perception. documentary. from around the globe. was a big sound. discussion is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion the only argument i find against that is all to. see the world to see the spectrum. we're going to be tough on russia until they decide to change their behavior the us imposes new sanctions on russia for alleged meddling in the twenty six thousand election moscow says it will retaliate.

in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up an exodus from syria's eastern goods as thousands escape the fighting in the besieged area seven years after the war began plus. the woman and. her family because i saw her screaming witnesses describe the aftermath of a bridge collapse of a university in florida with least four people have been killed. thirty years on from a chemical attack that killed thousands in the iraqi city of survivors say the pain is never far away. the u.s. has announced new sanctions against russia targeting more than a dozen people for trying to influence the twenty sixteen presidential election the trumpet ministration is threatening to keep tough policies in place until moscow changes its behavior russia says it will retaliate our house correspondent has

a story. last july the g twenty summit when u.s. president donald trump met with vladimir putin he said it was an honor to meet the russian president days or ninety eight and in august when the u.s. congress passed legislation to sanction russia iran and north korea trunk grudgingly signed it into law but failed to sanction moscow for alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election until now on thursday the u.s. 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 to 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 sanctions are part of a broad effort target what it calls russia's malicious cyber activity and critical infrastructure clued in 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 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 sanctioned individuals from traveling to the united states only adding to the tension between the two countries kimberly help at al-jazeera washington as we mentioned the u.s. has joined britain france and germany in blaming russia for the poisoning of a former spy and these daughter in the u.k. the country's released a joint statement saying there's no plausible alternative explanation for the attack on wednesday britain expelled twenty three russian diplomats and suspended high level contacts with moscow a u.k. correspondent bunmi phillips reports. the prime minister visits old spring 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 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 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 german as described events and salt

spray as an assault on british sovereignty and from nato this this is the first of sensitive use of a nerve agent on alliance territory since nato's foundation all of us agree that attack will sic clear 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 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 cvs no

prospect of anglo russian relations improving for years to come barnaby phillips al-jazeera westminster it what is believed to be the largest exodus and one day in syria's seven year war tens of thousands of people have fled east and go to most of the time of how maria which rebels say they've retaken in heavy fighting but after nearly four weeks of relentless bombardment syrian government forces are inching closer to capturing the rest of the enclave almost one thousand two hundred fifty civilians have been killed many of them children and fishes more from gaza and top of the turkey syria border. 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 mind of a home they may never see again my night as it is there is no water no medicine that could be provided to our children that even food situation is miserable. that

we're so happy because we're safe right now in the hands of the enemy we were living in a jail not a negation are we not. a mass exit bizarre procession on the seventh anniversary of the start of the syrian civil war was leaving came from how maria a city that's been under attack for three solid weeks and the area once controlled by anti assad forces the completely surrounded by their enemies something like this had 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 include which has been besieged for the last seven years i'm just finally you know falling into government. isn't about negotiation that is really where the regime is using exploiting the opportunity it has the other fronts are

moralists. but even as a civilian streamed out of the besieged enclave is strikes and aerial bombardments reported elsewhere in good times. and in the north of the area in a place controlled by josh el islam a convoy of trucks into the tone of the twenty five more days getting enough food need for twenty six thousand people for one month once more there were no medical supplies allowed in well i mean i mean normally you are doing in that mattress where 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. people leaving will be identified. i didn't process that some need this will be seen as a major victory for the syrian government for the people who manage to walk out it will be seen as survival own fisher on the talkie syria border thousands of civilians are also fleeing their homes in a free in turkey's military closes in people to be in crimea onto trucks and truck

to drawn carts to get away those staying in the city are buying food to prepare for a long siege turkey is trying to retake the area from the kurdish y p g which it considers a terrorist group universal gauges of accused syrian government forces of raping thousands of men women and children during the war they say it was part of a campaign to punish opposition communities and amounts to crimes against humanity even though incidents of sexual and gender based violence throughout syria comprise violations of the most fundamental human rights and humanitarian laws perpetrated by most parties on the ground nowhere has the phenomenon been brighter than in instances perpetrated by government forces and affiliated militias this school says the perpetrator great string ground operations house raids at checkpoints and in detention the most severe cases were recorded in the early years of the conflict with your cases being recorded in two thousand and sixteen and two thousand and seventeen well the rates at checkpoints have been recorded as later september two

thousand and sixteen iran's foreign ministry spokesman has described the saudi crown prince as a delusional naive person who has no idea of politics he was reacting to muhammad bin some months first u.s. television interview during the discussion on c.b.s. the crown prince said his country will develop nuclear weapons if you round us. 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 have seen that you call the ayatollah khomeini the new hitler of the middle east leadership absolutely why. he did 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 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 a pedestrian bridge has collapsed onto a busy highway in the u.s. state of florida killing at least four people vehicles are trapped under the wreckage at a university in miami barbara and got the reports. mayhem on one of the busiest roads in miami minutes after the bridge collapsed imagine society says and lifted some survivors to hospital but many more with thought to be trapped on that nine hundred fifty tons of concrete and metal i saw a young gentleman and a honda and he still had life in him and i was not negative he was squished and so

he put his hand out and i fell to the side and i knew he he died at that time at least eight vehicles were crushed beneath the rubble i can assure you that our teams are still in rescue and search mode they're still working the debris pile we have search dogs in place we have technical listening devices and fiber optics were great with drill holes into the pile to try to locate any viable it's also the pedestrian bridge then we've been erected at florida international university on saturday it was decently formally open next year now there are difficult days ahead our hearts are here extended out to those that the victims that were actually able to be transported away as well as those that may not be walking away from. the bridge was installed using what's known as an accelerated construction method preassembled and installed piece by piece the design was supposed to reduce risk to

our cars and pedestrians and limit traffic disruption instead questions of being asked about if there's a criminal case to be on said the main focus here by the fire department obviously is to rescue people and that is what we're assisting with by by controlling traffic assist enough that he would traffic for now and then we're on standby because as soon as souls efforts are over our homicide bureau will take the lead in investigating this tragedy that has occurred for now the rescue crews as such and for any signs of life preparing for the west barbara and. to sarah. it's led on al-jazeera bitter taste to robert mugabe says he never believed zimbabwe's new president would turn against him plus. outpouring of grief at the death of a popular politician brazil's president calls it an assassination.

from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. welcome back as we look at the weather across the levant and western parts of asia we've lost the snow which has been affecting those eastern areas so tashkent respect to stand back up to eleven degrees cherry looking ok or in much the caspian sea all that is rather cloudy on the south side we could see want to shower so terrine is at risk of the old shower bank that i think will stay largely dry but across iran iraq variable amounts of cloud around the eastern side of turkey we've got some rain with snow higher elevations but that tends to clear away as we head through into saturday and leaves them with fine conditions around the eastern side of the mediterranean with highs of nineteen degrees likely in beirut into the arabian peninsula looking fine here a little bit of cloud around this weekend thirty five in mecca here in doha temperatures still above what they should be where straight on into summer i think

with highs of thirty two degrees celsius the even through into saturday temperatures not dropping much and around the gulf states generally pretty warm that abu dhabi coming in at thirty degrees heading down into southern portions of africa we've got a tropical cyclone called fourteen at the moment it will get a proper name so but it's going to trundle this way down the east coast of madagascar giving some flooding rain we've also some showers on the eastern side of south africa durban looks to be quite wet at times but for cape town it should be dry and fine with a maximum of twenty degrees. the weather sponsored by qatar raise. the scene for us whether online what is american sign in yemen that peace is possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people choosing between buying medication eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an

activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. the top stories on al-jazeera. the u.s. imposes new sanctions on russia targeting more than a dozen people trying to influence the twenty sixteen presidential election the chance of ministrations threatening to keep tough policies in place until moscow changes its behavior russia has vowed to retaliate. tens of thousands of people have fled eastern what's believed to be the largest exodus and one day in syria's seven year war most of the town of homs which has been at the center of heavy fighting between rebels and government forces. but a bridge has collapsed onto

a busy highway in the u.s. state of florida killing at least four people nine others are in hospital at least eight vehicles are beneath the wreckage at florida international university in miami. the paines never far away for survivors of a chemical attack which killed thousands of people thirty years ago it happened in the kurdish city of during the reign of iraqi leader saddam hussein despite treaties to ban chemical weapons around the world poison gas attacks haven't stopped there warning you may find pictures in some of binge of its report distress . this symbolic graveyard is as close to closure as sabri hummock can get to thirty years on the horrors of the chemical attack on her hometown in northern iraq stem. cells are. on the sixteenth of march we were having a male we had fighter jets they struck the area and then we were hit by

a chemical attack in the afternoon we ran towards the hills we were so scared every one of us went on our separate way some of us went to neighboring iran others who couldn't make it died in the city it was like dreams day i lost four of my children and on that day there are still many cases of psychological disorder skin diseases and respond to problems for the survivors and fortunately no one is taking care of them thousands of kurds were killed when the iraqi army said it attacked iranian forces in the closing stage of the iran iraq war. a peace museum aims to keep alive the memory of those who died and to raise awareness about the horrors of chemical weapons kurdish doctors say three decades later the effects of sarin mustard gas are still causing defects and ailments. we don't have enough medical centers or medicine to treat these people who are still affected we need more specialized doctors in these fields and further cooperation about the baghdad and erbil

governments to treat them as. a chemical weapons convention was signed in one thousand nine hundred seven who bitting the manufacture and use of chemical weapons the vast majority of countries signed up but despite that chemical attacks have not stopped there have been more incidents of men women and children being killed in large numbers dead from breathing in poisonous gas none of them had any wombs trauma or injury. and i was in hootenanny of the syrian capital damascus president assad's forces killed more than fourteen hundred people in a chemical attack in two thousand and thirteen since then most of the syrian chemical weapons stockpiles have been destroyed but the assad government has been accused of using concentrated chlorine gas on opposition held areas doctors say at least eight attacks have been reported in syria this year. and there are people like siberia say they can relate to what's happening in syria. in both countries want the world to put words into action and stop more attacks some of the job made

of their. robert mugabe has spoken out for the first time since being ousted as zimbabwe's president gave an interview to foreign media from his home in harare has called his removal from office in the event of a coup saying it never thought emerson would turn against him ninety four year old described his ousting as a quote military takeover. assumed the presidency illegally. we had. them broke into government. life work. to save. us. we've had.

we would be mad. somaliland president says the united arab emirates will train its security forces as part of a deal to establish a military base there the u.a.e. is investing hundreds of millions of dollars but the shipping company in dubai had its long term contract in djibouti cancelled last month now so many politicians have voted to ban them from a big investment in somaliland mohamed atta reports from mogadishu. heated debate in somalia upper house of parliament senators debate a motion on the recent signing of a deal between the united arab emirates if you appear on the brick. and to operate the portal. well the bill that aims to ban the dubai ports world from somalia quickly sailed through the lower house it's proving to be contentious in the senate whose fifty four members represent the interests of somalia six federal states

which include somalia. does our government share ethiopia why are we not talking about ethiopian interference in our affairs while we are only talking about the u.a.e. and dubai ports world when ethiopia took a nineteen percent stake in berbera port in the deal signed in dubai recently the port operator took a fifty one percent stake in the port of but better so my land retained thirty percent while the remaining nineteen percent goes to european. somalia and the u.a.e. has frosty relations even before the ports deal was signed somali government leaders say it's because of somalia's refusal to side with countries including the u.a.e. which are blockading qatar saudi arabia the united arab emirates and other countries cut the bull market ties with qatar last year they insist that others in the horn of africa follow their. bits of the somali federal government which offered him a new trial in the crisis against most of its one of. the somali government blames

the u.a.e. for courting the leaders of the six federal states and encouraging them to side with the blockade in countries causing a serious challenge to somalia's already struggling state building process you know . it's true we are passing through tough times but it is true our economy is not doing well but we shall never allow foreigners to take advantage of our weaknesses and interfere with us of. barely two months of the he was appointed somalia's foreign minister has been given the responsibility of dealing with the fallout from the port deal we have no problem with investment in sunlight and importance of. that however we would not. negotiate a compromise on the server. in the. summer so my lands relatively small portal but a bright spots livestock to the middle east and imports food and other items including for landlocked if you all bought said to change as d.p.

world says it's prepared to invest up to four hundred forty two million dollars to develop the port for somaliland the dubai port deal is not only a financial windfall but also a vote of confidence and that is a major problem for somalia which view somaliland as it's all going to have to mohamed atta will just see it at. the u.n. is warning more than two hundred seventy thousand people in papua new guinea need immediate humanitarian assistance the country is struggling to recover from a strong earthquake which hit more than two weeks ago tents medicine food and water and. according francis upheld a life sentence for the self-styled revolutionary became known as carlos the jackal rares sanchez was convicted last year of tossing a grenade into a paris shop in one thousand nine hundred seventy four he's always denied he was behind the bombing that killed two people sanchez was already serving sentences for

a string of murders and bombings in the seventy's and eighty's. thousands of brazilians have been mourning the death of a city councilor after what the president is calling an assassination francona driver anderson gomes was shot dead in their car on wednesday in rio de janeiro the thirty eight year old was a popular public official and a critic of killings by police and some of rio's poorer districts. the murder of council member mariano dr anderson is unacceptable like other associations that happened in rio de janeiro it's an attack against the rule of law and against democracy colombia's government has revived peace talks with the last remaining rebel group the national liberation army or in negotiations between the two sides ended in january when the group initiated the attacks just after a temporary ceasefire expired president one minute says he's resuming the talks to

save lives ahead of may's presidential election and colombia started to investigate and prepare cases of war crimes committed by the fog rebel group victims can now file complaints with the newly created special jurisdiction for peace has become a political party since the end of the conflict lasting almost five decades the investigation is part of its peace deal with the government. this is a historic moment which marks the healing of knowledge meant of truth and responsibility and from this exercise truth through can all enjoyment allows us not to repeat the history that has been so painful and so cruel for this country. it almost makes me want to cry for the happiness i feel to see what the president has done what many should have done and about how many people were killed i lost my father my brothers my life has been tragic. peru's president is facing impeachment

for a second time for his ties to a brazilian construction giant pedro public survived a first bid to remove him from office in december by eight votes but in the sanchez reports from lima. oh. most of these politicians want to remove president. from office for moral incapacity eighty seven voted in favor fifteen against and fifteen abstained in a motion that paves the way for me pietschmann debate next thursday was it's been less than four months since he narrowly survived the last month to oust him. now that a decision has been made to admit for debate i can see a martian that has adequate basis that reiterate specs that have already been evaluated and a cry of i can see the only thing that remains to do is invoke the seriousness of parliament. to avoid impeachment last december made

a political pact with congressman kennedy for humanity in exchange for votes. soon after he pardoned kynges father his former president then right before he was in jail for human rights violations supporters say opposition parties are now claiming revenge they may feel lucky the truth is that we're going to debate a new vacancy because there are political groups that do not agree with the party and that president bush gave to mr alberto fujimori but opposition members of congress say this is not a witch hunt not in your no sir we are very clear this is nothing to do with. this apparently incapable plea means we can't defend those even curtain corruption the president has strongly denied any wrongdoing he first said he did not know the brazilian construction giant other bridge paid his miami based private consulting firm nearly eight hundred thousand dollars while he was serving a spitters finance minister more than ten years ago then he said the consulting

fees were legitimate for the rich has admitted to pay in millions of dollars in bribes and bid to former president in jail it was seeking to extradite former president. from the u.s. for taking bribes and several top politicians and presidential candidates are being investigated for to keep money from all they would it in addition to impeachment proceedings which is also due to testify before a congressional committee about his dealings with all the rich but many politicians already believe he received bribes and will vote for his impeachment next thursday the motion needs eighty seven votes to pass in the opposition dominated congress the same number who backed the renewed moves to oust him but.

the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. imposes new sanctions on russia targeting more than a dozen people for trying to influence the twenty sixteen presidential election the trumpet ministrations threatening to keep tough policies in place until moscow changes its behavior russia as violent to retaliate tens of thousands of people have fled east and go turn what's believed to be the largest exodus and one day in syria's seven year war mostly at the town of how maria which has been at the center of heavy fighting between rebels and government forces a pedestrian bridges collapsed on a busy highway in the u.s. state of florida killing at least four people and nine others are in hospital at least eight vehicles are beneath the wreckage at florida international university in miami. thousands of brazilians have been mourning the death of a city councilor after what the president is calling an assassination marielle frank on a driver shot was shot dead in their car on wednesday in rio de janeiro the thirty

eight year old was a popular public official and a critic of killings by police and some a real as poor district. the murder of council member mariano dr anderson is an acceptable like other associations that happened in rio de janeiro it's an attack against the rule of law and against democracy robert mugabe has spoken out for the first time since being ousted as zimbabwe's president he's called his removal from office in november a coup saying it never thought emerson man and god where would turn against him the ninety four year old described his ousting as a military takeover the u.n. is warning more than two hundred seventy thousand people in new guinea need immediate humanitarian assistance the country is struggling to recover from a strong earthquake which hit more than two weeks ago tents medicine food and water . within one hundred people died in the quake and they've been several powerful

aftershocks since then as the headlines a news continues on al jazeera after the stream. it is a very important source of information for many people around the world all the cameras are gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. hi i'm really could be and this is our and american sign language interpreter who'll be helping us conclude our weeklong coverage of the south by southwest conference in festivals in austin texas with a look at innovations in assistive technology for people with disability you're now in the stream live on al-jazeera and on you tube be sure to ask your questions in the.