now we have been speaking to alex who is a senior reporter at eyewitness news in johanesburg. >> whate seeing in the city of johanesburg is a fresh flare-up of tension and violence throughout the night and have had teams out and about through the night and have been a lot of clashes and five cars that were set on fire running battles throughout the night and rubber bullets used by police in the streets and within the last hour we have seen tensions rise up again, there were stone fights with at least one person being taken away by ambulance. this is of course still that tension between the locals and downtown johane nshgs eshgsnejohanesburg and foreigners and police are trying to calm the tensions and it began two weeks ago at another providence and slowly spread into johanesburg and happened in 2008 with the previous flare-up and know when the violence has started in swateta in another suburbs in january that was particularly targeted at shop owners small spot owners running businesses in that area now it appears the violence is aimed really at anybody who is a foreigner, in other wo

♪ tear gas and tension on the streets of johanesburg as migrant workers arm themselves against more attacks♪ hello i'm with al jazeera live from doha also to come on the program the u.n. calls for a ceasefire in yemen and launches appeal to help those suffering in the war plus. >> in the mediterranean and those in africa is in chaos and full of terrorists and europe cannot be safe. >> reporter: chaos in syria is leaving europe vulnerable to attack, a warning from president assad and memorial service for the victims of the german wings plane crash in the alps. ♪ first to south africa where street bats have been fought through the night as anti-immigrant violence spreads to downtown johanesburg. police have fired rubber coated steel bullets to disburse a group of migrants who armed themselves with machetes that was a series of break-ins on foreign-owned shops, 12 people arrested overnight. [gunfire] south africa hit by a wave of attacks against foreigners over the past two weeks, at least six people were killed in the eastern city of durban and hundreds forced out of their homes and shelterin

townships and looted and built street barricades and we have more from johanesburg. >> reporter: comeinspect what is left of his shop he came to south africa six years ago to try and earn money for his family in ethiopia. >> with money and stuff, lost it. >> reporter: he says his shop was attacked by people who accused migrant workers of taking their jobs. he says they stole everything he has including all his savings. >> i don't know these people is coming and taking stuff and money and clothes and shoes. everything is taken. i have children. i have wife. and people support me. you kill me. you kill me jesus. i kill you. >> reporter: south africa landlord says he is ashamed about what happened. >> criminality. >> reporter: it's very obvious the level of poverty in this neighborhood here in johanesburg and people have very real needs and grievances with the government in terms of lack of jobs and services here. it seems that he was the victim of opportunists and criminal elements here and decided to stay and try and save some more money before he returns to ethiopia however there are

generally across south africa with the migrant population there was another reported killing in johanesburgxandria and a man smashed it with a monkey wrench and stabbed to death in mozambique and looting going on in businesses there as well so it is really hoped today certainly in durban that the speak by the king can go some way to stopping this violence because it is a huge embarrassment for south africa. >> let's hope so indeed thanks so much charles stratford there. the u.n. is condemning al-shabab attack that killed at least seven staff in northern somalia and exploded in the region four foreign nationals and three somalis killed in the attack. neighboring kenya they are recovering from al-shabab two weeks ago raid on university which killed 148 people was the biggest carried out by the armed group in kenya and prompted a security crack down and effected local businesses and mohamed explains explains. >> reporter: on the wrong side of the law, this is how police deal a dusk to dawn curfew with the attack on the university. a massive security operation has also netted dozens of youth su

self-defense three years ago and lawyers for the families argued the miners had no threat from joe johanesburg ten people had already been killed during the strike including miners and officers and security guards. by 16 of august hundreds of heavily armed police deployed and journalists and cameras watching they open fire. [gunfire] 34 mine workers killed and 70 others injureded and it was the single worst injury involving security forces in south africa since the end of apartheid. inquiry more than 50 witnesses testified including union led leaders and police and president and wanted to know who ordered the shootings and understand the government and unions and miners and what happened here had been brewing for years. >> after 20 years of democracy at the end of apartheid people feel they have not yet reaped the benefits of democracy. >> reporter: south africa has more than 80 strikes each year. ♪ this is al jazeera america, i'm libby in new york city and breaking into programming to hear from arkansas's governor about a so called religious freedom bill. let's listen in. >> and it's time for