of his appeal against war crimes conviction he says militia into neighboring central african republic in two thousand and two and that militia committed horrific acts mariana holland reports. from the moment war crimes allegations first emerged jumpier bamber insisted he had done nothing wrong the congolese businessman became vice president of the democratic republic of congo in two thousand and three but the year before when he was a rebel leader is accused of failing to stop his private army known as the m.l.c. from waging a campaign of rape and murder and pillage against civilians in neighboring seem to african republic it seemed more than a thousand fighters there to help put down an attempted coup more back to where organizes loops of three or four souldiers invaded houses one by one they stole all

the possessions that could be carried off. and rape the goodman girls and elders regardless of their age shalvey member never actually issued an order to rape and murder and during the course of the five year trial his defense team insisted that once his fighters crossed the border into central african republic they were under the command of that country's leadership speaking to his ear in two thousand and seven before his arrest been brushed aside questions about the i.c.c. you will know that the international criminal court know that. i am not of course involved in any of this ng's. what i'm saying is they have you in their sights don't they know no that's not true check your formation.

so there's no question of you having to go to the hague. at all. nine years later the i.c.c. unanimously found guilty of all charges against him three of war crimes and two of crimes against humanity became the first to be convicted for crimes committed by others under his command it was also the first time the i.c.c. focused on rape as a weapon of war was seem to to eighteen years in prison and later got an extra year and a fine for interfering with witnesses in his trial and he's lodged an appeal against his conviction but prosecutors have to they want to increase his seemed to twenty five years maidana hond al jazeera having an eye test for a new pair of glasses has become that much easier for refugees in the mountains of northern thailand they have a tough time getting basic necessities after escaping across a border from me

a mom but foreign doctors from global vision twenty twenty have an affordable solution mellen reports. the woman knows all about the needs of her community she's both doctor and refugee in the camp and is getting a new pair of glasses but says basic i care is not easy to come by. i'm an eye doctor but we don't have any equipment to treat patients in the refugee camp people come to me with eye problems so i do basic checks but we need more. these doctors from an american not for profit organization are providing inexpensive i wear to refugees and villages in remote areas of thailand they have a new tool to work with federal out anyone to conduct i check ups and provide three d. printed glasses in just twenty minutes. where the first team on the ground outside of a university setting or an army setting that is actually using this system so it's

earch early in its infancy but there are tremendous tremendous potential that we see for this really getting out there and really helping a lot of people see. most of the more than one hundred thousand refugees in these camps in thailand have fled mean mass southeast in covering state with karen nationalists have been fighting for independence for almost seventy years but funding from international aid groups has dwindled in recent years prompting many refugees to consider returning to mean ma but they're told it's still not safe. the new finding between qur'an nationalists and the mean military has displaced thousands more people since march where the maggie and the refugees need to coordinate with the karen peace council first to verify how safe it is to go back they should not go back on their own because if something happens no one will take

responsibility for the safety of their lives. with intermittent conflict forcing many of these refugees to stay put and aid cuts to the camps this innovative new program is bringing much needed care to a neglected community. al-jazeera. the us. day and has been found dead in his hotel room he was working on his t.v. series. and he gained a following through his cooking and the conversations he promoted about people and their relationship with food police say the sixty one year old dane took his own life i suppose is coming up and it turns out that setting the bar too high can be a bad thing joe will have more on more calls tales of this and athletics me.

thank you. right it's time for the small shoes out his joe thank you the washington capitals have won the stanley cup for the first time they beat the vegas cold nights forty three in game five of the n.h.l. finals on thursday to secure victory there was a big party on the streets of washington d.c. after the game thousands of fans gathered nater the capsule's home arena to celebrate that historic win helen gleason has moved us there at the forty three seasons in the n.h.l. hockey price will finally bad the name of the washington capitals for the team had been made to work for the crown by the golden knights though he made history of

their own by becoming the first expansion team to reach the stanley cup finals in their debut season. they won the i.p.l. in contest of the best of seven game series and left three two in game five in front of their home fans i am so anxious but the capitals rallied back from the third period deficit thanks laws alabama school the winner to steal the series called one bringing to an end the golden knights remarkable run and the capitals agonizing wait so winless them make up thank god. it was also a much longer for title for alex ovechkin he's the first russian to captain a stanley cup winning team and was named the postseasons most valuable player after scoring a record fifteen goals the old think and says just like

a dream. it was hard long season we fight through it we work so hard through. all the years. you know we. were always together always for the whole one team i bet skins capitals are the first pro team from washington to win any of north america's four major sports leagues since the redskins claimed the super bowl in one nine hundred ninety two helen gleason out is there. rafael nadal is two wins away from an eleventh french open title the world no one has just taken to the courts for his semifinal against former u.s. open champion juan martin del potro dominic team awaits the winner of that match the austrian history to his first grand slam final after beating unseeded italian marco czech and also in straight sets while the women's french open final takes

place on saturday between reigning u.s. open champion sloane stephens and while the once mona hell it is targeting a first grand slam title in paris after finishing runner up at the tournament in two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and seventeen the romanian was in fine form in the semifinals on thursday beating two thousand and sixteen champion got to be near mcgrew first six one six four led by a set and a break in last year's final before losing to you elena oster penco and also lost a close australian open final to caroline wozniak in in january. world i don't know what change probably nothing because i would give my routine. i have more experience now i feel. calm i feel that i have to enjoy today the victory because it's a great match and they have two more days until the final so. stay chill i will relax and then we will see what is going to happen suddenly but for sure i will

fight for every ball. well number ten sloane stephens progressed with a six four six four victory over fellow american madison keys the match was a repeat of last year's u.s. open finals stevens will now bid for her second grand slam title against how it leads the pairs head to head five two was just six days ago in tokyo for the world cup in russia and portugal's final preparations are going well the european champions beat algeria three nil in the last warm up game before the tournament perhaps unsurprisingly all surprisingly the portuguese haven't done too well on the world stage in recent years their best finish has been third place and that was back in one thousand nine hundred sixty six while another team with high hopes going into their first ever world cup finals is iceland they made it all the way to the last eight at euro twenty sixteen but their latest world cup warm up match with ghana didn't go as well as they might have hoped the stadium in reykjavik was packed out as ice and went to no luck through armisen and finn finn bo'sun but

skara who qualified fail to qualify for russia schooled twice in the second half as the match finished two two. elsewhere south korea were held to a goalless draw by bolivia euro quite comfortably beat as becky stan and england picked up a win over fellow world cup hopefuls costa rica in their final woman game marcus rushford with a brilliant first half strike germany faced saudi arabia later in their last one month game before beginning the defense of their title in russia but they'll be without one of their stars miss it is or has been ruled out after bruising his knee last saturday against austria has trained alone for the past few days but the german football association say leaving him out is just a precaution and it won't risk his world cup participation. elsewhere world cup participants croatia and senegal take on each other japan had to log on and to meet switzerland in their penultimate game they still have to meet paraguayan in four

days time poland take on chile in post nine they also have one more woman game before departing for russia if a neighbor is russia or professional sports stars will tell you that when it comes to success you can never set the bar too high well it turns out that you can that's exactly what happened at the diamond league classics meet in norway official set the barrier in the women's three thousand meters moving fifteen centimeters higher than it should have been stopping some of the athletes in their tracks and causing chaos those who played at the first time had to go over twice again before officials at the track noticed the problem no issues so for caster semenya her extended her eight hundred metre winning streak she lost lost over that distance in two thousand and fifteen but is expected to be penalized for a new rule that comes into effect at the end of this season limiting testosterone levels in female middle distance runners cats all her six world championships next year and this man is expected to be a standout for his country abdurrahman sambo won the four hundred meter hurdles in

forty seven point six seconds breaking a thirty two year old beat record and that is useful for now they'll be more later marty thank you very much indeed joe thank you very much for this al-jazeera news hour stay with us a because i'll be back in a minute and a half i think exactly that more of the day's news. it starts in coral communities with the promise of

a prosperous marriage. but countless young indian women find themselves commodifying stole and sold again. to toil by day. only to be violated by night. slavery a twenty first century evil continues with bridal slaves on al-jazeera. the nature news as it breaks this is one of the areas that had blocked the road for finding anything all they could find with details coverage now there's an extremely hot assad regime that everyone striving for the good of the state from around the world this museum aims to be aware posits oriel region's history and its perfected war that has divided tribes here for generations. there's a. big story it's generate thousands of headlines cooperation with different

angles from different perspectives. this is the work that russia was responsible for this separate the spin from the facts that's why on god's on the misinformation from the journalism the issues here go far beyond one data mining company and one election with the listening post on al-jazeera. we're going for deal with the third grade for. sticking to his guns donald trump leaves for the g. seven summit in canada where u.s. allies are gearing up for a fight over a trade. hello

again i'm a fiend in this deal with al jazeera live from down i'll say coming up palestinian protests his return on mass to gaza's perimeter fence with israel this is the scene live and now there were a bit of more bloodshed. there was south african leader jacob zuma takes the stage before chairing the forces have to face and calls again on corruption charges and on the. scene clearly now the cheap new technology helping refugees from me in ma with their eyesight. leaders of g seven nations are gathering in canada for us looking like the most tense meeting figgy is the club of most wealthy nations is furious about tyrus imposed by the trumpet ministration on steel and. the us president davis standing

firm as he left the white house in atlanta. we're going to deal with the unfair trade practices you look at what time is that your. all of a busy doing the many many decades we have to change and they understand going to happen we are going to do very well now for other people to make you feel well germinate. rob the better deal we are unable to make a deal we will be better off right now. we are not going to live with the seals the way they are european union he says very unfairly samad out very unfairly mexico very unfairly with that being said i think we'll probably very easily make the deal . and we have this report now from our correspondent john hendren who's reposing from nearby quebec city. inside and outside the g. seven summit disruption has replaced diplomacy on the streets demonstrators are

descending on québec city where canada's leaders intend to avert a repeat of the two thousand and one summit of the americas where these streets erupted in riots this time nine thousand police are taking no chances even national assembly is shut down if it is bad. get get pretty nasty. to good. shopkeepers have boarded up buildings as the first protesters filled the streets. the first demonstration of the g. seven began peacefully and it turned into a march as you can see there were speakers people eight baguettes and hundreds of people demonstrated peacefully but when the police came they showed that they were prepared in case there was trouble planners were so concerned that they've completely secured the summit site at charlevoix leaving demonstrators to gather one hundred forty kilometers away and get back city at the gathering itself leaders

are calling it the g.'s six plus one the us against the rest all six u.s. allies in the group of seven of the world's largest economies opposed donald trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum and hope to avert a trade war but that. perhaps trump doesn't mind he's being isolated today here at matters because these six countries here represent values they represent the economic market with a strong history and certainly also represent a true force on the international level it's the diplomatic equivalent of a family intervention as donald trump prepared to arrive french president emanuel mccrone in canadian prime minister justin trudeau met to talk about how to talk to the u.s. president there's no question that on trade on climate change on some other issues there will be different. perspective but the role of the chief seven is to provide a context to highlight the ways we work together and work through some of the

differences in perspective trump fired back via twitter saying in part please tell prime minister trudeau and president mccrone that they are charging the us massive tariffs and create non-monetary barriers the meeting could end in a show of unity or a showdown if you are going to carve the world up and you're going to have united states versus rest of world the rest of the world is going to be bigger and it's going to be more important. as the leaders in protesters gather in quebec those watching the g. seven around the world remain in suspense wondering whether history will be made inside that meeting or outside john hendren al-jazeera quebec city and we got more now from another of a correspondent in quebec city jay gray this isn't your typical g seven grip and grin photo opportunity there are some very substantive issues on the table and things that really the g six plus one is many are referring to this to this

meeting as he has a sit down one on one face to face first with the host here justin trudeau the prime minister of canada and then following that or rather first with the french president emanuel grown and then this evening with trudeau two of his most outspoken critics right now so again we should get a pretty early sense of how things are playing out here leaders have to be frustrated with this point as well overnight the president deciding he's going to leave the summit early to head for singapore and his talks with kim jong il and he will miss the entire discussion on the environment and there are still a lot of allies miffed at the fact that the u.s. did pull out of the paris accord. now about one hundred palestinians have been injured by israeli tear gas during protests near the barrier fence that separates girls from israel thousands of people have gathered for the latest weekly protest against israel israeli military planes dropped leaflets on two girls are on

thursday urging residents to avoid the area israeli forces have killed at least one hundred eighteen palestinians during weeks of demonstrations. oh you're ready to deal positively with any real initiative to end the siege completely on the gaza strip but not at the expense of the palestinian cause our resistance is related to the march of return and to breaking the cease the marches will continue until we achieve our goals firstly breaking the siege on the gaza strip. there's a growing rift between the un's refugee agency and the lebanese government a the syrian refugees in the latest development lebanon has frozen residency applications for un a.c.l. stahl's the foreign minister gave bassy and is accusing the agency of spreading fear among the refugees to discourage them from returning home eleven is home to more than one and a half million syrians who fled the war that's about

a quarter of lebanon's entire population. i announced today that i intend to take the first action by the foreign ministry against the un refugee agency which boasts about returning forty million refugees back to their homes it therefore has a responsibility to return one point five million syrian refugees back to syria the actions taken to borrow will be a warning and will show how far lebanon can go in the face of an organization that is working against the policy of lebanon and its interests. for many syrian refugees in lebanon live in desperate conditions more than half of them are in extreme poverty making them largely dependent on aid almost nine out of ten refugees say they are in some form of debt according to human rights watch more than three thousand five hundred refugees were forcibly evicted from their homes due to their nationality and their religion also another forty two thousand say they were at risk of being expelled from the shelters there are growing calls from

evidence politicians for refugees to return home citing economic political and security challenges meanwhile inside syria medical sources say russian planes have launched a wave of air strikes against a rebel held village in the northwest they say the bombs hit a neighborhood donna that's in the province at least fifty people were killed and dozens of others were injured russia's defense ministry denies carrying out any strikes in it live on thursday many rebels and civilians have been moved to the province as part of the deals in other parts of syria. probably going to go back to the situation now on the border area between girls and israel our correspondent can join us live now and earlier we saw a norful lot of black smoke and we've reported that they've already been some palestinians injured. that's right the israelis have been firing tear gas and you

can see where that is the smoke the white smoke is take us you see want just coming in now the black smoke is the palestinians burning tires what the israelis are trying to do is keep them away from their buffer zone the palestinians are also trying to stay away from that buffer zone as well because the protest committees asked them to stay where the protest committees are actually very scared of the amount of casualties i've taken place since these protests began about hundred eighteen palestinians have died they were they fear that because of the high number of casualties people aren't come going to come to the border to protest so what they did on this particular friday was asked them to stay as far as way as they could from the buffer zone and now these rallies haven't used lie fire so far but they have been using take us into a gas drones now the drones have been a big issue for the palestinians because they come very far into this territory just above where i'm standing right now with the palestinians about actually manage

to deal them using heights of all things they managed to untangle a drone in the car and bring it down so they managed as effectively turn a toy into and he take gas weapon. and this is a particularly significant day again isn't it because it's known as al cook's which means a day of support essentially for the palestinians. kurds is the arabic name for jerusalem it was actually a day that was started by the iranians after the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine is a way of showing support for the palestinians but it spread across the world we now see how could stay marches in places like pakistan like in iraq and afghanistan and across the region but not only that we've been seeing them in european cities go burn and being quite a key example of a european city it's a way of people showing solidarity with the palestinians now the reason the protests began earlier on friday rather than five o'clock as is normal is because

the protest committee wanted to make a show could say they wanted to bring people down to get them to the border they did say stay away from the buffer zone we want to try to avoid casualties from the israelis want to see this is a day of peace as a day of solidarity against the israeli led eleven year old siege imran khan live in the border area between gaza and israel. the russian president vladimir putin is in china ahead of an economic summit that starts this weekend both countries have announced trade and investment agreements florence of the ripples from beijing. a friendship medal for russian president vladimir putin awarded for what china says is putin's outstanding contribution to china's development it's a sign of ever closer ties between the two men and the two countries both announced several business deals including

a joint investment fund in projects in china and russia the closer relationship comes at a time when tensions with the u.s. have increased.