what makes this moment this era we're living through so unique this is really an attack on truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important. to publish it. to be offensive or provocative about it as people do. setting the stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. we're going to be tough on russia until they decide to change their behavior the u.s. imposes new sanctions on russia for alleged meddling in the twenty six thousand election moscow says it will retaliate.

and jane doesn't this is live from doha it was a coming up an exodus from syria's eastern go to thousands escape the fighting in the besieged area seven years after the war began. four months after knowledge and time submarine vanished relatives of the missing crew launched their own mission to find a plus. in sydney which this weekend hosts a special as against summits with australia for a group of southeast asian countries so why is the something happening here. 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 trump administration is threatening to keep tough policies in place until moscow changes its behavior russia says it will retaliate a white house correspondent committee reports. last july the g twenty summit when

u.s. president donald trump met with latimer 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 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 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 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 sanctioned individuals from traveling to the united states only adding to the tension between the two countries kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington as you mentioned the u.s. has joined britain france and germany in blaming russia for the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in the u.k. the country's released a joint statement saying there's no plausible alternative explanation for the attack on wednesday but in expelled twenty three russian diplomats and suspended high level contacts with moscow are u.k. correspondent fun to be phillips reports. the prime minister visits seoul 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 ministers continue 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. frankly russia should go away should churchill a joint statement with the americans french or german as described events. and sold spree as an assault on british sovereignty and from nato this this is the first of

fence iv use of a nerve agent on alliance territory since nato's foundation or others agree that the attack was 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 . that have been his deal 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 but to be phillips al jazeera westminster in what's believed to be the largest exodus and one day in syria seven year war tens of thousand people have fled east and go to most of the town of how maria was rebel 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 ellen fishes more from gaza and top near the turkish syrian border. we had a choice stay in three small bombardment or leave to an uncertain future they choose 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 mind as it is there is no water no medicine that could be provided to our children not even food the situation is miserable but how did they. are happy because we're safe right now in the hands of the army we were

living in a jail not in the go so we not. the mass exodus of azhar procession on the seventh anniversary of the start of the syrian civil war was leaving came from home area 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'd be looking at a similar solution in other parts of the area the regime offensive against used to alter and include which has been besieged 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 the other fronts are moralists . but even as the 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 turn of duma the twenty five more days carrying enough we need for twenty six thousand people for one month once more there were no medical supplies allowed in while i'm there i'm a normal no i do in my 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 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 and fisher al jazeera on the tukey syria border thousands of civilians also fleeing their homes in a free and as turkey's military closes and people have been crowding on to trucks and tractor drawn carts to get away those staying in the city are preparing food or buying food to prepare for a long siege turkey is trying to retake the area from the kurdish why p.j.

which it considers a terrorist group 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 of a university in miami barbara and copper reports. mayhem on one of the busiest roads in miami minutes after the bridge collapsed imagine ceasar 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 drilling holes into the pile to try to locate any viable it's also the pedestrian bridge then you'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 scene . 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 is just 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. thousands of brazilians have been mourning the death of a city councilor the president's calling an assassination mariel franco and her driver were shot dead in their car wednesday. the thirty eight year old was a popular public official and a critic of killings by police in some of rio's poorer districts the military took charge of policing the city last month. in. the murder of council member mary ellen a driver anderson is an acceptable like other associations it happened in rio de janeiro it's an attack against the rule of law and against democracy relatives of crew members on a missing argentine submarine are demanding answers they're not convinced by

government assurances that all is being done to find the vessel in the southern atlantic that is about reports of. a small group of protesters in front of argentina's presidential palace most of them relatives of the forty four crew members of the one submarine. we feel abandoned not only by the government but also by side. we've been alone this whole time as if nobody kid it's been four months since the submarine went missing in the southern atlantic it was feeling from the southern argentine city of. the commander of the vessel told his home base water had entered resulting in a battery function. and the water listening devices scattered around the world's oceans identified the hydro acoustic anomaly in the area the navy believes it was an explosion. that was part of the crew he has been

pushing for the government to continue with the search and the investigation into exactly what happened there with almost. it's been one hundred twenty days when supposedly an explosion was detected and we have more doubts on ever because over two hours after the supporters explosion there is an attempt to contact base nobody has been able to give us any answers we want to know the truth because there is an attempt to hide what happened the government says it has done everything possible to find the missing submarine but people here are desperate and they're coming the fans but not enough has been done some of them are even asking for a small donation so that they can hire a private company that will help them find their loved ones. there's been an international search for the missing sub russia and the united states provided ships and technology but weather conditions were difficult at the time no trace of the bethel has been found the search is continuing though with

a reduced number of ships. there might be another reason why finding the submarine has become even more difficult. most probably the submarine got stuck in underwater canyons with enormous currents and very probably the submarine could be covered with sediments which makes it more difficult to find now we need to continue coming the area change the top of technology it could take years to find. and that's what these people want. their relatives will be found alive but say they need to know what happened no matter how long it takes. still ahead on al-jazeera. i'm wayne hay in central vietnam where people are marking fifty years since an american war crime that went largely unpunished and the opposition to the dubbed russia's paris hilton says she's setting up

a new party days ahead of the presidential election. 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 and specky stand back up to eleven degrees cherry looking ok or much the caspian sea although it is rather cloudy on the so so we could see want to shower so tehran is at risk of the odd shower bank that i think will stay largely dry but across iran right 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 indeed even through into saturday temperatures not dropping much and around the gulf states cherry pretty warm that abu dhabi coming in at thirty degrees heading down into southern portions of africa we got a tropical cyclone called fourteen at the moment it will get a proper name soon but it's going to try to it's 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. you know like everywhere connectivity there's. more infrastructure in the pen than some foreign corporations speech too many of them are now a politician activists are building a homegrown solution. and secure the nation's technological sovereignty.

will be the citizens network at this time i'll give you. a little watching al-jazeera mine of our top stories this hour the u.s. impose new sanctions on russia targeting more than a dozen people for trying to influence the twenty sixteen presidential election the jump administrations threatening to keep tough policies in place to moscow changes its behavior russia has vowed to retaliate. tens of thousands of people have fled eastern goods in what's believed to be the largest exodus in one day in syria

syria's seven year war most of the town of how maria which has been at the center of heavy fighting between rebels and government forces. a pedestrian bridge has collapsed onto a busy highway in the u.s. state of florida killing at least four people nine others in hospital several vehicles were crushed beneath the walkway at florida international university in miami. vietnam is marking the fiftieth anniversary of the massacre us soldiers killed more than five hundred civilians mostly women and children in this one raid in the vietnam war they've been sent on a mission to confront the national liberation front of the viet cong thought to be hiding in the village only one american soldier was prosecuted over the incident when a reports it's normal to see grave sites scattered around the villages and rice fields of vietnam but in this area there's a common date on them the sixteenth of march one thousand nine hundred sixty eight

that's when most people who lived in the village of me lie killed some of them raped and tortured first in a four hour assault by u.s. soldiers during the vietnam war. kong was eleven at the time and among the few who survived when the soldiers opened fire on his family he was shielded by the bodies of his mother and four siblings. the soldiers killed people in the rice fields and on the roads first then they came to every house and killed everyone they killed every person every animal they saw then they burnt the houses. believing there were enemy soldiers in midline the americans were told to kill everyone five hundred four unarmed men women and children were murdered the main site is now a parking museum where people come to learn about a massacre that was covered up by the u.s. for more than a year. people come here to remember them africa but it's not about holding on to

bad feelings it's a reminder to the world that the war was bad and together we must maintain peace the just one u.s. soldier was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison but later had his sentence commuted. the message and other similar incidents helped galvanize the antiwar movement in the united states and turned more vietnamese against the american soldiers today of course the vietnamese haven't forgotten the war but for most there is a sense of moving on. relations between the two countries have steadily improved to the point where they see strategic and economic benefits of being on the same side . last week saw the largest u.s. military presence in vietnam since the war as the navy visited the city of dumbing and took part in several community events but moving on is not so easy for those who survived one of the most horrific acts of the war. from the vietnamese are forgiving the local people who will always retain some hatred for the american

soldiers who had no humanity that day and committing a massacre the letters homeless and with a lonely life today the fields around me lie a peaceful just as they were before the u.s. helicopters landed fifty years ago but for survivors of that darkest of days the serenity will never be able to raise the memories wane hey al-jazeera me lie vietnam. north korea's foreign minister has arrived in sweden for talks which could help set up a proposed summit between donald trump and kim jong un sweden has been suggested as a look asian for the two leaders to meet its embassy in pyongyang represents the u.s. canada and australia all countries which don't have diplomats there security and trade will be top of the agenda as a stranger hosts a southeast asia summit protests are expected because some of the leaders attending the end of overseeing crackdowns on human rights in their own countries under

thomas reports from sydney. organizers called this event held in sydney on thursday the phone teams of computer experts were given mock cyber security challenges with five hundred participants. international and domestic players from public and private enterprise trying to. fix six terrorism questions we've given them in thirty two hours most participants were from association of southeast asian nations or as the end countries australia has put countering cyber crime and tackling money laundering and what it calls terrorism at the heart of the agenda for the asean special summit australia itself isn't in as again as its acronym suggests its ten members are all in southeast asia australia though is to fast south and east to be a member but australia has important trade and security relationships with asean

countries and wants to tighten connections with a group it sees as valuable to regional security. as he is uniquely placed to continue to promote international order within our region. asean countries are nothing like as in twined politically or economically as countries in for example the european union but having a regional group in asia which excludes china is useful to australia hosting a summit is a sign of australia's commitment to it the benefit i think is establishing these relationships so that if there is a crisis probably one that will be that it will involve china in the future yes trying different has these relationships and he is able to call on them and rely on them the summit of asean leaders is being kept low key in part because it's controversial those attending include myanmar's on sunday despite her government's treatment of the ranger the military leader of thailand will be coming to even

though elections that were recently delayed again. in sochi is malaysia's prime minister despite many saying he's corrupt the only as yet leader choosing not to come as the philippines roderigo to tatay even cambodia's prime minister hun sen is being welcomed by australia's government despite his crackdown on opposition figures and human rights activists at home and has threatened to beat up any protest as we burn effigies of him in sydney a horrible dictator who has no respect for human rights. he doesn't understand democracy. the way he treated people through. you know threat harassment. you know mainly from a people silenced cambodians ranger and vietnamese people living in australia. to protest under thomas i'll just say. 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 agent lee needed robert mugabe spoke out for the first time since being ousted as zimbabwe's president mugabe gave an interview to foreign media from his home in harare is called his removal from office in the event of a coup saying he never thought emerson man and god why would turn against him in ninety four year old described his asking as a military takeover and says mullen go assume the presidency illegally. if. he had. been brought into government. and whose life i worked so hard. to save. the west.

with hangman. hungary's right wing prime minister says western europe is under migrant invasion that will soon turn native europeans into a minority that's all been was addressing tens of thousands of supporters three weeks ahead of parliamentary elections he's openly hostile to refugees and asylum seekers and has made anti immigration policies the focus of his campaign for a third term. victory is almost inevitable for vladimir putin in russia's presidential election on sunday but there are seven other challenges on the ballot one is reality t.v. star sub chuck an opposition candidate widely considered a criminal puppet. of reports in moscow. previously at home on russia's

reality t.v. screens the one time party girl kissing your sub jack turned political party girl challenging vladimir putin for the presidency. stuff i didn't think we need them to stop stealing our freedom and youth to stop stealing our common future nasa scientists share the share their 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 separate out for maybe. what for the future and about russian opposition but the words she won't win of course not of the seven kremlin approved candidates in this election have any chance of toppling me uprooted so what is this. politics all about it seems a long time since t.v.

shows like blondin 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 with aaron like a big guy bullying. you go in and tried to to help the teenager if you are a normal person her name is political solid. gold because then years 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 are not a part of his 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 yourself. to swap dirty dancing for the sometimes dirty world of russian politics show how al-jazeera moscow. the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. imposes new sanctions on russia targeting more than

a dozen people for trying to influence a trying to sixteen presidential election the trumpet ministrations threatening to keep tough policies in place until moscow changes its behavior russia has vowed to retaliate tens of thousand people have fled eastern goten what's believed to be the largest exodus in one day in syria's seven year war most left the town of how maria which has been at the center of heavy fighting between rebels and government forces . a pedestrian bridge has collapsed onto a busy highway in the us state of florida killing at least four people nine others in hospital several vehicles were crushed by the broken walkway at florida international university in miami thousands of brazilians have been mourning the death of a city council that the president is calling an assassination mariel franco and a driver was shot dead in their condo wednesday in rio de janeiro the thirty eight year old was a popular public official and

a critic of killings by police in sort of areas poorer districts. that. the murder of council member mary ellen 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 president he's called his removal from office in the event but qusay never thought emerson money would turn against him the ninety four year old described as a military takeover they're marking the fiftieth anniversary of the my lai massacre us soldiers killed more than five hundred civilians mostly women and children in this one raid in the vietnam war only one american soldier was prosecuted over the incident the u.n. is warning more than two hundred seventy thousand people in pop want to 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 clean needed. those are the headlines rebel x. is up. in the past seven years over three million homes destroyed. and eleven million people displaced. syrians made homeless by war share their stories. in the ruins of a dream at this time on al-jazeera. digital technology offers them a mess and intimacy and easement and even longer knife in the ability to keep billions of calculations in our pockets it seems we discovered and he didn't mention. in which everything in our lives can be increased and tracked.