aramark and yet more infrastructure in the pan than some foreign corporation means to many remain offline now a politician and tech activists are building a homegrown solution connect bolivians and secure the nation's technological sovereignty to. rebel geeks the citizens network at this time does either. syrian government troops cut off two of recent coaches biggest towns as they intensify their assault on the enclave. president tax nato for not supporting turkey's operation against kurdish fighters in syria as his forces advance on the town of a free. and

on tape this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the british government holds emergency talks on the suspected nerve agent attack on a russian former spy and his daughter. colombia prepares to vote for a new congress for fark rebels find fighting an election far from easy class. on the clock reporting from an expedition in antarctica all the effort to turn the grass to grow mode where you'll see the largest protected area all. know the syrian army has surrounded the two largest towns in eastern guta after seizing more territory from rebels government shelling and ass trikes have killed more than fifty people in the rebel enclave in the last twenty four hours the syrian observatory for human rights says ground forces have advanced into areas between the main towns of duma and harasta that effectively cuts off the main rebel

supply line the government also says it has full control of misrata in the east of the enclave cutting off another key road to duma alan fischer has more from gaziantep on turkey's border with syria. what we've seen an eastern go to is a tactic that has been replayed throughout this war by the syrian government forces particularly since the enlisted the help of the russians both tactically and militarily the idea is to drive a wedge between the two areas take control of them isolate them and then negotiate some would see impose a peace deal which involves the removal of the part of fighters in that area and it seems that that's exactly what has happened here now it's been a difficult twenty four hours for eastern ghouta you remember that earlier this week we saw an aid convoy go in but not all of the forty six trucks could empty what they had in the back and so they had to leave because of airstrikes and fighting in and around where they were operating or the thirteen trucks that didn't

manage to get back in to eastern ghouta late on friday but again not all of those trucks were able to unload and again it was because of fear strikes and fighting in the area where they were walking over night we heard that forty one people had been killed but a number of structures had also been knocked down and there was a concern that there may be bodies in those buildings and so the number of dead me well rice meanwhile down and friend and six villages to the north and to the south have been taken by the free syrian army backed by turkish forces it was expected that it would take a number of days before they would be this close to the edges of our friend one doctor in the city said he fears a massacre if this advance keeps going on and one leading member of the council there called on the united nations to intervene and surprise that the one where he said that if the turks weren't so concerned about humanitarian issues they could have soldiers in the middle of aspirin within three days but this military advance is moving so fast it may well be that the turks are on the edge if not enough rain

in the coming hours and days. well turkish president richard also criticized the nato alliance for failing to back his military operation in syria's african region tech you don't see the operation to clear the area of kurdish y p g fighters in january what b.g. has previously received from the u.s. but turkey can says that a terrorist group should the law says it. i'm calling on them now hey nato where are you we're putting up a fight isn't turkey a nato country were you invited nato member states to afghanistan immediately so how about in syria if the nato countries who are in syria really have the power they would openly in clearly stand against us but they don't dare because they can see that turkey is standing tall but what we wanted was this you called us to afghanistan we came you called us to somalia we came you called us to the balkans we came so now i'm calling on them so come to syria turkey with its nine hundred

eleven kilometers of border with syria is under threat right now so why aren't you coming. britain is holding a second meeting of its national emergency committee in response to the poisoning of a russian spy with a nerve agent ministers arrived a few hours ago for the meeting chaired by the home secretary and a rod in salzburg investigators focusing their attention on the victim's house and the cemetery where his wife and son are buried x. agent and his daughter remain in a critical condition so i'm going to go is live outside the cabinet office and what he says sonia some big issues for them to discuss. absolutely and it's not based determining exactly what. agents is exactly where it was produced but also indeed who was behind this attack which they should be able to

deduce from finding out where it was indeed created but there is so so a lot of this lot at stake a diplomatic too even though the british government has really sought to try and play down suspicions that it may be russian whether state sponsored or perhaps from the will design is a show that's behind they try to calm that down by saying that they need to wait until. all the evidence is presented in there is a definitive link however that hasn't stopped people from already mentioning it if it is indeed russia that is behind this then the how to go ahead and how to deal with this diplomatically one question that is that of the question of sanctions now just last year the u.k. government did make an amendment to the criminal finances bill if there is any connection with russia or any russian organizations individuals then it would in effect mean that this government has the ability to be able to freeze any. any

assets of course that would be in this country as well but it's the question also is that is without really be enough but it's ready causing a lot of tensions with moscow as well moscow of course we strongly rebuffed think any links to this. but that's of course is not something which is i would necessarily be unusual in all of this backtracking as well they're having to still make sure that the scene of the crime is safe they reassure the public of british officials have reassure the public that it is safe but they are still going back to those areas as you mentioned lauren the cemetery where the remains of screwballs wife and son are if there is any connection without a toll there's also a not the back story behind this and that is to do with perhaps possibly going back and re investigating the deaths of fourteen other russian linked.

people persons who were here in the states. a lot of police reports that came out with that sort of describe them and certainly coroner's report spread it was inconclusive now there is a worry because of their links to russia whether they also may have been murdered but of course that would have to be opened up to a new investigation and that of course will cause even more tension and even more diplomatic issues with moscow itself lauren sawyer thank you very much. phone trump's surprise agreement to talks with kim jong un has been making headline news all over the world but not in north korea or it poses a major problem for the nation's propaganda machine it would be the first ever meeting of a u.s. president and north korean leader but bryant has more from south korea's capital seoul. if you are in north korea right now and you do not have access to an outside source of information then you will not know about the historic summit in all six pages of the road long since this is the state controlled main party newspaper

there's not one mention of it the only related item is an article attacking the latest u.s. sanctions which it says are a further provocation possibly leading to war the problem in north korea is a propaganda machine that turns out a daily diet of common trees all the tacking the imperialist united states as the great war monger how do you now turn around and tell your people your leader is about to sit down and have a friendly chat with the leader of your arch enemy even harder it seems will be explaining that in preparation for this is sturrock summit you have put on hold work on your intercontinental ballistic missile this has been heralded as a great achievement of the socialist north korea the thing that will offer salvation from the very same imperialist americans it seems the north koreans need time to work out these complicated narrative in order to be able to explain it to

its people looking even further ahead becomes the prospect perhaps of normalized relationship if this talks continue between north korea and the united states maybe even relations veering towards possibly the friendly or at least less hostile should that happen north korea it seems will have to perform some kind of propaganda contortionists act in order to explain it all luckily for the people in the propaganda department that prospect does seem a long way off. japan's trade minister has sought an exemption from the u.s. import tariffs on steel and aluminum and called for calm headed behavior the e.u. japan and the u.s. have been holding trade talks in brussels japan's trade minister told a news conference his u.s. counterpart don't explain the shuttle and procedure for the tariffs used trade chief said the block is also seeking to be exempt for britain has more brussels.

this is a meeting that had been put in the diary several weeks ago to talk about the root cause of the industries the steel industries where as and that is overcapacity but president trumps announcements on tariffs have put new impetus into that part of the discussions that have been taking place here in brussels and the opportunity for the european union trade commission and the japanese trade minister to have face to face time with robert light hisor the u. s. trade envoy is very valuable at the start of this two week period before president trump's tariffs actually start to be imposed there are going to be intense negotiations over this next two weeks to decide whether or not the european union can be exempted from those tariffs and the big implications if they're not are an escalating tit for tat kind of trade war involving all kinds of other products such as peanut butter orange juice harley-davidson motorcycles blue denim jeans all of

these kind of things that the european union are threatening they will that slap tariffs on in retaliation essentially for what's happening to the steel industry now it's not a foregone conclusion by any means that the european union will find that it still has tariffs imposed upon it overnight president trump appears to be coming close to a deal with the australian prime minister on security arrangements there which will mean president trump won't impose tariffs on australia so there is a glimmer of hope that european union still produces will escape the worst effects of it but with this president it's not there's no guarantee at all and that is why the european union is seeking clarity from robert light housing here in brussels. still to come this half hour thousands of yemeni refugees in djibouti face a tough choice struggle on in the camps or return to their water or country. and maybe even a parent tries to revive france's national front with a new name and the parents of the party congress by steve benen.

hello there the weather is quite quiet for many of us in china at the moment so that the mild in shanghai will see the temperatures all the way up at seventeen degrees for the south we're looking at around twenty two in hong kong you can see the winds though they're feeding up from the south bringing in a fair amount of moisture so for some of us in hunan and probably through chong ching we're likely to see more in the way of cloud and a few showers at times what a way from there it's really looking mostly fine unsettled towards the west as a little bit more showery activity hit most of it over sri lanka because see the clouds are also pushing further northwards too so for some of us in the extreme sivan tip of india will see perhaps one or two more showers as we head through sunday but again the wettest of the weather will be across sri lanka with some of

us having a pretty wet day elsewhere for the north largely fine and dry is just over parts of afghanistan in the far northern parts of pakistan where there's more cloud in a few showers now here in doha certainly the hope recently and staying very warm on sunday is thirty two degrees will be our maximum temperature but then a very weak system works its way towards us and that will drag down the temperatures so i think for us on monday twenty nine degrees will be our maximum and then after that the winds will be picking up from the northwest and at least that will be something of a cooling change. a suspected money laundering operation at this time was different. an accidental discovery the wharfs commission suspicion. unraveled some unprecedented scale of systemic international corruption people in power investigates a racket such magnitude that it threatens government redefine the rules of impunity

. the power was. at this time just. one of the top stories. syrian government troops have made further advances into eastern ghouta cutting off the rebel held towns of dubai and harasta. turkish forces have reached the outskirts of the town of a freend in northwestern syria as part of their offensive to expel kurdish y p g fighters from the enclave. and britain has been holding more emergency talks over the poisoning of a russian former spy and his daughter with a nerve agent. and

a thirty five thousand refugees have sailed across the strait to djibouti to escape the war in yemen the conditions in the cat refugee camps that a harsh with food supplies stretched to the limit port town of book. its food distribution day of the mark as they come for yemeni refugees in the dusty poor tom of. the law mohammed of the law has just picked his family's food a location for the month he came here two years ago when a missile hit and destroyed his house in ha ha south of the yemen now a mother who had a hand look at the shooting device they've given us there won't be enough for my family for even five days a situation is really bad. apart from the legal regimes people here also complain of conditions of the come. the sweltering heat and ferocious sun systems hardly been many away and this is the place where many don't want to stay for long at one

point this camp was home to more than six thousand refugees today one thousand eight hundred one lived here most of them have either gone talk of the town or to the capital djibouti yet others hover tante lemon preflighting there and something terrible was all to life in this country. those who have chosen to stay see the option of a shared choice we have nowhere else to go where can we go we are forced to stay here yet the massive insecurity and shortage of some basic supplies in yemen is forcing many more refugees to cause the sea are some but are cut robbed of the come just three days ago from the city of thais which is under the control of both the fighters and again the human we fled from yemen because of war and hunger the hutu militias are also making life unbearable destroying homes of bullying and arresting people who will it's a disaster back in yemen. nearly thirty five thousand people admit the jenna's southwards across the bubble man group straight to djibouti since march two

thousand and fifteen from the beginning to open its doors to yemenis fleeing from the war the country has been uprooted from foreign investment in recent years due to. but the extreme poverty is still widespread. officials here say there is little else they can do for the refugees beyond giving them safety a muslim one hundred at all just zero djibouti your sexual state rex tillerson has had to cancel events on the second day of his visit to kenya due to illness a spokesperson for to listen said he was feeling unwell after working on major issues back in the us with north korea to dismiss four days into his first diplomatic trip to africa has visited it here pierre djibouti and kenya as shields go on to nigeria and chad. colombians vote on sunday in the first parliamentary elections can create candidates from the former rebel group fark a peace deal which ended the fifty year war was signed in twenty sixteen but as i

was under i'm here to report some shit outta the path from fighting to peace time politics has not been an easy one. but. it's the last day of campaigning for former far commander big deal and it's a symbolic one she's back in her hometown northern colombia the town she left thirty one years ago to become a good fighter but this is the work. you have resisted you have had the ability and the courage to endure the systematic violence that has been waged against our people when you fight party has been running on a platform of political and social welfare reform but it has had a hard time attracting people outside of its traditional base and in all attendance here are poor farmers mostly cocoa growers hoping peace will bring about change. the hope is that this party will help us move forward and that one day we can experience the peace we've been tonight's personae long by the war we can reach at

this time. but the far campaign has largely attracted a different kind of attention. last month it suspended campaigning after. it stopped commander running for president was pelted with rocks he later ended his run because of health reasons too x. fighters campaigning for a candidate have been killed and most suffered attacks or traits and social media. says columbia's private institutions systematically hampered their efforts. but we've been trying but it has been very hard the goal was to reach as many people as possible but we weren't able to finance the campaign banks would not open us accounts we couldn't reach out on radio and t.v. like the other parties we suffered considerable stigmatise station and much slanging. as one of the facts. you know will likely fail one of ten congressional seats that the pace they will set aside for the new farts party

regardless of their showing but it will be difficult for them to leave my those seats if they don't get enough votes there is a tremendous degree of. negative feelings towards this group the have not. adequately processed and taken measures to address. for extern zisha into a legal electoral for. was never going to be simple but this tentative steps are already any story meant in a country still struggling to find a way to turn the page on its long and bloody conflict. in france the far right wait a minute penn is hoping to revive her party's fortunes at its sixteenth congress by changing its name from the national front and in the next hour a familiar face from the u.s. is due to appear on stage donald trump's former advisor steve bannon and have

a change to joins us live from the congress and lisa what kind of state is the party in and what are they trying to achieve with this congress. well as you said this meeting in leo is an attempt to rebrand the national front and it's going to change his actual name because many people feel that especially marine le pen that the that title has outlived its purpose that they want to try and de toxify that brand they want to change its name but it's very interesting though that as of may the questionnaire sent out with eighty questions on it to all members of the national front they were announcing some results here so yes they're going to change the name they're going to worry brown but the policies they were supporting and the answers to those questions are still the same old policy just to give you for instance more than ninety percent were in favor of a frags it a referendum for france to leave the european union and

a staggering ninety eight percent said they wanted drastic reduction in immigration which they described here as a tsunami so yes they're changing the image in the words of marine le pen she wants to be able to reach out and form alliances and they hope that by maybe changing the name they'll be able to do that and she's aiming and looking at the european elections coming up next year to form alliances to hope to get more of a grip on power and so i think she believes that she can do that with this this rebranding exercise but looking at those policies there's nothing changed about those as still as extreme as ever but it must be said she. do well in the last elections she more than doubled the national front vote some ten point six million people voted for that's all really thirty four percent of the french electorate but there's no doubt after the distinctive victory by emanuel macro that the party has

been battered she still feels bruised after those nine months nine months after that election but what about the appearance of steve bannon what kind of message can we expect from him. yes the the dark wizard of populist policies has been touring europe he was there in milan and rome for the the fifty three percent or so that the populist party has got in the italian general election though they've yet to form a government and that's going to go on for a long time you also went to zurich and talked to the alternative for germany party and they of course you go to an extreme right the some ninety seats in upon the stage at the moment so what's his message going to be here well he's only said that when he's welcome onto the stage by marine le pen in about fifteen minutes or so that he's here to try and form a new populist army the foot soldiers of populous army to train them in social

media to train them to try and get their message across against the elitist liberal views to see sees them being perpetrated by the social media and the press inside the european union and he's certainly aiming at brussels he's certainly aiming at the european commission and what he sees as the clear democratic deficit in the european david thank you very much indeed. france's president in one year back home wants france to replace britain as india's gateway to europe and many mccourt held talks with prime minister narendra modi on his first official visit to india the focus this trade security and fighting climate change and the past signed fourteen agreements president michel said he wanted to welcome more indian citizens to france. france should be the best corner of india in europe the only point for europe and i dream to have more on more indian

students coming to france really becoming unpopular creating start ups and i want my country to be the best partner in europe and example boy holding our corporation in the defense sector is very deep and we consider france as one of our more stressed a difference back in the us to their country to degree minority booklet istic support among our armed forces as a golden step in the history of a close defense corporation. the philippine foreign minister has hit back at the un human rights chief for suggesting president needs psychiatric help because the comments irresponsible and disrespectful meanwhile human rights groups in the philippines criticised a forgiving additional powers to police new law gives senior officers the power to compel individuals to provide evidence activists are concerned it will lead to extrajudicial killings and arbitrary arrests it's believed more than four thousand people have died at the hands of officers says a crackdown on drugs ordered by the president eighteen months ago. but out of see

in antarctica is the coldest on the planet it's home to an extraordinary ecosystem boasting an estimated fourteen thousand species from killer whales to starfish now there's a proposal to turn the rich waters into the not just wildlife sanctuary on earth in part one of al-jazeera is series on the weather see environment and to nick trog joined greenpeace expedition to the sanctuary. it's a city near the end of the maritime history. in the main square in punta arenas but none miguel and looked out towards way go across the strait that bears his dame from scott shackleton this is where famous antarctic expeditions came and sometimes returned and today it's home to the chilean and it's to choose a signatory to a very important treaty preserving the integrity of the antarctic continent which is a kind of international cooperative if you walk into the chilean and talk to institute

you're presented with a map of the constant incredibly rich in resources from copper to oil to gold and a lot of nations would like to get their hands on that but they called because of the antarctic treaty which was signed back in one thousand fifty nine to ensure in the interest of all mankind that shall continue for ever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene object of international discord and so far. as the principle of spirit is a corporation in a really if you don't compare it maybe you can be or can do anything because this is an extreme. with extreme conditions. from point a right as to king george island on the fringes of antarctica it's well below zero and the tourists off the cruise ships are on their way home. here with no king

george island and downscaling made it seem. like you know. this is where the world's geography is turned upside down where russia neighbors chile along side it does not the nation's research stations it is the antarctic treaty in action. survival suits for the trip from shore to ship. through the ride out to the. top when the men. on board were quickly on our way south bound for the site of the proposed ocean sanctuary an isolated wilderness of sea and ice home to an astonishing erev life they are campaign sort of is for the wealthy marine protected area proposal by the german government and backed by the e.u. and that sort of starts about sixty four degrees as described by everyone who goes there is pretty inhospitable i think that's the feeling we're going to have as we round this corner of the greenpeace expedition is taking in scientific studies of

the ocean floor as well as an exploration of this remote outpost how far we get will depend on whether ice conditions and a good deal of luck mcclung al-jazeera antarctica. and part two of our series on the proposed sanctuary nick clark breaks through the ice what activists hope will become the western edge of the protected our sea that's on sunday and out of there . and of course in mind you can catch up with anything we're reporting on checking out our website address for that is our dot com. and one of our main headlines are syrian government troops have made further advances into eastern guta a suburb of damascus surrounding the rebel held town of duma and harassed or and have cut off a major supply line government shelling and ass trikes killed more than fifty people in the rebel enclave in the last twenty four hours turkish forces have

reached the outskirts of the town of affray northwestern syria it's in the center of the region from which turkey has been trying to expel kurdish why p.g. fighters take as president has criticized nato which his country is a member of a lack of support for the military operation. the law says. i'm calling on them now he nato where are you we are putting up a fight isn't turkey a nato country where are you invited nato member states to a canister immediately so how about in syria if the nato countries who are in syria really have the power they would openly in clearly stand against us but they don't dare because they can see that turkey is standing tall but what we wanted was this you called us to afghanistan we came you called us to somalia we came you called us to the balkans we came so now i'm calling on them so come to syria turkey with its nine hundred eleven kilometers of border with syria is under threat right now so

why aren't you coming. britain is holding a second meeting of its national emergency committee in response to the poisoning of former russian spy. with a nerve agent ministers are discussing the latest police and intelligence reports in salzburg investigate is a focusing their attention on the victim's house and the cemetery where his wife and son a buried former spy and his daughter yulia remain in critical condition. japan's trade minister has sought an exemption from the u.s. import tariffs on steel and aluminum and called for calm headed behavior at the e.u. japan and the u.s. have been holding trade talks in brussels japan's trade minister told a news conference is u.s. counterpart and only explained the shadow and procedure of the terrace he said that there was still time for japan to secure an exemption canada mexico and australia already exempt. as your top stories do stay with us there are people in power is up

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