stephanie dekker reports. >> reporter: two of the incidents took place around the northern city of nablus in the occupied west bank. one caught on camera, the woman that tried to stab an israeli security officer - that was in bethlehem. this was the change to a pattern seen over the last few weeks, that most of the incidents, some disputed, palestinian witness, cases say it's not as the israeli narrative goes. they have not taken place around hebron, where most of the attacks took place. it shows how unpredictable the attacks are. difficult to prevent. and the tension on the ground, and it comes as the israeli prime minister on his way to washington to meet with president obama. we know they'll be discussing tensions here on the ground, and the israeli prime minister, according to israeli media, will try to ease tensions in the west bank and gaza, lifting checkpoints and easing the restrictions on movement. i think very difficult to see how that will translate to the tensions on the ground that remain real. many people will tell you, palestinians, that it stems from many factors, partiall

live to stephanie dekker. what is the pope there for, and why has he decided to make the trip? >> he is the second most important figure. which is why the church is stressing that this is not an official visit. the position has not changed. the late pope says in protest the occupation, occupied east jerusalem. the cops should not enter here without the muslims. they are keen to stress that. he knew the archbishop. >> we go down there. we saw the body arriving. a small procession to the church of the holly spectre to where it's taking place. keen to keep this low key, and stressing that the position has not changed. having said that. it has visited during easter to make the pilgrimage. there are other leading visitors, the head of the organization of islamic cooperation. the head of the maronite church. with the pope in 2014, it is not unusual. it's causing controversy. it's keen to stress that the position has not changed. >> stephanie dekker, live in the occupied east jerusalem. >> a shooting at a birth control clinic killed three people including a police officer. nine others

once it is done, he will return. >> stephanie dekker reporting. stay with us on the newshour. still to come - some of those that planned the attacks in paris is based in belgium. we look at the accusation that the country is failing to tackle radicalisation. >> plus, a gunman kills three people in a shooting at a planned parenthood clinic >>> and the davis cup title. sanaa here with the latest. . >> the president francis hollande is appealing for wider support. >> please allow me to thank the countries that provided support. i hope the house of commons will meet the request of david cameron. >> i have in mind germany. angela merkel will make support for necessary actions. >> the search for those responsible is ongoing. belgium police charge a sixth person. questions are arrived about whether local politics in belgium is getting in the way of national and european security. >> armoured personnel carriers on the streets of brussels. a scare at a mosque when powder in a letter turned out to be harmless, mean extra work for the police. >> incidents like this is a reminder of the d

stephanie dekker reports from jerusalem. >> it's tense.his protest in ramallah outside of the west bank. [ gunfire ] >> we moved towards the injured to film. at that moment the commander came. he threatened that he would spray us with pepper spray. we moved back ten meters and he began to spray at all the journalists. >> he said he did nothing wrong and moved back. >> i said to the commander, what are you doing to the journalists? you're attacking us? >> the police issued this statement in response to our request for comment: >> he said he has acreditted the by the israeli press office. >> the government treats any attack on a journalist, photographer with severity, any journalist who is injured or feels like he's being attack is given a response after a thorough investigation. >> another incident during protests at the end of september shows israeli security forces smashing a camera belonging to a photographer from the news service. the deputy commander was dismissed following the investigation. the photographer is sure he would press cha

al jazeera's stephanie dekker has the latest from werz jerusalem -- west jerusalem, a violent and bloody day. tell us the details. >> that's right. we have had three incidents so far. all in the occupied west bank. as you mentioned, it started earlier on, south of nablus. a man said to have driven a car into a group of israelis, two, we are told by the israeli police are severely injured. one lightly injured, then another caught on camera outside the settlement close to bethlehem, where a woman was seen to give her i.d. to a security officer, talking to him, and pulling out a knife and attempting to stab him. she has been shot. the condition of her unclear. from the information we have been getting, she is alive. there was another incident in the last hour or half, west of nablus, a man, an-israeli man, a settler approached a checkpoint where, according to israeli police, stab wound. he said he was stabbed by two palestinian men. so a search is ongoing for them. i think it's interesting. most of the incidents that we have seen in the occupied west bank have been centered in the hebron ar

stephanie dekker is there with the latest on the visit. >> the coptic church is keen to stress this is an extraordinary visit because the two men were friends of the this was a personal friend of the archbishop. they went to university, and the position that the archbishop held in the holy land, passing away on wednesday. this is why he's here, leading the funeral. the church says that he mr not be visiting religious places here, and would be finishing the funeral and returning to egypt. they know the sensitivity of the issue, that's the message. it has not changed from when he said 1979 and israel signed the reports, that they should enter jerusalem together. that is still the case. they do not want it seen as a change in policy. an extraordinary visit >>> saudi-led coalition air strikes targeted boats to yemen. they were hit in a port. this is the first time the coalition carried out strikes against alleged smugglers. we have more. >> translation: the saudi-led coalition carried out eight raids in the province, targetting a number of boats carrying arms, ammunition and fuel. the smug

stephanie dekker, al jazeera, latakia. >> an u.s. command center afghanistan said an airstrikes on a doctors without borders hospital that killed 30 people was caused primarily by human error. general john campbell described the strike as an tragic unavoidable error. >> eyewitnesses say it was a terrifying attack. in the early morning hours of october 3rd, the u.s. rained bombs and bullets on a hospital in kunduz. patients burned to death in their beds. staff were decapitated and three children interest killed in the attack. the commander of u.s. forces said that the u.s. investigation showed that it was a tragic but avoidable mistake. >> the report determined that the u.s. strike on the trauma center in kunduz, afghanistan, was a direct result of human error, compounded by systems and procedural failures. the u.s. forces directly involved in this incident did not know the targeted compound was the msf trauma center. >> the doctors without borders had given u.s. and nato forces exact coordinates to the hospital three days before the

stephanie dekker. al jazeera, west jerusalem. >> the leaders have agreed to talks over dispute over the issue of so-called comfort women. from seoul harry fawcett reports. >> this relationship has been in a deep freeze since these leaders took office. the handshake and smiles hardly brimmed with warmth, but this moment might represent the start of the that you. south korea's president park talked of the need of sincerity in order to heal history. south korea first wants japan's prime minister to address the past in particular the sexual enslavement of tens of thousands of young koreanen women before and during world war ii and compensate the dwindling number of elderly survivors of the so-called comfort women system. the bear minimum was agreed a promise to speed up talks on the issue. >> in order to build a forward-looking relationship we should not leave obstacles for the future generation over the comfort woman issue. south korean issue on the history and policies of looning restrictions on japan's

stephanie dekker met a family to see what life is like for them >>> the children are excited to have new visitors. no one comes to see them these days. the young smiles hide in difficult reality, but their father struggles to hide his emotions. >> translation: this is not so. this is since the area was declared a closed military zone, and lately we are not allowed to go in and out through the streets unless they check a list we are on. we are merely numbers >>> outside a microcosm of this conflict. this street, where palestinians are forced to live side by side with israeli settlers, under the watchful eye of israeli soldiers, this area has been shut down since the second intifada. leaving this house, there's a star of david painted on the door. palestinians can only walk a few meters. there's an army checkpoint and beyond that only settlers are allowed. unlike palestinians, the settlers are allowed to go anywhere. this is the roof of a house last thursday. the voice you can hear is the owner yell are for the army, telling them settlers are on his roof. nothing can be done. later tha

stephanie dekker has this update now from west jerusalem. >> reporter: there have been two separate incidents of shooting in and around the hebron area on friday night. the first one was sniper fire targeting jewish visitors to the cave of the mate i can't recollect. the army is looking for whoever carried that out. about an hour, hour and a half later, a drive-by shooting, one israeli seriously injured on the outskirts of hebron. this is an escalation. we don't often see incidents of shootings in the hebron area, palestinians shooting at israelis. however, the other way, again, another incident. a 72-year-old grandmother shot dead by the israeli security forces at a gas station just on the outskirts of hebron. we spoke to her family, and they say she was simply trying to fill up her car with gas, but the israeli army maintains she tried to ram her car into a group of soldiers. incredibly difficult situation on the ground. another incident on friday. an israeli man stabbed. the attackers managed to get away. the israeli security forces are looking for them. certainly an incredibly tense day.

stephanie dekker, latakia. >> french president franÇois hollande and germany's chancellor angela merkelhas met in france, discussing the airstrikes in syria. >>> after days of lockdown, hundreds of troops remain on the ground. there have been a series of raids looking for suspects connected to the attacks. >> after four days of high alert, brussels is lifting some of the most disruptive restrictions. most underground metro lines are open again, returning to a semblance of nor mallcy. the people are still anxious. >> of course we have to be careful because at any moment something can happen. but you ca can't hide also. danger is everywhere. >> below and above ground there is heavy military and police presence. a thousand extra personnel have been called in for patrol in brussels and other belgium cities. this is a reminder they're looking for the suspects involved in the paris attacks as well as people who may be planning more. >> schools and universities have reopened also, but the government has maintained the highest security level 4, which means that an attack is viewed as imminent.

stephanie dekker has this update. >> there has been two separate incidents of shooting in and around the area on friday night. the first sniper fire, targetting visitors to the gave. to the mosque known to muslims. two young israelis injured in that attack. an hour, hour and a half later, a drive-by shooting, an israeli injured, this on the outskirts. this is an escalation, we don't often see incidents of shooting in the area, palestinians shooting at israelis. another incident, a 72-year-old grandmother shot dead by security forces at a gas station. we have spoken to her family and they tell us they were trying to fill up her car with gas. the army maintained she tried to ram her car into a group of soldiers. >> on the ground, another incident. an israeli man stabbed. ramallah, the attacker getting away, the israeli forces looking for him. it's an intense day. even though we had the last few days, some water incident, then we see an escalation as we have had on friday. very unpredictable, difficult to calm certainly the street and we heard from the israeli chief of military, and we

stephanie dekker in occupied jerusalem. >> votes are being counted in burkina faso with results expected in the next coming hours. hundreds of thousands turned out to cast their ballot. al jazeera with the latest now. >> we are of the national center where the commission is busy receiving the results from the 127 polling centers across the country. they have the results. >> it's a very slow process because of the poor communication, in this vast country. results are coming in 45 different provinces, but they will be able to declare the results as soon as they get to that part of the country. this will be the first peaceful power in burkina faso's history, and it will be democracy for the people of burkina faso who have had their politics dominated by one man for three decades. before this country had only been ruled except for the six years by military rulers. the country has experienced six military coups since 1960, so it is a big deal. and they say the turn out was very high in most areas. and they say for the first time many people in burkina faso is voting for the first time because

stephanie dekker reports. >> work started in the valley under armed protection. the foundation being laid for moristration. palestinians submitted a high court stopping the wall built through bethlehem. it's been a long battle. this is the longest remaining space. it is agricultural and is owned. 58 christian papers. they have 700 dinners for the vine yard where they produce wine. >> they started to build the wall. once it's complete, it will cut across the valley, confiscating large parts of the area in bethlehem. there are two israeli settlements on the hill. palestinians are convinced the move is about a land grab. the separation wall is needed for security reasons. there's a monastery. it is ruled that it should not be separated from the nunnery. it's not clear what path the wall will take. prayers have been taking place in protest every week. it seems these may go unanswered. there's a wider religious implication if the wall is completed. >> bethlehem is the twin city of jerusalem. in bethlehem the moment of the nativity is in bethlehem as the church of the