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the poisoning of a former spy in the u.k. and says there will be consequences. the u.s. calls for an immediate ceasefire and syria's eastern ghouta and threatens unilateral action if the international community doesn't act also this hour congressional republicans investigating russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election say there is no evidence of collusion with a trump campaign democrats disagree plus. undergo reported problems all the group of scientists drilled with the use of the bridge and the world's largest open front three by sending a submarine down to the pool. includes to. the united states 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. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says those responsible must face serious

consequences and valid it will trigger a response nato's chief has expressed great concern over the attack on say gay and scrape all who remain in a critical condition in hospital early at the british prime minister theresa may said the military grade nerve agent that was used in the attack had been developed by russia but moscow denies any involvement want to be phillips reports from london . the british police and military are still combing all over the town of salt but they and the government now believe they have some monsters that circus creep 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 act 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

a mash an economy is under such it has adapted to a hostile climate of international relations british national commercial ties. so. things of symbolic nature do not hurt russia anymore because they expect. for the investigators on the ground an unusual and unexpected test of their expertise for britain itself a crisis that will test its continuing stature in the world barnaby phillips al-jazeera london and his al-jazeera chalons with the reaction from moscow well considering that russian official doom has been relatively quiet in the the week since scripture when his daughter or poisons we've had a flurry of responses in the short time since two reason may have made her statement in front of the british parliament now the russian foreign ministry says

they want to reserve may set is basically a circus show that it's information political campaigning based on provocation the russian foreign ministry has calls to reason may's comments essentially tales we've also heard from the first deputy head of the federation council's foreign affairs committee now the federation council is the russian version of the senate's. they say or he says that script did not stand in russia's way didn't threaten russia in any way and therefore russia was not interested in eliminating him and this head of the federation council's foreign affairs committee has also said that essentially what's going on in the u.k. is a provocation ahead of russia's presidential elections and the fee for world cup coming up in a in a couple of months we've also heard from a duma deputy a parliamentarian called on lugovoy. now under lugovoy is actually one of the men

wanted in the united kingdom for the murder of alexander litvinenko in two thousand and six poisoned with polonium two ten he was never extradited to the u.k. but was actually made a duma deputy now he says that the u.k. prime minister's hasty statement that a substance used to poison scripture was developed in russia is irresponsible to say the least considering the sensitivities there are of course in the u.k. about the live in younger case this i think amounts to basically fairly high level trolling from russia's duma to the u.k. parliament. so what exactly are novi chalke nerve agents allegedly used in the attack on novi chalk which means a new comer in russian is a soviet era group of nerve agents developed as a cold war weapon in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's they were manufactured and tested in a top secret facility in what is now specky stan that was closed in one thousand nine hundred three it's widely believed know the chalk agents are dispersed in

a powder form rather than gas or vapor like most nerve agents and are usually inhaled to find victims they take effect quickly often within a minute and are designed to be resistant to conventional antidotes and treatment victims suffer involuntary muscle contractions that can lead to cardiac arrest and respiratory failure now i don't even really is a former u.s. state department spokesman he says moscow has a plausible 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 betray 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 by everybody the west and russians as a russian mounted operation to put the fear of god it to anybody thinking of

betraying russia in other world news the united states is calling for an immediate ceasefire in syria as eastern ghouta and has threatened to act alone if the international community doesn't the situation inside the rebel enclave has been described as hell on earth following three weeks of heavy bomb bombing by the government and russia rebels and russia struck an evacuation deal russia's military says so far seventy six people have been able to leave kristin 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 effect 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 yasser 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. the counterterrorism operation which has continued by the syrian military is not in contradiction with resolution twenty four zero one 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 united states has also called for an urgent meeting in jordan following reports the syrian government is trying on day rod the first in months to rise in southwestern syria any of the jordanian border some of the provinces still under opposition control but their eyes also part of. a negotiated last year by the u.s. russia and jordan that means there is meant to be no fighting so the reported strikes would be a violation of that agreement elsewhere in syria hundreds of civilians have been fleeing the northern city of are free as turkish troops and their rebel allies close in on kurdish why p.g. fight is to his forces destroyed water and power stations that supply afraid making it difficult for people to survive there alan fisher has our report from gaza on

tape on the turkey syria border. they're escaping the turkish push on a free and they've grabbed what they can and leaving for somewhere they hope will be safe with the free syrian army back by the turkish military on the doorstep of a through the city we see they were left with no choice. we cannot stay under bombardment we have to flee to a safe place we are farmers. we fled because of the turkish air strikes on the area we couldn't stay there so we carried our stuff and left the last few days the turkish back defense of his went through towns and villages to 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 come out it's ok you're safe no you're taught i think a lot of lot of ali i'm going to as i said to thank god mam don't be afraid we're going to have to thank god we are happy they made us a phrase but now we're saying. turkey launched its offensive in

a free region in january into drive the kurdish fighters the y.p. ji who it describes as terrorists away from its border. over the weekend the kurdish militia the white 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 seventeen 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 in city the no wishing for the order for the final push on fisher al-jazeera on the turkey syria border. in the united states see a 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 house intelligence democrat has disputed the claim saying

there is clear evidence russia tried to help in the election as ring in john hendren in washington d.c. john the committee says it is ending its investigation. as rightfully the committee says they interviewed seventy three people saw more than three hundred thousand documents and they said they simply just didn't have evidence of collusion i should point out that this is the republican majority same party as the president as you pointed out the democrats strongly disagree with that so the majority says that the russians did interfere with the two thousand and sixteen election but they say there was no preference for donald trump that is a departure the u.s. intelligence community is united and has publicly stated they believe that the russians did intervene on behalf of the drum. and there is the parallel investigation is this investigation winds down there is the parallel investigation by the special counsel robert mueller he has already indicted thirteen russians and

several members of the trumpet ministration including four top officials in this committee interviewed none of those people john thank you very much for that john hendren live for us in washington well let's speak some more about this now to neil says new skill who is a senior us senate staff writer at roll call a newspaper specializing on reporting from capitol hill he's also in washington vet thank you very much for being with us so basically house in tallinn publicans released a summary of their finding even before sharing it with the democrats on the panel and their viewpoint perfectly aligns with the president's view on election meddling what do you make of this first of all and is this all about partisanship at the end of the day are republicans protecting the president here. it looks like there is a lot of partisanship at play here as there has been throughout this process with the house intelligence committee what i think we saw today particularly because the

summary was released at least a one page summary before either adam schiff in the democrats on that committee were able to review the findings and also before they've been able to go three declassification review process where folks at the intelligence agencies get a chance to go through the report and scrub it for potential items of national security interest the fact that this was put out now in this way is interesting because they also disagreed with some of the findings of the intelligence community and they really wanted to get that out there i guess if the house republicans write this contradicts the u.s. intelligence committee's findings as you say how will the democrats now respond what can they do about this. well i think that the first thing that's going to happen is that the house democrats are going to put more of their pressure sort of on the senate investigation the one that's being led by richard burr the republican

senator from north carolina and mark warner of a democrat from virginia that's been a more bipartisan investigation so i expect that adam schiff in the other house democrats are going to say what we need to do now is actually wait for the senate to get its work done because the republicans in the house clearly wanted to end this investigation whether or not they found anything it might be because they hadn't really looked under all the rocks kneels out this republican decision to end the house wash investigation comes as special counsel. appears to be accelerating the been quite a few developments over the last few weeks as you said the senate is also forging ahead with its investigation do you see the house report undermining these future reports from the senate and from the special counsel well that's

really the potential problem if if in fact the findings of the senate and the findings of the special counsel are in alignment that is to say you know if if the senate involve moeller come up with the same conclusion then i think people will generally view the house republican report is an outlier if for some reason the senate committee sort of splits apart into the same way that the house committee did then then we might have real trouble believing what it comes up with if there's a partisan report out of the senate thank you very much for your insights in this new ski from roll call joining us now from washington. they spent more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including we speak to assure lanka's prime minister as tensions continue after last week's on time muslim violence blasts peace talks get a reboot in colombia as the government announces it will sit down with the rebels and greece's top football league is suspended after an owner of one team runs onto

the bench with a god details ahead with joe and. in the poly investigators are trying to find out why a bangladeshi airline a crash killing at least fifty people the u.s. banga airlines flight from dakar swerved to repeatedly before missing the runway at katmandu airport it burst into flames in a nearby field. for some government seventy one passengers and crew were on the flight from talk to witnesses report seeing the turbo prop flying extremely lou a board it's landing and then turning to land again from the other end of the runway after narrowly missing other aircraft on the ground it crashed 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 from 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 bangladesh is blaming air traffic controllers and in a leaked 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. 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 came and a senior south korean envoy last week north korea has face to suspend nuclear and missile tests only a master briefed members of the u.n. security council on progress promising to keep up the pressure on pyongyang but 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 real progress toward the lookers ation. now this those sentiments were echoed by south korea's ambassador to the u.n. . all of the members of welcomed the recent developments in the korean peninsula in terms of going to talk. and with all of that to you in washington and emphasize that this is all that was you know a lot of time opportunity for peace were as a result of this you. are south korean envoys are traveling across the globe giving

updates on the talks souls national security chief is heading to russia while the head of the spy agency will meet japanese prime minister shinzo abi in tokyo let's bring in our correspondent in seoul rob mcbride rob so after all the diplomatic fireworks of last week of a much quieter week but still an important one as south korea is continuing its diplomatic soft pressure. that's right this shuttle diplomacy continues very important to try to work out the details to keep up the momentum to make sure that these summits do go ahead as you mention that young young he is the main envoy still in china he's been having meetings with president xi jinping of china the chinese of course folie a very much behind this whole initiative they have always called for direct dialogue between north korea and the u.s. and china of course could still be a neutral location where that all important summit might take place chong is now as you mentioned there off to moscow to brief the russians meanwhile his colleagues

who is still in japan he's had a meeting with the japanese foreign minister who spoke in very gushing terms about this agreement being possibly the moment before a miracle takes place in reality though the japanese position is slightly more delicate. he will be meeting with prime minister shinzo today choose day the japanese do feel somewhat as though they've been sidelined in this whole process and they will be very concerned that the u.s. possibly might come to an agreement with north korea that gets away with puts a freeze on the career developing a long range missile that could reach the united states right but still keeps in place its arsenal of weapons that could reach japan that's the concern from the japanese family rob what are we to make about the complete absence of any more statements out of north korea. it is very strange the silence has

been deafening we have been checking again with the main sources of information on the main party run newspaper again there has been no mention of this summit taking place the concern from the north koreans will be that they want to make sure absolutely sure that this summit is going ahead before they announce it to their people and the problem for north korea is that after so much hostile rhetoric against the great imperialist the united states as they describe them they now have to explain to their own people that their leader is going to sit down with the leader of their arch enemy donald trump how do they phrase that one so you expect it will be going to be much later in the process just before the talks take place themselves probably before finally north korea commits and actually informs their own people about that and we're still waiting to see where that summit might take place lots of different locations being mentioned beijing is one. of the truce

village is another but still the details need to be worked out fairly thank you for that rob problem bride life for acing soul there she lankan government is being accused of failing to act fast enough to contain a wave of anti muslim violence and nationwide state of emergency was imposed more than a week ago after days of riots in which singhalese buddhist gangs attacked muslim owned homes and businesses then it smith has more from colombo. lanka's embattled prime minister is on a damage limitation exercise ronald wickramasinghe visited candy to promised swift compensation for the loss of life and property in riots last week united al-jazeera asked for his response to the communal violence we have learned that in the fall of the country as a boy people do not want to violence they may have different views about the think if you would about read. this date but like any other country though they will be discussed in the media at least that's

a great word at least and thereby. will emerge at the here in. the last elections local ones last month delivered a major blow to the prime minister and president the coalition parties won control of just fifty two councils out of three hundred forty. three years ago may three powers syria say no was elected president and wickramasinghe are became prime minister after both men joined forces to defeat then president mahinda rajapaksa the muslim and tamil minority groups that helped them win and now dissolution promises to bring the previous regime to account for corruption and yet to be honored and both leaders have been jockeying for influence that risks creating a power vacuum when the norm that the government is real and on one cannot decide who actions and you know they also are not of the police will not act on the rest of the government that's one of the most troubling developments feel during candidate numbers the police did not act immediately and partly because they were

not sure whether they should because the government has been sending. contradictory signals. the opposition senses an opportunity and a way back in the form of president rajapaksa really lost. i think the country. didn't expect this type of situation to live with. his leaving. so the collapse of the government has to see for a more stable alternative to the government's imposition of a nationwide state of emergency to deal with an issue in just one part of the country following its initial slow response to the outbreak of violence and has been seized on by critics as an indication of weakness of the very top there are no presidential elections almost two years on the opposition doesn't have the numbers to win a vote of no confidence leaving this of ministration to try to deliver on its thing

. but i'll just say oh. still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour i believe part allows us to question authority to repel to provoke designing social change we need be honest building a different kind of war to counter president trump class parts of indian administered kashmir are under curfew as protesters vent their anger at the police and in sports could this be the start of tiger's return to the top joe have all the action from the gulf his best performance in five years. from dusky sunsets over the sprawling savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis. however we've got some lovely spring warmth now tucking

into a good part of central and southern china will be some wet weather over towards the southwestern corner towards chung but look at these temperatures into the mid to upper twenty's across that eastern side as we go on through tuesday 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 to two showers to northern parts of vietnam than the usual scattering of showers across southeast asia the heaviest of which allowed it to be into malaysia just around some march or into 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 in plenty of wet weather now pushing into worse for lanka now just random oldies we got a nasty little circulation that may develop into a tropical cycle and social lanka seeing some very heavy rain will see heavy rain 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 it is a little bit damp and wintry weather towards the high ground. the weather sponsored by race. on counting the cost in what's been a big week for global trade we'll look at how the u.s. is bending the rules of commerce and free trade is really worth fighting for. mind bending cars from the geneva. counting the cost at this time. 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 take control and his family. documentary at this time on al-jazeera. you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me reminder of our top stories the u.s. has backed britain's assessment. responsible for the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in southern england more than a week ago the british government is. using

a military grade developed in russia moscow has denied any involvement. investigators are trying to find out why it bangladeshi airliner crashed in the capital killing at least fifty people the u.s. . banga airlines flight from dakar missed a runway at kathmandu airport and burst into flames in the field and the united states is calling for an immediate ceasefire in syria's rebel held eastern ghouta if some bastard to the united nations says the u.s. will act alone if the international community doesn't want to my thousand people have died since the syrian government stepped up its offensive in eastern gota last month. the number of civilians being killed in syria has soared by forty five percent since the creation of so-called four deescalation zones made last year a report by the charity save the children found thirty seven people are dying every day the highest rates in several years the number of people being forced to leave their homes is also at record levels the last quarter of twenty seventeen was

particularly bad more than one million people were made homeless the number of attacks on schools and hospitals are also on the rise sixty schools in eastern gotoh were damaged or destroyed in the first two weeks of the cea and finally the report says more than two million people half of them children need aid but are being denied use by the government. has more. in the eleven year old honey is still learning how to read and write on but already he's witnessed things no child should ever see his homeless destroyed his teacher killed when air strikes hit a school. the teacher was standing by the window she told us she was going to get pens and paper before she could even go she was hit in the head we also heard. these type of stories have become common over the last seven years the number of people killed in syria is rising despite the approval of deescalation zones which

were meant to reduce the violence how to manage to leave the violence in eastern guta her daughter and six grandchildren are still there phone calls how to keep them connected. when i talk with my daughter she tells her youngest boy to say hello to grandma but hunger has made him so weak he doesn't have enough energy to speak. no one really knows exactly how many civilians have died in the seven year war in syria the u.n. stopped counting some years back but its last report said around half a million people had been killed the number keeps rising especially with the latest assault on eastern guta. a ceasefire agreed to last year was meant to protect civilians but some argue fighters who support bashar al assad's government use a to gain ground use killing machine he's. ready for the russians yes yes but you basically use as much force as they try at.

these crowded basements provide some shelter for besieged syrians but getting aid and supplies to them isn't guaranteed they go through the trash bins children go looking for left overs in case someone left a piece of braid. it's easy to spot destruction in syria's ruined cities yet some still manage to imagine a future the sad. my dream is to become a doctor that way i can help and cure people the world is full of bombing and shelling a seven year war with no end in sight and millions anxiously hoping for a peaceful days ahead katia locus of a young al-jazeera. the deaths of three suspected rebel fighters in indian administered kashmir has provoked hotez at their funerals police have imposed a curfew in some parts of the main city of priyanka gupta has more on the latest on the rest. mourners packed the streets of chicago.

it's a familiar scene in indian and instead kashmir. people caught between a government crackdown and an armed rebellion which has lasted for nearly thirty years india accuses pakistan of provoking the uprising government leaders in islamabad deny storing undressed against the interview. this time some meanies are moving the killing of three suspected rebel fighters in a gun battle with indian troops police say they retaliated after coming under fire during a raid on a village in an impound district two of the treatment killed have been identified as engineering students the police say became rebel fighters the other hasn't been identified. and we protested poured into the streets on news of their deaths street battles were fought with stones. and tear gas. the government ordered schools and colleges to shot to prevent more violence really bad law that.

india is committing atrocities on the us india is violating the chastity of our system which we condemn in strong words what we would welcome here is no pressure there they're both sitting there brining us rebellious we were brutal we don't want anything from anyone who does hollywood florida last week police killed four people and two suspected fighters at a military checkpoint soldiers were accused of indiscriminate shooting. indian troops are protected from prosecution by a controversial law in india and missed it kashmir human rights activists routinely accuse them of misusing the power priyanka group of syria. egypt has extended the detention of al-jazeera journalist mahmoud was saying by another forty five days the egyptian national was arrested while on vacation in december twenty sixth seen in is yet to be charge hussein was accused of broadcasting false news with the aim of spreading chaos al-jazeera strongly denies the allegations.

children in the occupied west bank have held demonstrations calling for donations to help keep their schools open they're facing closure 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 that one row are run. colombia's 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 l.n. launch a bomb attack following the end of a temporary ceasefire one thousand members of the armed forces are and thirty four

rebels have been killed in fighting since president one man who are santal 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 think you have life in so you can lives in a tree bring 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 party's one religious elective elections but it also shows the willingness on the part of president to climb on why listen 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 cease fire 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 analysts 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 for how and if continue these peace negotiations with the government the u.s. house of representatives is set to vote this week on pay for paying rather for more

security at schools and students are planning nationwide protests following the florida shootings last month of seventeen high school children and staff from penalties more from the sanctioning. spurred to action by the marjory stoneman douglas high school protesters teenage students around the united states plan to walk out of class on march fourteenth they're demanding stricter gun laws in an end to the political influence of the gun lobby najar ramaswamy is a thirteen year old student in los angeles it's the adults making the laws but the kids who are getting shot and so i feel like the kids are the ones who should be standing up for themselves now as mother sosh ramaswamy fully supports or i have told my you walk out if you want to walk out you walk out and we will deal with that but the administrator said knowing is school or discouraging student protests and threatening punishment her teacher told her that if anyone left the classroom

at ten am then they would get in on satisfactory that they would lose their privileges like being a but this may land with their class. other school districts around the u.s. are brandishing similar threats for example when used in texas a school district chief announced he would not allow student demonstrations for any quote protest or awareness unquote those threats violate numerous court rulings upholding students' rights to free speech school administrators and students and families need to understand that students cannot be disciplined and the more harshly under the constitution than they would be if they were just missing class or lunch period so they cannot be disciplined for protest and they cannot be disciplined generally for things that they say are political positions that they take civil liberties organization say they'll take school districts to court if they impose harsh punishment for non-disruptive student protests naya says threats

won't prevent her from standing up for her beliefs they're not going to stop me from there or my friends student protesters are getting strong support from top university admissions officers. universities including health tech mit the university of massachusetts and others are all saying that even if high schools give black marks to their students for participating in walkouts it will have no impact on the likelihood of them being admitted to those colleges and many universities are encouraging students to take action saying they should stand up for what they believe in robert oulds al jazeera los angeles president trump is heading to san diego later on tuesday to see prototypes of the war he's promised to build on on the u.s. border with mexico his hardline immigration policies have been at the center of debate not only in the u.s. but worldwide and one artist in washington has built her own wall to highlight the faces fears and faith of america's muslim immigrants. in two thousand and seventeen

i started collecting id photos of muslim immigrants in my immediate community and the project started because i really wanted to explore the psychological toll the human toll of unjust policies that not only are about racial profiling but also politicizing of identities i asked people in my community my family my friends for their id photos soon after i started the project people became refusing they said they were terrified a lot of people told me they were afraid of being recognized they didn't want their photo out there because they were scared of being a victim of a violent hate crime as the muslim ban went into effect and you kept hearing about people muslim americans people who were permanent residents here and travelers being detained at airports i felt stronger about using that id photo because at that point i saw it as

a political symbol and in this case it became something that determined whether or not you were worthy of being here i want people to know that the current political climate is taking a toll on families and communities on a very personal individual level and i also want to communicate how unjust policies often disregard the human toll the psychological toll on individuals i believe in the catalytic power of art for social change i believe art allows us to question authority to rebel to provoke to elicit a certain response and i really believe that art also allows us to call for justice this wall is a symbol of resistance an act of defiance almost but also of unity solidarity within the community this wasn't a separate this wasn't to keep anyone out this wall is to do the opposite to represent to show to engage people. new york's metropolitan opera.

musical director. conduct an independent inquiry into. credible evidence. between the one thousand nine hundred. he denies any wrongdoing. or.

welcome back scientists have been exploring one of the last pristine areas of the antarctic in an effort to bolster the case for creating a huge marine protected area they have been investigating the sea floor as well as trying to discover whether plastic pollution has received extremely remote waters maycock is with a greenpeace expedition in antarctica. thank the weddell sea spreads over a vast area in winter seventy five percent of its surface is covered in ice it is the realm of the penguin myriad marine species but it is not the realm of man and many want to keep it that way so the more information the team can gather the better the chances of winning protection for these unique waters on board the expedition sub is antarctic specialists is on lockhart keen to find out what this little known zone holds and what she discovered was the stunning underwater realm

composed of all manner of life it has one hundred percent coverage in the sea floor i'm going to assume it has a great three d. structure which allows other organisms to come in and if they and a really interesting species composition and all these factors make it really difficult for a community to become hotter it's debit such as bottom fishing we call these areas fundable marine ecosystem and hopefully we can get to this and other areas we come across of special protection. the team are also searching for evidence of the less visible so one of the big stories my recalls is plastics in the world's oceans and these are the remotest waters in the world all enough to be very interesting for the crew it's established whether or not any plastics and reaches farthest i will grant just about still here yeah that's right just testing sent me into the sea surface without. question before this evidence is growing around the boat studies that point the plastic before the sonic street because pretty soon they'll be found

the right remote location snow's samples are also taken on shore throughout the expedition in different locations to see if the said he signed of my crypt last six that we'll have to see what we get out of. this. bigger deborah even finds its way to these remake caves here washed up fishing boys but it's p f c s grounds of the team are on the lookout for which end to the world's ations through amongst other things washing every day clothes. chemicals. dominantly and textiles. for cortex finishes war for problems with islands find them even in household carpets these days and not just. all this new found knowledge will be studied and compiled once the expedition wraps up at the end of march to support the e.u. backed bid to turn a major part of the way they'll see it to an asian century nickel and al-jazeera

and arctica and in part five of our series environment editor nick looks at the impact of cradle fishing in on time to go where their fears overfishing could threaten the entire ecosystem. i timed his job. thanks very much will grace's top football league has been suspended indefinitely after the president of one of its clubs stormed onto the pitch with a gun even sufi this the president of power. ran on to confront the referee after his side had a late goal ruled offside during a game against a k. athens on sunday his gun was holstered it is hip but it led to chaotic scenes as the match was called off our correspondent john psaropoulos has moved from. the incident in which the owner of the facility team stormed the playing field with his hand on his gun which was resting on his right hip has met with universal

condemnation by football fans and commentators today one person told me that he should go back to russia mr seve this is a russian national greek descent another said that he should be arrested the police have put out a call for his immediate arrest on sight because of his use of that weapon in public he has however apparently not shown up yet but these sorts of behaviors are of a piece with the ownership of the major football clubs in greece all of the four major clubs which have made it out of greece into the european u.a.e. for sponsored tournaments and championships three of the club owners have at one point or another been brought up on criminal charges this is not a scene in which owners are let's say responsible stakeholders in society they are seen rather

a self-styled strongman who use soccer teams if anything to bolster their image in greek society and bring more influence and pressure to bear on elected governments now man just city have restored best sixteen point lead at the top of the english premier league standings pep guardiola side with tuna. whenas stoke on monday silva scoring both goals of the match either side of hof time well it seems like a lifetime ago doesn't it since tiger woods dominated golf but on sunday we got a glimpse of what it might be like for woods to be back on top the fourteen time major champion found himself in contention for a victory at a p.g.a. tour competition for the first time in five his pay to stomach reports. the build spots have been chipped coldly wondered if tiger woods would be its twenty eighteen champion the fourteen time major winner has not lifted a tournament trophy in five years oh god that could change in florida woods was playing in just his fourth to them and since back surgery last april was he has

looked better and better was and on sunday he would call it a one hundred seventy to finish nine under par for the two of them and. that was enough to time second place alongside patrick reed. was his grinding i was just trying to put myself in there i knew that. i felt like eleven maybe twelve might do it because there are so many i stacked up there i thought somebody might come out of the pack from five or six and shoot a low one. but no one really day think cept for paul shallow out there he put it on us and he got it done. in the end victory at the bells championship would go to england's paul casey. this is only the second to him and women on the p.g.a. tour will be englishman. was peter standing just you know.

there's a blockbuster clash to look forward to at indian wells later on monday with venus and serena williams going head to head in the third round at thirty seven and thirty six years old respectively this will be the sister's twenty ninth competitive career meeting but their first since the two thousand and seventeen australian open which serena won while in the early stages of pregnancy to claim her twenty third grand slam singles title this is also serenus first tournament back since her daughter was born in september or venus and serena as rivalry stretches back twenty years their third round clash in california will be the earliest they've met in a tournament since they first played each other on tour in the second round of the one thousand nine hundred eighty and open now elder sister venus won that one but its arena who leads the head to head seventeen to eleven she's also won eight of their last nine meetings this much is also significant as the sisters had been jews to play at indian wells in two thousand and one but venus withdrew from their

semifinal with an injury it led to serena being subjected to booze and alleged racial slurs throughout the final it took a fifteen years and venus sixteen to return to play at the tournament again the eastern astros have been celebrating their two thousand and seventeen world series championship with president donald trump but they were both out to their push rican stars call us korea and carlos beltran beltran has previously been critical of trump's governments relief efforts following hurricane rita korea has been active in sending supplies to puerto rico he said itself was hit by a hurricane last year months before the astros' big victory something the trump chose to focus on during their visit there after the devastating hurricane harvey. incredible that what with what you went through that you're the champions with what you went through with harvey it was really be fitting tribute what was really

a show of world spirit and houston strong you were used and strong and that is all this for for now more later. joe thank you very much for that that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera from a funny back to thank you for watching my colleague norah kyle is with you next to stay with. travel often. by trying cool to use an old fart's new prague liberal. box of. bally's and scotland's. listener eventually. discover it. because faraway places close it. says together with cattle i always. the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen

the peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and she's close to the story joining the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera when the news breaks. on the mailman city and the story builds to be forced to leave the group just. when people need to be heard women and girls are being bought and given away in refugee camps al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring new award winning documentaries and live news analogies i've got to commend you all i'm hearing is good journalism on air and online. full a man has decided to break with tradition and train to sail competitively

we're not that we want to present a positive image and change the steerer typical expectation of women for them it's about more than just racing yes you can still be a good a modern woman and also a very talented sailor going off around the world showing everybody how strong a money people are al-jazeera world meets the first female sailing crew in the gulf a man's sailing stock at this time on al-jazeera. the united states joins person and accusing russia of the poisoning of a former spy in the u.k. and says they'll be consequences.