only benefit those people. so mad b.c. being bold and. witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. turkey's president says he won't give back a frame to the assad government when turkish military operations to take the syrian city are over. and we shall carry this is al jazeera life and also coming up. the kremlin

describes as insane the british government's accusations that russia organized a nerve agent attack on an expiry of his daughter in england. no longer in play leading us toward a retailer toys r us is filing for bankruptcy losing the battle to online retailers . and british dutch giant you know libor shut down the london head office operation informing urged h.q. in the netherlands we ask you britons to play. turkey says it may not hand back the city of afraid to the syrian government once its military operation there is over the turkish government says it expects to clear afraid of kurdish fighters very soon thousands of civilians are leaving the city after turkish troops and free syrian army fighters encircled the city turkey launched the military assault in january to clear syrian kurdish forces that

control the region get more now from alan fischer who's live from gaza on the turkey syria border what type of pushback might turkey expect from from this destruct liberation. well this is certainly a step away from previous turkish positions they've always said that they recognize the syria as syrian sovereign territory they insisted that this was just a security operation the intention was to push the country militia the y. p.g. east of the year free t. as well away from their border now is perhaps the syrian government have got other things on their mind at the moment particularly the attack on eastern ghouta along with the russians and so they're not paying full attention to what's going on and are three at the moment but we already know the european parliament will be considering a draft resolution which says that the turks should pull out of a friend and that was before they made this announcement now this is come from the presidential spokesman this could well just be an opening gambit in some sort of

a negotiation as they move towards and then game in this operation nicknamed. all of branch and so it could well be that they're just saying look this is what we want but perhaps they're looking for some sort of security guarantee from the syrians in the future because the idea of holding a city of seven hundred thousand which is the city of afrin the white area of afrin region itself and doing nothing for ireland and determined period of time seems to be stretching the turkish position a bit far so this just mel may well be a negotiating position that the turks are willing to take as we see the the the civil war in syria and all its various elements develop so allan what does this mean i mean she said it's a city of seven hundred thousand people that's a lot of people or lot of them are leaving what this is spain for the people of

a free. well in the long term that's not entirely sure because presumably the turks would try and keep some sort of local administration what they want to do is move the fighters away from the city the intention was that they would do that in the coming weeks alongside the americans remember that the americans have been backing the y.p. gee the kurdish militia fighting eisel in other parts of syria the intention was to create a safe zone move these fighters east of the euphrates but all of that has been put on hold of course because the intention was that come march the nineteenth the turkey's foreign minister would meet with the u.s. secretary of state but the u.s. secretary of state has been fired so that meeting has been postponed the talks think it could be one or two weeks before they get that up and running again there's also the additional problem as well in that might prompt hero who's your mark to be the next your secular state has said some fairly critical things of the government in ankara in the past so that's just another spanner in the works but

this is something that the turks are looking at obviously long term they're sticking out their position just know but at the moment they still don't have complete control of our friend city we're hearing just in the last hour there are reports of bombardments in the city when all the water has been cut off the internet has been cut off and the city has been surrounded certainly the turks are very billie saying that they think they'll be in the city and in control in the next couple of days but that still has to play out alan fischer live for us in causing on top allan thank you. the syrian red cross says a convoy carrying aid for thousands of people is entering the besieged rebel held part of eastern ghouta the twenty five truck convoys heading for the town of duma the u.n. says fighting has subsided there after a deal with the main rebel group that allowed about one hundred fifty people who need medical treatment to go to the capital damascus a deliveries last week were disrupted to bombardment by government and russian

forces and least thirteen people have been killed in those latest attacks in eastern guta syrian forces are making advances nearly a month after stepping up their assault they've been cutting off sections of rebel held territory exactly seven years since the syrian civil war began with peaceful protests against president bashar al assad whose family has ruled for more than forty years as a sort of the uprising a group of children scrawled graffiti on a wall in the southern city of daraa. was one of the boys involved and this is his story. my name is some 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

a hundred over to the police within twenty four hours they also told him if he did hand me in 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 alimony 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 your opinion is giving another three point seven billion dollars for a syrian refugees and turkey that it plans to punish countries that refuse to take back people who don't receive asylum in europe the measures include restricting thesis for example maps and raising their travel costs in the e.u.

helps this will reduce the number of refugees coming from the middle east and africa. russia's foreign ministry says the u.k.'s accusation that the kremlin organized a nerve agent attack on a former spy and his daughter in england are quote completely insane a spokeswoman said moscow was working on retaliatory measures for britain's expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats the united nations security council discussed this all in an emergency meeting on wednesday britain's allies pledged their support but russia is demanding material proof christian salumi has 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 that 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. the news stories are 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 in 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 kerry says they'll continue to keep the international community apprised of progress in the investigation russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman ria soccer over had this to say in response. we see an attempt to use the mechanisms of the security council to once again fuel the anti russia hysteria

we call once again on the u.k. to provide all materials at their disposal regarding this incident as they call it the philips is live in london so. moscow is pushing back really hard against these and these accusations yes and certainly the expectation in london here is that there will be retaliatory expulsions of british diplomats based in russia says that those expulsions will definitely happen soon as you were saying the russian government referring to the british position as insane so gay lover of saying that britain's. acts over the past few days could perhaps be explained by the problems it's encountering over brics it is an attempt to divert british popular opinion away from those problems. the u.k. . is continuing to speak out as well this back and forth so what also we're hearing

from u.k. officials. well boris johnson the foreign secretary has been giving a round of interviews this morning he said that the expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats had gone far beyond what vladimir putin would have bargained for and that the capacity of the russian state to spy here in the u.k. had been if this aerated that is severely weakened i quote for decades to come he said that there was something in the russian denials of its responsibility that was smug and sarcastic in other words as far as the british government is concerned the russians are having it both way officially denying whilst at the same time reveling if you like in the fact that this nerve agent poisoning took place in seoul sprees so the rhetoric on both sides is extremely heated at the moment we may hear from the british prime minister to resign may later in the day she's gone down to seoul

spree that city in the west of england where the attack took place a week and a half ago. to be phillips in london for a spark to be thank you for the korea's foreign minister is heading to sweden for a two day meeting he'll be playing an important role in arranging the plan talks between donald trump and kim jong il and they're due to discuss the north's nuclear and nuclear and missile program sweden's embassy in pyongyang represents the u.s. canada and australia which don't have a diplomatic presence in north korea scott heiler has more from beijing. north korean foreign minister lee ho is going to have two days of meetings with his counterparts in sweden he passed through here on his way out there now from the swedish foreign ministry office they also made the announcement and they said that in these two days of discussions they're going to discuss the tension on the korean peninsula and easing that tension but also they said that they're going to discuss

sweden's representation of u.s. diplomatic interests in north korea no more than that obviously this leads many to believe that discussions about that the summit meeting that's been called between president trump and kim jong il might be discussed there but again it never was really specifically said that in the swedish foreign ministry press release announcing this visit but also what's interesting is the foreign minister of north korea passed through here beijing the announcement from his side came from the foreign ministry here in china again it didn't make any mention of the talks but that is a clear move by china to stay relevant to stay involved in these talks and they don't want to be sidelined they feel as though they did a lot of the work when it came to easing tension on the korean peninsula so they want credit for that and they want to be involved in the process now over the next two days i was here china won't have any kind of representation there but you can expect to be more moves like this as we get closer to when these talks are supposed to happen by may they say that china wants a revelent and involved in

a more head on al-jazeera including why leading brands of bottled water have been found to be contaminated the tiny plastic particles and why you know labor has chosen the netherlands or the u.k. for its new purpose based. welcome back we'll look at weather conditions across asia this time and across northeastern aries we've got this weather front which is moving towards the southeast high pressure further towards the north so subtle up there across mongolia but this frontal system pushing southeast words warm air coming up ahead of it still so temperatures well up there for tokyo at eighteen degrees you see the cold air digging down across northern areas and as a move the forecast on temperatures will drop as the colder air begins to push in behind it so drop a seven degrees there for tokyo but enough across the korean peninsula there

beijing shouldn't see any snow with a temperature of six but around we will see some snow developing with time let's head down into more central and southern parts of china we've got some rain towards the east coast and certainly some showers likely to be affecting taiwan but over the next twenty four hours this convergence as we call it will result in more rain developing across more western parts would change to the prop seeing some rain at times for the so fine across much of indo china hanoi in vietnam sunshine highs of twenty five into southeast asia the philippines fine across northern areas more central areas still seeing some showers some heavy showers across borneo for joe the weather conditions not looking too bad on friday and indeed up through them a pinch it should be fine sunshine in kuala lumpur with highs of thirty three. in a war torn city in iraq a magic documents the stories of the survivors recruiting best 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 i salute take control and his family are often forced to flee and no way to hide a weakness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. watching out to syria let's break out the top stories for you this government says it expects to clear a fraying of kurdish fighters very soon and may not hand the city back to the syrian government thousands of civilians are leaving after being surrounded by

turkish troops and free syrian army fighters. russia's foreign ministry says british allegations of a nerve agent attack on a former double agent are completely insane local ones considering retaliation for the expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats from the u.k. . north korea's foreign minister is traveling to sweden and is going to be involved in the talks between donald trump and kim jong un planning for those talks the north's nuclear bomb and missile program will be on the agenda for the discussion and may. the u.s. house of representatives has overwhelmingly approved legislation aimed at preventing gun attacks and schools the bill which now goes to the senate provides at least fifteen million dollars a year to fund training and coordination between schools and police but does not affect current going on ownership laws president donald trump backed the legislation which falls short of broader measures he suggested following the florida school shooting last month in which seventeen people were killed in jordan

has more from washington d.c. . the bill would set aside fifty million dollars for a training program in order to teach students faculty and staff how to spot someone who might pose a security threat to the campus and that would include setting up a tip line civil libertarians however worried that this tip line could be used either as retaliation between youth squabbles or perhaps to racially profile some students the bill also passed on wednesday would also set aside twenty five million dollars for things such as improve locks panic buttons and metal detectors basically to prevent people from bringing firearms onto campus without prior authorization the big holdup is in the u.s. senate there's no comparable bill being considered right now by the one hundred senators there are a couple of other bills that take a look at perhaps trying to restrict the types of firearms that are made available

as well as improving federal background checks and congressional democrats would like to see a universal background check and extensive gun control something which congressional republicans are not going to sign on finally this is senate majority leader mitch mcconnell doesn't know when any legislation could be brought up for consideration in order to make good what the u.s. house of representatives wants which is a much saver public school environment for u.s. students so this could be resolved quickly in the face of growing political pressure or it could simply be put aside while senators decide to work on other more pressing matters. one of the largest companies in britain is closing down the london arm of its head office and moving its corporate headquarters entirely to the netherlands decisions expected to be a blow to british business sentiment as the government negotiates to leave the european union bangladesh company already has headquarters in rotterdam the firm

makes a huge range of popular supermarket items like soap shampoo ice cream and manny's undergo as more from just outside the unity of our office and london so what do we know about why they're doing this sonia. just standing outside here of the london headquarters the c.e.o. paul polman said that it was really more to do with the streamlining of the company to make it more focused more efficient and that it was simply the corporate of that would be rebalanced over to. that the majority of those seven thousand three hundred jobs that are based in this country would remain here he also went on to say that the company has invested in manufacturing and research here in this in this country that it wouldn't do so if it had been thinking about sort of pulling out all together so really looking at some more of that streamlining effect having

it and more to do with the legal headquarters being based out of holland thereby instead of making it a jewel headed company just making a single entity in that respect but it may have something to do with the fact that over the twelve year review it did have a hostile takeover bid from the u.s. food giant croft times trying to make a bid for that that was unsuccessful but if it continues to remain in the u.k. the u.k. has loosened rules surrounding that making it easier for such corporate takeovers to happen where is in the netherlands it's a lot more difficult to do that so that could have been something which could have motivated that decision richelle but with the timing still you know considering all that's going on with bracks it can't completely be ignored. absolutely not and while they have taken pains that the c.e.o. has taken pains to say is that it's got nothing to do with rex it clearly the

questions surrounding the status of which he wants to me is the mountain of of issues that come along with it it's all together sort of the question begins with do you really need to have all this insecurity while you're trying to focus the company on trying to make it a bit. more streamlined in that respect certainly u.k. officials had reached out to the company trying to get them put some persuade them not to do this but of course they take they take about efforts to relocate back into the mainland of the european union in the netherlands ovo it still will continue to be listed in london as it is now in new york it is going to be a blow certainly optics wise for the prime minister may who is struggling in trying to get any negotiations any meaningful negotiations done and b. to c. to have a victory in these negotiations with the european counterparts all right sunny going to live for us in london sonia thank you for the retailer toys r us will sell or close all of it she was stores putting

a thirty thousand jobs at risk it's also shutting down its remaining seventy five outlets in britain the company had already filed for bankruptcy after racking up five billion dollars and it dominated the toy business in the one nine hundred eighty s. and one nine hundred ninety s. . there's a retail supply chain specialists and professor at cass business school in london he says this was not unexpected. it's been obvious for a while the business model hasn't changed whereas on has really taken over and in countries like the u.k. the tax system is definitely very much in favor of companies like amazon so. toys r us had to fight battles both on the supply chain and on the business model and again on taxes so could not possibly survive consumers will buy wherever they can buy so conveniently so consumers in a way haven't changed kids are still kids and they will buy toys and people will buy clothes or jewelry or whatever and they will buy at

a good price and good service and if you can do that better than the. store chains that the store chains cannot survive the director of qatar's government communications office says qataris now stronger under the siege shake safe and hold a seminar on the gulf crisis that new partnerships help the country prosper i say let economic blockade has been in place and chain of last year for our country is a case qatar supporting terrorism which qatar denies. you see the blockade acted as a catalyst for accelerating qatar's economic development. o. economy actually grew and diversified over the past year need to be adults have been established new industries built from scratch within those borders to meet domestic demand. internationally.

as a local economic bottom that has only been strengthened. so lucky is prime minister is offering to step down to end protests over the murder of a journalist robert fico has been under pressure to resign since yonkers siac and his fiance were killed last month had been investigating alleged links between government figures and the italian mafia the interior minister stepped down earlier this week a tiny particles of plastic have been found and some of the best selling brands of bottled water researchers in new york tested two hundred fifty bottles imported from nine different countries and found an average of ten plastic particles for a leader each particles about the width of a human hair the tested samples included a beyond nestle and aqua phina molly bingham is the chief executive of media u.s. based nonprofit media collective behind the research she says the next step is to figure out how consuming micro plastics will affect our health. everyone in the

world relies on water to survive and some of us in cities or locations where the tap water is potable drink bottled water as a luxury i think presuming that it is better for us or it is cleaner than the tap water however two point one billion people don't have access to potable water and they rely on bottled water for their consumption if the science on how consuming michael plastics impacts our bodies is really nascent and the answer to that is still very unclear however i think what is clear is that we as people around the world are consuming plastics and micro plastics in the water and probably in the food that we and that it's important given the ubiquity of micro plastics in the environment and in our consumption that large institutions that research human health step up and start to figure out what that means and i'm happy to see this morning that the show is done exactly that and announced that they will be doing a full review of the impact of human health on micro plastics in water at least six

prisoners have been killed after two thousand policeman stormed the jail in bolivia inmates died in gun battles trying to resist the raid in santa cruz police looking for contraband discovered guns drugs and alcohol of distillery and the prison one of the main bridges in the iraqi city of mosul has reopened prime minister hyder alibaba inaugurated the rebuilt bridge more than a year after it was blown up during fighting between coalition forces and i sold all five bridges across the tigris river have been destroyed. one of australia's biggest art shows is celebrating a milestone for the first time it has an artistic director from japan curator. says her choices reflect sydney as a modern multicultural city and her thomas went for a look. sidney's held a not be an alley almost every two years since one thousand nine hundred seventy three but some are critics say this year is sydney's twenty first represents

a coming of age old libyan ollie's previous artistic directors have been west and other australian european or american this be and ali is the first with someone from asia curating monica to ocala who normally runs a gallery in tokyo sees the significance and how it reflects a broader changes in australia since the b. and ali began so this is not a zero but this is not europe either it's interesting to see the demographics of this country and city and how you capture. this entire team through the lens of the . one nine hundred seventy three year of the first b. and ali was also the year the queen both britain's and australia's open sydney's new opera house the crowd in this old footage is exclusively white until nine hundred seventy three white australia was official policy that changed soon after and australia sent to become far more multicultural today more immigrants arrive

from china and india than from any european country the art scene reflects that so that doesn't seem to rattle this be an erroneous and capture something that is being percolating. and sort of that being away since. since the late seventy's maybe eighty eight b.n. ali is showing out in six ten years across sydney chinese artist ai weiwei ways work in response to the global refugee crisis is the standout piece on cockatoo island a film a shipyard and one time prison in the middle of sydney harbor. unlike some permanent galleries like london's tight mold which have been built within the shelves of former industrial buildings this have been a spice is still very much roll the floors are on even the a crux in the windows and this old machinery it's still tablets and dust. has hung canvases from the ceiling of

a formal workshop where ships were once my you can repay it first you talk with the q. river. and good luck but if you keep maybe it's the even critics who don't like most of the b. and all these all say the setting is dramatic even sometimes the most but now or or you know sort of piece can look quite interesting in one of these places in bars from the interest of the buildings olen thinks the bee in all these ought suffers from being too commercial it's not as political as it once was but all this can reflects rob a bank campaign and this year's been ali reflects the changing face of australia under thomas al jazeera sydney. recap the headlines for you now on al-jazeera turkey says it may not hand the city of efraim back to the syrian government once its military operation there is over the turkish government says it expects to clear affray in

a kurdish fighters very soon thousands of civilians are leaving the area after turkish troops and free syrian army fighters and circled the city turkey launched this military assault in january to clear syrian kurdish forces that control the region. russia's foreign ministry has called u.k. prime minister to rescind may's allegation that moscow was behind a nerve agent attack in england completely insane a spokeswoman said moscow was working on measures in response to britain's expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats at the united nations security council discussed this incident at an emergency meeting on wednesday britain's allies pledged their support but russia is demanding material proof will boris johnson the foreign secretary has been giving a round of interviews this morning he said that the expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats had gone far beyond what vladimir putin would have bargained for and that the capacity of the russian state to spy here in the u.k. had been if this aerated that is severely weakened i quote for decades to come he

said that it was something in the russian denials of its responsibility that was smug and sarcastic of the largest companies in britain is closing down the london arm of its head office and moving its corporate headquarters entirely to the netherlands a decision by you know the worst expected to be a blow to british business sentiment as the government negotiates to leave the european union the anglo dutch company already has its headquarters in rotterdam well known retailer toys r us will sell or close all of its u.s. and british shores putting thirty thousand jobs at risk the company filed for bankruptcy last year after racking up five billion dollars in debt earth korea's foreign minister is traveling to sweden as part of preparations for a planned talks between donald trump and kim jong loom the north's nuclear bomb and missile program will be top of the agenda when they meet before may

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