♪ russia says it's not convinced by u.s. evidence on syria suspected chemical attack. ♪ this is al jazeera live from doha and ahead egypt's president mohamed morsi on trial accused of inciting murder and to provide cheap food to people in india have a test in parliament and a real record breaker, football moves to madrid for $132 million.

♪ russia's foreign minister says moscow is unconvinced by evidence presented by u.s. and allies of an alleged chemical weapons attack in syria. according to the russia news agency they are going to the coast off syria in anticipation of a potential u.s. military strike. the u.s. and allies are pressing home the case of military action, secretary of state john kerry says the obama administration knows the nerve agent sarin was used to kill thousands of people and they are going public with the arsenal of chemical weapons and a series of high-level meetings are going ahead in paris. let's go to jackie in paris, what is coming out of the meetings then? >> what we are seeing, sammy is the french government trying to

builds its case for military intervention in syria, trying to persuade members of parliament and trying to convince the french public who are largely skeptical and as part of that effort to build the case we are expecting to see a four-page intelligence document declassified in the coming hours and presented to members of the parliament and the documents according to the government will contain evidence not only of a stockpile of chemical weapons in syria but also that there was a chemical attack that did, in fact, take place on august the 21st and that it can only have been carried out by the regime. >> reporter: at the same time french officials trying to ramp up the case of military action by releasing secret documents. tell us more about that. >> yes, they are expected to release a four-page document

declassified intelligence reports which will apparently speak about hundreds of tons of sarin gas and hundreds of tons of mustard gas and arsenal of chemical weapons that could amount to about a thousand tons. the french say they have evidence of previous chemical weapons attacks, all of which they said points to the fact that it could only have been the regime which carried out which say say was a chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of damascus on the 21st of august. >> reporter: thanks so much jackie in paris. and the prime minister says action must be aimed at bringing the end of bashir. >> translator: i would like to emphasize that syria will not be enough. a limited scope by aiming at local targets and avoiding all

ultimate solution will worsen conditions in the country. unless efficient steps are taken they would be encouraged to commit new massacres and have tragedies. we are urging allies to avoid the temporary steps taken to save the day and tell them this could cause great problems. >> reporter: the arab league minister is calling on the united nations and the community to take what they call detern action against the regime but fell short of calling for military strike. >> translator: we condemn the heinous crime and international law. second we consider the syrian regime responsible for the terrible crime and calling for all responsible for the crime to be submitted to a fair, international criminal court as is the case with all other war

criminals. >> reporter: a website belonging to the u.s. marines has been hacked by the syrian electronic army. images of mosques soldiers appeared a short while ago on marines.com and calls on the marines to defy president obama plans to strike syria and they are not expected to take part in operations in syria, 300 marines are on the uss in the sea. a company was given permission to export chemicals to syria to make chemical weapons. licenses for two chemicals that can be used to make the nerve agent sarin were given to a company in january last year. joining us live from london for more is lauren and questions being raised as to how the uk government could be so careless. >> yes, that is the central allegation being levelled at them.

it was granted in january last year, well after clearly the civil war had begun. inside syria and it all comes down to these two chemicals and what the usage was. the two chemicals concerned were potassium fluoride and the company wanted to export the things told the department for business here the chemicals were to be used in the manufacture and construction of metal window frames and shower enclosures but as many chemical experts have pointed out the chemicals are crucial for the manufacturer of chemical nerve agents and it led to all the allegations now that the government is at worst accused of hiprocacy because they are accused of dreadful war crimes and getting an export license to a company to expert

the things which could have been used in the manufacture of the very same things and we cannot prove it's true that the chemicals were never actually sent but the point is raised again if you go before the iraq war when the weapons inspectors were running rounds iraq looking for dual use things that could have been used in civilian and in military hardware both as the west wanted to make its case against sudan and this is another example of dual use things and at a point in time when the british government is disappointed it can't take part in the military exercise against syria, you have to wonder what it was doing granting these licenses in the first place. >> reporter: now, how politically costly will this be for the government, action expected in parliament over this, isn't there? >> the minister has to try to explain himself and his get out clause is the instance the chemicals were never actually

sent but in a way, in the end that is not the point. the point is they granted the licenses. and that is what all the critics are pointing out yesterday, on sunday, the scottish national party which has been very vocal about this accused the government of hiprocary and training the army for eight years since 2001 and so they are saying this plays into a pattern of behavior from white hall and westminster that is giving things to the syrian government for many years which is now blaming them for. >> reporter: all right, lawrence lee in london, thanks for that. egypt state prosecutor announced the post president mohamed morsi will go on trial and relate to the violence outside the presidential palace in cairo last december and suspected of ordering supporters to attack demonstrators angry at the

sweeping powers and 14 members of the muslim brotherhood will be tried on the same criminal charges. and the northeastern border military operation is underway to smuggling weapons in gaza and these are pictures from saturday showing explosions over the border crossing and according to the army 80% of the tunnels are no longer functioning and the operation continues and explosions have been heard and buildings are reported to have been destroyed. a rights activist is appointed prime minister in senegal hours after the government was sacked and she is the second in history to be prime minister and justice minister in the outgoing government and pursued cases involving senior officials. u.n. to the african great lakes region went to congo and mary robinson is there as they are

backed by u.n. soldiers are forcing on m-23 rebels and people have been killed in goma over the last two weeks and malcom went there to see people sheltered in a church. >> reporter: they have fled their homes because of fighting between the government and m-23 rebels. many have relatives killed. ♪ the church service is a rare moment to escape the daily struggle. ♪ many of them now live here. ♪ this is where they keep what they have. they sleep on the floor. he has been caught up in fighting time and time again. she lost a whole family. . >> translator: i don't have a husband. he is dead. three of my children were killed during the fighting.

we have two children who died of disease. i don't have anyone to take care of me. >> reporter: the displaced community here is just one of many. around a million people in eastern congo fled their homes since the fighting started in may last year. for the displaced people life is tough. this woman's cooking lunch on the floor outside the church. the food people eat here have to bring from their farms and for most of them the farms are further out of town in that direction, the fighting is also in the same place and they have to wait for a lull in the fighting before they can go home and collect firewood and food to eat. carrying heavy loads from the front is not easy and it's not safe. there has been a lot of heavy fighting in the last two weeks. the golf pounded the rebel positions with artillery from tanks and gun ships and infantry

and this is the kind of destruction people run away from. night falls and the displaced people cook dinner. they say they rarely have enough to eat. >> translator: civilians are suffering, you see how they live and used to live normal lives but now they live like animals. they prepare to go to bed, the floor is dirty and it's crowded. and for many it's been like this for months. they just want to go home. malcolm web al jazeera near goma. >> reporter: and still to come on al jazeera japan's government will play a more direct role in the cleanup of the fukushima disaster and plenty to see and iran is struggle to attract foreign tourists.

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♪ welcome back, and the headlines and russia foreign minister says moscow is unconvinced of chemical attacks in syria and they said the u.s. and allies are using double standards in their effort to over throw syria's president and the british government is facing questions over reports the company was given permission to expert chemicals to syria that could be used to make weapons and the report says licenses for two chemicals that can be used to make the nerve agent sarin

were given to a uk company last year. egypt prosecutors says mohamed morsi will go on trial of charges of insighting the protesters last december and the muslim brotherhood say they are politically motivated. food to the poorest is facing tests in parliament. the house is voting on the food security bill and it intends to cover millions of indians and the states will decide on an income limit. only those earning less than the limit will qualify. each person qualifying is entitled to 5k ilos of wheat and rice at a reduced price and they will take food subsidy cost up to $20 billion this financial year, that is almost $5 billion more t current spending. and we report.

>> reporter: the indian government has long struggled to feed its people. but in a plea last week ghandi the force behind a bill urged representatives to vote for change. >> we must together rise to the occasion, set aside our differences and affirm our commitment to their welfare and well-being. it is my humble appeal that we as representative of those very people should put this bill into an act and do so unanimously. >> reporter: over the past two decades india has experienced rapid economic growth but despite the country's good fortune hundreds of millions of people have not had enough to eat. from urban areas to remote villages hunger has been a

consistent problem and right to food activists say the country leaders have financially taken responsibility. >> it's a good thing and many things that are wrong with the system and that acknowledges hunger and makes the state accountable for the hungry and it is a legal entitlement so that is a positive step forward. >> reporter: the government says the food security bill will force india to be more self sufficient and says domestic out put will increase and food delivery systems will be improved. those who champion the bill describe its coverage as universal but not everyone is convinced. >> the global perception is india is doing a huge new thing. at the margin it's 0.2% of gep that will be spend and maybe an additional 15, 20 million tons of green which is nothing in the country the size of india. >> reporter: it's a noble policy, one that could provide indians with widespread social

benefits, but as with all things here the challenges associated with rolling out ambitious plans may yet prove otherwise. al jazeera, new deli. >> and we have the editor of the indian express paper in new deli. good to have you with us. to ensure food is available to people who need it, what could be wrong with that? >> well, food is not wrong but the point is that is it the government's job going around buying food and trying to distribute it to 1.2 million people. it's just not workable as a system because we have tried it for the last six or seven years through a public distribution system that is flat broke and doesn't deliver. >> reporter: how would you respond to those who say i'm looking at one study done by a professor at the university of new deli saying if you look at the system it's improving, the

study says the amounts of subsidized wheat and rice and siphoned and decreased between 2004 and 2005, isn't it improving and can't the system improve and be trusted? >> first of all, that study did not make it to parliament and the argument was exactly the reverse. that there is a need to come up with a new system. the idea of the public distribution system trying to feed 800 million people in a gigantic system of buying food across the country by the government, taking it to the reservoir and get to the warehouses and then from there trying to distribute it across the country would mean that group or portion of the government would be doing just that and nothing else and frankly it's something which can easily be done through the

market system which can be expanded with far less leakage. >> reporter: what is the alternative system then? >> a much better system would be to give out cash to people and it has already been tried. the government is trying what is called the benefit transfer which means you give out money to the people in their bank accounts, in the post office accounts and give them and with that money allow them to access shops when they want to and buy what they need to. first of all, asking them to spend on rice and wheat which is what the government will be filling is useless because there is huge amount of grain, the same which has not been sold because people are not buying that. what the people want to buy are vegetables and cooking foods and those are not part of the food security system. so essentially what will happen

is that people will be just sitting on piles, the system will be clogged with grains and the agricultural system of rice and wheat production would be nationalized. that is a disaster at every level. it just means that we choke the agriculture productivity which has been rising into an unproductive system of production of rice and wheat which doesn't help us at all. >> reporter: thanks for your thoughts on that. the taliban fighters in afghanistan attacked a u.s. base close to the pakistan border and jennifer glass has more from kobbel. >> reporter: it happened at 6 a.m. local time near the pakistan border. the road between pakistan has been closed because of the attack and claimed responsibility and nato says

there were a series of explosions this morning in a parking lot with a number of nato logistics vehicles there and six vehicles have been destroyed and claimed that ten soldiers have been killed but they often accelerate the claims and nato has taken no casualties. we do understand there was a fire fight including nato helicopters involved in that fighting. now this is the second attack on an nato base in a week, five days ago an nato base in gazni was attacked and polish soldiers were injured and 50 wounded and we have seen a taliban across the country with a number of attacks that have killed more than 100 afghans both security officials and civilians. >> reporter: japan aes government says it will take a more direct role in the cleanup of the fukushima plant and there are growing concerns over the ability of the plant operated to deal with the crisis. on sunday it revealed radiation

levels soared near a tank and could kill a person in four hours if they are not wearing a protective suit. >> translator: and we decided to take charge of the issue, not leaving it to tapco and use the budget for the system and we will deal with this and not to repeat such an incident. >> reporter: the chairman of the nuclear regulation authority told reporters that procedures were not strong enough. >> translator: the possibility that contaminated water may have leaked from the tanks is a very serious issue. but separately from this, we believe the monitoring of the tanks is a serious issue as well. the fact that radiation levels were not measured on a regular basis is an indication that the management was not done in a stringent way and we have instructed them to correct their systems. >> reporter: well there has been fighting between students and police in mexico, ahead of the president's first state of the

union address and two police were injured as they tried to block congressmen from the opening session and demonstrations have been gathering for weeks and they are voicing angry over the sweeping reform plan. peru is hit by the heaviest snowfall and coldest temperatures in a decade and a state of emergency is extended to ten regions and thousands of animals have died in the freezing temperatures. and temperatures are expected to plunge further to minus 20 degrees celsius. now al jazeera has been given rare access to film an ancient palace in iran and the tourist industry is hoping to get a boost after years of decline and we report from the iran capitol. >> reporter: one of the splendors of the city, a

500-year-old palace in the heart of tehran and it's relatively new by-standers but not by international ones and tourism can help them revive the industry. >> the first step that needs to be taken is for our foreign minister, foreign minister and the president himself to regain the board's trust and confidence in us and i think that is the most important step. >> reporter: the tourism sector is under develop and slumped in the past 8 years. some say that is because of government miss management, political tensions and regional conflicts. >> translator: tourism around the world is an important source of revenue but in our country it doesn't improve. we have many visitors but for

now there are few foreign visitors. >> reporter: and getting them back is the challenge. and visitors here acknowledge this. >> i think it hurts because they try to discourage tourists from coming here. like european governments try to discourage and the iran government makes it a bit hard to get a visa. >> reporter: that is despite the fact that iran has listed areas and more than 5,000 years of history. >> the long list of heritage sites and it now has 16 and that is more than any other country in western asia. >> reporter: according to the government more than 3,800 foreigners visited iran last year and most were iraqis who came for pilgrim or medical treatment and while that remains the case the gates through ancient iran and history it

holds will stay closed. al jazeera. >> reporter: and we arrived in spain to findly complete the biggest transfer in football history and this is before being unveiled and paid to english site is a world record victory 132 million. and andy richardson has why the giant is willing to pay so much money. >> reporter: they visited madrid stadium before, that was two years ago. now he will be coming to stay. and he has a match when he performed with the spurs and named the league's player of the year last season. but he lacks the international profile that is normally in attendance of this size and fans are used to the club spending big but they seem a little

uncertain this time rounds. >> translator: it's going to be good but he is still expensive but hopefully they can take advantage of the image and make it profitable. >> reporter: they have been drawn into it and barcelona coach saying the fee is out of step with spain's economic climate. >> translator: and gareth bale is a good player and the numbers are almost lack of respect to the world in general. it's no surprise that the deal coincides with the resent reelection as the president and renewed determination to move on and a season when no trophies were won't and perez was behind the player of david becham and hoping they can grow along the football ability and bale is not

a global star but believe he can become one. al jazeera. >> reporter: there is more on the story and more at al jazeera.com, you can see our website with our stories and the situation in syria.