through memories scarred by sri lanka's civil war. divisions and mental wounds still run deep. as a once exiled tamil gorilla struggles to comprehend how things went so wrong. demons in paradise a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. doing this on the benefit of saddam people so bad they see the importance of. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. u.s. threatens the syrian government after reports of another coal remain gas attack here the capital.

that actually went on this is al jazeera live from london also coming up kenya's government is ordered to reopen three t.v. stations after they were blocked for broadcasting while a dent as more you know curation video emerges showing mass graves in me and ma rights groups the evidence is growing of a genocide against the we're hanjour. and u.s. republicans are accused of altering a secret memo which alleges f.b.i. bias against president. we begin in syria where at least three women have been injured in a suspected killer gas attack near the capital damascus u.s. state department says that small michigan reports of the attack in duma which is the third suspected use of chemical weapons in a month it follows white has briefings that washington could use military force to deter the syrian government we are watching very carefully and the united states is

an extremely concerned about yet another report of the use of chlorine gas by syria the syrian regime to terrorize innocent civilians in the east good of syria outside of damascus if confirmed the attack is the third reported instance in the past thirty days in east ghouta we take the allegations of chemical weapons use very seriously and are working with our partners on the ground to investigate the reports we will continue to seek accountability through all of ailill diplomatic mechanisms including the united nations security council and the organization for their prohibition of chemical weapons for the confirmed use of chemical weapons by any party we call in the. international community to hold the perpetrators of these attacks accountable and will speak with the united way's in condemnation if we fail to uphold the principles set forth in the many international agreements related to chemical weapons we undermined their fundamental principles and we failed the innocent they were created to protect all of us and jordan was at that briefing and she joins us now from the state department there was so just give us

a little bit more context about what was said in the briefing well how the north the department spokesperson was referring to there were the reports of the attacks on people using chlorine gas which is something that has long been controversial in the syrian civil war even though chlorine is technically not a banned substance for use during war time the united states other western countries the you when there's global condemnation for it for any country that would use this against opposition fighters or in this case against civilian populations that because even though chlorine isn't banned it is toxic it can kill in some cases particularly if people actually swallow it this is the kind of situation where the trumpet ministration like the obama administration before is basically trying to put syria and its lead protector russia on notice that

committing these violations of warfare committing what some would even argue could constitute war crimes will not be tolerated and was what this thing u.s. prepared to do but did it mention a strategy on that front. well remember that up until the end of last year there was a body an international body called the joint investigative mechanism this was set up by the u.n. security council more specifically by the u.s. and russia this organization in tandem with the organization for the prevention of of chemical weapons was supposed to investigate allegations of chemical weapon use in the syrian civil war but the syrian government would never let those investigators into the country to gather that evidence when it came

time to reauthorize this organization known as the jim russia remember which had set it up decided it was no longer necessary so what the u.s. is trying to do is look for a way of establishing a new body that could investigate these allegations and provide concrete evidence that could be used to underpin new sanctions issued by either the u.s. itself or perhaps more important by the u.n. security council of course the rub there is that any time that the security council has tried to impose sanctions on in the past on syria russia has stood up for its ally and has blocked those that perspective sanctions plus jordan there joining me live from washington d.c. . well joining me from washington also is mary kitchen scales she's the deputy director of policy at the plough shares fund an organization which aims to prevent the spread of chemical and biological weapons near a very warm welcome to the program good to have your company and mary what exactly

have we learned through this briefing today. sure well the united states laid out some very clear evidence today and it's a very troubling development when it comes to syria's chemical weapons u.s. officials have laid out evidence that the assad regime is doubling down on its use and stockpile of chemical weapons by developing potentially new delivery systems and by making tweaks to the materials that they have to make it easier to evade detection by international inspectors where posted this information come from a way that the briefing was based upon there are three sources for the briefing that the u.s. administration laid out today the first is samples that have been taken at the sites of the chemical weapons attacks the second is intelligence estimates from the united states and from western allies and the third are some open source open

sources so for example social media. or satellite imagery open source information that is available to the public but the combination of these three sources makes it very clear that the assad regime we should take these allegations seriously and they are one of the things that the u.s. is concerned about is not just obviously any continued use of the weapons inside syria but that they might spread outside its borders to. absolutely that's a very serious concern obviously od regime has so far refused to admit that they even have chemical weapons if the those all of the weapons were turned over and destroyed when they were supposed to have been. but it we have very clear evidence that they have maintained these stockpiles and if the assad regime discussed the side to escalate this conflict they could they would have an incentive possibly to

share that material or for that material to be obtained by other non-state actors who could use it in very dangerous ways against the united states and against our allies in the region mary it was made clear in the briefing today that the u.s. would take action against syria itself it was necessary but we've already got quite a change in tack with the trumpet ministration and syria and the approach to this problem a real difference of what we had for example with obama. absolutely the trumpet ministration has taken two steps that are very clearly different from president obama's approach the first strike against the syrian air base back in april of twenty seventeen which was in response to the the syrian attack by the assad regime that was a unilateral strike by the united states that something that the obama administration did not do so the trumpet ministrations willingness to engage in

unilateral action is certainly a change the second is the trumpet ministrations approach to russia russia is very clearly needed to pressure the assad regime if any changes and if any solution is possible the trumpet ministrations willingness to pressure russia is certainly an open question they've refused to implement sanctions against russia. regarding domestic issues regarding russia's interference in the united states elections so the trumpet ministration whether they will follow through on the need to pressure russia for a solution to the syrian regime that's very much an open question because they're joining me live from washington d.c. mary for your insights thanks very much. kenya's government appears to be ignoring a high court order to reopen the streets t.v. stations that shut down choose state the private networks were taken off there

after they tried to broadcast them all can all get rationed ceremony held by opposition need to ride some journalists have been sleeping in the office fearing arrest if they leave catherine so reports from nairobi. lunchtime news at n.t.v. one of three t.v. stations switched off by the communications of foreign of kenya on tuesday the news bulletin was only available online cutting off millions of an illustration whiting's who can't afford the internet peaceable was his why opposition leader right loading or taking an informal oath swearing to be as he called himself the people's president tens of thousands of his supporters rather more cannot gratian a tuesday government wants t.v. stations against providing live coverage because of security reasons the directive was ignored by some the government allowed the event took place so i don't get the sense of what is illegal what is allowed to take place and then broadcasting it

will be an offense i don't understand the ministers. why they are allowed the event but cannot allow coverage the high court has now ordered the resumption of t.v. services until a challenge to the government ban is had in two weeks the cabinet secretary in charge of security the sits in this office of the president says that tuesday's symbolic swearing in of rollo dinka was an attempt to overthrow the government and a threat to national security he says the t.v. stations that what taken off air while facilitating that illegality. police have also arrested the lawyer who presided over the whole thing and have declared a national resistance movement an organized criminal opposition coalition started the movement last year to push for electoral reforms through peaceful resistance these opposition leaders say plans to intimidate them won't work really for for

a long time to give this country a new constitution and twenty term the new constitution. really there with all the freedoms that it entails is under serious attack work no. says he doesn't recognize a horror as president because he won the presidential election last august the result was inviolable day by the supreme court it remains unclear what his next steps will be or even what he states will people's president really means catherine so we are jazeera nairobi kenya the white house has given its approval to release a controversial memo on the investigation into alleged russian interference in the us presidential election the republican document claims an abuse of power by the f.b.i. and the justice department and the f.b.i. are very unhappy about its release an official has the details on washington d.c.

. the memo has dominated talk in washington for days donald trump was even asked about it as he left his state of the union speech trying to explain. that we're going to have you know that the four page memo was written by republicans on the house intelligence committee it alleges a misuse of power by the f.b.i. and justice department under the obama administration while investigating the champ campaign during the u.s. election the f.b.i. issued a rear statement arguing that there were important details left out which would fundamentally impact the memos accuracy and the justice department says releasing the document would be extraordinarily reckless it's the president who must make the ultimate decision to declassify and release but no after a national security review the white house is blanked out some parts of the document and sent it back to the committee it can no be published at any time at a gathering of republicans in west virginia the president made no fresh mention of the memo but afterwards speaking to the media republican leadership defended the

idea of its release this memo is not an indictment of the f.b.i. the department of justice it does not impugn the. moeller investigation or the deputy attorney general what it is is the congress is legitimate function of oversight democrats have argued the release of the memo over their own objections are all part of a campaign to undermine the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the presidential election in fact the leading democrat in the house has called on the republican chairman of the intelligence committee devon is to be removed in a letter to speaker paul ryan nancy pelosi says congressman news has abused his position to launch a highly unethical and dangerous cover up campaign for the white house congressman nunez deliberately dishonest actions make him unfit to serve as chairman and he must be removed immediately from this position leaving democrats on the committee says the row doesn't serve the american people the memo is seriously misleading

because it omits very material information and has deep factual inaccuracy. knew this was part of the trump transition team unless you recused himself from leading the russian investigators now he will decide if he will release the memo that he wrote one of inquiry which continues to divide washington and the country alan fischer al-jazeera washington still to come on the program polish lawmakers blamed israel by approving a bill to find no jail anyone who suggest poland was complicit in the holocaust and wine agreement on reuniting refugee families could also bring us into germany's political process. how i was still got some rather lively showers across northern parts of australia

the moment you can see the thunderhead still showing up quite nicely little about a cloud just around south australia over towards new south wales towards southern parts of queensland a possibility of squeezing out. a bit damp weather here as we go through the next few days present twenty two celsius some of that e two for sydney had also for melbourne we're getting up to the mid twenty's there in perth on friday largely five and dry a touch warmer sicko wanted to sas day the wind starting to come in from a general north lee direction what so into the southeastern corner so adelaide of twenty seven twenty six for melbourne but still hanging on around the mid twenty's there for brisbane noticed some wetter weather into that east the sort of australia and still a possibility of some shock downpours there just around the cape york peninsula the shutdown poster saying recently in museum of the now in the process of pulling out of the way you see these two weather systems coming together that's the one that brought the terrific amounts of rain we are going to see some quite a weather as we move towards the weekend still a possibility of a few showers here on friday just sixteen celsius in christchurch over the next

couple days but at least it should be fine and dry by the time we come to sas i remember just a few days ago we were getting up into the mid thirty's so quite a change it will fall mostly fresh but dry. they're the children of jailed chinese criminals with nowhere else to go one shelter is giving them a home when he speaks to children growing up with their parents behind bars at this time when al-jazeera. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera international bringing the news and current of from that matter to. al-jazeera.

the mind of our top stories here on al-jazeera several people have been injured in the third suspected chlorine gas attack this year to hit duma near syria's capital kenya's government ignored a court order to reopen three t.v. stations which will shock the cheese state after they tried to board cast them or cannot get ration ceremony opposition leader. and the f.b.i. is questioning the accuracy of the secret can get congressional memo to accuse the sea of abusing its surveillance powers to target the trump campaign during the twenty sixteen presidential elections. these five previously on reported mass graves have been uncovered in me in mar cording to the associated press news agency the un special rapporteur it has called for a fact finding mission to be given access to the sites were contacted by al-jazeera

the man maher government declined to comment on those latest reports of mass graves where the six hundred and ninety thousand written jetta fled me in march since a military crackdown was launched in august last year scott hyder reports now from the angle. the associated press news agency has released a video it says confirms reports of a massacre of revenge of muslims in myanmar last year a.p. says the pictures of here to show the bodies of half buried men. its investigation suggest at least five previously reported mass graves have been found the news agency spoke to villagers who say the number of dead could be as high as four hundred. wherever was injured but still life after the attack was thrown into flames young men like myself managed to escape the attack but others like small children and women couldn't run away in time they were either killed or tied up and thrown inside homes by the military which they burnt down using launchers. it's not the massacre took place in dar pin rakhine state and

a few weeks ago for the first time the military here said that soldiers were involved in civilian deaths it acknowledged one mass grave containing the bodies of ten rangers it's called terrorists the u.n. says reports of more mass graves warrant further investigation. i do not have the details of this particular site or the village. but it is. it is. you can see a pattern that we said earlier. you know we had to natalee. was where the mass graves were discovered. but when i was talking to some of the refugees amounted to me he had he had four hundred and thirty plus body before he escaped his town. and i. grow

the names of people who. kill. missing so this is something that needs to be investigated and this is why we've called for a fact finding mission and human rights watch says there is growing. evidence of genocide in rakhine state what is most worrisome about this report beyond obviously the killings is now the effort to cover this up that they discovered. in some instances acid is being used to burn off the futures of the people killed or burned off the fingerprints to try to obstruct any accountability and that shows a degree of pre-planning that will really i think impact the international community's decisions about whether this is constitutes genocide or not yet mars government has previously denied any reports of a massacre it has now cut off access to good up in other than tightly controlled government trip to the area north of what kind state where there was violence has

been closed off to the u.n. humanitarian groups and journalists it's got harder al-jazeera young gun the number of child victims of the war and given is increasing with side led coalition airstrikes responsible for most of the deaths u.n. report seen by al jazeera found that ninety seven children were killed in yemen in the third quarter of twenty seventeen up from sixty seven in the second quarter coalition airstrikes were the main calls killing sixty eight children between june and september eighteen deaths were attributed to hooty weapons u.n. found there was a fall in the overall number of incidents involving children but they had a higher fatality rate will saudi arabia and the u.a.e. are trying to end the standoff between government forces and succession is fine says in the eminent port city of aden a southern city was overrun by separatists armed by the way it took control of the side of that government's headquarters on sunday the assault opened up a new front in yemen score preventing much needed aid reaching civilians sadi and

amorality envoys have met both sides are urging them to abide by a cease fire and refocus their attentions on fighting the cities in the north. my mother a thousand minds minus in south africa are stuck underground after a storm knocked out power the basics goldmine is near the city of welcome in central free state the mining company says the workers are being supplied with food and water on are not in immediate danger sixty five people have already been rescued tensions are rising in south africa's drought hit city cape time where residents are in the middle of a severe water shortage one person was arrested after a fight broke out at a natural spring the residents have been collecting water here restrictions were introduced on thursday in an attempt to avoid daisy will the day in april when they may have to turn off most taps people are being asked to use no more than fifty liters of water a day israel says it's adamantly opposed to a polish bill that would make it illegal to suggest poland was complicit in the

nazi holocaust poland's upper house approves the draft legislation despite objections from both israel and the us have a false reports now from jerusalem. in the early hours of thursday morning polish senators voted to possibility israel says is designed to hide the truth about poland's role in the holocaust nazi occupied poland was the second world war site of some of the worst horrors of the holocaust the concentration camp at auschwitz birkenau has become its most potent symbol but polluted jex to term such as polish death camps instead of nazi ones pointing out poles with victims of invasion then occupation is what it is women who go we are very sad and surprised our fight for the truth for the dignity of poles is perceived and interpreted in this way. the bill would punish without the three years' imprisonment anyone accusing the polish nation of complicity in the extermination of the jews the domestic opponents of the proposed law its terms to groove this. sort of public discussion should take place

without any obstacles it cannot take place under the supervision of the prosecutor who after poland's lower house voted the bill through last friday israel's prime minister called it an attempt to rewrite history demanding the proposed legislation be amended israeli government says it adamantly opposed to this second vote adding that no law can change historical truth and there is support in the israeli parliament the knesset for a bill here to challenge the polish one by offering protection legally to anyone prosecuted for their views on the holocaust overseas and making it illegal to deny complicity in the holocaust as well as the event itself opposition leader ya appeared his great grandmother was killed in poland is one of the law's sponsors if you see the kind of it does this and it is the worst for our share of the last couple of weeks important to do this you understand why is it so important for us to be able to maintain the memory of the holocaust isn't what really happened

during the years of the forty five jews who murder and poles were helping israel's holocaust memorial yad vashem pays tribute to nearly seven thousand poles who didn't save their jewish neighbors at the height of the holocaust but one of israel's leading scholars on the period says many more poles were complicit and corinth research shows us that many of those jews were killed not because of the german something they were handed to the germans but by poorly citizens by poles who found them to polish government this bill is an effort to stop a defeated occupied nation from being defamed as a partner in the nazi genocide to israelis it seems like an attempt to shield thousands of polish citizens from blame or a force that al-jazeera west jerusalem. german politicians have voted to allow refugees to start bringing their closest relatives into the country later this year a decision it's hope will end the nation's political deadlock they she's been a major hurdle in ongoing talks to form

a new government paul brennan has more from berlin. the refugee protest outside the german parliament looked as for long as the hopes of the thousands of families across germany wanting their loved ones to be re-united even before the vote inside the bundestag a deal had already been agreed in principle the price of a new coalition government is tight new immigration controls. for us in the c.d.u. it was important that we have a legal regulation for migrant family reunifications and for the s.p.d. it was important that family reunifications are possible in general so here is our commitment what's called the right of reunification was suspended in two thousand and sixteen meaning refugees who had reached germany were prevented from bringing their immediate family to join them. was an experienced engineer in syria before fleeing the war and reached germany with her two sons she tried six times to have her husband who's also an engineer join the mall in berlin in the end she succeeded

through a refugee sponsorship scheme vitamin man. my husband was alone in syria it is very dangerous we were apart for two years and my children had to grow up alone but in the end i had to chance through it is one of the organization that my husband was able to come and i think the law is impossible and inhumane but i don't think you can tear families apart rights campaigners say they're deeply concerned the original ban on reunifications had been due to expire in march and many families had made applications in anticipation of that date their hopes of now been dashed until late summer at the earliest plus the figure of one thousand a month is a maximum number and in reality depending on the criteria the real figure could be much smaller there's been a huge and very ugly debate on numbers and guessing of how many persons will come

in fact the rest. serious studies they talk about sixty thousand people will come. right in the human rights law you can tear families apart and that's why we think it is one of the only legal and safe routes for refugees to come to a safe place. the bundestag vote appears to address the largest obstacle preventing a new coalition government being formed but the debate over the use of quotas to regulate refugee numbers is far from over here brendan al-jazeera telling the head of the french daily giant like tullus has admitted that it may have been producing salmonella tainted baby milk since two thousand and five more than twelve million baby milk products were recalled last month after it was revealed the thirty eight babies have been contaminated by formula produced at the lect tell us factory in western france the company's chief executive has told a french newspaper the same strain found when ella was responsible for another

outbreak in two thousand and five and the fact she may have been the source well this week's flooding in northern france has caused massive destruction with one hundred fifty people evacuated from one town in normandy and metro stations closed across paris but it's not been bad news for everybody the these two paris teenagers have been taking advantage of the flooded streets to indulge their hobby of wakeboarding after setting up a cable poorly they're able to wait for the all the way to their front door but of course waters receded and it looks like their farm is short lived presumably so the relief of their neighbors. you can of course find out much more about the stories we're following you can head to our website www dot al-jazeera dot com we updated twenty four seventh's. remind them the top stories on al-jazeera several people have been injured after

a suspected chlorine gas attack in duma near syria's capital the u.s. state department says it's monitoring reports of the attack which is the third suspected use of chemical weapons in a month it follows white has briefings that washington could use military force to deter the syrian government kenya's high court ordered the government to reopen several t.v. stations the top three t.v. networks were taken off iran choose day after they tried to broadcast a mock inauguration ceremony held by opposition leader raul a ding ding of his supporters believe president hu or kenya says election win last year was raked. over this going to. over gore. gore. blueprint we're. going to go through in this live global government the government deserves going to. its own laws and the calls. these five previously unreported range of most of the mass graves have been

uncovered in myanmar that's according to the associated press un special rapporteur has called for a fact finding mission to be given access to the sites where the six hundred ninety thousand fled me and ma since a military crackdown was launched in august last year the f.b.i. is questioning the accuracy of a secret congressional memo which accuses it of abusing its surveillance powers to target the campaign during the twenty sixth year in presidential elections the memo was written by top republicans and members of the house intelligence committee devoted to partially release it on monday democrats fear the document may be an attempt to undermine the poor into alleged russian election meddling. more than a thousand miners in south africa stuck underground after a storm not thai power the beatrix gold mine is near the city of welcome in central freestate the mining company says the workers are being supplied with food and water and are not in immediate danger polish lawmakers have caused wage in israel

by approving a bill that would impose jail terms for suggesting poland was complicit in the holocaust israel's called it an attempt to challenge historical truth. we hope you stay with us here on a rare one a one east is coming up next of course you can check our web site twenty four seventh's sees it ahead of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed germans satisfied with the state of their economy this is easily the start news biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on zero zero. they're the children with nowhere to go and no one to care for them. in china the sons and daughters of jailed criminals are often left shunned and alone for some a shelter in beijing is the closest bill gift to.