven year old he even helped the workers later he was one of the first passengers

. yes. or when i was a kid the queue used to go all the way down the street people used to wait for two hours to get a seat for. the old cable car used to transport up to three hundred thousand people a year the new one may take even more. but we expect more than five hundred thousand passengers a year i'm aware that this is an ambitious saying but i'm convinced we can make it for those who make the trip there will always be a reminder of the war the mountain station will be named after the first victim of the sable sea rumble bieber was killed on march second one thousand nine hundred ninety two guarding the old cable car paul church on al-jazeera. before and he joins us from the sports let's get an update on the situation in germany where several people have been killed in a car ramming incidents let's speak to dominic cain our correspondent in berlin dominic what's the latest. well the latest is as we were

saying this incident is developing all the time the news lines coming out all the time so the police saying that the person who was in the vehicle that drove into that crowd of people sitting down in the area of months that took his own life saying that he shot himself there are unconfirmed suggestions that the police may be looking for other elements other things that might have been in the car explosives perhaps that's not confirmed by any particular official agency but it's certainly being reported on by german media certainly german media close to the scene of where this incident took place let's be clear about this a police have said that there have been deaths they have said that there are many injured many wounded in this instance some reports suggesting up to thirty people wounded in this incident and the point to make here warm sunny day the first this year as it were there would have been many people sitting out enjoying the weather enjoying the sunshine on this april weekend in western germany thank you for that

dominic dominic a night for us in belin. right and is here now with the sports thank you so much folly will canadian prime minister justin trudeau has been leading the tributes to the fourteen people killed in a bus crash involving the humble broncos hockey team the amateur it sane part of canada's junior hockey league they are celebrating a recent when the broncos were on routes right prevent show playoff game and says scattering when the bus was involved in a collision with a truck on friday nights were hockey community right across north america have been quick to respond to this on twitter hockey a big part of canadian culture of course but secularly in small towns like humboldt where this team is from scratch and hockey tweeted simply we ask all members of the sas cocky community to join us in saying a prayer for the humble brown coast same and their families canada has seven professional and shelled seems they've all been tweeting their condolences

including the the winnipeg jets here while a fund raising page has already been set up it's already topped a quarter of a million canadian dollars in online donations for that say its players and the families that have been affected now the middle east is aiming to take a big step forward in the promotion of women's football with jordan hosting the asian cup for the first time it kicks off on friday with ten teams competing the top five all qualify for the women's world cup in france but several countries in the middle east didn't even try to qualify including saudi arabia oman qatar and afghanistan jordan now has been leading the way they hosted the under seventeen world cup two years ago and was in the touch again reports the hoping this tournament's will help the women's game develop even further. nine months of intense training and years of building a foundation for women's football in jordan the jordanian team is now carrying the

dreams of generations of future players as they compete for a chance to win the asian women's cup and to attain the real goal to play in the women's world cup next year jordan is the only team in the middle east competing at something fighting and shooting something else to do for it it's really great actually i think the women's and girls are getting more opportunities to play more opportunity to six press themselves and what they want to do in life. natasha now bear will be in the stands cheering on her sister and her teammates she says she'll also be daydreaming about qualifying for the national team and getting her shot to compete in a world cup one day it's like you're fighting for for something you love i think it's the best. think i've ever felt such as my heart that people say the promotion of women's football can be traced back to prince ali the president of the

jordan football association private schools are now offering girls the opportunity to play football there's a club system to develop talent and the country is hosting international tournaments i didn't see it would get with these events are a big motivator for them the game is floating and more girls are becoming interested in this game going to be part of the teams after they watch games in the stadium but negative attitudes about women playing football or sest not only jordan but in just twenty four of just forty six tombs even attempted to qualify for the women's division caught half of those countries signed up for the rights to televise. now bear says no matter what people think playing football has transformed her. i started to. take responsibilities for myself and to be a determined more and to reach my goal and of course. it changed me

a lot only a small number will ever compete at the highest level but empowering girls and women with the freedom and choice to play the game may be the greatest benefit football brings to jordan natasha going to aim. a man you can get in touch with me on twitter and be on the school sport for a small have more sports in the eight c. one hundred. for now let's get back to philly thank you very much andy for that that's it for today's news great do stay with us though on al-jazeera plenty more on all of our top stories in just a few minutes from our london you sent definitely back to one whole team thank you for watching by for now.

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