shuls he served in the marine corps for ninety two ninety ninety five just doesn't go away. but living out of the truck for last couple years. his home was zero follows a group of u.s. army veterans much ised by war. as they struggle to get their lives back. at this time on al-jazeera. this is zero. and welcome to the al-jazeera news ally for my headquarters in doha with me and ron i'm coming up in the next sixty minutes. the death toll rises from syria's war and

both damascus and. donald trump and saudi arabia's crown prince celebrate a new partnership at the white house. plus. i saw the guy i go in central london outside the offices of cambridge i mean let's look at a company that's in the eye of the storm on the latest data breach scandal. and in the u.s. state of texas the city is on the edge after an unexplained string of bombings. we begin in syria where more than sixty civilians have been killed in rebel held parts of east and they died in attacks by the syrian military and its allies and another thirty five people died when a rocket fired by rebels landed at a market in a government controlled part of damascus that happened in the area close to the

frontline in the fighting between but and rebel forces are saying all of us following the story from beirut and neighboring lebanon this is not the first time civilians in damascus in government controlled territory are killed by rocket fire rebels have fired rockets into damascus since the pro-government alliance launched the bombing campaign over among. ago in fact over thirty civilians have been killed this is the way that the rebels have been retaliated it is also one of the reasons why according to the government they have launched this campaign to recapture eastern with or to eliminate this threat now the bombing that targeted the busy market in damascus. coinciding with renewed escalation in. the rebel pockets the rebel pockets in eastern who are coming under heavy fire over the past twenty four hours dozens of civilians are being killed continue to be killed in this ongoing campaign and the united nations is also warning that the immense

human suffering is only going to get worse so the show is under attack the northern part of what is now a divided rebel and clave is again a battleground there was a brief lull in the violence but the argument has resumed after what syrian military sources say is the collapse of negotiations with. one of the three rebel factions in eastern. congo. controls it is defending what is left of a stronghold syrian military sources say the group refused to accept demands by a russian military delegation the pro-government alliance says it will step up military operations to force a surrender or pressure back to the negotiating table low. is targeting civilians and it hasn't stopped do much this is an air strike right

now as you can see the plane is bombarding residential areas of bombardments haven't stopped since yesterday until this very moment. tens of thousands of civilians are trapped in eastern hooter's largest population center cynthia assault was launched more than a month ago syrian government forces and their allies have advanced deep inside the rebel control. area outside damascus splitting it into three pockets aid managed to enter duma joining recent weeks but one of the warehouses was hit in monday's attacks humanitarian agencies said the supplies that were delivered were far from enough but they were desperately needed by a population that has been under tight siege for months that brief cease fire in tomorrow also allowed dozens of wounded and sick people to be evacuated to hospitals the delivery of aid the evacuation of medical cases and a cease fire are what the rebel factions are demanding but it's not clear how much bargaining power they have they have been weakened after losing

a lot of territory the pro-government alliance has the upper hand on the ground. and its aim since the start of the bombing campaign is to recapture eastern will and and the president of the opposition in the area. the syrian army is now clearing its terrorists and is removing all the explosive devices and after that we went until all the way until we reach job or until every piece of land in eastern water is the great. the battle has caused immense human suffering the united nations is warning of a further deepening of the crisis it says more than forty five thousand people have been displaced seventy percent of them women and children and they along with hundreds of thousands of others trapped in the rebel pockets face what the united nations calls a catastrophic situation. beirut. now a power vacuum left by the syrian government's operation to retake eastern guta as

seen eisel move into another area near damascus the syrian military has been forced to send reinforcements to cut them south of the capital after the area was overrun by isis fighters that had been left largely vacant during fighting in other areas the un has was concerned that the chaos in syria could allow for a revival of isolate which lost much of its territory last year. and the united nations says it wants full access to civilians forced to flee eastern and another battle for the north and a free man and what it says is a massive new displacement according to your staff the needs are overwhelming and growing by the hour there are also serious health risks all existing shelters are extremely congested and overcrowded and like basic sanitation people queuing for line for hours to use restrooms. well tens of thousands of syrians forced to flee previous military operations remain at risk an explosion in

a cancer displaced people and that has killed at least ten civilians and wounded many more many of those living in the can't move there after fighting in aleppo in two thousand and sixteen adlib as controlled by the syrian opposition it is the last remaining rebel held province. let's move on to other news now and some of these crown prince mohammed bin solemn on has met the u.s. president at the white house with donald trump years in the encounter for an unusual for an opportunity to display large cards to illustrate the benefits of arms being sold to riyadh the rights groups say those sales shouldn't be made to saudi arabia which is leading a campaign in yemen against the hoti rebels ellen official reports from washington d.c. . it was a looky arrival for such a high profile visit the crown prince from saudi arabia did not go in through the front door but soon found himself in the oval office and the u.s. president donald trump addressing merely a domestic audience took the opportunity to outline the financial importance of the

saudi relationship some of the things that have been approved and are currently under construction and will be delivered. so the review very soon this is mohammed bin soundman second visit to the white house in a year and he was keen to point out this was the continuation of an old alliance the oldest ally for us of america in the middle east right now more than eighty years but there was a warning from the president to saudi arabia and others in the region whether it's on arabia or other countries as we know there will be no funding it is we have a zero tolerance for the funding of terrorists among the things to be covered in the talks the iran nuclear deal security across the middle east. and the war in yemen which was also being discussed across time with some u.s. senators expressing concern about america's continued support of the saudi led operation in the country u.s. forces have been actively engaged in support of the saudi coalition in this war

providing intelligence an aerial refueling of planes whose bombs have killed thousands of people and made this humanitarian crisis far worse crime prince's visit here to the white house marks the start of a three week trip to the united states he'll meet business leaders oil executives academics representatives from silicon valley's high tech companies and the movie industry all in good reshaping his kingdom's image here in the united states but one analyst says there are bigger issues to deal with closer to home for saudi arabia of course saudi arabia has transformed itself as a from a status quo power to it but to an activist party in the region which has put it directly at a coalition course with iran and this sets the stage for a very dangerous and unpredictable environment there was no mention of the ongoing gulf crisis in the oval office a saudi led treated bargo against qatar as no been in place for ten months and donald trump has moved away from his offer to host talks for everyone at camp david

mohammed bin salman has a long list of things to be discussed debated and agree during this u.s. trip and he does so believe in his relationship. the president is deep strong and mutually beneficial. at the white house. and shortly after the prince's visit to the white house the u.s. senate killed a resolution that would have prevented continued american involvement in the saudi led war in yemen the vote was fifty four fifty five rather to forty four. france's former president nicolas sarkozy's being held by police over allegations that his two thousand and seven election campaign was illegally financed in part by then libyan leader moammar gadhafi investigators are looking into claims that gadhafi gave sarkozy as much as sixty million dollars when he was running for office sarkozy has denied any wrongdoing. facebook will brief u.s. senate and house aides on wednesday of

a computer hacking scandal involving the data breach of millions of its users cambridge and a lesser political consultancy based in london is accused of gaining an authorized access to the details of fifty million facebook users the firm worked for donald trump's presidential bid and the brakes campaign in the u.k. its chief executive has been suspended he's been secretly recorded boasting about the firm's ability to sway elections while news of the scandal hit facebook shares the company's stock fell two and a half percent on tuesday and that followed an almost seven percent drop on monday wife in more than forty billion dollars off the firm's value sagna guy a go reports. a virtual world with a very real money making data trail uses of social media platforms unaware how profitable the information they have is for those willing to access it the scandal involving facebook may make many of us reconsider that. cambridge analytical is

accused of misusing the data of millions of facebook users we've had quite a few with a whistleblower who worked at the british based data mining firm says the information was used to build a system which may have influenced voters in the u.s. presidential election as well as all the votes and a company even had dealings with russian interests we made it pretty damn clear to a lot of people in russia that we had this giant data site and that it was all sort of prepackaged with you know predictions about what's going to influence people and their political you know orientation. and that that can like plug right into you know like online display networks and advertising networks. and and that that data was being modeled by somebody who was also working in russia on russian projects that were very similar to some politicians the advantage of using

information harvested from social media be used as a try and get into the minds of potential voters but there's been little questioning of the consequences which is now why the information commissioner wants that search warrant to get into the offices of. i think an audit as the details of millions of facebook users were reportedly gathered by a university professor using a personality testing out he'd created called this is your digital life while users gave their permission for information to be used by him it's alleged the data was then sold to a third party cambridge analytic or in via. nation of facebook's own policies but cambridge analytic denies doing anything wrong and says it deleted all records when it discovered how the data had been attained from facebook not only is britain's data protection watchdog after proof of data was wiped facebook says it wants that

proof to the social media giant has since hired a digital forensics to find out how the data was leaked and assurances but it was destroyed but its response may have come too late facebook share price fell almost seven percent wiping nearly forty billion dollars of its value the company's chief of security alex thomas is reportedly to leave because of internal disagreements at how facebook should deal with its role in spreading disinformation politicians in britain and the u.s. are now pushing for facebook's chief executive mark zuckerberg to appear before them to answer questions over the massive data breach meanwhile the accusations against cambridge analytic are rapidly growing since. an undercover investigation by britain's channel four secretly taped a cambridge analytical executive appearing to boast about the firm's ability to sway elections by entrapping politicians in compromising situations.

and conducting fake news campaigns something facebook's accused of enabling and failing to tackle effectively sunny day ago london let's get more on this now we're joined by corinne mcsherry legal director of the electronic frontier foundation joining us from san francisco in california on skype very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so just how much pressure do you think facebook is under now to protect its users data and users themselves to take data protection into their own hands. i think they spent under a huge amount of pressure at the moment as you know just guessing on your own program and on multiple continents they are going to be hearing from regulators the united states and europe in the u.k. everywhere and you know many of us can wonder if they brought this on themselves it does appear that they didn't take some of the steps they really should have taken

to protect their user data although this story is very much still unfolding but in the meantime well that's going on there are steps that users can and should be taking to protect their own privacy you might use it's kind of unfortunate but the onus on the user all the time to protect themselves that's the reality and how difficult is it to protect your privacy and your daughter on the internet to on social media well you know it's harder than you might think. look for example has privacy settings that users can use to help protect what happens with their data but it's not always obvious to users how to manipulate or suddens i'm so there can some guys out there to help users do that yes my own organization has one of there's some other ones out there and i think you know the immediate step that users can do is they need to really go ahead and protect themselves right away on the other hand there's limits to that and the problems i see is that users also really just don't realize how important it is to protect their privacy and so and

a lot of times there's a notion that they're keeping consent that they don't really understand what they're giving consent do you think this case what's happening now code lead to more awareness about protecting your daughter and a facebook didn't do everything it could to protect its uses datta and finding itself in the situation that it is and now i mean how damaging could it be especially you know right now given the number of users on social media who are talking about deleting their account. well one of the things that we know is happening is that there are a number of lawyers at the federal trade commission in washington d.c. who are looking back at a consent decree that facebook agreed to several years ago where they know will series of commitments to how they got how they were going to protect user data and i'm sure that there are many lawyers looking back consent decree and deciding whether and whether facebook actually met those. and if they did will they be on the hook for up to billions of dollars and what about repercussions for the white

house itself given this now fired sea of cambridge analysts because boasting that they played this key role in having president trump elected how do you think that they'll be looking on it at what's happening with this well it's hard to predict. solid six experts. really it can help i mean we have so many scandals going on in the united states right now and a lot of questions being asked and this is just. let's look cheri it's great to get your thoughts on this that has come in mcsherry of the alec tronic from t a foundation joining us live from san francisco thank you. we have plenty more ahead on the news including a students prepared to march on washington protesting gun violence word of yet another school shooting this time not far from washington itself but there is some positive news about america and guns we'll take you to one of new york's toughest neighborhoods to meet community activists working to stop gun violence before it

stops. in argentina get ready to take on preparations for the world cup. police in texas are looking for what they suspect is a serial bomb off to an explosion at a fed ex package bomb filled with nails and shrapnel exploded at the distribution center early on tuesday it is the fifth bombing in the state this month which police believe all linked two men have been killed and seven of the in the attacks package have been traveling along the automated conveyor. have exploded one employee that was standing near the explosion later complained.

she treated and released very fortunate that there were no injuries john hendren has more from austin. a fifth package bomb has exploded in texas the fifth in a series of bombings and police say they have no set pattern and they don't know why this is happening this bombing occurred at a fed ex distribution center about one hundred thirty kilometers away from austin texas where the other bombings occurred but that package was apparently addressed to ostend and would have arrived at the fed ex facility behind me that is where sixty employees were evacuated tuesday morning and told to walk out carrying nothing with them the first three bombings were packages that were left on doorsteps and then this specific pattern became random a fourth bomb was set was attached to a trip wire on the side of the road and then of course this fifth bomb which apparently went off early before arriving in austin police have asked the bomber to

please communicate with them so that they can start talks and end the bombings. now a student who opened fire on a cost nights in the u.s. state of maryland has diet it's not yet clear whether the teenager shot himself was killed by a school officer tuesday's attack which left two autos and it comes just days before falzon zero expected to march on washington to modern tougher gun laws such as you acosta has more from now than. before the morning bell could signal the start of class the ringing of a gunshot echoed through the crowded hallway of great mills high school in maryland police say a seventeen year old boy named austin rollins hold out a hand gun and shot two students one a sixteen year old girl had a prior relationship with rawlins the other is a fourteen year old boy both remain hospitalized when the shooting took place our school resource officer who was because station inside the school was alerted to the the event and the shots being fired. he pursued the shooter engage the shooter

during which that engagement he fired a round at the shooter the shooter died at a hospital police say they get to determine whether he shot himself or was killed by the school officer meanwhile terrified parents reunited with their children sit out the school to get an education. get calls but there's shooting people at the school. we're going to be done the shooting here was the twenty first incident involving gun violence or threat of violence in u.s. schools since feb fourteenth. that's the day nicholas cruz is accused of walking into a florida high school and killing seventeen students and teachers with a semiautomatic rifle he's now facing the death penalty for the murders because he was scared i want to come out the next day the six thousand five hundred students at great mills had joined in last week's school walkout in honor of the florida

victims and to demand a tighter gun control laws now following a shooting on their own campus the students have a more personal reason to protest many say they plan to attend a student march on washington d.c. this saturday organized by the survivors of the florida school shooting the event is expected to attract half a million students from across the country whose knesset will be simple that children's lives are more important than gun. castro algis here at st mary's county maryland. a police officer at the u.s. state of minnesota has been charged with murder for shooting an australian woman last july muhammad emotional shot forty year old justin diamond while responding to a nine one one call about a possible sexual assault near her house prosecutors say they found no evidence of office a note and countering any threat at the time. well mass shootings in the u.s.

attract headlines around the world and prompted a national debate about gun control but crime in new york is at a seventy year low police say one reason is because of a community based program that has little to do with law enforcement question salumi has more from south bronx. so if you know anybody that need any help they may act like nosy neighbors we need to talk to these kids about the bully and gladys brooks and her team are part of a concerted effort to reduce shootings in one of new york's toughest neighborhoods well we come from boston. pharmacy on one sixty fifth street the team of so-called violence into raptors consists of the local residents many have had their own run ins with guns in the police like eric farmer whose brother was shot and killed by a police officer or james rivera who oversees the team and was once an active gang member the reason we get it from reason is because we're from the same community the people dollars they've all that they're sharing information to people that are

just that the thought which is that we want to make this a for a do that about incarcerating anybody or about punitive stuff it's about making the community safer interrupt yours monitors social media and check in with anyone they think might be contemplating pulling the trigger the team canvasses the neighborhood three to four hours the ship just talking to people last week a shooting took place here and the suspect hasn't been caught so they're focused on the victim and his friends and making sure that they don't retaliate. gladys who began this work in an effort to keep her own son from becoming a victim says it's getting people to think about the consequences of their actions they trust that we're not going to tell the police that this one did that this one back of that's not our goal of the goal is to pull people off. and a recent study shows they are making a difference not only in terms of fewer shootings but also in improving community relations with police new york's police commissioner has given the city funded

program credit for helping reduce the crime rate to its lowest in seventy years we're proving that when the public and police work side by side we can make positive lasting change in our society shootings are down citywide but even more so in neighborhoods canvassed by violence interactors resulting in safer streets and a program that is being replicated nationwide christian salumi al-jazeera south bronx. still ahead on the news out of banning dry years of drought in south africa farms and jobs at risk. and we pay tribute to saddam the world's last female last male rather than white rhino has died at the age of forty five and serena williams died stayed at home to one of the tathata a stronger part of the whites and miami. well

it's not quite tornado season but there have been some pretty vicious storms possibly tornadoes going down through mississippi louisiana more recently in the florida panhandle and george are all courtesy of this did a lot of plow the tails off down into the gulf now that is curling out of the way but it will produce yet again snow up in the northeast corner and possibly quite a bit of it almost a nor'easter for a while the temperature in new york at best and two degrees in washington not much better be unless that lands in the sunshine only ten degrees out in texas sun is out the next thing to watch is probably what's happening down the california coast that rain is developing just north of l.a. could last for a couple of days and become quite active if it comes much further south that could pose a bit of problem because of course the beris after the fall is that the end of the last months or but otherwise the rain is welcome and then the snow pack the sun is

out come thursday just about in d.c. that in the northeast corner but it doesn't often like a cold and to the winter season if it's indeed over south of that enjoy the sunshine so the caribbean it's beautiful in the clouds you see over places like guatemala just occasional showers. we are witnessing around the word this whole remind me which is only looking at how to make the next profit devastating economies devastating ecosystems putting a price on the protection of nature green economy is sound good but it was all privatized sation of nature should our environment be for sale what we're trying to do this destroyed was the crunch given a financial incentive to do that pricing the planet at this time on al-jazeera when

the news breaks. on the mailman city and the story builds to be forced to leave the group just. when people need to be heard women and girls are being bought and given away in refugee camps al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring new award winning documentary and live news on al-jazeera i got to commend you all i'm hearing is good journalism on air and on mine. good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top stories more

than sixty civilians have been killed in rebel held parts of. attacks by the syrian military and its allies thirty five others have died after a rocket fired by rebels landed in a market and a government controlled part of damascus. saudi arabia's crown prince. has met the u.s. president at the white house donald trump used large cards to illustrate the number of u.s. . and facebook the u.s. congress on wednesday of a computer hacking scandal involving the data breach of fifty million of its users came with a political consultancy based in london is accused of gaining access to the information. that's on one of our top stories now the saudi crown prince has a visit to washington we're joined by richard le baron nonresident senior fellow at the atlantic council and the former u.s. ambassador to kuwait and he's joining us from new york very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so the crown prince. on something something of

a charm offensive and the u.s. is it working and what does he want to out of it well i think you want recognition or you. know you're and i think you also want to be exposed to the right. through the united states. the business to the cultural and so we. do a variety of. every meeting. with leaders. and they of course also want more weapons started a lot of what being used in the war and yemen which has killed thousands of civilians why don't you think about are we seeing more pressure from u.s. politicians on the subject well in fact i think we've seen quite a bit of pressure from the u.s. congress regarding the actions of the saudis in yemen and i think the crown

prince will certainly hear from members of congress the president focusing really very transactional where armies are. in the jobs that produce even out of state and that's the key is america first of all a city. and yet we just had the u.s. senate you know kill a resolution that would have seen an end to america's involvement in yemen i think there was very they received in the discussion itself in the congress about this this problem i think the crown prince is well aware from the western side that there are a lot of people worry that the saudi actions and the lack of attention to humanitarian issues in you haven't. and what about the issue of iran they certainly have that in common there and with iran do you think the conference will be putting any pressure on the president to donald trump to pull the u.s.

out of that iran nuclear deal. i don't think the salaries were all that up certainly nuclear. were irritates them much more. dangerous than. words like lebanon and yemen so i think there will be more of a discussion about how to counter the iranian expansionism in the region. or atmosphere about thank you very much for that as a ritual a barren joining us live from new york thank you. that is way this president has accused the united states of persecuting his country and criticized president trump's decision to ban americans from using venezuela's new crypto currency called the petro the cash strapped country is the first in the world to launch its own version of that coin motherhood told supporters on tuesday that nothing will stop the petra. i denounce the persecution illegitimate

illegal and absurd of the imperialist government of mr donald trump against the people of venezuela the financial monetary criminal persecution but besides that i denounce it to the world and i ask for the solidarity of the people of the world i also tell the venezuelan people men and women of my country petro won't be stopped by anyone venezuela won't be stopped by anyone and we are going forward with the petro long live the petro of venezuela. the finance minister and bankers of the g. twenty summit in argentina will also discuss and cryptocurrency is this week they said in july deadline for ideas on how to regulate digital currencies like that coin the financial aid is also talked about infrastructure development and the united states' new tariffs on steel and and alimony. to south africa now with cape town as running out of water and farmers and rule areas in the city suffering to thirty thousand sings in

a farm workers are being laid off and many more may lose their jobs of a doesn't rain so often web reports in the latest part of our first series as the water runs out in the monday buthelezi vegetables a dying she's among seventy thousand people who grow their own food in south africa's western cape province and suffering the worst drought on record as a disaster. god knows because one of the reasons that we try and grow our own gardens well on employment for one we're trying to save as much money as we can so it's going to have a huge impact we would be forced to use the little money that we have to go and buy growing vegetables in sandy soil isn't easy at the best of times but it's a key food source for the many unemployed in townships like this one out in the countryside the large commercial farms are usually much more productive but the drought means jobs are on the line. this farm grows great for wind harvest to down

to the highs about a third of the people it used to. i'm standing in one of the farms reservoirs farmer says in twenty fifteen the water was almost at the top twenty sixteen it was about. twenty seventeen came down to here and this is all that's left the farm manager told us he needs substantial rainfall in the coming winter following from all its twenty years of never seen soffit like maybe five start forming up to bed differently i can save it for another year or two but i don't know i've never ever solved without water western cape home to twenty percent of south africa's agricultural production. wine fruits and grains from here exported industry representatives say that drowns making it harder for the country to balance its books that doesn't only play against the agricultural economy in terms

of the output that we get but it also plays a case on the trade balance side we're already seeing now that imports for example of wheat will be the second highest level this is on record in south africa around about one point nine million tons of which that will need to be imported or that is because of the implications of this drought two hundred thousand seasonal workers are employed in the provinces farms their families depend on the income thirty thousand of already been laid off and without rain so will many more. malcolm webb al-jazeera western cape south africa. if the o.p.'s ruling coalition is expected to elect a new prime minister this week it comes after haile mariam desolate and resigned last month the growing protest movement in the country has put pressure on the coalition which has been in power for twenty seven years stephanie decker reports from the capital. as if europeans go about their daily lives in the capital

a deep political crisis is being discussed behind closed doors i think you can say or arguably this is the biggest challenge the party has fest. in the past dominance history of governing but this point i mean the party of the coalition of the four parties they're experiencing unprecedented level of divisions there has been growing and unprecedented pressure on the government a wave of protests have been swelling across the romeo and of heart region since two thousand and fifteen strongholds of the to largest ethnic groups in the country many been killed in the government crackdown that followed it's largely the youth who've been leading the protests they say they feel disenfranchised not represented by the government and are frustrated at the lack of jobs and opportunities that sit or main point because. of the people of. the demonstrators that are going to be owned by undemocratic means. going through them across in them with. the government has made some concessions releasing

thousands of political prisoners including opposition leaders and some journalists who've been arrested over the last few years one of them is met at a good deal leader of the main roma opposition group he says the priorities for the next prime minister should be clear it's going to be anybody but this should be old enough or allowed by a party to sail to lead this country to a national that. you. know by now. the government has imposed a state of emergency across the country after the prime minister resigned in february it bans public gatherings and it also allows security forces to make arrests and search homes without a warrant now these are sensitive times here in ethiopia and many people we speak to don't want to talk on camera about the political situation the government says the state of emergency is in place to ensure the security and stability of the

country it also says it will address the public's demands many here tell us it almost doesn't matter who takes over as prime minister what matters for them is what will be done to address the people's concerns real reforms are needed were told not cosmetic ones anything less than that and the millions who have found their voice will continue to demand change stephanie decker al jazeera. now african leaders are launching what they hope will be the world's largest free trade area rwandan president paul kagame is hosting a summit in the capital could gali the continental free trade agreement had hoped include all the countries in africa and more than a billion people but nigeria the continent's most populous country has pulled out ahead of the deal signing on the wednesday. the white house says donald trump is logged considering firing u.s. special counsel robert muller and follows a series of tweets from the president which criticized the investigation into

russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election last week when a subpoena the trying to organize ation to turn over documents including some related to russia house speaker paul ryan has given assurances that trump will log file. look first of all the special counsel should be free to follow through his investigation to its completion without interference absolutely i am confident that he'll be able to do that i received assurances that his firing is not even under consideration. we have a system based upon the rule of law in this country we have a justice system and no one is above the justice system twenty three russian diplomats and their families have left the u.k. in the wake of the poisoning of a form of double agent and sons for he says moscow was behind the attack. and his daughter two weeks ago both remain critically ill in hospital the kremlin is rejecting the allegations and has retaliated by forcing the same number of british embassy staff to leave russia bonamy phillips reports an abrupt farewell to

colleagues and some eighty people diplomats and families are believed to have left the russian embassy for those on their way and those left behind this is not being a happy day. to hold a reception for those leaving a few days ago the mood appears to have been samba. to set those being expelled would resume their diplomatic career as elsewhere so the diplomats and their families have left they will argue that their lives have been cruelly and unnecessarily disrupted the british government argues that the spying capacity of embassy has been severely weakened. the british prime minister lead a national security meeting the outcome britain's borders have been tightened against those who threaten it other measures against russia are being considered on the soulsby attack will be discussed at this week's e.u. summit. they arrive late at night. in the coming days both the u.k.

and russia will seek to persuade global opinion two very different versions of what happened insoles proved to be phillips al jazeera. to tennessee and our hundreds of women have been organizing protests demanding equal inheritance rights as men well last year the president announced a review of existing laws bought conservative muslims pushing back. reports from tunis. a march for equality tunisian women demanding parity with men in matters related to life and death for these activists the time has come for the country's inheritance law to change and the country said and in our opinion this is quite simply one of the last bastiaan off the patriarchy because we're made to believe that these are issues regarding religion but in fact there are issues of the heart of patriarchy that i managed to see here last year president as you see announced a review of a law that says

a woman should receive only half the share of an inheritance that a man does. even in a country known in the region for being progressive when it comes to women's rights the proposal was controversial bush about how tricky that is a member of parliament who heads up the commission of individual freedoms and equality a group that strapping the revised rules and recommendations while she's optimistic future generations will be granted more opportunities and liberties she also explains how the subject of inheritance is a contentious one and that the upcoming municipal elections in may could further complicate things. this report was supposed to be issued to the president on february twentieth but we tried to avoid the election campaigns and wanted to keep the issue outside the realm of politics and any political tensions last year parliament passed landmark laws criminalizing domestic violence and harassment in public spaces while tunisia's current legal system is

a mixture of both civil and religious laws conservatives are far from happy with the proposals on inheritance law they say any and all matters related to inheritance are already enshrined in islam ik law and therefore should not be allowed to be challenged. according to members of a local women's rights group things are improving but more needs to be done in the minimum domenic on me between the legal system and the reality even if by women there is a gap and for us this is our mission today how to make the laws and the reality closer to each other. they say equality in inheritance is another important step in the right direction one that will ultimately ensure society provides liberties and human dignity to men and women alike. to an tunisia. and thompson glazier the size of france is melting faster than expected sparking fears that will cause sea there to

rise scientists say a large part of the top is sitting directly on top of the sea with warm currents melting it from below if it melts completely while sea levels would rise by at least three nieces. now a species of the rhinoceros is one step closer towards extinction after the last male died in kenya vet's end of the life of the northern watch rhino course saddam and his health worsened but there are hopes that d.n.a. samples and developments in technology well will help revive the species catherine sawyer has more. veterinarians at the conservancy in central kenya put sudan to sleep because he was in too much pain and could not walk. he had been struggling for years with complications that got worse in the last few months but he leave to reach and the last his life managing to stay clean off poachers most wiped out the entire population of north and white rhinos in the one nine hundred seventy s.

named after his country of back now south sudan he ended up in kenya from a zoo in the czech republic with a few others to help them breed in an environment which was more like their natural habitat but the program proved difficult as sudan got older he became weak and his sperm count was low so now researchers are watching on ways to use in vitro fertilization to save the species from extinction this will be the fast of its kind a delegate expensive and risky process we want to do everything possible we even tried to keep them next to the southern white rhinos and see whether you know we could get down to be a little interested so we brought in your gals and we said please you know can you talk to them and quite please stand and eyes but he just didn't respond while the north and why trials are the most endangered of this species the black rhino is also in grave danger all poached for the horn now why expensive than gold but

measures a nine place to protect them in kenya in the last four five years you'll notice that for the case of kenya poaching on rhinos in particular has reduced by up to eighty percent and that is the effort to try and make sure that we protect them it's a pity that we get to this point for not a white rhino as humanity we should have done better sudan was forty five years old they lend to all of about ninety human he as he leaves behind his don't imagine and grand to them now the world's only north and white rhinos the survival of the subspecies depends on them and the technology that has never been tried before katty so. nairobi kenya. well we're just two females left conservationists face a difficult task reviving the northern watch rider but efforts with other african rhinos have been more successful when saddam was born of my nine hundred seventy three there were seven hundred northern white rhinos left in existence by two

thousand and eight parching rendered them extinct in the wild the black sort of saw a dramatic drop in numbers down to two thousand four hundred and ten line hundred ninety five but conservation measures haven't got their numbers back over five thousand and the southern white rhino has been rescued from the brink of extinction in the course of a century and the early one nine hundred still only fifty to one hundred lift they now number around twenty thousand. well kate for what is from say the rhino international and she says demand for poaching is increasing from our point of view that say the rhino we've got three of the critically stink ronna populations job. and then the black rhino so there's fewer than one hundred of the job and smarter than we need to support these critically endangered species because otherwise the same thing will happen to them poaching prices is increasing we're seeing demand from places like vietnam and china increasing but there is incredible work being

done on the ground but we have to do more pitching you know has made this sub species go extinct or functionally and we are seeing people really struggling in the ranges on the ground trying their best but it's not enough we need to do more you know conservation is a extremely difficult complex human death but you have to look at you know the community level on the ground in africa or in asia you need to look at your demand reduction in these countries can you do campaigns can you change behaviors what can you do to bring everyone together science research all these things to stop poaching happening.

thanks very much the countdown to this year's world cup in russia is well underway and top teams are putting the finishing touches to their preparations with international friendlies this week you know messi arrived in manchester earlier on tuesday to join up with argentina as they got ready to face italy on friday argentina failed to impress in the qualifiers needing a hat trick for messi in their final game to make the finals in russia south american rivals brazil are getting a glimpse of what to expect at those finals there in moscow for friday's friendly with hosts russia it will be the five time world champions first game of the year

of course they're still without star player laim r. remains a doubt for the world cup because of a broken foot but he's made a rare appearance that when exactly put his country at ease the striker limped his way into a south polo nightclub on monday to celebrate his sister's birthday he was on crutches and wore a protective boot so as not to exacerbate the injury since his surgery two weeks ago neymar was expects to be out for three months i mean it's still hard to know if he'll make tunes tournament well as well as giving teams a chance to hone their world cup preparations this week's friendlies also mark an important return to football for iraq fifa lifted a twenty eight year ban on the country hosting internationals on friday. this was the welcome the syrian team got when they arrived for a training session iraq will play syria next weekend but first of all face qatar on

wednesday. so we know it will continue her comeback to tennis following the birth of her first child at her home tournament's the miami open on wednesday where mrs won the event a record eight times but she's been handed a tough first round draw this year against the newly crowned indian wells winner naomi saka ahead of that blockbuster clash williams helped to launch the construction of the new fan you for the miami open from two thousand and nineteen the joint men and women's tournament is relocating to the home of n.f.l. team the miami dolphins which williams owns a stake in the thirty six year old who grew up just outside of miami has high ambitions for the future of the. we want this to be the best tournaments ever we want this to be the best experience ever we want to read we want the players to feel like this is the best stop we can't wait to get here we never we never want to

miss it this is exactly what we're looking for and that's what we're going for well there's a hot debate happening right now on the tennis circuit about equal pay and it's got nothing to do with the players it involves to form a grand slam champions who are now in the commentary box martina navratilova who's won forty nine may just singles and doubles titles has found out that she gets paid ten times less for her work on the b.b.c.'s coverage of wimbledon than john mcenroe who himself has sixteen grand slam titles to his name and she's pretty upset. it's shocking if really then this happens to me then you know for me it's a part time job it's two weeks of my life. but for the women that work there full time it's extremely unfair and you know and makes me angry for the other women that i think go through this the b.b.c. might say well john mcenroe does more hours or he's on hair longer sometimes as

much i don't think so and i don't know the details of what's going on. and i don't think it's appropriate i certainly feel like it's going to be appropriate real soon to come out. because it's somehow making him like poor johnny america the bad guy in this and so. we'll see what happens. here's some of what the b.b.c. said in response john martino perform different roles in the team and john's role is of a different scales scope and time commitment they are simply not comparable martina is one of a number of occasional contributors the b.b.c. believes her pay reflects what she is also to do her time commitment a level of broadcast experience profile and track record and expertise defending champion are one hundred valverde has taken the overall lead in cycling's tour of catalonia after winning stage two of the race on tuesday the stage took an hour longer to complete the scheduled with riders setting and usually slower pace over

the one hundred seventy five kilometer course nothing slow about the day when it came to downs sprint finish though the spanish rider who also won this event in two thousand and nine takes a full second leave into day three american football in golf on sports you think have many transferable skills but former dallas cowboys quarterback tony romo is proving otherwise later this week romo will make his debut on the p.g.a. tour at an event in the dominican republic. i feel comfortable you know in venues with size and people around them that part of it probably. won't be that much different i do feel like. the fact that you know it's a b.j. tour event i understand you know how important this week is it's and i took people earlier it's like a free agent football you're only afforded so many chances you know if you're the first pick of the draft you get a few years before they cast aside so you know when you get an opportunity in life

you want to be prepared and be ready for it and that is all your sport for now more later. thank you very much john just before we go on line of that you can always keep up to date with all the news on our web site that said al jazeera dot com and that does it for the news out but i'm back in just a couple of minutes with another full of news about us and.

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