poor. people. it be. changed. al-jazeera. hello there i'm laura carlisle this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes china hits back on the u.s.

imposes new tariffs on trade war fears got nearer to becoming reality. as tensions rise over the spy poisoning mystery russia accuses the u.s. and britain a new cold war also ahead. fifty years ago violent riots broke out all across the u.s. but not here in indianapolis i'm john hendren and i'll tell you why coming up. i'm joined again with the sports foremost trailing cricket captain steve smith says he'll take his punishment and won't appeal a twelve month ban of a ball tampering scandal. stories and just a moment but first a boat carrying nearly sixty ranger refugees has reached malaysia that of the refugees have been given food water and medicine processed by malaysia's

immigration department has more from that on take and quetta states after weeks at sea have made it to malaysia but shortly after arriving they ended up here a detention center their boat was intercepted by coast guards on tuesday in waters off long island in north and malaysia. aid workers from muslim non-governmental organizations tried to gain access to the refugees but were told to wait for permission. but we came here with the intention of giving basic medical treatment to the ranger refugees who have just arrived especially the women and children. it's not known how long the refugees will be held at this immigration detention center officials are questioning the right to find out whether human smugglers brought them here authorities also want to assess whether they are who they say they are people fleeing persecution malaysia is not

a signatory to the un convention on refugees it does not recognise their rights or grant them legal status yet sixty thousand religion live in malaysia viewing the muslim majority nation as a safe haven of sorts tens of thousands of revenge are used to escape myanmar by fee each year fleeing persecution and violence the exodus float after south east asian countries crack down on human trafficking networks but rights groups warn an upsurge in violence in myanmar may see more boat arrivals particularly when the monsoon season ends in september around seven hundred thousand were injured have crossed into bangladesh from myanmar since august following a military crackdown that the un has described as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing florence al-jazeera. state malaysia russia's foreign intelligence agency chief has accused the u.s. and the u.k.

of saying the poisoning of a former spy. made the comments of a security conference in moscow he says washington's actions towards russia means they can now talk of a return to the cold war era several countries have expelled russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former agent and his daughter in britain. what do you correspondents following developments we're talking to lawrence leigh in london shortly but first let's go over to rory chalons in moscow so. we want really. what does more about what we heard from the security conference that apologies for my stuff does it reflect the president's response. well you know i mean that we are at the moscow conference of international security at the moment and the mood here has been i have to say fairly uniformly and western

so far certainly in the opening remarks from the various russian security and defense chiefs up on the stage it's perhaps not surprising that that's the case considering that this is an event with an ice by the russian defense ministry and it allows russia to present its security view of the world to international security and defense chiefs but yeah we had these particular strident comments from . the head of the russian foreign intelligence service and he was saying that perhaps we can talk about return to the cold war with the united states basically becoming fixated on this nonexistent russian threat that blown out of all proportion he talked about. the script cases being a u.s. and u.k. intelligence concoction a fairly crude one at that as to whether this is near the belief that's held by the kremlin it's difficult to say the kremlin has basically kept fairly fairly quiet on

the script alcaeus just saying that the u.k. . allegations and accusations absurd and groundless and it's left to the russian media pretty much another russian state organs like the foreign intelligence service like the foreign ministry to blow out. sometimes bewildering number of different theories about what might have gone on and indeed on russian t.v. recently. it was made. apparent that it was considered a strength of the russian defense that they had so many different theories about what my. i don't happen to sort of problem is daughter where is the united kingdom was just sticking to this one as the russians discredited view and i have read the russians have called for this. organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons why is that. well i think the russians are very very aware that the united kingdom has been able to build

a supply using the coherence and unified. group of allies essentially to act against russia to act against russian diplomats russia did not see that coming it didn't see that the u.k. with its fraught relationship with the united states at the moment because the trumpet ministration and of course its ongoing negotiations over brics it it didn't think the u.k. would be able to do that so all of that stuff was going on essentially with with russia as a as a bystander it couldn't influence that particularly but the p.c. w. is an international organization that russia has representation on so if it can bring the procedures into an organization like the o.t.c. w. then it can sought influencing them with its diplomatic tools and with its sort of its constituent members so that's i think what russia trying to do is trying to get

this investigation into an organization that can actually influence ok thanks very much ray is that is that from rochelle in the meantime we've got the head of britain's defense abort she's saying they haven't tracked down the precise source of the of agent used in the poisoning. our job within the whole of this investigation is and was to identify the agent used which is from the family of nova choke nerve agents we provide that information to the government who have then used a number of other sources to come to the conclusions that they have an end to the diplomatic steps that they have i can only emphasize that our job within this whole . episode if you like as to provide eight scientific facts and evidence and into. which was identification of the each and and that's what we've done and it's cross over now to lawrence in london so large that we've got britain's own experts saying

they can't identify the source of this nerve agent i mean how does that undermine the ukase case that there is no doubt that russia is responsible. it's a particular problem because what's he said in those remarks yesterday to the british media contradicts what the british foreign secretary boris johnson said a few weeks ago he said then the porton down the their defense establishment had told him not only that it was not a chalk but that it had come from the russians and yet here you have the head of the same institution saying yesterday no no we know it's not a chalk but we can't say it came from the russians and that's a big problem because the russians have said consistently for weeks now yes we know that novacek was first made in the soviet union but it's also the case that he was copied by a number of other countries and you can't distinguish the origin in the genesis of

one batch of novacek from anywhere else and so you have this situation now where people are boris johnson who's got a reputation rightly or wrongly for shooting his mouth off and saying things that he can't prove to be true people like him in the british government are saying it was not a chalk it was made by the russians and therefore the overwhelming probability even though they can't say it is a fact was that the russians did it because they got food poisoning people and yet the same time the russians are using the same logic to say you can prove it was us we know it was not a chop but other countries made it you can't say it came from us at all so how dare you say that definitely was us when you can prove beyond all doubt and that's the kind of stalemate position they see in an hour can't really see how that's going to change now it's going to ask you what what happens next is there anywhere else this investigation can go. well i mean further to what rory was saying a second ago the situation as it stands at the moment is that the u.k. has been able to persuade

a number of its western allies of the truth of its allegations against the russians and so you have diplomatic expulsions in lots of other countries as well as a well as from the u.k. the russians i think rory said was quite right that they have been taken aback and so what they're now trying to do is to undermine that case because they're much more worried about what the americans in the european union might think than they are about what the british think and so you have them at the o.p.c. w. meeting today trying to get the o.p.c. w to to say the same as what porton down said it was not a child but we can prove it was you and then the russians would say you see you can't prove it was us and there are diplomatic tour of countries which have sided with the u.k. like ireland for example where the russian ambassador has been briefing people there to say exactly the same thing you sided with the british the british can prove it was us how dare you say this you need to step back from your position and so gradually they're trying to pick away at this hole in the british logic the

british can't say it was a fact that the russians did it and that's the bit the russians are now trying to exploit ok lawrence they join us there from london thanks very much. now trade tensions between china and the u.s. continue to escalate with beijing just announcing a new round of retaliatory tariffs those terrorists will be up to twenty five percent on a hundred and six u.s. imports the main areas affected include soybeans cars and chemical products turned over already announced her of so one hundred twenty eight u.s. products including port wine nuts and fish around three billion dollars worth of goods the u.s. is imposing twenty five percent tariff of its own on one thousand three hundred chinese products mainly in the medical industrial and transport sectors those fifty of the fifty billion dollars worth of imports now this rapidly escalating trade dispute began last month when washington announce why did you seize on steel and aluminum imports us also accuses china of intellectual property theft and claims

beijing pressures foreign companies to hand over tech knowledge. a jim brown who joins us from beijing so if you're the tit for tat continues the pretty tough response now from china. yes as advertised china has announced its counter measures in a sense the statement it issued from its commerce ministry on wednesday seemed almost pre-prepared this came really after a day when chinese officials have been lining up to condemn president donald trump's latest measures as you outlined there in your introduction the big ticket items soybeans cars and chemicals but what wasn't mentioned in the news conference given by the commerce ministry was aviation yet if you go to the website of the a.v. of the commerce ministry you see right at the bottom of the list a paragraph referring to aircraft saying aircraft weighing between fifteen thousand

and under forty five thousand under forty five tonnes will be subject to a twenty five percent levy that covers seven three seven eight hundred aircraft so this is potentially also going to be bad news for boeing now it's also potentially bad news for u.s. auto manufacturers particularly general motors it sells more cars here in china than it does in the united states four million last year and of course the soybean trade is worth some fourteen billion dollars annually to the united states now traditionally laura chinese china's leaders tend to leave the bad news to low ranking officials and on wednesday it was left to the jew young you a vice finance minister who had this to say about why china was hitting back and hitting back now. to the tariff ruling committee of the state council decided to impose a twenty five percent tariff on one hundred six types of products in fourteen different

categories including soybeans cars and chemicals made in america ok there is a but i mean how would this trade war this potential trade war potentially harm china. well you know i think what really is the concern here now is not so much the the tariffs that are being applied because we have to remember this laura president hasn't yet signed off there's going to be a sixty day consultation period that gives time potentially for negotiations so expect a flurry of diplomatic activity in the weeks ahead china has reiterated once more that it wants to continue dialogue with the united states i think of more concern actually to u.s. companies here particularly you know mcdonald's starbucks apple kentucky fried chicken is a consumer boycott because china has form for this we saw last year when china had a falling out with south korea chinese boycotted south korean department stores

they canceled tours to south korea and this dragged on for several months so as we've seen you know the chinese consumer is a very powerful weapon also worth pointing out that what the united states has been targeting in the sanctions of president trump unveiled on tuesday is really shooting ping's made in china twenty twenty five strategy this is when you know she jumping wants to make china a modern dynamic manufacturing economy but the united states is saying that china is doing this by stealing and replicating u.s. technology because china has been challenging let's be honest the big tech giants and by and by what you know the u.s. says by by cheating and replicating their technology and president trump has now said you know essentially enough is enough ok jim brown joining us there but the youth and thanks very much agent there's plenty more still ahead here on this news

hour including. and i said well didn't you want to say maybe you can have to pay. donald trump saying saudi arabia may have to pick up the bill for u.s. forces in syria. they were all the leaders of turkey iran and russia meet for talks on syria's future. and sublime extraordinary all words you. have that's coming up in sports. it's been fifty years since the assassination of u.s. civil rights leader martin luther king jr and one of the only surviving members of his entourage says his death is always a source of pain king was shot dead in their own hotel in memphis in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight by james ray a white man with racist leanings king led a movement of nonviolent resistance but the f.b.i.

still called him the most dangerous man in america jesse jackson was with king when he was killed on tuesday he went back to her to hell with his family. after the killing of martin luther king jr there were riots in cities across the u.s. but also engine oculus where then presidential candidate robert f. kennedy broke the news to a largely black audience it became his most remembered speech as house of representatives has voted to make the size of that speech a national landmark john hendren reports from indianapolis. it was an uneasy

alliance a wealthy white patrician and a charismatic black preacher martin luther king considered robert kennedy timid on civil rights kennedy was privately supportive making calls to get king released from a georgia jail but publicly kept his distance. right up until april fourth one thousand nine hundred sixty eight as kennedy campaigned for the presidency in indiana martin luther king jr was killed tonight in memphis tennessee kennedy's aides warned him to cancel a stop in indianapolis to dangerous the set there was mixed feelings of the. people that were angry i was. from the back of a flatbed truck wearing his slain brothers tweed coat thinking about martin luther king he broke the news to a mostly black crowd martin luther king was shot and was killed tonight in memphis wasn't it was the first time he'd spoken publicly of the assassination of his

brother president john f. kennedy but those of you who are black and are tempted to fail with be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act against all white people i would only say that i can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling i had a member of my family killed. but he was killed by a white man or he had to use his words to calm the fury they felt in their own hearts and he was really the only person who might have been able to do that at that time in that moment in history last week his words were commemorated on a plaque on that site a reminder of how far the us has come and how far it has yet to go that statement right there on the wall resonates right now today as to where our community

should be with the love and wisdom and compassion and dealing with those who are still suffering we're still suffering two months later robert kennedy also was killed by an assassin's bullet two voices of hope silenced forever relegated to a world of what might have been. half a century later america's still converses with racial tension but for one volatile night is one major city after another burned at night riding broke out in a hundred and thirty american cities it was a quiet night in indianapolis john hendren. indianapolis indiana. donald trump has spoken again of his desire as a pull u.s. forces out of syria suggesting that victory over eisel is imminent he says he expects to make a decision very quickly but declined to offer any specific timetable u.s.

has around two thousand troops on the ground in syria and launches as strikes almost every day and again says this a lot of work left to beat i still and stabilize the areas we captured from it says if allies like saudi arabia want america to stay in syria they may have to pay for it i reports from washington. the president insists he's never been keen on america's foreign military adventures seeing the cost too much money thank you at a news conference at the white house with leaders of three baltic countries donald trump insisted his decision on withdrawing from syria is coming quickly i want to get out i want to bring our troops back home i want to start rebuilding our nation they give it seven trillion dollars over a seventeen year period we have nothing nothing except death and destruction. it's a horrible thing so it's time it's time. to fish really the u.s. mission in syria is to provide advice and support for forces battling against isis

the president's latest statement marks a shift from a comment he made just last week at a political rally in ohio and we're not going the hell out of isis will be coming out of syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now kerry said that quote many in the administration by surprise given senior figures have been talking about an extended syria mission as unfinished business as he was speaking across town a senior state department official seem to back up that idea we are in syria fight isis that is our mission and the mission isn't over and we're going to complete that mission but the u.s. presence costs hundreds of millions of dollars and during the news conference the president turned up the heat a result lies as a single have to share the financial burden saudi arabia. is very interested in our decision and i said well you want to say maybe they'll have to pay. oh the idea of the situation in syria could be one of the things discussed during an anticipated gulf meeting hosted by the u.s.

this has disappeared reports coming out of washington suggest the unannounced summit has been shelved there are a number of reasons for any potential delay first of all the u.s. doesn't have a secretary of state at the moment rex tillerson still hasn't been replaced donald trump is planning to meet north korean leader kim jong un in the next couple of months that summit will take a lot of preparation and with a real prospect of no breakthrough in the g.c.c. dispute the americans are why need to invest a lot of time and effort with nouriel return any potential summit could know take place later in the year alan fischer al-jazeera washington. the leaders of iran russia and turkey a meeting in ankara for a summit on syria seventy four iran's president hassan rouhani and russia's vladimir putin support syria's president bashar al assad turkey backs the opposition all three have been power brokers in the conflict with a significant military presence in syria. joins us now live from.

the specific aim of this meeting. well this is another meeting in less than six months of the three countries who are the major players inside syria you have to recognize that the united states and other western powers are missing from this meeting this is a continuation of a process under which turkey syria russia and iran agreed that there will be the escalation zones and sites syria there will be some cease fires that we've come into effect and that has been happening by and large but on the ground the situation remains really diaby saw in eastern hooter for instance where it was supposed to be a deescalation zone and to the surprise of many human rights organizations including the united nations there was the policy of starve or surrender that was carried out inside the eastern router. and other areas inside syria will come into discussion when these three leaders are in fact in the last few minutes started to

meet they're also going to be discussing a new constitution for syria but many observers from the ground inside syria say that this is all well and done and it said but the people on the ground are not part of this they have no say in this and you have to understand that these three partners who are meeting have very different interests in the future syria have said we're not going to say you got two countries supporting assad one country against same west the common ground going to fall. well the common ground right now is in a couple of things that bring this alliance of convenience together do not want a separation inside syria so they want a united syrian state three of them agree that there shouldn't be any american intervention inside syria so there are a couple of points but like you said there are a lot of differences between the three as well even the two parties that support bashar al assad visibly iran and russia iran still continues to see that there is

a military solution that is possible but it's russia has been pushing two words a political a more inclusive solution so that you can actually begin the process of reconstruction and rebuilding and you have to remember that russia has been bogged down in syria for a number of years now and many analysts inside syria have been calling for if there is an exit strategy for. out of syria turkey on the other hand wants its border cleared of kurdish fighters. present yesterday equated what the world sees eisen and the fighters of extremist groups it sees the kurdish in the id as exactly the same group an extension of a terrorist outfit but it is very interesting that all three of them have very different definitions for what they call terrorist groups and very different ambitions for what they want the future of syria to look like.

i just remember. one of the ropes and that i had head on out of there. on a deal to resettle thousands of migrants israel's prime minister. from all sides. is a striking the government. it is a is a no. from tiger woods on his comeback from ko rare and ending injury. and spoils. from flowing in the winds to an enchanting desert breeze. alice springs kicking in remarkably quickly not just in asia we are focusing on china the moment you might see a line of the top here this white one this is where spring is battling with winter

and pretty frontal not but actually when you start to introduce spring warms across the you start in trees to spring rains as this was happening the temperatures were to have to thirty one chunking we're talking about a line here that forms along the yangtze their course young often gets spring rain spring flooding and just picking the provinces guizhou here where just yesterday you had that sort of size hail obviously some damage in the hail and flooding and those are surprised at how much rain falls as a layer of hail happens in china quite a bit is the case at the moment as in a little bit the forecasts should see rains once again and again we're talking about this line that goes from sichuan across to shanghai so we are following the route of the yangtze sitting on it if you look at. i said the battle between spring and winter wasn't quite over the green represents rain but the white of course is snow falling on the himalayan platter and it comes down towards children where the

temperature dropped to forty so spring rains in china have started probably. the weather sponsored by cattle and nice. i really did bad thing. would i be able to forgive somebody like me a convicted war criminal seeks out the survivors of a prison camp to apologize for the crimes of his past i just can't get even showing. the i'm forgiven a witness documentary on al-jazeera my old team last kept. his mouth shut. and monday put it whirled on. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians

still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the lure. again you're watching out there as a reminder of our top stories this hour russia has accused the u.s. and britain of actions that could spark a new cold war as foreign intelligence agency chief blamed the poisoning of russian form of double agent and his daughter on the british and american secret service says he made the comments at an emergency meeting of the world's chemical weapons watchdog. china is retaliating with new tariffs on u.s.

goods says trade tensions continue to escalate as imposing tariffs of twenty five percent on one hundred six u.s. products including soybeans cars alcohol and tobacco. products worth fifty billion dollars last year. and just present donald trump has spoken again of his desire to pull american forces out of syria suggesting victory over i saw is imminent trump says if allies like saudi arabia want to market to stay in syria they may have to pay for it. france is experiencing a second day of severe transport disruption rail work as a striking in protest against president planned labor reforms from paris the sash about the reports. it was chaos for commuters in paris as the rail strike began to hit with most trains cancelled many passengers will left stranded some stations were nearly empty as many travelers chose to stay home or take alternative transport i think the strike justified you have to defend public services and

everyone has the right to strike but i believe the rail operated must be reformed. drugs israel unions have called for three months of rolling strikes and protests they're angry over the government plans to reform the national rail company s.n.c.f. and scrap some of the workers' special privileges such as early retirement. i'm not backing down we won't give up this fight or give in to the government school of the objects or not we are protesting far blights as well workers and to keep our privileges france's government says s.n.c.f. must change as it's deep in debt and must prepare for twenty twenty when the french rail network will be open to foreign competition and the e.u. rules like eastern six o'clock form this reform is necessary for commuters yet in seattle where workers so it must be complete and many people in france they did these strikes will be a man all michael's biggest test since he came to power in may he has promised to

transform front is a good image and he's been pushing ahead with an ambitious reform agenda but it will not be easy to reform essence a solution if macro fails the rim. his presidential term will be tarnished as a huge failure on the other hand if he succeeds he will be seen in the months and years to come as someone who was capable of reaching out to the unions and doing exactly what he was elected to do and that was to reform the country reform much past presidents have tried and failed to reform s.n.c.f. is determined to succeed much now will depend on the result of france's powerful trade unions its national buckler al-jazeera paris. the un's refugee agency says it's disappointed that israel has scrapped a deal to relocate half the african silence seekers living their protests against the move were held in tel aviv and west jerusalem on tuesday as the agreement with the un mostly sudanese and eritrean emigrants to be relocated to western countries

and as a benjamin netanyahu would face intense pressure from right wing groups which oppose the agreement will step into that joins us now live from west jerusalem so let's now is really upset people with this u. turn steph what's the paper saying there. he's coming under a lot of fire a lot of moves toward language and sarcasm from the media across the spectrum not just the left wing media also the right wing media i think let's show you haaretz which is as expected as one of the criticizing calling him the great to capitulate and also netanyahu is now at the mercy of facebook and this is because a lot of his popular support came out an uproar really at the decision that would see around twenty thousand of these aside and seekers stay in israel and be given a more formal state is something that so far this government has wanted to avoid and has avoided you have the jerusalem post multitude of headlines yes a three hundred sixty degree turn flip flop nation the real pm question mark and

what not to do and then. over here is saying off to a lot of zigzagging israel now has forty thousand migrants and of course because part of this deal as you mentioned twenty thousand of those would be relocated to western countries so i think the interesting thing here nor of just briefly also the language he used when he came out to make this announcement about the deal israel has always called them illegal infiltrators they haven't processed their refugee status they haven't even given him a chance to look at their status when netanyahu came out he started quoting the migrants this was picked up by everyone as a significant change while seven hours afterwards when he backtracked on the decision he had put out a tweet and said we need to rid ourselves of these infiltrators so he just goes to show the immense pressure he is under and that he had to give in to capitulate to this massive massive u. turn so how might this then affect the future of medicine yahoos the ministration.

well he's in a fragile right wing coalition let's say many people will tell you that he's actually perhaps the most moderate of those within that coalition and just to give you an example last month that coalition was almost about to collapse because of a bill pushed forward that would ensure that the culture orthodox do serve in the army something that the moment they are exempt from while the defense minister avigdor lieberman said if that goes through that he will walk out of the coalition the bigger picture here is netanyahu is facing several cases of investigation of fraud and corruption the police have actually gone as far as to say he should be indicted so this is almost being exploited by some members of his coalition to ensure that he does what they want and also of course you know his base is popular base at this point in time so important to him that it's very difficult to see how

he can really make a stance on certain things and also you know some of the papers today saying if he can't push this forward something that he publicly announced how can he ever push anything through this cabinet that has to do with any potential deal for the palestinians so question marks being raised as to what he himself can do i ok septa train is that from the west recent thanks. now the music streaming platform spotify has made a strong debut on wall street investors predict the company will maintain its lead over rivals even if it's yet to make a profit but if i have played a huge role in changing how people listen to and pay for music from us on this rope reynolds records. spotify is debut on wall street ok without the bell ringing in the whole of elude it normally a company hot initial public offerings the company says its focus isn't on making a splash but on building a long term strategy we do think tomorrow is going to be strong for spotify it's you know it's quite a sexy stock it's quite a sexy industry the twelve year old swedish company jumped into

a dominating position in music streaming convincing customers. to pay a monthly subscription fee allowing them to choose from millions of songs online instead of paying to own individual tunes starting out with a handful of people working out of a back room stock home office spotify now has seventy one million paid subscribers worldwide that's double the number of its closest competitor apple music the streaming model was initially resisted by the music industry but since streaming became widespread around twenty fifteen spotify has helped drag the music industry into profitability after a decade and a half in the doldrums streaming service revenue now accounts for sixty five percent of recorded music sales spotify also changed the way people listen to music play lists dominated by hit songs partly chosen by artificial intelligence and

algorithms now influence what consumers here instead of individually developed tastes and preferences spotify has not yet turned a profit but the company expects to have ninety six million subscribers and more than six billion dollars in revenue by the end of this year robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles. headquarters and the u.s. state of california wounding three people before killing himself one employee in the building. one of the ended as a critical condition and that's treating the shooting as a domestic dispute. a mock up of dozens of news for the ins in the us raising from the same script has gone viral they all work for a single the country's biggest bill costa station's rates will than seventy percent of u.s. households the company is widely seen as aggressively supporting president clinton salumi has mall we are extremely proud of the statements made by local news

presenters got little attention on their own but when the web site deadspin put together this mash up showing the exact same words be read at the television stations around the country the sharing of biased and false news has become a call to comment on the social media echoing language used by the trump administration claims the members of congress of the other stuff this is their own . to alarm bells started ringing i believe the commentary was mandated by sinclair broadcast group already known for airing right leaning editorials for all of its one hundred seventy six stations what they're doing is indorsing donald trump's fake news narrative and using it to essentially try to do you reject him are as much of the news media in the united states so they are not just way and with the sort of bland support of accuracy they are way on the side of this sort of culture war and they are doing it at the same time they're asking the

federal communication commission to loosen regulations and approve a controversial merger that would give them even more local television stations and access to up to seventy two percent of u.s. households sinclair however says the statement was not politically motivated but in response to polls showing a deep distrust of the media and president trump was quick to come to the company's defense saying it was funny to watch fake news networks criticizing claire which he called far superior to c.n.n. once and clear employee responded saying actually this isn't funny at all. when media giants gobble up local news stations there are repercussions more voices are better than single voices and in that case more voices can dilute the mistakes that any individual voice makes. and critics say it undermines the credibility of

journalists the local community has come to trust in a statement sinclair has encouraged its viewers to call in reports of fake news if the blowback on social media is any indication they are getting plenty kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. thousands of brazilians have joined protests calling for former president mr nasr near the silver to be jailed following his corruption conviction they were all survival demonstrations in support of the day before the supreme court decides whether he should start his sentence last america as it is standing amid reports from sao paulo. demonstrators filled sao paulo's emblematic paulista avenue demanding former left wing president. be put behind bars without delay. tensions are soaring ahead of wednesday's supreme court ruling on whether to accept lucas argument that he cannot be sent to jail to serve a twelve and a half year sentence for corruption until he has exhausted all appeals.

if you do that is not imprisoned he will return to power and keep stealing he's the leader of them all. as he's known is still the front runner ahead of october's presidential elections if and when he's allowed to run. people here say they won't let that happen demonstrators say they want to send a very strong message to the supreme court that this is not just about the former president they say that about in favor of the us petition would set a dangerous precedent that could lead to the release of scores of high ranking all editions and business leaders. serving jail sentences for corruption but most of lodged appeals hundreds more who've been indicted for corruption could avoid jail for years of the motion is upheld. many here have lost faith in the supreme court as an brazil's other institutions. but sure they have paid off all the judges of to

supreme court so we remain free but we are here trying to prevent that was a. political passions running so high there's good reason to fear violence ahead of the ruling last week gunmen attacked and shot at a campaign bus caravan in which lula was taking part in southern brazil he insists he's a victim of political persecution as the countdown to wednesday's all important judicial decision begins the pressure on the court for and against sending lula to jail could not be overstated the seeing human. present trump says he wants to send u.s. trip to the mexican border and some have long promised border wall belt is continuing his tough stance against illegal immigration as he demands mexico prevents a larger group of central americans from reaching the u.s. hundreds of men women and children a stark and southern mexico officials are trying to terminate that legal status. i

guess laura is the first person to be sentenced as part of special counsel robert morris investigation into possible russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. elections alex pleaded guilty to lying to f.b.i. agents investigating the business ties of donald trump's one time campaign manager . ports from washington d.c. . the dutch national alexander's one received a twenty thousand dollars fine thirty days in prison and two months of supervised release he admitted he lied to investigators and withheld information relating to the special counsel's investigation into forward from campaign chairman paul metaphor and his deputy rick gates' lobbying for ukraine both have been charged with undergrad foreign lobbying and money laundering. sentencing is not connected to allegations that the russian government colluded with the trump campaign in order to sway the twenty sixteen presidential election than this one was being interviewed as a special counsel investigated poor amount of foreign rich being alleged money

laundering as they lobbied for the ukrainian government years before the election while they were working for former ukrainian president viktor yanukovych amount of foreign gates work with but runs as one failed to disclose several conversations you had in twenty sixteen with gates and a long time kiev big business associate of manifolds about that work the f.b.i. alleges that business associate has links with russian intelligence and that's caused excitement among those looking for a smoking gun in the russian investigation but the discussions are reported to have focused on payment for the ukrainian lobbying it's long been clear that the special counsel's investigation isn't limited to the allegations of russian conspiracy any illegal business deals or improper contact with foreign interests among those in donald trump all being probed alexander's ones prison time is being interpreted as a warning to those who feel they need not be forthcoming with the investigation she had three times the al-jazeera washington.

being killed in a fall. this is coming from russian state news agency this coming to ten days. in. sixty four people were killed of them children. of. one. just ahead joe.

and is to laura thank you to australia's disgraced cricket as a said they won't appeal against playing bans for ball tampering former captain steve smith and batsman cameron bancroft made the announcement on twitter earlier smith was given a twelve month suspension by cricket australia for his role in the incident in south africa bancroft who was caught roughing up the ball with sandpaper in cape town was banned for nine months x. vice captain david warner was also given a year long ban but hasn't said yet if he'll contest it on choose day australia's players' union called for all three bands to be reduced to here's what smith had to say in his statement on twitter i would give anything to have this behind me and be

back representing my country but i meant what i said about taking full responsibility as captain of the team i won't be challenging the sanctions they've been imposed by cricket australia to send a strong message and i have accepted them. happening ceremony for the commonwealth games is underway in australia the multi sports event it is held every four years in most countries competing having once been a part of the british empire but as andrew thomas reports from the gold coast it's also providing an important sporty opportunity for a small a nation's around the world. australia's gold coast has a new multicolored village six thousand athletes and officials will live in these apartment blocks and use their services for the next ten days the athletes permanent homes are seventy one countries or british regions all territories of the commonwealth i am from pakistan i resembled islands barbados most places

represented were once part of the british empire the games are a colonial legacy of course some of the world's biggest sporting nations like the united states china france germany japan they're all missing some athletes don't think that matters a commonwealth medal may not be as prestigious as an olympic one but in certain sports the commonwealth games can hold their own in my field hundred meters been countries he was some of the world's best jamaica trinidad there's a lot of stuff after comes up fast in my van as well so you know if you look at the olympic final there's those i mean you know two or three i'm out to americans and there's the rest of the world a more logical more of nations the commonwealth games also reserve spaces for sporting minnows yet jim cook will box when a room a tiny pacific island nation most famous is the place australia sends on wanted refugees its entire population is thirteen thousand people is quite a big deal back in the rural and everyone knows everyone and everyone will be they

will have their eyes on to win the competition starts. the games which include a letter in barking shooting and even lawn bowls are spread across venues that stretch the length of australia's gold. most and into the neighboring city of brisbane as well ticket sales have been slow only gymnastics is completely sold out but along the beach front on wednesday there was still enthusiasm we came from the united states of america and we're absolutely excited to be here man this would have been no other time we would have came you go you know we we we we wish but we don't want to pay for. just generating so much if he has a genuine i trust and i thought he was going to do the right right organizers have to meet high expectations i'm sure thomas al-jazeera on australia's gold coast stunning sublime extraordinary there is all words used to describe christiane or an

elder a second goal against juventus in chief days champions league quarter final the rail stall sent fans into a frenzy with an overhead kick that was so superbly even eventis supposed supporters gave him an standing ovation so two goals for an elder and one from junior to secure a three no win giving away all the advantages they had home for the second leg against the italians. one of the people we can say this was one of the most beautiful goals in the history of football perhaps not as nice as the one i scored in glasgow in any case this is the most recent one of what has more value. it was also a good night for five time european champions by in munich after going behind it severe they struck back to take a two one lead into their quarter final second leg. we had the privilege. and well i have to say that we have very happy perhaps severe doesn't have the same name as the other four teams that will reach a semi finals but they are a skilful team with a strong spirit to keep fighting and they played very well the victory is very

important to us when stacie spanish league leaders barcelona take on romo with you know messi fits to start after coming back from injury they haven't made it past the quarter finals in the last two seasons in the other game with the day liverpool host manchester city and a clash of two of the most charismatic managers in european football you can call up and pep guardiola now tiger woods has described his return to golf as a miracle the fourteen time major champion is preparing for this week's masters at augusta having missed the last two years because of injuries and off course problems the forty two year old had his spine surgically fused together a year ago but now he's in with a chance of winning a fifth masters green jacket come sunday it is a miracle you know i went from a person has. really had a hard time getting up walking round sitting down to a swing in a club you saw. one twenty nine. thirty

or fear return to defend his title gaster much has changed for the spaniard in twelve months he got married had a baby daughter he named his aliah after the thirteenth hole at the course and now he's back for a shot at winning his second major title. this is my first time defending a major and a green jacket so it's new to me but you know i'll try to go through the things that i know help me you know hopefully you know get off to a good start decent start and really enjoy the week but no matter what. this week is going to be amazing and. and the most beautiful thing about it is that you know i get to play the masters until i can walk so that's very cool. the new york yankees have won their first home game of the new major league baseball season this game against the tampa bay rays was originally scheduled for monday but was

perspiring because of snow it was still chilly conditions to contend with on tuesday but didn't go goriest brought the hate for the hosts he had two home runs and drove in a career high eight runs in an eleven so for victory. meanwhile a japanese star show he had tommy hit his first ever major league home run on his home debut for the los angeles angels it helped win to a thirteen to two win over the cleveland indians a twenty three year old hitter and pitcher had been the target of many and they'll be franchises before joining me angels in december. and finally there was a controversial ending to the n.h.l. game between the florida panthers and the nashville predators with less than a second of regulation time remaining the predators philip foss book scored to level the clash at two two all so he thought after originally being called in the goal was then disallowed with replay official feeling that another practices player had interfered with the florida goaltender it's not the first time goalie

interference has created controller c. in the n.h.l. this season if they'd gone on to win the game the predators would have clinched the west and called us that is only a sport for now have will feel later laura great to see later. and that's it for me on the news out of taking that on this but will be here in just a moment with more of the day's news for you stay with us.

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