This is Al Jazeera America. Im Thomas Drayton in new york. Lets get you caught on the top stories of this hour. Prorussian activists break down the doors of a Police Station, demanding the relief of dozensedly. Prayers and pressure on the Nigerian Government to do more to find hundreds of kidnapped girls. Mourning for a german change student killed in montana calls for justice. Can talks bridge on end to the bitter ward in south sudan. Thats the subject tonight of the week ahead. Storming a Police Station in odessa prorussian activists demand the release of dozens of protesters. The governments interim Prime Minister visited odessa and some injured. 40 were killed when clashes erupted. There were violence in ukraine, each side is increasing the resolve that they wont back down. We have the latest from the black sea down of odessa. Reporter to cries of our heroes, they emerged from the Police Station, more than 60 prorussian protesters arrested for taking part in extreme violence in odessa on friday night. For hours, as riot police looked on from behind their shields, the crowd shouted freedom, demanding the release of those ideas. Some forced their way into a vehicle entrance into a Police Station. Once inside they seemed to be on the brink of complete control. And then from somewhere an apparent Police Decision to aqueous. Reporter this is a city in which great violence was down sound night and possibly was on the verge of happening again. It seems as if the police force, widely blamed for failing, actively decided to stand back and do nothing to prech it to prevent it doing nothing again. The crowd anger was inspired by what many saw when they were allowed into the black eped remains blackened remains of the trade union building. Dozens died, trapped in the building as proukraine crowds circled them outside. Translation im going to seek revenge for my people, every drop of blood of our victims. Ukraines interim Prime MinisterArseniy Yatsenyuk was in odessa on sunday and blamed russia for instigating the violence and vowed to root out corruption in the Police Station that he says did nothing to stop it. In this section of the population his words had little meaning. Ukraine is set to hold president ial elections on may 25th. Russia called it absurd given the conflict in the country. Earlier i spoke to steven cohan, a Professor Emeritus of russian studies and he said holding an election now would we impossible. Its questionable to hold an election. What sort of election can you have looking at these pictures, tanks, people dying. Those elections were for presidency, not for parliament they need a new parliament. And not for a new constitution which everyone agrees is necessary to keep ukraine together. In practical terms, may 25th is what, 2. 5 weeks away. Can you imagine elections being held there now. Here we have president obama and german chancellor Angela Merkel talking about sanctions. Do they mean anything. Yes, they mean something. They will hurt russia economically, eventually. You have to bear in mind for russia this is existential, its not about money or something that a trillion or a Million Dollars will buy off. There has to be a serious negotiation. Thats where Angela Merkel comes into play. Putin does not trust obama, obama does not like vladimir putin. Putin trusts Angela Merkel. Hes talking to her. Shes unhappy by the tapping of the phone. Lets hope at the end of the day they talked about getting the russians, americans, germans and ukrainians to a negotiating table. Have western powers done enough to influence the situation . It depends how you see it. The standard western story is putin began it. The reality is if it began in know last year when ukraine refused to sign an economic agreement to europe, it gave a deeply divided country an either or choice, why do that. Why tell a country that you knew half of which leaped to rush a, and half to the west, you must choose between the two. And little reported, there was small print that essentially brought ukraine into n. A. T. O. Through the back door. If you hadnt done that, you meaning the west, wouldnt have gotten to this crisis. Turning our attention to afghanistan where people are searching through the mud. We are getting an aerial look at the scope of the devastation. The site of the disaster is expected to be devastated a mass grave. We have the latest on this tragedy. Reporter this boy is 15. He has lost so much. His mother and two sisters, two brothers, all buried in this mountain of mud. Translation at the time of the landslide i was holing my mothers hand. It slipped, i escaped, else i would have been buried in the same place with him. This man knows his family is gone, but he needs to find their bodies for his own peace of mind. Translation i want to see their dead bodies, their face, so i can come to terms with it. We have been working for two days without food and water. Im devastated. I lost everything i had in my life. My wife and children are buried under the mud. The house is standing on hillside and provide an idea of what the village looked like when it was whole. Now its torn in two. Hundreds of people are camping out in dispirit conditions. They have been given tents and aid agencies provide food, water and medicine. People here feared that another part of the mountain could collapse any time. People have told al jazeera that the aid they are getting is not enough. The tents are helping to protect survivors from the rain. Many people are going hungry. There simply is not enough food and water to go around. Right now we are working on what you see. What people need for shelter. And we brought tents for them. They need food. They dont have anything to cook. We are bringing in food for them. People are upset because the government has given up searching for bodies. The governor of the province says the houses are under too much mud. Thats why we are digging here by ourselves. The government is not helping us at all to recover the family. It will take more, even if it takes 10 days. Theres no other option but to recover the family. The idea that the homes would be turned into a mass grave is too much for many of these people to bare. The houses are gone. The mountain is a threat. The future of their village is in doubt. For now they are dead. In syria rebel forces reached a partial agreement with the government to end a 2year siege in homs, allowing rebels to pull out of the city. In exchange rebels will release what they say are hezbollah fighters and syrian army soldiers. The operation is due to be monitored by the u. N. It ha a strong opposition it the syrian president. South sudan president says it has taken two key towns from rebel fighters, days after president salva kiir agreed to talks with the rebel leader to end the conflict. We have this report from juva. Reporter the spokesman for the Government Army announced two important victories. The first was this morning in the up to of n. A. S. A. , close to the border with ethiopia, and this has been the rebel strong hold for some time, where riek machar, the leader of the movement had its faith. Its where it received pilae. The other is in the up to of bentiu, which the government says they took back at 4 00 pm. This is a town where we saw the horrific images emerge. People were massacred inside a mosque. There were more killings in a hospital and a church. The pictures went to the u. N. They shocked the people there who saw them. They were really the reason for a lot of International Pressure that we saw piled on south sudan in recent days. The u. S. Secretary of state john kerry came to visit and he referred to them. This is a big important victory for the government. Its important to remember that these battles are fluid. Towns rise and fall with regularity. Bentiu has changed hands five or six times recently. It is fluid, but for today gapes for the government forces. Tonight we look at the crisis in south sudan. Stay with us for the week ahead, in been 19 minutes at 8 30pm eastern, 5 30 pacific. A series of bombings in kenya left at least seven dead, the latest in the capital, when explosions ripped through two crowded buses. We have this report. Reporter bombs on two buses exploded in nairobi shortly after 9 30pm. They were travelling close to one another down a busy highway, from the city center. Dozens were rushed to kenyatta general hospital. One out of 16 arrived dead. Six are critically injured. All of them are in stable condition and attended to by the medical team. No one was claimed responsibility for the attacks, but bombings in kenya increased since the countrys military entered the country to fight alshabab in 2011. In recent months they escalated dramatically. Less than 24 hours before this attack grenades were thrown at a bus in the coastal city of mombassa, and a bomb was discovered in an upmarket hotel in the same city. Kenyas government promised to step up its current security crackdown named operation security watch. Attackers are still able to strike targets in major cities at will. Nigerias president told officials that everything must be done to rescue more than 250 school girls. They were kidnapped by armed fighters last month. Many nigerians say the government botched the response. We have this report from abuja. Reporter nigerians at the assembly church, prays for the kidnapped girls to be found. Theres pressure on goodluck jonathan, and he set up a committee to investigate how the abductions took place and why the rescue efforts failed. Some churchgoers are planning overnight vigils until the girls are found. Its painful. I am a father, i have children. I have daughters and a son. If i should put myself in the shoes of the parents. Its painful. News of the abduction spread around the world. These protesters accused the Nigerian Government of mishandling the rescue effort. People have been protesting in london. Theres a Global Social media drive under the hash tag bring back our girls involving celebriti celebrities. We are urging the Nigerian Government to do more to find them. These are peoples daughters, sisters and so on. They need to be found and returned as soon as possible. Public anger is fuelled by conflicting figures from Different Levels of government about how many girls have been affected. The anger is as high as it is because schools have been attacked before. In february 59 were killed at boko haram, is at a school nearby. Reporter meanwhile the military insists theres an ongoing operation to free the girls, but will not give details for what it calls security reasons. I asked when the president ial committee on the abductions is expected to report backs. Despite the International Pressure, a president ial spokesperson would only say, soon. Earlier i spoke via skype with a spoke person from the Human Rights Watch and said nigerias president should have taken action sooner. Its come a little too late. Its more than three weeks after the girls have been missing. The committee set up will be started next week. Its coming because the people have been pressuring, the people had to go on the streets. Theres no reason why it had to get to that point for the president of the nation to step up and sake action to rescue the girls. Theres a lot of speculation on who to go after here. We dont know the abductors are boko haram. This is a group yet to claim responsibility, which they often do. Absolutely. Its not in all cases that boko haram claim responsibility. At the end of in the middle of march, after the attack on the military Detention Center, the boko haram leader did release a statement saying it was going to start abducting women and gurs, and the girls that escaped from the attack in the school, some of them had related, saying that when the group set fire, there was shouts of alarm. And the camp where the girls were tape to in the forest is known to be occupied by boko haram. Its difficult to imagine there would be another group hiding out in the forest. Alongside boko haram. When you look at the motive theres speculation that the girls were sold into marriages for as little as 12 million. Is this nothing more than sexual slavery . Absolutely. These are teenage girls, many less than 18 years old. Ideally they should be in school, their right to education is being denied. They are being taken into slavery and camps of moderates, and all of this should be a source of concern to the government of nigeria. It was said that its crucial that the International Community keep up the pressure on the government to find the kidnapped girls. Police released sinn fein leader gerry adams without filing charges. Protesters were waiting outside the Detention Center to show outraining. Adams was detained in connection with the murder of a woman three decades ago. He said it was all hearsay. Records have been falsified clerks at an outparm clinic were told a lie, making it appear that the clinics small staff were seeing patients within 14 days of an appointment request. Many of the patients waited months to be seen. Next on Al Jazeera America hundreds pay respects to the teen from germany killed in montana, sparking new debates over gun laws and self protection rights. Plus our weekly segment, the week ahead, focuses on the violence in south sudan. We ask our panel what can be done to stop the killing in the worlds newest nation. And a highwire act goes terribly wrong in rhode island. Tonight friends and family are mourning the loss of a 17yearold Exchange Student from germany. He was shot dead by a home owner in montana. The case sparked outrage in germany, fuelling calls for tighter gun restrictions in america. Reporter more than 500 attended the Memorial Service for a 17yearold boy. His coffin draped in german as mourners paid their last respects. Translation the most important thing for us now is to find peace, also for my sound, and the person that killed him gets a deserved assistance. His father criticised americas gun culture saying america could not continue to play cowboy. A lawyer for the montana home owner who shot and killed the boy will plead not guilty. He told investigators he feared for his life when the 17yearold Exchange Student entered his garage. Prosecutors allege he set a trap, leaving the garage door open and his wifes purse sitting in the open, that he was looking for an excuse to shoot someone after being the victim of two burglaries. His defense attorney will argue otherwise. It was a dark night. He heard a noise. He fired four shots across the back of the garage from the front part of the garage, and then unfortunately the four shots, we believe, struck the young man and was a fatal blow. Its not clear what the teen was doing in the garage. His lawyer said he believed the police were not doing enough to solve burglaries. The individual in the garage was between his child and him. He didnt know his intent, if he had weapons, if he was on drugs. Whatever the individuals intent was, he had no idea, he felt he had no choice. His partner and 10monthold baby remained in his home. The host family paid tribute to the teen tying mailboxes with balloons and ribbons. With flowers in the front yard and sprite. His favourite soft drink. The student had less than two months left to go in his Exchange Programme before he was due to return home. Startling video out of a ringling brothers show in rhode island. Nine circus acrobats were injured when they fell 25 feet to the ground. They performed an act involving hanging by the hair from a platform when it collapsed. All were conscious when they were taken out of the stadium. One waved to audience members as she was wheeled away on a stretcher. We thought it was part of the show. When it hit the ground, i knew that it was not. Officials are investigating the cause of the accident. A nor weegeon cruise ship was stuck in the hudson river. The coast guard had to help pull it into port. The crew reported is a problem with its steering system when river currents were strong. The controversy surrounding clippers owner Donald Sterling is far from over. California lawmakers are pushing other n. B. A. Team openers to disenfranchise Donald Sterling. Jessica taff reports. Los angeles mayor says he spoke to Donald Sterling, encouraging the 80yearold billionaire to apologise. He believes he will resist attempts to sell the team. I dont think he believes theyll force him to sell. I spoke with him, urging him to apologise and move to restoring a lustre of a tale with los angeles on its jersey. This mayor reached out to the n. B. A. All star, considering him a driving force behind the commissioners decision not only to ban Donald Sterling, but hand him a stiff penalty. Commissioner silver exceeded expectations within 72 hours. No one decides quickly and he is it it in a strong way. Had he not come out as strong, the players would determine what next steps would be. He exceeded expectations and did it for the right reason. Another player came to the defense of the l. A. Clipperss opener, not for his view, but his right. La lakerss superstar spoke out about the said that used to obtain the methods saying shouldnt we be angered that his private intimate conversation was taped and leaked to the media. He told a. B. C. This week that the n. B. A. s move was needed and shed light on an issue ignored in this country for too lopping uch. More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism. Its something that is part of our culture. Things have to change. The n. B. A. Openers will meet this week, likely preparing for a battle moving from the Basketball Court to the courtroom. The first openly bay episs copal bishop is getting a divorce. He made the a