non-violence does attempt to appeal to the moral conscience of the me now the jury's still out. if the nation has won and we're heading to the place so deep in the proving there was on it's taking us two days on this boat just to get there from the search current dangerous macaws looks at what is being done to protect one of the region's most iconic creatures of cars are disappearing because the legal pad trade with booming researchers wanted to see a reintroduction of mccahill as a viable option to save some of these population pretty good young techno on al-jazeera and.

the u.s. warns of international action after seventy people are killed in a suspected chemical attack in syria. welcome to the program you're watching al-jazeera live from doha my name's peter dhabi also coming up brazil's former president begins his twelve year prison sentence ending that twelve year long fight to stay out of jail plus everything about this family about this tragedy is unprecedented and it's overwhelming. sports fans in shock after players from an amateur hockey team a killed in a bus crash in canada also. i just don't understand why the law abiding citizens will be punished the holiday resort has been called a cesspool and now its residents have new concerns.

the u.s. is warning of an international response against syria if reports of a chemical attack in the rebel stronghold of east and confirmed syrian medics say at least seventy people were killed in a suspected gas strike in duma the syrian government is calling it a fabrication and a huckster has more a warning you may find some images in this report distressing. believe it or not these children are the lucky ones basic and crude imagine seacat victims of a suspected chemical attack at. they survived they didn't these the latest victims in eastern as regime forces at closer to defeating them planets in the rebel held pocket medical sources on the ground say victims appear to show symptoms consistent with mixed nerve or chlorine gas exposure syrian state media has dismissed talk of the regime using

a poison gas as fast sickle. local hospital staff say many of the victims of saturday's attacks were treated for suffocation only a few number of physicians and medical staff are lived. through the are in the book menu of families right now are taking shield and basements and using indorse you know chemical weapons like chlorine or similar products by the fact that those guys goes down to the basement and those people are now or taking shields from barrel bombs are getting security source chemical weapons and that's where the casualties are high and that's who is the high number of people. the syrian government forces stepped up their offensive on the rebel held duma after a ten day truce collapsed. the russian brokered ceasefire fell through of a disagreement over evacuating rebels hundreds of fighters and their families were convoyed out of jumah but josh al islam one of the main rebel groups refused to go

to lane present overall conquest this is the most important the biggest city in the area and by capturing it actually they would be just finishing off all the presence of the opposition and disperse i mean very important strategic area surrounding the mosque is not only that they would be also evacuating the area from the most formidable position force which is jason islam or the army of islam. with the latest standoff between acid's government and the last rebel held town scenes like this looks set to continue. out just. there. well the u.s. state department has also said in a statement that russia ultimately bears responsibility for the brutal targeting of countless syrians with chemical weapons russia's protection of the asset regime and failure to stop the use of chemical weapons in syria calls into question its commitment to resolving the overall crisis bruce fein is the former us is deputy

attorney general he says the western world has a range of possible reactions. well i think there are. a menu of possible retaliatory measures that could be taken by the west the united states see europe could list i believe russia as a state sponsor of terrorism based not only on the complicity if you with the cole belligerency with syria in using chemical weapons in syria but also now we have a second incident in great britain where it seems quite clear that russia used chemical warfare to kill or at least attempt to kill two or three of its expatriates and that would in pose very very strict economic sanctions against russia stricter than those that have been posed after ukraine.

it's a very grim prospect but it may well be that the only way you could deter additional uses of chemical weapons because a one strike affair didn't do anything when it was attempted about a year ago by mr trump. is to threaten to arm mr assad's opponents with chemical weapons so it's like a nuclear weapons the former president of brazil luis enough you lula da silva has now begun a twelve year prison sentence off to being convicted of corruption against a jail in the city of quota tiba who the sentencing has divided brazil while his supporters are protesting against its many of the celebrations in the guilty should pay for the crimes he's done. did not go without a fight he defied a friday deadline to hand himself into police then on saturday he addressed his

supporters outside the metal workers' union headquarters near sell powell much did . the crime that i committed is a crime they don't want me to repeat my crime was to put. black people and poor people in university able them to buy their own home if that is the crime i committed i'd like to say that i will continue to be a criminal i he's the victim he says of a campaign to block him standing on the job as presidential elections elections many believe he would win. since dilma rousseff impeachment we have seen a coup d'etat starting in two thousand and thirteen they have been trying to get rid of not only delma but lula and the left wing parties so i suppose in sao paolo delayed his exit while others came to see him off at the airport saying farewell to the man they praise for lifting millions of resilience out of poverty through the chains brazil had a huge influence across latin america yet the reaction to the full of this once

great political leader has so far been muted the house because he's become just another victim of the corruption scandals sweeping brazil. is looters heartland but the crowds here was small all those elsewhere in brazil came out to celebrate his imprisonment. will it. all the politicians who stole who took money from brazil from security from health care how many people died whitening lot of hospitals that's all dirty money if they guilty they should go to prison i know there is just one of the many business people and politicians from across the political spectrum to be caught in the web of corruption investigations sweeping brazil that he is by far the biggest to some a martyr to others just a common criminal. is a latin american political analyst he says luda could gain even more of a following after going to jail. i think that what we're seeing is he's become

a symbol a rallying cry around which people are rallying and you're getting it you know i see that two things one the elections in brazil him being the front runner and all of a sudden he's not able to participate that really undermines the legitimacy of these elections second of all he has the potential of becoming a nelson mandela like figure around which his party and all brazilians can rally around in international forces can rally around and eventually become a symbolic and gain a symbolic victory if not outright electoral victory in these elections coming coming up he's always maintained that these are false accusations the there's also a league ations against him and there's a sense that under lula things were actually better things improve for the average ordinary person in brazil and so there's that aspect of it people's lives actually

improve then there is he's always maintained and been seen as someone who is a very has high degree of integrity is a fighter is someone who fights for social justice and at the same time other very you know right wing politicians who are also implicated directly in kinds of scandals and graft and corruption are being treated very differently. thousands of mourners have attended the funerals in gaza for the ten palestinians killed by israeli forces during friday's protest on the gaza israel border at least thirty people died since the demonstrations began last week thousands of protesters are camping along the border to demand the right of return for palestinian refugees among those buried was a palestinian journalist yes i'm atocha the thirty year old was shot in the stomach was covering the protests on friday fourteen of the journalists have been injured since the demonstrations began nine days ago mohammed room reports now from the

occupied west bank that 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 protest in gaza on friday and of yasser died early on saturday. night at his funeral in gaza hamas leader is a tribute well i did not find here i salute all the journalists and priests 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 and 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 yes it. according to the palestinian journalist syndicate seven other journalists were also injured in protests on friday the syndicate describes 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 saying that even the generals in gaza or in was the same. for the first avoid as opposed to his second as a journalist and their duty is to cover up what had been 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 photojournalist and documentary filmmaker in leaves behind a wife and a two year old child. and she has united everybody

in sorrow and in 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 helpless it will i think as it did before make us more determined and 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 words of encouragement at a time when strength and fortitude may be needed more than ever before. ramallah in the occupied west bank. still to come here on al-jazeera. i'm and the hayward in leicester share west palm as the facing uncertain times because the right thing is

. also when we come back trading opium for honey why some farmers in afghanistan are harvesting the instead of harvesting poppies. from long flowing island winds to an enchanting desert breeze. hello there we're still got an awful lot of cloud over parts of the middle east at the moment the satellite picture is showing that cloud from saudi arabia all the way through iran the stretching up into afghanistan then up towards kazakstan as well and as this eastern region where we've got most of the wet weather as we head into sunday so i think afghanistan is looking pretty wet there and then gradually as you head further north that's likely to turn to snow over some of the mountains behind it there's also a fair amount of cloud at times and maybe just the odd showers but nothing too significant as the next system gradually edges its way eastwards there's also

a fair amount of cloud over parts of saudi arabia at the moment then and that's also affecting us here in doha and stretching a bit further south so even a pulse of the u.a.e. there is more in the way of trout and that could just give us a few spots of rain is likely to stick around as we head through monday today for the southeast fine for most of us in there if we had downed tools of southern parts of africa we're seeing a fair amount of wet weather that's stretching its way southwards from angola and down into namibia does look like even talk is going to see quite a few downpours there on sunday and on monday to to the south of all of that still staying dry force in cape town twenty two degrees our maximum and further east staying rather unsettled for many of us in mozambique we can expect to see some heavy showers. there with sponsored by qatar race. what makes this movie this period we're living through so unique this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding

a distortion is that what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important we have a right to publish if you have a duty to be offensive or provoked or whatever those people do setting the stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha these are your headlines the u.s. is warning of an international response against syria reports of a chemical attack in the rebel stronghold of eastern puta are confirmed syrian medics say at least seventy people were killed in a suspected gas strike in duma the syrian government is calling it the fabric. the

former brazilian president lula da silva has arrived in prison to begin a twelve year sentence for corruption last year luke was found guilty of taking bribes from an engineering firm in return for helping it to get state contracts thousands of mourners have attended funerals in gaza for the ten palestinians killed by israeli forces during friday's protests along the border just thirty people died since the demonstrations began last week. canada sporting community is in mourning after fifteen members of a junior ice hockey team were killed in a bus crash the humboldt broncos were travelling near the town of tisdale in the province of saskatchewan when a truck crashed into them mike hanna now reports a scene of devastation and three kilometers of highway sealed off by police the hockey team was on its way to a must win playoff game in the northeastern town of nepal when when the crash occurred there were twenty nine people aboard the bus including the driver rescue

efforts were hindered by the remote location and helicopters were flown in to ferry the injured to hospital everything about this family about this tragedy is unprecedented and it's overwhelming. including the trench. of support our organization has received hockey is the game that links all communities in the far flung reaches of canada's north and all were touched you know throughout canada we see teens going out into the into the canadian winters on buses all the time and you know it's all a thought in parents and fans minds about what could happen and unfortunately has happened to mourners gathered in the hockey teams home town of humboldt that has a population of less than six thousand and the sadness made even more acute by the fact that everyone in this town knew everyone who died or was injured on this day

mike hanna al-jazeera two people have died and several others were injured after a man drove a car into a crowd in the german city of munster the police say the suspect then killed himself security officials say the incident was not terror related dominic kane has more from one stop. emergency workers deal with the aftermath of the incident a vehicle driven at speed into a crowded urban area it happened without warning. there was a loud bang and screaming and then the police arrived and everyone was sent outside as us 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 early 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 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 shocked minister chancellor angela merkel released a statement making clear how the incident has shaken the country and promising all assistance to 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 for several years germany has been on a raised level of alert against the threat of violent attacks this incident means that level is very unlikely to drop anytime soon dominant came out as there are minster. farmers in the u.k. are worried about how they will make money once britain leaves the european union

in syria next year they rely on tens of thousands of workers from abroad and billions of dollars from the e.u. to keep up production and hayward has more now from leicestershire. was. after months of early starts and late finishes on the farm getting the right price at market is able to take profit margins are tight so every dollar counts. steeped in tradition melton mowbray has one of britain's oldest livestock markets what matters here is what the future may hold after bricks it's the concern is where we're going to take a big hit in terms of being. exported to. continent. i can see that that's going to continue we'll carry on as normal if we got anything any good people boy for more than forty years the way britain a spontaneous been shaped by brussels when it leaves the european union it's inevitable the way the form of operate will have to change brics it means an end to

the four billion dollars british farmers receive in a few subsidies membership of its common agricultural policy and leaving the single market which allows the free movement of people and properties. in lincolnshire there's a break in the weather along wratislaw from bulgaria to plant strawberries every year eighty thousand seasonal workers are needed in the u.k. to harvest pruett ploughs and vegetables seventy five percent come from romania and bulgaria the rest are largely from other parts of the e.u. for our business and many businesses like ours if we can't have access to a labor force. that is generally from from eastern european we will stop growing so fruit. we wouldn't have the stuff to carry out the picking and packing the u.k. government says it's determined to get the best deal for the food and farming

industries subsidies will be replaced by a different payment system the promise leaders say that after years of red tape bricks it could provide an opportunity we need to have a policy which the government is committed to do. profitable farming. high productivity fantastic animal welfare. great environmental benefits but that's . what we want to see happen back at the market. or on the next blocks many here are hoping changes to the political landscape will yield good results and the hay would al-jazeera that last a chef. the polls have just opened in hungary's parliamentary elections following a campaign dominated by the issue of immigration another prime minister viktor orban is the favorite to win a third consecutive term has made immigration a new exclusive focus of his campaign about four hundred thousand migrants pass

through hungry in twenty fifteen on their way to europe creating a rift between board and of the e.u. leaders. the u.s. national guard has confirmed it will deploy up to four thousand troops to the border with mexico after calls from president trump to beef up security there the initial deployment will include five hundred soldiers and military equipment including helicopters the urgency to increase manpower on the southern border follows a sharp rise in illegal border crossings and u.s. customs and border protection says it caught more than fifty thousand undocumented immigrants last month one person has died in a fire at the building that bears the u.s. president's name the blaze began on the fiftieth floor of trump tower in new york donald trump has tweeted that the fire has been put out lawyers for bill cosby have called for one of the jurors to be removed from the u.s. comedian's retrial for sexual assault for the juror a legit lee said he thinks cosby is guilty and the case should be over defense lawyers say it demonstrates the man may be biased cosby's retrial which begins on

monday involves a woman who says he drugged and assaulted her in two thousand and four his first trial ended with a hung jury in india the bollywood actor salman khan has arrived back home in mumbai after he was granted bail to appeal against his conviction for killing a rare antelope twenty years ago he was met by jubilant supporters as he left jail in the city of georgia for earlier on saturday he was sentenced to five years in prison for killing the protected animal while shooting a film he will remain free pending the outcome of the appeal for other bollywood stars also accused in the case have been acquitted. the livelihoods of thousands of workers on the philippines holiday island could be in jeopardy after it was closed for six months the president. says tourists have turned the popular destination into a cesspool that's also the view of many locals who long complained of being squeezed out by the tourism industry. is there.

the people are the original inhabitants of brock island. she grew up in a peaceful setting with no worries the to their own land sea food was abundant and they were free to roam and they call the home but not anymore they feel they're being squeezed out around two hundred of them live in this tiny village provided by the government a few years ago. some of us work in hotel construction others go fishing there not many of us get to do it life is hard here because there are different people who live their. life in the village is in stark contrast to the rest of the island settlers have moved in the sea and the at these are now marginalized. but now one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world more than two million visitors

a year but fewer than fifty at able to work in the hotels and bars construction in the island has grown exponentially over the last twenty years revenues from businesses here make up around twenty percent of the total tourism industry in the country but the president says the situation is no longer sustainable and has ordered the closure of the island for six months. the government says around half the businesses on brac i have violated environmental rules to thirty believes the island is already uninhabitable. what says. you're going to work there it's mainly but many people in brockway say that's an overreaction and cruel specially to the more than thirty five thousand filipinos dependent on the island for their livelihoods i'm glad that the president is paying

attention to the islands. but i just don't understand why the law abiding citizens will be punished as well. the government's been accused of not being clear about its plans for border. state officials say there will be an emergency fund to help businesses and workers during the six months the island's close. was. the hope there is a plan for them to they say the story of development is a continuing story of injustice that those always lived on the island and have their religion to call their own now stand to lose even more. black island central philippines. beekeeping is being used as a way of helping the economy in afghanistan and to counter the opium trade but it also gives women the chance to earn money in

a country where many rarely work outside of the home and one female student is now running her own successful honey business as well. the business of bees is honey for nineteen year old student frozen. in a northern afghan village where few women work rosen's bees gather nectar from the flowers near her home frozen collects their honey and sells it making her a rare local female entrepreneur a lot easier to endanger at first there were lots of issues because the village i live in is traditional and women are not allowed to work outside the one i started beekeeping i realize it's easy when i told the people about beekeeping and they accepted it and allowed me to do the job. three years ago frozen got a loan and bought two beehives in her first season she sold enough money to pay back home and still make a profit now twelve of the blue boxes surround her family home last year she made

fourteen hundred fifty dollars that's more than double the average annual household income in afghanistan as it gave i think if we were going to be keeping arrived in our village frozen showed huge interest and i was happy i supported her because it has been my dream to have a daughter who could find a job like this and make a future for herself. the hives are part of a long term project across afghanistan partly sponsored by aid agencies farmers who might have grown opium poppies are encouraged to keep bees and collect honey instead. roseanne's honey is sold in this shop in the nearby city of mazar e sharif and demand is said to be growing. we want the government to stop importing poor quality foreign honey and instead improve our own afghan honey. human rights watch says nearly three million afghan girls still don't go to school and only thirty seven percent of teenage girls can read and write but frozen says she's determined to create

a more golden future for herself by studying economics and building her honey business slowly rob matheson al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories the u.s. is warning of an international response against syria if reports of a chemical attack in the rebel stronghold of eastern ghouta are confirmed syrian medics say at least seventy people have been killed in a suspected gas strike in duma the syrian government is calling it a fabrication. the former brazilian president lula da silva has arrived in prison to begin a twelve year sentence for corruption past year lou that was found guilty of taking bribes from an engineering firm in return for helping it get state contracts. i'm doing a very conscious very conscious thing i told the comrades that if it depends on my will i would not go but i will go i'm going because they will say tomorrow that is

out of the way that lula is no i am not hiding i'm going to go there so they know i'm not afraid so they know i'm not going to run and i'm going to prove my innocence to the polls have just opened in hungary's parliamentary election following a heated campaign dominated by immigration the prime minister viktor orban is favorite to win a third consecutive term about four hundred thousand migrants pass through hungry in twenty fifteen on their way to western europe creating a rift between orbit and other e.u. leaders. thousands of people have attended funerals in gaza for the ten palestinians killed by israeli forces during friday's protest along the border at least thirty people have died since demonstrations began last week two people have been killed and dozens were injured after a van was driven into a crowd in the german city of munster the driver died at the scene after shooting himself official says the incident is not terror related the u.s. national guard has confirmed it will deploy up to four thousand troops to the

border with mexico after calls from president donald trump to beef up security the initial deployment will include five hundred soldiers and military equipment including helicopters the urgency to increase manpower on the southern border follows a sharp rise in the eagle border crossings one person has died in a fire of the building that bears the u.s. president's name the police began on the fiftieth floor of the trial in new york mr trump has tweeted the fire is now up next it's up front but i just. see. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for out of the media the listening this time on al-jazeera it's been more than six months since iraq's kurds said they wanted to go their own way but was the referendum on independence a mistake.