of ethnically targeted violence is very real. al jazeera. migrant workers have been a target of zen aphonic attacks but there are also locals who are protecting foreigners from the violence. charles reports from durban. >> the city escaped political violence and came to south africa in 2006, he says he was the vick testimony of attacks against foreigners to years later and his restaurant was destroyed. recently, he was attacked again. >> in my country if there is peace, i have to go back to my country and die, where will they bury me nicely. >> his wife died given birth to their 6th child. he said he applied for political asalem, but has given up waiting for on answer. he brought his family to this camp and says he has little interest in the offer to reintegrate and to south african society. >> the government says we have to go back in the community, so there's peace now, and then we went back in the community. and it has not happened any more so it happen again twice. >> we have come to the area where his family used to live, no

many ethnic albanian people live. tim friend has more. >> police say the main part of their operation against the group is now over. gunfire could be heard on the streets of kumanova on sunday morning. most of the armed group believed a number before 30 are reported to have been arrested some were refusing to surrender. >> you can see its terrible terrible. this is an area that saw fighting during an ethnic al ban remains bainian en surgency in 2001. the mayor said the group had no local backing. at a time armed groups are have remains have no logistics and no support from the local people. the people want to keep the peace and they hope this action will bring a result removal of this group. i am appear remains appealing to our citizens to remain calm to keep the peace and stability and not to be provoked. >> the interior ministry said that the fighters entered macedonia from an unnamed neighboring country, and intended to attack government targets. >> this group was well armed and well trained for such circumstances.

from 1989-201320 percent of fundsing from grants the art went to racial minority. 20 percent went to ethnic and cultural minorities and 7 percent went to groups representing women and lgbtq community. as you can see in this chart over time the funding to racial minority groups declined slightly. this shows fundsing between 1999 and 2012/13 and you see the downward slope. this chart shows a comparison of san francisco demo grap grafics to grants of the arts funding in 2010. what is interesting in here is in 2010 grants of the arts awarding 21 percent to racial minority grumes and 58 percent of san francisco demo graphics in that year-of the population in that year was classified as people of color so there was a disparity there. in this slide you see the relationship between grants the arts and cultural equity grants. many of those receiving grants fl arts also received cultural equity grants. there is no formal relationship between the 2 arts programs. in conclusion grants fl arts doesn't have criteria specifically for funding underrepresented groups, nor does it have a methodology for defi

the political rift between the leadership immediately exploited ethnic divisions. president salva kiir is from the dinka community and former vice president riek machar, is a nuer. betim madol says dinka forces loyal to the president went door to door, asking questions in their native language to test people's ethnicity. >> what they do, they just talk to you, using the dinka language. you don't respond they just take a pistol, tuff. i feel like i'm already dead, a living dead. i'm alive but anytime i'm seeing that i can die. reprisal killings spread north to the town of bor. ethnic nuer, angered by news of targeted attacks in juba, went on their own rampage. and then it didn't stop. the army had split in two and gone to war with itself. both sides carried out massacres, town by town. the images that emerged from the city of bor, then bentiu, then malakal shocked the world. for the advocates in washington - who'd fought so hard to win southerners freedom from sudan - this was not the way it was supposed to go. back in 2005, international efforts finally paid off, a

police in northern macedonia say they have defeated ethnic albanian fighters after a day of fighting that left 22 people dead. targeting ships used to send my grant across the mediterranean. the move is the latest step to try to curb the riding number of migrants leaving for new shores. if he had reek a margorini is to address the council on mod. the sea route is the most dangerous migrant route in the world. thousands of people have already been killed this year as they try to reach italy and a better life. many of their bodies are never found buff visiting the morgue in misrata where some of the bodies that wash up on shore are stored. some viewers might find images in this report disturbing. >> some called the crossing of the mediterranean the journey of death. thousands are willing to take their chance. he tells me there was chaos. people were shouting. the boat capsized and people fell in to the water. he doesn't know what happened next. he was thinking of himself. he was rescued by the libyan coast guard, but often dead bodies are forgotten at sea and they flowed back to libya.

he belongs to an ethnic tutsi group.e says men, women and girls will be killed. >> translator: they come at night, singing songs that threaten us. >> reporter: it's because of these threats, he says that thousands of people have fled. but the government says it is because of misinformation. people said that there was a family of seven living in this house and they left about two weeks ago. in this room here you can see some of their clothes and possessions that they left on the floor. we have spoken to several more people who said they want to leave, but they are still trying to get the money together for the transport. we met the area leader outside of the ruling party's meeting place in a nearby town. he denied sending the letters or making threats. >> translator: this is a lie. there are no names or signatures on the letters. the opposition may be writing those letters to make us look bad, because they fear our popularity popularity. >> reporter: whoever wrote the letters seems to want to create ethnic tension, but bu

but the protests and the political standoff are not along ethnic lines.uling party was once a houthi rebel group, it now includes a small number of tutsis. opposition politician lead another of the largest houthi-rebel groups in the civil war which was largely fought against ethnic lines. he says his and his supporters' lives are in dangerous. >> he's a hutu. i'm a hutu but what kind of treatment am i enduring from him and his governor -- government. >> reporter: back on the countryside this man is a member of another opposition group. he has been hiding here in a friend's house and now he is leaving for rwanda in secret. many hope ten years on from the war this ethnic hate speech won't watch on. but many more feel the threat of ethnically and politically a -- targeted violence is very real. >>> still to come we're going to examine why foreign policy has been largely ignored in the lead up to the u.k. general election. >>> coming up i'll explain why tunisia is no longer a crossing point for migrants hoping to cross to europe but it is playing a important

and the ethnics commissioner peter king a law professor noting commissioner cohen is a good government guide means nothing not a legal document and . >> 30 seconds. >> commissioner will not allow the ethnic to rely on the basis for their admits behavior from this board you should mitigate going to lunch with the commissioner. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> we can't do q and a only to comment i can't direct the questions. >> if you direct a question i'm sorry to say it will not be answered use your time appropriating appropriately.

tension much the protests and the political sustained off are not along the ethnic lines. the ruling party includes a small number of tutsis. the rules say thousands of houthis are in the opposition. they led another of those in the civil war, they are against a third term saying he and his supporters lives are in danger. the president's supporters are trying to use ethnicity to gain advantage. >> what kind of treatment am i enduring with him and his government. >> back in the count are i -- countryside. he packed a few possession and he can pass on notice. many hope 10 years on from the war the hate speech will not catch on. many feel the threat of ethnically targeted violence is real >>> still to come on al jazeera, as britain goes to the polls. we report on a lack of affordable housing in london and how success of governments made it worse. and the first addition of a book by columbia's greatest literary figure has been stolen at an event in his memory. >>> good to have you with us. i'm elizabeth puranam in doha. these are the top stories on al jazeera. the u.n. calls f

it estimates 30% of macedonian people are ethnic albania. frustration flares because implementation is slow >>> eurozone finance minister meat in brussels as bankruptcy threatens grease. -- greece. one of the biggest bones of contention is the pension system. >> reporter: leisure is perhaps the only luxury left for pensioners. their money is spoken for. >> translation: i'm paying off a home improvement lone. my children do not have work. i spend the rest helping them and grandchildren, and paying utilities and property tax. >> reporter: pensions make up 70% of the economy and is a safety net for society. at $18 billion, it's the government's biggest expense, despite being cut to half to an average of $900 a month. there's not enough contributions coming into funds because a quarter of greek workers were unemployed and the funds were crippled when they anticipated a $28 million loss on government bonds invested in. a high court decision could raise the bill to half a billion to $5 billion, because some of the cuts will be ruled unconstitution

it's estimated that 2 million people are ethnic albanians, and they won greater rights. that was after a peace deal. frustrations flare because implementations have been slow. >>> the pakistan taliban is claiming to have shot down a helicopter carrying foreign diplomats. ambassadors from norway and the philippines were among seven killed in the crash. a video was set to show fighters firing a missile that hit the tail of the helicopter >>> the pakistan taliban released a video showing members showing showing different components of a russian sam-7 missile used to bring down the helicopter in which several diplomats were travelling. now, according to the military and footage obtained by al jazeera showed that the helicopter was coming in for a landing and crashed. it shows the rescue on board, and talking to some of the survivors who said that they did not witness any missile hitting the aircraft. it was a technical fault that developed on the aircraft. everything was going smoothly. according to aviation experts, if the aircraft were hit in the air, it would have come do

it's estimated 30% of macedonia's 2 million people are ethnic albanians. they want greater rights after a peace deal but frustrations flare because implementation have been slow. >> africa's main opposition party elected its first black leader. the parliamentary leader replaces helen ziller, who announced she was stepping down last month. the move is an attempt to shake off the party's image of being dominated by the white minority. there you see him not long after his election victory in port elizabeth. we have more now from port elizabeth. >> he knows that some africans see the democratic alliance as a party that still represents the interest of white people. when he gave his acceptance speech, he said you can't look at me and not see me as a black man. that means you don't see me at all, basically meaning that he is there a young black man is trying to get as many black voters to try and support the democratic alliance. he hopes to do that next year when the country has local elections. the opposition parties have done well in the past getting support i

the decline of percentage to ethnic and cultural or decline for women in lgbt arts groups is a concern of mine as well >> supervisor yee any other comments >> wonder if there are questions for [inaudible] or mrs. nagle i

the decline of percentage to ethnic and cultural or decline for women in lgbt arts groups is a concern of mine as well >> supervisor yee any other comments >> wonder if there are questions for [inaudible] or mrs. nagle i see none. cary shulman coulden be here, but from grants from the art is con wong >> as mr. wong is being set up i know our city attorney probably has advice for us about hotel tax fund resources and how the city allocates those resources and i'm wondering if mr. [inaudible] could give a comment about that >> sure. [inaudible] the office advised the board a cual years ago about various law suits involving the hotel tax. the specific answer for arts funding is the hotel tax isn't specifically allocated for arts funding. that funding comes from the general fund and as howard mentioned the amount of the fundsing is a discretionary decision for the board and mayor. it is based on a large number of factors including the amount of revenue coming into the general fund >> thank you mr. wong >> thank you for having me. good afternoon supervisors and chairman. my name is con wong

in this ethnic albanian neighborhood. today there's only shock at the damage and resentment at least four local men have been detained. everyone we have spoken to tells a similar story. they heard the shooting. they sought shelter wherever they could in their basements and when they came outside this is the scene that greeted them. psychologically, this neighborhood has been absolutely draw that tied by what happened. the opposition is leaking hacked phone recordings revealing abuses of power at the heart of government prompting resignations. they even claim that the violence in komanovo was staged somehow by a prime minister clinging to power. >> translator: mast doanmacedonians turks, do not be fooled by your prime minister. they will decide who is in power. there is still bewilderment at the worst violence that settlea conflict in 2001. this time communities insist they are united and that the only divisions are between the politicians. robin forresterer walker, al jazeera. >> coming up. why these are called traitors p

protest and the political standoff are not along ethnic lines and it was one a houthi rebel group andt has a small number of tutsis and thousands of houthis in the opposition opposition politician led another of the largest houthi rebel groups in the civil war which was largely fought along ethnic lines and told us he is against the third term and say he and supporters lives are also in danger and says the president supporters are trying to use ethnicity to gain advantage. >> translator: but what kind of treatment am i enduring from him and his top government. >> reporter: back if the countryside this man is a member of another opposition group. he has been hiding here in a friend's house and now he is leaving in secret and packs a few possessions so he can pass unnoticed. many hope ten years on from the war the ethnic hate speech won't catch on but people feel the targeted violence is very real malcolm in burundi. >>> still ahead on al jazeera. >>> i'm in tunisia with a story of migrants who were rescued off the coast of libya and many of them want to go back and try again, they don'

of both ethnically and politically targeted violence is real. a stand off which has brought football in indonesia to a halt. after they held a peteing that the minister considered to be invalid. they want the president. >> we all know football agency are all working for big businessmen. that matches are being brought. they support us, they don't want this to happen, but this is the reality. i also don't think that counseling the fall of the competition is the right solution. >> asking the president to use his conscious so our football will not die. >> a controversial bill, strengthening the countries intelligence. widespread political support after the attack on the offices. lee barker reports many worried that the laws can be misused. security patrols outside the french parliament ahead of the crucial vote. france has been on a heightened state of alert. and now further increases in national security. the legislation would allow spy agencies to tap phones and emails without the need for permission from a judge employing so called black boxes to

ethnic groups are meeting to discuss a ceasefire deal that they reached with the got. often they disagree with each other and the government. for one day they put their differences aside to pitch for piece. >> the koran people have been fighting the government for decades. more than 60 years of strife make it the longest running conflict. more than 100,000 have been displaced. many went in refugees in thailand. there's little economic investment. leading the possibility, roads and facilities in cham bles. a ceasefire between the government and rebels was signed in 2012. there's sporadic fighting and peace is made more complicated because the ethnic group slips into armed and unarmed factions. the koran in the village, they were able to forget the violence. >> everybody wants peace. i don't know if it's for real or not. i don't know when we'll have the chance to play football with ethnic groups. >> the council, together with handhakes for peace. a non-governmental organization arranged a friendly game. the star power was provided by formal international footballers who

the ethnic groups often disagree with each other as well as the government. at florence looi reports for one day this clear they put aside their differences. >> reporter: the people have been fighting the government for decades. more than 60 years of strive make this the longest running conflict in myanmar. more than 100,000 people have been displaced. many living at refugees in neighboring thailand. there is little economic investment here because of the inninginstability, leaving the population poor and roads and facilitiesfacilities in shambles. a ceasefire agreement between the government and the rebels was signs in 2012. but there is still sporadic fighting. and peace is made evening more complicated because the ethnic group is split in to several armed and unarmed factions. but for one day this year, they were able to forget about the violence. >> translator: everybody wants peace but i don't really know if it's for real or not. i don't know when we'll have the chance to play football with the other ethnic groups again. >> reporter: the peace council to

the protests have been called the a a time of ethnic tensions. we have this update. >> many thousands of people gathered here in the center calling fortress i go nation of the prime minister and his government to stand down. this is the largest demonstration since his administration came to power in 2006. his administration's been rocked by scandalous phone recordings, which if true, appear to show abuses of power at the heart of his government. three of his ministers have been forced to resign. the opposition say that's not enough. they want him gone. at the same time fears about potential for tensions between the two ethnic communities macedonians and albanian . the opposition say the incident is suspicious with its timing, may have been trying to detract attention from the crisis facing the government. >> the burundi president made an appearance after a coupe attempt failed. he failed weeks of protest over his plans to run for a third term. opponents say this view lathes the terms of a peace deal that ended civil war. we have the latest. >> th

violence broke out between rohingya and another ethnic community. more than 140,000 people, mainly rohingya were displaced. they had to live in camps. they're still living in those camps more than three years later. the children are not allowed to go to school. they're entirely dependent on aid and they see no future for them here. more are likely to get on boats to leave the country. by the end of this month the temporary registration cards that many of the rohingya hold will expire. the government says they can apply for citizenship, but whether or not or not they will get it after years of the government not recognizing them is another matter. >> it started nine days ago when the thai government started clamping down on these illegal migrant groups, these traffickers down in the southern parts of this country. the reason why it started then was because of a few days before then. a mass grave was hid no one these jungle camps. they were held at one of these hidden camps where traffickers were trying to extort more money from their family. some of

we need to keep an eye on the possibility of this turning ethnic. if it does countries like rwanda may be increasingly interested in making sure that the situation is sorted as soon as possible. >> good to talk to you. thank you >>> at least nine people have been killed in fighting in north-east nigeria. boko haram fighters launched an attack in the regional capital on wednesday, and the clashes broke when nigerian troops tried to push them back. the army imposed a curfew in the area. >> saudi arabia says houthi rebels in yemen violated the ceasefire 12 times since tuesday. there are reports of heavy fighting in the city. the houthis say the saudi-led coalition carried out one air strike and shelled them by sea. hashem ahelbarra is live in the saudi capital. where does this leave the ceasefire at the moment what does it mean? >> jane the saudi-led coalition said that the 5-day violation, that they'll maintain the ceasefire, because they are committed to see the truce work for the coming day so aid can reach people. houthis say there has been violati

we will have other occasions to talk about ethnic statistics. genie: a lot of debate to come. thank you very much. the boxer who lost the fight of the century in las vegas has been hit with a lawsuit. manny pacquiao has been sued by two people who said they paid to watch them fight floyd mayweather jr. over the weekend but they felt defrauded because he did not admit he had a hurt shoulder before the fight. the boxer could also be charged with perjury for lying about that injury on the federal medical form. translator: it is an injury -- reporter: it is an injury that put him in jail. barely an hour after manny pacquiao lost the so-called fight of the century, he announced his performance had been hampered by an old injury to his right shoulder. an injury so bad he will have to undergo surgery that will sideline him for at least nine months. >> i probably would not have cleared him to fight for a lot of reasons. one being his own protection. i don't think he could be anywhere close to the normal fighter with this type of injury. reporter: pacquiao is accused of perjuring himse

our multi-ethnic cal society with different ethnic cal groups worked together today asking for the governmento give resignations and bring back the freedom and democracy for our country. >> that's one of the important things not only for our country. i think we send this message today for all of the balkan because all of the balkans, tomorrow, the government and the government party will organize protests. we don't know against which these po tests will be organized because this kind of protest was organized last time in crimena, in serbia when malosovich through the negotiation, it's possible to find conclusion for the country. our prime minister tried with important persons of his team to save his team but it's not possible because there is a lot of evil all these nine years ino behalf of our citizens. only resignation from the prime minister will give a chance for good future development of our country. >> reporter: if he resigns, what next? is it elections you want? you want to hold free and fair elections? what's your next step if you can get him to resign? >> not directly because we mus

that certain ethnicities are part of the problem, and i don't want to go there. i refuse to. >> the critics say city councilman are going there by allowing the list to be created as long as we treat housing as a penny stock. a lot of working folks will get burned. plans to assemble a list of unopened homes came to light in a memo. confirming the city's working with community groups to create a website through which "the public can report vacant homes in a coherent fashion." would you do that? >> i would definitely do it if i knew, if i saw a house that was unopened or condo that was unoccupied and i knew it was, for sure i would do it, if i knew the city was going to use that number in a positive way >>> come in, take a look. >> it's amazing. >> look at this. >> how big is it? >> 5,800 square feet. >> reporter: in the last five years edward significanting's company -- zang's company sold $500 million words of homes, to wealthy clients in china, he thinks it could easily sell for $11.88 million. >> lucky number. >> lucky number. >> for the chinese. >> reporter: is

they were hoping to reach malaysia where their father fled because of ethnic violence. two kids wered among hundreds of people packed on that boat. they say they had to pay smugglers to get them out of myanmar after soldiers arrested their mother. >> our boat had no fuel and we ran out of food. not only me but everyone was crying to find any stretch of land and god heard our prayers. >> the land they found was indonesia. they survived the journey, but their tears are still flowing. many are suffer from illnesses. they are very worried about those they have left behind and those still out there at sea. >> please can someone in the world give us our human rights. our families are 'til still in myanmar and we have no information about them. we are very worried. >> the asylum seekers say they have left with 7 boats. one had to be towed after it ran out of fuel. the u.n. high commission for refugees say they are among thousands of rohingya refugees facing dire conditions at sea. >> they are totally exhausted and many are ill-but they are happy to be alived. they made it asho

because the way that the country is built will put all of these sectarian and ethnic groups on a path of colliding against each other. >> watch more "faultlines" on demand or visit aljazeera.com/faultlines. >> monday. >> do you make anything that ends up in walmart? >> yes. >> child labor. >> how old are you? >> 12 years old? >> sweatshop conditions. >> says "old navy". >> who's making america's clothes? >> if walmart doesn't know, it's because they choose not to know. >> "faultlines". >> what do we want? >> al jazeera america's hard-hitting... >> today the will be arrested. >> ground-breaking... >> they're firing canisters of gas at us. >> emmy award-winning, investigative series. >> we have to get out of here. >> "faultlines: made in bangladesh". monday, 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. night. >>> hello, i'm ray suarez, you would a guessed that a lot of american schoolkids live in poverty, we have known for a long time that poverty has a lot to say about where you go to school and who is at the desk next to yours. this of the last few days a striking number emerged from th

it's estimated 30% of macedonia's two medical people are ethnic albanians. they won greater rights after a peace deal but frustrations often flare because implementation has been slow. victoria gatenby, al jazeera. >> we can speak now to vladimir makeshky. he joins us from the capitol, skopia. tell us about this group. the gochltsdz have krooibd them as a terrorist group. who are they? >> well as before in the report it was yes, heavily armed macedonian police launched opposition against this area after give information about armed terrorist group operating in ace area. the fighting lasted for something like 28 hours and was declared officially over this afternoon. eight policemen died in this operation and bodies of 14 uniformed men wearing insignia of former national liberation army were found in the rubble where the fighting took place. this group according to police sources was considered a couple of dozen men which, according to the police was killed in warfare and known to the security forces from the kosovor war and macedonian conflict in 2001. additi

it's an area that saw fighting during an ethnic albanian insurgency in 2001. gun fire was heard throughout the morning and at least one explosion. the government said that the attackers entered from an unnamed neighboring country. >> this morning macedonian forces started the action of finding and eliminating the armed group which according to our intelligence is aiming to attack the government forces. >> deepened concern over instability of macedonia. >> the most important thing now is to help the population and to provide and guarantee their security. this dark scenario will not succeed. >> reporter: there have been street protests demanding the resignation of the prime minister. the fear is that political leaders on either side will stoke ethnic tensions as leverage. it's estimated that 30% of macedonia's two million people are ethnic albanian. tensions sometimes flare. tim friend, al jazeera. >> still ahead on the al jazeera newshour the democratic alliance prepares to have its first ever black leader. also a high profile pardon for indonesia. is it just p

. >> this is an area that saw fighting during ethnic albanian insurgentcy in 2001.ut the mayor said the group had no local backing. >> the armed group has no support for the people. they want to keep the piece and they hope this action will have a result. we want to keep the peace and stability and not to be provoked. >> the interior ministry said that the fighters entered macedonia from an unnamed neighboring country and intended to to attack target. >> this group is well armed and well trained. >> the opposition would heighten ethnic tensions as as a distraction. in thein the past there have been protests where demonstrators accuse of wiretapping and abuse of office. 30% of as moan i can't's two million people are ethnic albanians. many former insurgents enter politics, but the attacks demonstrate there are still resentments and the threat of further violence. tim friend, al jazeera. >> ivana jordnaska is an activist and blogger and joins me now. can you tell us more about what is behind this unrest? >> thank you for having me, first of all. as you mentioned in yo

many hope, ten years on from the war, this ethnic hate speech won't catch on, and many more feel the violence is very real. and, malcolm web. q.hundreds of rescued might go grants have been arriving in sicily. >>> nearly 7,000 have been pulled out the sea the number of might go grants risking their lives continues to rise. hundreds, have been pulled from the sea pie fishermen and unlike libya, it has secured its borders. >>> they try to reach europe by boat and now they're back where they started in africa. >>> these people are among almost 500 rescued since march. the u.n. is helping those from syria, or so mol area, and these people being sheltered here are west africans and registered as economic might go grants and it makes it difficult to claim asylum. >>> things are not good. >>> i'm from guana. >>> no work. >>> that's where it is. >>> we need help. >>> it is no longer an escape route for might go grants, because its borders are secure, and they patrol the waters, and they say they're worried that lawlessness will send more people out to sea. >>> these fishermen are concerned t

you see ethnic tensions in the graphic. you alluded to the 2001 incident where you saw some sort of fighting in macedonia. minor compared to what happened. still significant when it comes to the intentions between slavic macedonians and albanian macedonians. this goes on until today, and what we saw a weekend ago. a major shoot-out in an albanian city the majority of the populated albanian cities which lead to the counter crisis. which was seen by some as allegations of fire tapping. >> it was seen by some as fomenting ethnic tensions. is it fair. compared to the rest of the region ethnic tension and fighting has been minimal. >> i wouldn't call it fomenting. he has made use of what is there, and there were certainly armed groups in the area raided by police. so there is criminal gangs there. there are violent groups which are separatist in tendencies. but it looks as if he was making this raid at a particular moment taking into account the bloodshed that could follow to deflect from the crisis. it has not deflected. minist

the ethnic minority is not recognized by the government. with no legal status many wonder if they have a future at all. florence louie reports from western myanmar. >> reporter: myanmar is the only country this woman has known. she saw her status go from citizens to noncitizens. she had to temporary surrender her immigration card. >> i have already given it up. i don't know what will happen now. >> reporter: she used to hold a citizenship card. in the late 1980s, the government took it back from the rohingya ethnic minority to which she belongs. they are seen as illegal migrants from bangladesh even though many have been here for generations. they were promised citizenship documents but were registered temporary cards. they had some rights including the right to vote. now that is gone. >> this is an office set up to collect i.d. cards. it's in a school building. they are not allowed to travel into town. >> the muslim rohingya is segregated from the ethnic buddhist community. three years ago there was fighting between the two sides. it was p

. >>> whoever wrote them seems to want to create ethnic tension.nd, during the protests and the political standoff, the ruling party was once a rebel group and there are many thousands of hooties in the opposition, and the opposition led another group, bistles largely fought along ethnic lines and he's against it, and he and his supporters lives are in danger and, the presidents supporters are trying to gain advantage. >>> but what kind of predicament, am i enduring from him and his government? >>> back in the country side, this man is a member of another group, he's been hiding here and, now he's leaving in secret. and he only packed a few possessions. many hope, ten years down from the war it won't catch on, and many more feel the threat of both ethnically, and politically violence is real. >>> malcolm web. >>> still ahead the prime minister tries to show he cares about black citizens. >>> and we'll tell you why students having to study at home are governments turning their backs on those that need help the most? >> compass with sheila macvicar o

the fear is that political leaders will use the event to heighten ethnic tensions. it's estimated that 2 million people are ethnic albanians, and they won greater rights. frustrations flare because implementations have been slow. >>> you're with the al jazeera newshour. there's more ahead including the journey of death. migrants ending up in a libyan war. plus the snp won a crushing victory, and we wondered whether it meant independence was inevitable. and in sport, it's rough at the top. play-off ended - we'll be here with that story. >>> first, german military ships rescued 200 migrants adrift in the see, most from somalia and eritrea. defence ministers from five european union countries are due to met for talks to stop human tracking and a flow of migrants from north africa >>> libya's ambassador to the u.n. rejected a plan to tackle the crisis. libya has been left out of the crucial international discussions. thousands of people in the middle east and africa depart from the shore with many dying at sea. >> just a warning, some of the images are disturbing. >> re

the face of macedonia has been rocked by violence and masterman's rations, sparking fears of a new ethnic conflict. the turmoil started earlier this month when police staged an assault on what the government calls albanian terrorists. at least 18 people killed, but those in the town where the violence erupted believe there's more to the incident then there a increasingly unpopular government is admitting. we met up with one of the local residents who has lost everything. >> days later, they still cannot believe what happened. the house he lived in with his family now lies in ruins. >> where in the world can such a thing happen? it's a disaster. something like that might happen in israel or in gaza. i've seen images like that on tv. there's nothing more i can say. you've seen the damage. what more is there to say? >> the shooting started in the middle of the night. according to the government, the attack was carried out by an albanian terror group. in this neighborhood mainly inhabited by albanians, people are baffled. they have no idea why they were targeted. the attack left 18 people dea

it target did ethnic minorities who's populations are growing because they are having

born in russia, he had his parents emigrated to germany as ethnic germans. he is one of many fighters in eastern ukraine. >> we simply want our peoples republic of donetsk. people here don't want to be a part of russia. at first they believed in putin, but he left us in the lurch. he could have ended all of this without firing a shot, like in crimea. reporter: hollywood, a former nightclub on the outskirts of donetsk, is where the 23-year-old lives when he is not on duty. in the course of the war, the separatists turn the club into a barracks. we are not allowed to film inside. the club has whirlpools in a fitness room. he used to be a wind energy electronics engineer. more recently, his battalion fought for weeks in the surrounded city. he says most of the germans fighting for the separatists have russian roots. >> we are not terrorists. we are perfectly normal people. these civilians, the children walking over there, that is who we are protecting. reporter: he came to donetsk because his cousin was on flight mh17, shot down over ukraine last july. at first

and so they are also receiving grants for the arts funds >> so the majority would be sort of mixed ethnic group >> the cultural equity grants, those criteria are part of their mission for many different sources of funds >> i look at the numbers in terms of total amount was 13 million or something 2 years back >> it was 11-last year was 11.8 and this year 11.4 >> in 2008 it was about 15 million? >> it is going down, i'll have to look for that page in the report >> i don't know what you are looking at, i am look thath report that was march 18, 2014. the second page. >> that is correct. this is a allocation of hotel tax revenue and it has gone down from 15 million in 2007 and 8 to about 11.4 million in the current year. it is also going down as a percent object of the overall hotel tax revenue >> right. there are a lot of questions based on these numbers. one of them is that as the numbers went down is it because there was a downward pattern of what percentage of the groups were minorities?

ethnic albania in insurgency and eight killed and fighters.isited germany and visited the turks in the southwest city and over a million turks living in germany are eligible to vote in the country parliamentary election on the june 7th and hi and his party say it violates turkish law because the president should not take part in election campaigns. south korea says it is concerned after north korea tested a submarine launched ballistic missile last week and state media said the test was a success and harry faucet has more front the south korean capitol, seoul. >> reporter: technology is about striking invisibly from under the water but north korea wanted the world to see this launch presided over by kim un and they called it the equivalent of having a time bomb straps to the enemy back the ability to fire a ballistic missile undetected from the seas in the peninsula and seoul on monday there was a flurry of high-level meetings and calling the development a very serious and concerning matter. >> translator: we urge north korea to immediately st

generally speaking the two ethnic groups get along on a local level. ( speaking slovak ) translator:ally, the population of the village is 63% hungarian and 37% slovak. there are no problems of coexistence between these simple people. here, primary schools exist for each community. the parents are free to choose but two-thirds of the children go to the slovak school. ( speaking hungarian ) translator: i am hungarian with some german blood as well. we hungarians do not have any problems with the slovaks. it is the politicians who want to turn us against one another. ( speaking slovak ) translator: i've got nothing against the hungarians even if i am a slovak. narrator: however, differences both political and cultural, do exist. when the hungarian minority go to the polls, it unanimously votes for more or less independent leaders. one of them provides this assessment of the problems of slovak hungarians. only 2.9% of hungarians in slovakia have higher education and with... with such a small intelligentsia you can... you cannot build your future in the long run. narrator: there are also

it remains to be seen. >> burundi has the same ethnic tensions of its neighbor rwanda, between hutus and tootsis. is there fear that it could plunge the country back into that abyss? >> there is fear that there could be last violence in burundi. that being said, the situation is much different than yesterday afternoon. now you have what seems to be a very pro-democracy coup that will help alleviate violence between the pro-regime fighters and those protesting against the third term. as for the ethnic question, what's interesting is to note that the protesters have always been multiethnic. it's never been one side against the other. now there have been agitators on either side who have argued for the ethnic conflict angle but until this point you have not seen a catalyst to push it towards that kind of violence. i think many analysts myself included are sincerely hoping that the coup and protesters have included on this trajectory. >> you have observed nkurunziza, is he emblem attic for leaders who cannot release their hold on power? >> i've done work in this area for some time and he