the standard for international peace and security since the second world war in space here and thank you for bringing us up to date. hama says political leader ismail haniyeh has made has first public appearance in gaza since his office was bones israeli jets destroyed a number of buildings on monday and she say nights dozens of rockets were fired into israel and he is a clear victory and says a ceasefire brokered by egypt is now in place. palestinian resistance kept its word and the israeli enemy received the message the resistance can deliver its message in the proper time and place i call on our people to commemorate the not by anniversary to refresh their belonging to their land not especially as the great march of return started a year ago i would like to greet our egyptian brothers for their efforts to reach the ceasefire understanding and for stopping the israeli aggression and gaza.

stephanie decker has more now from the israel gaza border fence. the real test will come this weekend when palestinians in gaza mark one year since the start of the great march of return which has seen tens of thousands of palestinians protest along the border fence the real issue that they've been wanting to highlight is that they need to improve how they're living living under blockade by both israel and egypt there are no opportunities people will tell you that it is the worst that it's been in years why because of the economic situation the lack of opportunities and it simply seems to be getting worse now there's been huge sacrifices made throughout this year many have lost their limbs because of israeli sniper fire many have been killed there have been active negotiations mediated by egypt in the united nations to try and increase the flow of goods into gaza to increase the opportunities for people freedom of movement across the borders extending the fishings and there are multiple things that need to be addressed but none of that

seems palpable and this is why we understand from our colleagues inside gaza at the moment we call enter because the official border crossing remains closed including to journalists other than from humanitarian issues is that they are seeing this as a lost opportunity where expecting a huge amount of people to come out and protest along that border fence how is israel going to react is going to lead to yet another escalation we're going to have to wait and see. plenty more ahead on this news hour including. calls for more protests this weekend in bed as well as a pair of black hats continue to grip the nation. i'm joined now in eastern ukraine where they're still fighting a war with russia which the rest of the country with an election looming would rather forget. and this french world cup winner makes a record breaking move to a new club all the details coming up in sports.

a questions have been raised in the u.k. parliament about british involvement in the war in yemen the opposition labor party is demanding answers after british media reported that special forces had been involved in far fights with yemen's rebels the government has also been questioned over allegations that british forces may have provided support for child soldiers as part of the site you me coalition. there is one especially disturbing allegation in the mail on sunday support which was that all forces are providing support to locally recruited saudi funded militia where many of the fighters up to forty percent it was alleged are children as young as thirteen years old so i would ask the minister of state if that is in any way true because if he is then

he will confirm and off forces are not just a party to this conflict but witnesses to war crimes i've seen that we get to the bottom of those allegations i can write a very clear also not in any way with mislead the house. but the allegations that were made in relation to any engagement that involves bringing a child soldiers on board would be i think it would be appalling. charlie angelo has more from london this source of these allegations is a mail on sunday newspaper article which alleges that elite special boat service troops are present in yemen and five were injured after battles insider if true it would wholly contradict the government promises that the u.k. is not participating in the conflict but just providing logistical support to the saudis in riyadh now back in february there were some reports on social media suggesting british soldiers had been injured in a firefight and the daily express newspaper claimed two s.a.'s members had been

injured during a humanitarian operation the difference with this these new revelations is that the mail on sunday is claiming the special boat service squadron were not involved in humanitarian operations but they were providing mentoring teens in yemen translators medics and forward air command whose role is to request support from the saudis. the syrian state news says reporting a number of air strikes targeting the northern city of aleppo the syrian arab news agency says the incidents was and is really a tyrant can claim that syria's air defense forces intercepted several missiles the videos have been shared on social media showing the explosions in aleppo but i'll just zero has not yet been able to verify those claims. five cases of cholera have been confirmed in mozambique's badly damaged port city of beira two weeks after a cycle in it i slammed into the area the u.n.

fears the disease will spread sense says it needs there the three hundred million dollars in aid to help mozambique's one point seven million vixens it i killed more than seven hundred people across southern africa well tony pertly travel to one community in mozambique has been cut off for twelve days. it's a race against time to reach isolated psycho survivors before mao nutrition and disease break out helicopters are scouring the three thousand square kilometer disaster zone in central mozambique searching for the vulnerable and overlooked who desperately need help. in the village of greater two hundred kilometers from here or they found a thousand hungry people if they ate something once a day they were among the more fortunate we are very happy very happy because one remembered it without food without a clean water and without an extension as well so when we saw this helicopter

people were very happy the world food program brought two tons of high nutritional food much to the relief of the villagers who lost everything in the psych loan homes crops possessions and some their loved ones this aid has come just in the nick of time for these people their food had run out they were cut off for twelve days the water's only receded here four days ago they still need flour they still need oil and they still need medicine but for now they're ok they're going to survive but there are other isolated pockets like these around the country who still need help in this area they're used to flooding but not with such ferocious winds more into one before and we didn't expect the cycling to be so bad it was frightening when we were told that the winds will be more than two hundred kilometers per hour we didn't take it seriously that's why so many people suffered . five people from the community were swept away in drowning clued in a young boy most are now having to live in

a local school. aid agencies estimate that they have reached six hundred thousand people so far but they need to get to another one million who need assistance there a lot of risk we really need to make a lot of efforts and we need more money argentina to be able to bring here on the ground before what they what are since then that many things that we need to distribute on time because now playing in full is of athens. just a few days ago the land below was covered in water after two days without rain the levels are receding more roads and tracks are becoming passable and that allows the more effective and cheaper way of delivering aid involved. but that help will need to be long term it's harvest season in this region for the villages a barrage like tens of thousands of others have no crops to harvest no fish left to catch today they will eat but what will the future bring. many cycling victims will

be dependent on international support for the forseeable future. tony virtually al-jazeera varada central mozambique. a cycling leader has devastated parts of some barbed wait sea but there are concerns on social media about how the aid there is being distributed for hillah mohammed has more. it's been almost two weeks since my county die hit zimbabwe's eastern province the district of new money and shipping the hardest hit areas more than one hundred people have been killed and hundreds more on missing aid agencies from the united nations the e.u. and international governments have been donating tons of humanitarian aid including tents medical supplies and food but someone now accusing the government of the rulings on appeal of party of politicizing the disaster and relief donations this video is being said on twitter claiming state run vans a lining up to collect aid saying it's only being distributed to their supporters or being looted

a local news outlet news day zimbabwe said this report online detailing personal accounts of those affected. council gave me two cups of dried beans and potatoes such as i mentioned we didn't get anything all our property was destroyed by the cycling if you want to some effect like political they don't give us anything because the accused m.d.c. supporters. we came at six am to wait for food but none has been brought to us yet and the spokesman of them bodies opposition party movement for democratic change says the aid is being shed along party lines they are moving ahead. they want to put stickers for office on the tracks. this is discriminatory. but the rulings on appeal party strongly denied those accusations here's what a local government minister had to say. that. that

is allowed but i know that. what we're trying to do those. who are many. with their drugs. but it hasn't stopped many zimbabweans from expressing their frustration online some say agencies on the ground should be the ones handing of aid to those in need well steve here says when we donated we didn't mention our political parties we did it as zimbabweans and journalists says all donations must reach victims also like tony di no political party must benefit from the generosity of the public and international community. venezuela's opposition leader is urging his supporters to protest this weekend's against the latest nationwide blackouts which is dragging into a third day says the power ninety one percent of the country it's the

second major blackout this month president nicolas maduro accuses the united states and the venezuelan opposition of sabotaging the country's para system schools and state offices for a call somewhere to stay because of the outages. but it bored. with starving us to death because if there's no electricity at the banks and not operating there's no internet there's nothing people are walking around like mummies trying to get where they need to go without knowing how they all go out looking for food but then they can't buy any because there aren't any jobs but many . people have food in their refrigerators and it goes bad i can't go to work i come here to take the bus i get there and they send us away because there is no electricity it's the last day. of the us president startled trump is demanding that

russia withdraw its forces from venezuela he made the call during a meeting with the wife of opposition leader. the white house moscow has confirmed it sent two military planes loaded with troops and supplies to venezuela last weekend's. well. p.f.c. is life in my co colombia which is near the venezuelan boards or alexander where there are some of the few areas reaction in venezuela just how is this affecting the political standoff between one quite so and the course material. well there are a lot in this situation pretty mainstream i mean this same in the political standoff what the blackouts are doing is that their rooms or seeing the sense of crisis among the beginning swell and the sense that the entire country is on the brink of collapse and we've heard this from venezuela insist teaching about how

their life has just become practically impossible there are no schools for more most of the stores are shut down markets are usually bustling markets in downtown taxes were practically empty again on wednesday didn't mean airports in the country mike if you are close to caracas was in the dark all day the airplanes there are not able to take off so of course people are questioning what exactly is happening who is to blame here and they're wondering if this will be time or if it already is the new normal and the government's here is still keeping a brain space saying that all of this has to do with what they call imperialist sick attacks against the power grid it's coming from a conspiracy from the opposition and their international supporters starting with the united states why does the fed that once again the leader of the opposition why

don't he said this is that clearly the consequence of years of mismanagement of corporate corruption of the lack of investment in the electricity grid that also remembers not only about electricity about food going bad in people's houses but a lot of people or don't have water service in in their apartments in their houses in this is happening more than half of the country and in the capital. and that's like why don't spoke again on wednesday in practising called for another nationwide protest in next saturday he said that this is the start of an operation that he calls operation liberty to finally get rid of the government of president nicolas maduro and out of central meanwhile one quite knows why he was the white house she's meeting with president trump ok my sister meeting.

for the i don't know sally ride those wife she's a twenty six year old journalist activist. opposition she's not well known among the opposition but more people are getting to know her and now she's representing her husband that the united states recognizes as the legitimate interim leader of venezuela in the united states and that's why she met with the president of the united states donald trump the vice president might paint this was an opportunity for them to talk about options on what to do next to try and change the political situation to solve the political crisis in the country and donald trump took advantage of this meeting to once again call on the russian saying that they need to get their troops out of business while at this follows they reported that arrival over the weekend at least two military aircraft from russian.

at least one hundred russian special forces and cyber security officers there so what we're seeing here is that the international confrontation continue and the families will then go to south florida where a lot of venezuelan lives in the united states on thursday ok i was under m.p.'s he will have to leave it there thanks very much for speaking to us from michael in columbia. still to come here on al-jazeera celebrating the nation's past and present qatar opens the doors to its new national museum. keeping the military i hate and you will position alliance in thailand claims a majority in the first vote since a coup five years ago. and simona halep remains on course to reclaim top spots in the world rankings all the details in sports.

i know that we've got plenty of settled weather across north america at the moment in the east the skies are more or less clear further west we are seeing more cloud that's working its way in from the pacific not really a great deal of wet weather with this though the weather system we're watching is this one this is giving us a fairly heavy rain and it's gradually edging its way inland as we head through thursday turning increasingly wintery as it does say and that snowy weather just nudging a little bit further east with still as we head through friday i don't friday we're also going to see more cloud or rain begin to pick up and some of this is likely to be rather heavy but what it's also doing is dragging the winds up from the south of the temperatures have really rowing washington d.c. up to twenty one degrees and for new york we're up at sixteen which is sixty warning fahrenheit even further towards the south and here we've got quite

a few shasta ticket only i reports of cuba and hispan yoga those showers are likely to stick around as we head through the day on friday but breaking up a little bit so a few more joyous lots are expected here for the south and for some of us in colombia it's looking pretty wet at the moment are those showers are stretching for the south as well we're seeing some very heavy downpours through parts of peru that's caused quite a bit of flooding as it has in bolivia as well so this whole region looking pretty wet at the moment for the saudis hot in asuncion and the temperatures will be rising of reporters are you. april on al-jazeera nato leaders will gather to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the alliance in washington d.c. madam husain engages in rigorous debates cutting through the headlines on up front twenty five years on from the genocide that killed nearly a million people rwanda has rebuilt but how far of its people been reconciled the

emmy award winning show phone lines is back with more investigative journalism and in-depth stories israel is to hold an early election on the ninth of april but with a corruption scandal looming will benjamin netanyahu extend his ten years as prime minister april on al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories this hour the british problem has moved to wrest control of the brakes a process from prime minister to resign may has ended in chaos with no agreement on an alternative for her deal with the e.u. over the past the hour a sense he's rejected all ates options for the country's withdrawal from the european union. a session of the united nations security council is currently underway to discuss curious president donald trump's recognition of the occupied golan heights as israeli territory recent comes at the request of the syrian government's trump signed a proclamation in which the us recognized israel's annexation of the area. and venezuela's opposition leader is urging his supporters to protest this weekend against the latest nationwide black aids which is dragging into a third day on why those says the black church has affected ninety one percent of

the country it's the second major power surge this month. of the u.s. federal aviation administration says it is absolutely confidence in the safety of the boeing seven three seven max craft fall into recent crashes that left three hundred and forty six people dead the f.a.a. is acting administrator spoke during. a congressional hearing looking into its oversights of plane manufacturer boeing the company also said it doesn't see a needs to overhaul the way it to file its aircrafts what keith mackey is an aviation safety consultant and also a pilot's he joins us now by skype from a koala in florida casey think care this recent statement from boeing is enough to restore public confidence in the company well it will be once they complete all the modifications are necessary to current the discrepancies that currently exist only or what. those discrepancies that exist on the on the aircraft have certainly

prevents. within the pilot community especially the press and recent revelations of brian's the safety issues with the seven three seven max eights do you think their confidence will be restored. well i think that it well when the fixes are all completed the fixes are going to be quite comprehensive the main problem was the fact that a single sensor and i know attack subs are one defective and not sending the proper information could have caused all problem that the lion air aircraft had additionally when the system attempted to correct the fact that a thought the nose of us too high by pushing it down each time it did the sensor would still provide incorrect information that would continue to push it down so a boeing says doing is they're going to make that sensor redundant it will take two

sensors to agree that the nose is too high the amount of power used to push the nose down will be decreased anabelle only get one push and then it shuts off it will never push harder than what the pilots can override with the controls so i think once these things are done will of done a lot to solve the problem and hopefully restore everyone's confidence and they are applying. do you believe this plane was rushed to markets yes. given that it's a given that statement's if it safe it was rushed to market does that signal perhaps a failure in oversights it could well be a fairly or no oversight i think that this will be resolved the highest levels soon with the criminal investigators involved we've got the f.a.a.

the federal aviation h c involved and i think that when this is completed we'll probably have progressed in our certification procedures to do a better job in the future and ensure that things like this don't happen again keith mackey joining us live from akala florida thank you so much for joining us you're very welcome. now ukrainians for votes on sunday in a tightly forte's presidential election more than forty candidates are running but it's really a three horse race president's petro poroshenko is seeking reelection for the first time since coming to power in twenty four team he's up against opposition these are you the former prime minister popular among older voters she's promising a three fold increase in pensions the wild card says this man don't ski he's a comedian it is a fictional presidents in a popular t.v.

series he's term since a growing discontent over corruption and he appears to be leading in the polls when candidates will need at least fifty percent of the votes to avoid a runoff there war this is happening against the backdrop of the conflict in the east with russian backed fighters now in its fifth year the war has hurt ukraine's will economically important region drains of public resources and exhausted voices and there is no when's in sight i'll just series join a whole reports from the city of mariupol where the conflict is never far away. in ukraine's war zone a new breed of entrepreneur. alexi used his disability payout as an injured veteran to set up a pizza business. in ukraine had been given a motivator people are happy to spend their money rather than save it because they

know anything can happen at any moment. he's not particularly enthusiastic about the upcoming presidential election. because of dark. because of their spinelessness it took volunteers to protect his country where the leadership was too weak to protect it it's all soldiers like alexi from the port city of mariupol formed the hours of the taliban in two thousand and fourteen famous for prevent. russian backed separatists from extending their territorial gains in the donbass region all the way to the sea but mario poll has paid a heavy price its once busy port sits idle empty of the cargo ships that carried steel and coal produced here to international markets russia's efforts to disrupt sea traffic off the annexed crimea peninsula include illegal cargo inspections and a bridge built across the curch strait that's too low for larger vessels heading for mariupol to pass beneath you more but if. they can forgive us that our

country is in the band until zenda stands that ukraine is a free and democratic country unfortunately it will be hard to establish these. then late last year an unprovoked russian attack on three ukrainian navy boats twenty four captured ukrainian sailors are still being held in moscow and international shipping is far less frequently seen in these waters since last november's attacks on those ukrainian naval vessel suggested russia has new territorial designs by strangling traded ukraine's two main force on the sea of as of russia has taken effective control of this inland sea off the coast of crimea in response president petro poroshenko declared martial law in the east if he thought that would win him votes he was wrong with more than thirteen thousand dead this country is no longer united behind

a war it can't win anna knows that despite losing her brother on the front line in two thousand and fifteen she says it's time for peace and. he died for ukraine to be trained for the ukrainian language to be spoken and to be crain to be an equal strong european country. that hope of a brighter future has begun to fade on the shores and battlefields of eastern ukraine jonah hold al-jazeera mariupol. thailand's main opposition parties formed a coalition to take on the military barracks with a group that says it has enough seats to form a government's final results of sunday's election however still haven't been announced hider with the story from bangkok. thailand's lead opposition party has formed a democratic front coalition in the lower house along with six other parties they have two hundred fifty five seats and claim to have a majority and right to form

a government the heads of each party signed an agreement that we are seven parties that happen the majority of votes from people who have trusted to walk in the house up to teach we are signing the choice to stop the powerless fixation of. a new party that ran on the goal of reducing the military's grip on government is part of the coalition the leader of future forward saying the candidate for prime minister deserves the job. is to most suitable and dignify candidate for the prime minister and for poor thai party the military backed party announced it is working on forming a coalition of its own it's looking to keep prime minister pray in office. the two hundred fifty members of senate will be appointed by the military government and the democratic front to gain some of their support to form its own government and that's not going to be easy once they see who will be in the senate they can

negotiate or lobby or do something you know that to get favor from some seem at this but it's not promising so that's going to be a matter that they have coming up and with senators not expected to be announced until after official election results are released in early may the democratic front of won't have much time to form a government even if they can get support it's got harder al-jazeera thank you. mexico's president wants spain and the vatican to apologize for violations committed when the country was conquered five hundred years ago gentleman has more from mexico city. by the hundred years ago and then cortez and his band of spanish conquistadores landed on miscarry shores they greek a trail of destruction on their way to conquering the as take empire a millions of the indigenous population would die now mit's cruz president has asked spain and the roman catholic pope for

a belated apology we have not done says there were massacres subjugation in what they called the conquest it was done with the sword and the cross it's time to say let's reconcile but first apologize. answer from spain resoundingly no it was news to the government there that there was any need to reconcile the two countries have a warm relationship. with him its current self the reaction was also decidedly mixed almost everyone in mexico agrees that the spanish conquest was a catalogue of rape murder and enslavement the spanish even built their churches like the famous cathedral in mexico city on top of sacred as take sites they destroyed. but that was five hundred years ago and many mexicans now have woman feelings about a country some called the mother learned the majority of indigenous and spanish blood to some the president's request for an apology was just a published he's done that over the years and that is not

a political the truth is i think it's something political what presidents always do say something to distract from another situation. for others it's simply too late look at it and that is what this is going to bring is more hostility towards the country i admire president lopez obrador but i think there's no place for this now it's brave but no the historical picture is also further complicated by the fact the aztecs themselves were hated congress several original peoples a mix actually i lloyd with the spanish against them is that this would go to the conquest made mexico what it is now the mixture a new country been no longer as takes and the aztecs were in sweet peas either they were bloodthirsty enough. which.