this season c.w. news long for israel defends its move to open final palestinian protesters the gaza israeli troops killed at least fifteen protesters during mass demonstrations on friday prime minister binyamin netanyahu hailed the soldiers responsible for the killings while all this accuse israel of an excessive use of force. also coming up in the u.s. more protests following the death of another unarmed black man at the hands of police now these autopsies raising new questions about the killing. plus

it's raining space junk just funked chinese space lab has been spinning out of control for months now and is likely to fall into within twenty four hours. i'm going to home free thanks for joining me israel is rejecting calls for an inquiry into the killing of at least fifteen palestinians on friday israel's military opened fire off a palestinian demonstration turned violent at israel's border with gaza the european union and amnesty international have joined the u.n. in calling for an independent investigation into friday's blood shit that israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu says soldiers were protecting the country security. hundreds of mourners on the streets of gaza.

summer carrying the body of a palestinian killed by israeli fire during friday's mass marches the nation's grief hangs heavy at least fifteen palestinians killed by israeli forces and more than one thousand injured following massed border protests witnesses have reported lud fire multiple rounds of rubber bullets and tear gas dropped on to crowds. after the march started i went over the fence i found an injured woman i couldn't bear to see or not help her i brought her. shot me in both legs. the un and the e.u. have called for an independent inquiry into the deadly clashes palestinians demand to return to what they call their homeland friday's great march for return it marked the forty second anniversary of land day when six on armed palestinians were shot by israeli forces as the government to cute swathes of palestinian land to create the state of israel israel's military released these images showing

palestinians throwing stones at the border and friday they claim they'd only targeted instigators they blame the bloodshed and hamas which controls the gaza strip. what we've seen is a violent riot and it's clearest the hamas terrorist organization have said that people to the border with israel in gaza in order to camouflage the true intentions of terror but as so often one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter and those remaining in the demonstrators camps say they are determined. they hope that the old will die out and the young will forget that the young are here they want to go back to the lands of they filed as any grandfathers. the young want to go back they have more ambition than their elders. six more weeks of mass protests are planned in the run up to this. seventieth anniversary of

israel's founding what palestinians dubbed knockabout the catastrophe. and if past history is any lesson that could mean yet more bloodshed in one of the world's longest standing conflicts of the modern era. syrian human rights observers say a deal has been struck to evacuate wounded civilians from the last rebel held town in the eastern guta region of the agreements reportedly been reached between russia and one of the rebel factions in syria's duma it would see here over one thousand injured people granted safe passage from duma to opposition territory in the north of the country the syrian government and its allies have surrounded duma and regained most of eastern ghouta since beginning an offensive in january of one thousand five hundred civilians have died and around one hundred fifty thousand people have fled the fighting. there have been fresh protests in california over the killing of an unarmed black man by police stephen clark's families

released the results of the private autopsy showing most of the bullets hit his back contradicting a police version of events clark is among a series of black men whose killings by police have sparked protests condemning police violence. marches in california state capital sacramento protest at the shooting two weeks ago of twenty two year old stefan clark police who shot him in the back say they feared he was holding a gun it turned out to be a cell phone. in a separate case in louisiana body camera footage shows two police officers swearing at thirty seven year old alton sterling outside a grocery store before shooting him dead one officer blaine seller money has now been fired it was clear that lane so money came out like a pit bull. and immediately escalated the attire situation putting a gun to this man's hit. using profane language threatening his life

any and the taking of. a second officer involved has been suspended from duty my decision was not based on politics it was not based on emotions it was based on the facts of the case the family lawyer says the police have a responsibility to the whole community we know how difficult it is we understand it. it's a tough job. they have to deal with a lot. but with high duty comes high expectations you don't just look after white people you look after black people and hispanic and asian and everyone else a series of recent fatal shootings of black men by police back to nationwide protests and the black lives method a movement but these cases can only fuel the debate over by assume the american criminal justice system. now if some of the other stories making news around the

world of already somali have arrested an islamist suspect over alleged war crimes in timbuktu he's accused of rape torture and the destruction of ancient resilience he's been handed over to the international criminal court in the hague where he will face trial. employees have taken down the american flag from the u.s. consulate in st petersburg the kremlin ordered the consulate to be closed and sixty american diplomats expelled the u.s. is among twenty three countries ordering russian diplomats to leave this in response to the poisoning of the former russian double agent said and his daughter yulia in the u.k. . the trumpet ministration has frozen more than two hundred million dollars earmarked for recovery aid in syria former secretary of state rex tillerson announced the extra funding in february during a meeting in kuwait with other members of the coalition to defeat isis. in sierra leone a vote counting is underway in a runoff election to choose

a new president former military coup leader julius ma to be zero on the first round and he's pledging to end corruption and offer free education his rival somewhere a camera from the governing party is promising promising continuity an economic recovery. the first round was won with a razor thin majority julia smart o.b.o. was viktor the challenger to the ruling party's candidate s'more a commodity but with only a fifteen thousand vote difference the ruling party alleged irregularities and filed a court challenge delaying the vote on saturday sierra leonean went to the polls. because as a citizen of this council i was led to the first mandate and then to stand in the fray just for that's the most here and we are looking forward to if we hear the election. with a credible resolves the queues in front of polling stations were much shorter this

time the opposition leader believes that skew to an increased military presence. where districts are no no they go to the front of the boat was a. very it is. still free if you are going to. go after sporadic clashes during the campaign security was stepped up for the runoff most citizens want the new government to focus on the reconstruction of the country after a devastating outbreak of the a bowl of virus and on securing permanent peace i don't think they want to drag or see again till we are we are we are before the ten years since their civil war the winter in this nation i believe bottled there will be reasonable in north lots of drug wars to anything i'll bring conflict again in this nation will serve them much as the we didn't lose our support that we know less what to get out of what a better leader this nation. analysts say the race is too close to call results are

expected to be announced within two days. one of the world's heaviest drinking nations if you anus grappling with new laws that and to clamp down on alcohol the legislation coming into force this year bans advertising for alcohol and makes it harder for people to buy liquor what some welcome as a positive me for public health is leaving others with a bad hangover. quarter to eleven in the morning. good time for a nip from the bottle according to the world health organization lithuanians consume the most alcohol worldwide to tackle the problem the country has passed new laws for example a ban on alcohol sales after eight pm. it changes only that i am buying now much more alcohol to. my home so that is the only word that changed my husband said that in

a time he has seen they did that and man or woman he said that he had never seen that in holland. everyone here agrees something should be done but what exactly. the new laws also ban marketing alcohol in magazines and that's caused an uproar. as placed by foreign companies have even been cut out of magazines. here message if you recall the ads were also removing the articles on the other side of the page . the laws even cover reviews about alcoholic products which are now considered advertising good food good food magazine recommends wines that go with the recipes those also have to be removed if you like that into school can we still get messed up that image that it's good. sensors still have their work cut out for them the lithuanian press has adjusted to the new laws but foreign firms haven't.

thought this is disgraceful straight out of the middle ages it's damaging lithuania's reputation worldwide to learn that i don't in the end up with. this label explains that a page has been removed. the lithuanian government has now put a hold on the decree until march but it's not lifted in its fight against alcohol consumption lithuania is hoping to give its citizens a dry future. and now defunct a chinese space lab is hurtling towards us this weekend experts estimate it's going to crash into the earth possibly as late as monday morning greenwich mean time but it's not clear exactly where it will hit the good news is it poses almost no danger to us here on earth when it enters the atmosphere it will break up into thousands of small pieces and most of it will likely bono. just where the chang going one space lab will come down nobody knows not even europe's top space junk expert holga

krug predictions are being revised constantly and are even affected by solar flare activity. so it's going to be an uncontrolled reentry and it's even more complicated because the space station is tumbling on its own axis. in two thousand and eleven the nine and a half ton module was launched in just place the first step of an ambitious chinese project to build its own space station in earth's orbit but two years ago they lost contact now with each passing day the module comes closer to the earth all that's known for certain is that it will come down somewhere between latitude forty three degrees north and forty three degrees south. first will see the outer extremities torn off due to the violent aerodynamic forces and then the object will start to develop megawatts of heat as it reenters the atmosphere element new melts but it's

made of titanium or stainless steel will glow as they come down but this won't be some kind of heavy rain of molten metal rather individual bits many kilometers apart. although astrophysicists predicts between one hundred and two hundred kilograms of the module will actually fall to earth they say there's no danger of large impact and if the weather plays nicely people can expect to see something like a large meteor shower only much more spectacular. christians around the world marking easter sunday the day they believe that jesus christ rose from the dead now let's take a look now some live pictures from st peter's square at the vatican in rome now there pope francis is leaving celebrations those will include a traditional easter message on the earth and will be blessing or earlier during the holy saturday mass the pontiff called on believe is to speak out in the face of injustice let's just look at those scenes there at st peter's basilica on easter

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