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the u.s. says russia is choosing to further isolate itself by expelling american diplomats. this is al-jazeera life from a headquarters and i'm betting you navigate also ahead. will become another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now the u.s. president declares a looming syria withdrawal catching a washington off guard low voter turnout cast a shadow over a gyptian president at the one ceases landslide election victory after he ran virtually unchallenged and a year before britain is due to leave the e.u. the prime minister goes on to are trying to unite her divided nation.

hello russia is kicking out sixty u.s. diplomats and dozens more from other countries in response to the expulsion of its diplomats the u.s. consulate in st petersburg will also be closed this is the latest development after a former russian double agent was poisoned in the u.k. which britain and its allies accuse the kremlin of being behind challenge has more from moscow. well we've been waiting for several days only for russia to come out with its response to all these diplomatic expulsions the western nations processing of the moment and on thursday evening in moscow we did get some clue from sergei lavrov the russian foreign minister about what these are going to be let's listen to what so ever of had to say mutable built. new there will be myriad measures but not only stopping it that the u.s. ambassador is invited to our ministry where my deputy will deliver him the content of these retaliation re measures against the united states they include the

explosion of a similar number of diplomats and they include our decision to withdraw our consent to the operation of the united states consulate general in some petersburg as for the rest of the countries everything that concerns the number of people who leave the russian federation from diplomatic missions is also mirrored say well jon huntsman the u.s. ambassador to russia was summoned to the foreign ministry earlier and he was told that there are fifty eight personnel in moscow that are being declared persona non-grata from the u.s. embassy and to consular staff from the consulates in qatar and burke who are now persona non-grata as well this impeded by a consulate has two days in which to wrap up or operate sions and shut down as a very fast and all the staff there being kicked out while they have a week to leave the russians are also clearly quite concerned i think about yulia

script hols recovery they have been looking around for something to throw at london and today earlier in a press conference given by marie as a car of the foreign ministry spokesman she said that the united kingdom was breaching a consular agreements drafted in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight between the united kingdom and what was the usa. so far this supposedly gives access or promises access to citizens of the us s. are now russia in the united kingdom obviously while the script. comatose in the hospital access to them was important but not absolutely essential but now you describe how is so we're being told conscious recovering and perhaps going to be talkative sometime soon well that makes things very very different from the u.s. state department had this reaction to the expulsions they don't need to act like a victim russia should not be acting like

a victim the only victims in this situation are the two victims in the hospital in the u.k. right now for let's get reaction now from mike hanna who's joining us from washington to so do we expect the u.s. to take further steps that well that's a real possibility we heard from the state department spokeswoman that the u.s. reserves the right to take any further action should regard that that is a necessary thing to do certainly the tone of the state department response was very heated making very clear as you heard there that russia should not consider itself as a victim as the spokeswoman put it saying too that the u.s. is just one of more than twenty countries that have expelled some one hundred fifty diplomats and this was a good reason for these expulsions so the state department still considering whether any further action will be taken in addition to the expulsion of russian

diplomats earlier this week in the light of the to protect russian move in expelling americans not the first time that there's been a diplomatic spat between the two countries mike but do we expect relations here to deteriorate do we expect this to further put a strain on the relationship. well for a start we have seen a number of different expects in the past but nothing on quite the scale the the mass expulsion of so many russian diplomats out of the us the closure of the consulate in seattle then the response from the russians once again was the russians would see it and equal response expelling sixty american diplomats closing down the consulate in st petersburg but it's the scale of to and fro that we have not witnessed before in terms of the relation between the u.s. and russia and the fact is that the relations have been deteriorating very sharply

and after this latest round of explosions it's very difficult to see how worse it could get certainly the relations remain in terms of formal diplomatic contact but with the scale of the expulsions from both the u.s. and from russia in response certainly the diplomatic standing between the two countries is as shaky as it is ever been in the recent past ok mike hanna thank you well the u.s. president donald trump has told supporters that american troops will be leaving syria very soon he was speaking at an infrastructure event in the state of ohio when he began complaining about how much the u.s. spends on rebuilding other countries and by the way we're not going the hell out of aces will become a serial like very soon let the other people take care of it now very soon very soon will come and we're going to have a hundred percent of the caliphate as they call it sometimes referred to as land

take it all back quickly quickly well and they are too was a senior syria advisor to samantha power who was washington's u.n. ambassador during the obama administration and he says that it's unlikely trumps comments represent an actual policy change. i was literally just speaking with some colleagues of mine former colleagues of mine at the state department who are getting ready to deploy to syria to to do their work out there in the northern part of the syria where the u.s. military stationed so i really think this caught everyone off guard and i don't think it's particularly connected to any real policy the united states continues to pursued in the region the policy in the past has been to intervene in as little of a way as possible to try to. address the humanitarian situation without getting in broiled in a broader conflict in the middle east that's kind of been the policy but really clearly it has not worked with this administration there's clearly a disconnect between what the president is saying what his military and political

advisors are telling him which is the united states should remain in the areas it is in to use it as leverage against the syrian regime the iranians and russians and to keep an eye on potentially eisel returning that's really kind of the consensus on what the policy should be but again just like previous statements the president shooting from the hip and and now everybody is getting all worked up a boy's saying but i really would pay attention to what the united states actually does in the coming days and weeks which i think will be more likely to remain in the area that sen well the mayor of libya's capital tripoli has been released after being taken from his home and held for several hours there are conflicting reports about why he was held the tripoli city council said that that baitullah mahsud was quote kidnapped when gunmen stormed his home on wednesday night but an official from the city prosecutor's office reportedly said he'd been questioned by investigators as part of legal proceedings. the united nations says it's appalled

at the deaths of sixty eight people in venezuela after a riot and fire in the holding cells of a police station services have been held in volunteer for some of the victims rights groups have been quick to blame president nicolas maduro for not dealing with overcrowding and rising violence in the country's prisons so far there's been no official response from the government were impressed he has more from bogota in neighboring colombia. venezuela or facing national and international outrage for their slow response to one of the worst disasters to happen in the country's detention facilities more than twenty four hours after the incident that left sixty eight people dead there still hasn't been an official statement by the government of president nicolas maduro the only official statement came via twitter from the office of the attorney general he did confirm the dead talk and said he was

appointing for prosecutors to investigate exactly what happened inside the prison and for a second day relatives of the victims spent a day in front of the police station trying to find out what happened to their loved ones if they were still alive or how to recovered the body temporary morgue was set up inside the police station to try and speed up that process unfortunately this has been just the last in a long serious deadly riots in minutes well as detention facilities in the country struggle with over crime crowding and the lack of basic supplies mean things i mean the ever worsening social and economic crisis in the country still ahead on al-jazeera. stefan is going to live for generations and generations to

generations to generation grief and anger at the funeral of an unarmed black man shot dead by police in the u.s. and the last of australia's disgraced cricketer is returns home why he's not telling his side of the story just yet. by the skyline of an asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. welcome back still looking good across much of eastern china and taiwan with temperatures there well into the twenty's but we have got an area of rain which is likely develop across more western parts of china during the course of saturday said chengdu could see some rain nervously once again into the himalayas then it's snow fall further says some showers across indochina but noise should be largely drive the temperatures in the upper twenty's hot and humid there for young on and

me amar so down into southeastern parts of asia and here we've got fine conditions away through the mill a place for just the slight chance they'll share in the gulf of time but i think for bangkok it should be dry and fine the same goes for much of cambodia and southern parts of vietnam in there are thirty four and then we've got a few showers affecting borneo for java and bali weather conditions gerry not looking too bad philippines also looking at largely dry weather conditions but i think we'll see a few more showers developing as they head on into saturday across into south asia and it's looking pretty hot here and it obviously is going to be that way for quite some time because the monsoon rains are a long way off yet so night pours every chance of getting to forty two degrees as we head through friday delis also pretty hot at thirty eight degrees moving on through into saturday look up at forty three elsewhere but so should be fine in colombo in flanker highs of thirty two. there with sponsored by qatar peace.

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a diplomatic dispute over the poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k. u.s. president says american troops will be leaving syria very soon and speaking to supporters in ohio donald trump said i saw was almost defeated in syria that it's time to let others take care of the problem as he called it the state department though says it's unaware of any policy change the united nations says it's appalled by the deaths of sixty eight people in venezuela after a riot and fire in the holding cells of a police station there have been brutal service as a volunteer for a some of the victims so far there's been no official response from the government . the. preliminary results from egypt election have delivered what everyone expected a landslide victory for the president but it appears most voters either stayed at home actively boycotted the election or even spoiled their ballots and are supposed

reports the wrong ones with most votes already counted in egypt's presidential election abdel fattah el-sisi appears to have won a second term by a landslide state media says he secured ninety percent of the vote while sisi described the election as a source of pride critics described it as a sham millions of eligible voters stayed home over the three days of the election rather than vote for him or his only rival you said mustafa mussa leads a party that supported sisi you know it's t. was running at the last minute after all other. challengers pulled out some were arrested some were pressured to drop out a new national has some well i voted to improve the country's current situation it doesn't matter who you support most of my friends didn't vote for. seven political parties and one hundred fifty opposition figures told voters to stay home rather than grant c.c. the electoral agenda mysie he wanted the national elections authority warned

egyptians to vote or pay a fine other threats and incentives were used to encourage voters but participation was lower in this election than in the previous two more than one point five million votes were rejected after some voters submitted blank ballots or wrote in their own candidates that made the term invalid votes trend on twitter the most popular post saying the true winners of the vote were egyptians who boycotted the election altogether we all know that it has no that's a constitutional or political legitimacy in a sense of there is not much of participation saw fanfare and so on but he wants to say at least that there was significant turnout. to give him another mandate for another four years especially that most of his promises in twenty fourteen were not fulfilled security for egypt prosperous economic situation the ending of the crises whether security or political. with

a new mandate of sorts and with his reelection secured his strongest supporters are considering the possibility of amending the constitution to allow sisi to run for a third term or perhaps even longer enter chapelle al-jazeera hundreds of women have rallied in guinea to demand justice for people who died in recent opposition protests they carried pictures of young men who they say were killed by police disputed local elections last month a few old government sentiments among opposition groups in the west african country . britain's prime minister has been touring the country selling the benefits of breck said before the u.k. is due to depart the european union to resume a says she's committed to making bricks at a success but huge numbers of people are still unconvinced and many are campaigning for the country to change its mind and remain and e.u. member here's a u.k. correspondent barnaby phillips. she didn't vote for breck's it to put on

a rapid tour of britain starting in a scottish textile factory the prime minister the country to embrace the idea of leaving the e.u. i believe that we can negotiate a good agreement which is terrorists free in this friction is trade is possible so we maintain those markets in the e.u. but also that we open up markets around the rest of the world breaks it provides us with opportunities. but who's this campaigning against spread sit outside downing street boris johnson or maybe don't but his impersonator and these protesters believe bret's it can be stopped with a second referendum on the final deal because she ations between britain and the e.u. will a student just speaking for a generation that voted overwhelmingly to stay in your russian business one direction refuse. to mobilize and try to persuade parents and grandparents many of

whom are like minded back to back to back just not sure anymore and it's not the right deal i'm a number i direction from here but all the older generation persuadable i travelled from london to the english market town of spaulding west seventy percent voted to leave the e.u. the challenge for those trying to stop bricks it is to change people's minds in towns like spalding and that still feels like an uphill struggle so there's a measure of ensuring. that i don't think you can you a said no go into this get only. but back in london not much sign of rallying round another and group sets off on a battle bus tour around brick supported by some big names in british politics all right so that whatever happens in terms of any effort to. stop it would take it to a different course in the one that people's lives roy so that's very difficult but i think millions of people believe the country's made it or was. this just come on

. this isn't sustainable speed while the prime minister travelling all through dalton ireland wales and england in one hectic day says there's no turning back but if the bricks that referendum of twenty six deed was meant to settle the issue of britain and europe for want some for all while it doesn't yet feel that it has to be phillips al-jazeera london protests have been held in the us state of california following the funeral of a black man who was shot dead by police while on arms officers blocked roads groups marched in sacramento after the service for stefan clarke so he was shot on march the eighteenth by officers who believed he had pointed a gun at investigators found a mobile phone but no weapon near his body while hundreds of people attended the

funeral service for the twenty two year old his killing has sparked widespread public outrage and civil rights activists are al sharpton delivered the eulogy well after the funeral sharpton responded to comments by the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders who described the death as a local matter. this is not a local issue is a national problem a problem that this president wants to ignore president obama spoke in personal terms about ferguson about trayvon about air gun that met with a minute jams as they developed a police commish this president has not added one word not tweeted one. other than to tell police to be rough when they are resting debbie hines is a former baltimore city prosecutor she says the u.s. department of justice is not willing to fund much needed training for police

officers to prevent these shootings from reoccurring. this shooting yes it occurred in sacramento california but in the united states police shootings of unarmed black men have occurred in the north the south the midwest chicago and in california there is no state or actually no black man that is immune from actually being ending up in the same predicament that stephon clark and it's very unfortunate that this administration refuses to acknowledge what is going on and to at least make some comment other that it is a local matter unfortunately when the trumpet ministration should be silent they are saying something and in this case when they should be speaking out and doing something at least out of the partment of justice they are actually doing nothing and putting it on a local issue but no absolutely this is a national crisis if i might say so stefan clark was the thirty eighth black man that was shot and killed this year two thousand and eight by police there were two

hundred thirty eight all total that were killed according to reports from the washington post so this is a national issue there's nothing local about it all the leaders often north and south korea will hold there for a summit and more than a decade on april the twenty seventh the announcement was made following high level talks between seoul and pyongyang the north korean leader kim jong un will meet with the south korean president inside the demilitarized zone that divides the two countries this comes just days after can surprise visit to china that's where he met president xi jinping cuffing over because the latest from seoul. well it is just a month now until south korea's president will meet north korean leader kim jong un forming up the date for the first intercalary and summit since two thousand and seven is another sign of improving relations between the two koreas which remains technically at war the agreement was made at a high level talks between south korea's unification minister and his north korean counterpart it's the second time these two men have met this year and they remarked

on how much has changed since they last met in january when it was decided that after two years of the two countries not munich ating they would come together at the winter olympics in south korea. i'm certain that this is quite a positive development since we are living in a divided nation i feel more relieved when we settle things peacefully rather than being in a dangerous situation i think this is good i hope this happens more frequently. and young. good single going on in the i usually don't pay attention to news but i now pay more attention as we hear more good news rather than bad news like a nuclear war so the mood amongst much of the south korean public and certainly the south korean government is one of cautious optimism but there are still some skeptics the agenda still hasn't been agreed to for the into korean summit and many will want to be sure that denuclearization is up for discussion and of course this

all comes after that surprise visit that kim jong un made to china for a meeting with xi jinping china's top diplomat. is in south korea to brief south korean officials on the topics that were discussed at that meeting valuable information as they go ahead and plan the interconnection summit next month. one of the world's dirtiest rivers is being cleaned up thousands of soldiers are being deployed in an ambitious project to make the water of the city. drinkable in the next seven years but is that fossil reports factories are still using it as a dump for chemical waste. a thick soup of rubbish clogging one of indonesia's main waterways after previous failed attempts to clean up the river in west java the government has called in the army to do the dirty work it's not an easy battle to win as the soldiers remove garbage from the three hundred kilometer long river more arrives ways from households markets and shops simply dumped into the water not

only is it the easiest way to get rid of rubbish but for many living along the river it's the only way that they got. up for more than a month we've been talking to villagers about how to be more hygiene it turns out most of them don't want to dump their garbage in the river but they don't know what else to do with their household waste there is no garbage dump in their village there are no garbage collectors it's a huge problem in the lot but woman some people in the village of my july used the river for washing and cleaning that many villagers including yes watty and her son are suffering from a skin disease doctors blame on the contaminated water more muscle in the same row similarly. the water used to be clean but since the factories have been operating it has become like this it used to be totally clear. thousands of factories dumped tons of chemical waste in the river every day and via mental groups took legal action against one of the main textile producers kohat tax but

this by a supreme court order in november betting the dumping of waste this is what we found a black colored slick coming from god tax after repeated requests for an explanation the company eventually said the color does not prove the water is contaminated so. as long as there is no law enforcement and as long as they don't have regular inspections in these factories the river will never be clean this clean up has been happening for nearly two months and there have been inspections but this is the evidence we find. samples have shown dangerous levels of lead and other matters in the water which is also used by thousands of farmers for irrigation turning this into drinking water within the next seven years sounds like a promise impossible to keep despite another attempt to clean up what's known as one of the world's dirtiest river us she thought of a mystical being used as a dump for all kinds of waste and via mantilla say that if polluters are not being

punished this cleanup is just another waste of time and money the government says action will be taken against polluters as soon as a presidential decree is issued oh we're going to focus on promises because we've told them. you going to kill them they can be said don't play around anymore because before i heard about this story you know and i said no what is the coming we good they're going to be getting the creek we're going to execute some parts of the river are looking quite clean now but taking out the rubbish has not exactly solved the waste issue with most landfills full soldiers have no choice but to dump garbage next to the river in the middle of a residential area creating new problems step fasten al-jazeera a cheetah river the last of australia's three disgraced cricketers has returned home following the ball tampering scandal in south africa vice captain

david warner has been banned for twelve months and been told he'll never again hold a leadership role in the team he returned to sydney after teammate steve smith and cameron bancroft the thirty one year old issued an apology on twitter while in the air before briefly speaking to media on a rival. you can understand from the top international. for watching the kids. at this present on you here for me a couple days at the moment my priority is to get these kids in bed and rest up and let my mum give me so i can see and. two u.s. astronauts have completed a six hour space walk from the international space station so drew feustel and ricky arnold installed new wireless antenna and repaired leaking hoses as they floated outside the station four hundred kilometers above earth the space walk was thirty minutes shorter than planned due to a problem with one of the astronauts space.

the headlines on al-jazeera the white house says russia's expulsion of sixty u.s. diplomats marks a further deterioration and its relationship with moscow this is the latest move in a diplomatic dispute following the poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k. donald trump says u.s. troops will be leaving syria quote very soon speaking to supporters in ohio the president says eisel is almost defeated in syria and that it's time to let others take care of the problem the state department though says it's unaware of any policy change and by the way we're knocking the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now very soon very soon we're coming we're going to have a hundred percent of the caliphate as they call it sometimes you food to his land

take it all back quickly quickly there have been more protests in the u.s. state of california following the funeral of a black man who was shot dead by police while on armed officers blocked roads as groups marched into sacramento after the service for stefan clarke he was shot on march the eighteenth by officers who believe he pointed a gun at them investigators found a mobile phone but no weapon near his body. the united nations says it's appalled by the deaths of sixty eight people in venezuela after a riot and fire in the holding cells of a police station there have been brutal services in valencia for some of the victims hundreds of women have rallied to demand justice for people who died in opposition protests they carry pictures of young men who they say were killed by police disputed local elections last month the fuels and sentiments among opposition groups in the west african country. the mayor of libya's capital tripoli

has been released after being taken from his home and held for several hours there are conflicting reports about why he was held the tripoli city council. was quote kidnapped when gunmen stormed his home on wednesday night but an official from the city prosecutor's office reportedly says he'd been questioned by investigators as part of the go proceedings those of the latest headlines on al-jazeera story is coming up next. has a new leader.