more than six hundred others have been injured in the violence israel says the action was taken after kites carrying explosives were flown near the fence israeli forces have killed at least one hundred eighteen palestinians in demonstrations which began in late march how musty this one honey or says protests will continue until the israeli blockade and it's. more than enough past we are 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 siege the marches will continue until we achieve our goals firstly breaking the siege on the gaza strip imran khan has more from the gaza israel border. as you can see the palestinians are burning tires just over there close to the israeli buffer zone now every so often the israelis fire off a volley of tear gas they are using this in two different ways firstly coming in from jeeps to give them height on the take gas comes down into the crowd trying to

disperse them clearly it's not working the crowd are still there but they're also using tear gas drones as well which is a fairly recent development however the palestinians figured out a way of dealing with those drones can you see the kites just up there they're becoming a bit of a problem for the israelis they're affectively a toy but the palestinians figured out that they can in tangle a drone into those kites they've actually done that and they've managed to bring down an israeli take astro and so that's something the israelis are going to be concerned about now this protest has begun slightly earlier in the day than the regular friday protests that's because of al could state that was started effectively means to recent days but it was started by the iranians after the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine but it means something quite a lot to the palestinians as well and that's why they come to this border however the protest organizing committees did ask the protesters not to go too close to the border to the buffer zone as they have done in the past and they've said stay away

from border we want to try and avoid casualties however the palestinians have turned up as you can see in great numbers not only to commemorate al could stay but to tell you to show the world that they are against the israeli siege israeli led siege of gaza. now the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. says his office is working to ensure a u.n. resolution is passed to give palestinians protection from illegal use of force an emergency un general assembly to discuss the situation in gaza will now take place on wednesday we will not relent in our quest to try to find ways to provide protection for the civilian population because it is our duty it is that i think to do and it is the thing that the palestinian people including those in the gaza strip and in occupied east jerusalem they need and we are meant to do everything that we can in order to provide them or to contribute to providing them with

international protection plenty more ahead here on the news hour including austria's government orders the closure of seven mosques. and the death of a celebrity chef anthony bourdain jets light on a disturbing trend in the united states. also rafael nadal edges closer to an eleventh title at roland garros those details coming up. more regulations are being ordered to guatemala volcanic eruption which has now killed at least one hundred nine people well kind of material and contaminated water from mt fuego are still threatening homes five days after it erupted david mercer is not far from the site. as painful as his burns might be gar knows how lucky he is to be alive he his wife and father in law were at home in

the moment what a mollusc volcano erupted that even his wife managed to escape but the memories of that day will haunt them forever. was forming inside our house when we went running out my father in law was swept away the ash was boiling mud mixed with people were running and the hot ash came down on top of them killing them people were trapped inside their houses and couldn't escape they were cooked inside. six children with severe burns were airlifted to the united states where pediatric burn center offer state of the art treatment not available in guatemala. and now one of all is national disaster agency is coming under fire for possible negligence public prosecutors have ordered an investigation into whether evacuation procedures were properly followed is a little bit of the official say they warned the public after sensors picked up an

increase in volcanic activity hours before the eruption everybody i mean to the mayor all of the communities received warnings and obviously we don't have the authority to order an evacuation we make recommendations and it's the residents who decide whether to evacuate or not. but residents who escaped the gases and volcanic mud said that only those close to the highway heard the warning being intimate with me on the eve of the me if we would have received a warning we would have left our house earlier and many people's lives would have been saved i don't know about the others but they didn't warn us we didn't know about the eruption until the lava was coming down. or up that again on friday expelling large quantities of pirate classic material on ash nearby homes were evacuated authorities hoping to avoid another disaster david mercer al-jazeera the squint laura what a mama. jackie when they come from the guatemalan human rights commission says the

government's response has been paul the state of guatemala refused to act despite knowing that there was an imminent risk to communities who've been forced to live beside an active volcano because they've been displaced from their homeland there was no active emergency plan people didn't know what to do they weren't advised to leave so it's led to hundreds of people thousands of people up to twelve fifteen thousand people that have had to evacuate and who are now displaced of course that's causing a lot of chaos there's people can't find their family members they're being told that they can't go home and and they're worried about finding people and at the same time the emergency response has been. lacking to to leave that the state didn't do anything so people are in tears

firefighters teachers community leaders well organized all of the supplies that were coming in that were being donated yesterday gretta moller state made an announcement the army look now be responsible the army and the military in guatemala as long then as associated with corruption and impunity and very serious human rights violations so there is a great deal of distressed by the international criminal court has overturned the war crimes conviction of forward vice president of the democratic republic of congo . supporters of burma celebrated in the capital kinshasa after hearing the ruling majority of judges found them but could not be held responsible for the atrocities of his militia which he sent into neighboring central african republic in twenty two thousand and two when he had a hold of those. from the moment war crimes allegations were liberal to gainst him junk he have been banned sisted he had done nothing wrong he maintains that stance

even in two thousand and sixteen when the international criminal court unanimously found him guilty of two charges of war crimes and three of crimes against humanity he was sentenced to eighteen years in prison the longest ever handed down by the i.c.c. that court decision has now been overturned the appeals chamber by majority reverses the conviction of mr bin bin but showed little emotion as the presiding judge delivered the appeal ruling that the public gallery reacted enters and it quits all because the errors found with respect to necessary and reasonable measures extinguished its responsibility in full the judge was forced to pause may i ask the registry to restore.

the crown in the courtroom been what was accused of failing to stop his private army known as the emelle sea from waging a campaign of rape and murder and pillage against civilians in neighboring central african republic over a five month period from october two thousand and two he was a rebel leader the in and had seen more than a thousand fighters to help put down the coup in the cia. the lower court judgment described a series of sick and sadistic rapes and murders and some cases where entire families were victimized but then the never actually issued an order to rape and murder on appeal a majority of judges held that being the could not be held responsible for atrocities carried out by troops under his control and that trial judges failed to consider if it's he made to stop crimes once he became aware of them the decision overturns what had been hailed a landmark ruling been but was the first ever to be convicted for crimes committed

by others under his command and it was the first time the i.c.c. focused on rape as a weapon of war speaking to al jazeera in two thousand and seven before his arrest bin baron assisted he had nothing to answer for you will know that the international criminal court that are. not of course involved in the of this ng's i rested in two thousand and eight a convicted war criminal in two thousand and sixteen he's now won his appeal but bamber hasn't been freed a separate panel of judges continues to consider his punishment for interfering with witnesses during his trial maidana honed to zero the austrian government is shutting down seven loss and expelling him alms is part of measures by the rightwing chancellor sebastian kurtz to target what he calls political islam in the country dominic came reports from neighboring germany. in the six months since

becoming chancellor civil courts has taken an even tougher line on immigration and what he says is the threat from parallel societies forming in his country now he's turning his sights on what he calls political islam different in height that becomes this we can announce to you today a decision from the office of religious affairs that will lead to prohibit of the activities of seven mosques this means dissolving the greywolf mosque and secondly shutting down the arabic cultural community to operate a total of six miles. in addition to the closures these measures could also see dozens of in mom's face expulsion from austria several of whom ministers in vienna believe are funded by elements inside turkey a spokesman for the turkish government has condemned the move as racist and anti islam courts has long advocated a toughening of approach but forming a coalition with the far right anti islam freedom party last december seems to have

been the catalyst for him to act in april his government announced plans to prevent girls in nurseries and primary schools from wearing head scarves we have. a new climate political climate here in australia a sense of last election and with the new government has been in power or little more than half a year you see. various measures taken against foreigners against immigrants against islam and sounds of all this is just one more . one more matter. and their policy. and that's what will interest far right movements across europe particularly in france the netherlands and here in berlin where the alternative for germany party made a polymer entry breakthrough in last year's election on a platform of opposition to islam dominant came al-jazeera. free

harvest from georgetown university says the austrian government is trying to interfere in religious offense is a message that is intended to be sent out to the austrian electorate i think there are many groups outside of of austria and other european countries who may applaud them who may try to to kochi what they are doing but we have to understand that also the state church relation is very different in very in various countries throughout europe so austria has a kind of very specific understanding of most security and secularism should look like and what they are doing at the moment is trying to interfere into religious affairs so why do the united states you have the understanding that secularism means that the state is far away from religion in austria in terms of the most and only it seems that they are trying to really define what a good religion should look like and what a bad religion should look looks like so they are kind of redefining the good islam

versus the bad islam this is the game they are playing and it is not really a victim is it is rather it really about the common muslims because when they close down the mosques this is not like the mosque of radical extremist groups this is not a very randomly like mosques of his deposition communities of the islamic religious community tributes are being paid to the celebrity chef and dr anthony bolting has been found dead in a hotel room in france police say the sixty one year old took his own life and a gallon reports. anthony bourdain is career spanned continents but his love of the restaurant business had humble beginnings started out as a dishwasher before becoming a chef in new york his best selling memoir about the underbelly of manhattan's restaurant business changed his life and launched a t.v. career i went from a guy you know broke. always ben had been broke never insured never owned anything perpetually in debt. hard working god overnight the guy with the best job in the

world with the freedom to travel around the world doing anything he wants and get paid for it the sixty one year old was filming a series in france for c.n.n. network says anthony bourdain committed suicide and released a statement his talents never cease to amaze us and we will miss him very much force and prayers are with his daughter and family at this incredibly difficult time ordains death comes just days after a fashion icon kate spade apparently took her own life spades husband and business partner said the fifty five year old suffered from depression and anxiety for years suicide rates across the u.s. have jumped dramatically over the past decade in two thousand and sixteen there were nearly forty five thousand suicides more than twice the number of murders among the young suicide is now the second leading cause of death for dane one dozens of awards for his work in two thousand and thirteen judges for one prestigious award on

a dem for expanding our palates and horizons in equal measure and a gallica al-jazeera. well still ahead here on the news of a dispute between level and the u.s. refugee agency turns ugly. meet the man who's protected the icon of australia for half a century now he's saying goodbye. turnings rugby team are in south africa program for one of the sport's toughest assignments peter will be here to tell you all about magic school. and it's great fun game in. the weather sponsored by katter. how low we have the remains of a tropical storm now pulling away from that southeastern corner of china still a rash of showers on sas day for hong kong a little further north and west of weather in play here as well wolf and i'm still

seeing some downpours into the southwest of china as we go on into saturday really has a similar picture but by saturday i'm hopeful that the southeastern corner will begin to dry up more in the way of sunshine notice the southwest the monsoon pushing lots of cloud and right into the philippines milla will certainly see some very heavy downpours on sunday and much of luzon could expect to see some showers along spells of fright and hence some flooding concerns here there we go with that massive cloud streaming in across the region really heavy rain there coming into central and northern parts of the philippines south of that it isn't too bad the usual heat of the day showers really a spot the cases but the thames as we go on through sunday more heavy showers there you see manila still in the mix there with some very heavy downpours and the flood risk certainly continuing heavy showers to continue across a good part of thailand again that southwest the monsoon continue to drive its way across the region right across the by a single southern parts of india the western ghats still seeing further heavy

showers as we expect similar conditions there for me and ma. so whether it's true. cateye always. it starts in core rural communities with the promise of a prosperous mary. but countless young indian women find themselves gee commodifying song 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.

al-jazeera. where ever you are. about to the news hour i was the whole rob and this is a reminder of all top news stories u.s. president donald trump says he wants russia to rejoin the g. seven group of key industrialized nations he said this before writing in canada for the annual summit where trade friction between the u.s. and its allies is expected to dominate the talks. all palestinians including a fifteen year old boy are being killed after israeli forces fired live rounds and tear gas a protest is near the gaza border israel says the actual was taken after kites

carrying explosives were flown there the feds six hundred others have been injured . and more evacuations are being ordered niigata mahler's volcanic eruption which is now killed at least one hundred nine people love all kind of material and contaminated water from earth where you are still threatening homes five days after its first erupted about two hundred people are missing. the u.s. president's former campaign manager is facing new obstruction charges paul mellor ford is accused of tampering with witnesses as he awaits trial on charges related to his foreign lobbying work special counsel robert lula has also filed obstruction charges against one of manifolds longtime russian associates alan fischer has more from washington d.c. or point one of fort no fee says two additional charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and two counts of destruction of justice these are lead back to a case that we had about a week ago when paul minor four was allegedly trying to tamper with witnesses

people who had given statements to the f.b.i. and he was allegedly trying to get them to change their story now also on this indictment is constantine kilmeny who's an auld friend of mine a fourth what does his political pour stuff his political fixer his translator on paul matter for what in the ukraine for the best part of ten years and he becomes the twentieth person indicted by robert miller's investigation into possible russian collusion with the trump campaign this all comes under that umbrella of ford is also facing charges of tax fraud of bank fraud and of money laundering and all of these charges you have to remember that says he is innocent over schneider is a professor of public policy at george mason university says the new charges give mueller more leverage in understanding the inner workings of the trunk campaign. well the case against man of ford is

a bit separate from the investigation of president trump because man of fort the crimes he's been accused of doing are things he did in his lobbying firm like money laundering and tax evasion before he was so sweet with the trump campaign but it in what these charges do is give the miller investigation the opportunity to empower apply more pressure on paul matter for it by saying these charges are serious man if it could go to prison for the rest of his life he's sixty nine years old and the prosecutor mr miller can decide can tell him that we will lessen the charges we will try to get you more more lenient sentence if you fully cooperate with the investigators and tell us everything you know about the trump campaign and the possibility of collusion with russia so it just ratchets up the pressure on both manifold and president trump that you use breaks in negotiators says

a british plan to avoid a hard border in northern ireland raises more questions than answers michel barnier said the united kingdom had made welcome progress but the rest of the country wouldn't get the same terms of access to the single market that will the island has been offered of a backstop cannot be extended to do whole u.k. why because it be designed for the specific situation of national nine and what does it do. and customs notice an island would form part of our were accustomed territory what is feasible or which a territory the size of national island is not necessarily feasible for you kate. now there's an ancient practice in the middle east during the holy month of ramadan to make sure people eat ahead of a day of fasting for centuries men have walked around the streets in the middle of the light chanting and banging drums but now police in jerusalem began issuing have

to finds because jewish settlers who moved into the area are complaining their sleep is being disturbed burned smith reports. it's a wake up alarm that dates back centuries. just before dawn during ramadan across the middle east men known as most a hierarchy call people to pray and eat before the fasting begins. but here in the muslim quarter of jerusalem's old city for the first time police have been detaining and finding the most a hierarchy but disturbing the sleep of the jewish settlers living here. comes the hartley the police are always harassing us i've been detained four times accused of making noises that disturbs the settlers the settlers get annoyed by everything we do even the decorations we make for ramadan annoys them. the old city

is split into the muslim jewish christian and armenian porters but for the past fifty years jewish settlers have also been moving into the muslim quarter now appear is where while settler families live and the guys stop the music as they go past the house but that's not been enough to stop the settlers complaining to the police. over that of. the settlers complained again tonight there are jewish homes here this woman says this is going to go on all month. jerusalem police told out his ear in a statement that they are constantly trying to maintain the delicate balance between allowing in ensuring the freedom of worship and religion and maintaining public order and quality of life for local residents the police see offenses of noise and disturbing the peace is one of the most serious offenses that cause harm to the public and the quality of life for our local residents the police presence is provided for settlers who choose to live in the heart of the muslim quarter.

with fines running into the hundreds of dollars mohammed's wish to continue this ramadan tradition has suddenly become very expensive. burnet smith al-jazeera in occupied east jerusalem a yemeni journalist has died two days after being released from detention by his the rebels. who was abducted a year ago his family told the association of yemeni journalists that he was tortured the association is called for international organizations concerned with freedom of expression to condemn what it calls a crime against. the united nations is warning a quarter of a million civilians could die if saudi led coalition forces attempt to take the yemeni city of data that are within twenty kilometers of the red sea port is controlled by who the rebels and is the main entry point for food and humanitarian supplies for the war torn country stephanie decker as well yemen was already one of

the poorest countries in the world before the regional proxy war took over the country the saudi led war on yemen is now into its fourth year and hospitals are struggling to cope but i don't want to i'm not i'm going to larn the numbers it's that we're in the good hands of god people are sick for years we have done nothing to be in the situation we're just citizens here we have nothing but god. this hospital is in the city controlled port city of data vital to getting aid and supplies into the country but fighting nearby is threatening to close the lifeline to millions of yemenis the. humanitarian coordinator in yemen is grounded says that a military attack or siege on her data will impact hundreds of thousands of in innocent civilians humanitarian organizations have rushed to develop a contingency plan in a prolonged worst case we fear that as many as two hundred fifty thousand people may lose everything even their lives the u.s. is war in the united arab emirates which is part of the saudi led coalition against

attacking the port city these pictures are said to show military vehicles belonging to the u.a.e. that have been captured by the who these all sides keen to showcase their victories in what is just as much a propaganda war some aid agencies such as the red cross have sent staff home because of security concerns leaving millions at the mercy of a political war with no end in sight and aid agencies describe what is happening in yemen as the world's worst humanitarian crisis stephanie decker al-jazeera. has ordered a freeze on the renewal of residency permits for u.n. refugee agency staff it's accuse the u.n.h.c.r. of spreading fear amongst syrian refugees about returning home turkey has the highest number of syrian refugees three and a half million according to un hates the all figures but it's a large country with almost eighteen million people jordan's government estimates that it's home to one point three million syrians about fourteen percent of the

population which is contributed to its recent economic crisis but lebanon has the highest proportion of refugees in the world more than one and a half million people according to the government a quarter of lebanon's population center heart of reports from beirut on the strain that that's creating. seven years in exile in lebanon mahmoud is now getting ready to go back home he's from the syrian town of mara in the region. can't go back because he's not considered a security risk by the syrian government it's a decision not every refugee can make. fed up and have been humiliated the united nations told us that there are no guarantees when we get back home but we want to go back that advice has caused tension between the u.n. refugee agency and the lebanese foreign ministry which says the u.n. h.c.r. is discouraging refugee returns a claim the u.n. denies it says it is carrying out its global mandate which is to provide support to

refugees and help them establish their lives in line with international standards. is not deterring returns. are you know has expressed many times that it just backs the government of lebanon's decision that integration is not an option lebanese authorities say a few thousand refugees displaced by the seven year long war have already signed up for what they called voluntary returns and that thousands of others are willing to go home lebanon which is hosting more than one million syrian refugees has long complained of the burden it carries official say it cost the country about eight billion dollars a year many refugees now have economical and not political or security reasons for staying foreign ministry officials say much of syria is now safe. specifically.

which is not the mandate the mandate or at least what they say is a. but what what is actually happy happening is much more than that the ministry has now decided to suspend residency application submitted by u.n.h.c.r. for its staff in lebanon the foreign minister is acting in a caretaker capacity but it does belong to the ruling alliance so his decisions could be a sign of future state policy. some officials are using the refugee for political capital they play on fears about the impact of the prolonged presence of refugees in the country those officials belong to the pro syrian government camp they want refugee returns to be coordinated with the authorities in damascus as a first step toward restoring relations with the assad government. refugees are caught in the middle and what could become a contentious political issue large scale returns gives legitimacy to the syrian

government which wants the international community to provide badly needed funds for reconstruction the u.n. insists it does not encourage or discourage returns but it is not organizing them while discussions with damascus continue on safeguards that still need to be put in place. a boot. the world health organization says breaking the democratic republic of congo is stabilizing director general draws. as he's cautiously optimistic after a decrease in the number of cases for forces in the past week more than eight hundred health workers have received an experimental vaccine the agency says it's also donating more than fifteen million dollars to countries bordering the d.l.c. to be used in the event of a further outbreak. after half a century the longest serving staff member the sydney opera house is calling it a day steve sue colace migrated to australia from greece in one thousand nine

hundred sixty eight and soon began working on the operas houses construction just weeks from retirement he reflects on his many years working inside one of the world's most iconic buildings my name is the colors and i'm going in my twenty's of the sydney opera. i arrived in australia in ninety six before i was an eighteen year song and i come to work as five every morning for the last fifty years i was single out with the open in eighty six the heat. on these beautiful building the icon of the. i come from a small island south of groups my face when i started here you were seeing the drama theatre when they finished that i start on the scaffolding we had the lot of greeks a lot italians from ireland i made my why.