and it's not just used to be white cones ation but the history of human equality is the legacy for all of this new frontier three of slavery on. the. eastern ukrainian separatist leader alexander who is killed in a blast and on net russia says it's an act of international terrorism kids says rubble and fighting is to blame. a little common debate and you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up. targeted at reports of a dozen yemeni fisherman dead in an airstrike. on.

a musical farewell to the queen of soul pop stars and world leaders alike attend the funeral of our either franklin in detroit. and sprint legend the same bolts makes his debut for a pro football team and australia. russia says the killing of an eastern ukrainian separatist leader alexander amounts to an act of international terrorism a moscow back to either of rebels in donetsk was killed in a blast at a cafe in the center of the city that russia has accused ukraine of assassinating to try to unleash a renewed war in eastern ukraine but kiev says it had nothing to do with the blast instead of blaming separatists and fighting russia's state investigative committee has opened an investigation into the killing or each islands has the latest from moscow. don't you know it's because on lockdown at the moment nobody allowed in and

nobody allowed out that is because both the at sky and moscow are calling the killing of alexander's aka shanker an act of international terrorism now there has been a meeting of the council of ministers to try and work out who should take over and the early reports coming from that meeting is that it is going to be the first deputy prime minister of the d.n.r. c.p.r. dimitri. now the second was a former militia leader who rose to prominence in the early stages of the war in ukraine's east he was promoted to the prime minister's position in two thousand and fourteen at a time when there were efforts being made to reorganize things to make it look less like this was a foreign operation being run out of moscow and more like it was

a home grown independence movement he was present both minsk summits and he was a signatory of minsk to because he was the prime minister of the d p r d n r and so this death does through that process into some down to have to say there of course are big questions who might have done this there seemed to be three likely options at the moment one this was done by ukraine by its intelligence outfit outfit the s b u two it could have been infighting within the separatist republics themselves the self-proclaimed separatist republics or it could perhaps have been moscow doing some sort of housecleaning operation and of course moscow and kiev are both blaming each other at the moment and that is likely to continue i think this is a murky death in what is and has been for a long time

a very murky war. at least a dozen fishermen in yemen have been killed by a saudi m.r. articulation airstrike now that's according to hootie linked media they say it's happened a ban island which is part of her data province the coalition says the boats were being used to smuggle weapons alan fischer has the latest from neighboring djibouti . is slightly confused what we were told initially was that seventy christian men were missing after the coalition targeted three ships near this island that has no been revised through the media reporting that nineteen pressure men are missing presumed dead although no one can get to the area to work out exactly what has happened certainly the saudis are saying that the targeted three boats that they believe were carrying weapons to the no that comes just twenty four hours after the

u.s. stopped a ship which they say was carrying one thousand equally portie seven locals again heading towards the gritty but it's not clear at this point if they circulate coalition try to stop these vessels or the just simply attack there are those who would suggest that these were simply fishermen going about their mission but certainly it shows the concern that fishermen along the red sea have they believe they're being targeted by the so you like coalition but also they have to navigate past the mines that are being laid all around this area and they say it's almost making it untenable for them to go out to sea to try and make a living. russia's foreign minister says the syrian government has every right to chase what he calls terrorists out of the last rebel held on flavor said led some three million people live there and that includes more than ten thousand rebel fighters the u.n. has warned against a major government offensive saying it would lead to

a mass displacement of people. by addressing all these issues and we're making progress on some of them some are more difficult we can talk about that and there is also another point that i would like to add to those that i have mentioned it is important also that u.n.h.c.r. as the united nations refugee agency plays a role and has a presence especially in the areas of return now this is sometimes spaf simple sometimes more difficult it is linked often to the security situation but it is clear to everybody in actor that is playing an increasing role in this situation is the russian federation that they have put forward the ideas thoughts it plan for the return and the same messages that i have described to you i have also fast them. to our russian interlocutors i met them in damascus as well. but they are harder has the latest from beirut in neighboring lebanon. the united

nations reiterating its longstanding position that a refugee returns is still premature to organize large scale returns because the situation in syria is still not safe these returns cannot be in the words of the head of the u.n. h.c.r. sustainable he said. that they have been talking to refugees and we have been talking to refugees and refugees are concerned for a number of reasons even though the fighting has died down what are they going to return to many of the towns and villages have been destroyed their homes have been destroyed there is a lack of services lack of infrastructure no schools and no hospitals in some areas and they're also concerned about not finding a job or being forced to join the army if the male the men in the family are forced to join the army who is going to work to feed the children but more importantly a lot of them are afraid of retribution they feel that there are no safety

guarantees in place to make sure that the syrian government does not take any measures against them simply for leaving or accuse them of supporting the supporting the opposition so filippo ground they touring the region talking to officials in damascus both syrian and russian officials about these refugee concerns and telling them that if indeed refugees are to return the united nations needs to have a presence believe they did not say what response he got. and uganda were pop star turned opposition politician bobby weiner has just been released from a government hospital where he was being held that he's now thought to be making his way to compound airport wind was detained on thursday along with another politician while trying to board a flight to the u.s. wind says he was leaving to get medical care for the injuries he had sustained during government detention. venezuelans leaving the country are continuing to struggle in neighboring peru racial slurs and hate speech

have made it hard for many of them to feel safe but they say the anti immigrant attitude is easier to deal with than the conditions back home body as money out of sanchez has this report from lima peru. thirty eight year old the bush man keeps an eye on municipal police will selling a traditional rice string from venezuela he still doesn't have a street vendor permit trying to make a living far away from home is hard he says but worse is hearing slurs against venice wins a second war more especially to people like me a street vendor people tell me move get out of here go back to your country it's. an armed assault mainly perpetrated by even a fearless and coddled security cameras sparked a wave of ministry and feeling in bed to be honest compatriots are paying the price then given that. people have to understand we are not all the same the great

majority is here to work and send money to our families to get them out of the inferno that venezuela has become. businessmen you get to stop textile employee and say the number of in a swill is working here is grow with great peruvians save in a swill and are taking their jobs i'm a big deal some businessmen here have laid off peruvians because they say venezuelans charge them less the untamed gratian sentiment among many people who vians was fueled by a conservative candidate ylem s. mayoral race in october he gained popularity by same venice will answer threatening security and jobs. but government officials have condemned cinephile big slurs but also open border policy has let more than four hundred thousand in a swim in the country nearly seventy thousand have already been granted work permits were again official say the press is over this way let's just have it in fact there was health and education says that there are nearly thirty thousand in

israel and children in schools but they also say the impact is positive and that is workforce for many even as well as i believe the top floor of the us don't want to take. any peruvians reacted against growing. public sentiment by opening their homes to shelter migrants and refugees twenty one year old xander torrealba is sleeping with fifteen other venezuelans in one room just the way. i feel lucky to have been offered this shelter but it's a pity many compatriots have been mistreated we know we're here because we want to be but because we need to be. however the majority of us will say the few will come in be do escaping from inflation and food and medicine shortages back home make them choose to endure almost anything for a better future for the innocent just. be too. argentina's economic crisis is worsening the currency has sunk to historic lows despite the central bank

raising interest rates to sixty percent that's the highest in the world the government is trying to control inflation and rain and a high budget deficit but cutbacks in public spending have already led to protests our diplomatic editor listen in the joins us live from buenos aires so. it's coming up to the end of the work day markets have just closed what's the situation there. indeed they have you had the government is trying to stop the hemorrhaging of its currency which surpassed forty pesos to the u.s. dollar yesterday. it poured in something like six hundred seventy million dollars into the market today to try to flood the market with dollars and bring it down i did succeed somewhat but it is still way way up and around almost thirty eight places to the u.s. dollar what does that mean it means that people's buying power is starting to plunge and the prices are going to go up and even though the government is trying

to stop what is one of the world's largest inflation rates which is supposed to be around which is expected rather to reach about forty percent this year alone the i.m.f. had given argentina a bridge loan rescue package but the government came back and said it needed more of that money to be dispersed quickly and that is what basically unleashed this new run on the markets and on the dollar people to say that in just a week they lost half of their earnings with the relation to the dollar and remember that arjun times are used to saving and thinking in dollars and that's not an unusual thing they've you know if you think about just how unstable and how chaotic the financial markets have been historically in this country now some analysts are saying that a default on this country's sovereign debt is going to be inevitable that this is going to happen whether the government likes it or not but others and the certainly the jury is still out on this believe that the i.m.f. is not going to make that possible that it will continue to give more and more

money into this already indebted country but what that will mean of course is that there will be austerity measures placed those are the conditions for those loans and that means that arjun times again that i have to start tightening their belts more and more than they're doing already here because you name it on the growing economic crisis in argentina thank you. still to come on this program iran debates a new law which would reduce child labor but millions of families say they concert by without the money they bring in plus i'm haywood find out why the u.k. is playing catch up with the rest of europe when it comes to woodland. hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts we're here across europe we all watch the clouds making their way down here towards italy so

unfortunately through the weekend we're going to be seeing quite a bit of rain with this system as it becomes fairly stationary so the rain's going to continue saturday as well as into sunday it's going to get a little bit better as we go towards sunday but still heavy rain could be some even localized flooding as that water starts to really start to come up there across the area up towards berlin a nice day for you at twenty five degrees in london is looking quite nice as well we expect to see partly cloudy conditions with a temperature of twenty four well here across much of the northern part of africa world via temperatures here into the thirty's to tunis about thirty four that's a little bit higher than what we've seen over the last few days clouds across algeria those are gone we're seeing better conditions in terms of the sun there but otoh it's been gazi winds out of the north temperature for you at about twenty nine not changing too much as we go towards sunday with cairo seeing about thirty eight well we did have one big tropical wave make its way out of senegal that system is

now making its way towards the cape verde islands but we are looking at a lot of tropical moisture here across much of the coast lagos is going to be rated if you are twenty seven in accra at twenty six degrees there. a journey booth done. there's a very forever there's a lot of the rocks and beautiful lake the beautiful lady used to be very patient and the sea has ascended you can see how i was introduced to. my father and my most aware or for. the personal story to discover the source of one of the most expensive commodities sent from heaven and.

hello again to his own mind our main stories and al-jazeera the leader of the russian backed separatist region the alexanders has been killed and an explosion. at least a dozen fishermen and you have and have been killed by saudi m.r.c. coalition air strike of bought island of courting to the link media. and ugandan pop star turned politician bobby wine is thought to be on this way to compile airports after being released from a government hospital. our voice and spirit captivated the united states for more than half a century now her bodies being laid to rest in the town where it all began hundreds of mourners have gathered at a detroit church for a music infused funeral for aretha franklin the ceremony included tributes by the former u.s.

president bill clinton and civil rights leaders jesse jackson and al sharpton there also been musical performances from shaka kahn and ariana grande day the queen of soul hits include the classic respect died at the age of seventy six earlier this month. john hendren is in detroit for us john it's either it's come to pass the six hour tributes are it's coming up so that tell us what's happening there. it's been an extraordinary celebration both outside and inside earlier this morning about a thousand people from the street who had waited in line and were not expecting to be able to come in here were allowed to join all the dignitaries who are inside that perhaps because of that there's their money started about an hour late and it's gone on for four hours since then it was due to be over about now but by my look at the schedule it appears to have an hour probably two hours left to go but inside some extraordinary statements have been made we had ariana grande singing

you make me feel like a natural woman jennifer hudson sang amazing grace the reverend al sharpton described aretha franklin as the soundtrack to the civil rights movement smokey robinson came on he said my longest friend has gone home and he said she will be one of the featured voices in the choir of angels so this is been a funeral really like any other certainly as long as any other i have ever seen and then of course the former president of the united states after two statements from previous presidents george w. bush and. president obama forgive me so many speakers to keep track and then bill clinton came on and he had this to say. first for.

something. clinton also said that before becoming president he and hillary clinton were really sort of aretha franklin groupies she went on to say that she had the voice of a generation possibly the voice of a century and this elaboration will continue for some time to come stevie wonder is yet to sing jesse jackson is yet to speak and since all that's happened it's been announced that a park here in town will be named after a wreath of franklin and of course after that she will be taken to her family's cemetery woodlawn cemetery in that is where the civil rights icon rosa parks is

also buried. john hendren live in a life for detroit's then detroit for us thank you. ok iranian politicians are discussing a new bill which could cut child labor and introduce vital new protections against abuse the country has tens of thousands of children and millions more who drop out of school to work the government wants to do more to ensure they aren't forced into labor and many of the children's families say they won't be able to survive without their contributions has this report from tehran. children working the streets to make money something iranian politicians say they're trying to change a new bill being discussed in parliament would overhaul the country's child protection laws to better help kids vulnerable to abuse it addresses a wide range of issues including cyber protection trafficking child marriage and child labor. the bell is the face comprehensive

rule for children's rights in iran the issue of economic misuse is addressed here kids whose families are struggling with poverty some even under the age of fifteen a forced to work by their parents or other people but even m.p.'s admit passing new laws is one thing coming up with the budgets to pay for public services is another . that's where the private sector often steps in for two decades the volunteer group society has been providing social services to thousands of people around the country including organizing a nationwide football league for at risk youth some have parents with drug addiction others struggle with poverty and are forced to work for their families to survive. for many this is a break from difficult daily routines are. some of the kids aren't here because they're working in workshops selling things in the streets sometimes they can't make the practice sessions it's a problem for us especially when we want to take part in

a tournament we ask their bosses to give them time off. the group also helps parents earn a living so their kids don't have to work these mothers run a catering service society gives them work space transport and training they supply the woman power. since her husband died been raising eight children on her own and has kept them all in school having the scheme just beyond before i started working my life wasn't good we lived in a destroyed building or to share allows me to pay for my rent by making efforts so my children can have a good future i want on the study and not have a life like my. fourteen year old or me this getting ready to take the field when he's not in his football uniform or in school he helps his mother clean houses to make money. a financial situation isn't good so i go with my mom to work two three four times a week my father has been sick for twelve years had a strike and he can't move

a sweep stairs i clean and wash doors and yards i don't like it but we have to do it. says when he's at practice he feels honor and pride and somebody wants to play professionally for now in this place kids in iran forced to grow up too fast and hold on to childhood dreams a little while longer. to her on. now this week all it is there is looking at the threat to forests around the world in an effort to save them one in four people depend on them for their livelihoods but the world has lost nearly hof its forests this map from global forest watch shows tree cover across the world in green the pink areas highlighted the total of the three hundred thirty seven million hectares of tree cover that was lost globally between two thousand and one and two thousand and seventeen and that's an eight point four decrease since two thousand well the united kingdom has one of the lowest levels of woodland coverage in europe and campaigners say it's at risk of deforestation unless more trees are

planted that is why the government has backed a plan to create a new forest the project will see fifty million trees planted over a three hundred kilometer stretch of land during the next twenty five years emma hayward has this report from the north of england. it's hard to put a value on nature but jane and d n a trying to establish the environmental value of trees in terms of reducing pollution and the carbon they store in greater manchester they're working on a project to plant more trees and eventually establish where a new forest stretching from one side of the country to the other will go the northern power east is an ambitious plan to turn part of england's industrial north green during the next twenty five years conservation charity the woodland trust wants to plant fifty million trees they all about trace a we're hoping that will come up with some suggestions of where large scale

plantings games could be it will help us to identify gaps in tree cover it helps to fine you areas to some of these trees all countries as well as the fifty million about thirteen percent of the u.k. is couplet in woodland but in the area for this new forest it's less the landscape here really began to change during the industrial revolution at the start of the nineteenth century since then the population has gone up and so too has the need for housing and industry the tree population die and parts of northern england has dwindled to under eight percent conservationists say more trees need to be planted across britain to counter the future affects of climate change and the impact of big construction projects such as a new high speed rail line and plans to build hundreds of thousands of homes not far from london is home would nestled next ancient woodland is the culmination of

a decade long project to transform arab a land into a new native forest environmentalists say hundreds of ancient woodlands in britain are under threat the aspiration is to plant five thousand hectares of new york to berlin. in the last plan. unsing season on your thousand haters were planted in a season for only seven hundred hectares were planted which was the lowest in a generation each year you miss the target just gets further away the u.k. government says it's committed to planting eleven million trees by the middle of twenty twenty two in greater manchester conservationists are thinking long term to secure a green efficient but the peach or emma who would al-jazeera in northern england line touch us and no shots on target he is saying bolt has made his debut for a professional football team this friend legend had a brief read out as a substitute for a stranger central coast mariners and a pre-season friendly and our correspondent andrew thomas was at the game.

a mine a pre-season friendly against a team of amateurs this was not the sort of match that would normally attract much attention or much of a crowd but this was different for one reason. the same vowel. sound. the same belt is a sports megastar just not seen this sport as an athlete he won gold medals and broke a limb pick records in beijing london and rio as a footballer his debut was here at the central coast stadium in gosford an australian city of fewer than two hundred thousand about eighty kilometers north of sydney for i think he actually has one place that i've really watched that. the average guy put himself in our vessels and bolt has done previous trial periods with dortmund in germany and at clubs in norway and south africa he's also played

in charity games with television chefs but this was his first match for a professional club even though he wasn't playing in a professional capacity the match was against a collection of i want to play this brought together to give the central coast mariners a stretch of their legs the mariners were as expected the much better team both was as expected perhaps their weakest player but also their biggest star. coming on a subsidy same ball played just the last twenty three minutes of the game and although his team did win comfortably he didn't fight much part in the victory but this tryouts well they say it's all about votes people i think know i think he's prevented from reading this. this was. more of a prize very trying to the credit score in its tracks a better way to think that this is the receipt you see at the central coast

mariners. said boat can stay with them indefinitely but does not mean the two necessarily contrite who'll graduate from you and your thomas on to the gospel story. and before we go remember you can always find more on our website so find that go to al-jazeera dot com. hello again here's a reminder for main stories and al-jazeera russia says the killing of of an eastern ukrainian separatist leader alexander amounts to an act of international terrorism the russian backed leader of rebels in donetsk was killed in a blast at a cafe in the center of the city russia has accused ukraine a. go to try to unleash a renewed war in eastern ukraine by kiev says it had nothing to do with the blast and said blaming separatist infighting ugandan opposition politician bobby wine is

thought to be on his way back to the airport after being released from a government hospital one was detained on thursday along with another politician while trying to board a flight to the us wine says he was leaving to get medical care for the injuries he had sustained during government tension at least a dozen fishermen in yemen have been killed in a saudi m.r.c. coalition air strike according to the media they say it happened off a kuan island which is part of her data province the coalition says the boats were being used to smuggle weapons and russia's foreign minister says the syrian government has every right to chase what he called terrorists out of the last rebel held on klav of eat it live some three million people live there and that includes more than ten thousand rebel fighters but the u.n. has warned it could lead to a mass displacement of people. and that you would need as the united nations refugee agency plays

a role in massive presence. especially in the areas of return now this is sometimes possible sometimes more difficult it is linked often to the security situation argentina's an economic crisis is worsening the currency has sunk to historic lows despite the central bank raising interest rates to sixty percent that's the highest in the world. and hundreds of mourners have gathered at the detroit church for a music infused funeral for a week there franklin a ceremony included tributes by the former u.s. president bill clinton and civil rights leaders jesse jackson and al sharpton there have also been musical performances from shaka khan and ariana grande's a. well those other headlines stay with us now for a walk on china's democracy experiment.

tens of thousands of demonstrations erupt across china each year driven by anger over corruption and the illegal sale of communal land most protests fail to make an impact but in two thousand and eleven one to the chief by the. consulate just rose up demanding the return of their land calling for their leaders to step down to decades of corruption. amid a crackdown activists say it's improving died in police custody. but who can achieve thinkable the right to choose their own delusions.