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in the twenty sixteen election. also join britain france and germany in condemning russia for the nerve agent attack in the u.k. . after three weeks of heavy bombing five years of siege and seven years of war thousands of syrians stream out of eastern ghouta. and why bottled water might not be as good for you as you think. i'm far as spall be here with all the sporting clued in the latest from the europa league a word tournaments favorite at the let it go much red have booked their place and the order final. united states has announced sanctions on russia targeting nineteen individuals and five entities for trying to influence the twenty sixteen presidential election the trump administration says it will keep tough policies in place against russia until

moscow changes its behavior but both republican and democratic politicians say president trump needs to do more our white house correspondent can really help get reports. last july the g twenty summit when u.s. president donald trump met with lattimer putin he said it was an honor to meet the russian president yaser ninety eight and in august when the u.s. congress passed legislation to say should russia iran and north korea truck gradually signed it into law but failed to sanction moscow for alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election until now on thursday the us treasury sanctioned twenty four. russian entities and individuals including two russian intelligence agents for interfering in the twenty sixteen presidential vote the announcement coming just as the white house issued a joint statement with the united kingdom germany and france blaming russia for the nerve agent attack in the u.k. leaving a former russian spy and his daughter comatose

a very sad situation it certainly looks like the russians were behind it something that should never ever happen and would take an adverse seriously the u.s. says thursday's sanctions are part of a broad effort target what it calls russia's malicious cyber activity and critical infrastructure including america's energy grid nuclear facilities water supply and aviation industry it also targets an alleged russian troll factory the u.s. justice department recently singled out for the reported interference in the twenty six thousand vote for months members of congress have been pressing the trump administration to act questioning why it has delayed responding to what it calls russian aggression and we're still waiting for the president president trump to order one word of public criticism for what putin is doing to the u.s. and democracies around the world i say to president trump. your silence speaks on

this issue the white house disputes that accusation i think you can see from the actions that we've taken up until this point we're going to be tough on russia until they decide to change their behavior this move by the trump administration will immediately freeze russian assets in the u.s. and block the sanction to individuals from traveling to the united states only adding to the tension between the two countries kimberly health at al-jazeera washington. now on all the developments the investigation into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election and possible collusion with the trauma campaign has moved a little closer to home for the u.s. president the trump organization the holding company for the president's business interests has been ordered to hand over documents related to russia u.s. special counsel robert mueller has subpoenaed the conglomerate it's the first known

time miller has demanded documents directly related to president trump's businesses so let's get more on this now from patty cohen is following the story in washington what more do we know about the subpoena patty. well this was first reported in the new york times since and has been considered confirmed by several media outlets and it's as you mentioned they say that muller has and his team have subpoenaed those business documents from the trump organization as they result as they apply as they as it pertains to russia now they don't know if it's broader in scope than that but they do know that miller's looking at these russian documents now this tells us a couple of things it tells us that he has subpoenaed these documents he didn't have to do that he could have simply asked for them he has said in the message that not complying i would violate the full force of the law and that he is serious and it also tells us that he is. invested this investigation could take a little longer this you know the lawyers have been saying for ever that it's going

to be wrapped up in weeks you're just now subpoenaing those documents it's going to take a little while to go through those so that's a couple of things another interesting tidbit in the new york times that i found it said that the peoples were in talks with the trump lawyers about sitting down for an interview with the president and said the muller had already provided the topics they want to talk about it's reported that his lawyers the president's lawyers are saying absolutely do not sit down and have an interview with him in the past called it a perjury trap don't forget even if you're not under oath lying to federal investigators is in fact a very serious crime but according to this new york times report the president thinks he's done nothing wrong and so he can easily sit down and talk to miller so just interesting i guess suppose just an amount of time until it actually happens right now the question that is always one we speak about and what our investigation is whether there's anything the president can do to stop it. yes there is not to talk about the politics of it it could be incredibly damaging but

let's get a little complicated so bear with me now the attorney general jeff sessions he's recused himself because he was involved in the campaign we know that has angered the president you know it so what he could do is you could fire jeff sessions then he could try to appoint a new attorney general anyone who gets appointed that is going to have to get confirmed before the senate and they're going to have to promise not to interfere at the mall investigation to get the job there is a loophole the president could put in session's place anyone who's currently on his cabinet there's been some talk that he might move the e.p.a. director over there anyone who's already been confirmed for a cabinet position can take on the role as acting there before they would take over the mall or best occasion and could shut it done rosenstein is currently in charge of it he's the deputy he said he's not going to fire mueller if he doesn't have any cause to do it so the president could fire rod rosenstein and then just keep going down the line firing people until he finds a new deputy attorney general who would in fact fire moller our he could simply try to fire himself he doesn't really have that power but he could try to rip up

a regulation if he does that it's definitely to go to court the broader thing is politically this would be credibly damaging even republicans have said to be the beginning of the end of his presidency the last time a president tried to fire a special prosecutor richard nixon it didn't work out well for him ted thank you very much calling in washington. well 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. they've released a joint statement saying there's no plausible alternative explanation for the attack britain is expelling twenty three russian diplomats and a suspended high level contact with moscow or u.k. correspondent barnaby phillips reports. the prime minister visits salt spray a small english cathedral city not accustomed to this level of international attention we do hold russia culpable for this brazen brazen acts 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 spree 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 bitter 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 salt spray as an assault on british sovereignty and from nato this this is the first of fence sieve use of a nerve agent on alliance territory since nato's foundation

all of us agree that the attack course a clear breach of international norms and agreements this is unacceptable it has no place in a 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 itself for the retaliation that moscow has promised and with everyone in the british government assuming that vladimir putin is about to be reelected the seams no prospect of anglo russian relations improving for years to come to be phillip's al-jazeera westminster. or russia says it will soon announce retaliation measures lawrence lee

has more on that from moscow. given how absolutely vicious the rhetoric has been between the u.k. and rusher of the last forty eight to seventy two hours and he continued on thursday from the british government it is striking that if anything the russian side has slightly held back a bit on thursday yes of course they still continue to condemn the british actions yes they will expel some british diplomats but they're not going to do it yet they going to wait and see and it seems to me they're trying if anything to regain a little moral high ground why would i want to do that well on one level clearly they can say to the british look you don't know who the we boys and script how do you know that this is true you can prove it you're being hysterical but if that then if the united nations the americans and the french and the germans all say well actually we agree with the british then on the month russian position it also i think leaves the russians feeling very very isolated and it has led to

a lot of the resurgence of a lot of old gripes and very very very bad blood against the russians the new american sanctions because a large meddling in the election the european union still furious with russia over the exception of crimea the downing of the passenger jets of ukraine all these things were never properly result and it seems like all these countries are now using the poisoning as an opportunity to say to russia we just had enough of you in this can ever carry on in the same way. one of the seven candidates facing vladimir putin in sunday's election is reality t.v. star. the daughter of putin's former mentor she is widely considered a kremlin puppet but sub chacon has supporters and says she is gradually forging her own potential path to the top john hall reports from moscow. previously at home on russia's reality t.v. screens the one time party girl can send your sob track turned political party girl

challenging vladimir putin for the presidency now. stop i didn't think we need them to stop stealing our freedom and you to stop stealing our common future nonsense. bullish her audience these days less impressed by bling jewelry and branded clothing more interested in what she can do for russian democracy i don't know whether this something you are. going to start out or only made for a very beautiful cup was. definitely a good start on. what for the future and development of the russian opposition but the she won't win of course not of the seven kremlin approved candidates in this election have any chance of top or were they may uprooted so what is this story to . politics all about it seems a long time since t.v. shows like blood and in chocolate featured soap jack as

a spoiled rich kid with dubious morals and of the racist spending habit to turn towards opposition politics in the street protests of two thousand and twelve was as sudden as it was unlikely yet she swapped sports cars for police vans seemingly with these telling al-jazeera that her mission was to save the underdog it's like you know when you see a fight. you go in and try to to help with. a normal person her name is political solid gold because any. his father anatoly sobchak was putin's mentor before he died in two thousand. jack protection from corruption charges already some believe the younger subject might one day succeed putin able to pay back an old family death by keeping him safe from future prosecution it's an idea to send his mom herself a senator in russia's upper house rejects. we know the circle of putin's friends

who are everything they have to him me and my family and i'm not a part of this circle do you believe she has what it takes to be president of russia not now but in the future i'm sure. if so she'll need to prepare for more of this reduced to tears by a barrage of gender based insults in a televised election debate it remains to be seen whether to send your subject has it in her to swap dirty dancing for the sometimes dirty world of russian politics show the whole al-jazeera moscow. i watching the news hour live from london much more still tell you about this hour just five days after it went up a bridge has collapsed in florida killing several people. why the murder of an investigative journalist and his fiance is prompted so vacuous prime minister to resign. and in sport the baseball player known as the japanese babe ruth

struggles to find his feet in the united states. on the day syria's civil war enters its eighth year thousands of civilians have been fleeing from east and butta most of them left the town of how moria which rebels have now taken back control of but after almost four weeks of relentless bombardment syrian government forces are inching closer to taking the rest of the enclave a soldier has killed almost one thousand two hundred fifty civilians many of them children there is alan fischer has more now from the turkey syria border. we had a choice stay in three small bombardment or leave to an uncertain future they choose to leave it started with hundreds big 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 i know there's no water no medicine that could

be a priority to our children not even food the situation is miserable. we're sorry happy because we're safe right now in the hands of the army we were living in a jail not in the ghetto we. had. a mass exodus of azhar procession on the seventh anniversary of the start of the syrian civil war it was leaving came from the city it's been under attack for three solid weeks and the area was controlled by forces that completely surrounded by their enemies. something like this had been expected since the syrian government for. arses backed by the russians effectively cut guta in three they've used their military pressure to force people to leave i mean nobody looking at a similar solution in other parts of the area the regime offensive against that used to alter include which has been the seat for the last seven years i'm just finally you know falling victim to government start isn't about negotiation that is

really where you is using exploiting the opportunity it has that the other fronts are moralists. but even as a civilian streamed out of the besieged enclave is strikes and aerial bombardments reported elsewhere in britain. and in the north of the area in a police controlled by jai shell islam a convoy of trucks into the tone of the twenty five more days getting enough food aid for twenty six thousand people for one month once more there were no medical supplies allowed in i mean i mean norman are doing in that nice weather we're 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 aid this will be seen as a major victory for the syrian government for the people who managed to walk out it will be seen as survival alan fischer al jazeera on the tukey syria border. where

thousands of civilians are also fleeing the main city in africa in syria's north as the turkish military closes in images have emerged of people cramming on to trucks and tractors drawn carts to get away people who've stayed in the city lining up to buy food in preparation for a siege turkey is trying to retake the area from the kurdish y.p. gene which it considers a terrorist group. well seventy seven years on the syrian war began with p peaceful protests against bashar asad but it has descended into a complicated quagmire involving many other countries and groups there's iran and hezbollah which back assad russia and to the war in two thousand and fifteen also on assad side turkey join the fight against i still but its main priority has been stopping the kurdish y p g the us has backed kurdish fighters in several rebel groups while israel has carried out multiple air raids mostly targeting hezbollah

in terms of resolving the crisis there have been eight rounds of un backed geneva talks with no result talks in a stunner establish so-called deescalation zones but they're essentially still battlegrounds russia has also hosted talks in sochi and then of course there is the human cost more than four hundred sixty five thousand syrians have been killed in the wars created five and a half million refugees and displaced another six and a half million people will mean a surge is a syrian american architect and writer from aleppo she lived between the ages of twelve and twenty two before returning to the united states where she was born and she last visited a grandmother in aleppo in two thousand and eleven you know joins me now live from san francisco thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us and we were just running through the developments in syria we see that there is there is a great deal of international involvement in syria but absolutely no international consensus we always talk about this war through the prism of competing strategic

interests do you have any faith that this war can come to an end either this year or in the not so distant future. well nobody really knows what you just described is the complexity of the reality on the ground right now in syria and what we see as syrians is that none of these powers are working in the interest of the syrian people who are suffering and dying and living in really inhumane circumstances for the past seven years. tell me about the work that your foundation does because you focus particularly on education it might be a premier chair to ask this question now but how do you see the role of

education particularly when it comes to the youth in the future of syria. so our organization kadam foundation is really focused on innovative education for syrian refugee youth and teens and this is where we see we can have the most impact and where we actually can make a difference to the lives of thousands of syrian refugee teenagers and their families to be able to really regain their agency and tell them that they are more than refugees and that they are able to reach their goals and their dreams in life and to become positive contributors contributors to their societies whether they are outside syria or hopefully to rebuild syria in the future so the programs that we do have a lot of innovation technology mentorship and really skills that every teenager globally needs to be able to go to university have higher education and better job

opportunities in the future and this is what we think is going to be most useful for serious future and you are originally from aleppo yourself you have a grandmother that you when you were last there in two thousand and eleven to see her how do you still have family in the region. well most of my family has left aleppo since two thousand and eleven and they were able to come here to united states and some places in europe we were very lucky that we had a place to go. it was it's very painful to watch the destruction of your home city aleppo all one of the oldest cities in the world it's a loss for humanity it's a loss a collective loss for all of us and it's devastating to watch the loss of human life in syria that continues every single day for the past seven years and so we're

very very lucky there's nothing that separates me from being a refugee or being displaced or living right now in these extreme conditions except the fact that i was born in the united states and i have a passport that allowed me to move freely between two countries but every single refugee deserves to be living in safety and security and every single civilian in syria deserves to be living in freedom dignity and in safety and most of all in peace and thank you very much for sharing your perspective with us in a surgery at are now up to ten people have been killed after a newly installed bridge collapse in the u.s. state of florida yesterday and walkway fell onto a busy highway near a major university in miami trapping cars underneath the crossing was only installed on saturday and was set to open next year for students. what was soon to

be called when i caught a staple part of the public to be between the city and university has actually turned out to be a national tragedy our hearts are here extended out to those that the victims that were actually able to piece transported away as well as those that may god will be walking away from the scene thousands of brazilians are protesting what appears to be the targeted killing of a city councilor and her driver rolled marielle franco and anderson pendragon as well killed when their vehicle was fired on miss franco was a popular public official and a critic of killings carried out by police in some of rio de janeiro's poor districts military took charge of policing in the city last month. but i think it remains to be immediately a very sad because the day a black woman who is always positive in our fight and who lived in the valley was taken by all this injustice in america isn't that exists in rio de janeiro we are not going to let it continue mary-alice here mary out of here mary alice here. at

least six prisoners have been killed after more than two thousand police officers raided a jail in bolivia searching for weapons and other contraband that sparked gun battles as inmates who control the jail tried to resist the right in santa cruz but he's found guns drugs and alcohol distillery in the prison. it's like his prime minister has resigned over the murder of an investigative journalist and his fiance leaving his deputy to form a new government robert feet so is the latest little political casualty in the scandal that seen thousands of protesters take to the streets of bratislava but many of those demonstrating say there are trust the current political leadership to form a new government and a calling for fresh elections the killing of journalist young could siac and his girlfriend last month has sparked outrage he was investigating links between slovak politicians and the italian and an italian mafia group al jazeera correspondent elaine a glue she acts as demonstrators and not likely to be satisfied with feet says

resignation the biggest question now is this going to be enough because or when when the feet saw 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. food on samir so we have the same political party in the same ball it digs just two different names and even the president. said i accepted this but i'm not sure if public will. so i have for you this hour. we must. do this he said greece. zimbabwe's former leader robert lagarde accuses new president amisom the one guy was betraying him. one of the world's best known toy stores is shutting up shop

with the rise of online shopping apparently to blame. and a three time olympic champion lands on top again the details in sport. welcome back to see more heavy rain affecting parts of europe in the forecast sorry through friday mild air push across many western indeed into central areas to we've got some heavy rainfall up across australia some snow over the alps some of the forecast into the start of the weekend some really heavy rain down across parts of the balkans snow continues in the alps and across ukraine into russia we're looking at some heavy snow for you los is the winds coming in from the east and that's really can have a big impact on temperatures which will be falling away quite dramatically over the following few days on the other side of the mediterranean we've got some showers

for more coastal parts of morocco through towards algeria and temperatures not great either so cool off in childress but it should remain largely dry here further towards the east the wind is coming up from the desert so suppose it comes out at twenty nine degrees into central parts of africa plenty of showers for east africa at the moment kenya tanzania seen heavy downpours look so the ball is going to be seen some heavy rain west africa a few showers around certainly but there should enjoy a fair amount of sunshine at times into south africa we're going to see a tropical cyclone fourteen impacting on the east coast of madagascar some flooding rain likely here from all swimmy seen some heavy showers around parts of the eastern cape. u.s. president donald trump has said he will slap new charis on imports of steel an alum in your bra five gene will mean the data type but times faster than forty we bring

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our minder the top stories this hour the united states has announced new sanctions on more than a dozen russian individuals and groups in response to election meddling and malicious cyber attacks. the leaders of britain the us france and germany say they are united in blaming russia for the nerve agent attack on sergei scriptural and his daughter. and thousands of civilians have been fleeing from the syrian enclave of eastern. four weeks of relentless oddments syrian government forces are inching closer to capturing it. now serious seventy a war began with a peaceful protest against the presidency of bashar assad a group of children school schooled and he assad graffiti on a wall and the southern city of daraa summer so yes now was one of the boys

involved now an adult and a father of two this is his story. ernie's. incentive my name is some osias now 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 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 in the 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. now saudi arabia's crown prince says if iran is to develop nuclear weapons his country will too. gave the first u.s. t.v. interview with a saudi leaders since two thousand and five here he's speaking to norah o'donnell on c.b.s. . you've been rivals for centuries at its heart what is this rift about is it a battle for islam they are and they said iran is not a rival to saudi arabia its army is not among the top five armies in the muslim world the saudi economy is larger than the iranian economy and iran is far from being equal to saudi arabia but i've seen that you call the ayatollah khomeini the new hitler of the middle east leadership absolutely why. you need it because he

wants to expand he wants to create his own project in the middle east very much like hitler who wanted to expand it at a time many countries around the world and in europe did not realize how dangerous hitler was until what happened happened i don't want to see the same events happening in the middle east does saudi arabia need nuclear weapons to counter iran assert directing them to a saudi arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb but without a doubt if iran developed a nuclear bomb we will follow suit as soon as possible. well said is an iranian political commentator he says there's no evidence to suggest iran is developing any nuclear weapons. everyone is just watching iran's nuclear case the so would these have been very you know silently and covertly developing a military nuclear program there have been reports in the media outlets in the middle east facing since last year that this all these have been budgeting over

a billion dollar in the military nuclear program of pakistan and in return for a number of nuclear warheads and a following and pursuing reports have been stating that the cell these have been importing these nuclear warheads already so they are going nuclear and nobody's paying attention to this fact despite the fact that the saudis are the real cause of tensions in the region eisel has been trained you know provided with backup and financial backup and arms. from sol the arabia and they are to be blamed for rising tensions in the region and now they want to go knock nuclear. well saudi arabia's crown prince will be discussing defense cooperation with his u.s. counterparts in washington next week the kingdom is the biggest importer of u.s. arms but its three year role in the war in yemen has been condemned by rights groups and hawks to reports on the fighting on the saudi yemeni order. 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 on mercenaries we destroy from three to five military vehicles every day who feel losses have also 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 to produce 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 a target who is the attempts to breach the kingdom's border who's 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 hoof these 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 describe yemen as the world's largest humanitarian crisis united nations says a record twenty two million yemenis are in need of food aid more than eight million threatened by severe hunger. and disease to cholera has infected more than a million yemenis and syria is another threat facts the saudi crown prince will want to avoid when he visits washington next week. al-jazeera. u.n.

human rights office says the mexican authorities tortured dozens of people in commission human rights abuses while investigating the disappearance of forty three students four years ago a new report says there's strong evidence some of those arrested over the missing students are subjected to arbitrate attention and rights violations john heilemann has more from mexico city. this is a case which still strongly residents and horrifies many mexicans you can see on this side behind me a sort of memorial in a protest to these forty three students who were taken by police in league with a low cool gang in september of two thousand pulte you can see on the other side the attorney general's office this is been put here very purposefully in front of that because many people feel the attorney general's office didn't do near enough to try and resolve this now what the united nations report says is a least thirty four suspects in this case that were taken in by the attorney

general's office with then they said they've got strong convictions those people were tortured we're talking about sexual abuse i think cia should beatings and electric shock so fairly heavy stuff and even worse than that they say that when the attorney general's office later on had an internal investigation to try and get to the bottom of who exactly their officials talked to these people but that investigation was sent stifled by the miss by the same attorney general's office and the impunity has reigned really on this that no officials have been called to account now the fallout from this on a wider scale has really really been though i think since this case it mounts a real before and after especially for president enrique pena nieto his popularity ratings which people were quite hard really went into free food after this in his reluctance to visit ministrations reluctance to really deal with the investigation and get justice for the students behind us now we go elections in mexico in the next couple of months coming up so we have to see if that's going to have any

impact on his party the pre party which are ruling at the moment. alas zimbabwe where the former leader robert mugabe's expressed his outrage about the events which saw him removed from office well gobby told a state broadcaster he was ousted in what he called a military takeover and says his former deputy emmas him and i had assumed the presidency illegally. hold. v.v. whom i had knew and broke into government. or do this live. who are used to thirty. three through. with. the. you would be demand. to be against.

now of course in france is up held a life sentence for the self-styled revolutionary who became known as carlos the jackal and it sure mirrors sanchez was convicted in march last year of tossing a grenade into a shop on paris's left bank in one nine hundred seventy four but he's always denied responsibility for the bombing that killed two people he's already serving sentences for a string of murders and bombings carried out in the seventy's and eighty's venezuela has claimed his attacks were in support of palestinian independence groups now the world health organization is launching a review of jury u.s. investigation found plastic particles in many major brands of bottled water two hundred fifty nine bottles were tested from eleven major brands in nine different countries using a red dye called which binds to free floating piece of plastic the study found a whopping ninety three percent of bottled water showed some signs of plastic

contamination police or of water that was an average of ten plastic particles bigger than one hundred microns which is about the width of a human hair that's twice as much as the levels found in a previous study on tap or so. joining me now from san diego is the scientists behind this report sherry mason she's a professor of chemistry state university of new york and for joni and thank you very much thank you very much for speaking to us so which is best to is both potentially harmful force should we stick to town or so what do we what can we conclude from this study and i think this study you know definitely points to the fact that unless you're in an environment in which you know that your tap water is unsafe which you know the vast majority of us especially in the developed world is are not in that kind of category topwater is definitely safer it's much more well regulated and our study it's proven that it has much less plastic you're

a professor of science was that anything in this study that came as a surprise to you. absolutely i mean that was wasn't surprised that we found plastic because quite frankly you know i have my right work started and in the great lakes and i've looked at its water i've looked at sediment i've looked at rivers i've looked at fish i've looked at sea salt they looked at beer everywhere we look we find plastic even in remote areas like a lake up and mongolia so i wasn't surprised to find plastic but i was surprised at the quantities that we found and the different types of plastics that we found and is there anything that can be done to prevent this type of contamination was that really what our study focused on in our study was really focused on understanding whether or not it was found in bottled water you know largely because people go to bottled water thinking that it's safer than top water. so i you know i

think of it as a follow up study looking at different types of filtration methods that might in order to try and understand which might be most effective but i really think that this really comes down to us reevaluating our relationship with this material right most of us have access to clean safe water that we can use and reusable containers instead of going out and buying bottled water similarly you know you don't need a plastic bag when you go to the grocery store you don't need straws to drink your beverages and so i really think we need to reexamine our relationship with this material because the reality is every piece of plastic we find in the environment ultimately comes from us which means that we're the problem but that also means that we're the solution and so in terms of the process itself you would assume that these fragments have managed that they're inside the walls and because they've broken off something larger a whiskey bottle of water is incased in plastic but whereabouts in the process has

has this sort of happened if you like. yeah well we didn't again we didn't test it along the way we kind of went into it with the frame of mind if somebody goes and they buy a bottle of water they open it what are they going to be consuming and i think it would be really interesting to do a study where we looked at different steps along the way in order to understand where it's getting contributed but if you look at our study relative to the top water study in the tap water we found half as much plastic and in the same size range and in tap water it was mostly fibers whereas in the bottled water it was mostly fragments so that to me tells me that there's a different source to the plastic and so it's i think you know we have really good evidence that it's making its way into the bottled water through the process of actually packaging the water itself so i don't think it's coming from the water i

think it's coming from the packaging whether that's the bottle whether that's the cap whether it's being open to the atmosphere and things are falling in as you go through the process think you know different steps along the way are probably contributing a little bit along. one of these kind of levels it's definitely a fascinating study and very interesting to see how you can build on it dr sherry mason thank you very much thank you for having me. now one of the launches companies in britain is moving its headquarters from london to rotterdam unit leavis says its decision is not because of bricks it bought in order to simplify its structure and rebuffed takeover bids the i'm going to touch from makes a number of popular supermarket items like dove soap domestic ben and jerry's ice cream on the get go has more from london. after a year long review the decision has been made to take the company back to the the corporate headquarters of

a company that is back to the netherlands it has previously been headed here in london as well as. thoughts in the review questions have arisen to make it more streamlined how to make the company will focus the c.e.o. of the company who has insisted that it is to do with that relatively few of the jobs of seven thousand three hundred jobs at a base to are going to relocate back to the netherlands also what is another factor in this to be considered here is the fact that there was a hostile takeover bid by the u.s. food giant cross tie ins last year and if it continues to be remain if you continue to remain in london london's. laws surrounding hostile takeover bids are loose so where as they are much tougher in the netherlands therefore the risk of that is less but also will be ignored as well is this juggernaut of bricks about continues with all the uncertainty that's surrounding it it doesn't really look good for two

reasons the optics certainly are very good for that to try and get companies to stay here certainly big companies like this it is an enormous company it is listed on the london stock exchange and to have that is considered a something of a bit of an embarrassment for the u.k. in this context however the c.e.o. maintains that it has nothing to do with brics it but certainly to go from britain and to be seen to go right back to the heart of the e.u. is not going to be considered necessarily as a very good thing for the u.k. economy. well the rise of online shopping is being blamed for the demise of one of the wiles biggest toy companies toys r us will sell or pose its us dollars pushing some thirty thousand jobs at risk it's also shutting down its one hundred outlets hit in person cabral as on the reports it was an umbrella type racket for generations of children in america and around the world it was a playground for picking out the latest toy everything from a new poll bike or to

a race car toys r us like the name so aptly implies was synonymous with any and all toys for kids stores could be found all over america including in one of the most important intersections in the world times square in new york city as a business empire expanded it opened in more than thirty five other countries as well. babies r us stores that clothing and supplies for infants but we shoppers increasingly going online at sites such as amazon major high street stores are taking a hit to their profits toys r us managers finally gave up announcing that after seventy years in business they were shutting their doors for good and closing or selling off all of the nearly eight hundred stores in the u.s. and around the world i think were toys are struck the bowls in a few areas one is their online business while everybody is growing their own why business toys r us was down twelve percent they perform extremely poorly online

trouble had been brewing for the company for years and its chief executive complained last year about the challenges faced it's so competitive it's a twenty five billion dollar industry and every marketer out there wants to try to get their arms around those young families certainly be on wine business has made it even more attractive for customers to price shop and look at various alternatives so it's a very competitive business but toys r us. has many self-inflicted wounds primarily about five billion worth of debts which meant there wasn't much money to upgrade stores the company filed for bankruptcy last year toys r us simply is about sixty thousand people around the world now they're looking for new jobs gabriels on. new york. so i head for the west indies miss out next cricket while.

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a side advance eight one on aggregate athletic will have won this competition in two thousand and ten and two thousand and twelve. see omar saying light sake and sporting lisbon are also three s c s k a moscow would currently advance on away goals while salzburg would be eliminated dortmund if the score remains nil nil all three goals for arsenal have all but guaranteed their spot england rugby coach eddie jones has been forced to apologize for derogatory comments he made towards wales and ireland the remarks were said at a sponsor event last year but have only now been widely shared jones try to focus attention away from the comments and towards this weekend six nations game were england will try to stop ireland securing a grand slam so why. does anyone.

as three million people through the moon. with twenty three. one cases scare me. i'm still dirty that they. will give it back to get that back don't worry we're going to make sure i will get them back of paul joyce the remarks. i sincerely mean that. really don't have anything else to say the matter. of a heavy dose of the cac questions on a fantastic game that's coming up but i think the other matter is that. it's been a day of surprises cricket's world cup qualifying tournaments in zimbabwe despite not reaching the super six round the pole managed to secure one day international status by beating new guinea there was also a huge upset as afghanistan beat the west indies by three wickets and the super six stage this was the first loss of the tournament for the windies the two time world

cup champions now risk failing to qualify for next year's event they're currently third and only the top two teams go through. tiger woods is tied for second after the opening round of the arnold palmer invitational which saw six birdies and one double bogey for a four under sixty eight is one shot behind club house leader jimmie walker woods says he's feeling good after returning from back surgery. i've been away from that for so long. when i first when i first came back this is a matter of just getting must feel for term and don't forget. i think i think i feel like i'm not really thinking as much around the golf course it's like going to see the ceiling go. and that's just because. daria katz akina has continued her impressive run at indian wells having already knocked out caroline wozniak she's now beaten another former world number one the

russian absolutely destroying actually kerber in straight sets in just fifty eight minutes while some a time moto g.p. champion valentino rossi says he still hasn't decided when hole retire last rossi's campaign for another title begins on sunday with the grown prix of cats are. i would be because. when i signed the last contract the. in the moment that they signed it maybe maybe the last one. i would decide to doing these are two season and. he might be my mind the idea was very very clear like he said i want to try to continue for sure. but he's very very high three time olympic champion camille star continues to dominate so on the ski jumping world cup tour fresh from his when the four wish here once again finish top

of the leaderboard in triumph in norway the third stop on the tour thirty year old a perfect three first jump beating out stuff and craft of germany and norway's robert your hands to stop the the overall world cup standing. the baseball player known as the japanese babe ruth is having an easy time of it as he adjusts to life as a major league star with the l.a. angels shohei otani was signed by the angels in december and is highly prized because in japan he excelled as both a pitcher and hitter but he took a painful blow joining his latest warm up game for his new team and with a hit live to bat so far off target has injured seven strikeouts and three walks in nine games and i'll tell you sport for now it's now back to merriam levy thank you for people in northern fell and have been treated to a spectacular light display as the northern lights were seen dancing in the sky over the arctic circle the phenomenon occurs when charged particles from the sun

reacts with the earth's atmosphere it's been a bright we of england and more than one way it was just voted the world's happiest country by the un as well. that's it for the news hour but i'll be back in a moment with much more of the day's news.

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a peaceful future after american troops withdrawal. but the conflict is far from over. he turns the camera on himself when i see take control and his family off forced to flee and nowhere to hide a witness documentary at this time on al jazeera. the trouble ministration takes action against russia imposing sanctions for meddling in the twenty sixteen election. hello i'm in london you're watching al-jazeera.