in syria thousands of disappeared without a trace were. forcibly taken from the family right near the most terrible thing in syria just to be. this has been the invisible weapon of the syrian dictatorship be the focus of the sometimes the call to be better to die than continue to be sure to go to. the disappeared of syria but this time on al-jazeera. russia rejects pretty shy minister teresa mayes accusation that moscow is likely responsible for the poisoning of a former spy in the u.k. . company back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead the u.s.

calls for an immediate cease fire in syria's eastern ghouta and threatens unilateral action if the international community doesn't act at least fifty people are killed after a bangladeshi plane crashes that may pass katmandu airport plus. u.s. congressional republicans say the investigation into collusion between the trump campaign and russia is over democrats disagree. the u.s. has backed britain's assessment that russia is likely responsible for the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. secretary of state rex tillerson says those responsible must face serious consequences earlier british prime minister to resign make called on moscow to explain the attack on. his daughter who remain in critical condition in hospital but the kremlin denies any involvement want to be phillips reports on london. the

british police and military are still combing all over the town of salzburg but they and the government now believe they have some monsters that surrogates create paul and his daughter yulia were poisoned with a nerve agent developed by russia and that leads the prime minister to one of two conclusions either this was a direct shot by the russian state against our country or the russian government lost control of its potentially catastrophic lee damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others she presented the russians with an ultimatum we must now stand ready to take much more extensive measures. mr speaker on wednesday we will consider in detail the response from the russian state should there be no credible response we will conclude that this action amounts to an unlawful use of force by the russian state against the united kingdom. but from russia so

far blanket denial vladimir putin's spokesman says surrogates screwball worked for british intelligence the incident happened in britain so it has nothing to do with russia it seems that anglo russian relations are bound to get significantly worse now and the british will be hoping for international support from european and nato allies as they seek to put pressure on moscow but what measures can britain take that will really be felt in the kremlin diplomatic expulsions sanctions against powerful individuals both seem likely but their impact may be limited i rush an economy is under such it has adapted to a hostile climate of international relations british national commercial ties are not very good so. things of symbolic nature do not russia anymore because they expect for the investigators on the ground an unusual an

unexpected test of their expertise for britain itself a crisis that will test its continuing stature in the world body phillips al-jazeera london adam mary is a former u.s. state department spokesman he says moscow has a promise of all motive for carrying out such an attack russia wanted to send a very strong signal not just to britain and the west but also to its own people that if you but trey us and the motherland we can get you and we will get you wherever whenever we want to and so this poisoning was meant to be seen as by everybody the west and russians as a russian mounted operation to put the fear of god into anybody thinking of betraying russia and other world news the u.s. is calling for an immediate ceasefire in syria's eastern ghouta and has threatened

to act alone if the international community doesn't more than a thousand people have died since the government intensified its offensive in the rebel held enclave last month as christian salome has more from the united nations cities bleeding inside and dogs two weeks after agreeing to a cease fire the security council learned their words were having little of facts for civilians on the ground in syria in eastern loan according to the u.n. more than one thousand have died in recent weeks amid continued shelling the united states said it was prepared to offer a second resolution calling for an immediate end to all military action in eastern guta and damascus city the massacre nikki haley backed her words with a threat we support the united nations political process that seeks to end the war in syria. but we also warn any nation that is determined to impose its will through chemical attacks and end human suffering most especially the outlaw syrian regime

the united states remains prepared to act if we must in the last year as haley reminded everyone the u.s. bombed an airfield in syria believed to be associated with a chemical attack syria's ally the russians question the u.n. source of information saying syria continues to act within its rights going to do is teach the counterterrorism operation which has continued by the syrian military is not in contradiction with resolution twenty four i want the government of syria has every right to try and remove the threat to the safety of its citizens the cease fire resolution proposed by the united states would take effect immediately with no exceptions for groups on the un's terrorist list it would require russian support to pass highlighting yet again the limits the border divided security council can do for the people of syria christian salumi al-jazeera the united nations. the u.s.

has also called for an urgent meeting in jordan following reports of syrian government airstrikes on the first in months their eyes in southwest's in syria near the jordanian border some of the provinces still under opposition control but their eyes also part of the so-called deescalation zone negotiated last year by the u.s. russia and jordan that means there is meant to be no fighting so the reported airstrikes could be a violation of that agreement russian media reports say seventy six people have been evacuated from syria's eastern ghouta through a humanitarian corridor or rush hour the syrian government's ally struck evacuation deal with the rebel group josh al islam is the largest of three groups in eastern ghouta where almost four hundred thousand civilians have been besieged since twenty thirteen and elsewhere in syria hundreds of civilians have been fleeing the northern city of our freeness turkish troops and their rebel allies close in on kurdish fighters turkish forces destroyed water and power stations that supply are free making it difficult for people to survive alan fischer reports from gaza and

tap on the turkish syrian border they're escaping the turkish push on a free and did grab what they can and leaving for somewhere they hope will be safe with the free syrian army bike by the turkish military on the doorstep of a three city you see they were left with no choice and there's a number of us in that we cannot stay under bombardment we have to flee to a safe place we are farmers. we fled because of the turkish it strikes on the area we couldn't stay there so we carried our stuff and lift. the last few days the turkish back defense of his went through turns in villages to just live in this one of the looters to be taken over by the free syrian army the sign on the wall points to a free. people have taken shelter during the fighting commode it's ok you're safe no you're tall i think a lot of lot of ali i'm going to as i said to thank god mom don't be afraid we're going to have to thank god we are happy they made us

a phrase that now we are safe because turkey launched its offensive in a free region in january even to drive the kurdish fighters the white p.g. who it describes as terrorists away from its border over the weekend the kurdish militia the y p g said it would use civilian volunteers to form a human shield to help protect the city of our friend just last week it said it was pulling seven hundred fighters from other places in syria to go to the front lines it appears neither of these moves have deterred the continued push by the f.s.a. on the turkish military the free syrian army has posted this video which shows them within sight of a free and city you know waiting for the order for the final push on fisher al jazeera on the turkey syria border the u.s. national security adviser says washington is optimistic about the planned meeting between donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un the agreement to meet followed talks between kamen a high level south korean envoy last week north korea has pace just suspends

nuclear and missile tests early age on mcmaster briefs members of the u.n. security council on progress promising to keep up the pressure on peeling out. we all agreed that we're optimistic about this opportunity but we're determined we're determined to keep up the campaign imagine the pressure until we see words matched with deeds and we'll progress toward you grizz asian. in a pod investigators are trying to find out why a bangladeshi airliner crashed killing at least fifty people the u.s. banga airlines flight from dakar swear to repeatedly before missing the runway at katmandu airport had breasts into flames in a nearby field reports from katmandu seventy one passengers and crew were on the flight from top to bottom and do witnesses report seeing the turboprop flying extremely low abort its landing and then turning to land again from the other end

of the runway after narrowly missing other aircraft on the ground it crashed on a stoop at the side of the runway and burst into flames. fire engines ambulances and security personnel rushed to the wreckage inside the airport paramita. some passengers managed to break a window and scrambled out almost on skates others were pulled free and taken to hospital many of the dead were charred beyond recognition nepal's prime minister visited the scene. this is a terrible accident from what i understand from the airport officials the plane was in difficult position but the pilot did not ask for emergency landing and tries to land it into this fatality but we offer our condolences to the government and the people. the airlines chief executive in bonn that they she is blaming air traffic controllers and elite recording of the conversation between the flight deck an air

traffic control other pilots listing were concerned that the flight might crash. an investigation committee has been set up to find the cause behind me is that wreckage off the plane where the last of the bodies are being recovered and police and army personnel are taking out personal belongings off the passengers and putting its aside as you can see the plane has been burned beyond recognition except for the tail and if you look at the area that's been since the grass that has been singed on the ground it looks that there was a massive explosion. has a poor air safety record with more than seventy crashes since one thousand nine hundred forty nine but most fatalities have involved planes flying into the himalayas or trying to land at mountain airports the bombard dash eight involved in this latest disaster is built in canada and executives are expected to fly in to

join the crash investigation. al-jazeera government. still ahead on al-jazeera peace talks going to both rebooting colombia as the government announces it will sit down with c.n.n. rebels and students in the u.s. plan asking walkout to demand tighten gun control. from the waves in the south. to the contours of the east. hello we've got some lovely springboards now tucking into a good part of central and southern china there be some wet weather over towards the southwestern corner towards but look at these temperatures into the mid to upper twenty's across at eastern side as we go on through chews day forty back to around twenty two in shanghai still not too bad a little more cloud and rain talking its way and still getting up to twenty four in

hong kong a chance of one the two showers to northern parts of vietnam and the usual scattering of showers across southeast asia the heaviest of which allowed it to be into malaysia just around the march or into jobber again it stays very disturbed here over the next few days that wet weather never really too far away not too bad in thailand but a little bit of wet weather just making its way into the gulf of thailand and plenty of wet weather now pushing into lanka now just around the oldies we got a nasty little circulation that may develop into a tropical cycle and social lanka seeing some very heavy rain will see every right possibly just not into the far south of india too as we go on through the next day or two for most it's dry warm and sunny getting up to thirty eight celsius in that poor over the next couple of days that is a little bit damp and wintry weather towards the high ground. the with sponsored by cattle and race. were such a problem is something which is

a geopolitical issue that's for governments international institutions to manage and the one thing refugees don't have the right to freely on the other boards can move freely as far and as much as they want it's a multinational colonialism this is a a moment over the democratic process these companies they just want the money europe's forbidden colony episode one at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera. the u.s. has britain's assessment that russia was likely responsible for the poisoning of

a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. the british government says. were attacked using a military grade nerve agent developed by russia moscow has denied any involvement . the u.s. is calling for an immediate cease fire in syria's rebel held eastern ghouta its ambassador to the united nations warns the u.s. will act alone if the international community doesn't want there are a thousand people have died since the syrian government intensified its offensive in eastern ghouta last month. and investigators are trying to find out why a bangladeshi airliner crashed in the past capital killing at least fifty people at the u.s. bangor airlines flight from dhaka missed a runway at katmandu where port and burst into flames in a nearby field. now in the united states the republican members of the house intelligence committee investigating russian meddling in the

twenty sixteen election say they have found no evidence of collusion but the top intelligence democrat has disputed that claim saying there is clear evidence russia tried to help in the twenty sixteen election that speak to john hendren in washington john why does the committee say it's ending its investigation willfully this is the report that came out it's just a short one by the house select committee on intelligence as one of three investigations into possible collusion between the trump campaign and the government of russia there's also one in the senate and of course there is the one of the independent counsel's investigation headed by robert mueller well this one is ended concluding that there was no evidence of collusion the committee said that in fact these are the majority of republicans on the committee the democrats won't even see this report for several hours now they say that the russians appeared to

take active measures to try to meddle in the u.s. election but that they showed no preference for donald trump in doing so that flies directly in the face of u.s. intelligence reports u.s. intelligence officials have testified before congress on the record saying that in fact the russians did meddle in the u.s. investigation and they did so specifically in order to help donald trump and to hurt democrat hillary clinton nevertheless this committee says there was no evidence of collusion that is despite the fact that robert miller's independent investigation has indicted thirteen russians and several members of the trump campaign so there's likely to be a lot of talk of partisanship when this is all over and that has already begun fully and what has been the reaction from the democrats and other critics of the trumpet ministration to this. well the democrats say that you can't find something if you don't really want to look for it and they say that's what happened in this case that house investigation was by far the most partisan of the three going on

right now they broke down between republicans and democrats arguing over separate memos as to whether the f.b.i. was biased in the information it presented the democrats said that some of the people from the white house who answered almost no questions with any substance should have been subpoenaed and there should have been a follow up but there's been some very strong statements by democrats kean castro a house member a democrat from texas said this was a stunning betrayal of the american people a republican is that it was a there was a breakdown of all who were in this committee and the the ranking democrat on that committee adam schiff a democrat from washington state said this was a capitulation he said republicans placed the interests of protecting the president over protecting the country and he said history will judge its actions harshly so there's likely to be a lot of partisan bickering after this investigation but the one that people are

really looking to to possibly come out with some serious charges in this investigation is the one headed by independent counsel robert mueller thank you for that john john hendren live for us in washington. and saying in the u.s. president trump is being accused of borrowing to pressure from the n.r.a. after backing away from measures which would raise the minimum wage for buying guns this comes after the white house announced it's setting up a commission to deal with gun violence a commission or pushed on teachers in classrooms kimberly harkat has more from washington. after weeks of student protests across the country calling for restrictions on gun ownership the white house has responded it's setting up a federal commission on school safety rolling out proposals the trumpet really strace and says will reduce gun violence. among the ideas of providing firearms training for teachers a move that's been sharply criticized by national education groups missing is

something president donald trump promise in the days following last month's florida school shooting raising the age limit for buying assault rifles from eighteen to twenty one as is the case with handguns were going to work or getting the age up to twenty one instead of eighteen the president's critics accuse him of backing off the age limit proposal under pressure from the nation's largest gun lobby group the n.r.a. on friday it filed a federal lawsuit challenging age restrictions on gun purchases put in place last week by florida politicians in a tweet on monday trump acknowledged his policy shift explaining he was watching court cases and rulings before acting states are making this decision. and just a day before the school safety panel was announced the president appeared to mock the idea of commissions suggesting they look good but are a waste of time we care just keep setting up blue ribbon committees with your wife

and your wife and your husband. and they meet when they have a meal and they talk or. still the white house is in dorset bipartisan legislation to improve background checks for gun sales it's also calling on individual states to pass legislation giving law enforcement the ability to take guns away from those deemed mentally unstable. the trunk administration has also announced it's taken the first step in the regulatory process to ban bomb stocks devices that increase a semiautomatic rifles rate of fire and were used last year in the las vegas massacre the white house is framing its action as bold steps to reduce gun violence but gun control advocates argue the plan falls short of what the president initially promised kimberlee help get al-jazeera washington new york's metropolitan

opera has fired this longtime conductor and musical director over on a geisha is of sexual misconduct and independent inquiry into james levine says it found credible evidence of sexually abusive and harassing behavior the seventy four year old was suspended in december after several accusations of misconduct between the one nine hundred sixty s. and one nine hundred eighty s. evene is one of the most widely known and influential figures in classical music has been the mets musical director since one nine hundred seventy six he denies any wrongdoing. to colombia now where the government will restart peace talks with the country's last remaining rebel group after a six week pause negotiations were suspended in january after the launch a bomb attack following the end of a temporary cease fire nineteen members of the armed forces and thirty four rebels have been killed in fighting since president on monday while santals says it's time for a new round of talks but the deal was done little the alternative is to continue killing

ourselves to continue confronting one another for many more years or decades to come i firmly believe the country has no need to resign yourself to this for that reason thinking of life in so you can lives in a tree even peace for colombia i've decided to resume peace talks with the lone alessandra amputee has more from bogota. the announcement surprised many here in colombia coming at a time when most people thought that peace negotiations with the yellen were doomed and the fact that it came just one day after anti peace parties one village's to the theory of elections but it also shows the willingness on the part of president to climb on why listen to us to persevere until the end of his presidency in august in trying to end all civil conflicts in the country the government that asked the land for a signal to restart these negotiations that signal came in the form of

a ceasefire during the elections the year len respected that there were no attacks on election day and the days preceding the vote so president santos took that as the possibility to announce a restart of the talks to send this negotiating team back to keep ecuador but if you ask practically any analyst here in colombia they'll tell you that even if this is good news it will be very difficult to reach an agreement with the land that's because this rebel group is less centralized then the fark and that divisions exist among its leadership and how and if continued to use peace negotiations with the government my children in the occupied west bank and demonstrations calling for donations to help keep their schools open they're facing closures after the u.s. reduce its funding to the un relief and works agency is helping to raise five

hundred million dollars at a donor conference this week imran khan reports. the message here is that dignity is priceless it's aimed at the united states of america deal with held one hundred ten million dollars in funding for the united nations relief works agency they're the ones that deal with palestinian refugees and it's not just say in the occupied west bank this similar things are taking place in syria in lebanon in jordan and in gaza and this is very simple this is about humanitarian aid now some countries have already stepped up to try and make up that shortfall they've issued money towards however that's no money that's new money that was money that's already been promised it's just been delivered. it's incredibly important that we understand that each of the students you see around us here every day shows so much courage in coming to school despite all the constraints and the risks and to invest in their education and i cannot conceive or imagine that we would not be able to keep these

schools open because of the financial situation the donor conference in rome on thursday will be crucial for underwrote to try and raise the money not just the u.s. withholding funding there's a shortfall of about five hundred million dollars say a new of five hundred million dollars that's needed to keep schools like this one open and this is just one of about seven hundred schools. the somali parliament has banned a u.a.e. owned company from working in the country it follows a deal signed earlier this month between d.p. world ethiopia and the breakaway region of somaliland somalia didn't recognize the deal accusing d.p. world of undermining its sovereignty and violating international law somaliland declared its south a republic in one thousand nine hundred one but it's not recognized by mogadishu or most of the international community. the parties forming germany's grand coalition

have officially signed a deal to form a new government six months after national elections the agreement was given the green light by angela merkel's christian democratic union it's for variances to party and the center left social democrats the german parliament is due to elect merkel for a fourth term as chancellor on wednesday now arms sales are increasing around the world with asia and the middle east a leading buyer is a report by these talk home international peace research institute says regional tensions are driving india's growing demand between twenty thirteen and twenty seventeen india was the world's biggest arms importer accounting for twelve percent of total sales the report also found imports of the middle east had doubled in the past ten years saudi arabia the world's second largest importing crease its buying by two hundred twenty five percent between two thousand and eight and twenty seventeen. percent of those weapons were surprised by the u.s. and u.k.

peter westman is from the stockholm international peace research institute he says citizens need to put more pressure on their leaders to weapon sales. there are a few years in turn trees where the boat has led to the decision by go all the modes to no longer allow new arms sales to particularly saudi arabia and also to the emirates but that's not going to make a very big difference on the arms flows to the region because of course there's so many other states which can and do produce arms and i are going to sell weapons to the region and certainly not notice of whether that's the u.k. which just signed or is kind of working on a major deal with saudi arabia again or whether it's a country like russia or china which have tried to get a share out the markets in the region which they didn't have before to that extent super society has to try to understand this kind of figures which we present today

and other similar information so i do understand what impact it has and then to work on governments the industry to some extent to try to be more responsible in their arms. french fashion design a batter shiva she has died aged ninety one in the fashion needle is known for that male factor a friend clean eating famous looks for a happening place kelly and jackie kennedy died in his sleep on saturday at a chateau in your path. you know again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. has bought to britain's assessment that russia was likely responsible for the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. the british government says say again you were tied to using a military grade nerve agent developed by russia prime minister recently is

demanding an explanation from moscow which denies any involvement we must now stand ready to take much more extensive measures. mr speaker on wednesday we will consider in detail the response from the russian state should there be no credible response we will conclude that this auction amounts to an unlawful use of force by the russian state against the united kingdom. the united states is calling for an immediate ceasefire in syria's rebel held eastern gotye some bastard to the united nations warns the u.s. will act alone if the international community doesn't more than a thousand people have died since the syrian government intensified its offensive in eastern guta last month. investigators are trying to find out why a bangladeshi airliner crashed in the past capital killing at least fifty people the u.s. banga airlines flight from dhaka missed the runway at katmandu airport and burst

into flames in a nearby field republican members of a u.s. congressional committee investigating russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election say they have found no evidence of collusion but the top house intelligence democrat has disputed the claim saying there is clear evidence russia tried to help in the folks. around b. as government will restart peace talks with the country's last remaining rebel group after a six week pause negotiations were suspended in january after the and then launch a bomb attack following the end of a temporary cease fire nineteen members of the armed forces and thirty four rebels have been killed in fighting since the parties forming germany's grand coalition have officially signed a deal to form a new government nearly six months after national elections the agreement was given the green light by i'm going to miracles christian democratic union it's been very insistent audie and the center left social democrats the german parliament is due to elect merkel for

a fourth term ass chancellor on wednesday those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next here it's inside story. the brocade ties nine months old but the country's behind it sounds arabian nights' it out of evidence behind and egypt have been conspiring against oh house of all than twenty years the un to cut off water it wanted with gene change in ninety nine to six with at the time to a coup and it was it was this is the inside story.