children sometimes caught in the crossfire when rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call a walk us to try to take the violence i lost my cooking whale and go i also lost my but there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards. or benefit. people. so. there are cars. witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera.

a military plane crashes after takeoff in algeria killing more than one hundred eighty people. alive hasn't seeker this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. risking their lives to find safety we'll look at the dangerous part that tens of thousands of people are using to flee the democratic republic of congo. as the u.s. considers a military response to an apparent chemical attack in syria russia warns it will shoot down any missiles. it was my mistake and i'm sorry also facebook boss mark zuckerberg promised to do better while being grilled about privacy failures.

although we begin with breaking news out of algeria a military plane has crashed near bullfighting airport south of the capital algiers algeria's civil defense says at least one hundred eighty one people have been killed while local media are reporting more than two hundred died twenty six of the victims are from western sahara is no word yet on the cause of the crash which happened just after takeoff let's get more on this now from how the valet who is a journalist in algiers and he joins us by phone so what more can you tell us about what happened here at this point. the latest information we have at least one hundred eighty people were killed in the crash this is obviously the worst train crushing during history. apparently the engine one of the four engines of the military plane caught fire before takeoff it exploded mature to

the to the crash this is obviously a very sad and a country military. good solid went to the crash site been expressed condolences to how many victims this is the latest we have. no word yet on on what may have caused this crash i realize it's still very much at an early stage right now but what to investigate investigators what would they be looking at at this stage. the military said an investigation will be. will take place but according to sources one of the four engines of the plane caught fire this is all we know for now all right hand about it thanks so much for being with us. now a refugee exodus from the democratic republic of congo that is mirroring migration

crises in europe and asia since the start of this year sixty thousand people have fled to neighboring uganda risking their lives in rickety boats they're looking for safety from fighting across the democratic republic of congo's eastern borderlands that began late last year and the violence has left thirteen million people in need of aid about half of them don't know where their next meal will come from the political instability surrounding president joseph kabila is not helping he is refusing to step down despite passing his term limits and perspire winning elections repeatedly and visitors malcolm webb is retracing the refugees journey from the end to the beginning he has traveled from uganda's capital kampala to the king wali refugee camp where most of them are sheltering right now he's crossing lake albert heading from the landing site on the congolese side where refugees are fleeing the fighting before getting on the water he has this update. i'm standing

in uganda this is lake albert and on the far side you can just about see hills in the democratic republic of congo and it's after in those hills in recent months that militia have been attacking villages setting hearts on fire chopping people up with machetes killing some and that's what prompted thousands to get in boats across the lake and you can see some of the kinds of boats here that they've been using these wooden ones have an engine strapped on the back that's a better way to cross but for people who can't afford a ticket in one of those they have to get in a canoe and paddled in which case the crossing can take one or two days lakes prone to bad weather strong winds heavy rains and storms not uncommon for boats to capsize and some refugees have drowned on the way those that make it here are registered by ugandan government officials and by the united nations and then they're taken from here a couple of hours drive into uganda to the chiang wali refugee settlement we went

there and spoke to some of the new arrivals let's take a look at that story. all these people ran for their lives. and now patients run came they're waiting for buses to take them to a place to make new homes in this refugee camp in uganda. free to liza's stories typical a few days ago a militia or attacked a village in congo they killed her neighbors with machetes she fled with her five children she's pregnant with her six dogs the dogs and get them going to restart the fighting had started then they started burning houses with people inside so we went into the forest and hid for three days then we decided to run and we came to uganda. militias from the lendu ethnic group has been attacking villages in rita's province called is to worry since january the un says that forced more than seventy thousand to sleep here in uganda many more displaced back at home. people have lost

their family members and the women are subject to a section on the agenda of airspace failing to this point during flight so they came very traumatized very tired and needed a very rapid and immediate medical attention to what some people described violence as ethnic rita says it's not she says the attackers killed anyone and everyone she's an ethnic lendu herself the same as them some people here say they don't know why they've been forced from their homes now other suspect congo's governments behind it trying to stay in power by further postponing the long overdue presidential election the government denies it. regardless people keep arriving here in uganda. the u.n. says it leaves more resources donors threatened to cut funds for refugees in uganda when government officials were implicated in a corruption scandal earlier this year that new arrivals still need help at the

moment a lot of the refugee settlement is a vast expanse of bush people are given plots reese is being given her here she's got some plastic sheets. simple farm till now she asked to build a shelter that's what she'll be living in for the weeks ahead and use the tools to start filling the land and growing some food and now. it's starting to rain three to lost her husband when she fled she and her children now have to wait for somebody to help them put up a shelter it might be safer here for their struggle over malcolm where al-jazeera jangle ali refugee camp in uganda a russian ambassador has warned that any u.s. missiles fired into syria would be shot down the russian envoy to lebanon also suggested the launch sites would be targeted the u.s. senate's allies are considering strikes in response to an apparent chemical attack

near damascus on saturday which they blamed on syria's government at least forty people were killed in the rebel held town of duma rory chalons has more from moscow and base of leave this ambassador was directly referencing comments that were made by the russian chief of staff gerasim of nearly a month ago when the russians first started warning that they were picking up intelligence that's the united states was planning some kind of false flag operation using the rebels and chemical weapons to basically pin the finger of blame on the assad government and thus justify launching strikes against damascus and its. its facilities so yeah the russians been saying this for some time but when the grass or offer made those comments he also said that there would be a russian response there is a difference though between what the ambassador has just said and what gerasim off

said originally when it originally was talking he was saying that if the russians strikes threaten russian sorry if u.s. strikes of britain russian personnel russian military facilities that's when there will be a response but the ambassador speaking very recently has seemed to broaden that the any u.s. missiles would get a russian response i don't know whether that was intentional or not we'll have to wait and see perhaps. well u.s. president donald trump has just tweeted on this and he says and i'm quoting russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at syria get ready russia because they will be coming nice and new and quote smart he shouldn't be partners with a gas killing animal who kills his people and enjoys it as warry mentioned rival proposals from the u.s. and russia to investigate chemical weapons attacks in syria failed to pass at the

un security council mike hanna reports on that from the un yet another security council session on syria and yet another veto. the twelfth exercised by russia since the conflict began twelve members were in favor of a u.s. led proposal to set up an independent body that would investigate chemical attacks and identify perpetrators voters old reconstitute and similarly this is a moment of truth the vote that we are faced with today so i would call upon each of the members of the security council speaking on behalf of france to take proper stock of what is at stake here and to live up to their responsibilities and to the us vote in favor of the american draft resolution as the day was the council continue to splinter a russian proposal for an investigative mechanism fails to get the mind votes needed to pass the u.s. not even needing to veto and an explanation of how it differed in two ways from the u.s.

led resolution the key point is our resolution guarantees that any investigations will truly be independent russia's resolution gives russia itself the chance to choose the investigators and then to assess the outcome there's nothing independent about that. the tone of discussion was no less a serb big than in previous sessions the russian ambassador repeating his assertion that the us and its allies were seeking a pretext to take unilateral action against the syrian government. if you take the decision to carry out an illegal military adventure and we do hope that you will come to your senses well then you will have to bear responsibility for you so. what you're trying to do is plant a resolution that has been on the show for a long time in order to find a pretext in the course of the session or members expressed support for the fact finding mission of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons or p.c.

w which will investigate this past weekend's alleged attack the key issue though while the o.p.c. w. is empowered to establish whether or not a chemical attack took place it has no mandate to identify the state or non-state actors that may have been responsible. for a second russian proposal failed to pass an apparently non-controversial resolution supporting the work of the opi c.w. failed to get the necessary votes those opposed to pointing out the chemical watchdog was already at work arguing such a resolution was superfluous and at the end of this day so too it appears for the security council. mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. yemen's hooty rebels say they've launched a drone strike on one of saudi arabia's oil facilities the target was the oil giant saudi aramco space in just an province the company though says its facilities

they're operating normally and safely. me and mars army has sentenced seven soldiers to ten years each for their involvement in the killing of ten men during a military crackdown on revenge of muslims the military says the soldiers joined police and buddhist villages in the killings in hind state last september the animals army has been accused of carrying out ethnic cleansing i mean while a court in myanmar has refused to drop a case against two reuters journalists accused of obtaining secret government papers on the crackdown while alone and chore suit who were arrested in december they could face charges under me and miles official secrets which carry a prison sentence of up to fourteen years. he was out of that i'm not happy at all the men who carried out the killings were only sentenced to ten years do you think that's fair to them in any yellow i would like to ask the government does the syncing of the murder is fitting with democratic standards we journalists just did

our job in line with our rights of a free press in a democratic country and now we are facing a possible sentence of fourteen years and the murderers only got ten. still ahead on al-jazeera it's cheap but toxic bootleg alcohol is killing people across indonesia now the police cracking down. on a former u.s. president gets a top on as northern ireland remembers a historic peace agreement. how i think changeable is a fair way of describing the weather across north asia at this moment we've got this big area a cloud of rain moving through the save the prime sweeping across japan dry weather coming back into harbor very active weather system this wanted to bring around eighty millimeters of rain to parts of north korea has it made its way through

it'll clear through as we go through thursday process guys come back in take out around twenty seven celsius eighteen there for you but this next area cloud and rain that will come in make its way into beijing it'll push towards the yellow sea as we go on through the next few days and eventually sweep across the korean peninsula head of that make the most of the sunshine there take a getting up to twenty one degrees celsius that cloud and right has also affecting central parts of china then a disturbed weather there pushing over towards shanghai in this massive cloud right if anything intensifying further as we go through friday to the south of that there's the warm sun side some lovely weather there home called at around twenty nine degrees celsius in the southerly wind but a sunshine sea went to the philippines want to see shall as sending a possibility over the next day as per usual the showers extend their way towards boy a little bit of that weather towards such a kata temperatures here at thirty three degrees.

he ruled for nearly half a century a controversial political figure in the cold in the middle east and one who was never far from crisis at home or abroad and. in a two part series al-jazeera world tells the story of king hussein of jordan. episode one so vital on al-jazeera.

and again you're watching al-jazeera minder of our top stories this hour an algerian military plane has crashed near before arctic airport south of the capital algiers hereis defense ministry says two hundred fifty seven people died. president don't want to rush on twitter that missiles will be coming hours after russia's ambassador to lebanon said his country will shoot down any american missiles launched against syria's government that follows international outrage over suspected chemical attack in the town of duma on saturday. myanmar's army has sentenced seven soldiers to ten years' jail for their involvement in the killing of ten men during a military crackdown on the range of muslims the military says the soldiers joined police in buddhist villages in the killings in hind state last september. our facebook boss mark zuckerberg will face more questions later from u.s. politicians about the massive breach of users private data he sat through a five hour grilling in congress on tuesday when he admitted to making mistakes

alan fischer reports from washington. did you use fifty great two shirts for a suit this was a polish to facebook c.e.o. with a performance to much mark zuckerberg apologize for the massive data breach that impacted fifty seven million users worldwide we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry but the importance of this appearance was not lost on them senator it should be a wake up call for the tech community. we want to hear more without delay about what facebook and other companies plan to do to take greater responsibility for what happens on their platforms with the core issue was summed up with one question from democrat their big durban mr zucker berg would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night.

no. mark zuckerberg was called in front of the senate after it was discovered millions of users data was improperly obtained by you key piece political consultancy cambridge analytics the use that information to target ads to help donald trump's presidential campaign and the bricks at referendum in the u.k. the facebook founder says steps will be taken to ensure such a data breach can never happen again but one senator asked if he was ready to follow through on that promise i believe you have all the talent my question is whether you have all the will to help us solve this problem yes senator do you believe the european regulation should be applied here in the us regardless of whether we implement the exact same regulation i would guess that it would be somewhat different because we have somewhat different sensibilities perhaps the most contentious exchange came when republican ted cruz accused facebook of political bias are you aware of any ad or page that has been taken down from planned parenthood senator i'm not but let me just i'm going to have on another

work sorry about move on dot org i'm not specifically aware of about any democratic candidate for office. i'm not specifically aware i mean no i'm not and i'm not sure mark zuckerberg revealed facebook is looking into potential russian links to the cambridge analytical breach and also that the company has cooperated with special counsel robert mueller who's investigating possible collusion between the russians and donald trump's presidential campaign mark zuckerberg spent the weekend preparing for this appearance and it shoot you low fees members of the u.s. hosts at a separate hearing on wednesday with the threat of greater regulation for the entire tech industry standing on the other side of that performance alan fischer al-jazeera on capitol hill demonstrators in the central african republic have laid bodies outside the u.n. mission building in the capital bangui there were some of twenty one people killed

during a u.n. operation in a mainly muslim neighborhood called p.k. five peacekeepers and the army targeted armed groups officials are unsure whether the victims were caught in the crossfire or hit on purpose a south africans are saying their final goodbyes to the woman many called the mother of the nation an official memorial service is being held for winnie mandela is taking place and so where to where she lived and fought against apartheid the activist and former wife of south africa's first black president nelson mandela died last week at the age of eighty one she played a leading role in the battle against white minority rule catherine soy has more from so wetter. yes it is quite silly to. keep. things as it. was now we know that i will be hearing some avivim. i. was happy to.

have to keep the key note address of people i same way yeah i saved it just here to celebrate that struck ordinary life to celebrate the struggles that she face she was teaching me the face of the struggle for liberation and for that she suffered immensely she was the freezone she was held in solitary confinement was kept away from her shoes drank she was a banished to some far away village where she didn't know anybody's a people here say that they just you know how i feel how the carriage and that's why they're here this is a stadium along the stadiums the forty thousand capacity stadium but it's not cool because today is a walk day it's a school day but the funeral service is going to be held here as well and saturday and it's expected to be the stadium is expected to be moved to the brim even exudes

compatibility and these blades to land a stadium isn't so went to which is hugely significant and symbolic because so when it was very much the heart of the struggle for liberation and the movement against the anti apartheid movement as a people i hear a lot of people here relates to winnie mandela and then they tell us just celebrate how and what she did for this country. a polls have opened in a snap presidential election in azerbaijan president ilham aliyev is expected to win by a landslide extending his fifteen year long grip on power opposition parties have boycotted the election angry that the votes been cold six months early. police in indonesia are taking aim at the illegal alcohol trade that's after more than a hundred people died in one week from drinking bootleg liquor high taxes and a crackdown on illegal alcohol in muslim majority indonesia has created

a black market among the poor step of force. in west java people thought at first they were suffering from a bad hangover but doctors soon discovered it was much worse those who rushed to hospital just days after buying drinks out of who stole had organ failure and blurred vision one hundred people have died so far one of them was twenty two year old man who had just started working as a motorbike taxi driver together without a man and he drank liquor from a plastic bottle for around two u.s. dollars the cheapest and only drink upgradable he and two of his cousins died. this drink should not be sold if it was up to me i would kill the person who make this that's how i feel right now if i would meet him he has taken my son's life. started raiding food stalls and small shops where illegal drinks are being sold in

the majority muslim population has restricted sales of alcohol it's also increased import taxes on liquor in the past few years but each year hundreds die after drinking bootleg booze including foreign tourists and this is what the victims have been drinking police are still trying to find out what exactly this made but investigators believe it contains a box of chemicals that the usual alcohol in this case it's probably mixed with energy drinks that give it its neighbors. some other things have been found containing mosquito repellent we found this producer making illegal drawings in two thousand and fifteen mixing apple alcohol use to disinfect wounds with caffeine and a chemical coloring substance despite an increase in the month he has since stopped . by element has been discussing a bill to partially ban alcohol in indonesia but researchers have found that since

alcohol sales have been restricted that due to bootleg drinks have doubled in indonesia there's actually not necessary to to to ban alcohol because consumption is one of the lowest in the world the problem is those who want to consume our go home they need alcohol that is safe so they have more urgent issue for the government always to make sure our unrecorded a whole is suppressed and more recorded a whole should be made more for the war and more accessible lawmakers are still debating how far reaching the alcohol ban should be they hope that with a partial ban police will crack down harder on those who produce and distribute illegal drinks but religious and i say drinking cheap spirits has become a habit and no way to escape the daily struggle to make a living they say clamping down on the black market will be difficult as long as

there's a demand for affordable alcohol step fasten al-jazeera teacher lanka west jaffa panama has banned all venezuelan airlines from flying into the country for the next ninety days it's in response to venezuela putting a three month ban on some panamanian businesses from operating within its borders dispute started when a phantom a labelled president nicolas maduro a high risk for money laundering. northern ireland has been marking twenty years since the signing of an agreement which ended decades of violence it's a time of mixed feelings the deal brought divided communities closer together but right now there is political deadlock bonamy phillips reports from belfast the class of ninety eight told their reunion at queen's university belfast the men and women who made peace a day to celebrate the dramatic reduction in violence that good friday agreement brought to northern ireland to what else the devolved government that was an

essential component of the agreement has not function did over a year. one key player insisted peace is not at risk the institutions will be back and. the good friday agreement remains the accord which is going to go into politics in the done or isn't in the south and relationships in the end to look for future so i think the future is very bright from the opposite side of northern ireland's divided not a key player said britain's withdrawal from the e.u. should not damage the agreement perhaps of this one. is completely different there is no interaction between them all but what is happening at the moment is some people are trying to use it to agree. and i hope that they are successful in doing so later the chief negotiator for the united states senator

george mitchell and former president bill clinton were honored with the freedom of belfast i will always be grateful that i came to belfast when peace of been made but the city was still troubled when was it good and decent people had to actually make a decision to do the right thing to be the right sort of person to give children the right sort of future. it was a fortune in. the year one of the best things that the private. outside pressure is going to bring to the world and. it's being celebrated. by the people and all the other day. i thought i did great i no longer buy that brings. it was a time when as the irish poet seamus heaney wrote hope and history rhymed an elusive harmony that can never be taken for granted. barnaby phillips al

jazeera belfast. this is as the top stories a military plane has crashed in algeria near bullfighting airport south of the cattle algiers the defense ministry says at least two hundred fifty seven people have been killed most of the victims military personnel there's no word on the cause of the crash as yet which happened just after takeoff u.s. president donald trump has warned russia on twitter that missiles will be coming russia's ambassador to lebanon had said his country will shoot down any american missiles launched against syria's government has been outraged over a suspected chemical attack in the town of duma on saturday. myanmar's army has sentenced seven soldiers to ten years each for their involvement in the killing of ten men during a military crackdown on muslims military says the soldiers joined police and

buddhists villages in the killings in the hind state last september yann miles army has been accused of carrying out ethnic cleansing. demonstrators in the central african republic have laid bodies outside the u.n. mission building in the capital bangui at least twenty one people were killed during a un operation in the mainly muslim p.k. five neighborhood that saw peacekeepers and the army target armed groups fishes are unsure if the victims were caught in the crossfire or deliberately targeted on sunday two people including a peacekeeper died when fighters attacked un troops near the president's residence south africans are saying their final goodbyes to the woman many called it the mother of the nation an official memorial service is being held for winnie mandela is taking place in the wetter where she lived and for to get to the part time activist and former wife of south africa's first black president nelson mandela

died last week at the age of eighty one she played a leading role in the battle against white minority rule when he was also known for her uncompromising methods during the struggle facebook boss mark zuckerberg will face more questions later from u.s. politicians about the massive breach of u.s. private private data he sat through a five hour grilling in congress on tuesday when he admitted to making mistakes zuckerberg also suggested artificial intelligence will help stop hate speech more after inside story.