about museums about forming a new life is a part of life it's culture to train and equip the opposition in syria so they can help push back these terrorists people in power investigates how the us supplies soviet style weapons to its allies through private companies and the us government could wash their hands and say well we didn't know where it was coming from so weapon that was supplied by the us government may well end up being pointed at us soldiers yes absolutely pick it up less than two months off in the professional americas guns secret pipeline to syria and this time on al jazeera. the palestinian prime minister and scapes without injury in gaza after a bomb explodes as his convoy was passing by.

as i'm sick of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. we were about two hundred people living in a cellar without light electricity and very little food syrians who've escaped easton who speak of their ordeal during the siege. russia says britain is denying it access the nerve agent used in the poisoning of a former spy. and one man's quest to bring dignity in death to some of the migrants who lost their lives trying to cross the mediterranean. palestinian prime minister. has escaped unhurt after a bomb exploded while his convoy was traveling in gaza no one has claimed responsibility but the presidential spokesman blame hamas it is denying any link and condemned the bombing as well as palestinian leader accuses them of having ready accusations of palestinian the palestinian prime minister said the attack

will not stop him from doing his job. what's been done today on the beat her crossing will make us more solid i confirm that we've had contact with the president and three cars have been detonated but this will make us more solid and we will see goes again i'm traveling tomorrow and then i'll be back to go to work the risks are of course live now to imran khan in ramallah so what more do we know on this. well i can tell you that the palestinian prime minister is absolutely defined he says as you heard in that speech that he will visit gulzar again he's actually traveling to rome for the united nations relief works agency the palestinian refugee refugee agency donor conference in rome once he gets back from there he's likely to travel back into gaza so he's being defiant but the palestinian authority blaming hamas for this attack they've said hamas are

responsible for security within the gaza strip now the gaza strip is actually controlled by the palestinian authority but the defacto power is with hamas they took over the strip in two thousand and seven and two thousand and seventeen they handed nominal control back to the palestinian authority but they're still the ones that look after the security so although they're not being blamed directly for the attack it's because they look after the security of the strip that they being blamed for now hamas reacted as well they said they want the ministry of interior to examine and do a thorough examination an investigation into exactly what happened but questions are already being asked as to how they were able to get so close to the areas checkpoint which is controlled by israel but to the palestinian authority checkpoint as well so a number of questions being asked of how moussa must reacting saying these are just accusations against them and that there are unfair and as far as who may be responsible for the presidential spokesman blaming how much but is there any

information on whether anyone has claimed responsibility for this. no one's claimed responsibility so far but i must face a number of challenges within the gaza strip there's a small amount of individuals and small groups that are actually very anti how mass in their stance towards israel and towards palestinian unity those groups have been a thorn in the side of hamas for a very long time but they've not been able to mount such an attack like this now the problem is that they don't control absolutely everybody within the strip themselves so they really have to look at what they're going to do over the next coming days when they make arrests where they make a big show of making arrests to try and appease the palestinian authority but then you also have to understand that there have been very few high level visits from the palestinian authority since two thousand and seven to the gaza strip of prime

minister. probably about his third visit in that period so this was a very big visit was going to open a desalination plant a very big deal for the palestinian people and the residents of gaza face water shortages so this was supposed to be a happy occasion a joyous occasion that the palestinians are actually getting something now the fact that this attack as happened has thrown a spotlight on the palestinian unity between fatah and hamas and what that means for the future now as you say the palestinians authority are blaming hamas for this of us reacting strongly but no one has taken responsibility imran khan in ramallah thank you. now dozens of people who escaped a rebel enclave near syria's capital damascus of reached the reception center in government controlled territory seventy six others have so far been allowed to leave eastern huta as part of an evacuation deal between the rebels and russia it's nearly a month since the syrian government intensified its bombing campaign targeting the

area at the united nations the u.s. has called for an immediate cease fire and has threatened to act alone if it doesn't get the support of the security council russia says it will respond if there are any u.s. missile strikes and syrian state t.v. has released footage of fighters families leaving eastern huta are said to be related to fighters from j. shoeless lands several among them in need of medical treatment it's unclear where exactly the group will be taken to and fishes live wrists in gaziantep on the turkey syria border so allan what more do we know about those evacuations. well the medical evacuations you remember it was a good deal agreed with the united nations the russians and all islam and they agreed that a number of people would be taken out of eastern go to and receive medical treatment of the united nations i said their own a thousand people needed medical treatment around seventy of them needed urgent

medical treatment the fact that the first batches have started to move will be in college went to the united nations and clearly we'll be hoping they'll be a lot more people to follow in the coming hours and the coming days separately we are told that a township to the south of damascus arranged to deal with syrian government forces that would allow a number of bus loads of people to leave and they will either be taken to or another part of syria when the where fifteen and arrived in a syrian government controlled area the explain what they had seen over the last three or four weeks and we all love though. we were about two hundred people living in a cellar without light or electricity and very little food it was impossible to leave because of the events many people decided to leave and head to duma and only forty of us stayed behind in that cellar we decided not to leave until the syrian army entered the city. we were afraid for our children's who would get them down into a tunnel the men would stay upstairs some woman couldn't take the pressure or lack

of oxygen in the tunnel so they'd stay upstairs with the men but other women would go down out the children and alan there is another conflict going on in northern syria involving turkish forces what's happening there. well it's all centered no around the city of our free in our free region we know that the free syrian army backed by the turkish military of had an offensive heading towards our front particularly over the last week this is all part of operation all of branches the turks called it the turks i know seeing in the last few hours that they have surrounded our friend what we're hearing from people on the ground is they don't think it's a complete surrounding of the city but certainly they have control of the main roads because they have sapir firepower in that area and we're also hearing from the turks suggesting that the kurdish militia the y. p.g. are blocking people from leaving our friend it was just at the weekend that the

white p.g. said there was a number of civilians who come to our friend because they wanted to perform the task of human shield to put themselves between the white p.g. and the advancing free syrian army and the turkish military we can't clarify exactly what is happening there but what we do know is that in africa itself the water is the internet is out and there have been repeated bombardment in and around the city over the last few hours so it would appear that the final onslaught towards afrin city is no just hours if not days away. aaron fish alive first there in gaziantep. now at least three people have been killed in an attack on a military facility used by yemeni forces backed by the united arab emirates the car bomb was detonated near a military kitchen in the southern port city of aden witnesses say ambulances have been rushing the victims to the hospital. russia's foreign minister is denying

blame for the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. sergey lavrov told reporters the russia requested access to investigate what was used but was denied the u.k. and usa russia was likely responsible for the nerve agent attack and his daughter remain in critical maine critically ill in hospital. sources. the country being questioned has the right to access the substance to carry out its own analysis this is what we asked for as soon as a rumor started being spread by practically every member of the british government that the substance group was poisoned with hate from the russian federation we also asked for access to all the facts associated with the investigation given that one of the victims is julius grupo a russian citizen but these legal requests moralists refused. aurore challenges lie for us now in moscow with more on this so rory the russian foreign minister has been speaking what else what else did he have to say. what is basically going on

the offensive person is taken the russian foreign ministry into a kind of direct confrontation with the with the reason may and what she was saying yesterday we have this ultimatum don't we with the british prime minister saying that russia has until wednesday to account for itself essentially so in response to that we've heard from so your lover of we've just listened to some of the things he was saying there he's essentially quoting the kind of chapter and verse of the chemical weapons convention at london saying that it's london that is not meeting its obligations under the chemical weapons convention and those obligations as rove says at least are that's london should be providing moscow with the samples that it's using in its investigation this basically gives the russian foreign ministry a reason to push back against this ultimatum and my suspicion is ultimately not do

anything about it. so one of the next steps then in this saga. well we have to wait don't we we have to wait for the deadline to pass and then on wednesday if the deadline passes with no proper response from russia or at least a response that satisfies london then we get the next stage in the next stage is to resume a outlining the list of measures that they're going to take against russia and other various options that she has at her disposal. more effective potentially than others we can think that perhaps there are a good many are going to be diplomatic expulsions perhaps there's going to be some sort of boycotts of the world cup coming up in russia in the summer perhaps there'll be some sort of punitive action taken against russian broadcasters operating in the u.k. like r.t.

and then also we might get some kind of version of the magnitsky act and acted in the u.k. which would target corrupt russian officials oligarchy people with close links to the kremlin who also have financial assets in london that can be seized if we get these things then i think we're likely to see increased pushback from moscow but we'll have to wait roy thanks they're really challenge life for us in moscow. still ahead when we come back on al-jazeera we speak to sri lanka's prime minister as he promises compensation to victims of last week's violence against muslims and in sport venus williams comes out on top this time in the sister sister rival.

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a southeastern parts of asia is fine across much of the philippines at the moment but heavy showers affect in borneo and the islands of java as you move out through them lay planchette weather conditions general looking fine for singapore in kuala lumpur although the one or two showers around the gulf of thailand should be fine in bangkok. natural capital is capital which makes a creative. when nature is transformed into a commodity big business takes a new interest buying landscapes protecting landscapes it's a phenomenal opportunity to be able to use a business model to achieve sustainability of nature but at what risk banks of course don't do that because they have at the heart protection of nature they do that because they see a businessman pricing the planet at this time on al-jazeera. again

you're watching al-jazeera minder of our top stories this hour palestinian prime minister rami humbug has escaped unhurt after a bomb exploded near his convoy in gaza palestinian president is blaming hamas but the groups deny any link and condemns the bombing as well as the leadership. dozens of people who've escaped a rebel enclave near syria's capital damascus reached a reception center in government controlled territory more than one hundred people have so far been allowed to leave eastern huta as part of an evacuation deal between the rebels and the russian military. russia says it is not to blame for the poisoning of a former spy in britain foreign minister sergei lavrov says the british government

is refusing access to the substance used to attack surrogate scruple and his daughter. petroleum has signed a deal with abu dhabi despite the emirate being part of the nine month blockade against its neighbors the agreement allows them erotic companies to continue developing and operating an offshore oil field the united arab emirates along with saudi arabia bahrain and egypt cut diplomatic relations last june qatar denies their accusations of supporting what they call terrorist groups let's bring in our oil and gas specialist cornelia meyer now in london she is the c.e.o. of myer resource thank you for being with us so a lot of people might perhaps be surprised to hear about a deal like this in the middle of this blockade that is there is going on between qatar and a number of arab countries including the united arab emirates but is it perhaps a reminder that business does go on at some level despite the politics.

i would say it does and it doesn't first picked us yes look at the dolphin pipeline which is a pipeline bringing gas from the qatari northfield to us mon qatar has not for one second stopped the gas from flowing so that worked and these oil fields these are very long and all of these are deal scientists are developments with a very long time frame so if you want to develop it you need to go on so yes it does at that level certainly go on it hasn't the other hand you know if you if you are qatar airways it's probably become more expensive to operate the fleets because you have to avoid the no fly zone that's one thing and if you look at what's happening you have now more turkish company more iranian companies probably also more and more chinese companies filling the void of where arab companies still

left it off and who benefits more from the steering cutter or the united arab emirates i think they're both benefit this is a these are this is a win win deal you have you have you have qatar in there you have the u.s. out knock in there the u.s. national oil company or the abu dhabi national oil company you also have a japanese exploration company in there so they all benefit equally. in the developing the field and then sharing in the profits of what the field will generate and this is coming as well time when oil prices have been steadily rising over the last few months. why has it been steadily rising over the last few months so this is a this is a good this is a good as time as any we always need to look at the forward curve they're probably now to have probably now sort of reached somewhat of

a prof turbo but here and then let's not forget that that is also part of opec and qatar has within opec very clearly it here it. that of of of of of oil of of of oil production the one point eight million dollars that the opec nano pick countries barrels opec non-o. pick countries took out so yes cut out on the oil and gas trump has always been linked into t. c c and linked into the global oil and gas community good to speak with you cornelia my joining us there from london now southern tunisia is the final resting place for some of the more than three thousand people who drowned in the mediterranean sea last year migrants and refugees died on people smuggling boats as they tried to start a new life in europe. reports from zod is this where one man is giving some dignity in death he says they were never afforded in life in

a graveyard for the unknown one volunteer works to one of the migrants and refugees he says the world has forgotten. i'm innocent. i feel like these people didn't have a family so i want to be a family for them because they were persecuted in their countries. tells us it was their suffering that compelled so many desperate people to try and cross into europe from libya but the mediterranean didn't deliver them to safety when their bodies washed ashore here in tsar's east tunisia said dean trying to give them the peace he says they deserved all along. when we found a woman with a child i thought to myself maybe he has her son the medical report said he was five years old i wanted to provide them with dignity and death in a symbolic way because a mother is always with her children in life and i bury them head to head. a few

small toys sit atop the grave of the boy shamsuddin placed them there for a child he says should never have experienced such horror. i have two sons who are legally migrated from tunisia to europe maybe the work i'm doing for the dead helped them in some way maybe the spirits of the dead prayed for them to reach europe safely. in a former fisherman and some time taxi driver has been volunteering with the tunisian red crescent since well before the current migration crisis he says he's buried hundreds of people in the past decade last year alone he dug seventy six graves this small fishing town in southeastern tunisia sits only about eighty kilometers from the country's border with libya which is a major gateway for migrants and refugees from africa and the middle east who are trying to reach europe. of all the things that dean has witnessed on this beach nothing was as bad as what he encountered one day in two thousand and fourteen get

through. i saw the body of a lady who was attached to her son with a rope and another who had attached her son to a piece of wood and the waves were playing with them men women children as young as nine and ten that scene is burned in my mind back in the cemetery shum said dean keeps the site as clean as he can he and other volunteers are raising money to buy another plot of land that can be turned into a proper resting place but the economic problems in tunisia have made that very difficult in a place that continues to receive the dead they don't even have the money and equipment to collect d.n.a. which means that in a graveyard where the name of only one deceased migrant is known most of the graves will for the time being at least remain anonymous. as these tunisia in sri lanka second week of a nationwide state of emergency has begun government leaders there being accused of

failing to act quickly enough to protect life and property buddhist gangs rioted following the death of a sinhalese truck driver and set muslim own businesses homes and businesses on fire but as smith has more from columbia. lanka's embattled prime minister is on a damage limitation exercise ronald wickramasinghe visit to candy to promised swift compensation for the loss of life and property in riots last week in the 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 they think if you were there was really. this day but like any other country door they would be discussing the media that's a great word at least and thereby. really emerged at the picture 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 the one cannot bear decisive action and you know they also are not in the police were not on the list 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. you know contradictory signals. the opposition senses an opportunity and

a way back in the former president rajapaksa really lost. them i think the country. didn't expect this type of situation to live with. his. leaving. the collapse of the government has to seek for a more stable alternative 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 candy has been seized on by critics as an indication of weakness at the very top there are no presidential elections for almost two years and the opposition doesn't have the numbers to win a vote of no confidence leaving this administration to try to deliver on its something. of that al-jazeera. at the head of the world food program says many venezuelans are starving and neighboring colombia is facing

a humanitarian catastrophe trying to help them david beasley visited the border city of cuckoo time in colombia up to fifty thousand venezuelans across the border daily looking for food medicine and other essentials that they can't buy at home because of the deafening crisis there the u.n. chief is calling on the international community to help colombia cope a colombian government to go she ate his art to restart peace talks with the last remaining rebel group following a six week pause negotiations were suspended after a bomb attack by the national liberation army when a temporary cease fire ended thirty four eleven rebels and one thousand members of the armed forces have been killed in fighting president juan manuel santos says it's time for more talks but that there was 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 itself to this

for that reason thinking of life in saving lives in achieving peace for colombia i've decided to resume peace talks with the e l n. now seven time a tennis grand slam champion venus williams rolled back three years on monday to defeat her youngest sister serena at indian wells in the third round this is the first win for venus over her sister since twenty fourteen peter stem of course serena williams is back in big time tennis and on monday she faced a familiar rival her big sister venus the indian well to the ground was the earliest the two were meeting at a tournament since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight australian open second round serena came into this match with seventeen seven career head to head advantage over venus. but on this occasion it was close to the thirty seven year old williams sisters first six six three to venus.

the older sister capitalized and raced to an only lead in the second set but the thirty six year old twenty three time grand slam singles champion serena was not lying down though despite being down three love she fought back to ensure the second say it like the first would be a competitive affair i was. but ultimately the knight would belong to venus second said sixfold. and there's a lot of focus that goes on tearing that specially hence her opponent with a record like her town love of her so really it's about his focusing on the tennis i think i'm going to try to move by tournaments. definitely not thinking too far in the future ready for the next time are you ready for that i have a lot to improve on you know. it's good that i have.

to say that this is the first plane i lost. my room for improvement is incredible so i just got to keep saying it chairman my goal is just to be better than the last and i don't generally don't want to go backwards i just want to continue to go for it and i think as long as i can do that i'll keep getting there. serena williams will move down the back will now be this williams will defend the families on a regain sterner start of sevastopol in the fourth round distempered al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera around for the top stories palestinian prime minister rami hum the law has a skate on hurt after a bomb exploded when his convoy passed by and garza no one is claiming responsibility but the presidential spokesman blamed thomas it's denying any link

and condemned the bombing as well as palestinian leaders and last accuses them of having in their words ready accusations the palestinian prime minister said the attack will not stop him from doing his job. what's been done today on the beat her crushing will make us more solid i confirm that we've had contact with the president and three cars have been detonated that this will make us more solid and we will see goes again i'm traveling tomorrow and they will be back to the matter what the risks are. dozens of people who escaped the rebel enclave near syria's capital damascus have reached a reception center in government controlled territory while the one hundred people have so far been allowed to leave eastham guta as part of an evacuation deal between the rebels and russian military it's been nearly a month since the syrian government intensified its bombing campaign targeting the area. russia's foreign minister is denying blame for the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k.

. said russia requested access to investigate the substance used but was denied the british and us government say the kremlin was likely to have been responsible for the nerve agent attack. so i guess cripple and his daughter remain critically ill. because you're being questioned has the right to access the substance to carry out its own analysis this is what we asked for as soon as the rumors started being spread by practically every member of the british government that the substance group was poisoned with hate from the russian federation we also asked for access to all the facts associated with the investigation given that one of the victims is julius grupo a russian citizen but these legal requests moralists refused least three people have been killed in an attack on a military facility used by yemeni forces backed by the united arab emirates a car bomb was detonated near a military kitchen in the southern port city of and then when this is a ambulances have been rushing the victims to the hospital those are the headlines

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