drop to friday's demonstrations marking the anniversary there also to protest against the divided militarized nature of daily life in the part of hebron twenty percent of its area that remains under israeli control this was the commercial hub of hebron old city but since the division the palestinian shops in this market have been shuttered only israeli traffic is allowed to drive down these roads there is a a heavy security presence everywhere it's yet another illustration of just how otherworldly the city has become over the last twenty five years it's noted by this group of french muslims on a tour one tells me the checkpoints look like they're for cattle not humans. it's present in a jewish group that came in days earlier and the heavy army escort the guide calling the activists in their observer vests terrorist supporters twenty five years since the mosque massacre hebron remains a place of close quarters friction a frequent flashpoint of violence. that joins us live now from hebron it's clear that this this horrible event is that

a mark of the palestinians. that's right it's legacy looms very large here not just in terms of the memory of what happened that day but the very physical and political aftermath the effects that continue until now and so that's what this proves that these two protests when to stand against a place today are about the i'm marking both that event and also the continued situation of division and militarization here in the city of hebron i'm joined by the head of the group that you saw in that package you think and settlements. is so what is going to happen to you leading one of these two protests what do we expect . we are trying to get this peacefully and pray here to commemorate the twenty fifth anniversary of the most massacre we remember of the twenty ninth busting us who were killed in the mosque were protesting against the closure of that which that we could do checkpoints in our own city the harassment and the recent. attacks

on us as well austrians and you know we are asking for international protection specially after you know dismissing the temperate or national of prisons and he began we don't feel safe and we are saying it loud we are expecting more and more of massacres especially after the right wing you know can assist you know joining forces to you know go over the policy or rights and the just are working to results and you know displace us from our own cities we have seen clashes on this day and in past years this is the twenty fifth anniversary so it's a big anniversary as you say there are various political events as a backdrop to all this can we expect still think violence i mean is this going to get nasty today israeli government doesn't respect nonviolence they don't respect any kind of general assembly of the palestinian people as well as the people we are under the israeli military law which means we don't have any right photogen that are simply and usually soldiers they attack the protesters they beat them up this

should do wear them even though we are these. will and we are asking for international backup for a lot of resistance as palestinians we are only asking to indefinitely completion and get our full rights job in the streets and make is that accountable for their you know and for their security suggestion and separation in the brown in jerusalem and over the last thirty five years have seen palestinian attacks as well as settler attacks and shootings by the army the israeli army says that this is all necessary for security in what is a very tense city the israeli occupation according to the international law is illegal the settlements there it's a war crime according to geneva convention so it's about isn't really violence it's about israeli occupation it's about israeli apartheid it's about my rights as a palestinian who is living in his own city ok thank you very much you samara will be here throughout the events which we're expecting over the next few hours as i

say the youth again settlements protest and then potentially a larger one linked to the ruling fatah political faction in the occupied west bank so check in with us again and we will take you through those events as they unfold today ok ocelot press and iran thank you so had on al-jazeera. you don't have to carry any piece of anything just a body maybe ten years everything. else or the latest trend that's literally getting under its interests then to protect them from hacking. i was very much a tad of two seasons in year of now very mild weather across western areas stating springlike but massive cloud over its was sent from the eastern parts behind this

cold front we got some great cold air digging in so it was just for the way quite shoppy over the next day or so minus nine the top temperature in moscow with me that topped temperatures minus three there for kiev and yes there is some snow in the forecast as well as the southern parts of ukraine pushing down towards rumania and bulgaria over the next day or two let's look further west where it is certainly on the mild side sixteen cells here for london and for paris and gorgeous spring like weather coming through here the snow that we do have down toward the southeast will sink further south was a nice with over the next couple days spreading across the black sea parts of turkey seen some snow some areas of the balkan see some snow rather wet and windy across a good part of greece as we go through saturday athens will struggle to reach twelve degrees central areas so crisp in vienna just a three degrees celsius but with hanging on to the mid teens there over to was worse than the nineteen in madrid so there is seventy some wards around but the possible after another hand glossy fine and driver but will see temperatures

touching twenty four degrees celsius on friday. sponsor. went on line. with the didn't you for them. to join us on sat all of us have been colonized in some form or some fashion this is a dialogue we are talking about a legal friend to me you have seen what it can do to somebody people using multiple drugs including and some people are seeking it out everyone has a voice. or twitter and you could be on the street and join the conversation amount is iraq.

you're watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now but as well as border with brazil has been closed as president nicolas maduro steps up attempts to stop the usa from getting in the torah says he's considering closing the border with colombia as well. as president donald trump has pulled back from plans for a complete withdrawal of troops from syria two hundred will remain on the ground forming what the white house described as a peacekeeping force and palestinians across the west bank will rally to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of a massacre at a mosque and have brought twenty nine worshippers lost their lives when an israeli settler opened fire in one thousand nine hundred four. world's ability to produce enough food is under severe threat even as we face a growing global population and the variety of plant and animal life crucial for crops and the amount of usable land is on the decline warnings come from the f.a.a. oh that's the u.n. body charged with addressing global hunger it says climate change is behind

a drop in the number of insects needed to pollinate wild food sources while pests and diseases have thrived. at the same time changes in land use pollution over exploitation and over harvesting that's all driving the decline in traditional food sources highlights gambia where many people have been forced to eat alternative often industrially produced foods but the f.a.a. says there is hope if nations educate communities on the importance of diverse plant and animal life and embrace eco friendly practices like flooding what rice fields in california during the off season to entice wildlife back and growing plants alongside crops to encourage the return of pollinating and sex castro is the assistant director general of climate change by diversity and water department at the un's food and agricultural organization he joins us now from rome we appreciate your time very much so when did this decline this noticeable decline began. well it's been a while but we have documented it for the first time in their war shares

a refill sort of five years in the making one thousand two hundred contributors and we know systematizing a monetary decline. but sort of some bull. over fishing and why the fish has been with us about one third of the fishes of the world know over fish just to mention something that we also ignore at the same time we are losing plant some crops and livestock i mean i should leave for not your own response on and climate change will say shit in the consumer is. the. only way to people who are going to records or you know you talked about for example overfishing a lot of these situations it seems are being driven by. people needing a source of income needing a livelihood fishing etc like what what are the types of manmade things that are

driving this it could potentially be pivoted. well mine made i don't i can mention to one is we are forgetting what all were grandparents ate and now all more than sixty six percent of the relation where all eat in from nine crops and from ten fishes species why over grandparents you know they knew all about six thousand different bands on modern by a hundred different fish and as locally we have been you know industrialize sun and commercializing only this us species and over that diet is been with us we think this is one of the problems for the population increase in their way to becoming overweight and obese and also is put in a risk. long term sustainable use of the buy in a bit biodiversity get out of meaning by the livestock plans. fish

only by ignoring and neglecting what we call difficult for forgotten food that our grandparents use is how do you realistically reverse this is that something that would be really expensive because let's be honest sometimes that's what a lot of things can down to as money. yes actually is that but also we thing is then he said mean for the consumers on this that when they reject a tomato or a carrot but it took her market because she's ugly. that is is causing footways that is about thirty percent of all of the their football used to the world is wasted is strong to the to the government that would be enough to feed eight hundred twenty one million people suffering no it is still today and so that

we can do though i think we can do is every country needs to have some sort of. it in seed to conservation areas for agriculture where they can have you know they're looking for the local seeds that are i it is that knowledge job to foreigners pretty sara by we have around fifty seven of those sites around the world we need to increase that in addition we have seen barns. eleven of those are global it's not obvious to us all the high quality of some of them you know in the high north where there's no on the ice. we need to make this sustainable the not enough financial way and they are not so in addition to the consumer practices we would need also to happen insurance practice with a given bines and there their special area that sites for agriculture are nicastro with iran's food and agricultural organization mr castro thank you thank you

welcome to day two of a meeting at the vatican looking at sexual abuse of children by trace will say more testimony from victims some of them have already dismissed an action plan presented by pope francis on thursday is not going far nothing you can see a meeting of the cardinals there happening right now and that it can city or a challenge reports. the vatican now acknowledges that catholicism has an existential crisis it's described this sexual abuse meeting as an attempt to restore the very credibility of the church are opening the unprecedented events on thursday pope francis said action was necessary you don't see. the plague of sexual abuse by the churches many against minors i thought to consult you because all together to hear the holy spirit and listen to the cry of the young justice the way to pastor an ecclesiastic responsibility which forces us to discuss

this together is a burden on our meeting about how to face this evil which afflicts the church and the whole of humanity the holy people of god are watching us and wait not just for simple and expected conviction but concrete and effective measures. senior clergy have been summoned to the vatican from all over the world francis wants bishops and cardinals to understand that sexual abuse by priests is a scandal that they all have a responsibility to stop for a lot of years the first the problem was to call them to avoid the scandal of the good name of the church now. is not going to happen and something is changing that is a process that needs time and i told about the victims of abuse like canadian leona hawkins who was abused by a priest from the age of twelve reassured by what they've heard from the meeting so far as survivors were on the outside i'm concerned some of the things that i'm

hearing coming out the bishop said this morning that we're looking for mercy for both the survivor and the perpetrator this focus should be on the survivors only on the crime of clergy abuse you know what you say may be on the outside but survivor groups like ending clergy abuse and still trying to keep up the pressure hoping that their message. getting three the phrase they keep using here is the original rejected i don't know why they wanted sex of the. throne and i know of the priests trying to save it for those who may have been doing that to me and if you leave this thing at the vatican wrong has not produced on it and the people here won't be satisfied that the catholic church here is really facing up to its responsibility to protect i don't always really want to challenge this how does it right. the new bio technology advances are making simple things like car keys id cars and even train tickets almost obsolete as done by inserting a microchip under scan thousands of swedes are now using the hi tech advance

reports from london southern sweden. the most cutting edge thing about town is isn't the phone in his hand it's the microchip actually in his hand the tiny implant is the latest advance biohacking technology that is steadily becoming a part of normal life in sweden we have created a new implant which is not a chip it's a full device where you can different lights different. different functions suetonius a very take literate society and i think this is the main explanation really why a lot of swedes are adopting chip implants. swedes haven't been shy about upgrading themselves with the new version thousands already have a microchip implants that they use in their daily lives waving their hand to gain entrance to the gym confirm their id or make payments for

a short moment of pain not putting them off becoming part sweet part machine. this event is an implant party simply where own re people can show up and get a microchip embedded under that skin the biohacking movement in sweden is hosting them all over europe but it's at home where they get the most willing recipients i think it's really cool you don't have to carry any truth really it's just a body maybe ten years everything will be new. in sweden more than anywhere else the future is already here the national train company s.c.a. has around two thousand six hundred people signed up to use microchips instead of train tickets. and no need to mind the generation gap eighteen year old phyllis and father magnus still bear the scars of the new implants. student thomas hoving is also freshly chipped and now just needs to program it to open doors although

importantly for a future crew it does already connect to some people. i don't know if it's safe all that but people have been putting these chips into animals for twenty years so i'm not worried about that the long term goal is for the new chips to help provide medical care in remote communities that are already getting under the skin of the swedes there may soon become just another normal part of modern life of the human body whole race al-jazeera and sweden the japanese spacecraft has landed on an asteroid thought to be as old as our solar system or celebrations at the exploration agency and. when we probe touched down on for you to asteroid explorers expected to return in two thousand and twenty with samples of the asteroid expected to answer questions about the origins of our solar

system and even life on earth. richelle carey let's recap the headlines now on al-jazeera venezuela's border with brazil has been closed as president nicolas maduro steps up attempts to stop the u.s. aid from getting in the torah says he is considering closing the border with colombia as well opposition led volunteers are trying to get the first delivery into venezuela by saturday but the army is blocking them. yes president donald trump has pulled back from plans for a complete withdrawal of troops from syria two hundred will remain on the ground forming what the white house described as a peacekeeping force and staying in syria at least twenty people were killed after an explosion at the market and village near it ours or there is held by the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces and as close to an oil field palestinians across the west bank will rally to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the massacre at a mosque in hebron twenty nine worshippers lost their lives when an israeli settler

opened fire in one thousand nine hundred. day two of a meeting at the vatican looking at sexual abuse by priests will see more testimony from victim some of them have already dismissed an action plan presented by pope francis on thursday is not going far enough india says it will divert water away from pakistan after last week's attack and in the administered kashmir that killed forty paramilitary troops under a deal signed in one nine hundred sixty pakistan and india agreed to divide water in the region and they are currently allows water that it is not used to go to pakistan but it's not clear when and how new delhi plans to stop that supply tens of thousands of people have rallied across the block accusing the government of inaction in the death of a journalist that's been one mirror since investigative reporter jon crew shock was shot along with his fiance and what prosecutors say was a contract killing it was to publish a report alleging ties between politicians and the italian mafia and a japanese spacecraft has landed on an asteroid thought to be as old as our solar

system or celebrations at the exploration agency in sydney harass when the probe touched down on the or you go asteroid traveling through space three hundred forty million kilometers from earth are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera the stream is up next. much hussein is now being held in pretrial detention for two years what is his crime. why hasn't he been tried yet why hasn't justice been applied in this case is he detained because he said journalists journalism become a crime have moles become a tool to silence weiss's of truth we will continue our news coverage with professionalism and impartiality our work will remain credible and accurate but journalism is not a crime incarcerating journalists is not acceptable we demand the immediate release of our colleague mahmoud to say and all journalists detained in the gyptian jails.

and all his colleagues we stand for press freedom. higher my name is riad betsy i want international journalists and your industry. right. here in the street to day is there a war on truth noun journalist maria ressa joins us to discuss her fight for press freedom and we want to hear from you leave your comments or your questions for maria in our live you tube chat and you too could be in the stream. a free and independent press is the cornerstone of democracy and the philippine john is maria ressa wants it to remain at rest as a mission and what she calls the war on truth is the subject of the new al-jazeera

witness fell out this month have a look. digital media. is the founder of blind side. fake it is whatever power doesn't like the president of the philippines go to turkey because he wants to kill as many people involved with drugs as possible lists his critics of. the. grappler on my site known to be critical of the government and its license revoked a few weeks ago. and it's just it's sad when people don't know what is real and what is freak. don't. then the voice with this megaphone more power this is the time to fight this is the time to tell here here's the light and you have to make sure that our government doesn't cross it because

when. we're no longer. joining us live from manila a woman who needs almost no introduction and journalist at a time magazine's person of the year maria ressa i mean sydney australia ya know she's also a journalist and the filmmaker behind the documentary about maria airing this month on al-jazeera welcome to yarrow welcome maria yeah we're going to talk about the film later in the program but first maria what is it like covering a story and being the story at the same time extremely uncomfortable and you know i wish it would end tomorrow but at the same time i'm watching and looking at everything with our. it's i just don't believe the events that are happening. you say that it's uncomfortable actually being part of the story and covering the story at the same time but there was

a moment in december when you arrived at manila airport and journalists were waiting to see you and i had questions and you having just got off the plane did an impromptu press media conference i don't see much discomfort have a look for us. on the ground you know. how do i feel about being arrested. well number one i am going to hold my government accountable for publicly calling a criminal i am not a criminal i have been a journalist my life i will continue to hold the government the second this obviously. it makes you feel better but i think that's the point right the point is for the government to actually make you feel its power and that it can do what it wants to do including bending the laws to the point that it's broken.

that's a position that you don't have to think about when you're supposed to be reporting running a media organization how did you get those cogent forts together you know i had just gotten off a long haul flight good morning but i knew an arrest warrant been issued for ludicrous charges and i was i was surprised by what was at the airport but at the same time i thank you this is what i've had to do for most of twenty eighteen is anger management and what has taught us is to be able to concise in expressing exactly what every what is happening in the moment and and what it means for the future. well real you called the charges there ludicrous and i think there are several in our community that would agree and others as well who are on line this tweet is from the u.s. embassy in the philippines who doesn't normally weigh in on these types of things

they write we hope the charge against journalist and rappler c.e.o. maria ressa will be resolved quickly in accordance with relevant philippine law and international standards of due process also weighing in former secretary of state of the us madeleine albright who says your arrest by the philippine government is outrageous and must be condemned by all democratic nations i'm proud to call her a friend and to stand with her and defending the principles of a free press so for our audience that isn't aware in your view what led up to this arrest i mean let me be concise again in two months i've had to bail six times and. at least nine cases that are ongoing right now in thirteen months the government has tried to shut down rappler has filed at least five tax evasion has filed the cyber libel. as arrested me and detain me in violation of my rights even because these arrest

warrant i have a right to bail. all of these events by like defended myself and i've tried very hard at the very beginning of it to be far more circumspect i said among comfortable being part of it they now show a very clear pattern it's a trend it is meant a little it's political harassment it's intimidation and it's meant to prevent us from doing our work. ria i'm just looking here at rappler right now and the latest news stories and as a whole range of stories that you're doing from the philippines this is an online news platform what is it that rapping you sing for people who don't follow rappler that continues to irritate the to turn a administration. i think we focus on the small moon. i call it death by a thousand cuts our democracy is impunity. weaponization

that's another favorite word i have because i've been so shocked watching it happen in front of my eyes first the weaponization of social media and then the weaponization of the law meaning both social media has been turned and used against its critics these are exponential attacks on social media that we did a series on as early as need twenty sixteen and then the we and this is from personal experience the way the law has turned and used as a weapon against perceived critics so maria february twentieth just this week was the one year mark of when rappler journalists and yourself included were banned from the presidential palace i pulled out this tweet from. rappler she says it's been a year since i was first banned from covering detectives events let me tell you what that year has been like and of course we can win tweet us on our accounts you can read her account of what it was like to be banned but for you what has that been like covering an administration where you don't have the access. we continue doing

the best that we can do and i actually can trenchard the press secretary about this in a radio interview we were both interviewed at the same time just this sunday and i asked him you know when are you going to let us back in and why have you done this this is a violation of our constitutional rights the constitution guarantees this and he said well. i still answer the questions that that your recorder tweets to me that's not the way it supposed to be again death by a thousand cuts right slowly i think the other part that's concerning to me is levels of impunity. not just in something like press coverage but also in a far more in the british brutal drug war that has been ongoing since july of two thousand and sixteen and that perhaps was really drunk or as well as the weaponization of social media these are the two stories we have not let up on and

we continue to try to government to out i think in the end it comes down to a war on truth because if you can make people believe why are the facts then you can control them what's happening in the philippines in terms of journalism and the ad how facts are viewed is something that ripples around the world and a phrase i don't like using let present a test say use it instead here he is talking about rap have a look. if eight. you know that. i am not so bright. are you going to not only so big. so that his view of what rap a stewing in riyadh can you give us a sense of the atmosphere and the climate with britain which john i saw in the philippines. fear absolutely and that was actually my appeal to the

journalists who after i posted bail i said you know this is. this is meant to send a chilling effect and this was the message of the n b i agent to one of our reporters who was video was doing a live stream that actually when they were trying to arrest me he told our reporter be quiet be silent or you're next and that's precisely the situation i think it's being me getting pregnant not so much about just making just intimidating me it's about sending a message to every other reporter working in the philippines told the line or you could be next and i think that's the fear we need to look because you don't want self-censorship you don't want people to be afraid to ask questions because then we've really gone down the path that's hard to come back from so here's someone who would agree with you she's a journalist in the u.k. a joint effort has and here's what she says this could mean for journalism as a whole think democracy in the philippines on the president's task he's been dead

for some time now and he's seen that and how he treats his opponents especially said it's a dilemma who still imprisoned some like completely fabricated charges by i think detest days now using the international community somewhat hiding away from the philippine drug war or at least losing interest to go off the press and for him that means going off and maria ressa and that does a reading ugly and dangerous preston for genesis not just in the philippines but will of the world's summary i should mention it's a dangerous precedent for all journalists and you're nodding your head at that when he thinking. look when president detective threatens journalists this isn't unique prestrike president trump does that exact same thing except the institutions in the united states are just stronger than in the philippines where it's have

impact and when the most powerful man in the country threatens reporters calls them fake news all of this ripples out and you know there's a.