did not try. when the winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media state p.r. machine is going to overdrive. but just he's been feeling saying. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what can be said and what conduct that. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for access the polling the media opinion the listening post base time on al-jazeera. american diplomats expelled over the spy poisoning fallout leaves the embassy in russia. alone so robin you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in there also

coming up brazil's supreme court rules that former president goes to jail a decision that could append the forthcoming elections. also fears over the nile ministers from egypt ethiopia and sudan meet to discuss control over the world's largest river. and another palestinian dies at the hands of the israeli military accusations of excessive force against protesters in gaza continue to grow. welcome to the program sixteen u.s. diplomats expelled by russia have until the end of the day to leave the country three buses have already departed the u.s. embassy in moscow now last week russia ordered the diplomats to leave in retaliation for the united states expelling the same number of russians it's all part of a dispute over a nerve agent attack on an ex russian spy and his daughter in the united kingdom

british authorities say russia was behind the poisoning but moscow denies the accusations and has requested an urgent u.n. security council meeting lawrence lee has more on the investigation under way in london who tried to kill the scruples weeks on from the incident there remains no determining piece of evidence that puts beyond doubt the question as to who was behind this. of course the samples taken from the scene that help british scientists determine what's the poison was but that isn't the same thing it was not a choke they said but don't ask us which country it came from because it isn't our job we are one hundred percent certain that this is from the north the chalk family of nerve agents a military create nerve agent who provided that information to the police and to the government and that's really been our role in the us it's not for others to advise on who me who made the nerve agent or where indeed it came from. all of

which is a bit embarrassing for the british foreign secretary who apart from comparing vladimir putin to hitler in recent weeks had seemed to suggest that he'd been told by the same scientists that the poison had come from russia they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt which was seized on by the russian embassy in london it's pointed out that over the course of four nights the british side seemed to have changed its story nor did it help the british case that some tweets from the u.k. foreign office on the same subjects had been to lead it. the russian side roundly accused by the u.k. and its allies of dissin from ation is by now in full flow arguing that the u.k. can't stand up its arguments and along with its allies in washington has made the whole story up to conjure up a new cold war but it is. washington has become fixated with the fight against

a nonexistent so-called russian threat this is reach such proportions an acquired such absurd characteristics that it's possible to speak of a return to the dark times of the cold war. in the middle of all this the experts from the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons met at the hague at the behest of the russians moscow has said all along that many countries have novacek the night of the british nor anyone else will be able to prove that the nerve agent came from russia the seeming lack of a consistent argument from the british side has only strengthened them. in a court of law the burden of proof rests with the accuser and while it is true that most of the british parliament and indeed many european governments seem satisfied with the british assertion that it was overwhelmingly likely that the russians did it the russians can still say you can't say for certain that it was us and they will continue to do so until and unless the british can provide categorical

evidence gloriously al jazeera in london. spy cases also come upon the international security coffers being held in moscow rick chalons joins me now from the russian capital the russians have a lot to say stay in moscow. yeah and we have from sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister on day two of this security conference he was essentially echoing the speeches that have been made on day one by various security chiefs of the russian federation the russian position seems to have consolidated and settled a bit over the last few days before what they were saying about the script case was well it certainly was an ass but it could have been any number of international actors because other people have been able to make navi talk now what they seem to

be saying is one of course it still wasn't us but we think that this was a kind of false flag operation set up by british and american intelligence just to make russia look bad and we can hear what you're saying about this right now. the so-called scruple case has become a stage a pretext for an unprecedented expulsion of russian diplomats not just from britain and the united states but also from other countries that were made to do so which is an open mockery of diplomatic efforts i'd like to stress that we will continue to respond to those unfriendly steps but at the same time we would like to find the truth and we insist on a fair unbiased investigation of to be held in line with the principle of the convention of the prohibition of chemical weapons so really where does the who dunnit sort of take us next. well

and was saying a couple of days ago that he hopes the this meeting of the global chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w yesterday was going to solve the situation resolve it he didn't basically russia lost the votes in the o.p.c. w. to have a new investigation set up into the script of case in which it would be joints party with the british looking into what happens so. we basically have the situation now where we've got a kind of setback for the russians on that front the o.p.c. w. is analyzing the samples that the british have provided it but that will take some while longer before they can come to any kind of proper scientific conclusion the russians in the meantime are asking for a special meeting and open session of the un security council to happen later on today the british it is clear has as lawrence were saying in his report just there

have had a bit of a stumble recently with their handling of the porton down assessments of whether this directly fingered russia or not that has been a blow for the british case parts considering that the o.p.c. w. voted against russia and considering the degree of solidarity i think with the u.k. has on the on the international front at the moment it's certainly true to say that though the u.k. has stumbled in the last couple days not many countries around the world believe the russian version of events either well we'll leave it there for the calls come back to rory as a situation develops thank you. now ministers from egypt sudan and ethiopia resuming talks in the suburb as a dam project on the river nile now the ground renee song was originally slated for completion the sure but disagreements between egypt and the opiate have led to the

two year suspension of the talks one hundred dollars or correspondent following the meeting day in khartoum in sudan i mean how much hard bargaining are we expecting as these discussions and arguments have really been going on for quite some time. sure gauging from there the discussions that have been going on for the last several years we know that it is not easy what is going on here behind me today egypt in particular has very deep concerns and it is going to raise them in this meeting however this with a nice foreign minister just awhile ago opening this this first session expressed an air of optimism the sudanese being in the middle between a choke yeah and and and egypt they are trying to bring up or shamar between the two extreme sides in this in this conflict of these discord so he said he's optimistic that the delegations will be able to find a solution during this meeting or perhaps in the next meetings and this could be

a good step now after all the discord and all the difference that you have seen during the last meeting as i said also two days ago i just spoke to the sudanese foreign minister and he told us that this time around you are looking for an unconventional solution i asked him what does he mean by that and he did not explain so it's something for this probably this meeting. to reveal if they really succeed in finding an unconventional solution to this conflict each job is coming to these meetings only because the other sides want if you're going to come but if nobody asks for any meeting you joke you will be happy following the course of what it is doing and building that down to the end so they can see that it's a matter of national pride a matter of national sovereignty and they do. i think anybody should dictate to them what they should do with their natural resources their resources inside their own country however denial is shared between all these countries and they all have interests and their interests also differ in many ways and that's why

a lot of hope is pinned on this missing box or so not quite sure that it is going to bring the final solution will leave it there for a moment about to as we hear more from the conference thank you. brazil's supreme court has ruled that former president. can be sent to prison he's been trying to stay out of jail while he appeals against a conviction for taking bribes now the decision threatens his bid to run in october presidential election where he was favored to win in america reports from the capital brasilia. the die is cast as demonstrators for and against brazil charismatic former president lula da silva gathered outside. the supreme court narrowly voted against his petition to remain free while he appeals a twelve year corruption conviction this means brazil's most popular politician and the frontrunner for october's presidential election must go to jail it's

a victory for brazilians unwilling to accept any other verdict more i represent the death of the supreme court and less it puts little or why the pressure on the supreme court justices has been an intense and not just out here on the streets shortly before the vote the head of the army came out publicly and said that he would quote muti aid to impunity this is seen as an m president unveiled threat from an institution that is not supposed to weigh in on politics at least not since the end of the military in brazil back in one thousand nine hundred eighty five. for the escalating tensions was this banner in front of the court openly calling for military intervention. the court decision was a blow not just his political future. hundreds of other politicians under investigation or suspicion of crimes including two thirds of congress were anxious for the court to set a precedent that many argue would have been the death of

a nationwide corruption probe the investigation has even implicated current president michel tamar. meanwhile supporters of lula da silva who lifted tens of mil. of brazilians from poverty during his presidency insist he's a victim of political intrigue study coming soon historically every time you have a president who cares about the working class he or she becomes a parget of this kind of sabotage promoted by ideally. luna was found guilty of accepting a seaside apartment in this building in exchange for helping a construction company obtain government contracts he insists he's innocent but the seventy one year old politician who's ignited political passions like no other in brazil has lost what may be his most important battle to see a new. brasilia. well still ahead here on al-jazeera sierra leone's new president is sworn in find out why hopes of

a smooth transition and i went down to. plus the caribbean athletes who had to overcome a different type of hurdle just to make it to the commonwealth games to stay with us on the opposite. we've got the usual rash of showers across southeast asia not looking too bad in the philippines over the next dial side not too much cloud showing up here but further west for say some of the live the shallows there in bangkok sixty two millimeters of rain twenty four hours more where that came from in the next dial too doesn't it say about on friday last fall and dry bangkok at thirty three degrees thirty three celsius that same for manila the actual showers there coming in across borneo maybe want to live the showers you notice into northern parts of java but i've been a source to sing some rather wet weather really heavy rain coming back into the

gulf of thailand as he make our way into the weekend's assassinate does look like a rather wet one for bangkok not so much heavy rain across australia meanwhile now we still got the legacy of what was tropical sideline i was just offshore there out in the coral say may just bring one or two coastal showers to that eastern side of queensland before much of the time it could be five and dry not too bad there for brisbane over the next few days and i think good for the commonwealth games twenty seven celsius here looking up twenty two for melbourne twenty eight there in adelaide some warmth will come through a high of around twenty two celsius for perth but plenty of sunshine good in the sunshine into much of new zealand highs in all cleaned of twenty one degrees. white supremacy is on the rise in the u.s. and its adversaries too are beating their war drums. faultlines

investigates the anti fascists using force against intolerance. this is and to fact on al-jazeera. non-violence does attempt to appeal to the more conscience of them now the jury's still out of the nation as one. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera arms the whole rob with a reminder of our top stories sixty u.s. diplomats expelled by russia departed the u.s. embassy in moscow last week russia ordered the diplomats to leave in retaliation for the united states expelling the same number of russians it's all part of

a dispute over the nerve agent attack on an ex russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. also brazil's supreme court has ruled that former president luis in are still a little to silverwood can be sent to prison he's been trying to stay out of jail while he appeals against a conviction for taking bribes. ministers from egypt sudan and ethiopia are resuming talks on the verse and dam project on the river nile the grant renee soltz dam was originally slated for completion this year but disagreements between egypt and ethiopia have led to the two year suspension of talks. to a staffer sierra leone's the president has been sworn in by i was one of the military gentle leaders that now really now really won the runoff vote with a thirty two percent. follows hopes that the smooth transition could have been thrown into doubt has the ruling party candidate has rejected the result evident of support from the capital freetown. after

a difficult month sarah leone's chief electoral officer addresses the nation hoping that this time the contentious electoral process is finally over. at that supporters of the no party to the streets in celebration. to be oh one time military head of state is subsequently sworn in as a democratically elected leader who he acknowledged the divisions and demanded citizens to also take responsibility he was answering. was. the.

action. was something. you need to endure the opposition now has a week to challenges a tree in court after ten years in office instead of yours he was mighty powerful its leader was a difficult task for healing. we're watching to see how the president want to use in minority. do what they do what challenges. unlike his to one half months as a military leader this time julius b.-o. will have five long years to keep peace campaign promises to a nation bruised by africa electioneering ahmed reese al-jazeera frito the ministry health in gaza says one palestinian has been killed by israeli soldiers near the border another has died of their injuries after being shot now that brings the number of palestinians killed by israeli forces in the border and

rest to twenty since friday and stephanie decker reports from west jerusalem the violence has put the israeli army's rules of engagement under scrutiny. these are unprecedented scenes along gaza's border with israel it's the biggest protests since a tiny strip was sealed off after hamas took power over ten years ago israeli army has been widely criticized for using excessive force charge it rejects the olders were strict i mean nobody should cross. the fence but i think there was restraint there high offices were on the ground all the time so it wasn't just the women of all three if all of a private you know the un and the e.u. have condemned israel's excessive use of force eighteen people were killed over eight hundred injured by life fire according to palestinian officials israel says it only targeted those trying to breach the border fence and it claims members of

groups it deems terrorist organizations infiltrated the protests but cumin rights organizations say the evidence shows otherwise. what we've seen is a great number of people standing at a distance from the fence inside the gaza strip and force live ammunition was used against them in such circumstances the use of lethal force is the last course of action only in circumstances when there's a risk for a life he's really human rights group but salim says live ammunition is being used as a crowd control measure i invite everyone you know just watch the footage and ask yourself is this reasonable that the israeli army. which you know backed by a policy front of her minister down to use such force in such fashion and with such results the army claims it did use restraint last friday and says it will respond more forcefully to anyone trying to breach the separation fence again we're told

the rules of engagement are not likely to change as you know there's a strong support for the military and also for the government of this board. outside pressure can play a role but it's not strong. enough israel is used to engaging in conflict with armed factions in gaza and its missile defense system the iron dome intercepting rocket fire but not a single rocket has been fired out of the strip since this protest began israel is now dealing with the consequences of a decades old policy of blockading gaza where two million people are squeezed into a tiny strip of land palestinians say they're desperate for freedom military force may not be able to silence them stephanie decker al-jazeera west jerusalem. the u.n. says up to one hundred thousand people have returned to iraq or in syria five months after i still was driven out in the us back military campaign the u.n. team visited the city earlier this week for the first time since it was freed its

estimate that two thirds of homes are destroyed while most residents still have no access to clean water city leaders say it's still riddled with unexploded devices i saw made right at the defacto capital of its self declared caliphate when it captured the city in twenty fourteen. well staying in the region donald trump has agreed to keep u.s. troops in syria for the time being at least a day after he wanted to leave the u.s. president is said to have changed his mind after meeting with national security advisers a white house correspondent can be how could. one day after u.s. president donald trump declare the united states will pull out of syria i want to get out i want to bring our troops back home the white house was on wednesday attempting to make sense of the president's statements arguing the u.s. would withdraw but not just yet as this environment has changed because of the success under the president's leadership we're evaluating it as we go the softening

of the president's position as the result of a national security meeting trump had with top advisers he was informed there was still work to be done withdrawal of the two thousand military advisors and special forces could allow eisel to regain a foothold in the region we shouldn't go into iraq on the campaign trail trump pushed an america first agenda arguing foreign conflicts have cost taxpayers too much it's a point he reiterated on tuesday well meeting with baltic leaders seven trillion dollars over a seventeen year period we have nothing. that's perhaps one reason trump is excel orating withdrawal timeline the other is russia trump has argued nobody has been tougher on russia than i have a withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria would be a win for russian president vladimir putin whose forces have supported the syrian government of bashar throughout the conflict but the. guy it would also be

a victory for iran israeli government believes the iranians are planning to use their forces in syria to attack israel accusation iran denies but one analyst thinks trumps desire to pull the united states. out is simply part of a bigger strategy i think it's probably a good idea to put that on the table because it forces people to negotiate with you with a talk with you more seriously in this i think you're always going to be there despite the president's sense of urgency the white house says the decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria will not be made by the president but instead by the secretary of defense based on conditions on the ground kimberly help at al-jazeera at the white house now facebook has revealed that it compromised the privacy of millions more users than initially reported as a grapples with the fallout facebook has involved a new privacy policy and the changes include cracking down on that can get

information about events people are hosting or attending better encryption for conversations that take place in closed all secret groups and a time to review process for all apps that request to use this information about photos videos status updates and posts on monday facebook users will receive a notice telling them what they use what information has been shared and how to delete apps they no longer want now the company's chief executive mark zuckerberg says he's committed to restoring facebook's reputation as alan fischer reports. facebook has come in for heavy criticism after it was revealed the data of millions of users had been shared with outside parties initially it was thought by media sources the breach took in fifty million users now it's been revealed by facebook itself after an intent or review the figure is much higher eighty seven million facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg told reporters on

a conference call he no plans to step down and the company would change the way it handled users' data in the future now we have to go through every part of our relationship with people and make sure that we're taking a broad enough you have our responsibility it's not enough to just connect people we have to make sure that those connections are positive and that they're bring people closer together not enough to just give people a voice we have to make sure that people are not using our force to hurt people or to spread misinformation and it's not enough to give people tools to sanitize we have to ensure that all those developers protect people's information to our next this facebook didn't tell any of its users back in two thousand and fifteen that information had been accessed by the firm cambridge analytical which was contracted by the trump presidential campaign to help election ad targeting it no faces questions about the number of fake news stories posted during the election and the presence of russian operatives on the service the company also had links to another

firm which provided analysis for the vote leave campaign in the british e.u. referendum of the eighty seven million potentially affected users more than seventy million are in the u.s. mark zuckerberg will face a u.s. house committee next week to discuss the scandal and several states and investigating what happened and if any laws were broken alan fischer al-jazeera washington. one of bollywood's biggest stars has been convicted to five years in prison for a poaching case that someone karr was accused of hunting and endangered until obama's twenty years ago with four of his costars from a movie they were working on he was he was the only one convicted. now the first medals have been handed out after the opening day of the commonwealth games australia hurling medal hopeful sally pearson has been forced out of the home a vent because of injury but for those of us leapt from the hurricane ravaged parts of the caribbean simply getting to australia was

a small victory in itself and to thomas's on australia's gold coast. at the commonwealth games current master will race the four hundred metres hurdles but in the lead up to the games he and other caribbean athletes have faced other hurdles away from the sports track mcmaster filmed this video himself it shows some of the destruction caused by two hurricanes which hit his country the british virgin islands last year among those killed was mcmasters coach at the games masters wearing a respond in his memory it was his dream me on his dream making it up step by step to get up to get it was i had this wristband he would be with me every step or two even if i win or lose he would be with me as the masters new coach says it's been tough for the team to carry on for the father of track and field and be so anything happens you know he will do as he was he was everything so with him go into.

a letter just took a little further while but we're hoping it will it will bounce back up again perkins and maria hit most of the caribbean countries which have athletes competing at the commonwealth games across the island sports facilities were badly damaged car and mcmaster is one of many who since the hurricanes has had to move to the united states to train the stadium lights came down billions of gyms or guard that is that you know there right now is something the tree in a muddy area because if it remains. flooded with more mass to say that winning a medal is not his priority at the commonwealth games he simply wants to make his traumatised country proud andrew thomas al-jazeera on australia's gold coast. you're watching al-jazeera i'm still robin these are all top stories sixty u.s.

diplomats expelled by russia have until the end of the day to leave the country three buses have already departed the u.s. embassy. in moscow last week russia ordered the diplomats to leave in retaliation for the united states expelling the same number of russians it's all part of a dispute over a nerve agent attack on an ex and russian spy and his daughter in the united kingdom now the spy case has also come up at the international security conference being held in moscow that was. the so-called scruple case has become a stage a pretext for an unprecedented massive expulsion of russian diplomats not just from britain and the united states but also from other countries that were made to do so with an open mockery of diplomatic efforts i'd like to stress that will continue to respond to those unfriendly steps but at the same time we would like to find the truth and we insist on a fair unbiased investigation of to be held in line with the principle of the convention of the prohibition of chemical weapons. brazil's supreme court has ruled

that former president luis in our soon to silver can be sent to prison he's been trying to stay out of jail why he'll appeal against a conviction for taking bribes now the decision threatens his bid to run in october presidential election where he was favored to win. ministers from egypt sudan and ethiopia are resuming talks on addus and the best dam project on the river nile now the grand renee salt stan was slated for completion this year but disagreements between egypt and ethiopia have led to the two year suspension of talks. the man who wants to rule sierra leone as the leader of a military junta has been sworn in as president didn't matter now only won a runoff election with fifty one point eight percent of the vote but the rival party's candidate says he'll challenge the result because of alleged voting irregularities. the ministry of health says one palestinian has been killed by israeli soldiers another died of their injuries after being shot brings the number of palestinians killed by israeli forces in the border twenty cents friday.

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