arc. amnesty international is accusing the u.s. military of killing civilians in somalia the rights group analyzed satellite images from five hours of more than one hundred airstrikes and found at least fourteen civilians had been killed the u.s. military acknowledges that the number of strikes has tripled under the trouble ministration and says hundreds of fighters have been killed but it maintains that they have been no civilian casualties in the statement the u.s. military denied the accusation saying afrikan goes to extraordinary lengths to reduce the likelihood of civilian casualties exercising restraint as a matter of policy assessments found that no africa airstrike resulted in any civilian casualty all injury. is very forces have killed three palestinians in the occupied west bank crowds have gathered for funerals being held on wednesday morning earlier the palestinian red crescent society says the israeli army fired at the ambulance that tried to get to those who'd been wounded. and earlier israeli

forces shot dead a palestinian man thought to be behind an attack in the occupied west bank on sunday the suspects nineteen year or model mean of later was found in the village of wayne north of ramallah low when troops raided the building where he was hiding israel says he was killed after he allegedly opened fire at the security forces that came to arrest him two other palestinians were arrested in the operation. now young the palestinians have launched a new movement with the slogan we want to live there protesting against the worsening economic situation in the gaza strip and accusing hamas of a violent crackdown our correspondent and ron cowen has more from gaza. asama quaalude can barely sit because he's in so much pain young journalist who went to cover the protests happening outside of his house by the hunger protest as they have been dubbed have been held all over the gaza strip asama documented the ones in his neighborhood on his social media accounts and with his camera soon after he

says members of hamas broke into his house beat him up and destroyed his equipment he then says he was taken away and tortured for three days general very little. i knew the sensitivity of covering such an event and so i didn't want to cover it i was criticized for that by my neighbors because i'm the only journalist here so then i went to cover the event and suddenly hamas police stormed my house beating me up destroyed my kit and took me away says it's crackdown on the protests because certain groups want to bring disorder to the streets of gaza i don't deny that there are some mistakes and this mistakes will be investigated by the police and we are against an evolution of the law we are against using go for. power to get us over to suggest people but some people are trying to discredit front of caius. human rights groups say it's because a mass phase the protests could get larger and pose a threat to it even have to be announced for the broadest.

authorities or the police force in gaza cracking down on those even who initiated the call on social media so this means that from day one they have gotten letters for any kind of peaceful protest. out of this on this subject it's not the issue of economic or. any other issue where. they have been opposed to sin. according to the world bank gaza has seventy percent unemployment among young people and it is young people who've been protesting although i have called the hundred demonstrations with the root causes still exists the israeli jets and let's see just been going on for more than a decade now regular israel and a myriad of other things the gazans economic situation is rapidly deteriorating. al-jazeera. donald trump says he is strongly considering nato membership for brazil

the us president made the comment as he welcomed has counterpart to the white house it is. first that his role since taking office in january the pair also discuss the ongoing crisis in venezuela together we could. and and have been really very happy to feed thousands and thousands of starving venezuelan the venezuelan people have appreciated it and if the material forces would step aside it could be a truly great and successful humanitarian project we call on members of the venezuelan military to end their support for madeira who is really nothing more than a cuban puppet and finally set their people free but they will. reestablishing

democracy in venezuela is a shared interest between the two administrations the dictatorial regime in venezuela today is part of a broader international coalition known as the sao paulo forum which nearly conquered power throughout latin america in recent times however by democratic means we were able to rid ourselves from that project in brazil now kazakhstan has a new president cussing john much talk has been sworn in to replace. by a resigned on tuesday afternoon he says he is in power for the rest of the term and april next year. now thousands of students are on the streets of the capital calling for reform for road safety laws the protests fall for the death of a student had by a bus and on tuesday from a child she has more. thousands of students gathered there in the bush in the area of the capital city there blocking the main current fair which connects stuff in our part of the city to the central part of the city let's see what anybody actually talk about this i got some stories here see what their demands are not

that we are protesting they want to feel rather sad done through killings yeah i mean first aid and is going to be going to be some of the law that you have going to actually do killings it's the last one we want peace. now they're legal and in our. timeline in the need out over our shoulder then he will then claim stand back. x. in all times so we need to live who didn't read arnold there but is there i should to mention a similar protest took place last year in the end of july and lasted about a week but thousands of story took to the street in the capital city and other parts of the country will eventually took a political turn now the storm has been continuously demanding that their old safety rules be enforced by the government it is a major problem in bangladesh in two thousand and seventeen report the world health organization said that over twenty thousand people are killed on an average in bangladesh and about forty thousand people are enjoying

a serious concern there are rules and regulation but it's hardly enforced by the government hopefully this time the government will listen to what the student have to say and crack down on the road safety in bangladesh. now we're just nine days left before the u.k. is set to meet the e.u. the british prime minister is expected to off the e.u. president to postpone that departure tories and they will go to brussels on thursday hoping to agree on the terms of and peace have already been checked and have breaks it twice. quote francis has rejected the resignation of a french cardno who was convicted of failing to report sex abuse allegations from a barber on travel to wrong to present his resignation to the pope after being found guilty of covering up sex abuse committed by a priest in france bob brown said the pope rejected it on the basis of the presumption of innocence he is appealing the conviction now google's behind almost one point seven billion dollars for blocking rival search advertisers they say

google abused its dominant position in the market allowing it to maintain an unfair advantage of the competitors. google has engaged in illegal practices when it comes to their search at the time brokering in order to cement its dominance market position. this is the thirds and you trust fine that we have imposed on google in june two thousand and seventeen we find google for its illegal behavior comparison shopping services and in july two thousand and eighteen we find google for its illegal behavior relating to the android robot operating system from all of our apps and services now unusually wet weather on the west coast of the us has turned some hillsides and to a blanket of wild flowers the super bloom of color has attracted crowds to one city in california but it's also of course something of a headache rob reynolds has more. southern california's hillsides have put on their

most gorgeous garment a brilliant robe composed of countless golden poppies it's a rare sight in this usually brown and dusty land heavy winter rains brought forth the blossoms in such abundance that the super bloom as it is known is attracting q.j. crowds to gaze in all it nature's splendor it's amazing it's like we are in heaven most people are chained to a desk and they don't get the chance to see anything like this and you can't even get this on your widescreen t.v.'s i don't think you get to see it up front you got to see it you guys you actually have to see it with your own eyes a few days ago so many people flock to walker canyon near the town of lake elsinore that mayor steve monoliths had to temporarily close the area we just didn't have the crowd control necessary to deal with the enormity of this which. we thought twenty thousand people maybe and we got

a hundred and so disneyland usually gets forty four thousand on any given day so you can figure that you can do the numbers now things are under control with extra parking and more shuttle buses provided we're asking everyone to be kind of mind the trails don't pick the poppies don't own the poppies the kind of nature of the california poppy or s shoulder california is the official flower of the golden state much of its original habitat has been lost to development and invasive plants species some people make a pilgrimage to the wild flowers whenever they appear like a curious sato whose late mother brought him when he was his own son lucas's age the poppy is the sign of remembrance so you know looking at poppies is a good way to remember your loved ones who have passed the poppies hay day will be brief a week or two at most in the fourteenth century the persian poet hoffa's said spring

and all its flowers now joyously break their vowell of silence it is time for celebration. the sun will draw the verdant hills and the poppies will return to the earth as all things mortal must. but for now it is a time for celebration robert oulds al-jazeera lake elsinore california. hello again on the nose of a problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera the first funerals for the victims of new zealand's mosque attacks have taken place a father and son here fed the war in syria were buried in christchurch where fifty people were shot dead at two mosques during friday prayers. and a diplomatic rift has opened between australia and turkey after president regicide at the link to the shootings to australia's involvement and turkey during the first

world war i want to use destroy and new zealand of having an anti muslim agenda when the troops took part in the literally campaign more than a hundred years ago promised to scott morrison has summoned turkey's ambassador. the number of people killed in a powerful cycloid in mozambique has risen above two hundred the united nations says cyclon die could be one of the worst weather disasters to hit the southern hemisphere. u.s. secretary of state's my pompei or has spoken about the importance of a united gulf cooperation council he made the comments in kuwait on the first stop of his middle east tour also fact the country for its role in trying to find a solution to the blockade of qatar by saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and the hurricane. we spoke a great deal today about the rift between the gulf countries we are all working to find a solution. it's not in the best interest of the region it's not in the best interests

of the world we need the gulf countries all working together on the complex set of challenges that face each of them as i think i and i think i've said repeatedly that six is a force for good in the region we are working to help those countries find a set of common ground we all have the same set of threats the threats of a kind in from isis threat from islamic republic of iran and we all are working diligently to find a path forward so that the rift between those countries can be resolved kazakhstan has a new president much talk has been sworn in true place not so found by i have resigned on tuesday after the thirteen years and paul took a while for the rest of the term which ends and april next year. those are the headlines on al-jazeera stay with us inside story is coming up next thank you for watching.

editing human geno's scientists gather in geneva to better regulate research on this controversial issue but how will officials in force rules around on d.n.a. and what are the risks of advance research into human genetics this is inside story . hello welcome to the program i'm has i'm seeking our genetic makeup has fascinated scientists in medical research as for decades they've been significant advances in

the field of rewriting the blueprint of life or on d.n.a. it's been used to treat and prevent a number of disorders and diseases but it could also be used to create what some have called design a baby's the medical world is divided over the approach last year a scientist in china said he created the world's first genetically edited twins it led to global condemnation it is the first attempt at ushering the world into a future in which we can edit the very things that make us human the scientists have gathered in geneva this week to try to come up with some regulations we're bringing i guess in a moment but first many on a honda explains how science works. our d.n.a. makes us unique it determines our height our eye color and they didn't miss it disorders many of us are born with genetic editing offers us a way to fix those faulty jayne's altering alsa mess excels the cells in our organs and tissues and else skin and eyes genetic changes to they cells one person to your

children the problem has been huge initially ulta germline cells the sperm the egg or in the case of the chinese scientist a fertilized egg at the single cell stage those genetic changes are passed on we still don't know what the consequences could be. at this conference in november a chinese scientist he junk we made an announcement that caused a collective gasp the birth of the world's first genetically edited babies he donated the c c r five gene in twin baby girls while their was still in a petri dish to give them protection against hiv he said he knew he was crossing in it the goal line but he did it anyway there will be some long some well history in this if it's anatomy in someone else the scientific world responded with condemnation no babies should be born at this point in time following the use of

this technology it's simply too early to premature is a fantastic technology if it's applied to the right applications semantics our editing that editing cells. adult cells from a fully consenting adult from tass to technology and i'm sure we're going to see it progressing into the clinic but what he did was take this amazing technology and apply it incorrectly. gene is getting trials involve consenting adults but the twin girls known as lulu and nona weren't given a choice the changes to their genes are likely permanent and with consequences unknown the technology to use these extremely error prone and utilizes genetic modification pathways within the cells that. pretty much. very hard to control and particularly have been

known to cause the toshiba's elsewhere in the genome dr he used the chris because ninety acknowledging not to correct but to genetically enhanced of raises the specter of scientists creating so-called designer babies in the lead to potentially make them stronger faster smarter even many scientists are pushing for clear and transparent guidelines even advocating a pause until countries can agree on how to meet the challenges of germline it is having a panel of scientists assembled by the world health organization is now working on a way forward maidana hond al-jazeera. our let's bring in our panel now in singapore we have bio medical ethicist owen schaefer who is an assistant professor at the national university of singapore in boston sharon begley a senior science writer at sta health focused news website owned by the

boston globe and in london helen o'neill lecturer in reproductive and molecular genetics at university college london who researches genome editing as a potential treatment of disorders welcome all of you so helen if i could start with you then why. why did this happen does this event show that we. we may be perhaps be going on a slippery slope here is is it too early to be to be. to be going into into this sort of field. it's certainly too early to go into this field why this happened is down to i think probably one person's hubris and their own motives to advance themselves i don't think it reflects the rest of the scientific community for their motives or that the globe in fact the way the globe reacted was perfectly

resoundingly of how the rest of us feel about it that it was a premature adoption i would say for is it acceptable to to edit the human genome that's a big question i don't know who am i to say i'm i'm just one ethicist i think the most important thing that everyone has been emphasizing now is we need to have a public dialogue on that very question on whether or not we think it's acceptable to alter our genetics to alter the d.n.a. that affect so many of our traits and i think if there's an ethical experiment by heard your inquiry can have any silver lining is that it prompts us it forces us to have our societal debate over these very thorny questions sharon begley what what what what what's the what's the general public's. what's public opinion say about all all of this i mean do you do your criticisms of dr hay in china and his team reflect public opinion at large i think the public is very confused about what the

technology can be used for and where it can appropriately feel used for there had then and then a republican in the united states well well and elsewhere and the general response to those or the question is well it's if you can save a challenge from having a surrogate or even gently. and so before that child was formed would you know when a post like that a large fraction of the public says yes it is it is ethical it is desirable isn't to say that child but then when you start drilling down and use phrases like designer babies and whether this technology is the best of all only to the very very grass will it create a society of genetic had somehow not then not surprisingly the public public opinion dearest toward you know this should not be them. yeah helen helen o'neill i mean sharon brings up a good point there about the design of babies this this is this is the this is the

phrase that really kind of pushes people's buttons when when you get into this subject is the fear that this could be. taken to extremes to so that we could have a society where that sort of happens i mean i know it conjures up sort of dystopian visions of the future and so on but is it a legitimate concern i don't think it's a legitimate phrase at all i think it insults the technology it insults the would be patience when you look at that the two scenarios that were just presented one of them is quite factual that said would you prevent a genetic disorder in a child if they were going to be born with this yes people agree to that that would be a viable viable use for the technology the other tech the other scenario that was presented was to say would you allow designer babies can you define a designer baby we design our babies every time we choose a partner so it's an unfair use of a term that is in correctly defining something that actually does not shed any

light on the situation by calling it designer babies it really insults the technology and would be patients of that would be very actually wanting and willing to do this to prevent serious heritable illnesses in children which you are you would be in favor of further research and further efforts. to encourage. genetic editing that would that would improve people's health prospects. absolutely i think further research is is top of the list not just in terms of skipping to the clinic or skipping to health benefits the major benefit that we will see from doing germline genome editing and the research in the us is to understand more about the earliest forms of human development which at the moment we know surprisingly little about. we mentioned there the did the world health organization is going to get together with lots of people whose business it is to to know this kind of stuff and

come up with some guidelines some boundaries perhaps on how this this research should be should be done going forward. is it going to make any difference you think particularly when there's no real sort of in force mechanisms well that's a difficult question you're the w.h.o. has a certain amount of clout they don't necessarily have direct legal enforcement across various nations but if they produce guidelines it is very possible that their recommendations will carry on a good amount of weight in individual countries but ultimately it is it looks highly unlikely there will be any international treaty on this so it's probably going to be up to individual countries to decide once the diverge over this is its own recommendations how to adapt that to their own proper particular values their own particular norms and their own perspectives on what kind of society they want to live in. sharon begley how how should the medical community or you know people involved in this sort of thing being gauging with the public to to to

inform the more about the pros and cons of all of this well certainly programs like this make a step in that direction but i think there is an assumption here that the medical and scientific community is monolithic in some way on this topic and just lastly we saw that it wasn't eight hundred scientists around more than half a dozen countries call it four and a blanket moratorium on crisper germ line editing for reproductive uses but a number of scientists who in fact lead the development of press for were were absent from the list of people calling for a moratorium so just a few months after dr has announcement the expert community cannot agree on whether there should be a blanket prohibition on this or whether there should be a more sort of case by case decision making and the argument for the latter is if

there is a blanket prohibition if there is a moratorium either world wide or country by country and just to insert there are more than thirty countries already outlaw germline at anchor but if there were a global moratorium the concern is that it would be very hard to undo that and a number of scientists now despite the condemnation of dr who do think that eventually we should not only elaborate but perhaps embrace germ line evidence that the idea that this is an outrageous possibility and the eyes of the entire medical scientific community is simply incorrect. how gnomeo where do you draw the line here on on what's.