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. a suspected chemical attack in doom or as the syrian government continues its efforts to retake the last remaining rebel stronghold. this is out there live from london also coming up in the program. supporters of former president president lula rally for him just hours before he finally finds himself of two police. funerals are held in for some of the protesters shot dead by israeli forces. and more on how a fishing dispute between mauritania and senegal has turned deadly. so syrian medics say at least seventy people have been killed by a suspected chemical attack in duma in eastern guta rescue workers posted videos of

victims appearing to show symptoms consistent with a gas attack some appeared to have white fame around their mouths the news is consistent with a sarin attack the area is the last rebel stronghold around the capital and is undergoing intense bombardment off the talks collapsed last week. well this was the state of play in eastern back on february eighteenth when the renewed military offensive began the rebels were firmly in control of the key towns and villages and this is how it looks now rebels have lost control of most of the territory except duma city is now the focus of the assad government's aerial bombardments and ground attacks shot palace as this report. the skies over duma had been quiet for two weeks then this. residents counted more than fifty airstrikes and say twenty barrel bombs were dropped on the city. one day into the assault syrian civil

defense reported the use of chlorine gas they took at least fifteen people to hospital. syrian state you said the assault was in retaliation for jaish al islam or the army of islam shelling residential areas of neighboring damascus it said four civilians were killed and twenty two injured josh i'll islam tonight the attack. the german duma is clearly visible syrian civil defense the white house descended on the rubble dodging the airstrikes. they risk you dozens of people this man was found under what was left of his heart . after the air attack tanks came down the road syrian soldiers tightening their grip on one of the last rebel strongholds in the country this is the most important the biggest city in. and by capturing it actually they would be

just finishing off all of the presence of the opposition in this i mean very important strategic area surrounding damascus a defiant judicial islam posted this photo after the u.s. strikes began the caption a commander and officer reinforce the city fronts of duma . but the rebels territory is shrinking and the death toll climbing a russian brokered cease fire has allowed for three waves of evacuations with more than four thousand fighters and their families leaving duma a fourth convoy was mentally on thursday but never did. many doctors and nurses have already left her for those people pulled out of the rubble treatment is becoming ever more difficult to find shallop alice al-jazeera. well let's talk more about the suspected chemical attack joining us via skype from fresno in california is ahmed direct g. he's the president of the syrian american medical association thank you for joining

us here on the program you have teams field teams on the ground. what's what are you hearing back from them what are they saying about this attack. unfortunately at this time only a few number of physicians and medical staff are lived in duma to treat the high number of casualties and just as background of what has been going on over the last twenty four hours there's mixed experience of shelling and missile strikes on casualties and people were dying in the streets and hospitals not getting a chance to be treated there this would that happen this evening by then on the mass this time it was early morning u.s. time as you know that you had there has been many patients who arrive to the hospitals were science very concerning who are using gaz or using for chlorine or similar. to the nerves and gases can with chemical weapons and

unfortunately we're dealing with a number of medical staff right now it's taken us a lot of time to confirm the symptoms and the treatment and cheat people and we've seen people our staff seen people that should dying working to get to cheat and there's one confirmed death right now in the hospital with him to be treated and this number continues to increase the scenery behind us is that many of the families straight now in dumas are taking shield in basements and using indorse you know chemical weapons they chlorine or some of the products by the fact that this gas goes down to the basement and those people right now or taking shoes from barrel bombs are getting prosecuted with those chemical weapons and that's where the casualties are high and then as we see it in number of people as we've seen for those pictures chemical attacks such as as this suggested one is is in this criminal and women and children are victims too. jenny and again you know we don't

have the final stats on what's on certainly the number of casualties are high it's a fifty families it's affecting people who are ticking shields and basements trying to be safe from the barrel bombs and the show and that's going outside and dumas right now and those are the ones who are being affected by dorce chemical gases and this is one of the last stronghold so say using chemical weapons such as this would be a potent way of. for want of a better phrase cleaning up territory i suppose well i mean this is one way to look at it but also it marks the you know the failure of the international community community to stop chemical attacks inside syria this is the year ago another in the landmark of the inability of anyone to stop those attacks on civilians you know there is the political cost that the military caught it and there is also on the other hand there are attacks on civilians and this is what we're seeing right now and that's the narrative and that's word the u.n. security council and the countries at the international committee should take

a strong position to stop those attacks on civilians and investigate it we would like to know who was using those chemical weapons attack and from what we know this is coming out from sky and the sun coming in bonds that barrel bombs and so on so this is large quantity of chlorine to cause this damage and this coming from and copters for example air force and in duma for example we know who is flying on on suburban damascus syrian regime. ok we'll have to leave it there are meds it's we appreciate your time and thanks for filling us in about this this attack you think with the option thank you. no four but a brazilian president lula da silva has finally handed himself over to police to begin his twelve year prison sentence for corruption. hundreds of his supporters surrounded him in the industrial suburb of sao paulo in

an attempt to block him from turning himself into authorities who has been found guilty of taking bribes from an engineering firm in return for helping award state contracts he will now be taken to a jail cell in the southern city of could where he will begin serving his sentence well prior to his conviction luda had been the favorites of brazil's upcoming presidential elections josie roboto t.h.o. as a journalist for a brazilian newspaper and he says that speculation remains over who will replace him as the left wing candidate. more are. saying that he can do it the supreme court but i think it's fair to say that he's probably going to serve or for a couple of years now and he's not going to be completely out of the police go scene because he's going to try to. persuade voters to vote for his candidate but the fact is that he doesn't have. another candidate is right now he showed

up today. during the protests a couple of names some of them not even from his own workers' party so it's completely open the scene on the left we don't know who is going to be lula's politico air. funerals have been held in gaza for the ten palestinians killed by israeli forces during friday's process at least thirty people have died since demonstrations began last week thousands of protesters are company along the israeli gaza border to demand the right of return for palestinian refugees. among those buried was the palestinian journalists yassin would target and the thirty year old was shot in the stomach while covering the protests on friday fourteen other journalists have been injured in the violence and how much i'm june reports now from occupied west bank. despite the blue protective vest he was wearing and

despite the fact that the word press was in place and on the front of that best palestinian journalist yassin was shot by israeli forces while covering the mass protests in gaza on friday that of yasser died early on saturday. night now at his funeral in gaza hamas leader is a tribute well i didn't want to hide here i salute all the journalists and pray sir who lost their lives in the same way those who have gone through the road of suffering in order to portray the reality for an oppressed people a frustrated people on the season gaza and all across palestine but it's the image of dignity for a proud people a brave people a straightforward people brave able to turn the table and the hardest of times for palestinian journalists gathered in the occupied west bank to commemorate yassin according to the palestinian journalist syndicate seven other journalists were also

injured in protests on friday the syndicate described them as deliberate crimes committed by the israeli army and called on the united nations to do more to protect journalists in ramallah there was shock and anger. the journalist they want to send a message say that even the generals in gaza or in with the same. for the first avoid as a bustin as second as a general has done their duty is to cover up what happened yes it was thirty years old well known and well liked yes it was a gentle soul this is how everybody describes him he was a gifted journalist a gifted. photo journalist and documentary filmmaker in leaves behind a wife and a two year old child. and he has united everybody in sorrow i mean mourning because he was so so gentle and so gifted and so

dedicated journalists stood in solidarity with their dead and wounded colleagues this is not going to make us feel helpless or hopeless it will i think as it did before make us more determined. now won't the syndicate has more tools at its hand to defend the rights of journalists to expose israeli actions and to attempt to hold it accountable in international forums so that's a new window of hope if you will that we didn't have before the words of encouragement at a time when strength and fortitude may be needed more than ever before. in the occupied west bank. have declared a state of emergency jew to a severe shortage of supplies has. there isn't an easy atmosphere in the ward the patients are in pain but this is silent worry of those

around them that is most striking. but not of the hoody cannot contain his despair he has three sons all three maimed to protest is the last one to be injured and his condition is the most worry he has already lost his left leg in an accident a few years ago now his right one is at risk. he lost his leg because of the two governments we had one with agreed to transfer him and the other would refuse i call on anyone who cares about us please help me get my son out of gaza he needs treatment to please help me save this leg. medleys in the next bed in agonizing pain his mother is angry at all parties. living in gaza is like living in a sealed box she says they only care about themselves. a man was among the first to arrive at the hospital on friday it was early in the day many more would follow the

sheer number of injured putting stress among already fragile system dr ayman sahab and he says it's now bursting at the seams. we declared a state of emergency and once his who carrying three or four patients had this time we had three hundred cases in one day has fifteen times more than the capacity of the emergency unit and we've used all our stock. injuries are in the lower part of the body external fixators for limbs antibiotics and the d.j. and other necessities have run out or are in short supply getting anything into gaza requires a lengthy and complicated process under normal circumstances the health system suffers from a shortage about half of the drugs needed and the third are lacking but the situation gets even further complicated by political developments the. seventeen year old mohammed a sports lover was told that nothing more could be done here in gaza there are

train his leg is torn and he's losing a lot of blood he needs to be transferred to the occupied west back the hospital there is waiting the people work is done by the israelis won't allow him to make did journey no one has been able to get out since the protests began. listens for my tears roll down his cheek and hope is all but gone. but. there's no solution each time they make us dream of reconciliation failed my generation has lost the one after me that's why we go to the. friends to express the misery we live in. it's that sense of hopelessness that continues to draw do use the words the border fence many might come back on a stretcher some will never fully recover without that hamid al jazeera gaza still to come on the program two people are killed and more injured after five

crashes into a crowd in west germany. in victoria on the favorite hungary's election poultice final campaign rally focusing heavily on immigration. however the weather set fair right across australia over the next day or two about a tropical cyclone iris that's in the process of pulling away might just catch the old rope showers just or happening along the coastal shores of queensland but for the most part it is looking fine dry and sunny and pretty warm getting up to twenty eight celsius in adelaide similar temperature there for sydney and also for brisbane twenty degrees in melbourne but as we go on into sunday those temperatures picking up further so we could touch three in adelaide lots of warm sunshine around then further west we could be up to around twenty one in perth should at least be

last fine and dry here as you fought in try to into much of new zealand but some thought and we'll see some rain just sliding its way in as we go on through the next day or so at least for a time seventeen celsius in christchurch twenty two in all clear and then increasing cloud just spilling into the far south of the country as we go on through sunday twenty celsius there for all to hear it does stay five and dry with warm sunshine still a little bit of warmth to the sunshine across japan over the next day or so take it getting up to twenty one degrees but some cooler weather in some wintry weather for the northern parts of the country brust guys come into the korean peninsula and gradually make their way further east. we're heading to the place so deep in the proving amazon it's taken us two days on this boat just to get there in the search current dangerous macaws look at what is being done to protect one of the region's most iconic creatures of cars are

disappearing because a legal pad trained with the main research just wanted to see if reintroduction of mccahill is a viable option to save some of these population pretty good you know techno on al-jazeera and. again a reminder the top stories here on in syrian medics say at least seventy people have been killed by a suspected chemical attack in duma in eastern puter rescue workers posted videos of victims appearing to show symptoms consistent with. former brazilian president lula da silva is now in police custody after supporters tried to stop him

surrendering to authorities to begin his twelve year prison sentence. that mourn the dead killed by israeli fire in gaza on friday one of them a prominent journalist covering the protests. two people have died and several others have been injured after a man drove a car into a crowd in the german city of munster police say the suspect then killed himself investigations are continuing this evening as dominant cain now reports. emergency workers deal with the aftermath of the incident a vehicle driven at speed into a crowded urban area it happened without warning and work and i got there was a loud bang and screaming and then the police arrived and everyone was sent outside because then they fear others but i felt i didn't see much as there were lots of police everywhere a lot of people were running away screaming. the perpetrator took his own life after steering his vehicle into the crowds the authorities are working on the basis

he did not have what they call a terrorist motive to knock the guy according to the current state of the investigation and it is still the perpetrator plowed into a crowd of people was a german citizen and not as it was everywhere alleged a refugee something similar the details are being already examined officers believe the perpetrator had been psychologically disturbed for some time late on saturday evening armed officers were searching his home trying to find any evidence which might shed some light on his motives this incident has shot. chancellor angela merkel released a statement making clear how the incident has shaken the country and promising all assistance of the police investigation germany has been on a state of raised alert for several years saturday's incident means it's unlikely that level will drop anytime soon don it can al-jazeera. the last major rallies have been held in hungary before sunday's election most polls predict

the right wing prime minister viktor orban will win the first term his final campaign speech was filled with immigration rhetoric but it's general reports from southern hungry the opposition is accusing his government of corruption and or for a tarion measures. eight years in power the man who critics say is building in all four of them state in the heart of the european union is seeking reelection. to be built the fence defended the southern border who said no in brussels to any immigration that danger is not passed they can hardly wait to start again these are. among the prime ministers opponents the newly elected mayor of an obscure southern town finding sudden fame after a united opposition rally behind him to defeat the ruling party candidate exposed to attacks every day criticism lies accusations so there's

fortunately enough it's not that russia still mr all about its ideal state is a liberal democracy like russia but people don't get shot here because of their opposition views what swung the election the independent candidates way was a campaign highlighting official corruption in this small town voters were won over it seems by a national scandal involving the misuse of european union funds to install some standard street lighting the company involved is owned by victor all bans son in law. and their request. about a giant intersection built. infrastructural farms the cost. to more than double what it should have been. if indeed it should have been built at all so this is a new fans but they're stealing but they're spending unnecessarily and of course this new fans are the only source of economic growth in hungary in the last quite a few years you'd think people would be outraged. that the current government

cannot be accused of things that have not been proven words a fleeting but facts are facts. when the opposition is opposition because they always find something to criticize it i think voters decide of a lot of issues not just corruption. the problem is that those who are outraged by corruption are crumbling public services support opposition parties that refuse to unite on the national level like to be there for to defeat the state and its media machine that plays on people's fears pumping out stories that distort deflect and distract jonah al-jazeera in southern hungry. at least fifteen people have died after a truck collided with a bus carrying a canadian youth ice hockey team it happened near the town of the north eastern scots when the humble prawn co's were on their way to play

a game kind of his prime minister justin trudeau is among those paying tribute to the victims. the texas national guard has sent hundreds of troops to the u.s. and mexican border after president donald trump's call to stop illegal immigration which he says is that a crisis point on friday the defense secretary james mattis authorized funding for up to four thousand personnel to be deployed along the border in four southwestern states the move follows a trance failure to secure enough support at home and in mexico to fully fund its proposed border war malaysia's prime minister has unveiled a lavish manifesto complete with cash benefits in a bid to woo his key voting bloc ahead of may's elections now. under pressure to improve his coalition's performance after support eroded in the last two polls over his role in a massive corruption scandal involving the one image de state fund he denies any

wrongdoing this time around he's set to face a challenge from his former mentor mahathir mohammed louis has more now from the malaysian capital. all across this is becoming a familiar sight flags of the ruling coalition nearness barzani. but i think it's important to know in the last few years it lost its two thirds majority in two thousand and eight and in two thousand and thirteen in the popular vote for the first time this is the first election since news of a corruption scandal surrounding state investment fund one m d b broke more than four billion dollars has allegedly been siphoned from the fund prime minister. has denied any wrongdoing and malaysian investigations have not found any evidence of impropriety challenging his former mentor and former prime minister mahathir mohamad the ninety two year old was angered by the scandal he's returned to politics and sets up a new party opposition politicians say the odds on stacked against the government

has changed. its into the used a new and. his opposition party has been banned for thirty days elections have to be held within the next sixty days but that widely expected to be held soon. japan has deployed its first marine unit since world war two the two thousand strong on fabulous rapid deployment for great will defend the country's remote islands along the east china sea it's meant to boost the country's troops against possible attacks from china which is. to france and. a bollywood jailed for five years for poaching has been granted bail by an indian court fifty two year old song was released from prison in the city of joy. spending just two days behind bars he was found guilty on thursday of killing two endangered species of insulin in one thousand nine hundred eight while shooting a film on the his bail conditions to leave the country without the court's

permission. set a goal of mauritania all cooperating over the development of the shore gas field discovered last year but there is a growing dispute over fishing rights and as nicholas khalq reports from san louis that's led to the death of a single these fisherman and retaliation against mauritanians appearances can sometimes be deceiving mauritanian shop keepers of the fall. in the med may put a friendly smile when a customer walks in but they fear being attacked again. for my own customers who are trying to kill me they stole goods and destroyed the shops some of them i've known them since they were children they were so angry this is mobile phone footage of the attack in february a crowd of senegalese fishermen gather around more italian owned businesses. they chant arabs out go home you don't belong here they're protesting the killing of

five to enjoy a sudden he was shot dead by morton in coastguards they say he was fishing in mauritanian waters. i want justice and someone needs to pay for the death of my son this is how the fisherman delivered justice for father's death. the shopkeepers called the police station across the street for help to take them an hour to show up the damage is already done. we go out to sea to meet the men behind the attack. we're somewhere between senegalese in mauritania and territorial waters we finally find them when they've been out all night they're catch is bigger and we have to go further ranch to find fish for mauritanians are putting pressure on us if they find us they control our boats sometimes they steal our catch we don't trust them the more tin coast guard shoot on sight fishermen caught in their territory dozens of fishermen have been killed hundreds arrested and their whole seized in these

boarding waters mauritanians illegal have still not found in agreement over fishing rights. in the distance menacing. just about a fishing dispute it's about who controls the waters and the precious resources that. the largest gas field ever found in west africa was discovered here last year it contains over fifty trillion cubic feet of resource potential sufficient for thirty to fifty years of production both countries have agreed to share their resources politicians promise this new wealth will bring the communities together but with no fishing agreement in sight and growing resentment towards mauritanians in san louis the fight over the oceans well is for now sowing distress after five generations of shopkeeping in salary these mauritanians no longer feel welcome. nicholas hark al jazeera salary.

so that never mind of the headlines here on out there and syrian medics say at least seventy people have been killed by a suspected chemical attack in duma in eastern kuta rescue workers posted videos of victims appearing to show symptoms consistent with a gas attack some appeared to have white foam around their mouths and nose is consistent with a sarin attack the area is the last rebel stronghold around the capital and is undergoing intense bombardment after talks collapsed last week meant to target ji is the president of the syrian american medical association he says that strong international action is needed to stop such attacks. marks you know the feeling of the international community community to stop chemical attacks inside syria this is doable and others in the landmark of the inability of anyone just club to support civilians and there is the political cost of the military caught it and there is also on the other hand there are attacks on civilians and this is what we're seeing

right now and that's the narrative and that's where the u.s. could counsel and countries at the international community should take a strong position to stop those attacks and see billions and just again form a brazilian president lula da silva has finally handed himself over to police to begin his twelve year prison sentence for corruption. hundreds of his supporters surrounded him in an industrial suburb of star power in an attempt to block him from turn himself over to authorities has been found guilty of taking bribes from an engineering firm in return for helping a border state contract. breve palestinian families have been burying loved ones killed by israeli forces in gaza on friday a funeral processions are taking place for the ten people killed during protests along the gazan israeli border at least thirty demonstrators have died since last week. two people have been killed in western germany after

a vehicle was driven into crowds in the city of munster police say twenty people were also injured in the incident the suspect who took his own life was reportedly suffering from psychological problems. the last major rallies have been held in hungary before sunday's election most polls predict the right wing prime minister viktor orban will win a third term his final campaign speech was filled with anti immigration rhetoric that's it techno is coming right up.

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