i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things but mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life here a part of life it's culture to train and equip the opposition in syria so they can help push back these terrorist people in power investigates how the u.s. supplies soviet style weapons to its allies through private companies the u.s. government could wash their hands and say well we didn't know where it was so weapon that was supplied by the us government may well end up being pointed at u.s. soldiers we pick it up less than two months after the professional americans guns secret pipeline to syria at this time on al jazeera. after weeks of intense and strikes and years on the government see thousands of people stream out of syria's rebel held.

alone and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the pressure mounts on russia the trunk administration announces sanctions on nothing teen individuals for alleged interference in the twenty sixteen election. while the u.s. france germany and britain issue a rare joint statement blaming moscow for a nerve agent attack in southern england. and also ahead people power in slovakia massive protests over the killing of a journalist and his fiance forced the prime minister to resign. first though to syria where thousands of people are leaving the rebel held enclave of. damascus the government is inching closer to taking full control of the area there. so they are now in control of seventy percent of the region four weeks of

syrian government forces have been bombarding more than a thousand people have been killed many of them children alan fisher has this report. they had a choice stay and face more bombardment or leave to an uncertain future they chose to leave it started with hundreds it grew to thousands grabbing what they could carry what they could stuff into vehicles and a minder of a home they may never see again my own i know there's no water no medicine that could be provided to our children not even failed the situation is miserable. we're so happy because we're safe right now in the hands of the army we were living in a jail not in the gates are we not when i haven't had. a mass exit bizarre procession on the seventh anniversary of the start of the syrian civil war was leaving came from how maría a city that's been under attack for three solid weeks and the area once controlled

by anti assad forces are completely surrounded by their enemies. something like this have been expected since the syrian government forces backed by the russians effectively cut guta in three they've used their military pressure to force people to leave i mean i would be looking at a similar solution in other parts of the area the regime offensive against that used to alter and which has been besieged for the last seven years i'm just finally you know falling into government hands that isn't about negotiation that is really where the regime is using exploiting the opportunity it has got the other fronts are moralists starting lies but even as a civilian streamed out of the besieged enclave airstrikes and aerial bombardments reported elsewhere in good time. and in the north of the area in a place controlled by jai shell islam a convoy of trucks entered the turn of duma the twenty five lorries caring enough indeed for twenty six thousand people for one. and once more there were no medical

supplies allowed in. i mean normally you are doing but i swear they were sleeping in the corridor of this house it's too difficult to walk inside because of the huge number of displaced people who are here. could see a quarter how in the people leaving will be identified and processed and offered some need this will be seen as a major victory for the syrian government for the people who managed to walk out it will be seen survival and fisher on the turkey syria border you know it in states has announced sanctions on russia targeting more than a dozen individuals for trying to influence the twenty sixth presidential election and this war and more sanctions will follow against government individuals well our white house correspondent kimberly hellcats is in washington live for us kimberly first of all this is against individuals not pacifically against the russian state and what so how does this what with the timing why is it happening now. well it's

really interesting to the timing because this happened almost simultaneously as the white house released a joint statement with germany france the united kingdom of course also the united states abhorring in the words of the statement that nerve agent attack that was used is the former russian spy as well as his daughter that of course has left him comatose so it seems like this may have been the straw that broke the camel's back to use the phrase it seems that while this was being hinted upon by the treasury secretary see we also heard the president when he met in a joint press conference with sweden's prime minister couple of weeks ago also hinting about this but now this is the strongest action yet but really this is the first time that we've seen the trumpet ministration taking any sort of concrete action with regard to responding to russia's interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election as you point out five entities nineteen individuals and this is not just for election meddling this according to senior administration officials

also because of the sort of targeting the ongoing targeting the united states believes that is being conducted by russia not just when it comes to critical infrastructure like the power grid banking systems but also the responsibility for the virus which we know way data from computers not just in the united states but around the world airports banks and cost really one point two billion in lost revenue and as you said the first time the jump on the stations actually taken action if it offends this is going to china take the wind out of the muslim investigation saleswomen spy saying if there is evidence here uncover we're already doing something about it. there certainly are many who are looking skeptically at this and just to give our viewers of sense of how this relates to the russian vest occasion you'll remember that the department of justice under robert muller special counsel indicted or charged

a number of individuals and many of these same individuals are now being slapped with sanctions the difference between these two actions what we're seeing from the treasury department versus the department of justice is that those charges of course would have to work their process through the court these are almost instantaneous immediate punitive actions this prevents travel into the united states access into the financial system so so many might say and pose the question that you are looking at it rather skeptically in that something we will ask sarah huckabee sanders when she holds a press briefing later today but for now what we can tell you is this is on top of those actions but it does have that punitive component which many members of congress have been looking for because it's under that act that was pacts back in august that the president grudgingly signed into law but then did not sanction so this is finally an action that was started back in two thousand and seventeen now coming to fruition very good to get your thoughts on this committee with the very latest from washington d.c. . and as kimberly mentioned the u.s.

has joined britain france and germany in blaming russia for the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in the u.k. every least a joint statement saying there is no plausible alternative explanation for the attack on wednesday britain expelled twenty three russian diplomats and suspended high level contacts with moscow on u.k. correspondent barnaby phillips reports. the prime minister visits salzburg a small english cathedral city not accustomed to this level of international attention we do hold russia culpable for this brazen brazen act and despicable acts that's taking place on the streets of what is such a remarkable city and while she met the people of seoul sprit her ministers continued to press home their argument that russian guilt is indisputable something by the way in the kind of smug sarcastic response that we've

heard from the russians that to me between indicates their fundamental guilt they want to simmer tenuously to deny it and yet at the same time to glory in it and the reason they've chosen this this nerve agent is is to show that it's russia and from the defense secretary words that may cause even more offensive moscow frankly russia should go away should shut up a joint statement with the americans french and germans described events in seoul spree as an assault on british sovereignty and from nato this this is the first often sieve use of a nerve agent on alliance territory since nato's foundation all of us agree that attack will secure breach of international norms and agreements this is unacceptable. it has no place

in the civilized world as for the russian reaction contemptuous of british accusations. the british prime minister has made several statements over the last few days in parliament they were completely insane accusations against the russian federation against our country against our nation. so now it's london bracing for what feels like the inevitable expulsion of several of its diplomats from moscow and with vladimir putin's able to realize surely a formality the british government believes the deep freeze in anglo russian relations will last for years to come to be phillips al-jazeera london well let's get the view from lawrence les is there for us right now lawrence we've got this joint statement coming out of the western nations really three days before the presidential election how is that the criminal like it's a play this growing clamor against its. yeah it is interesting i mean

clearly over the last forty to seventy two hours is that the rhetoric has got stronger and stronger and stronger and louder louder and you heard the big strolled remarks that came out of london today particularly from the defense minister but what i think has come out of moscow today is not another ramping up in return but if anything a slight holding back yes of course they're going to expel some british diplomats are saying from the embassy just down the road that but they get a waits and they can celebrate it first and then it is i what they do and it feels to me partly that if you know if it clearly is one thing for the russians to save the british you don't know we poisoned script well how do you know you're just being hysterical it's just that when the french and the germans and the americans all join up and say well actually we believe the british as well then suddenly the russians say well it was that argument sound quite so good and on one level all the old enmities from western countries towards russia are all now coming out so once you have the americans kimberly was saying that they're going to sanction some people over the alleged meddling in the election that the european union france and

germany are still furious with russia over the downing of the passenger jets over ukraine in the annex in the crimea where putin is right now and so that the poisoning has become an opportunity for everybody to say to russia egypt we just had enough of you that we just absolutely can't stand you anymore but another think the russians are thinking well we've got to get a bit of moral high ground back on some level and that i think would explain why they're saying putin is going to make an announcement it might be tomorrow but equally he's in crimea for this weekend for the election he's going to want to talk about the glory of russia and the glory of crimea and all those sorts of things heavily choreographed he might not want the spy thing to get in the way of that and it may be that they just want to hold back a little bit now take some of the heat off it will try and regain some moral high ground and see what happens all to push into elected in its next week good to get the rest of us back to live in sleigh and moscow. still to come on the program what's in the water bottle and surprising finding problems the world health organization to conduct a review plus. i'm andrew thomas at the opening of sydney's b.n.

ali this year's is the first ever to have an artistic director from asia i'll be explaining why that's significant what it says about the changes you know crazy and society. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across central and southern parts of china you see some rain in the east of the region but temperatures still pretty good twenty six in hong kong there further north some colder air with shanghai just twelve degrees thing see these windows are converging and that's going to result in an area of rain as we head on into saturday certainly much cooler conditions change to further towards the north and the some rain is likely for the south looking fine across indochina with pleasant conditions in hanoi in vietnam across into south

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infrastructure in the pentagon some foreign corporation is too many remain offline now a politician activists are building a home grown solution could make live units and secure the nation's technological sovereignty. geeks the citizens network at this time. welcome back remind all the top stories here an al-jazeera thousands of people are leaving syria's rebel held enclave of the single follows weeks of bombardment by government forces in nineteen states has announced new sanctions on more than

a dozen russian individuals and groups in response to election meddling and cyber attacks on the leaders of britain the u.s. france and germany say they're united in blaming russia for the nerve agent attack on sergei ship and his doctor. slovakia's prime minister has resigned over the murder of an investigative journalist and his fiance leaving his deputy to form a new government robert ficker is the latest political casualty in the scandal that's seen thousands of protesters take to the streets of process lover but many of those demonstrating say they don't trust the current political leadership to form a new government and are calling for fresh elections the killing of journalists young and he's girlfriend last month sponsored outrange he was investigating links between slovak politicians and an italian mafia group well young like lucia is in bratislava for us right now can you just tell us a first of all why has the prime minister made this extraordinary move to resign.

well all with the murder of a young investigative journalist as you said a young. who was only twenty seven. year old but the one of the main journalists of our two ality he discovered some huge and deep relations between italian mafia and the politicians here in slovakia and hugely. over here in grant this labor and the slovakia people wanted a country without corruption and the entire new government to this murder was just the too much for them so this is a resignation is a just one little step they want and the biggest question now is this going to be enough because when. he saw left he said i will

resign but only if the next prime minister come from my political party so this is what's happening now we have. any food on scene there is so. we have the same political party and the same politics just two different names and even the president. said i accepted this but i'm not sure if public will we're just seeing pictures of some of the fountains of people that took to the streets and are really one of the reasons i suppose the aegis signed it to resign do you think this will be enough for them never mind what's going on within the politicians but of the people will this be enough for them to say ok this new government this being being held together this coalition can stay. i'm not sure because tomorrow the people who got this level will be on the streets

again today we went to work to ality the news room. young world everything is the same just the way he left it even his coffee cup with the coffee needs and his material about the taliban mafia and the main question is the security all of the data all of nodes all the stories are crypted there and he was very cautious about it he. very much looked after it and this is the reason why now he is a colleagues. there is some kind of leaking information in the public institution because the journalist when seeking information according to the freedom of information law must leave his personal data and in that way they think he

becomes a target and that's what's happened to yun police is now in front of the building security is in front of the door of the news room many of the journalists there now have personal security so this is the main questions for them how to become safe. many thanks giving us the very latest there on what's going on in the political situation is so that. thousands of people in hungary are rallying in support of prime minister viktor or one's right wing party ahead of elections next month nationalist probe on supporters how the so-called peace march to the capital good have passed the fifteenth of march is a national holiday in hungary marking the anniversary of the eight hundred forty eight revolution opposition groups are also holding remembrances across the city. and i did nations says a donor conference in rome has raised an extra one hundred million dollars to fund

the u.n. relief agency for palestinian refugees the agency which is the oldest and largest u.n. relief program in the middle east is facing a funding crisis after the u.s. government slashed its aid the u.n. says it's still running about three hundred forty six million dollars short for twenty eighteen and officials are warning that critical services could be scrapped if the money doesn't come through christopher gunness is the chief spokesman for the un relief and works agency and he says they now have an a funding to keep them going for several more months what's at stake for refugees for the palestine refugees that we serve is for example nine million the patients consultations a year by a doctors five hundred twenty five thousand children around the middle east receiving a daily education one point seven million people receiving food assistance the timelines are quite short we have been saying before this conference that we were

going to be running on empty by may june now we are able to extend that and say that we have money to maintain our services to the middle of the summer so things are tight we are certainly not going to be complacent. saudi arabia's crown prince will discuss defense cooperation with his u.s. counterparts in washington next week the kingdom is the biggest importer of us on this but its three year well in the war in yemen has been condemned by rights groups and a hoax that reports. the latest battle damage the saudi army in the most volatile area at the three year war against whose these in yemen both forces have suffered heavy losses but the terrain suits hoofy fighters this rugged region of hundreds of kilometers of mountains and valleys has turned into an open battleground funeral society soldiers have become common since the conflict began saudi media says the army has lost seven hundred men here

a puff military losses saudi's defense ministry is paying condolence fees to the families of the dead soldiers this graph shows how the so-called martyrs fund is swelling. we don't have accurate statistics but a sniper kills between six to eight saudi soldiers and mercenaries we destroy from three to five military vehicles every day whose the losses have been significant with saudi warplanes helping the kingdom's cause the air force controls the skies above nearly all areas of military operations in yemen you had it would you check the following video you'll see your coalition aircraft targeting yemeni homemade missile platform near the yemeni saudi border the yemeni rockets were aimed at saudi cities and villages warplanes mco relation of countries led by the saudis target who is the attempts to breach the kingdom's border whose the leaders haven't released the precise take all but the number of dead is in the thousands in the town of side their main stronghold despite their losses the who thieves have

managed to obtain more sophisticated weapons including ballistic missiles capable of reaching riyadh with a launch like this towards the saudi capital to lead to a blockade on yemeni ports and airports stopping vital humanitarian aid aid agencies described yemen as the world's. largest humanitarian crisis united nations says a record twenty two million yemenis are in need of food more than eight million threatened by severe hunger and disease to cholera has infected moves in a million yemenis and syria is another threat facts the saudi crown prince will want to avoid when he visits washington next week. or. south africa has dismissed an australian ministers claims that white farmers are persecuted and need help from what he called a civilised country home affairs minister peter dutton says he's exploring giving them access to fast track visas on humanitarian grounds presidents are opposed to

speed up the legal redistribution of land from wealthy whites to poor blacks but south africa's government says no one is in danger a city council driver has been shot dead in the brazilian city of rio de janeiro in what appears to be a targeted killing thirty eight year old mario franco and anderson pedre gomes were killed when two attackers find several shots of their vehicle where as head of public security says the killings warrant a full inquiry the shooting took place despite the military taking charge of policing last month. the world health organization is launching a review after a study found almost ninety five percent of bottled water contains tiny pieces of plastic researches in new york looked at hundreds of water bottles from different countries and found an average of more than three hundred plastic particles per liter tested samples include some of the world's biggest bottled water browns such

as aquafina dust on the evian nestlé well molly bingham is the chief executive of over media a u.s. based nonprofit media collective that conducted 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 eat 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 for the first time ever one of australia's biggest shows is being run by an artistic director from asia japanese curator. is taking the reins of this year's sydney by arnold says his choice is aimed at reflecting the multicultural make up of the city tree thomas went to take a look. sidney's held or not be in ali 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 all the bee and all these 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 bee 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 beer dolly 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 you have to lay to something. and

sort of that being away since. since the late seventy's maybe eighty eighty years but the analogy 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 tate modern which have been built within the shelves of former industrial buildings this cabin of space is still very much roll the floors around even there a cracks in the windows and this machinery it's still covered in dust toy an artist has hung canvases from the ceiling of a formal workshop where ships were once made and repaired first the top with the q i really love and good luck but to keep me disappear. even critics who don't like

most of the bialys ott 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 it borrows from the interest of the buildings allen thinks the bee in all these ought suffers from being too commercial it's not as political as it once was but all it's can reflect rather than campaign and this year's been ali reflects the changing face of australia under thomas al jazeera sydney people and no one in finland have been treated to a dramatic light display in the sky over the arctic circle the northern lights phenomenon occurs when challenged particles from the sun react with the earth's atmosphere essentially being bright week for finland which on monday was voted the world's wealthiest country in ninety nations affiliated group.

after the reminder of the top stories on all jazeera thousands of people are fleeing a rebel held enclave of eastern ghouta in syria the government is inching closer to taking full control with reports that they're in control of seventy percent of the area syrian government forces have been bombarding guta for weeks killing more than a fountain people many of them children well alan fischer is following the story for us in gaziantep. something like this had been expected since the syrian government forces backed by the russians effectively cut guta in three we've used their military pressure to force people to leave i mean i'll be looking at a similar solution in other parts of the area the united states has announced sanctions on more than a dozen russian individuals and groups in response to russia's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election and cyber attacks the u.s. says additional sanctions are planned against russian government officials and on the guards russia did not only is interfering in the election and britain the us

france and germany say they're united in blaming russia for the nerve agent attack on cripple and his person has expelled twenty three russian diplomats and suspended high level contacts with moscow over the incident russia is expected to retaliate in similar fashion so lucky as president has accepted prime minister robert ficos resignation and asked his deputy to form a new government political leaders are trying to end the crisis provoked by the murder of a journalist who was investigating fraud involving a businessman with political ties his death fueled public anger over corruption has led to the biggest protests in the central european nation since the fall of communism then in three decades ago and the united nations says a donor conference in rome has raised an extra one hundred million dollars to fund the u.n. relief agency for palestinian refugees the agency is facing a funding crisis after the u.s. government slashed its a the u.n.

says it's still running about three hundred forty six million dollars short for twenty eighteen and officials are warning that critical services could be scrapped if the money doesn't come through. as the top stories stay with us an al-jazeera rebel geek says coming up next. digital technology offers that a mess and see an easement and even longer not. in the ability to gie billions of calculations in our pockets it seems been discovered a need and mention. in which everything in our lives can be increased and tracked

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