experience it seems is no deterrent for thousands of others who just want to leave, al jazeera, northern ethiopiaeast four people have been injured in fighting between protests and police in the capitol and demonstrators are calling for changes to the timetable for upcoming elections and opposition wants local elections be held before presidential vote due in october. the murder rate in south africa has slowed down everywhere apart from cape town. that is mostly down to drug gangs fighting over territory in the cities and cape flats communities. in an exclusive interview we talk to a gang leader who blames the government for turning his neighborhood into a ghetto. >> reporter: 11:00 at night here and smoking crystal meth in a portable toilet. these are members of one of the gangs running the drug trade-in the cape flats area of cape town. roland is a gang leader and believes taking and selling drugs is the only life possible here. >> young boys are dreaming and the dream is to be a drug dealer and they don't have school fees and don't have money to go to college, they don't have a boyfriend in pr

tiring for thousands of other ethiopians who just want to leave, catherine with al jazeera, northern ethiopiathe u.n. says aid contributions for those effected by the earthquake in nepal need to be dramatically ramped up last week u.n. called for $415 million to support earthquake relief efforts but the u.n. chief official in nepal says only $22 million has been received. the death toll from the earthquake now stands at more than 7800 people and nearly 16,000 were injured. omar once the youngest prisoner in guantanamo bay has been freed by a court in canada and now 28 years old he was only 15 at the time of his arrest he will live with his lawyer and will be subject to strict monitoring while appealing his 2010 convictions and daniel lack reports from edmonton alberta. >> reporter: after pleading guilty to war crimes before a u.s. military commission in 2010 omar-cotter was transferred to serve sentence in canada and lawyers wanted him free on bail as they appealed the u.s. conviction and they were successful. >> do i imagine he will be trying to understand is this really true and he will not

seems is no deterrent for other ethiopians who just want to leave, catherine with al jazeera, northern ethiopiaays aid contributions in nepal need to be dramatically ramped up. last week the u.n. appealed for $415 million to support earthquake relief efforts but so far only $22 million has been received. inside the country people are turning to homemade solutions, and we report from kathmandu. >> reporter: right now it's the essentials that are needed most. >> we started this because tents are hard to get in kathmandu because we scour the city to buy tents and there was a big inflation of tent prices as well. >> reporter: so many homeless from the earthquake makeshift tents have sprung up and people's houses standing are too afraid to return to them. shelter is a priority. >> we as a group decided to take the initiative to produce tents and to provide to the various groups and the villages. >> reporter: with a shortage of tarp in nepal the partners had to get creative this material called flex roll is typically used for advertising sign and buying it on credit selling some finished tents at the

northern extent just one rainy season a year, central get two rainy seasons and again the south is one rainy season. these big storm systems are working their way across. we've got lively conditions across ethiopia, tangiers, extending all the way toward far west of africa. it certainly is coming down at quite a rate. i suspect there is localized flooding as a result. keep the rain going all the way through the next 24-48 hours with some very heavy downpours rain extending right around the gulf region, so liberia ivory coast likely to see heavy rain. you can see the clouds pushing across and this cloud might well yield rain across saudi arabia and strong winds. we've seen a lot of dust late on monday and through into tuesday. >> thank you richard. goodness. we will meet north korean defectors easing into a new life in the south. they are doing it by learning english. >> in katmandu i'll be meeting the largest known group of children to of made it from the earthquake zone to the capitol. >> in sport we'll find out if san antonio can city on course to win back-to-back nba championships. >> we're on the news hour here on al jazeera and these are the top stories. sources have told al jazeera that ar