phil lavelle, al jazeera. >>> the man accused of hijacking a plane from egypt to cyprus using a fakede belt is in larnaca and seif el din mustafa is psychologically unstable and the motives behind the hijacking are unclear and passengers and crew have safely returned back to egypt. and this person was on board the hijacked plane. >> we took off normally from alexandria from cairo and everything was normal and not weird. maybe after a while everyone noticed we should have landed and didn't land and i look out of the window and saw the sea so it was a bit weird to see the see because usually when you go to cairo you don't pass the sea and we noticed there was something wrong but nobody imagined that it could be that kind of thing so then one of the cabin crew passed by all the passengers and collected all the passports without saying a reason, they just said they had a problem and cannot say anything more and just need the passports and i think about an hour, 45 minutes later one of the cabin crew members just told us that we have been hijacked and that was it. they didn't say anything

it paved the way to the eventually creation of the irish republic, phil lavelle reports. >> reporter:ave now passed but what happened here a century ago poignantly remember today this day. the only sound here a piper, a drum beaned and boards of remembrance from the acting prime minister. >> in honor of all those who died. >> reporter: as crowds gathered outside the general post office in dublin. there was the same place it happened on easter monday. when 150 men stormed the g.p.o. replacing the british flag with the irish, did he player independence, they celled erred five days later after the heavy shelling by the british. defeated and executed. but it galvanize the the independence movement and five years later british troops were gone. with part of the north staying within the u.k. on sunday the president stood in front of a crowd of thousands to watch the flag lowered and blown in the chill of a spring irish morning. many more watched from a distance, paying respect to the 500 who have lost their lives. among them, faces who have dedicated their lives to reunifying all of ireland

phil lavelle, al jazeera. >>> north korea's state i media broadcast an artillery exercise.t shows the leader overseeing the military drill which crayed a simulated attack on could you think koreanan attack. tensions have been high since the north carried out a nuclear test and launched a long range rocket earlier this year. >>> a new opposition party has been formed in japan, heads of parliamentary elections in summer a merger much smaller opposition groups looking to put pressure on the conservative ruling party. rob mcagreed. has more. >> this merger is seen by many in the fragmented opposition as being the best chance of trying to derail the ruling conservative coalition government of prime minister shinzo abe. he has a lot of forward momentum, in spite of scandals involving cabinet members and a faltering economic strategy. he has majority did in both houses of the japanese parliament. if he can extends that to two-thirds of the seats in both, he has an unprecedented opportunity to change the country's pacifist constitution giving the military a more assertive role. the

here is phil lavelle. >> reporter: hundreds of years passed. but what happened a century ago poignantly remembered days ago, the only sound a piper, drum beat and words of remembrance from the acting prime minister. >> in honour of all those that died as crowds gathered, the rising happened on easter mont when 150 stormed the g.p. o, declaring independents. she surrendered after shelling by the british. that uprising galvanized the movement. five years later british troops were gone. part of the north stays in the u.k. friday, the precedent stood in a crowd of thousands to watch the flag risen. many watched respects paid to the 500 that lost their lives. among them faces that dedicated their lives to reunification. people like this man, who wants it back in the north. in the north many don't want to leave the u.k. sunday we were together in their mourning >>> roy foster, professor of irish history at hartford college. this was a get. a glorious defeat. but why was it important. >> it's not as simple as irish nationalists rising it was separatis