a national day of mourning. community activists in the u.s. are marking fifty s since the infamous chicago riots in one nine hundred sixty eight a ten thousand strong protest against the vietnam war tended to a day of violence with police the months preceding it so racial and political tension grow many in the city see similarities between them and now one hundred reports. from this is a protest half a century in the making the message is the same one heard on the streets outside the democratic national convention in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight let's stop the wars and also the police violence and particularly in chicago it is a peaceful tribute to the protests that erupted when the whole world was watching was in the months before the august convention fifty years ago the quiescent streets of chicago and the u.s. are ready to explode following a series of shocking events was january thirtieth north vietnam as devastating tet

offensive stuns u.s. troops and the american public march thirty first president lyndon johnson or jim battled an unpopular says he won't run for reelection april fourth a white gunman assassinates martin luther king jr setting a match to a national chander box in chicago and across the u.s. race riots looting and arson followed chicago's mayor issues a shoot to kill order june sixth robert f. kennedy also is assassinated from all corners of america ten thousand disillusioned young protesters converge on chicago and twenty five thousand police army and national guard troops. was the confrontations inside the convention where you're trying to suck up stuff i like to delegate a whole amplified outside it ends in a hail of billy clubs. the.

in. tear gas police have a major confrontation in the street and from the helton they are using excessive amounts of force mace tear gas it's it's a really ugly scene and it's all captured on television mayor richard j. daley is reputation in chicago's torched west side never fully recovered the organizers losing rojo they want to remind all this time there are going to sixty eighty when it counter-coup year led by america's youth force the government to listen really a lot of them had delusions and the democratic party and those were crushed with richard j. daley billy clubs on the streets of chicago when people were not only massively socially engaged but also rejected both parties then our movements need the kind of gains we've rarely seen in history how do we get back to that moment when afghan is

the answer ysaye is with them not from politicians but from the streets john hendren al-jazeera. still had him on al-jazeera. t.v. they stood by john you're right on the new dog it's just sort of comes out now back to. australia's rugby coach fires back up to questions over his suture we'll have those details in sport. and monday put it well on the i j z the u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed tonight face one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. the then there's nothing intrinsic. linked to

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moved to defuse a growing row over the cat suit she wore at the french open earlier in the year officials said they'd be bringing in a new dress code that would allow the suit won by the twenty three time grand slam champion in future serena wore the skin tight outfit for health reasons she said it would help prevent a life threatening blood clots she suffered from during the birth of her daughter the comments by the french tennis federation president have been slammed for being sexist and racist but williams says that she's spoken to him and the issue has been resolved. i'm since found other methods. and when it comes to fashion you don't want to be a repeat offenders it'll be a while before this even has to come up again i don't know exactly what he seemed to say or what he didn't sing the same way but i. we already talked to said we have a great relationship so we talked yesterday and salutes. everything's fine god

says lewis hamilton will start sunday's belgian grand prix from pole position them a sadie's drive a masjid wet conditions spot on saturday how much time was quickest at the start of keys three despite causing his team to worry when he ran why don't one of the corners he talk to rival sebastian vettel by seven tenths of a second the ferrari driver will start second on the grid. as one of the toughest golf and sessions i can remember seems to get harder and harder all the well you know. but definitely. i don't know if they did they had it with a very very close to sort of what i think you two were split between half a tenth so i was hopeful that i could make that slight difference but i knew was going to be very close very quick on the straights but then the rain came and none of us have been driving this weekend in the rain so i can't even express how difficult it was but the big surprise of the day was false india's performance in qualifying in the team's first race since being rescued finally management from going refined product esteban alcorn and such

a para secured the second row of the grid for sunday's race. you remember such a difficult time you know with the team we have now it's a lot of your stuff you know fresh and definitely happy without resort to other than expected today but the truck here fantastic guys are very good the guys if i see drops are in their motions. and you know we change it by really quickly and managed to go out so that was fantastic and i put the clean up and pushed to get yeah let's let's bring it on tomorrow. china continues to rack up the gold medals at the asian games but they're not having it all their own way into kata david stokes rounds out the action from day seven of the job the race for medals in jakarta is being dominated by china not even a pileup in the women's b.m.x. final could stop genya route taking yet another gold it's now seventy two and

counting for the chinese more than twice as many as their nearest rivals japan. indonesia have a more modest target of sixteen gold and victory in the tennis mixed doubles moved them a step closer i the men's individual title went to a stand by tennis is timmins victory secured his place at the tokyo olympics he managed to squeeze in a few photos with his medal before jumping straight on a plane to new york and the u.s. open. there was a world record performance in the men's weightlifting ninety four kilos category iran saurabh morality lifted one hundred eighty nine kilos to break the sport's longest standing record. there were plenty of interested spectators as the track and field events got underway china's incredible record in the women's how my goes on they won gold and silver for the fifth straight games but it was india

celebrating in the men's shot put to jim to posting top set a new games record on his way to gold. but india's biggest star at these games is the badminton sensation peavy soon do she breeze through to the quarterfinals at the end of what's been an eventful week the twenty three year old has been named by forbes as the seventh highest earning female athlete on the planet to be with them there in the list is a great feeling because you know when you compare when the everybody compare you with the other players with the big shots and been doing really well and of course as you know. but heat in the shadow pour wine and many more there are still it feels even a she's flying high and so are these guys. paragliding is one of the more unusual demonstrations sports at these games while back at sea level jet skiing is also making its debut in jakarta and not long now until the much debated

a sports enters the game stage competition starts on sunday with fans hoping it paves the way for inclusion in the olympics further down the line david stokes al-jazeera on to full now and event as have made it two wins from two in at least top flight cristiana an elder made his home debut for uva against slots but again he failed to get on the scoresheet despite coming close in the second half instead it was marilyn planets and mary ellen stick it to let them talk comfortable to know when. there was an unexpected result in the premier league defending champions manchester city needs to fight from a goal down to draw one one with newly promoted side wolves elsewhere their wins for also in leicester bournemouth came from two down to draw with everton and liverpool held off brighton one nil with a goal from home and salah. australia's rowan dennis has taken the lead as a red jersey after the opening time trial of the spaniard denis has

a time trial specialist finished six seconds ahead of sky's we how to get caught in malaga stage two is a one hundred sixty three kilometer ride from la bella to come ito del rey on sunday. for the second week running new zealand have comfortably beaten australia in the rugby championship bodum barrett scored four tries and kicked five conversions in a forty points to twelve victory at oakland's eden park the all blacks have not lost at the ground since one thousand nine hundred four things turned a bit prickly afterwards when australia's coach michael checa was also about his future you've known you for a long last there's nothing about his marriage. i want to try to play good rugby and database to camp so if you think. i'm wired out myself then you've never. had one i don't know you would have a club there is neither of you would know you've never cashed anyone you don't know if there's a debate going on in my mind i don't know where you come off sign up. are taji

exactly what i think about. categorically. if you think there's a bag on your arm on then you need a gun gets entails to sort it out because i know to. you cause it is a really really. you need to say no. to a great headline can't show on the border of being sick too much under pressure and the key thing is that he doesn't lose a zine convictions and the team going to sort of what they're going to do. now says spectacular shots from denmark for the latest leg of the cliff diving wild series britain's garry hunts was the window with this effort jumping twenty seven meters from the roof of copenhagen's crack house definitely worth another look it included three back some assaults and full of twists the wind moves hunt second in the overall championships. and that's all useful for now. thanks to

a close you told the stories that we're covering here on al-jazeera by looking a little web scientologist zero dot com i'm so robin you've been watching the al-jazeera news hour more news on the other side of the break with me so don't go away sisi. she's the head of four generations of family and the bearer of forty years of suffering fools a harsh or a hinge a refugee in her ninety's which has fled persecution in me and more three separate times in her life first in one thousand nine hundred seventy then one nine hundred

ninety one and finally in two thousand seventy. one the war they beat us they kidnapped us they detained does. google and her family span almost a century in age bonded through blood and displacement they now all live in a single hut located in the world's largest refugee camp in many ways what's happened to this particular extended family really mirrors what's happened to so many other rohinton who face decades of repression and. views aren't just the world's largest group of stateless people they're also among the world's most persecuted minorities. and nine hundred seventy eight. disappeared after boarding a plane to libya. for over thirty years his disappearance remained tragic in mystery. but after colonel gadhafi his downfall in two thousand and eleven

new evidence came to light. al-jazeera world investigates the case of the vanished in. and out to syria. cheers from the catholic faithful as pope francis visits our island but not everyone is satisfied with this message did not sing the church's sex abuse scandals. oh it's all robin you're watching all jews are alive my headquarters here in doha are also coming up new restrictions in peru keep thousands of venezuelans from fleeing the crisis in their country also. they're calling it

genocide remembrance day wrangles protest a year of abuse by be involved military. also in syria's province to see how people are coping with the threat of a massive government offensive. welcome to the program pope francis says he feels shame over the catholic church's failure to prevent sexual abuse by members of the. during a visit to ireland he referred to abuses as repugnant he also met with survivors of clerical abuse francis is trying to reinvigorate catholicism in a country rocked by decades of scandals and valving the church needs barker has more from dublin. the pope's visit to ireland at this moment of crisis in the catholic church was always going to set the global agenda on how the

vatican tackles its legacy of child sex abuse and pope francis didn't waste any time. i cannot fail to acknowledge the great scandal caused in ireland by the abuse of young people by members of the church charge of the responsibility for that metatron education the failure of ecclesiastical authorities to adequately address these repugnant crimes has rightly given rise to outrage i myself share the sentiments. of prime minister has been at the helm of social reforms in the country including the recent popular vote to legalize abortion long prohibited by the catholic church he said it was time to build a new relationship between church and state. people kept in dark corners behind closed doors cries for help that went on heard. and these wounds are still open. and there is much to be done to bring about justice and truth and healing for the victims and survivors. holy father we ask that you use your office and influence to

ensure that this is done here in ireland and also around the world. in this saga of widespread abuse of children by members of the catholic church protests were inevitable. these people are looking for action not words from the vatican i do get the feeling though dobbs. cross will not be returned within the population from simply what will process say to the population he needs to meet with your actions are going to be pretty serious action for going to be. alone in silent prayer the leader of one point two billion catholics. later in the day away from the cameras he met eight i were survivors of religious an institutional abuse for ninety minutes likely the most emotional moment of his thirty six hour visit for all involved pope francis has gone further than any pope in acknowledging the

church's wrongs but as new allegations of abuse continue to surface the biggest challenge to the church in ireland is the church itself. pope francis is an island and arguably one of the darkest moments in the church's modern history become pope francis universally respected as a true reformer reinvigorate face and what the catholic church stands for. thousands of the faithful croke park stadium to hear pope francis speak his visit is a moment of joy for many believe is an island a country where more than seventy percent of the population identify as catholic but as the country embraces secular values irish society regardless of faith wants to hold the church to account for past wrongs need barkha al-jazeera dublin. is an abuse survivor based in the u.s. state of arizona and runs

a network for other victims he says the pope needs to offer victims more than just words. but we can't time. the church of best getting itself we saw that in pennsylvania one diocese we knew of ten predator priests previous to the grand jury after the grand jury find out there's seventy or so we know that the church has been hiding information for years decades. so the pope could do something very very simple and that is demand that every bishop in the world report every instance of of child abuse to the police italy for instance or chile a couple examples but imagine in most countries in world it's up to the bishops whether they report to their police so this is the fox guarding the hands we need to do is have civil investigations not rely on the church because they've shown that they're interested more in their power prestige and they are in the safety of children but one hundred fifty migrants have been allowed off the tally in case god

ship after being held in the pulpit of sicily for five days italy's interior minister had been refusing to let the refugees disembark since monday and he demanded that the e.u. states take in some of the group local prosecutors are not investigating mateus levine's full abuse of office kidnap and illegal arrest the migrants were rescued at sea nine days ago and had been on a hunger strike since friday. peru's oppose the entry restrictions in an effort to limit the flow of migrants venezuela the peruvian government says asylum seekers must carry passports previously they could enter the country just using a venezuelan national id card but ever such as reports from the peruvian city of the solve the northern border with ecuador. hoping to escape the economic hardship ripping the country desperate venus will answer pouring in to be

newsworthy with it whether by bus by car or by foot before saturday's deadline meant to tighten in tree requirements. fifteen year old joined the ladies traveled more than four thousand kilometers with some members of his family he says he never imagined leaving the house when we did that work at the my lab we were at the best time of our lives with friends school family but we had to leave to find a better life in venezuela we were hungry separated from their families with a risky future ahead cinelli for the biggest venture down the road with friends leaving her career behind but i am again watching here it's sad i graduated with a bachelor's degree now i can't begin my career in law we all gave up our future and venezuela we don't have a chance exhausted ill or even penniless many venezuelans have had to rely on handouts to eat most of the people arriving here at the border between it weather and billing for young adults who has been

a mecca for these refugees for the past two years more than four hundred thousand venice winds are already living here open border policy allows them to work legally but now they will only be allowed in treaty with passports the day that nations office for refugee says it hopes this policy stops this is very important for you in which possibility of access to all power asking for sell your. soul really very much hope that. the government. people enter most province when and don't have passports their expensive and it takes many months and bribing to get them in venezuela probably helps already said they've imposed restrictions to prevent the lincolns from entering the country but at this part of crossing for trade between while i'm producing fence there are no controls. going to swill and may still looking to put an illegal however thirty three year old books a bill mcdonough says they want to have a chance to hook i guess what it's going to definitely have to have dignity we must

work that's why we are migrating to another country not to receive handouts but because we like to work. it will be in a three c. they will be flexible with children the elderly pregnant women who don't have passports and last protect those who apply for asylum there were little cycle you know according to our refugee laws whether they have the documents or not if a person asks for asylum we have to process the request and allowed them into the country the foreign ministry receives thirteen thousand requests each month and that number may grow as the exodus of this will continue in a desperate to find a better life for their children and you know some just so just you get the speed. said a south asian where refugees in bangladesh have been marking one year since the military crackdown forced him to flee their homes and me and bar the u.n. call the military attacks launched in august twenty seventeen a textbook case of ethnic cleansing let's take

a look at how it all began while running a fighter's first attack to me an army post killing twelve officers a military response for several thousand civilians to flee to neighboring bangladesh two weeks later with military operations continuing and that number had risen to a quarter of a million doctors without borders reported at least six thousand seven hundred rango were killed within the first month of the crackdown many of them were women and children by january around six hundred eighty eight thousand were living in makeshift camps in bangladesh and in march the bangladeshi government signed a deal with meanwhile to return bring the refugees but nearly all of them remain and are too afraid to go back to me and mohammed judging is in cox's bazaar where he met some of the protesting bring the refugees there demanding all thought he's in the amar be held to account for the attacks. we want justice a simple demand from these row hindu women as they march through who to prolong.

their marking the passage of exactly one year since the beginning of the crackdown by myanmar's military. against the muslim or hindu in iraq and state an anniversary the demonstrators are calling genocide remembrance day. khalid that tells us that she like so many other refugees who escaped to neighboring bangladesh in the past twelve months is all alone i'm not i don't have anyone here i don't have my brother my sister my mother they killed them all that's why i want justice. during the peaceful protests there's grief trauma and outrage on display. out they still took my children they killed everyone we want the world's help calm the world help us to get our rights and. women min young and

old all members of one of the world's most persecuted minorities coming together to speak out in one glorious this is the largest demonstration that's been held by winter refugees since over seven hundred thousand of them all right here and could go on cap over the course of the past year here today you can hear the frustration you can certainly since the anger for him to refugees gathered to demand the rights that they say they've been denied for so long. in another area cries of no more genocide could be heard these protesters are calling for among other things an investigation by the international criminal court into allegations of atrocities committed by me and mars military charges that me and mars government continues to deny. deny deny for the man in this crowd emotion cannot be contained.