peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there people there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. russia says it will respond after washington imposes new sanctions over alleged election meddling following u.k. action about the spider poisoning scandal.

here in doha you're watching al-jazeera live this half hour also coming up thousands of civilians leave besieged eastern guta as another round of talks on syria's war are due to begin in. doctors in zimbabwe on strike for a second week the first big challenge for the president amazon plus. i'm wayne hay in central vietnam where people are marking fifty years since an american war crime that went largely unpunished. russia is promising to retaliate after the u.s. announced new sanctions over moscow's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election in a few moments we'll be live in moscow for more reaction from russia but first here's our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reporting on washington's latest measures. 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 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's sanctions are part of

a broad effort to 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 but also targets in the 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 trumpet ministration 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 ok let's get reaction out of moscow our correspondent lawrence lee is there for us this hour loren so sanctions from the u.s. sanctions from the u.k. when did we hear from mr putin about this. well that's a very good question he's been crimea since wednesday the reason being obviously that this weekend is the presidential election if you can call it an election obviously putin's going to win and the atmosphere that the russian government and the kremlin has wanted to create around the election is one of celebration that they're worried that turnout might be low because people in russia know that this is going to win and so they're trying to whip the crowd up if you like engage

people in have competitions if you to have to vote you might win a mobile phone or something and so they that this air of celebration obviously is in the most stark contrast to this sense of siege and everybody criticizing russia for different reasons whether it's spying or poisoning or interfering with the election of mobile whatever else it is and so for all those reasons i think it may be that president putin decides to wait until after the elections finished before he actually gives a sort of overarching response to everybody complaining about were all the things that russia are doing it doesn't really fit with the mood he might say something about it but he's not actually should yield to speak of the thing for the time being so he's been left at the moment to people like the deputy foreign minister sergei lavrov who's in this donna at the moment these sorts of people to say well if the brits are going to expel lots of diplomats will basically we're going to expel some two and if the americans are going to have sanctions because of election and interference then we're going to sanctions americans too when this all about

reciprocity and expects all that but in some of the big statements about russia saying where everyone's out to get us that's got to come from putin and it may be maybe next week ok you're talking there about mr lever off the russian foreign minister he's in the cancer capitalist on as you were mentioning there for the next round of syrian discussions talks about peace talks about peace talks and syria but his number two mr rubb cough cough he's been talking now off the back of an interview that he's given to russian media about the situation with the u.k. and the u.s. and pretty robust language from him. yes and i mean they i mean they made it perfectly clear after the british said that they would expel twenty three russian diplomats which is a lot you know out of the america out of the russian embassy in london they were there the russians intimated immediately well we're going to do the same thing it's called tit for tat it's what always happens equally yesterday and again this

morning apparently you know after the americans said we were going to sanction russians because of this alleged election interference which is really a separate issue to the spy poisoning it's similar thing is but not really the same the russians said we're not case because sanctions americans it's the same principle of reciprocity so you'd expect these things to happen as a standard position that diplomats take if you get rid of some of our people and we're going to do the same to you but but this is much bigger question that's now being raised in this been brought about by by the poisoning who allegedly by the russians of this cripples because because of the use of nerve gas for the first time since the second world war and you know the russians had to start with to the british well how do you know that we did it you can't prove it was us is that then the french and the germans the americans all said well actually we think you did it to and so that creates a much bigger problem for the russians and so on one level it's brought all these grievances out from the years gone by election rigging the interference in ukraine the annexation of crimea the downing of the passenger jets over ukraine all of

these things are suddenly now bill got burst back into the surface and everybody is saying to the russians we just had it with you people we discount deal with you anymore and that's the big points on some level at some point in the future that putin has to try and address and i just wonder whether this election is this weekend since the election is after the point when if he's going to do it ok lawrence thanks for that take on the russian reaction to what's just imminently about to happen between the u.k. the u.s. and russia many thanks. well aside from the latest sanctions against russia the investigation into whether the kremlin meddled in the twenty sixteen u.s. election is turning its attention directing to president trump's business interests the special counsel robert muller has reportedly subpoenaed the trump organization to hand over various documents practical hain has that story from washington. robert miller once you know what business the trump administration has done in russia president donald trump often says none but the special counsel wants to see

if that's true according to the new york times he has sent a subpoena to trump's business requesting all documents miller could have just asked for them but a subpoena sends a message everything has to be turned over or else legal scholar bruce fein says this sends a message that the investigation won't end with the indictment of russians that he was building his case step by step yes now he's got one side of the equation with regard to the russians who he's indicted for attempting to influence now he's looking at the trump campaign to put the puzzle together who was the recipient and beneficiary and what kind of orchestration or coordination there was between competition and and the russians it's not clear if he's asked about businesses outside of russia but president donald trump has indicated that could force him to act this from a previous interview with the new york times. it would be your finding your

audience right there ready. for that be it reach what is actual i wish you would see it but there isn't much the president can do about the investigation he could try to fire miller directly but that would likely end up in the courts or he could try to dismiss the people in charge of mahler but that would be politically risky the last president to do that was richard nixon the political backlash led to him quitting before he could be impeached trump is still reportedly thinking about taking some steps to stop the investigation with the hope history won't repeat itself al-jazeera washington. thousands of people have fled syria's rebel held east and. seeing what's believed to have been the biggest exodus in a single day during the war most left the rebels free talk after heavy fighting after almost four weeks of relentless bombardment syrian government forces are inching closer to taking the rest of the enclave the assault has killed more than

twelve hundred civilians many of them children ellen fisher this report from near the turkey syria border. they had a choice stay in face more 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 night as it is there is no water no medicine that could be provided to our children that even food situation is miserable so how did that we're so happy because we're safe right now in the hands of the army we were living in a jail not in the gates are we not. a mass exit bizarre procession on the seventh anniversary of the start of the syrian civil war it 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'll 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 that isn't about negotiation that is really where the regime is using exploiting the opportunity it has that 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 time. and in the north of the area in a police controlled by josh powell islam a convoy of trucks into the tone of the twenty five more days getting enough food need for twenty six those and people for one month once more there were no medical supplies allowed in while i'm there i mean normally you are going but no matter 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 need this will be seen as a major victory for the syrian government for the people who managed to walk out it will be seen as survival and fisher on the tukey syria border the foreign ministers of iran russia and turkey hold talks in the capital of kazakhstan as stan or today's try to resolve the syrian conflict the three players are on opposing sides of the war but have been working together for more than a year to try to reduce the violence friday's meeting is expected to lay the groundwork for a summit involving the leaders of the three countries in istanbul in april life now to a stunning and my colleagues in a hold of everyone's agreed here the geneva process has in effect failed so if they make progress where you are where might they begin to make that progress. well they just concluded their talks and during their joint press conference the

turkish. and the russian foreign ministers attaching a lot of importance to the lead peace process really like a slap in the face to their western to the western countries as well as the united nations who have been insisting that any peace talks the political process should be led by the united nations we even heard the iranian foreign minister say a political solution to the syrian settlement will be found here and the syrians themselves are going to find this deal without the intervention of external powers now those in the opposition will say iran and russia have been intervening in the conflict and they shouldn't have a say in the final settlement but clearly this is a group like you mentioned they support opposing sides in the syrian conflict but they are working together because they have common interests it has really been a game changer that turkey is now on board with the russians and iranians even though that they have disagreements so they are pushing ahead with the way they see a peace in syria championing their peace referring to the peace conference that was

held in the end of january but since then i have to mention political initiatives have halted there is no political initiative on the table what we're seeing on the ground is stepped up military escalation ok picking up on that would escalation is a no this is what the eight discussions that the capital i think it was run for interim following if they came up with this idea of the deescalation is it generally accepted that those deescalation zones when it comes to the levels of violence is actually working. well they worked those the escalation zones when they were initially agreed upon because it allowed the government to freeze the conflict in the west in the northwest of the country and then escalate and try to find a foothold in the east fighting eisel and gaining control near the iraqi border which was very really strategic for the pro-government alliance but as of late there is only escalation on the ground particularly eastern. is supposed to be

a deescalation zone instead we're seeing one of the fiercest bombing campaign since this war began the government the pro-government alliance wants to recapture this territory at whatever cost and they have managed to take approximately seventy percent of that enclave and it's not just that they've divided the enclave into pockets and i'm getting reports from people here from sources close to those involved in negotiations that there has been an agreement between the racial islam which is controlling the northern pocket of eastern and the russian military and that is agreeing to withdraw eventually withdraw with their families and that is why you are seeing a call in the northern area and this is why you are seeing aid entering the duma so the pro-government alliance bent on recapturing eastern bent on continuing with its military push what's the difference between this process of talking and the geneva process because this process does seem to be making you know it's two steps forward one step back maybe but it does seem to be making some progress in the right

direction in different areas of the country and yet geneva as i said earlier geneva everyone's kind of walking away from that now it doesn't work i mean is this because the turks are involved or the russians are there to. the balance of power has changed on the ground in favor of the pro-government alliance but i have to remind you in two thousand and fourteen internally two thousand and fourteen when the process began in geneva the government attended those talks and with it wasn't even willing to compromise back then and now it is much stronger and much more comfortable position and. the backing of russia has the backing of iran iran has sent troops that have russian air power and russian political support at the un security council if two thousand and fourteen they were not ready to share power with an opposition that they didn't even recognize they're not ready to do that again and now and we're hearing even the syrian president say time and time again we're going to recapture the whole country but the question is recapturing the whole country is not going to be that easy because especially in the north of

the country have the issue of the kurds you have the issue of turkish back to troops you know controlling some parts but like you mentioned what else than a did and after that salty is no longer on the table is the question of political transition it is no longer on the table at least for the pro-government alliance they're not ready to negotiate any transition or sharing power for that matter with the opposition zain thanks very much correspondent live there in. thousands of civilians are also leaving their homes and three in turkey's military closes in there people have been cramming into trucks and trying to draw on cots 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. gene which it considers a terrorist group. slovakia's prime minister has resigned following nationwide protests over the murder of a journalist robert fico faced demands for a thorough investigation into the killing of. and his partner last month was

probing links between politicians and the italian mafia the president has asked his deputy to form a new government. still to come here on al-jazeera for months and time submarine vanished relatives of the missing crew launched their own mission to find it. welcome back or see more heavy rain affecting parts of europe in the forecast. sorry through friday mild air pushing across many western indeed into central areas to we've got some heavy rainfall up across australia some snow over the alps as i move 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 notice 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 shoot us but it should remain largely dry here further towards the wind is coming up from the desert says the benghazi comes at it twenty nine degrees into central parts of africa plenty showers for east africa at the moment kenya tanzania seeing heavy downpours looks so good bonnie is going to be seeing some heavy rain west africa a few showers around certainly but i cranked out of there should enjoy a fair amount of sunshine at times into south africa are we going to see a tropical cyclone fourteen impacting on the east coast of madagascar some flooding rain likely here for most of the scenes some heavy showers around parts of the eastern cape.

welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera live from doha today with me peter dhabi your headlines russia is promising to retaliate after the u.s. announced new sanctions over moscow's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s.

presidential election the trumpet ministrations threatening to keep tough policies in place until moscow changes its behavior. one of the top story the foreign ministers of iran russia and turkey are due to hold talks in the capital of kazakhstan to try to resolve the conflict in syria the worsening humanitarian situation in rebel held eastern cooter is likely to be on the agenda. zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe says he never thought the current leader. would turn against him the ninety four year old has been speaking for the first time since he was ousted in november he told foreign journalists that his sermon a robbery that his removal was a coup and assumed the presidency illegally. doctors in zimbabwe are striking for a second week overpay conditions and drug shortages as the first major labor dispute since the new president took over. from harare. harare central is one of the largest hospitals in zimbabwe doctors have been on strike for two weeks to

demand more money and conditions patients say they don't know when things will return to normal so good advice to go through or through some of us pain if you took those don't help us with our here with all due to the rate please think about what we are going through many state run hospitals across the country are struggling financially. doctors say it's frustrating working in them with a lack of equipment and drugs the doctors are some of the worst paid in africa. hundred twenty nine dollars in a month. that's. far too good. to be able to. afford the particular services that we offer as a junior doctor i'm not able actually to pay for my medication or. be tall or in hospital. let alone the. health minister david pairing atlases he needs more than

one billion dollars to increase salaries and improve resources for the government's broke and there's a shortage of foreign currency nurses and some senior doctors trying to keep things going looking after patients who are in some of the wards the doctor strike is getting quite serious is now into its second week in some public facilities across the country don't even have access to a single drugs. the main opposition leader nelson chamisa to zimbabwe's health sector has deteriorated since president in a similar took over from robert mugabe in november you can't come in and say you are open for business things are happening when they're not happening the. meaning for. that isn't acceptable. and was then not go away is accountable we're every day that we've recorded when i was the biggest challenge is fixing zimbabwe's economy ruined by decades of corruption and mismanagement government ministers are talking to leaders of the striking doctors trying to convince them to return to work overworked and underpaid nurses in public hospitals are also threatening to down

tools if that happens the already dire situation could get much worse. relatives of crew members of a missing argentine submarine and demanding answers from the government in buenos iris they're not convinced by assurances that all is being done to find the vessel which disappeared in the southern atlantic to read. no reports from buenos ayres. a small group of protesters in front of argentina's presidential palace most of them relatives of the forty four crew members of the at a found one submarine if you know more than someone we feel abandoned not only by the government but also by society in general we've been along this whole time as if nobody kid is it's been four months since the submarine went missing in the southern atlantic it was sailing 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 of 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 and the government says it has done everything possible to find the missing submarine but people here are desperate and they're coming bands but not enough has been done some of them are even asking for small

donations 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. what i said that the monte believes 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 us now we need to continue combing the area to change the top of technology it could take years to find. and that's what these people want they've lost hope their relatives will be found alive but say they need to know what happened no matter how long it takes.

it's fifteen years since one of the darkest moments of the war in vietnam u.s. soldiers moved into a village and shot more than five hundred civilians is way 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 etched on them the sixteenth of march one thousand nine hundred sixty eight that's when most people who lived in the village of me live with killed some of them raped and tortured first in a four hour assault by u.s. soldiers during the vietnam war. tommy 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 and 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 and. 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 one 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 the darkest of days the serenity will never be able to raise the memories wane hey al-jazeera me lie vietnam.

this is al-jazeera these are the top stories so far today in the last few seconds we're just hearing from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov who's in the kazakh capital a stand for the syrian peace talks that russia will expel british diplomats so the tit for tat process has now officially begun i guess you could say off the back of the announcement thirty six hours ago now from the british prime minister to resign may in the house of commons talking about the russian. spy poisoning scandal and also to do with what you're looking at right now the u.s. president donald trump reacting to those accusations to do with russian meddling in the recent u.s. presidential election both of the u.s. and the u.k. imposing shang sanctions on the russian government more on that developing story for you as soon as we get it well as we've just been saying the foreign ministers of russia. iran and turkey have been holding talks in the capital of kazakhstan

a stana to try to resolve the conflict in syria the worsening humanitarian situation in rebel held eastern ghouta is likely to be on the agenda to tens of thousands of people who fled eastern ghouta in what's believed to be the largest exodus in one day in syria's civil war most left the town of how maria which has been the center of the heavy fighting between rebels and government forces to. robert mugabe has spoken out for the first time since he was ousted as the president of zimbabwe mr mugabe gave an interview to foreign media from his home in harare he called his removal from office in the member saying he never thought emerson. would turn against him the ninety four year old described his asking us a quote military takeover. marking the fiftieth anniversary of the me line massacre the us soldiers killed more than five hundred civilians mostly women and children in this one raids in the war in vietnam they'd been sent on a mission to confront the national liberation front of yet cong only one american soldier was prosecuted over the incident on the website al jazeera dot com you can

talk to. one up next it is inside story i will see you very soon. and the different. and the similarities. al-jazeera. britain takes its case against moscow to the u.n. over the poisoning of a former russian spy at a time of friction of a break and unpredictable white house how will a divided west tackle a resurgent russia which is again defining itself at least according to president putin as a great power.