documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. kurdish forces in northern syria say they'll fall in the human shield around the town of alfred as a temptation military closes it. hello

again i'm. also coming up china's parliament presidential term limits clearing the way for him to rule for life. rebranded far right in france where the pen is leader again controversial father remained in post is taken away. british police say there's been limited contamination in a restaurant and a pub after a lethal nerve agent was used to poison a former russian spy. and turkey's military campaign in northern syria has taken a new development with kurdish forces announcing they are mobilizing a human shield to defend. turkish and free syrian army forces are surrounded the town and a warning that they're on the verge of entering the kurdish forces say many civilians have volunteered to protect the region several bus lanes are thought to be heading

for. this hour. on the turkish side of the border. what we're hearing from the y.p. to the kurdish militia is that there are many people who want to put themselves between them and the free syrian army and the turkish guns they see they've had so many volunteers that they can create a human shield no we can't confirm whether or not everyone is a volunteer but there are buses heading to that area even as we speak and you remember there was just last week that the white p.g. said they were pulling out seven hundred fighters from other parts of syria where they're taking on i saw and moving them to the front lines in a friend you know the assault on our front has moved at lightning pace just in the last few hours we've heard of four more towns and villages to the north and south of the city that been taken over by the free syrian army backed up by the turks know essentially the why p.g. are calling president the ones bluff the turkish president speaking at a campaign event on saturday said if turkey was like any other country if we

treated syria like everyone else then there will be turkey soldiers inside a friend in just a few days but they were going to approach it with a degree of humanity i thinking of the civilians that could be caught up in the fighting we've also heard from inside a friend city itself we hear that the water has been cut off the internet is down and one senior member of the local council has asked for the u.n. to intervene i mean a syrian government and russian air strikes killed at least forty people on saturday and injured dozens in rebel held. women and children are among the latest victims in this offensive which is to take the last remaining rebel stronghold close to syria's capital and the volunteer rescue group syrian civil defense says the syrian government hit the rebel town of been with chlorine gas force responds and napalm it's the second alleged chemical attack in a matter of days u.s.

defense secretary jim masseuses warned the syrian government would be unwise to use weaponized gas. china's national people's congress has voted to abolish term limits for the president and the vice president the change of the constitution paves the way for paying to remain in office beyond twenty twenty three adrian brown has more from beijing. an army of chinese legislators came to the great hall of the people knowing what was expected of them a display of uniform loyalty to the man who could now be china's leader for life for the constitution is in accordance with our country's reality and the wishes of all the people. this is a big event a very memorable moment in our political life. and historic and controversial moment as well the almost three thousand delegates had been told the amendments were needed because the challenges china faces require a strong leader and

a united party. in china's version of legislative government new laws and constitutional changes are always passed unanimously. and so it proved to be the case again on sunday when delegates approved twenty one constitutional revisions including the scrapping of term limits for the president and vice president but there was perhaps token opposition to votes against and three abstentions congress officials insist this process transparent. the chinese people have had no say in this historic moment critics accuse president xi jinping of building a personality cult indoctrinating the masses with his political philosophy just as chairman mao once did it was done shopping the other towering figure in recent chinese history who'd insisted on two term limits for the president he wanted to

avoid a repeat of the cultish devotion that had surrounded mao but analysts say one party rule is once more turning into one man rule the fact of the matter this seeming has hijacked the entire communist party in the country so we are back to just one person doing the talking one person making the decisions for the entitled party and the entire country we are back to the period of the so-called one wars echo chamber. the president's influence is now felt in many aspects of life here she jean ping thought is now required reading for all party members study groups of spread to businesses and universities. parliament also voted to expand the president's campaign against corruption during a five year purge more than one and a half million party officials have been punished analysts say the campaign is

a guys for getting rid of potential rivals for now at least though she would appear to have none. adrian brown al jazeera beijing. british officials say there found some limited contamination of nurtured nerve agent into public places following the poisoning of a former russian spy out of five hundred people who visited the two places in sort of london have been urged to wash their clothes and other belongings police have identified more than two hundred witnesses in their investigation they've also cordoned off the graves assegais scrap holes wife and his son script hall and his daughter usually have remained in critical condition in hospital after being infected with a nerve agent we've learnt that there has been some limited contamination in both the milk and seizes restaurants insoles free so anyone who visited the mill kirpan sees his restaurant where the two affected individuals were can be reassured that

this limited exposure will not come to health today. however there may be a very small health risk associated with repeated contact with belongings which may have been contaminated by this substance so we're recommending a very very precautionary approach is taken and we're biting people to clean the clothes that they were wearing and any possessions they had with them at the time more now from our correspondent paul brennan in london. this is a on the face of it a dramatic warning from the public health authorities here in the u.k. concerns thirty six hour period from the lunchtime on the sunday when script of his daughter julia fell ill all the way through to monday evening around eleven pm in both the mill pub and the z.z.z. restaurant and the number of people affected could be up to five hundred people who are being warned now that their clothes their personal effects such as telephones

jewelry those sort of things should be thoroughly cleaned the warning has been given by the public health authorities in the form of a precautionary warning saying that it's a belt and braces warning and they don't want people to be alarmed about clearly the indications are that the nerve agent is not something that just evaporates in the atmosphere very quickly clearly the concern is that it lingers for a long time and repeated exposure to it if you have been exposed to it can cause serious harm that marine le pen who's been reelected as head of france's far right national front is g u to address her party members in a little while from now le pen is hoping to broaden her party's appeal as part of the rebranding party founder and marines father john marie le pen's last remaining pace was taken away from him he was expelled in twenty fifteen because of anti semitic remarks i think a lot of that illegal in the north of france where that conference is taking place

of course but it is david chase to tell us more about this rebranding of the national front. martino's you can see behind me marine le pen has now taken to the stage and has launched this rebranding of the first thing she did of course was remove farther from the constitution the party is no longer the on re president and it's not surprising that she wants to do that to try and detoxify the. is effect on the national front he of course is in paris at the moment he hasn't made a surprise if you do then i think when you might be signing copies of the first volume of his biography which is to be a top seller here in france and in that order biography he says that he was a supporter of the vichy regime calls were nazi collaborators during the second world war so sort of remarks plus the fact that he says that the holocaust was

a mere detail of history that marine le pen wants to cut all ties with the eighty nine year old father and mother need that but of course change the name from forty five years ago the use of to name the movement the national front will only last is the name for this party for about the next hour and a half at the end of a speech a marine le pen will announce a new name and of course there are a lot of rumors going around the team one of the ones we've heard is it's going to be the front will be removed and the word national will be somewhere in there one of the bets circulating around this world is going to be a national gathering but i wouldn't put too much weight on that yes. and she's also been receiving a little bit of help from our friends hasn't she that was the parents from steve bannon formerly of the campaign and chief strategist for president trump has the politics of the national front i mean they might change the name has the politics

changed in any substantial way. you know the there was a questionnaire sent out to members before this stance if you like ninety percent if they wanted a frigid referendum. to actually give the people a chance in france to decide whether they want to stay inside the european union now that wasn't very popular in the presidential campaign. because many people feared that what effect would this have on their pensions for. they don't seem to tone down that particular piece of policy and ninety eight percent of the question here responded with the fact that immigration must be drastically reduced they described immigration here as a small army solos a real sign them out in that the policies are actually going to change so a change of face of rebranding of the party a new name but the policies look very much as they were before david chase live in

lille at that national front conference taking place at thank you. still to come hear it out there and why colombians say corruption is their biggest concern as they head to the polls for a legislative election. and i still may be gone from the iraqi city of mosul but thousands of their unexplained did bones creating havoc for the rebuilding after. the weather was largely fought in flawless spring sunshine across a good part of china temperatures getting up to the twenty's once again in shanghai twenty three celsius there for hong kong a little bit of cloud of to the southwest of china's towards chong do i was a sink a little further south woods and this was as we go through tuesday but for many

it's not too bad it's all southerly winds still getting those temperatures up into the low twenty's for many some pleasant conditions over the next few days pleasant enough warm enough across much of south asia largely clear skies here you can see the showers started to show that i had now across the southern parts of india and also more especially into sri lanka some love to say i was a possibility before much of india was going to be fine and dry warming up thirty four celsius in new delhi and we'll see the warmest in as we go on into choose to a little more cloud there into southern most pos but for many it will be fine dry and sunny fine dry and sunny too across the web and it's not quite as hot as it has been recently but pleasantly warm nevertheless we'll still see a little bit of cloud just around that eastern side of saudi arabia close to us here in doha will stay fine and dry temp just getting up to around twenty nine degrees as we go on three cheers they perhaps still want mccain a braised little but a lifted dust a sad but fine dry and sunny. winning

the will of the people hinges on the mass media state p.r. machine it's going to overdrive. but just who is influencing who. we just don't know yet where the lines when drawn between what can be said and what conduct that. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for outside the media or opinion the listening post base time on al-jazeera.

time to take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera kurdish forces in northern syria have announced they're mobilizing a human shield to surround africa as turkish and free syrian army troops approach the town bus loads of people have believed to be on their way it follows turkey's in else that its forces were on the verge of entering. china's policies voted to remove term limits for the president and vice president the change of the constitution paves the way for jim ping to remain in office beyond twenty twenty three leaders until now were restricted to a maximum of two five year terms. health officials in the u.k. say they found some limited contamination of nerve agent in two public places following the poisoning of a former russian spy up to five hundred people who visited the two places in seoul sprays south of london. to wash their clothes and other belongings. a senior yemeni official has called for protests to demand the return of president of

a drop of months a holiday from saudi arabia the minister of state salah. made the statement on his facebook page how the left the country ahead of the saudi led coalition's air campaign against the who the rebels in march twenty fifth the president has reportedly been rich being in riyadh for over a year now. eight months after u.s. about forces dr isom from iraq's second city mosul unexploded bombs mortars and other ordinance still litter the streets the u.n. says most of them a buried under an estimated eleven metric tons of destroyed buildings in test cyber full. it's one of the most dangerous jobs for new iraqi soldier identifying and defusing unexploded mortars homemade bombs and other explosives on the streets of mosul's old city or littered with such weapons most of

which are buried under houses and buildings destroyed by border artillery and air strikes. sound of explosions regularly brings out as teams detonate the bombs. and we are working hard to dismantle leigh's and exploded bombs yet many of the displaced trying to return home have found explosives in their houses all of their houses were rigged with explosives or the neighbors' houses rigged instead so when they report this to us we have to take action. on the outskirts of mosul which is in iraq's predominantly sunni nineveh province some of the unexploded devices are brought here to be destroyed iraqi officials estimate more than five thousand civilians were killed in the battle for the city most of them in u.s. and iraqi airstrikes are tillery and mortar attacks targeting eisel fighters. with no escape route out of mosul several hundred thousand civilians were trapped

as security forces seize control of the city. at a recent meeting iraqi military leaders promised nineveh provincial council officials they would remove be unexploded ordinance as quickly as possible so that those displaced in the fighting could return home tell. me how i did to implement. mission three more explosive devices as soon as possible from the city when the pope was awfully moving these explosive to comply with the orders of the prime minister. has lifted that and off the displaced people and bring back stability at also a bit of a that's. according to the united nations most of the explosives are buried under an estimated eleven metric tons of rubble u.n. experts say removing the devices will likely take many years the u.s. government has promised to provide loans and loan guarantees to american companies to help reconstruct mosul but won't provide any direct funding for the eighty eight

billion dollars iraq says it needs to rebuild the city and others like it meaning at all likely take a long time for any form of normalcy to return here in the. the south korean foreign minister says she's planning to meet the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson to talk about the proposed meeting between the american the north korean leaders kung says her trip next week will help to form the agenda for the historic meeting she was speaking on a visit to vietnam. the us president says no korea's government is stopping its missile tests ahead of that meeting with kim jong un speaking at a rally in pennsylvania where he praised china and south korea for helping to build dialogue with north korea there's been no official comment as yet from pyongyang on the proposed meeting. ratings under way in a bar election in hong kong the polls close within the next hour with voter turnout

lower than expected police detained a number of protesters outside the polling station where the city's leader cast her ballot the city's pro-democracy camp is worried that the low turnout will affect its chances to win back veto power in the legislature the election is seen as an indicator of public sentiment about beijing's increased role in the city's government. i think at this time. i think a candidate say it is also. a fair you off call that's why we have a framework of the campaign that it is a battle between. us. we stand. to safeguard the rule of law and to bring back the reasons back to politics because i think this is the great battle between rational and radical and i hope people will see for the last few years all the chaos and filibusters they are not helping

hong kong or not fixing hong kong's problem so i hope if you falters will come out and make their vote today because we've all devolved i cannot make a difference indian prime minister narendra modi and the french president emmanuel mccraw are hosting the official launch of the international solar alliance in new delhi the summit aims to reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels by expanding the availability of solar energy the idea was floated at first proposed on the sidelines of the twenty fifteen paris climate change agreement representatives from forty five nations are attending well the aim is to come up with a clear way to fund the use of solar energy in member countries it's seeking to add a thousand gigawatts of solar power by the year twenty thirty with the price tag of one trillion dollars and to date there are one hundred twenty one perspective member states but only thirty of actually signed and ratified the framework

agreement france and australia of the only industrialized economies on the list the rest are mostly poor countries in africa true version is a foreign policy fellow at the think tank brooking's he says the alliance can help bring down the cost of solar power. the second idea that perhaps the more he had spoken about even on the campaign trail before he became prime minister he spoke about creating a g twenty four solar power grid which is now expanded quite a bit one of the one of the. goals of this initiative is really for as part of india's national solar india has a very ambitious targets to be trying to get a hundred or watts of installed solar capacity by twenty twenty so that's just four years from now which would be a very massive massive increase of the current stock and one of the things that such an alliance would help do is bring down the cost by increasing the global

demand for solar power particularly in the developed developing world and another thing that it would do is help the transfer of technology from more high income countries to shoot during countries including india and to help really hoping to achieve those national targets and comply with the commitments in the paris climate agreement veges in colombia heading to the polls for the first election since the filing of a peace deal with far gravels the agreement has reduced political violence passes alessandra around p s e reports many of the issues affecting colombian society have not changed. colombians gear up to renovate their congress and send a there's one issue on everybody's mind. corruption is the biggest worry of voters rich or poor on the right or left of the political spectrum colombia's gibeah were as long overshadowed the legal political practices which are only now coming under bigger scrutiny scandals in past months have involved most

parties and even tainted president one man with santos last campaign. new study by the peace and reconciliation foundation says the public outcry will not bring political renovation done. more than eighty candidates for the senate and house of representatives that have links with criminal organizations or are involved in corruption scandals such as older brecht or our children or wives of currently jailed representatives all with excellent chances of being elected they represent rural family clans that have for decades run their districts like. most are expected to remain in power doling out jobs public work contracts for just a little food and money to maintain the loyalty of their impoverished voters. many politicians and thirties corruption circuits to finance their campaigns they buy out local community leaders and pay around one thousand dollars per vote the culprits in the end there to citizens they vote for the same corrupt parties then

they complain about corruption it's a vicious cycle you can't vote for bandits and then expect to be well governed according to this study only three. political parties. can be viewed with suspicion for their relations with t.v. these are criminal organizations which have many here worrying that the new congress will have a hard time changing longstanding corruption practice is. director of political website alessi and i see says the system is per base of. professional. how what is the percentage still. votes for congress and they all agree seventy percent. thirty percent. and like other major latin american countries jailed many claim chieftain to

cleanse remain tough to this large as long as votes can be bought for pennies. meaning cubans are expected to vote for a new national assembly incoming members will decide on a successor to eighty six year old raul castro who sets sound next month it'll be the first time in almost sixty years that a new president will come from outside the castro family. the antarctic has been described as one of the most remote and treacherous places on earth most of its rich biodiversity has yet to be fully documented in the second part of our series we look at the european union's campaign to protect this desolate region. nick clark joined a greenpeace scientific expedition through the web. the captain's eye view of the voyage as the ice breaker arctic sunrise pushes through

into the remote waters of the weddell sea vost unknown territory few ships venture this far. has already made an attempt is antarctic summer but was foretold by ice because right now we are way through. to get it down into the well. trying to reach before we give you what would be protected. just like opening it here least for. yes just. finally we break through into the isolated area of the proposed site tree at the moment i checked on the. satellite charts this morning and there's a somewhat of a ship in this entire space as another ship about there and that's it and the whole whole area that's slightly scary terrifying.

but exciting kind of just makes the case that this is pristine this area is not develop it's not called industry it's never had industry. we take our charts and it's rare window of weather to take to the air and look down on the mesmerizing scene. the western edge of the would be protected zone breath taking the role power of land and sea and ice constantly reshaping on the move this is nature on a planetary scale so what we're looking at here is melting yes sea ice and great icebergs to be the glass is sweeping up james ross island at the weddell sea way to a distance over that proposed area pretty much on touched by human activity almost no scientific research is taking place back to base the arctic sunrise standing by for a return alongside have a giant type ila ice pack perhaps a kilometer along the next helicopter sortie it to the very top of it the

expedition team and making a dramatic landing to spread the sanctuary message around the world this iceberg thousands of years in the making now adrift in a process that has been going on for hundreds of thousands of years appraises it seems may be changing because of global warming and did a day of scenic wonder the antarctic day ends with a spectacular show above this apparently a reverse sunset phenomenon while simultaneously the clouds more in shape and color into fantastic painting across the evening sky at the ends of the. al-jazeera until ticket. country take a look at the top stories here it out to sara kurdish forces in syria say they're mobilizing a human shield to defend the town of our freend from

a turkish led offensive turkish and free syrian army forces have surrounded the town and a warning there on the verge of entering kurdish forces say many civilians have volunteered to protect the region several bus loads are believed to be heading for african the syrian government forces say they've completely surrounded the major town of duma. shelling and air strikes killed at least forty people on saturday in the offensive to take the last remaining rebel stronghold that's close to syria's capital china's national people's congress has voted to abolish term limits for the president and the vice president the change to the constitution paves the way for she jim payne to remain in office beyond twenty twenty three leaders were previously restricted to a maximum of two five year terms u.k. health officials say they found some limited contamination of nerve agent in a restaurant or the pub following the poisoning of a former russian spy up to five hundred people who visited the two places in souls

three have been urged to wash their clothes and belongings police have identified more than two hundred witnesses in their investigation they have also cooled off the graves said case cripples wife and son hundreds of people have taken to the streets to protest against france's far right party the national front the rally comes as marine le pen is reelected as the head of the party for a third time as part of the rebranding party founder marines father john marie le pen his last remaining post was taken away from him he was expelled in twenty fifteen over anti semitic remarks. a senior yemeni official has called for protests to demand the return of president average rebel men to the holiday from saudi arabia the minister of states. made the statement on his facebook page how the left the country ahead of the saudi led coalition's campaign against the rebels in most

twenty fifteen he's reportedly been in riyadh for over a year now right you're up to date that's it coming up next the listening post. as poverty and disparate sweep across ruhi just settlements women and girls are being sold and given away in refugee camps one on one east investigates yet another dark side of the crisis at this time on al-jazeera. a broken heart and yet another american town shocked by devastating violence this time for the high school about the survivors of the deadly school shooting in florida say they're turning their anger to action now. that the brownie five out of the play or out of my generation. lives alone which are just part of europe 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.