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and i jury an army says it's rescued one hundred forty nine hostages held by boko bomb. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. another suspected chemical attack in syria dozens of people have been killed in eastern guta. a state of emergency and gaza with hospitals struggling to treat hundreds of people injured in protests. confrontations and celebrations in brazil as former president leaves ignacio lula da silva begins serving a prison sentence for corruption. they began with news out of area the army there says it has rescued one hundred forty

nine hostages held by boko haram in borno state in the north east of the country the women and children are being held by the armed group in the village of theory mari cora. soldiers killed three of the fighters injured another five and then in a separate incident two suicide bombers died when they needed devices in nearby and . like many such interest joins us now from boucher so what else are we learning about how all this played out. well basically the army saying that it's in continuation of their clearance suppression of areas in the northeast where they suspect before our own fighters are hiding then eventually they stumbled onto this location the mit and then went on fighting the troops the slices open fire and there was exchange of fire eventually they killed three of the attackers and arrested five of them and what they discovered was that the fighters

were actually keeping these people hostage forty five women and ninety five children in my view that you'd like to aid them profiling them right now and have also taken them to a hospital for medical treatment and that's the position right now and they said they are continuing their operations in the north east of nigeria show so i'm glad we seem to be getting more reports in the last weeks and months of hostages from boko haram being freed or what tell us more about this government operation how they seem to be having some sort of success in this area. want to some extent it's having term successes but also there are negative impacts of whatever success the government may have recorded with seeing over the last two months or so what is driving into account a lot of eastern nigeria taking one hundred more than one hundred and ten students

from my school after one month they brought them back again we were told that it's a negotiation but again we see invoke what i'm continually targeting people taking hostages everything is nice taken the cheaper goals we've seen them all saw and then the government go cheated and give them some and piece some money out according to some reports for the tube or gold for the return of dozens of them ever since we've seen but what i am increasingly trying to make money from this business although you can also argue that there are also other cases of kidnappings in other parts of nigeria but frankly speaking many people in law it is nigeria afraid that this could become the norm but what i'm taking hostages and also demanding payment for ransom but it's not clear whether they are seeking runs on for these people it looks like they invaded the village and if you look at the pictures what do you see is only women and children the adult male population is totally absent we've not heard anything about the i don't meddle population maybe

they have run away and left their families behind or they've been forced to be conscripted into the army which is not a new thing actually in the fight against backcourt i mean northeast nigeria at the moment ok let me assure my presentation thank you. the u.s. is calling for an international response against the syrian government for ports of a chemical attack on a rebel held area of eastern cuba are confirmed that dozens of people have been killed in a suspected gas strike and toomer government as calling it a fabrication charla ballasts has the latest and a warning you may find some images in this report distressing. the window into what life is like in the rebel held enclave of tournament children mothers fathers struggle for oxygen after suspected chemical attack. reporters cannot get into the town civilians cannot get out so internet videos are the only evidence of the suffering. government shelling started on friday the city was pounded with hundreds

of is strikes and bombs as night fell on saturday civilians hold on to zero they saw helicopters and then the first reports of suffocation came in. because of the nonstop shelling residents had sheltered in their basements when the alleged gas attack happened they were trapped as the gas seeps through into the hideouts of the value to begin with dozens of modules yes in every single building we found dozens of them and most of them are women and children syrian state media and russia have denied the use of poison gas cooling farcical on the few number of physicians and are moved to treat the on the work menu on their own needs right now. to shield in basements and use indorse you know chemical weapons like chlorine or some of those by the fact that this gas goes down to the

base and those people or. barrel bombs are getting. those chemical weapons and that's where the casualties are. syrian government forces stepped up their offensive on duma after a ten day. truce collapsed with rebel group judicial islam. today we don't any feel. the need to speak even to the need. we have finding it. very hard everyone here. is an example every authority dumbo every know if you can. the last twenty four i will do she never stop. more than thirty three thousand people have left in the last five weeks including more than four thousand jaish al islam and their families. many doctors and nurses absolutely if those who remain

are they are overwhelmed with few supplies and no outside support. shallop tell us. their state department said this russia ultimately bears responsibility for the brutal targeting of countless syrians with chemical weapons russia's protection of the regime and failure to stop the use of chemical weapons in syria calls into question its commitment to resolving the overall crisis russia's defense ministry says the reports of a chemical attack are false according to published statements in a state in the state media rather in moscow so this is what they say we strongly deny these claims and announce our readiness to send russian experts and radiation chemical and biological defense to duma after its liberation from terrorists to gather evidence which would prove that the allegations on the chemical weapons use or staged. name is monitoring events from amman in jordan and she joins us live so

there's a bit of a bit of back and forth there what is the latest on the ground. well it's a familiar cycle richelle of recriminations denials and calls for action something that we've seen at least three to four times throughout the syrian war as for the situation on the ground in duma it continues to be grim you saw the imagery the major obstacle right now is for rescuers to try to get into buildings where people have been hunkered down they were in their basements attempting to avoid being killed in airstrikes and now as we've seen many entire families from babies children two adults killed in these basements by what people are saying is a chemical attack there were reports of barrel bomb with some sort of poisonous gas being dropped overnight and the issue for rescuers is this that they are smelling

a very strong korean like odor they think it's too dangerous for them to proceed and they simply do not have the protective gear to do so and what we've seen in duma is that the health care system there has been decimated it's a strategy in a pattern we've seen throughout the war in opposition held areas ambulances hospitals and even sometimes medical personnel killed in airstrikes witnesses say that's exactly what happened last night that ambulances were hit as well as a hospital in duma witnesses are also saying that the red crescent cannot operate now is in the eastern guta areas suburbs of damascus a strategic location in the final position group there is just. this afternoon the syrian government is reporting and a civil society group is also reporting that talks are underway with just. now the group has not confirmed whether or not this is the case we've heard of reports

about talks continuing for some time now there was a truce previously that truce fell apart so now ostensibly if there are talks going on it would be if history is a guide a way for just and their families to be assured safe passage out of duma but at this point we have no details on the negotiations and no confirmation from the group. for us and thank you. doctors in gaza are struggling to treat hundreds of palestinians injured by israeli forces during friday's protests along the israel border at least thirty palestinians have been killed by israeli forces since the protests began ten days ago hospitals have declared a state of emergency two to a severe shortage of supplies in a moment speaking live with hoda abdel-hamid at a hospital in gaza first though here's her report on the dire situation faced by patients and medical staff. there isn't an easy atmosphere in the ward the

patients are in pain but this is silent worry of those around them that is most striking. but not in the hoody cannot contain his despair he has three sons all three maimed to protest is the last one to be injured and his condition is the most worry he has already lost his left leg in an accident a few years ago now his right one is at risk. he lost his leg because of the two governments one would agree to transfer him the other would refuse anyone who cares about us please help me get my son out of gaza he needs treatment to please help me save this leg. the. malays in the next bed in agonizing pain his mother is angry at all parties. living in gaza is like living in a sealed box she says they only care about themselves. a man was among the first to

arrive at the hospital on friday it was early in the day many more would follow the sheer number of injured putting stress among already fragile system dr ayman sahab and he says it's now bursting at the seams. we declared a state of emergency and once his who carrying three or four patients had the time we had three hundred cases in one day that's fifteen times more than the capacity of the emergency unit and we've used all our stock. most injuries are in the lower part of the body external fixators for limbs antibiotics and dijon other necessities have run out or are in short supply getting anything into gaza requires a lengthy and complicated process under normal circumstances the health system suffers from shortages about half of the drugs needed and a third of the equipment are lacking but the situation gets even further complicated by political developments the. seventeen year old mohammed

a sports lover was told that nothing more could be done here in gaza there are treating his leg is torn and he's losing a lot of blood he needs to be transferred to the occupied west back the hospital there is waiting the paperwork is done by the israelis won't allow him to make did journey no one has been able to get out since the protests began. listens for my tears roll down his cheek and hope is all but gone. but. there's no solution each time they make us dream of reconciliation failed my generation has lost the one after me that's why we go to the friends to express the misery we live in. it's that sense of hopelessness that continues to draw do you think the words do border fence many might come back on a stretcher some will never fully recover. dylan the joins us live now from gaza

where you've been doing extensive reporting on the state of the hospitals there what can you tell us right now about what you're hearing from the doctors there. different. did people who have. injuries for example. twenty seven years. and he has received a bullet in the abdomen. are really working on overtime and they had to make choices which doctor is now going to explain to us thank you very much for joining me. how are you dealing with this. time.

positions on. the patients you have who are not injured in the process you had to refer them to other hospitals to make space for the injured here.

in this hospital. this is only the second week there's another four weeks to go. how do you think you will be able to cope. maybe we have here. we have only one hundred. saw. the. discharge. to me. it's difficult. we. need two other kids. me being me or the other places so you do need also some of the patients need to go and get treatment outside of gaza right to the occupied west bank for example. because of the sea that was the very difficult. also to egypt

was difficult also we have another problem there was it is the. shortage in the supplies and the kitchen another. you are looking for to thank you very much dr now the main crossing where all the medical supplies coming in the care i was selling crossing has open today we spoke to health officials they said that nothing has come in today but they are hoping that that will be solved tomorrow but as dr hashem said now you have these injured here who are getting priority in treatment but that is at the cost of other patients in the hospital people who have unrelated cases people who need to have for example regular surgery where those have been postponed or they have been referred to other hospitals so it's certainly a very difficult situation for the entire health system to keep a balance between the emergency of the day and other patients who actually also

need their treatment ok hoda abdel-hamid life hospital there in gaza thank you paula. israel's defense minister of adore lieberman has spoken out about the violence in gaza saying there are no innocent people that's a quote in the occupied coastal strip for smith joins us live from west jerusalem berman has there been any any reaction to such a comment. well rachele lieberman has also said that everyone is connected to hamas everyone gets a salary from hamas he says that all the activists trial trying to challengers are hamas military wing activists well not everybody in gaza is connected to hamas not everybody in gaza is paid by hamas but what lieberman is doing is continuing the narrative that the israeli government has been pushing since these protests started that these are hamas inspired the hamas led that hamas controlled excuse me israel is trying to say it's defending its border from infiltrators trying to justify this use of force of course we know from hard is reporting from our reporting with the

gaza that the vast majority of these protesters are peaceful the vast majority of people have gone there peacefully and they are not controlled by hamas but the problem for israel is that it needs to maintain this narrative that it's fighting against hamas because if it accepts that these are peaceful protests that it has to accept the sort of complaints and the demands or look at the complaints the demands of those protesters and what they are but what those protesters in gaza want is the very least a restriction of the crippling blockade on gaza they want to be able to export fruit and vegetables to israel they want an expansion of fishing zones off the guards of coast from about six nautical miles that is now to where it should be at about twenty and it wants people to be able to travel more freely outside of gaza these minimum requirements would help improve the economy in gaza and that is the very least these people want but israel so far has been unwilling to address those

concerns preferring to keep the focus on what it says is a hamas inspired protester shall bernard smith live for us and lester is from bernard thank you. thousands of people from pakistan's pashtun community are attending a rally in the shower to demand rights and protection for the minority group the passion protection with them and wants government. an ability for the way pashtoon have been treated the group says thousands of pashtoon have disappeared over the years or been the target of extrajudicial killings in pakistan semi autonomous tribal region so who are the past whom they are pakistan's second biggest ethnic group making up fifteen percent of the two hundred seventy million population million population that is they have long been the targets of military operations internal displacement ethnic stereotyping and abductions by security forces there heartland near the border with afghanistan has suffered from years of conflict the passion protection movement is demanding the removal of landmines from these areas

the group is also calling for justice for the killing of aspiring pashtun model the cadmus shoot in january and says he was the target of an extrajudicial killing by police. khan is a tribal and afghan affairs specialist he joins us live from islamabad thank you very much so this this rally will it have any real political impact how significant is it. yeah think about it much i think this valley has already dispatched the one the half was mormon since it begins and generally this year it has all of the make a lot of baggage on the pakistani society and even has good for the next in the government and our cities and most of the national media and pakistan is dividing to give it a wide a college except few channels rest of the channel is out of ideas giving color to the. mormon for the disease and it did as

a propaganda against the are going to as of this moment probably they did they did they have a certain type of support at this tendency to shun fortunately none i myself was part of this moment when they were having a sit in in the slum of god for all of his ten days and their demands are quite clear for us it wasn't in the cut archie a young bush the one. would be martin was scared and next in a police encounter so their demand for his demand was to let us go to bed the second was stop him alleviation of the pushed on women specially the tribal women and children the security check forced to stop across this twenty seven thousand two hundred square kilometers of the tribal area wind and exit wind and even inside that did this thirty man was a do cleans the land mine which was given in especially in visit his son and not in south waziristan agency and the thirty one most important game on was stalled or

the no one and it's not right but i just i do want to get in and ask you about there are people little that will say that this movement is just about hitting back at the pakistani military what do you say to that. no i think the sun is them the security forces because the security forces are engaged in the tribal areas is two thousand and four and unfortunately these people . who are dead from the homes what i would most do what i did was four times and the third important thing is they're the militant and. they're hoping sandwiched between the state and non-state actors and they are suffering for more than a decade so i think this was this was an emotionally the option. young. they get there and this started this moment and i think that they have the whole bunch of boards and they believe their people can do this moment across walkers and it's

not only the push to the tribal jetted to the but from the wire and the rest of baathist on. the pakistani. the non government are going to is ations the civil society do they are supporting the b monds of the parliament the hope was woman but unfortunately limited across the board especially in afghanistan and in that is of the world capital they are giving it back because they probably the moment as against pakistan the military the pakistanis did which is as i told you earlier that i missed my city what this woman what i would most didn't do then i was ok mr mr hama my apologies but we are going to have to leave it there and we will be covering this is it happens throughout the day thank you very much us and khan. ariens had the gun toting in a parliamentary election following a heated campaign dominated by immigration the prime minister viktor orban is seeking a third consecutive term that's despite claims of widespread corruption within its

government he's clashed with the e.u. over his anti immigration rhetoric and clamp down on civil society. the former president of brazil a little at a silver has began serving as twelve year prison sentence for corruption and in the . attack on saturday his supporters protested while others celebrated saying they pay for their crimes reports. did not go down without a fight but he is now in police custody he has now begun his twelve year one month sentence on corruption charges and money laundering charges says that he's innocent solve he says he's the victim of a political conspiracy to stop him running in october as presidential elections elections that he and many of his supporters say that he was likely to hold one that now won't be the case but he has said he will keep fighting from within his police cell here in the city in the southern city of could achieve again he gave

himself up very much on his terms he missed the deadline on friday set by the investigating judge sergio morell but he made sure that he had lunch with his family and attended a ceremony to mark his late wife who died last year and then he addressed many hundreds of supporters outside the base of the metal workers union in the city of. a city which is very much his heartland but the crowds were not you because it became clear he was going to hand himself in to the police many in brazil also began celebrating they feel that he should should serve the sentence for crimes that they believe he did commit it just sets an example in brazil which is at the moment going through sweeping investigations into corruption right across the political spectrum and into business has now begun that twelve year sentence it feels like the end of an era. that's one of our top stories now the situation in gaza among the ten palestinians killed by israeli forces during friday's protests

which journalists touches the thirty year old was shot in the stomach while covering the story fourteen other journalists have been injured says the demonstrations began nine days ago mohammed champion reports in the occupied west bank. that 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 north as you know was shot by israeli forces while covering the mass protests in gaza on friday and yes it died early on saturday. night at his funeral in gaza hamas leaders might have a tribute well i did want to buy 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 yes it. 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 bank are the same. for the first avoid as opposed to his second as a general his 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 two year old child. and he has united everybody in sorrow and in mourning because he was so 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 won't 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 words of encouragement at a time when strength and fortitude may be needed more than ever before. ramallah

in the occupied west bank. these are the headlines on al-jazeera and i jury an army says it has rescued one hundred and forty nine hostages held by boko haram in borno state in the northeast of the country that women and children were being held by the armed group in the village of euro mari cora jury and soldiers killed three of the fighters and injured another five sorry medics a dozens of people have been killed in a suspected chemical attack on a rebel held part of eastern grew to the u.s. is calling for an international response if there are reports of hern syria and russia its biggest allies say reports of the attack are faults doctors in gaza are struggling to treat hundreds of palestinians injured by israeli forces during friday's protests along the israel border hospitals had declared a state of emergency due to a severe shortage of supplies at least thirty palestinians have been killed by

israeli forces since demonstrations began last week and gary ends have begun voting in a parliamentary election following a hated campaigns ahman aided by immigration the prime minister viktor orban the seeking a third consecutive term that's despite claims of widespread corruption within his government has clashed with the e.u. over his anti immigration rhetoric and clamp down of civil society. what's at stake well we've already said everything about that what's at stake is the future of hungary it's not only posses a government or a prime minister that we're choosing for ourselves but a future is well voting is secret but all reveal that i voted for this two votes for this because i thought that was the safest bit. thousands of people from pakistan's pashtun community are attending a rally at the shower to demand rights and protection for the minority group the passion protection movement wants in government accountability for the way passion have been treated the group says thousands have disappeared over the years or been

the target of extra judicial killings in pakistan's semi autonomous tribal region the former president of brazil lula da silva has begun his twelve year prison sentence for corruption and the jail in the city of port tabor on saturday as supporters protested others though celebrated saying the guilty should pay for their crimes. as are the headline news continues here on al-jazeera so keep it here and sad story is next thanks for your time. it was malaysia's prime minister for more than twenty years now mahathir mohamad one.