i'm sure he's going to turn. thousands of serbian opposition protesters have surrounded the presidential palace they gathered as president alexander gave a defiant speech he defended his government up to three months of weekly demonstrations a day earlier protesters broke into the state t.v. station demanding favorite coverage. authorities in paris have begun a huge clear up after violent yell of this protest cause extensive damage on one of the world's most famous streets rioters ransacked and set fire to shops and other businesses along the shores elisei the violence started when protesters threw smoke bombs and stones at the police more than two hundred were arrested the demonstrations began four months ago of a proposed fuel tax odds but a groan and a wider protests against president. venezuela's opposition leader has begun a national tour and a new effort to oust president maduro one guy though started what's being called operation of freedom in the northern city of valencia is in a power struggle with the duo it accuses the united states of masterminding

a plot to overthrow him. now in the u.s. former gang members are doing their bit to reduce gun violence and that's taking a novel approach as it was john hendren reports from chicago. follow the tracks from the chicago skyline and you'll find some of the most violent neighborhoods in america. last year here in the windy city five hundred thirty people were murdered fewer than the previous two years that's not a seed. vault. where a group called cure violence is using a novel approach to reduce the killings treating violence like an epidemic and sending health workers mostly former gangsters into dangerous neighborhoods to stop the contagion a lot of people don't know valises like it's contagious disease you know say. he is watching us you know saying do the same thing i've got to do this to sell the

approach started in two thousand after spending fifteen years with the world health organization battling tuberculosis cholera and aids in africa dr gary slotkin returned to chicago to find an astonishing parallel it looked to me just like these other problems like these other infectious diseases to say the maps showed clustering just like cholera and a. contagious disease. in west chicago in the most dangerous police district in the country shootings and killings fell sixty seven percent in the first year since then the program has expanded to several of chicago's worst neighborhoods and to twenty five other cities in more than fourteen countries we joined the group in two thousand and thirteen when a rival gang shot up the van of a man called grandad in a case of mistaken identity as the gang prepares to retaliate granddad calls cure violence then known as ceasefire after the violence. a tense negotiation the

government offer three hundred dollars for repairs the price of a life here. is what. happens so a little interaction now a more peaceful summer studies show neighborhood violence interrupters can reduce killings by fifty to seventy percent new york and los angeles each spend about twenty five million dollars a year on the program. but funding for chicago where it all began is just five to six million dollars a year and each year the city sees more murders than the two larger cities combined but even five million has made a difference john hendren chicago. time for another short break al jazeera when i

come back a level of sports a last minute goalkeeping era makes all the difference a semi final line up with a side in the english f.a. cup somehow we hear about story more that spells. player. some during these are tougher than others. but this road trip is even tougher than the car under the truck there it's dangerous there's al-jazeera world follows the moroccan truck drivers in danger in their lives. just to make a living if you crash that might break your miracle or even kill you because a parade is known food. from a good zero to dust analogy zero. three years after the u.k. voted to leave the european union accept is yet to take foreign can britain seen through its divorce from its european maybank to focus the whole process to still

be revived to stay with al-jazeera for the latest. they were searching for sanctuary in australia but instead would have time for years on a pacific island now one o one aced follows the journey of two refugees as they forge a new life in north america on al-jazeera. welcome back titles board. thank you very much mostly this driver has won the opening of the formula one season fenn described the melbourne victory as the best race of his korea with teammate lewis hamilton finishing at this second and the

richardson reports. a new season but six familiar looking the sadie's cars at the front of the grid in melbourne. there was a surprise on the first corner though as founts reports us past his teammate and defending world champion lewis hamilton. never looked back and built up a twenty second lead while hamilton has a battle to hold on to second place. not secured homegrown preferred danny ricardo in his first race firenado he lost his front wing in the opening seconds and was forced to retire midway through the race. car science fared a little better in his mclaren the spaniards hopes went up in smoke on lap nine. the wrong rehab looks impressive in pre-season testing but their pairing of charles leclerc and sebastian vettel struggled so much miss a reason red bull red bulls much to stop and overtaking vettel on his whites with third place finish. in front also claimed the extra points on offer this

season for the fastest lap of the race on his way to a first girl prix win since twenty seven c. i thought that. the start was really get. it was stephanie my best race ever. i don't know what happened i just felt so good and everything was under control and. call was so good today truly enjoyable i mean i have to enjoy today i know it's going to get we can for the for the team so i have to be happy for everyone and i really fantastic job from everyone that got to drive an incredible race today so he truly deserved it and we just got some work to do but still it's you know it's a great great start to the year five time champion hamilton will be concerned at how far ahead of course us was for rory to be desperate to finish on the podium at the next screen perri in bahrain and he richardson al-jazeera. pakistan is taking another big step and it's a rebirth as

a cricketing nation the country is out to prove it can host major international games on sunday at the city of karachi hosted the final of the pakistan super league which was the one where gladiators the majority of games in the competition were played in the united arab emirates for security reasons but this final is the eighth league game pakistan has been able to stage this season is the most high level cricket has seen in a decade. this time became a no go zone for international cricket to after the sri lanka team was attacked by gunmen in a long haul in two thousand and nine no test matches that have been played in pakistan since then it was in bob wisher lanka and the west indies have all returned for limited overs games and in the last few days thirty nine international players that have been competing in karachi in the pakistan super league. our correspondent says this is

a big day for pakistan cricket. unprecedented security measures are in place in the southern port city of karachi where the pakistan super league final is being hailed now this is a city which has been revived while and in the past target killings terrorist attacks but after a massive clamp down by the security forces the atmosphere in this southern port city is now conducive to holding large events such as the p.s.l. final in the port city of karachi i want to thank the rangers the police everyone who has been organizing everything because they have made us feel so safe and unharmed and feels like the this true fun living spirit of corruption is coming out again the people of karachi are excited because this is a country that is passionate about cricket they're turning out in large numbers

we've been talking to the people to ask them about their opinions and this is what they had to say i mean i've been here now been shown so much love from the people from karachi used to love is a cricket you know the love of cricket is encroaching crouches the city of peace and love and you can see around a lot of women and men and everybody even a lot of ethnicity and everybody's come together and we all are going to enjoy this night in the past most of the championships were held in the united arab emirates but the country's prime minister imran khan has said that the next super league will be done and he wants to encourage foreign teams to come in despite the ongoing tensions red india and the fact that the country's space is still closed the people of karachi have turned out in large numbers a former pakistani cricketing captain said that the pledge who has come to pakistan all good will ambassador. for the country and are also pleading pakistan's bloggers

gone wrong to tell the war there is a bird or larger range. and there's. also the country they're going to make. after his champions league heroics against athletico might be his question or naldo was given the day off by you ventris in his absence that you have a slip to lead defeated this it to a near last against you know always us first syria for us in eleven months but they still need second place napoli by eighteen points at the top of the table. later on sunday there was a classic doubly between ac milan and into milan went into the game having not lost in syria since before christmas but they conceded early and despite a couple of fight backs it was into landed the decisive blows they won three two at the san siro and go above their rivals and to. liverpool have moved back to the top of the english premier league they beat for them

a two one on sunday before everton defeated chelsea that draw on at liverpool go two points above manchester city who have a game in hand. the reason for that is the city were in f.a. cup action this weekend and they've been drawn to play brighton and hove albion in the semifinals brighton only just made it through their quarter finals at millwall on sunday the second division london team went up against the premier league side of brighton the fold back to make it two one and then a mistake from millwall keeper david martin of forced extra time and up going to penalties and it was brighton who reached their first f.a. cup semifinal since one thousand nine hundred eighty three. mixed martial arts and boxing star khana mcgregor made a surprise appearance at the boston bruins game ahead of patrick's day ether two year old irish fighter was there to drop the puck at the bruins game against the

columbus blue jackets and the bruins definitely had the luck of the irish on their side as they won two one his boston's brad marshall copying mcgregor celebration dance when he scored the overtime winner. and that's always fall for me will have more later on. some of thank you well that's it for me down in jordan for the news but don't go away because the back in a moment with much more of the day's news that you. took. up to.

the final version. driven by outrage and spanning generations the rohinton demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticized repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was palpable if you don't like was so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow they'll send back ten and the day after tomorrow they'll send back twenty thirty or if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the rancho are among the most persecuted minorities in the world the ultranationalist

monks connected with one of the world's worst humanitarian crisis we doe as any good migrant joining with the military to impose a deadly political agenda we have two photos of our nation what has happened to the engine that's one of the biggest stains on the country as a whole. this is not religion this is the politics me and an unholy alliance on al-jazeera. new zealand prime minister leads the nation in mourning as preparations for the first funerals of the fifty victims of the.

shock and disbelief and relatives of the suspect charged. in the occupied west bank. fulfilling a promise the new president of the democratic republic of congo. political prisoners free. preparations for the first funerals of the victims of the new zealand mosque attacks are being finalized fifty people were killed by a gunman who attacked worshipers during friday prayers in christ church while the country mourns the dead attentions also focusing on preventing another attack ever happening again but people across the country are waking up to heightened security extra police officers have been deployed around schools businesses and places of

worship new zealand's government is set to tighten gun laws after prime minister. reiterated her promise to do so and here she is signing a condolence book as she paid tribute in wellington to the victims and grieving family members and they're preparing to bury their loved ones the prime minister says all the bodies are expected to be returned to their families by wednesday well andrew thomas joins us live now from christchurch in new zealand you've been talking to family members of some of. victims one of the i've been telling you andrew. and i have also but in a moment just a quick update on the investigation first we just heard from place in australia within the last hour that two raids have taken place by counterterrorism offices in the northern part of new south wales close to grafton which is the town where the main suspects in these attacks originally came from a town called sandy beaches about a half an hour's drive away from grafton the a.b.c.

in australia is reporting that the homes of his mother and his sister friends in terms mother and sister have both been raided so i hope we will find out a bit more about why they mounted those raids and what they found if anything a little later on monday but you're right i have spent part of the morning with the family of a seventy one year old who was killed in the al nor mosque which is down the road behind me on friday devastating really he was the patriarch of a family he come here many decades ago i met his wife i met two of his five children two of his nine grandchildren all of them of course mourning the loss of a man who'd come here from afghanistan because he thought this would be a safer better country to bring up his family and until friday it was their all devastated of course they're also frustrated because they haven't yet been able to get his body back to bury him now they understand why there's a long identification process and it's very difficult when some victims were shot

in the heads and of course autopsies need to be carried out meticulously on all fifty victims they'll be a criminal court case it's not enough just to say that someone was shot and that's how they died they need to establish exactly where the bullet hit them how it travelled exactly what caused the death because that will be gone over in any criminal court case nevertheless funerals are being prepared graves of being dug here's my report. on the outskirts of christ church they are digging graves fifty needed now the official number killed rose on sunday when police clearing bodies from the two mosques attacked found one they had not been aware of before. a list of victims names have been shared with the police commissioner confirmed that the man they have in custody brenton tyrant is the only suspect in friday's attacks three others arrested shortly after they took place or not now believed to have

been involved. called a witness the immediate aftermath of the attacks he was driving past the al gore mosque and saw people running he jumped out of his call to help the wounded and the dying it was a. daughter who are fighting for their laws particularly the daughter to be about five she was touching god. i've not a vote and managed to get the father of the daughter in the back of that and out because the ambulances were coming on their way to latin because i was on the edge of the court and i would let them because the area was a secure. you know what happened to that go what's been going on here that there was a father and daughter that hostile wife and the daughter this fall i don't know whether that was the same. volatile that we were here. in wellington new zealand's prime minister met with muslim communities to again stress a solid darity and support and around the country

a christian church services muslim victims were in the thoughts and prayers more than thirty people remain in hospital some still in a critical condition many of the patients that are being operated on from the incident require more surgeries as a consequence of the complexity of the nature of the injuries in a christ church where house volunteers are giving their time and florists their flowers to make bouquet is to lay on coffins each one represents a life a family member that were a bomb or day its. own brother or sister. church or a sound if it's smart. there will be fifty bouquets for fifty newly dug graves. and i'm sure the police say they'll be heightened security across the country so what are people like to see on the streets the.

well briefly more place that's what the place commissioner has promised right across new zealand but we all want police protecting every mosque in the country as well the mosques were closed for a period over the weekend they've been reopened people can go to them but they will be more protected than they were before having said that and i can only speak for christ church although you do see more place on the streets the need already ordinarily expect in a city like this and although those that i've seen are armed and that's unusual for news events you're not seeing masses of place on the street and to most intents and purposes this city is getting back to normal this is dean's avenue that runs right past the eleanor mosque but it's now the only street in christ church that remains closed off to traffic and people can walk most of the length of this road as well so i would want to overdo the police presence or the restrictions that exist even here in christchurch you see more people carrying bunches of flowers to memorials to be honest than you do police officers and certainly place officers with guns

just to update you on what's likely to happen later on monday there's going to be a big memorial we're expecting fountains of people to come outside the al gore mosque in about three hours time for a big public memorial organized by high school students who lost some of their classmates in that attack. on monday we'll also get an update from the place they should give us the live latest information on the police investigation and we're expecting some kind of comments as well from the center of new zealand's prime minister she's been holding meetings with her cabinet ministers talking about reform of the gun laws she's promised that those changes will happen swiftly she's meeting her ministers to discuss proposals and we expect to talk at some stage on monday about that or to under thomas there in christchurch andrew thank you. well the man charged with the shootings is from australia and his hometown of grafton some of brenton town's family members have spoken of the shock and disbelief we're all gulps mike we don't know what to think it's.

you know the major sighing he's painted for a long time so he's of this league not of san ramon i don't think it's only since he traveled overseas so i think that boy. can play play to a new which i sorry for the families over there for the data in. there which is something no one else does want to go on. with our reporter yarloop melhem went to grafton in the state of new south wales in sabah community trying to distance itself from the man charged over there. it's dawn and the sleepy provincial town of grafton is waking up to another day a reflection about the horrific events in christchurch and its connection to it. brenton tarrant spent at least the first twenty years of his life in grafton before travelling around the world he went to the local school and worked as

a personal trainer in a gym his alleged attack on two mosques in christ church last week has deeply disturbed religious leaders in his hometown where he got inside to you now he said you know they were all we all sectarian you know how all of the people are going to leave the members of the muslim community in christ church the mood here is samba this is a community grappling to come to terms with one of their own baying a suspect in the worst mass killing in new zealand's history it's just a time for the community to gather and just kind of be together get strength from solidarity and hopefully put our roots down deep and sign are we not that's that's not us what happened and what this guy did is not is not crofton's parishioners who know the tyrant family say it's well respected and has been here for generations like one pipe and farmer. good down bourke probably or what did you think when you

heard that someone from grafton was involved. others had a message for christ's church people grafton just reach out and say you know we we don't know what went wrong but obviously that will come in but you know we just saw the president here and and hope that he can get some sort of closure while the town family has deep roots here community members say it's keeping a low profile following the attack in christchurch we've managed to speak with people who knew brenton tarrant well they say they don't want to appear on camera because they don't want to be associated with the alleged killer of a fifty people they say the man accused of the christ church attacks is not the man they once knew yarber mohammed al jazeera grafton. the voice was new zealand's rights relations commission and she says the attack in question shows is on the rise most new zealanders would probably think we are one of most peaceful

countries on earth and that this doesn't happen in new zealand in martin ms rice rations commission is a walk in new zealand i tried really hard to get new zealanders to understand that it she this happens in our country you know that most marginalised and vulnerable groups face abuse and discrimination every day you know and i think you know i haven't made a muslim woman new zealand who hasn't suffered some form of abuse discrimination you know and we might think that that's. it and in the signs were there that it was building you know in recent years these things have increased and in the full people in the government to actually take them seriously and i think that's what's happened as people would actually taking these threats seriously you know it also happens to our jewish community.