polluting countries have recently pledged billions of dollars more in funds for this project people here say they're throwing money into the desert they say they don't need more trees but more access to water. dozens more injured israeli security forces again turn on palestinians at a lock some mosque angered by forced evictions. oh i maryam namazie in london you're with algis there are also coming up on the program a been explosions at a girls' school in western kabul in afghanistan dozens killed and injured many of them children as they were leaving class at the end of the day. victory for

probably dependence policies in scotland fueling the push towards a 2nd referendum. and the $23.00 ton section of rocket which will react to the earth's atmosphere in the coming hours but scientists can't say where it will come down. a come to the program or occupied east jerusalem has erupted in a 2nd night of violence with police again turning on palestinians angered by forced evictions the palestinian red crescent has reported at least 64 people have been injured israeli police were out in force in the city a day after they stormed the mosque more than $200.00 people were injured in friday's violence that included the use of rubber coated bullets and stun grenades

against the palestinians police also blocked loads of muslim pilgrims who were heading to the compound palestinian groups have called for protests after what took place on friday which was the last friday of the muslim holy month of ramadan that's now speak dari force it too is an occupied east jerusalem and area when we last spoke there was a bit of an uptick in activity with stun grenades being thrown what's been at what's been happening in the past hour. it's been a bit of the same in fact there's another apparent run by israeli police. and scary forces in the direction of some more disturbances not to the same intensity that we saw last time we spoke to you but this is the part i'm very much we've got some more young men running up the stairs to where the police positions had been. it's been seen throughout the night as waxing and waning but the. issues that you can

see i was going to step out a shot so you can see what's happening up on the grass. the situation just remains extremely tense it has been throughout ramadan since the beginning of the muslim holy month when this square was barricaded off and weren't allowed to gather here in rant over the issue of looming evictions in the shakes iran neighborhood of occupied east jerusalem and then with the friday night's confrontations at the mosque that was really when the situation seemed to boil over here in jerusalem and i think we can expect more. particularly given the fact that this is the holiest night of the muslim month of ramadan layout. and it is just a couple of days before a very significant day for especially right wing religious israeli jews which marks

the seizure of jerusalem in 1967 is known as to slim day that comes on monday when they will march through if they're allowed to which indications so far are that they will be they will march through the was the quarter and add to the tensions already present so it really is one of the most sort of raising of temperatures that we've seen several years now in jerusalem and as you say areas. the which is. well really the culmination in the muslim holy month of ramadan just tell us tell us who. is that why people have gathered that are nice and and who is out. of. a mixture of motives i think there is a at elements of solidarity and concern about this very important for the most important religious site in islam in terms of. the religious and honest

desire to be here it is the right to commemorate or is a day that commemorates the. handing down of a lot of cover on average it is. worth a 1000 months of prayer. here on that night and so that is why the that the significance of that night is worth a 1000 months and so that is why many come not just from the immediate surrounds but also. how soon israeli towns in northern israel many coming as well and you get in the last few days ramadan people camping overnight in the grounds and in the buildings of the compound as well so there is a real desire to be here for those reasons and it coincides with what went before just just 24 hours earlier which was one of the most violent nights we've seen in jerusalem for a long time and as i say arey people they were placing themselves for the

possibility of tensions on the. well that muslims gathering at this particular night but also monday is going to be an important day why. well yes for 2 reasons really as i was saying it is jerusalem day and so you know if i were it's seamanship going to go to church this carries. a water laced with noxious foul smelling chemicals and it's been used throughout the evening. dispersed. to be honest people seem more concerned about being sprayed with out who they are about stun grenades or even getting beaten because of the lingering effect of it. but yes monday if the jewish marchers are allowed to carry on as usual. that is a real possibility of face to face confrontations between the 2 communities which

is something that obviously carries with it a lot of stress attention a lot of threat to the 2 sides here the years and security forces and protesters who to some extent know what the form is. and what they can expect given the actions on either side the other issue is to do with those potential addictions in occupied east jerusalem that is the day that the supreme court has said jules to hear the potential or at least decide on whether to hear an appeal by 4 families who are trying to. head off that of action in the israeli court so everything really seems to be coming to our head potentially on this monday the. yes so. monday is going to be important in terms of the supreme court considering a law that says that the trial i mean all of us share. 6 the

decision was that i was afraid of course have live action of palestinian families. of residential areas in tech not not far from from the old city of of jerusalem and how you. pictures now of israeli security being deployed on the streets of east jerusalem and there was a heavy police presence last night as well and then obviously tonight it was an expectation that there could be tensions and so harry apart for. from what we're seeing on the ground what has been the reaction of the israeli government to this. because the israeli prime minister convened a security meeting earlier on saturday after which he said that israel words of his

release law enforcement would ensure that law and order is kept as 4 other players the. the head of the armed wing of hamas in gaza. came out with a statement saying that the promises made it on behalf of the people of east jerusalem would be cases and indeed we're saying war of the skunk water so it will be used just over. there have been protests as well in the occupied west bank and we've heard quite a lot of condemnation or at least expressions of concern from foreign governments calling for not just calm on all sides which was the statement came from the u.s. state department but there's also been some criticism of the idea of these evictions going ahead so there are reports potentially and in that they might delay the hearing on monday in the supreme court that is the reporting is going on in the

israeli media. no confirmation of that so far but there is some pressure on the israeli government to try to address what appears to be at the heart of this issue which is transferred from the larks to some extent to from the area here in the early days of ramadan where people were barred from gathering in the streets and in this square to this issue of addictions as you say it's once been going on for many many years but for once it's really gathered steam it's become a rallying cry for people here. more widely and the israeli government may well have to make a decision in the coming days and hearing from our guest earlier about the absence of leadership in all of this that. the climate is obviously heating up in east jerusalem and this is to be expected in light of recent developments but we the

international community. has failed to act but that as well is nothing new and of course palestinian palestinian officials of long been rejecting u.s. steps and u.s. policy as being biased or completely unbalanced in favor. of israel and the odds with. their goal of of statehood what what has been the palestinian reaction. is the key point we were asked the question if you started share. a palestinian reaction to a long standing u.s. military well you know just i suppose you know that well the palestinian political reaction but. i suppose people i mean from what we're seeing these these scenes there and around you and just the general feeling in the area

a sense of of increasing frustration. yes i think that is absolutely clear and also you have to factor in that these people living in east jerusalem have been under the very severe coronavirus restrictions the economy has been badly hit and this is sort of the 1st opportunity that they have to express those those frustrations as the situation given the vaccination program in israel is starting to come back to life this is. an opportunity. to. to express these longstanding frustrations which have been added to by all of the various factors that we've been talking about the palestinian authority for its part has been condemning the israeli actions saying that they are essentially

attacking palestinian civilians those are a statement from. the veteran hugo shader ins spokes person who until recently was on the executive committee of the palestine liberation organization tweeting out a video of a woman being wrestled to the ground and flung around by the israeli security forces saying that this is what they do to palestinian protesters so this is something that is gaining traction both in gaza and in the occupied west bank in ramallah. and as i say really is focusing international attention in a way that the issues of eviction issues haven't really. done up until this point so all of these factors are coming together and they are really brewing a pretty dangerous mix of grievance and tension and violence that we've seen over the last couple nights ok thank you very much gary forced

a parting reporting test there at damascus gate in occupied east jerusalem thank you hari. we go to another story that we've been following throughout the evening dozens of people have been killed in a string of losses in afghanistan the attack happened near a school in western kabul president musharraf gone to accuse the taliban of being behind the attack but the group says i still is to blame for your controversy has more now from kabul than this report does contain graphic images. children screaming for their mothers scattered notebooks and casualties strong across the ground in western kabul. girls' school had been a place of safety education and hope for the future now the scene of an attack intended to create maximum casualties 3 explosions at about 5 30 pm local time the same time young women and girls were finishing school and streaming out of the

gate dozens of wounded civilians were rushed to mohammad ali jinnah hospital many in a critical condition i am personally know of if unfortunately during the time when students were coming out of the school a powerful explosion happened and the number of children will wind it and you can say that all the hospitals are full of victims. those who lost their lives lined up in the corridors a family members checked to see they'd lost their loved ones concerned people can't stop to donate blood because the lot of them got to the public but there were a lot of casualties there were a few male victims but most of them were female school students the victims were female school students the bodies were everywhere and some of the bodies were missing here the attack took place in dusty bargee a predominately shia and huzzaing neighborhood these groups have often been at the

receiving end of violence by armed groups in afghanistan due to religious and political differences rights groups say there has been a recent surge in targeted killings of women and religious minorities no group has yet claimed responsibility for this attack but there is a circle of blame among officials and fighter groups the taliban condemned the attack and denied any responsibility blaming eisel but president blame the armed groups saying the taliban have once again shown their own willingness to resolve the crisis peacefully and fundamentally by escalating their legitimate war and violence. in a country already torn apart by decades of war there's attack will no doubt lead to more fear more anger and parents scared to send their children to school. country for the al-jazeera kabul.

fighting has resumed in ethiopia's 10 grey region preventing international aid from reaching civilians caught up in the conflict between 2 grey and rebels and the ethiopian government sporadic shelling could be heard north of the town of a girl or as ethiopia's military blocks the road to aid convoys including the un world food program doctors without borders and world vision the military says it had safety concerns and it comes as one of the country's top religious leaders has spoken out against what he described as genocide same bus driver he has more now. the government has been fighting the people's liberation front since november the conflict in the northern 2 gray region has killed thousands of people and displaced more than a 1000000. and now rare public criticism from inside the capital against if you'll be as prime minister of. the guy who i am not sure what the to great

people did wrong what their crimes are i am not clear why they wanted to clear genocide on the people of to great i do not know why they want to wipe the people of to great from the surface of the earth the whole world should know this. is the video of a beauty mathias a tigre a native and patriarch of ethiopia as orthodox church was filmed last month and smuggled out of other suburb. he accuses the government of creating carnage wanting to destroy the northern tigray region and censoring his earlier attempts to speak out. and my other message to the people of to great who live in the country and out of the country is this may god give you strength may he give you his strength and power everything passes and this might pass away this might pass away don't be demoralized don't be fearful or anxious the government has

condemned atrocities in the conflict but has denied claims of ethnic cleansing and the targeting of civilians members of parliament choose the country senior leaders and as 40 percent of its estimated 110000000 people are orthodox christian mathias his message is likely to resonate with voters ahead of parliamentary elections in june. no tends to shape the narrative of how the conflict has under its bolded these kinds of contradictory statements challenge the government. which for example was denying the presence of eritrean troops or months before only confirming the person to venture in troops when to go prime minister ahmed efforts to achieve peace in the region earned him the nobel prize in 2019 but he's faced multiple crises since. the humanitarian fall out of the tigre a conflict is likely to overshadow upcoming elections which could erode his hold on

power and on wednesday the government appointed head of interim government resigned giving no reasons as to why. when all the stories are following e.u. leaders are urging the u.s. to lift restrictions on covert 19 vaccine exports the global vaccine shortage was one of the main items on the agenda during their 1st physical summit of the year you council president shall michelle says the white house proposal to suspend patents on vaccines would not be a magic bullet. now latin america in the caribbean a grappling with another wave of covered infections recording any 40 percent of new cases worldwide in recent days has put increasing strain on health systems and as the death toll rises so does the pressure on the cemeteries has this report. it was only when her case attracted national media attention the local cemetery found a place for guinea bell just as brother joyal she was desperate and working on

a film and reading we had decided to bury him in the garden in the front of my house because there's no other solution what could i do with my dead brother in my house with that smell brewing the last 2 months has recorded more than 15000 deaths from the covered $900.00 virus health experts say the truth figure is probably much higher symmetries are overwhelmed despite doing all they can to accommodate the increased demand. as you can see the sun is ours cemetaries on the verge of collapse which is complicated by the situation the world is in so we're trying to adapt our teams to mitigate the situation in our cemeteries but despite their best efforts it's not enough not with nearly 2000000 people in peru infected and 62000 deaths. unfortunately although peru is a rich country people are dying they're buried clandestinely in the hills by just digging

a hole peru's underfunded health system is overwhelmed an oxygen is scarce and the vaccination program beset by corruption scandals which is reach less than 2 percent of the population off with little hope some have taken extreme measures in my life . i saw there were no places in the cemeteries and was worried that there was nowhere to take the dead nor money to bury them that is my concern and that's why i'm building this so my grave is ready. if not for many regions of latin america simply don't have the infrastructure to cope with sharp increases in covered 1000 deaths earlier in the pandemic bodies were left on the streets in the ecuadorian city of black ill and the symmetries of the brazilian amazon city of man hours overflowed. the 2nd wave continues to bite dealing with the dead is again presenting a huge challenge to anguish when there al-jazeera. scottish pro

independence parties and won a majority in the country's parliamentary elections scottish national party leader nicholas sturgeon now wants to seek a 2nd referendum on independence from the united kingdom john holl reports on the story now from adam raw it's not the outright majority the scottish national party had hoped for but the election has produced a majority for independence with the s.n.p. bolstered by the greens 1st minister and s.n.p. leader nicolas sturgeon made clear want she intends to do with it both the s.n.p. and the scottish greens stood in a clear commitment to an independence referendum within the next parliament she tear and both of us be clear that the timing of a referendum should be decided by a simple majority of peas in the scottish parliament. pandemic recovery is the immediate priority after that the plan is for the scottish parliament to legislate for a referendum to take place within the next 5 years it will be for the government in

london in charge of u.k. constitutional affairs to agree negotiate or challenge it in the supreme court a spectacle that would risk inflaming separatist desire and further so right now polling suggests perhaps the slate's slipped in not support for independence in kind of 4849 percent and it's been 50 percent consistently over the last year when thing that makes that would make this referendum different though is that there's not a whole lot of people who are undecided there's not a whole that if you who haven't made their mind up on independence so you would have to change their minds rather than rather than in like the people i bring people together so you would have to have to change their entrenched positions which meant that my. prime minister boris johnson has consistently ruled out a 2nd referendum the 1st in 2014 was lost by a 10 point margin something he believes should have put the issue to bed for a generation. but then brics it happened which scotland voted against by

a large margin in 2016 being taken out of the e.u. against their will as many see it as reinvigorated the drive to leave the united kingdom what it all serves to demonstrate this election intervening event since 2014 of the declining influence of unionist parties scottish labor and the conservatives is just how divided this country now is split pretty much right down the middle there may well be a pass to a 2nd referendum now but still no way of predicting the outcome if it happens and with its politics said to be defined by antagonism towards westminster and the pursuit of independence from it for years to come join a whole al-jazeera edinburgh. now the european union has posted. bail for georgia's jailed opposition leader in the hopes of ending a drawn out political crisis there nico melia was arrested in february in

a police raid on his party headquarters that resulted in protests a widespread condemnation that dissent was being silenced his release is expected to end a political crisis sponsored by october disputed parliamentary elections the opposition denounce that vote has been rigged melia's united national movement party is holding out on signing an e.u. mediated agreement to defuse tensions until the party leader is released from jail . a feud over succession plans in the zoo new royal family seems to have ended prince misuzu zoo will succeed his mother queen months formby she was named regent following the death of her husband king as well afine in march but she died unexpectedly last week that was initially chaos when prince misuzu was named success and police had to its court him to safety but family opposition has since been withdrawn to the prince and he has been returned to the palace

space agencies admit they don't know exactly where a large out of control section of a chinese space rocket is going to come down to the remaining $23.00 tons of the long march 5 the rocket is expected to burn out when it reenters the earth's atmosphere in the next few hours but some pieces could fall almost anywhere on earth adrian brown reports from hong kong. china's space program has traveled a long way very quickly as it races to catch up with other nations but as the rockets and what they carry get bigger so to the debris they leave behind. more than a week ago a chinese long march 5 rocket was launched from hina an island carrying part of the country's 1st permanent space station. after its separation from the maggio the rocket began to orbit the earth in an ump land trajectory as it slowly lost altitude now of 30 meters section is hurtling towards earth

a 29000 kilometers an hour the u.s. military is tracking its progress we don't have a plan to shoot the rocket there were hopeful that that it will and then in a place where. or harm anyone. or fully in the ocean or someplace like that under international guidelines rockets are supposed to return to earth in a controlled way but that's not happening this time i'm afraid of the remaining part of the rocket is right now without control but it has its trajectory and it has its old process re entering into the atmosphere and hopefully it will lead laterally without causing any damage or injury in china makes no secret about its space ambitions over the next 18 months at least 10 more launches a planned to support its space station program here on earth cold war politics

means that china can cooperate with other countries in space that's because the united states continues to bar china from participating in the international space station also backed by other countries who have relations with beijing right now. china wants to become a major space power by 2030 and has demonstrated this in recent years with visits to the moon the launch of a non crude probe to mars and now the beginnings of its 1st fully operational space station adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. well the out of control chinese rocket booster highlights a growing space junk problem according to the european space agency more than half of the 11370 satellites put into the earth's orbit a still circulating about 4000 of them are out of use that's more than 9000 tons of space junk about 23000 objects of debt free ranging in size from

a smartphone to the space station a being tracked but the real figure could actually be 3 quarters of a 1000000 floating objects mostly less than a centimeter in size but nevertheless could still be damaging. a recap of the top stories this hour in the occupied east jerusalem has erupted in a 2nd night of violence with police again turning on palestinians angered by forced evictions the palestinian red crescent says at least 64 people have been injured israeli police and security forces have been out in the city a day after they stormed the some mosque more than $200.00 people were injured in friday's violence that included the use of rubber coated bullets and stun grenades against palestinians police also blocked by.