this is the w. news live from berlin a standoff in brazil as police prepare to jail the country's former president luis and also just silvio ignores a deadline to turn himself in to begin a twelve year sentence for corruption looms defiance sets the stage for a confrontation between his supporters and those who want to see him behind bars also coming up nine palestinians are dead including a journalist after israeli soldiers opened fire during violent protests along the border to the gaza strip we'll go live to jerusalem for the latest. and i'm going

to sleep a soccer of battle for first division survival as cologne take on mind in a pint to get away from the relegation zone. i marry in evanston it's good to have you with us. brazil's former president luis ignacio lula da silva has defied a judge's order to surrender to police to start serving a twelve year sentence for corruption and friday will have filed a new request to avoid jail in the run up to the october presidential vote the third such appeal in three days when supporters say his conviction is a ploy by the political right to keep him out of the election which polls suggest he would win by a wide margin. the. morea of

the brazilian people they chant his most fervent supporters when lula was given twenty four hours to hand himself into police he saw refuge at the steelworkers union in sao paolo the union he once led and where he launched his political career nearly four decades ago. the deadline came and went without a surrender but according to media reports police decided not to come and forcibly remove him to avoid triggering clashes with his supporters your core your hairstyle i woke up this morning thinking if the federal police come here now to arrest lula they won't have room to get in and will tell you. some four hundred kilometers south and two lunar protesters gathered this is where authorities had wanted the former president to be a judge had ordered him to report to this police station in the city of karachi by five pm on friday

a day earlier the supreme court had rejected his plea to remain free until all appeals against a sentence for exhausted his adversaries had come to see him arrested. was ill be a key i came here just so i could see up close when this crooked son goes to prison for years. back in sao paolo the leader of lula's workers' party announced that the former president would take part in saturday morning my. at the union headquarters indicating that the standoff would stretch into the weekend. this is where we will be this is where the president is this is where we are and this is where we will stay. and was reports suggest that luna's aides have been negotiating his surrender with police and that he will be taken into custody later on saturday. alou the arrest warrant has sparked concerns over a growing political instability in the country paula based correspondent sam cohen

gave us this assessment of the political divisions inside brazil brazil can seen you speak more and more to reuters we've seen recent spate of political violence we saw lead counsel recounts one mariani friend who assassinated the country's basically divided divided and that's only fueling the political instability on the night that was how to use case judged in the supreme courts the night before brazilian all the general came once weeks you're in basically adelaide she made some what was seen as stress the supreme court that the army ready to fulfill its institutional jews he's you know using that language if the case went in favor of lugar and that was seen by many very many as basically a threat in a country that suffered a military dictatorship and several military ships in fact in the past. now israeli security forces have fired

a live rounds on palestinian protesters at the gaza border killing at least nine people including a journalist and injuring dozens more as follows the deaths of more than twenty others in demonstrations last week protest organizers say the demonstrations are against the decade old blockade of the gaza strip but israel accuses the palestinians of using the protest as a cover for infiltrating the border and staging attacks inside israel. sending up smoke from burning mounds of tires the protesters hope what israeli soldiers can see they can't shoot. the demonstrators are calling this the great much of return the demand the people forced from their lands during the one nine hundred forty eight war with israel be allowed to return the islamist hamas group was a key force in organizing the protests. that are there now is that we will never give up on any of our inalienable rights the land is one of them another is the

holy sites jerusalem the mall sunder churches. israel says the protests are a challenge to its territory and it has the right to defend itself it accuses homines of using the protests as cover to carry out attacks on israeli border towns . is a travesty for the palestinian people that the hamas government is encouraging its people to attack israel is encouraging its people to commit acts of violence and encouraging them to actually storm into israel to try to destroy israel and kill as many people as possible but rights watchdogs have criticized israel for firing on protesters from its side of the border the united nations has urged restraint. we remind israel of its obligations to ensure that excessive force is not employed against protesters the unjustified unlawful recourse to firearms by law enforcement resulting in death may amount to a willful killing and grave breach of the fourth geneva convention. the protests

along the volatile border are expected to culminate on the fifteenth of may the day following the seventieth anniversary of israel's declaration of independence. for more we're joined now from gaza by d.w. correspondent tanya kramer so tiny this was the second consecutive friday of protests at the gaza border one is happening right now where you are. well i'm standing here in the border area and yet the fence behind me is the area which is the so-called buffer zone which is about three to four hundred meters here on the gaza side and where i'm standing is where most of the protests happened yesterday where people a lot of people were just coming and seeing and we saw a lot of the use of course trying to get closer to the fence according to the army there were some high bombs thrown stones were thrown burns. and on this side

as you heard in the report to shield the protesters from possible sniper fire and we had again high number of casualties overnight journalist who was injured yesterday diet and according to the house ministry over one thousand ministry here in gaza or one thousand people injured now this morning this is a highly sensitive area it is quiet if you use a coming here there are also farmers here on the field but this is one of the five major points of protests that are planned here for the next within the next five weeks while these protests have been called by the organizers of the march for return just what exactly do they hope to achieve. well the march of return refers to the plight of the palestinian refugees one thousand nine hundred forty eight and they're saying basically this year israel is celebrating its

creation ninety four to palestinians that's why they're saying it goes on to mid may when palestinians commemorate the nakba day the catastrophe is to call when they had to leave or were forced to flee their land i think this is the overarching message of these protests at the same time when you talk to people and a lot of young people taking part in those protests they were telling me that we are coming here to so because now we have to attention that gaza has been closed off for over ten years ever since hamas took over here. of have closed the borders it's very hard to get a permit to come travel hardly ever also to the west bank the economy is down there saying we find no jobs and we want to be we want a voice is to be heard and that's why a lot of mainly young men are also risking their lives because israel has warned if they approach the border that i can see it just behind me they are risking their lives are id w.'s tanya kramer reporting from the border with gaza many thanks

indeed on now to some of the other stories making news around the world and he was state of texas has begun sending national guard troops to secure the border with mexico it follows a call by president donald trump to deploy the force to fight drug trafficking and illegal immigration trump said he wanted the deployment to last until progress has been made with his border wall. canadian police say fourteen people are dead and another fourteen others are injured after a bus crash and rules a scatch one province it happened near the town of tisdale when a truck hit the bus carrying a junior hockey team the team has put out a statement calling the incident an incredible tragedy. moscow has promised a tougher response to new u.s. sanctions imposed on several russian officials washington has frozen the assets of companies and all of our close to russian president vladimir putin said it was

responding to what it called russia's malign activity around the world in syria opposition monitors say government air strikes have killed at least forty people in the last rebel held area inside eastern ghouta state television says government troops backed by russian forces are slowly closing in on the town of duma the attacks and a ten day lol in fighting there. well in friday's bundesliga action relief or hand over as they finally and a five game losing streak against verda braman hand over broke the deadlock by margin harnick like the ball in the near post hungry for more hanover made it to before half time thanks to feet exposed. and it was this creative lawn that started it all. and over hold on for the two one win and are now nine points clear

of the relegation zone. while two struggling clubs face off in the find to avoid relegation cologne sit in seventeenth place but a win against mines tonight would bring them within three points of their rivals in sixteenth and cologne had better win if they want to keep hold of their first division status but they'll have to vallance back from a de moralizing loss last weekend. with cologne you just never know winds over leipzig and labor to send them a loss of epic proportions six mil in hoffenheim they're not letting it set their confidence though much of the target we've shown as a team that we can suffer a setback like in frankfurt where we also fell apart and came back to get a result we're counting on being able to do it again. that's the bit we go to will be helped by the return of z. montero to their top scorer a win against mines would put cologne within striking distance of the relegation

play off place a minor miracle. happened almost at one stage we had just three points after fourteen matches never in our wildest dreams did we think we could get anywhere near the relegation play off place this early but i'm not trying to put us down that's just a fact that's just a fact. the wrongly awarded penalty gave months away and over cologne earlier this season but the guests have just one win away all season. goal is clear to take three points away from home but still nothing's done yet we still have six games to play. a good omen for the home side the billy goats clinched european football on the last day of the season last year with a win over months i ten is now in iraq file in a doll's return from injury start the spaniard bringing his country level with germany in the davis cup quarter finals and made light work a fill of course fiber taking out the tie in straight sets it was the first match

for the world number one since retiring injured in the australian open in january and a doll face as alexander's very of today with spain and germany locked at one one. well baseball bald eagles and the star-spangled banner it doesn't get more american than that so when the minnesota twins wanted to put on a show of patriotism at the home season opener they brought out the famous bird of prey for the national anthem well not everything went as planned take a look. at that unlucky player is pitcher and james paxton of the visiting seattle mariners the bald eagles are usually known for their great strength and vision but well perhaps this one does need to go see and the top interest. you're watching d.w.

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