and the airport has been closed and all flights have been diverted and zaina is here from the greek citynd terrorism or not whether it's a domestic that has got out of hand in the worst possible way, the authorities have to deal with what they see and what they are being told and they are being told he hijacked the plane and has an explosive device on his person at the tim time. >> reporter: yes, hijacker still inside the plane with a number of passengers. what we understand from initial reports from the pilot is that this hijacker threatened to blowup the plane, told the pilot he had a suicide vest on and that is why the pilot diverted the plane to larnika and took off from alexandria in egypt and flying to cairo and then diverted and some officials quoted in the media as saying they doubt that explosives are on board and authorities also saying that they cannot confirm what the hijacker has own board, what kind of explosives and if he indeed has any on board but undoubtedly a very dangerous situation. this man now demanding political asylum. what we understand from the cyprus president

zaina with al jazeera. >>> christians have been celebrating easter sunday the most important day of theirendar. [bell rings] pope francis leading the roman catholic church's mass at the vatican and commemorates the last days of jesus christ and sunday is the day that christians celebrate his resurrection. pope francis reflected on recent conflicts and the plight of refugees in his address. >> translator: jesus by his resurrection triumphed over evil and sin and may he draw us closer on this easter feast of the victims of terrorism, that blind and brutal form of violence which continues to shed blood in different parts of the world as in the recent attacks in belgium, turkey, nigeria, chad, cameroon, the ivory coast and iraq. he invites us not to forget those men and women seeking a better future and ever more numerous throng of refugees including children fleeing from war, hunger, poverty and social injustice. >> reporter: jerusalem and it's been a different time over the last six months a wave of stabbings and shootings between israelis and palestinian and we report from the church of th

. >> okay, zaina thank you for the update tomorrow the camp. has released images of personal items that belong to a murdered italian student. police say they found a bag with julia's student id and passport during a raid on a gang that had been posing as police officers. his badly tortured body found on a street after he disappeared in january. he had been in the country carrying out research on trade unions. on the family of egyptian man arrested for wearing a t-shirt with an antitorture slogan has been released from prison and he was 18 when he was arrested in january, 2014, his lawyer says he was never formerly charged and was tortured during his two-year detention. israeli soldier being questioned after he shot dead an injured palestinian in the occupied west bank and shooting followed another stabbing attack and 206 palestinians and 26 israelis killed in shootings and stabbings since last october and stephanie decker reports from west jerusalem. >> reporter: 21-year-old palestinian man is shot and lies injured on the ground, israeli army s

states received almost 900,000 asylum applications from syrian refugees and zaina has this update on-macedonia border where thousands of refugees are still stranded. >> reporter: what the u.n. wants is for richer contries to share the burden and help other countries who are unable to cope with the numbers of migrants and refugees now on their soil. greece used to be a transit country and it's now a host country with 50,000 people stranded here. the u.n. is hoping that the eu relocation program can really move forward because since it was agreed in september just a few hundred people have been relocated, the eu commissioner for migration wants 6,000 people to be relocated a week but that is going to be a very difficult task because grease does not have the infrastructure or logistics in place for all these people to start applying for asylum and start applying for relocation program and people are growing increasingly desperate, a lot have been separated, families have been separated, torn apart and some of their families made it to northern europe and others are stuck here and what t

lesbos back to tshgky, a deal between the eu and turkey as it begins more refugees are arriving and zaina this report from lesbos. >> reporter: this was supposed to have stopped but the boats keep coming in. europe's refugee crisis is far from over. the latest arrivals are refugees from syria and many from the war torn syria of aleppo and going across the aegean sea to reach the greek island and hoping a resent agreement with turkey would dischurj asylum seekers but people who manage to reach the shores are hopeful they want be turned back. >> translator: we are coming from a destroyed city and asking for asylum on human tarn grounds and not only the worn out situation but it's bad for us. >> reporter: people want to make their way to mainland europe in search of a better life and be reunited with family members who made the journey before them. >> translator: the situation is very bad in aleppo and we endured four years of bombardment and rocket attacks, i don't want to be sent back to turkey because my fathers and two sisters are in germany and i miss them. >> reporter: the closer of th