allen fisher al jazeera, northeastern brazil. >>> the film festival in new york has opened for the 14thce for the up and coming directors to showcase their work last year al jazeera met film maker who was making his first appearance at tribeca and caught up with him to see how he has benefitted since. >> i am the director writer and director of a movie called apple sauce and i was here last year with a movie called summer blood. ♪ winning the festival last year with a low budget and almost no budget film and no one knew about it and no press person and no movie stars in the film i enjoyed being at the festival and enjoyed presenting the film, it's always exciting and important and imperative to get an audience. >> do you like this? >> we had a red carpet event which was exciting and fun but then again i get self conscious about things like that because when you're on the red carpet you see the cameras flashing there is a moment of panic and reporters are saying who are these no names we don't want to shoot these people. so it got reviews and attention and ended up selling the movie whic

let's go live straight away to allen fisher, who is in washington, d.c. this news coming up in the last half hour, guilty on all 30 counts. that doesn't leave a lot of room for doubt in terms of whether sentencing is going to go. >> well, it actually douse. the whole point of the moment is whether he's guilty of all the offenses. this is the indictment. there are 30 of them, and he was found guilty on every single one. we knew that that was likely to be happen that he was found guilty on most of them if not all of them. from the start his defense attorney said that yep he did it. the whole idea is to build trust within the jury. what happens now is that they move to the sentencing phase. and the jury will be told by the defense that they believe that dzhokhar tsarnaev was under the influence of his much older brother, and that he acted almost under duress. that might be hard to prove but in a jury of 12 they only have to convince one that he was perhaps acting under that duress. and that would mean that he gets life in prison rather than the death penalty

allen fisher takes to the road to see how bad the problem actually is. >> reporter: the cheap, easy way around is also very dangerous. getting a reputation in brazil. one that it doesn't warrant. >> in this area in the last ten years, the number of motorcycle accidents has gone up by 140%. that's because there are more motorcycles on the road. people here use motorbikes for everything even things that shouldn't be move bid motorbikes. wild has been a motorbike taxi driver for years and for him the roads are a scary place. >> i see a lot of crazy things. you think man how does he do that? he's not only putting his life in danger, but others too. >> reporter: it gives you some idea of what it's like to navigate around the city. on just one sunday last year, the local trauma hospital treated 98 victims of motorcycle accidents. the number of cases is running at more than 1200 a month twice what it was two years ago. >> if the number of accidents keeps rising at the same rate we have today the health system won't have the conditions to treat all of those patients because they demand a highly

allen fisher, al jazeera sao paulo. >> violence saw nine people killed. this was the scene at saturday in port harcourt, the capital of river state. protesters were angry because voting terms hadn't arrived. >>> basheer is running for another campaign. >> politics doesn't seem to be on anyone's mind. it was hard to find someone planning to vote. >> i want the election is to be fair and we want our ruler to be somebody new because frankly we are fed up with basheer. >> basheer seized power in a military coup in 1989. he is the only sitting president wanted by the international criminal court for war crimes in darfur. as we saw in this presidential rally he is a charismatic man backed by many especially women. they are said to be his biggest supporters. >> we are here to provide a better way of living for citizens and help the weak and the poor. we don't want anyone to be hungry. >> reporter: there are ten men and one woman running against basheer but you wouldn't know anything by watching television. >> i don't see anybody on tv except basheer. >> many her

allen fisher al jazeera, northeast brazil. >>> still to come on this al jazeera news hour find out whyenya's coffee business are worried. and in sport find out how 18 time olympic champion michael phelps did on his return to competitive action. ♪ ♪ hello again and let's look at the top stories on the al jazeera news hour police in south africa dispersed migrants who fear more xenophobia attacks and armed with machetes from attacks in johanesburg. the u.n. needs almost $275 million to meet humanitarian needs in yemen over three month, on thursday the yemen new vice president called on houthi rebels to end offensive on the port city of aiden. the italian government appealing for help to deal with unprecedented flood of migrants from north africa another boat load arrived on friday morning where most were heavily bruised and bandaged. we can speak to eve who is director of migration and mobility policies at the european policy center and joins us via skype in france. thank you for talking to us. this is a crisis moment isn't it pretty much for the italians at least, if not for europe as a

allen fisher, al jazeera, south palo. >>> hillary clinton officially launched 2016 u.s.ial campaign. she is the overwhelming favorite to win the democratic party nomination and heading to iowa the traditional first stop for presidential hopefuls and we report from the state capitol demoins. >> reporter: made announcement without crowds and spot-lit stage in a glossy two-minute video featuring middle class americans voicing personal hopes for the future. >> everyday americans need a champion and i want to be that champion. >> reporter: the first campaign stop will be the state of iowa to win the democratic party's popular caucus there. it's where up start bo beat here in 2008 with a grass root effort that showed her route to the white house should not have been taken for granted and before arrival parents watching their children play football say she should do better if she doesn't campaign like the inevitable winner. >> she has to act like a second tier candidate and play it hard if she wants to win it. that is going to be her challenge if she really wants it she is goin

hundreds held protests in the country and angry about government corruption and economic problems and allen fisherrom south palo. ♪ many groups and many voices one message, dilma rousseff must go and tens of thousands on the streets of south palo and marched along the street stretching more than two kilometers and angry at a struggling economy and corruption scandal that has implicated politicians from president dilma rousseff's party. >> anything is better than dilma rousseff anything but dilma rousseff. >> mandate to the end but it's very important for us to show that we are not happy, not happy with the government. >> reporter: large protests elsewhere across the country but not as large as organizers predicted here the numbers in tens and hundreds of thousands. and not as large as protests last month. a new survey said 63% of people would like to see president dilma rousseff impeached and removed from office but that survey shows 29% of brazilians believe that will happen. the president is touched by corruption scandal at the state oil farm and alleged politicss took bribe for construction con

confidential documents has been suspended, allen fisher al jazeera. >>> they released pictures of womenls that says were rescued from a boko haram stronghold. 293 people were freed from the forest on wednesday. the army also says it has found another group of captive thought to be more than 160 women and girls. and yvonne reports. >> reporter: these are some 293 women and children rescued who were held in severe and inhumane conditions and military says, and trying to workout the identities of the women and children where they come from and how they were kidnapped. many are hoping some rescued are the school girls, that i were abducted by boko haram in april last year. 219 are still missing. the military say they can't confirm whether some of the rescued are from there. >> hope is not lost. we will search everywhere possible, not just in that forest everywhere there are cliffs is being assaulted and searched and we hope to locate them the school girls and every hostage that is in captivity of terrorists. >> reporter: but people who have been campaigning for the rescue of the school girl

there to see what happens be allen fisher in saw paul low. it's only a few months since she was voted back into office. >> i think there's frustration at the economic situation in brazil, as well, and that's what's brought 10s of thousand us on the streets in a sunday afternoon. it is a carnal atmosphere here, it's almost like the start have a football match many people use the brazilian strip. this is blocked off and people if i am it from end to end. they're angry at the economic situation, angry to the country could soon be fogg r. falling into reception. this is likely, as basic food stuffs are more expensive. the taxes are going up. for everyone, it seems to be a little more difficult. not lease -- there is no suggesting that she aware of brakes allegedly being made, but that doesn't help the impression that she is not running a government free of corruption. people are defeated. there are moan groups here on this avenue, including one less than a kilometer calling for the reinstallation of a military government. remember since houthis t

until it was leaked in the britt guardian newspaper and behind the leak has been suspended and i'm allen fisherzeera. >>> still to come on this news hour desperate for a new life al jazeera meets the migrants trying to reach europe through lawless libya plus victory in vietnam, thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the u.s.-led war. and belgium futbol community mourn as 24-year-old player who died after collapsing on the pitch, details a little later. ♪ but first saudi arabia says it's forces have driven away groups of houthi rebels and supporters in the southern yemen district and dozens of rebels killed in the battle as well as three saudi soldiers and yemen presidential office says embassy in the port city of aiden say no houthi fighters are on the premises and we report. >> reporter: aiden has become a vital battleground in the war in yemen. pro-government fighters say they are gaining strategic territory at the airport. but beyond that people say it's the houthis who seem to be gaining ground. they say the rebels are shelling their neighborhoods and pushing people from their ho

micah fisher was shot to death on the night of his 26th birthday in 2013. police say he was an nent bystander. brittney young and shawn allen are charged as they look for the third suspect. >>> the racketeering trial of six narcotic officers continues this week and testimony resumes tomorrow. the six are accused of beating and robbing drug dealers over a period of six years stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars. a seventh former officer pleaded guilty and is scheduled to testify against his former colleagues. >>> and police have an arrest warrant now for a youth basketball coach who shot at another coach during a game in west philadelphia over the weekend. it happened saturday afternoon inside aw chris ty wreck center. the coach from one team got into an argument with fans and when the other team's coach intervened the angry coach pulled out a gun and fired a shot at him. there were 70 people at the gym. no one was hit. the shooter drove away before police got there. the police have not yet released his name. >>> and at 5:05 the excitement is building by the hour. can you feel it? baseball season is here. finally. openi

fisher was shot to death on the night of his 26th birthday in 2013. police say he was an innocent bystander. brittney young and shawn allen are charged. police are still looking for one other suspect. >>> and this morning we can tell you and check with police if they'll file charges after a teenager fired a gun and tried to hide inside a north philadelphia house. police say officers saw someone fire a gun at least five times in the street. and when the officers walked up to him, he ran into a house on north 11th street. police say he and other people remained holed up inside the house until police convinced nine people to come out, including a 16-year-old who officers identified as the shooter. >> we brought nine occupants in the house out. no one had any weapons. more than likely the 16-year-old hid the weapon somewhere in the property. the 16-year-old did not live at this location. he was friends with the family who do reside there. >> police have been questioning some of the people who were inside the home. >>> and police plan to file charges against the man who led them on a two-county chase. troopers tried to pull over the man on