generators full their electricity generators full powering their water pumps without cooking gas people can't cook air as well so there's a lot of anticipation as to whether this blockade these new restrictions will be lifted with israel if indeed the cease fire holds many thanks just traffic in gaza before boats loaded with aid are on their way to gaza from the italian port of palermo the freedom flotilla coalition says it wants to bring a peaceful end to the israeli blockade of the palestinian territory and expects to take just over a week to reach israeli waters it will then hand over one boat to gaza fisherman. elem rani is in palermo and spoke to one of the organizers. while i am here at palermo italy the port of italy and behind me you can see allowed our boats and how they now make means return return to gaza return to palestine this is the main boat of the freedom flotilla which is about to be sail into what's it's basically

a fishing boat from norway that's been transformed for this trip and the people of the coalition of the freedom flotilla coalition they are aiming to reach gaza and give this fishing boat as a gift to defame and in gaza with me here is lane she is the representative of the coalition on the boat czar i know you have been involved in the coalition for many many years and this is the first time you are traveling on the boat tours of gaza what can you tell me about your feelings well you know we're doing this to. send a message of solidarity and hope with the palestinians in gaza but our aim is actually to lift the blockade so we made a long way we stopped in many ports and our objective is to raise awareness and to make people put pressure on their governments to stop being complete cases with the crimes that israel commits against humanity so basically

the you keep doing this trips even though the final destination is not guaranteed why you keep trying. exactly the same thing that i just said because we want to lift the blockade the blockade will not be lifted by just one boat getting to gaza the blockade will be lifted if enough international pressure if enough sanctions a put on israel to change its policy all right one last question on a personal note i know that you are an israeli citizen and you are takin this trip . with the palestinian people in the way of the palestinian especially the palestinian people in the gaza strip do you have a message to your fellow israelis yes we know that israel has just passed a new law to national. i don't know julie's state whatever and i really feel ashamed disgusted by this because i i think sees

another sign of us d. human eyes seeing a all people who are not jewish but especially the palestinians and i think we lose our own humanity by doing so so my message to these rallies is stop while you still can too you know to save your own soul space sickly we cannot keep leaving there we have to leave together with our neighbors and it's an israeli and as a human being he's my obligation to make this cry so thank you very much sauce all live together as human beings this is the message of one of the main participants in the freedom flotilla coalition this year we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then thank you ok protests and intimidation rallies in support of nicaragua's president while his opponents go into hiding. and we look at the political choices office voters prepare for pakistan this general election this week.

i. mean the one. sponsored by cattle airways has been up to forty degrees in turkey but typically middle twenty's to middle thirty's b. about the range cross europe mostly around about thirty mark creasing the heavy thunderstorms one producing huge amounts of hail but these are typical figures and it's good news for sweden this is west of the capital it's a little island on the big lakes ninety seven millimeters now mostly the showers and so we do have just been producing lightning lightning which just helped saw with the existing fires now most of the wet is further south good part of central eastern europe it's fairly dry to the west occasional showers are possible in spain madrid thirty three letters the twenty six and france typically run about thirty rock or just below and nothing much will change over the next two days except for

the big showers will just drift around somewhere else possibly further south into the balkans but there's still a possibility in finland or sweden south of all this and is just blazing sunshine more or less from the western side to the eastern side measuring well to showers are possible this cloud showing up on the coast of both morocco and algeria they might get occasional showers i think but mostly now it's mostly sunshine right about thirty degree mark tunis or tunisia anyway could see well two showers. so whether it's sponsored by cattle i always say. the former bishop of hong kong says the pope is sending out china's catholics put on the pieces of things. but on those informations. sending them to church cardinal joseph then talks town jazeera.

but i get the top stories this hour on al-jazeera somewise helmets rescuers have been moved out of syria southwest through israel at the request of the u.n. the united nations says that it will resettle around eight hundred of the volunteers and their families in western countries a truce appears to be holding up both sides of the israeli gaza divide funerals been held for hamas fighters killed by israeli airstrikes in gaza on friday dozens of her last positions targeted after an israeli soldier was killed. a group that

rescues migrants from the mediterranean is planning to file a manslaughter complaint against libya's coast guard pro active open arms says that a woman and child died when they were left stranded at that boat deliberately destroyed i'll just heroes kathy lopez hayat reports. of a desperate rush to save lives it's the moment to rescue workers the stranded migrants in the mediterranean a forty year old woman from cameroon is still alive but for another woman and a toddlers up it's too late. the difficulties we've experienced to save just one single life have been unbelievable aid group proactive open arms found the migrants and say the deaths were no accident it's accusing libya's coast guard of manslaughter the rescue team says libya's coast guard intercepted about one hundred sixty europe abandoned migrants the two women and a toddler apparently refused to board the vessel as a result of the rescuers allege the libyan coast guard abandoned the migrants and

slashed their inflatable boat with a knife emotion. we have tonight at the court of palmer damie orca the captain of the three ideas for negligence and for reckless homicide and we are going to do the same with the captain of the libyan patrol which is a member of the libyan coast guard for negligence and for homicide on saturday the rescue boat arrived in the spanish island of new york with the now hospitalized my one woman and the two lifeless bodies. they say politics came before humanitarian assistance the rescue group says it was denied proper help which made their four day journey across the mediterranean longer than needed. both italy and mata refused to let us disembark the copses on the ground they only wanted to take charge of the medical evaluation but they did not accept the bodies the libyan coast guard denies the accusations it says it rescued one hundred sixty five migrants in that same area last week without leaving anyone on board but the rescue

team insists this case has broader political implications this brings out it's unthinkable for a country of the european union for my country to finance a libyan coast guard which we can testify leaves people alive in the middle of the sea and is responsible for homicide a desperate journey with a tragic end that's claimed the lives of so many migrants now call for political action when humanitarian help alone is not enough. al-jazeera supporters and opponents of nicaragua's president of resumed protests in the capital anti-government demonstrators want dialogue take it to resign but he accuses them of plotting a coup with help from the catholic church and the u.s. as sanchez reports now from many protesters have gone into hiding. ok. they weren't students they were criminals that's how supporters of the guy one

preceded the new. to the government right i guess they see students and other protesters are responsible for the deaths of police and confrontations in the past weeks. and they say government opponents have committed atrocities meant officials say anti-government protesters said the body of a policeman on fire was not money they are we are here for all the fallen police men all of them who have been. tortured. well these demonstrators say they want justice for pro-government supporters the. past three months. but they say the government must continue its security policy to bring peace to the country. that policy for many government opponents means persecution. a psychologist who spoke from an undisclosed location for her safety says security forces are on a witch hunt. we are terrified because we now have to live like

criminals they are killing us out there they are walking freely and those of us who are fighting for freedom and our country must hide. she says many students and other protesters are in safe houses and many parents don't know where their children are at this human rights organization parents say they too are being harassed. here's their mosque in a former police vehicles and very well and that's why i'm terrified. the government officials say opponents are lying were subject to mountains of. students who had so students who had been arrested have been turned over to the church repeatedly as you can report also repeatedly turned over to the church i think we have to get out of this we have to get into responsibilities of the case by case analysis of who is responsible for. if found guilty on terrorism

charges protesters could face twenty years in prison under any new law. at this human rights organisation to police officers handed in their weapons and uniforms and asked for protection not wanting to fight anti-government demonstrators they too went into hiding. the innocent to sell just now when we got our watch. the head of the international monetary fund and finance ministers from the g twenty are in argentina and that's brought out thousands on to the streets they're not happy at the government's decision to take a fifty billion dollar loan from the i.m.f. from. reports. left wing groups gathered to protest against the international monetary fund in one aside is on saturday. last month the i.m.f. stepped in to shore up the argentinean economy with a fifty billion loan agreement but people like the boy believe it won't help

improve people's lives. we already had the i.m.f. and a crisis we know what happened in greece they will fire state employees they will reduce salaries and take away workers right what is today one. argentina's economy has been struggling in recent months due to a drop in investor confidence in emerging economies their currency lost over forty percent of its value and inflation has continued to rise this people are protesting just a few blocks away from where the g twenty finance ministers and central bank governors are meeting why they were prevented from getting closer by security forces this people that you can see here. are the director of the i.m.f. . will be here at m.f. it will be years that the austerity measures implemented by the government. will generate more poverty and unemployment but christine legarde who came to attend the

g. twenty summit showed strong support with what is trying to do there has been significant progress in terms of monetary policy as well where clearly the measures that have been taken by the bank of restored and managed a much better situation with less volatility more transparency. protests because of policies suggested by the i.m.f. are not unique to argentina there has been strong opposition in countries like jordan and haiti international n.g.o.s like oxfam and others have suggested at the i.m.f. should rethink its standard recipes that take away power from labor unions do not help lower unemployment and demand action of government spending which leads in most cases to an increase in poverty levels. the essence of the i.m.f.

is the same it is to prioritize the physical deficit protons will stare at images it's the same old i.m.f. with a change in discourse look at what's happening in other parts of the world like jordan . and that's why many here are distrust four of the current government's economic policies because they believe it will only deteriorate the lives of those who need government help the most. ration town in yemen is at risk of being destroyed as fighting rages for a nearby city sub it is a unesco world heritage site with thousands of historic homes religious buildings and mosques it's south of data which the saudi u.a.e. coalition has been fighting to retake from the rebels. campaigning is in full swing for pakistan for wednesday's general election in pakistan rather. early the head of the pakistan people's party and son of former

leader benazir bhutto has been holding rallies in the southern city of karachi but the vote is widely seen as a two way race between the parties of former cricket star iran and the jailed former prime minister nawaz sharif el-gamal cause promising to stamp out corruption if he wins the election he's addressed a rally in islamabad a stronghold for his party he told the crowd that he would hold ministers accountable for any wrongdoing. so we can form a government in pakistan where a minister will be afraid of corruption but a national accountability bureau will catch a prime minister and ministers as it happens in europe. districts near the border with afghanistan has been has been speaking to rural voters. awash majority of the budget gunny population lived in rural areas where dime had. although it did take part in the election rigorously they have not seen the kind of results by

their leadership in a country where corruption runs high in political political leader not accused of typing all the billions of dollars from their country ended rural areas people do not have clean drinking water they do not have basic education they do not have medical care and all those things are necessary for nation building. and for political leadership change will translate into a change. election. as it's never brought any change to a lot of what i'm doing now is what i've been doing for many years there is no change for the poor in this country and it's going from bad to worse. for the poor elections only mean a change of face thing more but it matters a lot to the elite class who are sucking our blood through corruption for their own

good and they have gone from millionaires to billionaires but the poor are still suffering because of the social media dated now are nowhere near and political leaders are getting a grilling from the population to what they have done and up by. government and goal by dad not being able to deliver on the promise of trying to better the lives of the watch majority of its population and therefore did i question mark after what happened next nearly two and a half thousand swim a surprise of the cold water and strong currents in one of the most extreme open water races of the world the annual boss for a swim starts on the side of the strays and ends in the europe with. us. it is good to have you with us adrian for going to hear it of other top stories and

of zero-sum white helmet rescuers have been moved out of syria southwest via israel at the request of the u.n. the united nations says that it will resettle around eight hundred volunteers the families in western countries is director of policy analysis of the arab center for research and policy studies he explains the significance of the evacuation. it seems to me that this is the last of the armed conflict in south western syria it's part of a deal that has been struck between days not ease the russians and the americans might have been involved also in this which actually allows the syrian regime to regain control of these areas and evacuation of the white helmet from from the area is part of that. i think this is an admission maybe by that is that eased by the americans and the russians have won in syria and of bashar assad would remain and. france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area

of eastern ghouta in syria the aid is being sent over russian plane the first time a western country is material to government controlled areas with moscow's help government forces rita at least and do so in april after a siege lasting several years around half a million people live with very little aid has made it in. a truce appears to be holding on both sides of the israeli gaza divide funeral supply held for hamas fighters killed by israeli airstrikes in gaza on friday dozens of hamas positions were targeted after an israeli soldier was killed a group that rescues migrants from the mediterranean sea is planning to file a manslaughter complaint against libya's coast guard proactive open arms says that a woman and child died when they were left stranded and their boat was deliberately destroyed. supporters and opponents of the president protests in the capital. the resignation of president. of.

the us. until now in the. case. you. were. there all full to be around ten million catholics in china the majority worshipping

in government approved churches like this one in beijing. but many others do so in secret in so-called underground churches which means they're often under surveillance and so never totally safe. they see themselves as the true followers of the catholic church in the official church the pope's authority is not recognized but that may be about to change the reason the vatican and the communist party appear to be close to an historic deal a deal that would give pope francis a say in the appointment of bishops to the official church in exchange the vatican would recognize bishops ordained without the pope's approval in effect a recognition by the pontiff that the two churches should become one. their approach more between china's communist party and the vatican is highly significant

china broke off diplomatic relations with the vatican almost seventy years ago following the communist party revolution led by chairman mao. but now two of the world's most secretive organizations are close to announce a good deal brittle the side the future of china's catholics. the agreement though has many detractors one prominent critic has called it a trail of evil and to sell out that critic is the former bishop of hong kong cardinal joseph zen he's never recognized the chinese government's efforts to interfere in the church and for that reason travel to the vatican to warn the public face to face against any. today cardinal zen talks to al-jazeera. today how risky is it for people to worship in so-called underground churches in china i think. the

situation must be very different at indy in a city when where you have a strong underground community there are mass every sunday many people go but they don't have churches so they say mass in the private home and these masses technically illegal obviously either but everybody. everybody the neighbors they know that they are singing their praises and. the government should be known. because they be punished if it's illegal you know when i was teaching in shanghai i have my confidence so lesions samos in the end of them. you know what the people around the the public security. in a what did they told me they say oh father. tell your father to be

to be more discreet what happened. tell him to cross the door when they same us. you know why because too many people go there his room is small so they feed a staircase everyday kitchen down there and here people. keep coming so they have believed all open that's so much the government whose face because that's tolerated that's against the law but no no mo there is insertion now from the first of february to enforce the law now and what is that will that this must. unlawful so people who now prarie in underground churches catholics who pray they risk regretting arrest here so the priest at telling the people priests don't come anymore we are now used dangerous the government told us they are going to enforce

the law how many priests and bishops are still detained in china the year of their in jail not many not many maybe two bishops and maybe a dozer priests not more because they don't want to have a mantis the margins create problems they have. more. improved methods to decide the church like what like. threats like and enticement what sort of threat or threat and enticement always you know to get they come to you they say oh no we know your brother has some problem at least a workplace are do you want us to to put a good word there even say yes please.

they have to collaborate. it was hell no thank you. we can arrange it ok or they go to a defacto leader say fired at that guy so he's black my overused black male that night. and they may come over you monday see oh do you want us to send the car to bring him to the hospital is the same if we a said yes late even don't us a good husband say don't i said that only they are law they can do anything the commies are long there are a lot how much contact do you have with the underground catholic church today i never contact them actually because maybe dangerous and i tell them not to contact me from china because every is controlled but they can come now it

seems that's easier to come to hong kong than before and so they come to see me and then they can send message through other people a number of years ago you helped get money to the underground catholic church money that was donated by a wealthy hong kong businessman jimmy lie twenty million hong kong dollars i think are you still able to send money to the catholic church the only one suffix yes yes i may have been more and your fish are down the underground i would like to have more of the end of round but it's more difficult to do to be in contact with them easy to send money to them. but now i think. i find them always. see the bishop may have many occasion where he is good to do something

or to help somebody but he had to use the many of the that isis i suppose i use has enough money but i am. a kind of an outsider i'm a religious i'm not coming from the diocese so i have to be cautious to use the money of the diocese actually i never used the money of the diocese so the money are happening to do all sorts of things which a bishop may like to do. with that money in the last few years we've seen a growing reproach more between the vatican and the chinese communist party affecting things like the appointment of bishops now that's progress isn't it is that a good thing in your view no not necessarily. but not necessarily but what we're seeing at the moment this new is a case of the of the vatican being able to expand its influence of china that is

progress is no no. people came to know that the holy see is ready to approve anything to legitimize everybody so they had did the conviction that just get ordained sooner or later delegitimize does really bad so that give occasion to the opportunists to know that if they work with the government they can force the holy see to recognize them is no good at all and the holy see just in order to please the government they abstain from doing things they should do for him but they don't give bishops who many touches in and around when all the bishop died didn't give a successor so both churches in ground and of your church. we can read about it or so does no good at all do you worry that the the vatican is giving legitimacy now to the chinese communists yeah that's terrible terrible

they must know. that the church approved by the government is objectively schismatic i may here. again a breach of confidentiality but three or four years ago i had a meeting with pope francis for forty five minutes i talked for forty minutes he made only one interruption very short interruption when i said we have to agree that the independent church is church so now is already objectivity six months and the pope said chair at all of course so how can you know g.-d. minus a ski smartly church which is just schismatic their company under the

guidance of the government. the church doesn't change just because you legitimize all of their bishops eve or those bishops or the majority of those bishops are slaves of their the communist regime there is no improvement and now there are things the and the talking about what are they going to do with the thirty bishops in and around they're calling them to come up and did the bedouin say oh now we recognize the seven shops and you government recognized our thirty bishops but i ask what do you mean that the government recognized the thirty. do they allow them to go on

functioning as now in the end a ground in even a different government in no a so the i invited to join b. but you did association you feel so strongly about the vatican and the communist party jointly appointing bishops that you flew to rome to see the pope and to talk to him face to face just a few months ago what did you say to the pope as it does that's a think. ok they say the last word to the pope ok but the last word is not enough. i like to quote a hug a d n hero. he said sometimes formally virtually seems that autonomy of the pope is respected but practically you are giving the power into the hands of the government so if it's the

government which choses the bishop and then through the big.