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in this is al jazeera live from doha it was a coming up. from coast to coast students in the u.s. walk out of class to demand change a month after school shooting in florida plus. we will not allow. we will not allow. from south africa's president as a stranger offers to help the republic's white farmers. and in charge of all the president's men the top job for tiger woods as his go thing come back picks up momentum. russia has told the u.n. security council that british accusations that it's behind the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter are unfounded britain requested the emergency

meeting in new york just hours after prime minister to resign may ordered the expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats the u.s. called on the security council to hold russia accountable for what it described as a chemical weapons attack so again u.s. cripple remain in critical condition in hospital after being targeted with a military grade nerve agent last week britain's deputy ambassador to the u.n. urged the security council to take a united stance towards russia this is how russia has acted in every other case where it is being cool flouting international law denying destruction and threats it is what russia. but we will not let such threats deter us we will not weaken our resolve we will stand firm confident in our democracy our rule of law and the freedom of our people we will stand by the values which is

shared by the overwhelming majority of those in this council in this united nations and we are skewed today to stand by us. christensen areas more from the united nations headquarters in new york. the united kingdom laid out its case for blaming the russians and got full throated support from its strongest allies on the council including the united states france and sweden other council members were reluctant to point the fingers at russia but expressed their concern over the gravity of the situation the united states for its part made a very clear plan to stand by its ally while russia continued to deny the charges the united states stands in absolute solidarity with great britain the united states believes that russia is responsible for the attack on two people and the united kingdom using a military grade nerve agent. interested in finding the truth

lost they guided by something else the using propaganda war to influence the public which is very easy to influence and not well educated the u.k. has asked the o.p.c. w the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to validate the findings of their investigation the russians say they're happy to cooperate but they won't respond to alternate arms the u.k. says they'll continue to keep the international community apprised of progress in the investigation more now on the measures britain's prime minister announced against russia to resume a has given twenty three russian diplomats a week to leave the country and move the white house back so you can correspondent body phillips reports. there was an air of inevitability to the private asis announcement given what she calls the contempt with which russia has responded to her demands for an explanation of what the british authorities say was a hit. so mr speaker is no alternative conclusion other than that the russian

state was culpable for the attempted murder of mr script and his daughter and for threatening the lives of other british citizens in salzburg. including detective sergeant nick day to me. this represents an unlawful use of force by the russian state against the united kingdom she told parliament she's expelling twenty three russian diplomats alleged to be undeclared intelligence offices they have a week to leave she said the u.k. will suspend all high level bilateral contacts with russia and cancel a planned visit by foreign minister sergey lavrov ministers and the royal family will boycott russia's well cup in june and she said the government would freeze russian state assets if there's evidence they may be used to threaten the life or property of u.k. nationals or residence the opposition labor party leader jeremy corbyn was supportive up to a point his spokesman later refused to say the russian state was definitely at

fault if the government believes that it is still a possibility that russia negligently lost control of a military grade nerve agent what action is being taken through the o.p.c. w. with our allies i welcome the fact the police are working with the o.p.c. w. . and has the prime minister taken the necessary steps under the chemical weapons convention to make a formal request for evidence from the russian government under article nine point two from russia itself the message remains consistent speaking before teresa mayes announcements the foreign minister was characteristically dismissive would you stay with mr little move on we will demand the application of international laws we see no argument from our partners and without demonstrating concrete fascist they'll be responsible for attempting to deceive the international community. so at the

russian embassy in london they'll be packing their bags and low russian relations at their lowest point since the cold war but even now britain needs to keep open some lines of communication with moscow on so many issues from iran to north korea britain called to forward to ignore russia the measures which have been announced here would have been largely anticipated by the russians what would really hurt them would be further multilateral sanctions involving other western countries for that to happen britain needs to convince its allies that this is not just a bilateral spat between london and moscow but an issue which has the potential to threaten the security of many western countries to be phillip's al-jazeera westminster in central london exactly a month after seventeen people died in a florida school shooting the u.s. house of representatives has approved legislation to try to prevent gun violence in

schools the bill will allow for at least fifty million dollars a year to fund training and coordination between schools and police but it doesn't address any action on gun control president has backed the legislation which falls short of broader measures he suggested following the park and shooting the bill now goes to the senate for debate there is still much more work to be done but the best way to keep our students and teachers safe is the give them the tools and the training to recognize those warnings to prevent violence from ever entering our school grounds this bill aims to do just that was speaker. the problem of gun violence in america is a uniquely american problem it's an epidemic it's a complex problem there are many facets but we know what we need to do and i am committed to taking any step to getting any new policy across the finish line that

will make our kids safer this bill the stop school violence act is a good bill it will not solve our gun problem but it will help troubled students that need help get help and it will help teachers and law enforcement identify potential threats before it's too late prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the nineteen year old suspected of last month's shooting a judge entered a not guilty plea for nichols' crews off to a main silent during his court appearance the shooting sparks and nationwide student movement and all across the u.s. young people walked out of class demanding strict and gun safety laws and they got to go reports from pocklington florida. across the united states students left their classrooms in droves from the east coast to the west this was a mass protest by a generation calling for gun reform on the capitol lawn in washington activists laid out thousands of shoes each pair represents a child killed by gun violence. in new york the sentiments of many reflect the pain

in george by those in florida that is why it is important for us to stand here today to show that gun control isn't a suggestion but a demand from the american people the protests lasted seventeen minutes one for each of the victims that were killed a month ago some t.v. networks followed suit paying tribute to those that died a lot of schools around the country. we've been doing so i think if we. start changing. the prosecutors in florida and now seeking the death penalty for the alleged shooter nicholas cruz who wants yes but more than anything else these students are determined to campaign for change no matter how long it takes a deeply cared to meet the difference and they're going to stop until they have no money that means that we're going to see politicians realize that they need to make a difference if they want to stay in office and congress hearings into the aftermath of the parklane shooting continue i was on the streets demands for

gun reform grow if there is a message from the students of the marjorie stoneman douglas high school it's one of hope and remembrance they will continue to on of the friends that they lost one month ago but they will also continue to campaign for change this is the voice of a new generation and gallacher al-jazeera park in florida. u.s. president donald trump has boasted about making false claims on the state of trade relations with canada that's according to the washington post the paper says trump admitted telling canadian prime minister justin trudeau that the us has a trade deficit with its neighbor without knowing if that was true fact the u.s. has a trade surplus with canada trump has used trade deficits with other countries as a reason to impose new tariffs on imports. so that because land an australian government minister for suggesting white south african farmers should get special visas because of what's described as quote

a horrific circumstances they face at home presidents are all roma posing as valid to escalate the pace of redistributing land from wealthy whites to poorer blacks almost seventy five percent of south africa's farmland is still owned by whites more than twenty four years after the end of apartheid but drum oppose a says any chance there would be done legally i can say now that we will not a long land drips we will not allow land invasions and those who are tempted to resort to such activities must be wound not bombs that we will not allow which because if you see the go from being illegal it begins to violate the rights of other software can citizens in until is a spokesman for the refugee action coalition in brisbane he says the office of home affairs minister peter dutton highlights the australian government's racist attitudes towards refugees. i think i think the racism of the coalition government

to strike here is very very clearly on the sly and that's exactly what it is it's astounding ocracy and and it is clearly you know races that we've often judge that if they're well you know white zimbabwean has a white south african farmers arriving about sinister idea there would not be mandatory detention that ethiopians going to sudanese when they're somalis when they're from iraq or afghanistan the attitude is very very different that bites are turned around they're expelled. and medicine it is astounding that the saudi government rices them i think has been recognised internationally and how it's treated refugees and have heated up was taken up another step to get this rice's money to nationals this is that this is a government that is in very difficult electoral circumstances in australia and i would not would lose an election there will be an election in the next next few months i will lose it dramatically and the. comments are buried under zon for

domestic political domestic political audience he died i have been pitching to our isis fight in australia will some time now that i've been you know criminalizing you know sort of sudanese refugees there being no references about you know african gangs a lot of there's been you know no substance so that in terms of the experience in the australian community about it it's a thing of very very deliberate ploy to appeal to rice's vote in the context of a government which is declining in the polls in a desperate late feeling that rice is not to try and maintain some popularity also still ahead on al-jazeera the whole lot a while one day some friends and i wrote an award for it chilton dr ross had seven years on we will visit one of the paces he's said to have helped trigger syria's war. and sanctuary at last to refugees cruel story of torture and terror before he found safety tools in.

by the skyline of asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. however you can expect another blustery day on the shores of the eastern med and the cloud gives an indication of which is sort of the way that the forecast charts up you get an idea it's a fairly breezy day nineteen in beirut some clouds as far south as northern egypt sheraton is possible with not much in that is more or less cloud cover is what will further inland the course in iraq is still dust in the air for north and sally hand iraq iraq you get an idea of the strength of the wind twenty on baghdad and twenty in tehran more shells light to form as that moves into the high ground of the western side of iran azerbaijan and i think maybe northern syria in eastern turkey still wet or coals snowie if you're at heart the sun's out in beirut come friday

south of all this and it's still quite warm for the time of the year though of course the actual temperature catching up the average bassy moves on thirty two is the forecast for doha clean air at the moment but look at the wind direction coming out of southern side you've got two hours and also in kuwait i think it will be quite dusty in the next day or so temperature wise is not a lot of change cloud does build to some degree here dropping some see whether wet season has got to well it's moved north as a botswana recently kenya has been the wettest place. the weather sponsored by cats on release. the scene for us where there are online what is a very nice time in yemen that peace is 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 eating basis is

a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. and again a lot of tough choices russia has told the u.n. security council that accusations it's beyond the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter are quote unfounded britain requested an emergency meeting in new york just hours after prime minister to resign may ordered the expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats. executive month after seventeen people died in a florida school shooting the u.s. house of representatives has approved legislation to try to stop gun attacks in

schools comes as students across the u.s. staged a walkout demanding tougher controls. south africa's government slammed an australian government is set for suggesting white south african farmers should get special visas because of what's described as quote. circumstances they face at home presidents aroma poses valid to escalate the pace of redistributing learned from wealthy whites to poor blacks. now to syria where the red crescent says a large aid convoys due to arrive in a rebel held parts of eastern goods on thursday the u.n. says fighting has subsided in duma after a deal with the main rebel group that allowed the evacuation of around one hundred fifty people in need of medical treatment to the capital damascus that these three hundred civilians of left east and do it in recent days despite the ongoing bombardment by government and russian forces at least thirteen people have died in the latest attacks on eastern syrian forces are making major advances nearly

a month after stepping up this salt's on the besieged area in recent days they've sought to cut off sections of rebel held territory. further north texas chips and free syrian army faces a run the city of affray in the coming hours turkey's been fighting for two months to drive our kurdish forces from the border region it sees them as terrorists as an official reports i slowly they're closing in on our friend these free syrian army fighters are no taking up positions on the edge of the city the next move could come at any moment. where the special forces that belong to homs a brigade were preparing for an operation which you'll hear about in a few hours it's a big operation at a meeting in ankara the turkish president confidently predicted an end to this phase of operation all of branch in the coming hours. before i came here today i checked the latest numbers of how many terrorists were neutralized in africa in

three thousand four hundred forty four terrorists were neutralized and we have gotten closer to africa and i hope that by this evening inshallah afrin will be completely followed but within twenty minutes of the president speaking his advisors were qualifying that what he meant was the city of african would be completely surrounded within a few hours not taken over accomplish more leisure the why p.g. so the idea that the city is about to fall is completely false i the turks say they've created a humanitarian corridor to low people in the city to leave safely a number of people have already done just that the international red cross has reminded everyone that any civilians who evacuated anywhere in syria must be treated humanely among the key points the emphasize are any evacuees must be informed in advance on the tams of the agreement destination site and evacuation process that they must be protected from attack if they're staying or leaving family unity must be protected that their loads to take and keep personal

belongings including important documents and property and possessions left behind must be protected and after the city itself the cards have asked people to. knowing that a battle ahead in the coming years bloody that might be. on the turkey syria border the syrian civil war began exactly seven years ago with peaceful and to government protests against president bashar al assad at the start of the uprising a group of children schooled. in a war in the southern city of dera some i say this was one of the boys in the protests some believe triggered the conflict here's his story. my name is summer and i'm twenty one years old i was fourteen when the revolutions in the arab world started we used to follow the news on t.v.

one day some friends and i wrote on a wall it's your turn doctor us security agencies threaten my father with the arrest of all members of our family if i wasn't handed over to the police within twenty four hours they also told him if he did hand me nothing would happen except to sign a pledge not to write words like that again instead myself and twenty of my friends spent three months in prison and we suffered all forms of torture and had nightmares our families did everything for us to be released when we were eventually returned to our families other people welcomed our release near the mosque by protesting and chanting against the regime after that i joined the free syrian army i fought battles and i've been injured i got married and have two daughters i live a normal life but this will always be my way either to be a martyr or to achieve victory but we will never retreat. human rights groups have criticized the deal between italy and libya aimed at curbing migration they say

it's led to even more appalling conditions with people having to cross the mediterranean sea one refugee from misha has told al-jazeera he was captured bought and sold while in libya before seeking safety in tunis as knowledge on june reports life may still be hard but at the very least mohammed feel safe here in tunisia. today he's picked up a job cleaning a beachside villa work that helps keep his mind off the horrors he experienced in libya so how do you always welcome it's enough if you run away from diminishes they feel free to shoot you because well it's as cheap mohammed left his home in the air because the people of his town were being terrorized by boko haram he had hoped to cross the mediterranean and settle in europe but after reaching libya he found himself stuck in a vicious cycle of violence repeatedly captured and beaten by militias who would always demand payment for his release. at one point he couldn't afford to buy his

freedom from one of the armed groups that had imprisoned him so the fighters found another way to get the money. like it they sold me i was sold to them because forced to work for the man who bought him mohammed was in slave for months before being freed why the inside exam is if i am a human just like him because you don't need difference between me and him is that god created me with dark skin and he was white this is not my fault god created me like this i was very upset because i didn't hold any value to any of them i wasn't worth anything to them as if i'm not even a human being i was like many others in his position mohammed eventually made it onto a smuggler's boat but it never reached italy. instead he ended up in southeastern tunisia humanitarian workers hearings are aziz expect the migration crisis to

continue that's why they're asking the tunisian government to do more to protect the rights of migrants and refugees now mohammed lives at a center in nearby made mean run by the tunisian red crescent dr manji slim who heads the southern tunisian branch of the aid organization says that as long as human traffickers continue to exploit the chaos and conflict in neighboring libya things won't improve. them to choosing authorities have many other issues with the focusing on so we hope that the international community will remember these migrants and help them to achieve a solution either with a voluntary return to their countries or with integration or by helping them seek asylum even though he's barely making ends meet mohammed still feels lucky. to have escaped the kind of trauma most people could never imagine to be in a place where despite the difficulties he says he's being treated like a person. is

a disease tunisia at least nine people have been killed and twenty seven injured after a bomb blast ripped through a police checkpoint near le horny some pakistan it happened while police were changing guards the checkpoint was outside an annual religious meeting when the eighty thousand people were gathered pakistan's taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. at least six inmates have been killed trying to resist a police raid at a bolivian prison two thousand officers entered the. jail in santa cruz and wednesday looking for contraband contraband sparked a gun battle with inmates which also left more than twenty people injured the university where stephen hawking made his name has been at the forefront of worldwide tributes to the renowned physicist a book of condolences been opened at cambridge university after he died aged seventy six who worked there for almost fifty years he was also an inspiration for people with disabilities after being diagnosed with

a form of motor neuron disease in these twenty's that he looks at whole consider life. stephen hawking was a devoted scientist what was often treated like a statesman millions revered him for his gift of communicating complex matters to the masses i and on wednesday there were expressions of sadness across the world a cambridge university where hawking studied and worked for decades they were particularly proud of the professor xavier has just had such a huge impact as as a person he's inspired generation after generation of individuals to go into sciences inspired people who are disabled and the foreign ministry in china the country he visited several times offered its condolences to hawkings family. mr stephen hawking was an outstanding scientist who has been battling disease he made great contributions to science and to mankind we are alive we are intelligent

hawking decoded some of the most enigmatic mysteries of the universe its origins structure and end from big bang to black holes he also beat the odds spectacularly hawking was almost twenty one and a student at cambridge university when he was diagnosed with a less a degenerative motor neuron condition he was given just two and a half years but went on to live for more than half a century. as the disease progressed talking last mobility and had to rely on a wheelchair after losing the ability to speak hawking turn to a voice synthesizer selecting words by moving his cheek muscles a tedious process but one that allowed him to express his pioneering ideas was respected early on in scientific circles for helping to prove the big bang theory about how the universe burst into existence fourteen billion years ago global

acclaim came in one thousand nine hundred eight with the release of his book a brief history of time this introduction to cosmology was a global hit it's sold more than ten million copies and been translated into dozens of languages at this tokyo bookstore his fans have been paying tribute showing you know. he had a mind that no ordinary person could problem i wonder if he was able to convey everything that he wanted to convey through his research. stephen hawking became a figure in popular culture guest starring on shows such as the simpsons and star trek the presses in the washington discourse and public fascination with him culminated in the hollywood film of his remarkable life the theory of everything the universe is expanding if you have less time and the universe is getting smaller . stephen hawking devoted his life to seeking answers to the questions of our existence and in doing so he helped us to peer deeper into how our universe works

tiger woods's golfing comeback has got another boost he's been named the u.s. captain for next year's presidents cup the team event pits the u.s. against the best from the rest of the world except europe on the playing front woods is primed for the arnold palmer invitational in florida after finishing second at his last tournament. for me to go from not knowing whether i will ever bill play the game again to you know i might be all played maybe the two are liable . to my build make a couple cuts my builder you know possibly get myself into the mix hole i'm in the mix and so there's there's a process and evolution to it and it's been quick. top stories on al-jazeera russia has told the u.n. security council that accusations it's behind the poisoning of

a former spy and his daughter are unfounded brickell requested an emergency meeting in new york just hours after prime minister to resign may order the expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats this is how russia has acted in every other case where it is being caught flouting international law denial destruction and threats it is what russia does but we will not let such threats deterrence we will not weaken our resolve we will stand firm confident in our democracy our rule of law and the freedom of our people we will stand by the values which are shared by the overwhelming majority of those in this council in this united nations and we are skewed today to stand by us exactly a month after seventeen people died in a florida school shooting the u.s. house of representatives has approved legislation to try to help prevent gun

attacks in schools it comes as students across the u.s. staged a walkout demanding tougher controls. so that and australian government minister for suggesting white south african farmers should get special visas because of what's being described as quote circumstances they face at home presidents opposed to escalate the pace of redistributing learned from wealthy whites to poor blacks the red crescent in syria says a large aid convoy is due to arrive in a rebel held parts of eastern goods on thursday it follows the medical evacuation of one hundred fifty people from duma with fighting has subsided after a deal with the main rebel group in the area. at least six inmates have been killed trying to resist a police raid at a prison two thousand officers entered the jail in santa cruz on wednesday looking for contraband it sparked a gun battle with inmates which also left more than twenty people injured.

those are the headlines the news shall return but first it is the street eight candidates. grip on the kremlin as you know when the russian people. there is every indication that they will return him to his presidential town. hall of the russian elections here. reverence they. are. active and i mean. and you're in the stream today betting on technology but what exactly is blocking me thank you for the easy question really well here at south by southwest in austin texas.