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this is al-jazeera. alone welcome to the al-jazeera news hour live from our headquarters and it is a problem coming up in the next sixty minutes these are not the actions of a man. they are crimes of a monster instead the u.s. pressure in france launching airstrikes saying syria has used chemical weapons and needs to be held accountable. the targets three syrian facilities new damascus and the city of homs the u.s. calls the strikes a success. in night. we stress that this kind of aggression will not stop our army. but the syrian government says it won't be intimidated and its russian allies claim to have shot down most of the incoming

missiles. and saying goodbye to the mother of the nation south africans on a whim and because the among at a funeral and so what oh oh. it's ten o'clock g.m.t. one pm in damascus and you're watching al-jazeera has extended coverage of the joint to u.s. bush and french military action against syria it is the biggest intervention by western powers against syria's government since the war began more than seven years ago let's get you up to date now the u.s. version and france have heard regime targets with a barrel of a a strike from ships and fighter jets the action comes in response to a suspected poison gas attack last week u.s. president donald trump announced the operation as explosions were heard in syria's capital damascus the government's key allies have responded with anger russia has

warned that there will be consequences iran says it's a clear violation of international law as well as dawn broke in damascus regime supporters gathered to cheer for president bashar assad syrian officials have described the military action as a brutal american british french aggression well all the strikes were aimed at degrading syria's chemical weapons capabilities the first target was a scientific research center and the greater damascus area the pentagon says it was used for the production and testing of chemical and biological warfare technology to more sites were targeted west of homs both were chemical weapons storage facilities that's according to the pentagon one of them was also a military command center where we are tracking reaction from around the world with our correspondents in washington d.c. and london but we begin with alan fischer with an look at what we know so far

a response had been promised predicted a no deliberate or fellow americans a short time ago i ordered the united states armed forces to launch precision strikes certain targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of syrian dictator bashar. donald trump has argued be us how to take action to protect its national interests at the stall the assad regime use of chemical weapons the purpose of our actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production spread and use of chemical weapons establishing this deterrent is a vital national security interest of the united states and had this message for president assad's russian and the reigning alights what kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men women and children the nations of the world can be judged by the friends they

keep no nation can succeed in the long run by promoting rogue states brutal tyrants and murderous dictators. it's just over a year since the signing gas attack in syria provoked an american military response this was a joint operation the french and the british joining the americans tonight france the united kingdom and the united states took decisive action to strake the syrian chemical weapons infrastructure. clearly the assad regime did not get the message last year u.s. defense secretary says he was convinced of syrian involvement in the suspected chemical attack just hours before the operation was given the go ahead but i am confident to syrian regime conducted a chemical attack on innocent people. in this last last week yes absolutely

confident of it and we have the intelligence level of confidence that we needed to conduct the attack. but as donald trump addressed the country there were some questioning if we don't legal power to launch the attack here in the united states our constitution says without any equivocation it's up to congress not the president not the executive branch to declare a war to say when we're going to go to war the president then executes that decision the russians had warned of consequences if the u.s. launched this attack because of its close ties to the syrian government the air strikes may be over this new middle east crisis isn't alan fischer al-jazeera washington or here's more of the syrian government's response state media says it's an aggression against syria and a result of the westphalia of an anti syria project it says the strikes are aimed at obstructing investigations of the international fact finding team in the us with

suspected chemical attack took place last weekend syria has called on the international community to condemn the aggression saying it's meant to fuel tension and threaten international peace and security in night yet that the land that the usual people want the most we stress that this kind of aggression will not stop our army our alliance will continue targeting terrorist groups across the country this will strengthen us and we will continue to defend our sovereignty and our homeland and people security. well the russian ambassador to washington has warned that there will be consequences to that u.s. led strike anatoly and said in a statement the predesigned scenario is being implemented again we are being threatened we warn that such actions will not be left without consequences all responsibility for them rests with washington london and paris well let's go to the russian capital moscow correspondent chalons is joining us live from there warning

of consequences but what are russians options rory. well we're hearing from me putin the president and from other members of the russian leadership that there are going to be some sort of steps taken but aside from calling for a meeting of the u.n. security council we don't yet know what those are i think i mean it's in is going to be looking at a list of options at the moment the the most that we've heard going expanding on this from from the defense ministry for instance is that russia is looking at supplying syria with its s three hundred missile defense system air defense system so if if it is left there that it's a u.n. security council resolution and perhaps supplying with syria with an air defense

system that is actually already in place in syria because the russians are operating one there then i think that suggests that the russians are looking at what has happened over the last few hours and apart from the obligatory bluster that they have to go through condemnation except for they're not actually that unhappy with this in ario as it's played out because essentially it's allowed the u.s. and its allies to blow off some steam to say that they've taken decisive action that they've given. bashar al assad's chemical weapons program a bloody nose but we haven't had this wider escalation and that you know the i was looking perhaps possible earlier on in the week the russian assets were moved out the way syrian assets were not hits particularly severely and iranian assets of course were also moved out the way so russia has not felt the

full force that it perhaps it was worried it was going to feel at the beginning of the week and certainly asaad i think is feeling like this is not too bad. it's an incident that russia and i said and iran i think is probably going to go business as usual roy thank you very much for that for now that's our russia correspondent roy chalons joining us live from the capital moscow where let's get more on this now with will know a lot of retired jordanian air force general and he's joining us live from the capital amman very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so what do you make mr of this military response firing some one hundred ten missiles at these three targets . i think accomplished their mission was very skillful. i think very good the propaganda which we hear from the spoken of the syrian army that they. i don't think that

very same victor said these are very precise and. you know they don't have the technology to defeat such a silent cruise missile especially when they fly train full or over the ground so i think they did. the. american i think informed the russian. carrier door which will fly through and be avoided the zone of the air defense defense yeah so that's what happened but we have to wait and see the finish the battle damage assessment. tell us exactly how this was and of course we'll be hearing different things from the americans on one side of the syrians and the russians on the other as we have already about how successful or unsuccessful these strikes have been but given what you were saying that the americans did we know that the americans and the russians ahead of the strikes and

we've been hearing over the last week from washington from president trump anticipating strikes and given all of that just how much damage do you think they could have caused i mean what the last week have given the syrians with the help by the russians or even the iranians time to move equipment out of these facilities to minimize the damage. yes and that's what horrified them in actual fact to disk to disk all their. power. months along to see and hear me mean i'm sending the commercial planes to iran. i think the mission is in no way successful it's got a lot of massive years. gnashing community will not be anybody to use this chemical things and because really the security council the o.p.c.

w and c w c need to be sort of very informal and to have a more tough action towards the people especially dictators like the one in syria but not in the preventing him to use and he saw. in the future. i think also it was an insult to putin and iraq because there were all all the time saying we will do so we're going to retaliate back and i think they turned their face how we now for a while and wait and see how they are it depends if there is any russian military or iranian we don't know of any casualties so far but as you've said both the russians and iran a saying that they will be a response do you think that the response will be a military one by these countries.

i think them might use. sort of a cyber attacks in american forces. europe possibly and somewhere in the world you know. attacking some sort of american or french or british location. by conducting cyber war but i don't think the big super powers would like to ask really in any way that their interest is to keep things as is. but it was. i think there was not option except to go to such a strike and sending another message don't try you. take my word. messed up and i thank you as always for your time that is. joining us live

from the jordanian capital amman well jordan is facing an economic crisis compounded by the influx of syrian refugees but the government is now joining forces with the un refugee agency to find the book reports from jordan on how this could be a blueprint for other countries in the region. or strip mohammed of the life he built in syria his job as a factory supervisor has allowed him to create a new one in jordan and restore his dignity. in the beginning i could not provide the basic necessities of life for myself and my wife thank god now i'm having a decent life. jamal is one of thirty syrians recruited from refugee camps working at el san about the diaper manufacturer has been hiring syrians for five years and

they now make up fifteen percent of its workforce when we started this process it was very open this those morals if it ultimately to the all in all environment what's happening at al sanibel and other factories in jordan could mark a new approach to how the international community this is refugees three quarters of a million syrian refugees are registered in jordan which has put a strain on the country it's struggling with high unemployment and cost of living the hope is by providing work for refugees they will contribute to not drain the economy this would make let's say a link to listen. this will for large of fortune see if floors are down and because some of. some of the employers will come from outside to florida and start having their new projects the government has made it easier and cheaper for syrian refugees to get work permits and streamline the process for companies looking to

export to the european market the u.n. refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. has established eleven recruiting centers now more than ninety five thousand syrian refugees mostly men are working in factories farms construction sites and stores. abdulhadi says by working his way up to factory manager he's now in a position to provide opportunity. is a very good for me i'm happy because i. might be born at el sanibel having syrian refugees as part of the workforce has had another effect the owner says it's brought a unity and an understanding that everyone whether a syrian. g. or a jordanian is first and foremost a human being natasha going to name l. does iraq have jordan.

british prime minister tony the mayor says there was no alternative way to stop the ass had government from using chemical weapons last night british french and american armed forces conducted coordinated and targeted strikes to degrade the syrian regime's chemical weapons capability and deter the use this was not about interfering in a civil war and it was not about regime change as i discussed with president trump and president background it was a limited targeted and effective strike with clear boundaries that expressly sought to avoid escalation and did everything possible to prevent civilian casualties we would have preferred an alternative path but on this occasion there is none we cannot allow the use of chemical weapons to become normalized. correspondent bob

a phillips is joining us live from london now on a very strong statement bonamy from the prime minister saying that they had no choice but to act. yes but i think what i'd take from it is the prime minister stressing from britain's point of view the limits of what it intends you heard the prime minister say not the intention of intervening in the syrian civil war at this late stage not an attempt at regime change but specifically an attempt i suppose to punish deter the use of chemical weapons i'll get some points of view of this from vince cable my guest here who's a leader of one of the opposition parties here the liberal democrats i know mr cable the some controversy here over whether the prime minister should have gone to parliament and held a debate and you think she should have done before authorizing british

participation in this action absolutely right they should have gone to parliament i think it's important not just because parliament wants to become sponsored but because it's important that the prime minister himself builds public support on. difficult questions which the public are now raising and when parliament convenes on monday i think it is very important that they have a vote to get some underpinning for their for their political position that no withstanding do you find her argument convincing that britain isn't getting involved in the civil war it's not looking to change this regime or that regime no matter how abhorrent the government finds that the assad regime it just wanted to punish and deter over the over this specific issue of chemical weapons well all of those points are reassuring and those are things that the prime minister say. but i'm left to something many people are with continuing questions and doubts this was presented as a one off operation by the american defense secretary but if the when weapons

storage hasn't been destroyed and the weapons are used again in a week's time or a month's time do we don't go in again with the risks associated with dark dark scary very unclear we are very dependent. on the judgments of a highly erratic american president on arsenal something over there which the british government's got a repeat of control the words of the main opposition leader jeremy corbyn of the labor party he says the strike last night was legally legally questionable would you agree with him well i'm not in the same position as john mickel going to chortle him and he opposes all military intervention in almost every circumstance and i think that's wrong i mean there are occasions when it's legitimate to use force and this may be one of the we haven't yet heard the arguments in full i'm not an international lawyer i don't think he is when i was in the cabinet five years ago we did have a legal opinion on whether it was legitimate to use force then and i think that you

supported at the time in which we supported at the time obviously it would be desirable if this were all taking place under the legal aegis of the united nations but the russians have blocked that with vetoes is the fact that there are o.p.c. w. inspectors on the ground in syria at the moment trying to find out what happened in duma does that fact make you uncomfortable that britain was involved in military action last night well it would in an ideal world they would have been and they would have been respected and they would have come out with a definitive view but i mean the circumstantial evidence is absolutely overwhelming the syrian government did use chemical weapons on the polling atrocity and they've done it before and it was not as if it was the first time and all the indications are that they did it this time so when the prime minister says that there were operational reasons why britain had to be involved in the action last night before the parliamentary vote on monday that you would have light you are open to

persuasion that there would have been sensible sound reasons to strike now yes there are corrupt racial reasons for going ahead but i don't think overriding and compelling i think it's actually very much an. the government's interests that we do have a proper debate in parliament to do we do have a vote someone that she has a mandate she currently doesn't. and it's cable thank you very much for joining us here on al-jazeera back to you in the studio in london but that's one point of view here in westminster thank you very much for that spot of ether that's joining us live from london well it's early saturday morning in washington d.c. and i called correspondent is joining us from the u.s. capital americans were just people making up the news of the strikes have been taking place it's very early i know gay but has there been any reaction so far. not primarily because this has taken place overnight friday into late friday night

nine pm eastern time if you want to call that late on friday night and so by the time information started to come out about what exactly happened it was ten pushing ten thirty so a lot of people had gone to sleep or didn't know what was going on or just haven't been maybe paying attention because it was so late we will be hearing more from the pentagon at nine am here saturday morning that's about two and a half hours from now that's when the pentagon is going to give their second briefing since the strikes. took place where they're going to give we expect a lot more details about how exactly the strikes were carried out and how much damage according to u.s. intelligence estimates how much damage was done and make no mistake about it there are hundreds of. officials who are in the pentagon and in other areas around the world or the u.s. have bases and in school combing through all of the satellite imagery and all of the after action reports to give that report to in a couple hours or so that will give us

a better sense of that but i will tell you overall the vast majority of americans knew that there was going to probably be some sort of military action in syria i think the whole world knew that if you were paying close attention of course i think there was a. prevention because the worst case scenario would have been that the u.s. and russia. engage amongst themselves and this turns into a war between those two countries i think most americans are going to wake up to this news saturday morning and that that that is not the case that this did not escalate at least not yet did not now and breathe a big big sigh of relief yet no escalation fall but how do americans feel that valve's these strikes about the u.s. striking civilian targets. well listen i mean you think people have a lot of different views on that i mean on one one hand you had this took place without the approval of congress so there's certainly those that say that because

it did not get congressional approval that it could be seen as illegal in act in terms of international law that's so some people are certainly going to see it legitimately of course the pentagon and the white house made the case that in their view that's not the case that this was a legitimate strike with two key allies france and the u.k. which is was stressed not only by president trump but also at the pentagon briefing about an hour after the strikes in did use military attache case from france and the u.k. both on the side of the podium when the secretary of defense mattis was giving the briefing about what happened with the strikes. and so there's the wide range of opinions are going to have some supporters that voted for trump with the idea that they would not go to war with syria and it was just president trump just a little over ten days ago that said he planned to pull all u.s.

troops out of syria there's about twenty thousand in the north part of syria right now and so there's been a wide range of of movement on the whole siri issue but i think the overriding issue is that i think a lot of americans are going to be happy that this is not escalated gave thank you very much for that for now that's caving in and he's on time with the nations from washington d.c. . and as i've said the government involved in the strikes was france the french foreign minister shawnee there and said they had to be consequences for the suspected chemical attack. the action we have taken has very limited and very precise objectives to destroy the chemical weapons arsenal of syria to stop a committee more chemical county and continue its terrorist strategy towards its own population we're not trying to hurt citizens we're trying to dissuade assad from this criminal activity. and in the last few minutes also received an official reaction from the chinese government a foreign ministry in beijing says we consistently oppose the use of force in

international relations and advocate was at advocate respect for the sovereignty independence and territorial integrity of all countries we call for a return to the framework of international law. now in a few moments we'll have the weather with rob bot still ahead on the news hour remembering the mother of the nation south africans pay their respects as when he meant because that among dalla is laid to rest. one person has died and hundreds more palestinians and wounded during the latest protests at the gaza israel border . from a fresh breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello china spring rains are not a gentle affair they come in pretty viciously sometimes they come in quite damaging

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fearless journalism fair to light this reality. see the world from a different perspective on al-jazeera. it's good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news out these are our top stories and our ongoing coverage of the u.s. military strikes and syria have a mind of the top poisons the u.s. has carried out strikes in conjunction with russia and french forces on targets associated with something a suspected chemical weapons program the pentagon says the first target was

a scientific research center and the greater damascus area two more took place west of homs and while the pentagon says a chemical weapons storage facilities some. in the state media is reporting that the military's air defense systems shut down thirteen missiles in the area south of damascus syrian officials also say that the targeted sites were evacuated days ago thanks to a warning from russia meanwhile russia's ambassador to the u.s. has warned that the actions will have consequences. well no surprise that the syria strikes have generated a lot of controversy online this is the moment when the strikes were announced and as you can see the conversation immediately took off on twitter with people using the spanish english and french spellings of serbia to debate whether the u.s. u.k. and france made the right decision. and thousands of people have been resharing tweets by donald trump from well before he was the us president trump posted this five years ago calling former president barack obama foolishly and telling him very

bad things will happen if he attacks syria this is hardly the most popular tweet and relation to syria other all time tweets along the same lines have also resurfaced well let's get more on this now we're joined by randy corey senior public policy fellow and adjunct professor of journalism at the american university of beirut and he's joining us live from there now on this decree always a pleasure to have you with us on al-jazeera do you think that the u.s. britain and france should have taken this action before the organization for the prohibit of chemical weapons has even had a chance to investigate the attack. no i don't think they should have done that before the investigation happens there's three problems with this attack one is this point you mentioned the legitimacy of it the second one is the efficacy of it that these kinds of military hits have been going on for decades since bill clinton and in the early ninety's in sudan and other places and they just don't work very

well and the third problem is the consistency that the united states and britain and france who collectively have the greatest record of cumulative military destruction of tens of thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of injuries across the middle east should be the ones who come and tell us that we have to do this to save lives so they have park received is the third huge point that people complain about there has to be a stop to chemical weapons use there has to be a stop to all genocidal mass killings that are taking place across the region but this way is not going to be very effective let me pick up on your second point the efficacy of such strikes. if they don't deter the syrian government from using chemical weapons in the future and they haven't so far because we know of course that the u.s. struck syria militarily after the chemical weapons attack in qana shaken last year . if they're not affective why then do this.

because the united states doesn't really understand how to do diplomacy in the middle east other than primarily through military means that's been the lesson of their involvement in vietnam and afghanistan and iraq. yemen and now here and libya. here and syria so this is a consistent approach by the united states they just don't really know how to do anything else and the irony the tragedy is they keep using massive military force with drones and these kinds of attacks and. private secret operations and they still achieve the same and the russians and the iranians and hezbollah have the greatest extent of influence in the middle east that they have ever had and that is directly proportional to the american use of military force in the region so it's really. perplexing how

a country like the united states should do this and the russians and iranians have of course been much more successful in their aims at least militarily in the middle east in this conflict and supporting the syrian government they have said as we expected that you know that they will not stand for this and they will respond but do you think that they will especially militarily. well they will respond politically diplomatically militarily economically culturally in the different ways that they work in this region which is what sets them apart from the united states i'm not saying that the iranians and russians are better they're guilty of all kinds of terrible things you know russian policy in the region has resulted in thousands and thousands of deaths as well like the americans and british and french but they're much more nuanced and subtle and patient and working to achieve their strategic goals across the arab world and the non arab middle east so you look at

russia and turkey and iran and iraq countries there reproving their relations across the board so their response doesn't have to be a military response or a terrorist sponsors the americans expect they respond to different ways that help their strategic interests at least in the short run and this is the contrast that is so evident now and as we wait to see if there is a response from the russians from the iranians from the syrians are we any closer now after what has been the largest u.s. action and servia since the war began the biggest action are we hasn't changed anything are we any closer to a real resolution to this conflict. absolutely not the united states is involved on the ground militarily with apparently around two thousand special forces that may or may not be still surreptitiously helping opposition groups it is

doing these direct strikes and none of this is really achieving what the u.s. wants to achieve there has to be a political resolution to syria which is a political problem the the difficulty for everybody not just the americans is that it has become so much more complicated with the turks the iranians and the russians directly involved in military action on the ground inside syria as well as those three countries meeting to chart out syria's future with the u.s. particularly absent so this is the real complete complex challenge for everybody to wind down the war whoever is in charge let them stay in charge let the syrian people slowly evolve and create a political system that is credible and legitimate to the syrian people this is unlikely to happen very soon but it's the only way to bring about a long term peaceful situation that ends the fighting by the americans french

british russians iranians hizbullah and everybody else who's in there thank you as always for your time and your insights on this rami who is joining us live from beirut thank you. let's turn now to some of the day's other news political parties and have started campaigning for the upcoming parliamentary elections they loose haven't fallen candidates are competing for three hundred and twenty nine for next month pot they face tough challenges in the aftermath of the three jailed war to defeat i still child stratford reports. the battle against eisel in iraq may have been won but the fight to unite a country that for generations has been divided along sectarian lines is far from over. some say the elections on may the twelfth could help prime minister hydrilla body is a shia but he's popular with many of the country's sunni minority who sang came for rescuing them from life on the eisel. hereon fears run deep in iraq

and religious loyalties have traditionally been heavily exploited by parties during elections and many iraqis see the government as corrupt since the u.s. invasion fifteen years ago leaders have been accused of doing deals to guarantee their party's a share of the pile on the spoils this is meant jobs were often rewarded according to sect and ethnic background these elections represent something of a make or break for iraq a chance to turn a new chapter to move forward the country along with the international community it a good job eating ice and it's so cool to leave but at the same conditions that gave rise to isis is still there sectarianism polarization within it among the tickle elites and ultimately it's unlikely that iraq will get a second chance analysts say disillusionment with sectarian politics has produced

some strange alliances in this election the powerful shiite cleric up. with a strong support base among bank duds poor has allied with communists iraq's branch of the muslim brotherhood has teamed up with water near a party that describes itself as anti sectarian and run by the former bathurst and vice president i allow a political loyalties are also changing in the semi autonomous northern kurdish region. of the kurdish regional governments failed referendum bid for independence last year you parties are seeking to challenge the traditional ruling ones the p u k and the k d p. and of course regional players will be watching events closely. some politicians have warned neighbors iran and turkey not to meddle in the poll and exploit to mistrust between shia and sunni voters the prime minister has not managed to achieve a real political gain from the victory over. and all parties will struggle to win

the trust of a population that has suffered so many years of violence and accuses sectarian leaders of ignoring their basic needs. al-jazeera. to south africa now where the funeral of anti-apartheid activists winning. is being held in her hometown of. south africa's new president. and u.s. civil rights activist jesse jackson were among those on the woman known to many as the mother of the nation she died nearly two weeks ago to hednesford at the age of eighty one after a long illness correspondent catherine sawyer is joining us live from that service and so what has orlando stadium what's happening there catherine. it's been henri. you know landa stadium was still waiting. to

give his eulogy audio we had for the leader of the women's guild of the african national congress just praising how the how she lifted women and even before that we had from the leader of the economic freedom fighters which we need whose ideals we. supported. had scathing words for the n.c.a. leadership saying that they shunned the calls have criminal and they sold have out i mentioned before the mood here has been euphoric thousands of south africans have been dancing and singing and just ordinary would be my dad. not very easy to see now but this place will store dead with red yellow and green colors though that is the colors of some of the political parties. the national congress which she was a pot of and economic freedom fighters with ideals like i mentioned she subscribes

to she supports it and many people here say that they are here. to just or not. and recognize what she did for the country how she how the idea apartheid. movement alive when many other leaders of that struggle either in exile or in jail all. to most who have come to pay tribute we need mandela was not only a freedom fighter during apartheid she also stood with the poor afterwards just passionate about young people because frustrated at how difficult it is for many to get jobs as well as the wealth disparity between the minority white and elite black south africans on one hand and majority poor on the other people have come here to show their support outside the headquarters of the ruling african national congress a political party she was a part off britain there rest in peace knowing human i love you so much even

thirteen or you you don't need to leave johannesburg to get a sense of how difficult life is for many this village of teen houses named after we knew mandela is just one of many door to the township of soweto which was on the frontline of the battle against apartheid many south africans still live in shanty towns like this one and even after apartheid was ended winnie mandela continued to fight for them she often say that the country may have achieved political freedom but many are yet to know what it really means to have economic and social freedom that will mom straight for him and said seth who was imprisoned for his activism he tells us that he and others fought for an equal end just south africa and this is not it's. our people are still in the shacks mainly because we don't even have the rain and the biggest question.

when reified teens. were frightened to suit in parliament in those comfortable chairs. he fused. a short distance away tourists visit the mandela house a museum now it's here that winnie her husband then nelson mandela and their children called home pictures of their life together in the struggle color of the walls there has been debate about how she should be remembered she paid socially she paced politically she even had judgments passed out against her regarding some of her private intimate life and in a way that i think if she were if you were a male counterpart would not have had those judgments passed you know about her most people say that we knew mandela never wavered from fighting for a better life for black south africans as well as getting their fair share of land most of which is in the hands of an elite few and for that they say she's

a hero. and catherine you touched on why a dollar remains was an ambivalent figure for so many south africans but no doubt. will be hard to match. your legacy. was. she. sacrificed so much to raise. heinz but then she. she was. mine she was. where. my hero but she. talked about. how she remembered all the.

leadership she has been accused of human rights abuses during that time. proud. ninety ninety one was found guilty of being involved in the. south africa. we knew mandela was being she. made a mistake that really shouldn't be used to know what they believe is how great a legacy and that is this significant contribution she made in the struggle for liberation and of course today and the last two weeks have been all about honoring that legacy catherine we will leave it there with you for now that is catherine sawyer joining us live from winning mandela's funeral and it's a wet oh thank you. let's go to gaza now with the health ministry says one palestinian has been killed and more than seven hundred fifty others and and friday's protests along the border with israel thirty four palestinians have been

shot dead by the israeli army since the. stations again at the end of march carry for six reports. oh protest organizers had called this third friday of demonstrations along the gaza border the day of burning the israeli flag demonstrators carried a mocked up coffin there in the pictures of israeli soldiers whose bodies are believed to have been held in gaza since the twenty fourteen war. but at the center of this protest for a third week with thousands of teenagers and young men unarmed prepared to approach the border fence despite the all too obvious risks israeli soldiers had already killed more than thirty demonstrators and injured more than a thousand with live fire in the first two protests. the sixteen year old ismail salim understands the dangers all too well he was shot and injured in the initial round of demonstrations against donald trump's declaration in december recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital in the last hour or so that now i want to send my

message to the world that we have the right to leave like other nations and other children living through both should not be our destiny while other three bin pace and stability. protection such as it was delivered in the film of tiles burned to provide a scream from israeli snipers since the last protest israeli troops have erected a secondary fence at this site three hundred meters inside gaza and territory protesters made repeated sometimes successful attempts to drag sections of it away israeli soldiers responded with tear gas and live bullets. that were surely seven o'clock now who are still people are being taken towards the ambulances another injured man here with a gunshot wound to the lower leg that has been a tactic throughout for the last three weeks the israeli military has been were missing to continue to use life i really don't see just as they believe they can go that's right throughout the day israeli army released video of what it said was an attempt to breach the border fence in southern gaza it said molotov cocktails and i

e d's as. rocks have been thrown towards israeli troops accusing gaza's ruling faction hamas of using the protests as cover it's a charge the organizers reject pointing to the sheer number of a mom demonstrators who've been shot since the protests began its shoot to kill and short term aim at thinking that by doing that they are going to intimidate and terrorize people but the people are quite detailed men to come to organize nonviolent peaceful protests in order to send a message to the whole to tell them that i had you and is it wishing according to what i would it said the demonstrations are due to carry on until the middle of next month when israel celebrates its seventieth anniversary and palestinians mark seventy years of what they call nakba the catastrophe. gaza's overstretched ambulance crews and hospital staff know that at least until then this is how friday's will be. that al-jazeera gaza. still ahead on the new south

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surgery queiroz out with injury we're going to forget was the to mount danger ok. thank you make a huge effort because after the action from mostly young we're going to united we have problems in the knee it was. it was you know training just make the boxes and . he played less than fifteen twenty minutes after the game said they cannot run they're going to run out of pain they cannot run and of course for that game i don't know swansea will be ready so hopefully you know for the last games and we need him and especially for his work up i think we are going to play for me with the best team in england. disserve to be on the top as in they were the most consistent team plane with fantastic players of course and fantastic coaching staff and fantastic manager. and they deserve

a lot of praise seven games in total in the english premier league on saturday first up chelsea are at southampton who they've beaten in the past four league matches but the blues have never won five in a row against them that place liverpool will host bournemouth with the champions league semifinalists keen to tighten their grip on a top four spot a win would take them within a point of second place manchester united. now is just a little bit tougher for ice hockey certainly champion the pittsburgh penguins they've lost in game two of the n.h.l. playoffs the philadelphia flyers quarterback and stayed in front for the entire game pittsburgh losing five one the series is now tied at one and game three is on sunday in philadelphia. meanwhile the winnipeg jets have taken a two nothing western conference series lead over the minnesota wildebeest after beating them four one on friday in game two stuffed new andrew coffin patrick lane

scored in the third period to propel the scene to be when game three is on sunday at minnesota. now a major league baseball's new sensation is scored another first the night off needs ricky show. his finest at three run triple in the competition he struck a double for the los angeles angels not all the designated has and pitcher of chief taken to the game winning run as the angels came from behind to defeat the kansas city royals five four. and that is the sport for now back to you a little thank you very much tatyana and that is nearly it for this al-jazeera news hour i'll be back with another full news bulletin in just a few minutes but before we go this is a reminder of the major developments in the u.s. that military strikes targeting syria the u.s. has carried out strikes in conjunction with bush and french forces on targets associated with syria's suspected chemical weapons program the pentagon says the first target was a scientific research center in the greater damascus area to more took place west

of homs and what the pentagon says were chemical weapons storage facilities the syrian state media is reporting that the by the trees and defense systems shot down thirteen missiles in the kiss white area south of damascus syrian officials are also saying that the targeted sites were evacuated days ago thanks to a warning from russia meanwhile bosh. has invested in the u.s. has warned that the actions will have consequences. and just a reminder that we have all the nations news of the serious story on our website that is that al-jazeera dot com will be back in just a few minutes with another full news bulletin thank you very much for watching.

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