anita mcnaught joins us live from the site of the funeral. what is happening there? >> well, the street is steadily filling with mourners. the family is inside the religious house of worship that this community uses. the demonstration here, that chanting, that closely packed - it's a peaceful demonstration. the mood is calm. the chance for a hearing - there would be justice for you. we will not forget you. they both are reciting the names of the five other young turkish men who died as a result of conflict with the authorities, police, other security forces during the protest. he is the sixth turk to have died in similar circumstances. the problem for the circumstances is the community feels that the circumstances around his death has never been properly investigated, and the people who did it, police that shot the cannister has never been brought to justice. tear gas cannisters were not only used for ridge mate riot control, but were shot directly into crowds and used as an offensive weapon, if you like. a controversial form but liberally applied form of crowd comma

anita mcnaught reports. >> reporter: the battle inside syria for the vital strategic border crossing between syria and turkey now involves turkey's military. as jubilant rebel fighters cheered, the remains a syrian fighter jet burn in the mountains, shot down by turkish f-16s after turkey said the syrian jet invaded its air space. today there's a political rally in the lead-up to local elections on march 30th, and the tur kirk prime minister told them a syrian plane violated the air space. our f-16s hit this plane. why? if you invite my air space, a slap after this will be hard. damascus says its plane was in syrian air space when turkish jets attacked. rebels today posted a video shows them in control of the border crossing, the fighting in the area remains fierce. the casops crossing matters because it's the last border post captured and opening up a passage to the mediterranean. not only that, but it's in a region inhabited mainly by syrian allawites. s secretary the assad family coming from. his home village is only 30 kilometers away. syrian army and national defense forces have

russia needs to keep this fact in mind. >> reporter: anita mcnaught. >>> russian businesses appear tonvestment until the issue is resolved. >> reporter: the revolution has brought bad news for this industrial plant in the eastern town, a russian customer has delayed signing a big contract for machine tools until it becomes clear which way ukraine is heading. under its hue boss the factory is diversifying into wind turbines, but it still relies on russia for more than 60% of its business. >> europe market is completely different. our business not well prepared to europe market. our production not competitive in europe market. in the regional capitol, a new governor has just been appointed. the economy is one of his most urgent priorities. >> translator: many people in the region are having big problems because of travel in the banking sector. many banks are on the brink of collapse, many cash machines are empty, and we need to tackle krep shun. >> reporter: like many towns in eastern ukraine, it still honors its soviet past. this whole region is heavily dependent on russia for trade an

anita mcnaught, al jazeera. >> the government in damascus meanwhile is saying that attacks by the israeli ministry has killed one person, seven others from injured very close to the golan heights area. just a day earlier four israeli troops were wounded by a roadside bomb in an attack that is blamed on the assad regime. >> the attack targets they're syrian elements. they were not only allowed but collaborated in attacks on armed forces. we hurt those who hurt us, and we thwart as much as we can, the transfer of arms at sea and land. from time to time we're required to carry out aggressive operations as we've just done in order to assure the calm. >> an anti-corruption reporter found that south african president spent an excessive amount of taxpayer money to renovate his home. he spent $23 million what he said from security upgrades including a swimming pool, visitor's lounge, cattle enclosures and amphitheater. they want the president to repay some of those costs. we have this report. >> reporter: this report is really an encyclopedia of ammunition for the opposition six weeks out from a

anita mcnaught, al jazeera. >> 25 years after the exxon valdez oil disaster. the impact on the can a alaskan wildlife. train derails in chicago and crashes into an escalator. >>> and in sports the race against doping. how kenya's reputation for world class runners has been hit by a series of failed drug tests. but first, more than 100 people are missing after a mudslide in the u.s. state of washington. rescue teams are continuing their search for survivors but nobody has been found alive since saturday. allen schauffler is live for us from arlington, in the state of washington. you were saying there were 18 people unaccounted for and now it's more than 100. >> reporter: well, the number is a little bit squishy right now. they're saying 18 unaccounted for, that was as of this morning. we're now being told that they have 108 separate reports or descriptions of people who may be missing. they say very specifically that doesn't mean that they have 108 people who are missing. but they have a whole series of different databases and lists of people who have been repo

anita mcnaught, al jazeera. >>> u.n.an rights investigators say they have credible evidence of war crimes committed in syria. they have identified both government and opposition suspects after interviewing thousands of victims, witnesses and defectors. the suspects list includes names of syria intelligence commanders where prisoners were tortures. also on the lus, military leaders responsible for committing abuses including dropping barrel bombs on civilian areas. and armed opiniposition groups accused of targeting civilians. mass discussions have declared to have been carried out. >> an international criminal law expert and president of the center for defending civil rights and liberties says justice is possible in an international court. >> the international court is the one international judicial organization that has jurisdiction over similar crimes. there are also other national tribunals with universal jurisdiction such as in uk and spain but their jurisdictions are limited. so in order to have the perpetrators of

anita mcnaught, al jazeera. >>> coming up on al jazeera america, thousands of students once again filling the streets of egypt. a fresh wave of protests against the government there. >>> and more problems for the affordable care act. hear why some of the top cancer centers may be off-limits under obamacare. >>> in egypt at least one person is dead following violent clashes between police and protesters. those demonstrations on the anniversary of the first constitutional referendum. >> reporter: this is a student protest in egypt, the secondest largest city of alexandria. similar protests took place across the country on wednesday to make the third anniversary on the announcement of egypt's first post-mubarak constitution. they came out to show their rejection of the coup of the government of former president morsi. in june 2012 morsi became the first democratically elected president in egypt. morsi was always skeptical of the army. he sacked one of the top generals and scrapped the interim declaration. this is the man appointed by morsi as the new defense minister, but the army's power wa

anita mcnaught reports from are istanbul. >> in 2008, alert to the world of the number of journalists behind bars in turkey. when he found out himself he was facing an 11 year sentence he sought asylum in germany. >> to prevent this the state uses violence, intimidation. >> around 63 journalists in turkish jails. the committee to protects journalists and reporters without borders cite lower numbers but turkey still tops their list. the largest number reflects the long drug for kurdish rights. the political culture in turkey needs off conflict, used to limit free speech. >> it's not only the kurds, we see journalists who are writing for secret press or the pro kamalists. they are getting arrested as well. >> 2013 credit gezi protests, exposed fault lines, did not report the clashes when they first happened an journalists lr lost their jobs. climate of political and commercial pressure, they explained the big media owners have more important interests than just their lb publi public. >> the government pointed to a new hidden enemy, a movement led by islam ick cleric, the internet filled

an anita mcnaught has more. >> the reporting team were doe tained by egyptian security services on december 29th and taken to cairo's high-security tora prison. he job description television broadcast these images of their arrest some weeks later showing the interior of their hotel room. initially the three men were held separately. now, they share a cell together with others. mohammed fatny already had a shoulder injury when he was detained. until two days ago, he had been denied proper medical attention. according to his family, now can barely move his arm. >> baha mohammed, father of two is able to see his wife and children only once a week with one extra visit for mother's day. correspondent peter gresta's family members are commuting from australia for the hearings. interim egyptian president made a statement last week delivered to peter gresti's parents saying he will spare no effort to work towards the speedy resolution of the case. on sunday, mohammed fatmy's father also received a letter from the president. in it, he says: i stress and reiterate the independence of the egyptian jud