in a war torn city in iraq a magic documents the stories of the survivors recording their hopes and dreams for a peaceful future after american troops withdrawal. but the conflict is far from over. he turns the camera on himself when i see take control and his family are forced to flee no where to hide a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. once a rebel stronghold now weakened and splintered syrian forces make their biggest gains yet in the battle to take eastern ghouta. live from london also coming up former trump advisor steve bannon tells france's

far right the future is all about the anti establishment. in mourning and in shock an investigation reveals serving soldiers were involved in last week's attack in capital. and were in colombia to find out about life on the campaign trail fox political candidates and it's not pretty. syrian government forces have made significant gains in their battle to take the last remaining rebel stronghold near damascus for almost three weeks they've been pounding eastern ghouta from above killing almost a thousand people in the process now ground forces have advanced into areas between the main towns of duma and harasta that cuts off the main rebel supply line the government also says it has full control of misrata and that cuts off another key road to duma and splits the enclave into three and fisher has more from the turkey

syria border. well syrian government forces have made big gains in the last twenty four hours they're still facing resistance thanks this video from josh al islam claims to show regime forces being pushed back but they have surrounded two large towns in eastern guta duma and harassed and circling tones is something syrian government forces have done consistently especially since enlisting the help of the russians militarily and tactically by cutting off roads and important supply lines they've essentially left the fighters with no place left to go he's isolating the two cities now the two big cities in the in the east he's weakening them and he's. supporting its military approach by having this political strategy submitting them both on the ground and politically by trying to have a deal this deal with. across the country the free syrian army supported by the turks are closing in on the city of afrin. the positions held by the kurdish

militia the wife p.g. . is strikes have been ongoing water has been cut one doctor in the local hospital says he fears a massacre the chair of the local council has called on the u.n. to intervene. and if the u.n. official claims that south administration and the y p g prevent the population from escaping we invite those who sit somewhere and say something like this to send a delegation to a free and to talk to people here the people of a free prefer to voluntarily stay in their country and defend against the occupation of the turkish state. president says he expects turkish troops to be in the city. if we placed on a shelf put on solid our conscience ethics and sensitivities just like other countries in terrorists do when they act in syria then capturing a free will be a job that would take is just three days. back in eastern guta city and t.v.

says government forces now control fifty one percent of the area they're still considering you know money to the corridors for people and fighters who are ready to leave but they still continue to push for full control alan fischer al-jazeera on the talk to the syrian border. donald trump's former adviser steve bannon has taken his nationalist message to france and more specifically to the far right national front addressing the party's sixteenth congress and spoke about the change to modern politics and how people are turning against globalization a national front leader in your pen is hoping to revive her party's fortunes at its event by changing its name david lean in france. it's not often that the spotlight moves away from marine le pen on these occasions but stephen bannon did actually manage it he told the national front that essentially they were part of

a world movement that the tide of history was turning in their their favor and then when victory after victory after victory you could imagine it was very well received here but we had the single greatest candidate in american history all we had to do was let trump be trump number one stop mass illegal immigration in line and limit illegal immigration to get our sovereignty back but marine le pen of course faces on sunday a new chassis a new challenge and that's to try and we brand her party give it a new name tried to toxify its image but it must be said also that they sent a questionnaire to the members of the party with eighty questions on it and surprising results came back with maybe not so surprising they said ninety percent of them wanted a. for example they wanted a referendum for the people of france to choose whether they should stay within the

european union i'm ninety eight percent of them so they wanted new. measures against immigration which they described as a tsunami so although the party might change its name the policies were not. the u.k. home secretary says the russian spies and his daughter remain in a critical but stable condition after the reporters and with a nerve agent british ministers have been holding an emergency security meeting to discuss the latest police and intelligence reports on two hundred fifty counterterrorism police are involved in the investigation and more than two hundred witnesses have been identified so there you go of course. this is a fast moving investigation which is coordinating intelligence officials see it cabinet ministers as well as security officials as well now while the investigation continues in salzburg and all the locations there which have presumably been

visited by the victims said basically paul and his daughter a year there is also a plan being formulated as to what will be happening beyond this and from this point onwards and as the home secretary amber rudd said this is an investigation which is going to require some fine combing of the evidence before being pointed out he's behind it. this is a serious substantial investigation for over two hundred fifty counterterrorism police from eight out of all eleven counterterrorism units involved there's over two hundred witnesses involved and there's over two hundred forty pieces of evidence so we need to give the police and all the investigative parts around them the space to get on with that with that in mind there have been tensions also rising between britain and russia with certain politicians and officials. tentatively pointing the finger that perhaps this bears the hallmarks of if not

a state sponsored attack on mr st paul and his daughter then perhaps it could be that of a criminal organization this has been something which the russian government has been strenuously denying from its part saying that has nothing to do with such a thing but so at the same time the british officials this does raise parallels with the death of mr alexander litvinenko a russian dissident who was living in the u.k. and was killed by radiation poisoning twelve years ago however there will there will be the matter of how do. it tightly define exactly who was behind this once the evidence yields that officials are saying that they will be raising this issue at a nato meeting in july together with nato partners as to how to proceed with perpetrators of such attacks on british soil and that of course is adding to

a difficult time tense time diplomatically between london and moscow thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of florence in an anti racism protest demonstration included african migrants calling for justice after the shooting of a senegalese street vendor earlier this week he was killed by a sixty five year old italian man but police don't believe the shooting was racially motivated israeli soldiers have shot dead a palestinian man following a confrontation involving jewish settlers near the west bank city of nablus palestinian security sources say the violence was started by the settlers after which the army intervened and fired at a group of palestinians at least one other person is thought to have been injured in the instant the confessors mourning the victims of last week's coordinated attack on its military headquarters and the french embassy an investigation into the violence has resulted in more arrests including that of serving soldiers a close hack is in the capital we're going to. the honors for those who died in

last week's attack most killed were soldiers of. brick enough also is in mourning still in shock. distance. this is a moment of incredible sadness for us my brother in law went to the army headquarters to run an errand he was a bit late and the attackers took his life his body was so wounded he was unrecognizable. nine armed men drove a car full of explosives undetected through rush hour traffic to the most secured areas of the capitol the french embassy and army headquarters. the car bomb took park enough aso security forces by surprise overrun and overpowered the french special forces who have a base in the capital intervened and killed the attackers investigators say the target was a scheduled meeting of the army chief of staff

a five saheli in countries part of a multinational force led by france to push rebel groups out of the region on a visit to britain to foster the forces coronating country needs share vowed to hunt down the group responsible for the attack in some won't. we know that terrorists and their accomplices seek to undo our alliance they say they are foreign forces but they are allies fighting a common enemy. eight men in the capital were arrested after a rebel group operating in this claimed responsibility for the attack news that men are not foreigners but a mix of active and former soldiers surprised many here but all. the time came forty eight hours after the start of the trial of general gender the former head of the presidential guards orchestrated a failed coup attempt in two thousand and fifty since then many of his soldiers have been fired and his men negotiated with the rebel groups on behalf of western countries he was key to the release of european hostages. since his arrest attacks

have multiplied killing hundreds of people these soldiers on the front line of an expanding war with what now seems like an enemy within their midst. still to come on the program thousands of yemeni refugees in djibouti face a tough choice struggle on in the camps or return to their war torn country. and leaving the stage. and the lights go down and they hang up that pumps for the last time. hello there it is a lot milder across europe now and it's going to stay that way for some of us over the next few days you can see the latest swirl of cloud with got this pushing in

from the atlantic that's bringing in some more mild weather but also plenty of cloud and fair few outbreaks of rain as well so we're looking at the top temperature of around fourteen in london sixteen in paris but a good deal of moisture around and a good deal of wet weather to all that mold there is also spreading its way into the southeast corner of europe so perfect weather wise here but unfortunately with all the snow melting it is causing a bit of a concern with flooding there will be a few more showers for the southeast corner as well as we head through monday so a few more outbreaks of rain definitely not what we need on top of all of that snow melts that mild air will also be making its way up towards the northeastern parts of europe it seemed very cold here over the last few weeks temperatures have been well below freezing but we'll get to the dizzy heights of minus two there in moscow i mean further towards the south and there's plenty of fine dry weather to be found across the northern parts of africa the northwest it's been a little bit more unsettled recently a few showers here over parts of morocco and algeria were expecting a couple more perhaps sunday but it should draw up an brighten up for monday for

about the twenty. mani's decided to break with tradition and training to sail competitively maybe not that we want to present a positive image and change this to your typical expectation of women for them it's about more than just racing it's you can still be good i'm only a woman and also a very talented sailor going off around the world showing everybody how strong armani people are al jazeera world meets the first female sailing crew in the gulf sailing stars at this time on al-jazeera.

parinirvana the top stories here. syrian government troops have made further advances into eastern ghouta cutting off the rebel held town of duma and harasta that effectively splinters the enclave into three parts. the former chief strategist to u.s. president donald trump has been speaking at a party conference of france's national front the band says the election results in italy should people who are rejecting establishment political parties. british police say they've identified more than two hundred witnesses in the investigation into the poisoning of a russian former spy and his daughter with a nerve agent. u.s. president donald trump us thanks china for its help in trying to find a diplomatic solution with north korea to south korea announced an agreement from trump to meet the north korean leader kim jong un trump says he's spoken on the phone to both his chinese counterpart xi jinping and the japanese prime minister

shinzo abyei both enthusiastic about the diplomatic breakthrough. a planned meeting between trump and kim has been making headline news all over the world but not in north korea poses a major problem in the nation's propaganda machine brian explains if you were 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. libya's coast guard says several hundred migrants been picked off a smugglers took advantage of calm seas to launch a flurry of boats towards italy two hundred fifty two people were picked up in two separate rescue operations and taken back to tripoli the third boat was picked up by an engineer mission and taken to italy all them six hundred thousand migrants have crossed from libya to italy in the past four years so there was pretty scary rescue operations the we had a critical rescue which means that there's a high risk of many people dying in that and the boat was in very bad condition all but one of the five balloons holding the boat up was either completely deflated or deflating and we saw about one hundred twenty people inside the boat. only thirty five thousand refugees have fled to djibouti in the horn of africa to escape the war in yemen three years after the saudi led coalition first launched airstrikes

against the rebels the conflict has engulfed most of the country i mean the fighting disease and food shortages many of sail across the bottom and up straight to seek refuge in djibouti once they reach safety though they face harsh conditions in the camps where supplies a stretch to the limit from the port town of bach moment ago has more. its food distribution day of the mark as they come for yemeni refugees in the dusty poor town of. 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 haw-haw soften the yemen. had a hand look at the shooting the rice 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 reasons people here also complain of conditions of the come. the sweltering heat and ferocious sun systems hardly

been many away and this is a 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 you have others hover tante lemon preflighting the un something terrible was on 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 that will it's a disaster back in yemen nearly thirty five thousand people admitted the jenna's

southwards across the bubble mandeb 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 quite an investment in recent years due to it started you can look. but the extreme poverty is still widespread. officials here say there's little else they can do for the refugees beyond giving them safety and asylum one hundred at all just era of the djibouti. gotto has filed a complaint with united nations security council denouncing violations of its airspace by military planes from the u.a.e. and bahrain the qatari government also described the intrusions in a letter to the un secretary general the u.a.e. and behind a yet to respond the two nations along with saudi arabia and egypt broke ties with doha last june accusing it of supporting terrorist groups qatar denies the allegations 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 had only explained the shadow and procedure for the terrorists they use to achieve said the block is also seeking to be exempt paul brennan has more from 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's a deal 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 lighthouse and here in brussels. the russian president vladimir putin has rejected accusations by u.s. intelligence services that he ordered his citizens to interfere in the twenty sixteen presidential election in an interview with n.b.c. news putin said he couldn't care less if anyone meddled in the campaign as they were not connected to the kremlin he also said he would never allow the extradition of thirteen russian citizens accused by the u.s. investigation of communicating with a trunk campaign colombians will vote on sunday the first parliamentary elections to include candidates from the former rebel group fog the peace deal which ended the fifty year war was signed in twenty sixteen but linux under the reports from the switch from fighting with government to fighting elections has not been an easy one. it's the last day of competing for former for command there because the

know and it's a symbolic one she's back in her hometown norden colombia the town she left thirty one years ago to become a giver your fighter. 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 fights stop sending a 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. force was never going to be simple but this tentative steps are already and the story kaci vermont in a country still struggling to find a way to turn the page on its long and bloody conflict alison them. professional dancers like many sports stars are elite athletes with short career is but when injury strikes or retirement looms few have lucrative endorsement deals to fall back on when they struggle to move into other careers but it sure as action is helping to make the transition easier catherine style still has more from london. dancers captivate audience with their beauty and grace but it cheating that delicate balance of athletic prowess and artistic expression takes years of

training and seemingly endless personals. daniel davidson started training when he was eleven he's not ready to leave the stage yet but at thirty three he knows that pushing the body beyond its limits inevitably takes its toll it's hard on the body really long hours we have to train constantly. it's you know is difficult. but i feel like the emotionally exhausting aspects of the job is probably what makes me think more about what's next. like professional sports dance favors the very young and ironically it's often when dancers reach their artistic peak that the time comes to retire the professional dancers career tends to be very short. lived and. it's because their bodies can no longer withstand the rigors of their profession and many dancers find because. they want to. that's where dancers career development steps in the organization provides emotional and

practical support helping dancers as they reach train in new fields is a very or long nothing career and very often that's from the age of three up until thirty five so you can imagine when that time comes of perhaps when you're no longer in the same place and it's time for you to think about doing something else it can be incredibly daunting isolating and also people have to hurry home shore of what they do they are what they are outside of a studio workshops like this help dancers looking ahead to retirement like tom clark who is struggling with injury and looking to pursue a career in photography what we get from study is healthy small business. events. my complete this year with nobody gives up. so i'm saving already. after eight years on stage kevin mascot made his transition from a dance studio to the design studio i was thirty at the time i knew i maybe had

a few more but. at that point i knew i didn't want to do it forever and i didn't want to be an old dancer so that kind of made up my mind for me i can stop this and i can retrain in something else kevin turned to dancers career development for help four years later he owns a thriving fashion business. proof that a life of a dancer can always have a second act catherine stansell al-jazeera london. no money can catch up any time with our website address our zero dot com and you can watch us by clicking on the live icon. under our main headlines here. syrian government troops have made further advances into rebel held eastern guta outside damascus they've surrounded the towns of duma and harassed and have cut off

a major supply line government shelling and ass trikes killed more than fifty people in the area in the last twenty four hours alan fisher has more what we've seen in 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 is happen here. the former chief strategist to u.s. president donald trump has been speaking at the party conference of france's national front steve bannon says the election results in italy showed people were rejecting establishment political parties and he said national front members shouldn't fear accusations of racism and the. british police of identified more than two hundred witnesses in their investigation into the poisoning of

a russian former spy with a nerve agent u.k. home secretary said more than two hundred forty pieces of evidence are also being considered speaking after a second meeting of the country's national emergency committee the victim sergei script out and his daughter yulia remain in a critical condition. here's president don't trump those facts china for its help in trying to find a diplomatic solution with north korea that's after south korea announced an agreement from trying to meet north korean leader kim jong il trump says he's spoken on the phone to both his chinese counterpart xi jinping and the japanese prime minister shinzo who are both enthusiastic about the diplomatic breakthrough libya's coast guard says several hundred migrants have been picked up as smugglers took advantage of calm seas to launch a flurry of boats towards italy two hundred fifty two people were picked up in two separate rescue operations and taken back to tripoli a third boat has picked up by an engineer mission and taken to surely. there are

stories listening post is up next i'll have more news for you after that life now. broken heart and yet another american town shocked by devastating violence this time at that for the high school of alabama today the survivors of the deadly school shooting in florida say they're turning their anger into action after ok that's the rallying cry politicians of the play are out of my generation as of life's a lower mature guess but if you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we've been tracking this week. the teenage survivors of the latest

u.s. school shooting has brought the skills of a.