the sovereign a millions of taxpayers we can see reaction to the liberalization of finance just as we saw in the one nine hundred twenty s. and it's going to be getting to ready is ugly in many parts of the world where people are saying if my government went look after my interests then i would look for a strong magnet if he's a fascist i don't care if he promises to secure the stability of my life and my people i will vote for him i think that's where we're heading and i don't think our leaders have the vision to understand that's the threat that we face. al-jazeera. where ever you.

russia responds in a column to nations of expelled its diplomats over the poisoning of a former spy. but on down the soldiers there a lawyer from doha also coming up. will become a serial like very soon let the other people take care of it now the u.s. president declares a looming syria withdrawal catching washington off guard. low voter turnout shot of an egyptian president's election victory after he ran virtually unchallenged plus. at the moment my priority is to get these kids in bed and rest up disgraced australian cricket is not telling his side of the ball tampering story just yet.

russia is kicking out sixteen u.s. diplomats and dozens more from other countries in response to the expulsion of its diplomats it's the latest development in a worsening diplomatic dispute over who is responsible for poisoning a former russian spy in britain mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . the u.s. consulate in st petersburg shut down some sixty diplomats ordered to leave the country by the middle of next week sweeping russian retaliation zeneca limmy. there will be mirrored measures but not only stopping events the us ambassador is invited to our ministry where my deputy would 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 will

leave the russian federation from diplomatic missions is also mirrored signal at the root of the dispute the alleged poisoning of a former russian double agent on british soil with a russian designed nerve agent russia vehemently denied any involvement but in a coordinated move more than one hundred fifty russian diplomats have been expelled from some twenty seven western nations a sanction including sixty from the united states and twenty three from the united kingdom and the u.s. state department has reacted angrily to the russian action insisting that russia does not have the right to play the victim there is no justification for the russian response our actions were motivated purely by the attack on the united kingdom the attack on a british citizen and his daughter remember this is the first time that a weapons grade nerve agent no overt shock has been used outside of war and on

allied soil the russian consulate in seattle now stands empty but importantly the u.s. has made clear it reserves the right to further response the diplomatic dispute is far from over mike hanna al-jazeera washington. meanwhile eunice crippled the daughter of a former russian spy who was also poisoned in the attacks getting better according to hospital officials russia has demanded access to her doctors say she is recovering although it's unclear if she will be well enough to speak to investigators father surrogates cripple remains in a critical condition u.s. president donald trump has told supporters that american troops will be leaving syria very soon he was speaking at an 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 isis will become another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now very soon very soon we're coming now we're going to have

a hundred percent of the caliphate as they call it sometimes referred to his land take it all back quickly quickly well like some previous trump announcements this one caught many in washington off guard including the state department. i can't comment on what the president supposedly said i haven't seen and i have to refer you back to the white house. i have not seen it myself and said it i have not seen that myself ok but you know you don't you don't necessarily comment or report on things that have been heard secondhand and i'm not going to do that that's ok that's fine so you're not aware of any policy determination to pull all to pull the us out of sight and not know ok so the president is just speaking off the cuff and i don't know i don't know what if you were already back in the white house i'm not and i'm not aware it's not just that well the u.s. joined the syria conflict during barack obama's presidency one mission was to support groups fighting against eisel the pentagon says about two thousand u.s. troops are still there to prevent a resurgence by the group and help maintain stability in december defense secretary

james mattis said he expected to send more diplomats and civilian personnel to syria more than eight billion dollars of u.s. money has been directed toward syrian related humanitarian assistance congress has set aside billions more to help with security operation inherent result which aims to eliminate isolate from syria iraq and other areas of cost more than eighteen billion dollars well while it was a scene in syria advisor to samantha power who was america's u.n. ambassador under barack obama he says it's unlikely trump's 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 station 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 pursue 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 has not worked with this administration there is 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 area as 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 about 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 areas it's in the united nations says it's appalled at the deaths of sixty eight people in venezuela after riots and fire in the holding cells of

a police station burial services have been held in valencia 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 from press he has more from bogota in neighboring colombia. ok so it is in 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 saw 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 were 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 venezuela as detention facilities in the country struggle with over crying crowding and the lack of basic supplies in main things. the ever worsening social and economic crisis in the country hundreds of people in the u.s. state of california have attended the funeral of a black man who was shot dead by police officers said they thought stephen clark and the gun of them but it was his mobile phone his death the spark protests in his hometown of sacramento and beyond dublin is on the reports. friends and family of

stefan clarke were here to grieve and console each other civil rights activist al sharpton gave the eulogy and reminded people why they were there we came to have a family we came because there is no i should. be clark was a twenty two year old father of two kids he was shot and killed by two police officers who mistakenly thought he was a burglar buddy cameras on the two officers captured the moment on the evening of march eighteenth when the officers confronted clark they fired their weapons twenty times clark was killed instantly he was unarmed only holding his cellphone he was standing in the backyard of his grandmother's home both officers are an administrative leave pending an investigation at first the shooting mostly went unnoticed outside of sacramento but as more details emerged so too do the coals for justice street protests growing louder by the day and spreading as far away as new

york white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said that stefan clark's killing was terrible but that the white house won't have much more to say about it because in her words it's a local matter at clark's funeral in sacramento this was the response to that no this is not a local man. they didn't killing young black men that are country and we are here to say we are going to stand stand for our crime and the leaders of this family emotions are still high and people have promised to not rest until the officers are held to account the city of sacramento is on edge more protests are planned the family lawyer is appealing for calm we must. now balance to make sure that we protest first right in the most productive

way possible but people here know this funeral should never have been needed that stefan clark was killed for no reason to keep rosendo. washington. break or not to say when we come back it's not child's play the british prime minister's hard sell a year out from briggs. and it's a dirty job the mission to clean up one of the world's filthiest rivets bara states . hello again we look at the weather right across americas this time and in north america we've got quite conditions across the eastern seaboard and new what they're looking spring like at nineteen degrees d.c. twenty two across the south also fine for dallas but this weather front is still just work its way across the floor a pinch of so expect some thunderstorms here now we've got some snow over the

rockies and this area of low pressure is going to develop and push into the upper midwest during the course of sufi with significant snowfall on its northern edge further south into chicago is launching a case of rain he said up front also stalls across florida miami. still the risk of wanted to shower certainly to highs of sixteen into the caribbean reaching the islands a fair. pretty well again fairly brisk winds of the bahamas there about twenty five degrees but we have got more in the way of charlotte seventy affecting central america coming in off the caribbean sea so certainly here a line see the old downpour but to mexico city's expect to remain dry and fine with eyes of twenty three degrees celsius into south america we've got heavy showers affecting parts of colombia down through ecuador and towards northern parts of proof further south a few showers for bolivia not too bad fine in santiago in chile and it should be a bright one and when it's aires in argentina.

systemic corruption in politics through business to who is controlling what state of resources people in power investigates the misuse of south africa's state assets nobody who is implicated or named in those aboard was ever to put their point of view on the financial rewards available to an accommodating business community south africa corruption going on not just zero. welcome back time for a quick ride of the top stories here on al-jazeera the white house says russia's

expulsion of sixteen u.s. diplomats bazza further deterioration in its relationship with moscow the latest move in a diplomatic dispute over the poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k. . the u.s. president says american troops have been leaving syria very soon speaking to supporters in ohio donald trump said i salute almost defeated in syria and that it's time to let others take care of the problem the state the pop of those says is unaware of any policy change. and the united nations says it's a poll by the deaths of sixty eight people in venezuela after a riot and fire in the holding cells of a police station at the burial services in valencia for some of the things himself has been no official response from the got. some egypt's election had delivered what everyone expected a landslide victory for the president but it appears most voters either stayed at home actively boycotted the election or spoil their ballot understood that 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 looser mustafa mussa leads a party that supported sisi he announced he was running at the last minute after all other potential challengers pulled out some were arrested some were pressured to drop out a new national has i voted to improve the country's current situation it doesn't matter who you support. most of my friends didn't vote with. 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 let's say constitutional or political legitimacy in a sense of there is not much of participation saw fanfare and so on but he was 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 the 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 third term or perhaps even longer. al-jazeera hundreds of women have run it in guinea to demand justice of people who died in recent opposition protests that carried pictures of young men who they say were killed by police just going to the local elections last month to feel an anti-government sentiment among opposition groups in the west african country. tens of thousands of palestinians are expected to gather in a few hours for protests marking the land day it happens annually and as an act of collective resistance to israeli occupation and seizure of their land the biggest protests are planned in gaza where israeli forces warn then open fire on anyone attempting to breach the border fence. reports from the occupied west bank it's a day that's been marked since one nine hundred seventy six then like now

palestinians are protesting the confiscation of their land it's also they weighted demonstrate their attachment to that learned. a bit ahead of here we want to impose a presence planted lanes are hard to take over israel always says that it's only taking a barren land that's why we need to play it everywhere. so his property shrink by four hector's and has received notice that another fourteen could be taken away soon much of the land goes two ways building illegal jewish settlements and the exploitation of natural resources or in the case of it off air ahmed for the construction of a bypass road that now goes over part of his land he can only reach it via this underpass but axes isn't always guaranteed. if the gate is closed we're stuck for hours everyone wants freedom of movement i want to be able to come home here and i built a shack to store my equipment but the israelis won't allow me i can't even install

a light to sit here in the summer was integrated by israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu also pledged two hundred twenty eight million dollars from this year's budget the building of more roads across the occupied west bank. another project underway is that up the road there to the left now that's extension of the eastern ring road and it has its own separation wall in the middle now trafficked on one side will be reserved only to israelis on the other side traffic will be reserved to palestinians but they can only travel between their towns and villages without bypasses are designed to circumvent palestinian population centers settlers say it's for their own safety but the plan was initially put in place in one nine hundred eighty three and was only implemented after the oslo accords were signed years later when i because shorter the road could through the west bank in circling palestinian communities and dividing the west bank into account ons they connect

jewish settlements to each other and directly to israel in case of an exaggeration there's already a system in place. israel says the bypass roads as vital for the valid point of settlements they expanded by seventeen percent last year or as many palestinian say ever since donald trump became u.s. president with every dig of the shovel palestinians see more land lost and the dream of a future state crumble furder what at that henry the old his era in the occupied west bank. britain's prime minister has been touring the country selling the benefits of briggs's a year before the u.k. is due to depart the european union tourism a says she's committed to making briggs a success but huge numbers of people are still unconvinced and many are campaigning for the country to change its mind and remain an e.u. member is a u.k. correspondent bonamy 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 urged the country to embrace the idea of leaving the e.u. i believe that we can negotiate a good agreement which is terrorist free in this friction is trade as 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 breck's it outside downing street boris johnson or maybe not but his impersonator and these protesters believe bret's it has to be stopped with a second referendum on the final deal from the because she ations between britain and the e.u. is 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

the like minded back to back to back just not sure anymore but it's not the right doom and not right 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 there is a measure of ensuring. that i don't think you can lay said what we want in a skit only but back in london not much sign. if rallying around another group sets off on a battle bus tour around brick supported by some big names in british politics all right except that whatever happens in terms of any effort. to stop it would take it to a different course from the one the people's voice roy said it'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 meanwhile the prime minister travelling all through northern ireland wales and england in one hectic day says there's no turning back but if the bricks hit referendum of twenty sixty it was meant to settle the issue of britain and europe for want some for a role while it doesn't yet feel that it has to be philip's al-jazeera london former french president nicolas sarkozy will face trial accused of corruption and influence peddling his lawyers say he will appeal the decision of the case centers on why a top phone calls in which sarkozy allegedly trying to sway judges who are looking into claims of illegal financing during his two thousand and seven presidential campaign coffee outlets in california may soon have to caution their customers about a potential cancer risk a court has ruled that coffee sold there must be labeled a cancer warning it said starbucks and other coffee companies fail to show that

a chemical compound produced during the roasting process isn't dangerous well the industry insists that levels of that compound in coffee a harmless well is the official response from the u.s. national coffee association coffee has been shown over and over again to be a healthy beverage this lawsuit has confused customers and does nothing to improve public health. 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 sit around men in the major drink a bill in the next seven years but a step that's no 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 about. people in the village of my july used the river for washing and cleaning that many villages 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 long. as long as there is no lawrence force minton 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 the 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 rivers she tavern is still being used as

a dump for all kinds of waste and fire 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 that we're going to focus on promises because we told them radio we're going to kill the next generation or don't play around anymore because before i heard about this story you know and i said no what is this degree coming we're going to we'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. now 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 abdul ralph was kidnapped when the gunman 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 last of a strain is 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 the team mate 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 arrival. you can understand tough emotional trauma for watching the kids. it is present on you here for many public days at the moment my priority is to get these kids in bed and rest up a little more before me so i can see. pope francis as washed the feet of twelve

inmates to mark holy thursday for the sixth year in a row the head of the catholic church formed the ritual at a prison rather than the vatican the number twelve symbolizes jesus is out of humility towards his twelve apostles on the eve of his death the pope repeated his call for a worldwide ban on capital punishment. to u.s. astronauts have completed a six hour space walk from the international space station drew voice still and ricky arnold installed new wireless antenna and repaired leaking hoses as they floated outside the station four hundred kilometers above the earth the space walk was thirty minutes shorter than planned due to a problem with one of the astronauts spacesuits voice still known arnold arrived at the space station on friday and are due to stay until august.

or tough a quick check of the headlines here al jazeera the white house says russia's expulsion of sixty u.s. diplomats marks a further deterioration and its relationship with moscow. 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 very soon speaking to supporters in ohio the president says eyesores 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 will come and we're going to have a hundred percent of the caliphate as they call it sometimes referred to as the land take it all back quickly quickly there's been more protests in the u.s. state of california following the funeral of

a black man shot dead by by police while on armed officers blocked roads groups marched in sacramento after the service for stefan clarke he was shot by officers who believed he pointed a gun at them investigators found a mobile phone but no weapon and his body. they're not a nation says it's appalled by the deaths of sixty eight people in venezuela after a riot and fire in the holding cells of the police station have been burial services in valencia for some of the victims. and as a woman have rallied in guinea to demand justice of people who died in opposition protests that carried pictures of young men who they say were killed by the police disputed local elections last month in the field and to government sentiment among opposition groups in the west african countries. former french president nicolas sarkozy will face trial accused of corruption and influence peddling his lawyers say he will appeal against the decision the case centers on watch out phone calls

in which circles he allegedly tried to sway judges who are looking into claims of illegal financing during his two thousand and seven presidential campaign the last of australia's three disgraced predators has returned home following the board tom brings scandal in south africa vice captain david warner has been banned the twelve months i've been told him never again hold a leadership role in the team he would turn to sydney off the team mate steve smith and cameron bancroft well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people in palestine that's watching by the. al-jazeera. swear every.