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israeli forces fired tear gas at protesters on the israel border in the sixth week of demonstrations. life from a headquarters here and also coming up the campaign to free an al jazeera journalist from jail we'll look at egypt's crackdown on the media. here in kenya where survivors of deadly floods are now facing a new threat. plus how lions tigers and bears in war funding new home enjoy. israeli forces have fired tear gas at protesters on the gaza israel border. sixth

week now each time the palestinians have demonstrated the israeli military has fired at them forty one people have been killed so far the protesters are calling for palestinians to be allowed to return to villages where their families once lived as well it is and in israel harry forces life for us in gaza harry says the last time we checked in with you just get us right up to date with what's going on there now. things seem to of subtle down a little bit from an hour ago when there was a lot of movement as people sort of disbanded at the main area of protest and then recall a gated at the area about a you know a few hundred meters south but you can see behind me where there are still burning tires what we know is that from the ga the health gaza health ministry that as of four pm which is just over an hour ago local time there were forty injured thirteen of those injured by live fire up until this point that is a substantial decrease in what we've seen in previous weeks but there was

a lot of activity as we were reporting an hour ago so the numbers are likely to rise as the statistics sort of catch up with what we've seen we've certainly seen a number of ambulances too in the last ten minutes passing us here taking injured people away so far though no reports of anyone killed so far on this sixth friday to the protestors harry have plans to actually rush the guards or border fence i mean is that their go to point or is that something that wouldn't be possible anyway. but well it's what they tried last week there was as i say or a large sort of shifting of the demonstration from the where they've been facing off for the previous weeks down towards this point which you can see behind me now that was unexpected last week and so they were able to get very close to the fence get up right to the fence and the israeli soldiers had to sort of try and face them off at that point there was a fair bit of live ammunition used to people were killed in those exchanges more.

another person has died yesterday of the injuries from from that from that encounter so far today it does seem that the israeli forces were expecting something similar perhaps certainly there were media reports in the israeli press suggesting that and so they may well have been prepared to a greater extent at that location so today it's been more of a secondary face-off point if you like that said we have heard live fire being used on several occasions today there has been a lot of tear gas a lot of warnings coming from the israeli side harry for the moment thank you. israel's defense minister has rejected an apology from the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas abbas says he's sorry for remarks made last week when he said hatred of jews in europe before the holocaust was related to their professions not their religion that it was not his intention to offend and he fully respects the jewish faith israel's defense minister called up us a wretched holocaust denier about us was just reelected as chairman of the

palestine liberation organization as highest decision making body. yemeni government sources have told al jazeera that the united arab emirates committed a hostile act by increasing its military presence on the strategically important island in the arabian sea on thursday m r r t troops forced yemeni personnel to leave key locations on so katra military equipment has now been moved in and u.a.e. flags have been raised over buildings on the island it does host a major airports and is located near key shipping routes. a court in the u.k. has ruled that human rights campaigners can proceed with a legal case aimed at stopping british arms sales to saudi arabia the campaign against arms trade says british weapons are being used in violation of international law in the war in yemen the u.k. has sold six point two billion dollars worth of arms to the country since the saudi led air campaign began in twenty fifteen the un estimates that more than ten thousand people have been killed in the conflict under smith is

a spokesman for the campaign against arms trade group which is taking the case through the courts he says he's confident their argument will ultimately be accepted and the original ruling overturned. has been widely condemned by humanitarian organizations across the world it's been widely condemned by a u.n. expert panel because of the terrible systematic ways as abused international humanitarian law and its brutal bombardment of yemen phases of people have been killed and one of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world is going to take root and yet you care arms companies have profited from it every step of the way we don't just want to see v.u.k. ending arms sales to say judy we are on top of oppressive regimes around the world we want to see all the major arms exporters doing exactly the same thing the u.k. is meant to have standards that's meant to stand for human rights and democracy around the world that's what we're constantly being told and you can't do that

while arming and supporting some of the most brutal and repressive dictatorships in the world the syrian point helmets rescue group says the u.s. has put its funding on hold washington provides one third of the organizations money in march president donald trump put a freeze on two hundred million dollars worth of funding allocated for recovery efforts in syria it's unclear if the review of the white helmets is linked to that decision the group says it has rescued more than one hundred thousand people during the conflict smell of dollar is a rescue worker with the syrian civil defense also known as the white helmets he says their work will go on despite any funding issues. for us sir it's a big problem for our and for our operations and rescue people our vehicles our cure bent our. ever it's big problem for us but for our centers for our lives but on two years in our cereal we're continuing working with our partners our

abattoirs and as of allowed two years we're continuing to scoop people to see if people from under the rubble this is a volunteer job we still started doing thousand and thirteen up to now and we would work and will continue officials from the u.s. are on their way back home from china and it seems they made some progress in crisis talks to avoid a trade war chinese media is reporting the discussions lead to both sides committing to resolving the trade dispute from beijing. as is so often the case in china the media were kept away from the venue for these talks beforehand both delegations that sought to play down expectations of a breakthrough we now know why for a while there was progress in some areas major disagreements remain. less than two days was never going to be enough time to resolve them all. the u.s. came with a long list of demands immediate action to reduce china's huge trade surplus with

the united states and then to force technology transfers whereby u.s. companies have to hand over their intellectual property to local joint venture partners as a condition for doing business here the u.s. has also been complaining about the heavy state subsidies for technology development like robotics and i.t. one area though where china is unlikely to yield analysts say the deepening strain in relations is a recognition by the united states that china once seen as a partner is now regarded as a strategic rival for trunk. competing with china is a very important for him and he wants to win and china has to give him something away and but whatever china gives it won't be sufficient for trump or for the u.s. because there is no way for china to abandon its industrial policy.

its six months since president trump and china's leaders she jingping last met and they could be getting together again soon after trump tweeted that he looks forward to seeing she in the not too distant future that could mean after his planned summit with kim jong un but she jingping had someone else on his mind on friday karl marx the german philosopher was born two hundred years ago on saturday the president repeatedly said the communist party mustn't forget its socialist roots as it strives to bring about the rejuvenation of the chinese nation and that rejuvenation includes maintaining a tough line with the united states on trade adrian brown al-jazeera beijing more than a thousand economists have written to the u.s. president donald trump warning that his tough stance on trade could plunge the u.s. into another great depression the group which includes nobel peace laureates are

concerned that mistakes were made such as they were in the one nine hundred thirty s. they say the u.s. withdrawal from trade agreements and calls for new tariffs could see americans eventually paying a heavy price the french president emanuel macro is in the french pacific territory of new caledonia ahead of a referendum there on independence now officially he is neutral but the president has made no secret of wanting to build rather than reduce french influence in the pacific and retirement's has the story from new me. emmanuel mccall says as french president he is and must be neutral on the question of new caledonian independence it is for those living here to the site but meeting people on a housing estate in noumea he certainly looked like he was campaigning few doubt he would like new caledonia to stay french here though it isn't hard to find people in favor of independence even among those who have special presidential visits wave or

even way efron's flags. i'm just when i need to be polite to mr macro it takes air france passengers more than twenty four hours to reach new mia from paris yet when they arrive they're still in france most of those who moved here from mainland france or whose families generations ago would like it to remain that way. on friday about four thousand people marched to show their support for france i've lived here for many years and i think i played only i'm france is the best that we're going to have and we're going to sort of the president that we'll see in french i will stay friends nearly a third of new caledonia public service is a paid for by france you know not what french government grants account for about fifteen percent of total g.d.p. those supporting independence point to new caledonia is nickel exports but the price of nickel is unpredictable and then there are concerns about whether an independent new caledonia would be politically strong enough to thrive on its own

in the you know in the form of new caledonia became independent the balance in the region which china already has a lot of influence of of out of water and fiji if you caledonia were independent charter would look to extent that it still is here. those supporting independence though say there is a principle at stake when it fronts color noise new caledonia it didn't toss permission no we want independence because when the french arrived our country was independent in eight hundred fifty three when the french declared us a colony that in a nice case. a referendum in one thousand nine hundred seven was seen as illegitimate by many because recent arrivals from france were allowed to vote those supporting independence but we cultivate violence followed in which dozens were killed no one wants a repeat most opinion polls suggest the new caledonia will stay french but for the president the results as important only as the process unless this process is

seen as legitimate and fair he'll be disappointed president macro is unlikely to make another trip to new caledonia before november's referendum they say is it is to set the time and to thomas al-jazeera noumea still ahead here on al-jazeera of all can erupt in hawaii forcing thousands to flee from their homes. allegations of sexual assault force the nobel prize for literature to be postponed for the twenty eighteen and to be awarded next year along with the award for twenty one thousand. hello the spring rains and i become a bit more vigorous in china we go a line from sichuan east west to shanghai for more us for in the sea valley the

feed is continuous of moisture which will develop showers more especially so possibly rain by sunday along the coast of southern china including hong kong but by this time the most intense time polls are going to be around just to the east of lucky to cause some flooding which you might expect anyway during the spring rains the violent showers and moved on in india in fact what was up in the pradesh is down here as a result you can see for the line heavy showers still breaking out in bangladesh northeast india indication is the amount of rain that falls they become a little bit lighter the time they get down to kerala but they've dropped a rain on the way but the strength the wind that is damaging that still the case in bangladesh and the northeast of india violent storms and lots of lightning but it looks much quieter now to the west still hot oversee the temperatures are up to forty six forty seven mark around russia style yesterday they're going to be about the same but for major collaborations typically in the low forty's if you shout out to the south of that and if anything of course temperatures rise still further but

any showers all right are confined to the far north. rewind returns with a new series i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry and brian you updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries in a little i was the job of the plus and now i'm like any other student rewind continues with children of conflict. we'd love some peace in this war especially. children do not have any rights here rewind on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're with al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories so far today israeli forces have fired tear gas at protesters on the gaza israel border for the sixth friday of demonstrations each week the israeli military has fired on the groups forty one people have been killed so far the protesters are calling for palestinians to be allowed to return to villages for their families one slip those villages and technically inside israel. yemeni government sources have told al-jazeera that the united arab emirates committed a hostile act by increasing its military presence on the strategically important island in the arabian sea on thursday and iraqi forces forced the yemeni personnel to leave key locations on the island of so katra it hosts a major airport and is located near key shipping routes. china's official news agency is reporting the talks with the u.s. delegation have led to both sides committing themselves to result in trade issues through dialogue the u.s.

and chinese delegations met in beijing to try and avoid a trade war there are reports the both sides have reached a consensus in some areas. and a developing story coming to us out of washington donald trump says a date and a location have been set for his meeting this month with the north korean premier kim jong il but mr trump did not clarify where or when the summit would be held to know details coming from the white house it comes just after that historic summit between the north and south korean leaders two weeks ago ten days ago when kim pledged to d. nuclearize his part of the korean peninsula more on that for you just as soon as we can. the nobel prize for literature will not be awarded this year the swedish academy has been in crisis over its handling of rape and sexual assault allegations linked to one of its high ranking members catchier lopez has more. it's a scandal that's left the swedish academy in turmoil and the nobel prize for

literature on hold at least for now the academy decided this year's winner will be selected and announced in two thousand and nineteen. the confidence in the academy is so low in the world at the moment and that is the deciding reason why we now were framed from awarding this prize eighteen women say they were raped assaulted or harassed by famous photographer john clarke not he's the husband of academy member and poet caterina frost and sun the women l. ledger the abuse happened in properties owned by the swedish academy their complaints they say were ignored he has denied the allegations his wife has since resigned over. the crisis has aggravated differences among its members shedding light on other problems the academy is also dealing with allegations of financial crimes and in the past names of laureates were reportedly leaked before winners were officially announced. i think the swedish academy is worth more than that it

shouldn't disappear because of the scandal which it undoubtedly is but never cademy member has done anything as far as i know. protests were held for weeks the global need to move mid likely played a role in the revelations and the economies decision. the voting process is also an issue the academy had eighteen lifetime members but several have resigned since the scandal including the organization's first female leader the harbor to unite them and to us we only have ten members at the moment and now we really have to start electing new members and show the world that we are serious. leaders of the swedish academy which is separate from the norwegian committee that awards the nobel peace prize hope the delay will give them time to regroup and recover their once pristine beaches reputation cut c.l.o. bissell began al-jazeera at least fifteen hundred people in hawaii have been ordered to evacuate their homes after the killer whale volcano erupted steam and

lava threatening at least one residential neighborhood the volcano erupted after a series of earthquakes national guard troops have now been deployed to the area kenneth ruben is a professor of volcanology at the university of hawaii he says killer whale is one of the best monitored volcanoes in the world and they have actuation should go smoothly. to ways been erupting continuously since one thousand nine hundred three for the last decade in two other locations and started a couple of days ago a series of the events unfolded after which there was a migration of earthquakes into the residential part of the volcano it's what we call down river is. about fifteen kilometers away from where it had been active in for roughly two and a half days there's been a high frequency of earthquakes and the residents in the area have been reporting things like ground cracks in the road so this part of the island is not high risk

zone it's very sparsely populated it's never urban to rural say many of the homes out there are not fully connected to water systems and the electrical grid for instance and so there's a protocol for people who live in high risk zones in hawaii our risks and our risk from volcanoes also we have tsunami inundation zones along our coast so people who live in those areas become prepared ahead of time bout what the evacuation plans and he'll where the shelters will be set up where they should go they oftentimes have boxes of their essential stuff that they want to sit with them ready to go and it's fairly well coordinated al jazeera journalist mark with hussein has now been an egyptian jail for five hundred days he was detained without charge by the authorities and twenty sixteen during

a holiday to cairo the egyptian national is one of many journalist sara still threatened with arrest and a government crackdown to stifle dissent of some a pinch of fate has the story. five hundred days locked up and counting it's not going to sing and al jazeera deny provoking submission incitement against egypt and spreading false nudes. the u.n. condemned his arbitrary detention hussein was stopped question and detained in december twenty sixth seen after travelling to cairo for a holiday since then he's been in solitary confinement and has yet to be charged the office of the u.n. high commissioner for human rights says indefinite pretrial detention is the egyptian government's tactic to restrain anyone who dares to act independently the un human rights what he says the policy is a cornerstone of egypt's suppression of the media civil society and protesters the committee to protect journalists says egypt is a leading jailer of journalists at least twenty are in prison. advocacy that we can do by documenting attacks and repression of journalists and using every opportunity

that we have to bring this to public attention around the world. egypt's government has targeted other al jazeera journalists in a trial condemned almost unanimously by rights groups and journalist organizations egypt leveled similar charges against al-jazeera is by her mohamed mohamed fahmy and peter greste and jail them five years ago the former editor in chief of al-jazeera arabic ibrahim helal was sentenced to death in his absence two years ago and a new antiterrorism law passed last year targets are than mediocre nations as well the committee to protect journalists says the law furthers the government's crackdown on the media it enables police to put journalists acquitted of terrorism related charges on a watch list that restricts their finances and other rights every morning everything you hear of of a case of over journalese that you know or in directly being and difficult situation under prosecution under these appearance and their arrest

censorship intensified this year during the reelection campaign of president of the for the hand sisi journalists critical of him or who interviewed opposition candidates but arrested entertainment and satirical t.v. shows have also been shut down gyptian journalist mohammed there was a known as chopin was jailed five years ago for reporting the rubber square protests in cairo hundreds of protesters were killed and thousands injured show khan's been nominated for unesco's press freedom prize for his resistance and commitment to freedom of expression and have ordered for the times newspaper in britain was arrested and deported from egypt without official explanation the international journalist unions accuse the egyptian government of creating a climate of fear and reporters don't know if they will be next to be jailed osama bin job as their al-jazeera is acting director general moustapha says the channel will continue to raise awareness of what to say is imprisonment in egypt. in this

very difficult days. of course everybody we are conveying the do. good for denying. freedom for abusing this military and police our to silence is the but least of all my. money. anything that is going to tell you the government or the little lump him according to the government and freedom of expression and freedom of the media is completely to say and egypt which i mean if anybody believes. it might be a trivial worth ever in the history. because it is a big country and one of them even went through that kind of behavior toward the highs with serious implications against the faith in their illegal immigrant

countries i read people who got their mounts are good. some of the core things the conflict zones in syria yemen the separate us so this is a very serious issue and the visitor has been working tirelessly to keep the issue alive so people wouldn't forget to save the jail for five hundred days now we've got any crimes he committed this is one of the during this war has been very professional and do we draw. the red cross is asking for more aid tell dictums of flooding in kenya the rushing waters of killed at least one hundred people for some two hundred thousand from their homes under simmons has more now from the whining village near the town of dawson. we have just arrived in the village of who won it which is completely cut off from the outside world by the floodwaters we got here when i speak about an extraordinary journey lasting more than an hour going

through the swamps and going through very deep water not the river carney but in actual fact it was just like a lake covering. the past areas of agricultural land villages that disappeared and people standing on high ground are now getting help let me just show you the red cross distribution on the boat we came in and other parts of the bridge to the spot the first time people have received aid and this is being something to eat some food it's already arrived but this is primarily equipment to shelter the top holdings and other goods and blanket and the people here what's remarkable about them is that that's so still juden so polite and so very caring for each other in the way they're queuing in an orderly fashion and taking this aid away they've got long walks to shelters not their own homes some of them many of them not their own

homes they're displaced so many of them are on the high ground because it's the only place where they know they're safe but there is the problem of rising floodwater and the other problem of actually going into the water particularly for children we saw two crocodiles amongst the. groundwater we saw the site that posted a two point zero on the journey so this is an extraordinary situation to these people a pretty miserable one wild animals rescued from the syrian city of aleppo have found a home in jordan and are living in a nature reserve dedicated to creatures from conflict the only one of its kind in the middle east splendid alexander has a story. syeed is a two year old lion and has been through a great deal he's one of many animals rescued from a warzone and brought to this sanctuary in northern jordan we currently have twenty

three in total we have seventeen lions we have four bears and two tigers and they all come from somewhere from the in middle east last summer several animals were rescued from a zoo in the syrian city of aleppo during heavy bombing they were moved across the border to turkey for treatment and eventually brought here. when the animals came from syria other tigers were very very weak malnourished and very very skinny the two asian blackbirds when they arrived they were very very stressed so that can be from you know their living conditions it could be from the travel it was it was a very trying experience for them to bring them out of syria into turkey and then here into jordan. similar operations took place in iraq and gaza. today the animals live in a peaceful refuge where lions tigers and bears are recovering at the sprawling nature and wildlife reserve jordan's ministry of foreign affairs says the country

will continue to carry out its humanitarian duty towards the one point three million syrian refugees in the country as well as provide shelter to all other casualties of war bradley said xander al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories so far israeli forces have fired tear gas at palestinians gathered near the fence in gaza protesters are set tires on fire there it is the sixth friday of demonstrations forty one people have been killed over the past month and a half palestinians want to be allowed to return to villages where their families once lived that land is now occupied by israel israel's defense minister has rejected an apology from the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas abbas says he's sorry for remarks made last week when he said hatred of jews in europe before the holocaust was related to their professions not their religion said it was not his

intention to offend and he fully respects the jewish faith israel's defense minister called a wretched holocaust denier. donald trump has in the past said a date and location has been set for his meeting this month with the north korean leader kim jong il and but the us president didn't clarify where or when this comes just after the historic summit between the north and the south korean leaders last month where kim pledged to work towards denuclearization across the korean peninsula we're having very substantive talks with north korea and a lot of things have already happened with respect to the hostages and i think you're going to see very good things as they said yes they do i think you're going to be seeing very very good thing. and also the trip is being scheduled we now have a date and we have a location will be announcing it. of course in the u.k. has ruled the human rights campaign is can proceed with a legal case aimed at stopping british arms sales to saudi arabia the campaign

against arms trade says british weapons are being used in violation of international law in the war in yemen the u.k. has sold six point two billion dollars worth of bombs to the country since the saudi led campaign began in twenty fifteen the united nations is estimating that more than ten thousand people have been killed in the conflict you are right up to date with all our top stories up next it's the stream after that. with the news grid i will see you very soon but life and. getting to the heart of the matter if the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification of look like there are two people think the peace for unification these the only option for prosperity deal for south korea hear this story and talk to al-jazeera.