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dozens of people have been killed in another suspected chemical attack in syria the u.s. president promises a response. on sam is a this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the nigerian army says it's rescued one hundred forty nine hostages held by. greece prime minister seeks a third straight as the country heads to the polls. i i confrontations and celebrations in brazil as former president lula begins time in jail for corruption. the u.s. is calling for an international response again. the syrian government different
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ports of a chemical attack on rebel held eastern alter are confirmed medics a dozens of people have been killed in the suspected gas strike in duma the syrian government is calling it a fabrication though charlotte ballasts has the latest we should warn you you may find some of the images in this report to be distressing. the window into what life is like in the rebel held in clave after image children mothers fathers struggle for oxygen after a suspected chemical attack. reporters cannot get into the town civilians cannot get out so internet videos are the only evidence of the suffering. government shelling started on friday the city was pounded with hundreds of is strikes and bombs as night fell on saturday civilians told al-jazeera they saw helicopters and then the first reports of suffocation came in. because of the
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nonstop shelling resistance had sheltered in their basements when the alleged gas attack happened they were trapped as the gas seeps through into the hideouts of the building with power and dozens of modules you know yes in every single building we found dozens of them and most of them are women and children syrian state media and russia have denied the use of poison gas cooling farcical on the few number of physicians and are moved to treat the on the work menu of families right now are the shield and basements and use indorse you know chemical weapons like chlorine or some of those by the fact that this gas goes down to the basement and those people or ticking barrel bombs are getting dark security would use chemical weapons and that's where the casualties are. syrian government forces stepped up their offensive on. duma after
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a ten day truce collapsed with rebel group jaish al islam. today we don't and if we. speak even the internet. we are finding it. very hard if you and. this is an example every time you don't vote every. the last twenty four hours the chili never stop. more than thirty three thousand people have left in the last five weeks including more than four thousand jaish al islam and their families. many doctors and nurses also left those who remain zero they are overwhelmed with few supplies and no outside support. shallop dallas is here. russia says the reports of a chemical attack are false the defense ministry says the spread of bogus stories
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about the use of chlorine and other poisonous substances by syrian government forces continues yet another such fabricated piece of information about an alleged chemical attack in dubai appeared yesterday we have warned several times recently against such dangerous provocations of such deceitful speculation lacking any kind of grounding is to shield terrorists and to attempt to justify possible external uses of force. the u.s. president. there will be a response against the syrian government for the attack who tweeted many dead including women and children in mindless chemical attack in syria area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by syrian army making it completely in accessible to the outside world president putin russia and iran are responsible for banking animal asset big price to pay open area immediately for medical help and
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verification another humanitarian disaster for no reason whatsoever sic chaperons he joins me now from washington d.c. so that statement kind of absent expect haitians for action what is the white house considering do we know this point. well actually there was another part about tweet as well from president trump if president obama had crossed his stated red line in the sand the syrian disaster would have ended long ago a mother saddam would have been history so there is an expectation and discussion about more military action from the trumpet ministration you remember that this time last year in fact after another alleged syrian government chemical attack did launch air strikes on the syrian base it's interesting though that he's criticizing president obama here but when twenty thirteen that red line was allegedly crossed by the syrian government and president obama didn't take immediate military action
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. he said he went directly to congress also congressional authorization and he didn't have support in congress he did actually of support from donald trump at the time told trump was against president from taking any military action against syria in twenty thirty but things perhaps will be different this time around we do know that old truck wants to get out of syria but that's more to do with the several thousand u.s. troops fighting the islamic state and he's already instructed his journals to pull back pull out of syria in the next several months but we would expect i suppose then the attacks on the syrian government following alleged attacks like this there are to be on a different deliberative track i guess from the white house and do we have any idea what sort of investigative process might be going on when might the u.s. decide it's time to take some action what sort of timeline might we be looking at. i mean the honest answer is no we don't know and this is all up to you know the
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deliberations behind closed doors that are underway we know that there is pressure from the usual hawks in congress for donald trump to take action especially following these tweets to back this up in order for him to retain his credibility and i suppose the probability is there will be some sort of military response given what happened this time last year but beyond that i'm afraid no this is all up to the trumpet ministration and what goes on in trump's mind and the advice he's getting from his national security team and we should remember he is surrounded by by people who are very much opposed to russia more than anything else and it's interesting the state department did release a statement about the about this alleged attack an overhaul of that was about russia criticizing russia criticizing russia for its support for president and it was notable course in those tweets that you mentioned earlier that donald trump mentioned vladimir putin by name which i think we're all thinking might be the first time he's actually explicitly tied lot of the putin in his attacks against
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assad so we now have to wait that we do know that this time last year the u.s. did launch military strikes ok you touched upon the third point i was going to mention be did a great job that so that's the video that she had. siraj mahmoud is a spokesman for the syrian white helmets spoke to him a short while ago via skype and started by asking what evidence they had to show it was a chemical attack. holland we have a lot of the jews documented and. the tell most and there is a statement also this morning by the way. this is. sort of a clarification ali the more details of what has been done on duma the time i am there facts the consequences how children and women have been affected also we have published debuts regarding the arrival of the two places
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and this is billions in there how was this regime you know the regime's line they say that you are falling victim basically to a fabrication by some of the opposition groups how do you respond to that. the first time the regime said it's of. the red lines and was. pleased to go to a lot of people have been targeted. civilians killed by a serene. and in and out of being in others so many areas that it's a little tough there are a lot of targets into other cities in syria like. in. targeting the people there also last year and this year so many good things have happened and so many people have been targeted regina still say it is
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a fabrication we need to verify things the international. fact finding committee has to. do and to see by their own going by emotion that women are in and chlorine have you seen any sort of symptoms that might indicate that this was either a. nor sarin attack now that i know about the yes we have seen. we have published this we have seen a lot of things we have deduced we have photos we have. we have to see this from a medical centers in duma. areas have been evacuated after being targeted by these gases the syrian state television is saying the last rebel group holding out against a government offensive near damascus has reached a deal to end fighting in leave jaish al islam controlled doomer in the north part
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of eastern hall to the agreement would see the remaining fighters and their families leave for a rebel held area in northern syria the treasure of a name is monitoring events for us from our man in neighboring jordan joins us live from there so has this news of a deal being confirmed. no sami it has not. has not made any public comment confirming that it has reached a deal with the syrian government which would allow in exchange for the rebel group releasing prisoners to be allowed safe passage with their families out of duma there's been talk of this kind of talk before but it has yet to be confirmed. it is in a very weakened position to say the least as you said it is the last remaining rebel group in duma a strategic location on the outskirts of damascus and one syrian forces have been very keen to regain control of and the rebel group has lost territory in recent
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weeks it has lost fighters four thousand of its fighters and families recently evacuated it's also lost allies last week to other rebel groups reached evacuation deals and left duma now it's worth noting that opposition and human rights groups call these evacuations tantamount to forced displacement and a violation of international law but. with the truth falling apart several days ago and then us seeing in recent days a constant heavy bombardment of duma and its people airstrikes by the dozens and now a suspected chemical attack on its people is in a very weak spot and it appears with the syrian army and its allies making very significant gains that their goal of regaining duma is now within reach untouchable name updating us that the nigerian army says it's rescued one hundred forty nine
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hostages held by boko haram in borno state that in the northeast of the country the women and children were being held in the village of yet a modern kuta nigerian soldiers killed three of the finances. of the trees joins us now from scott with the people they say they've rescued what do we know about them. well basically these are villages for residents of a year in my recorder. an area that apparently has been overrun by boko haram all people and people taken hostage there and what we know actually there are forty five women and. ninety five ninety four children among them so there is no i don't mean within the population and these are people who are the military said the rescued after an operation on saturday they have now been taken to a hospital for private for profit mining. as well as medical treatment so
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basically these are women and children who have been held hostage by boy quite rightly so clear as well along the been under boko haram captivity but the military is saying that they chased them out and they believe that these are remnants of the quite on that fled the operations in from the forests i mean. the same time i mean this does say something does not about buckingham's ability and strategy at this point. exactly and over the last few months or so we've seen how resilient the koran is although there are different factions of this group now at the end but now we function the moment the reflection as well as the chicle function the sheiko function basically operates along the fringes of some of these forests and the part of one of the states wild was selected area we have these two other groups operating largely from that particular area so apparently it looks like it's the shekel faction that has sort of that have taken these villagers
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hostage and we've seen over the last two months and over the last one and a half years or so but one arm has continued to adopt despite its strategic losses to the nigerian military they've been shipped out to all the territories they have occupied previously and they were having a field day but now they have adopted into smaller groups infiltrating communities attacking iran there as well as coming close to the cities try to launch their attacks what we've seen in the last one week in major agree when they try to go into my degree but already planned so but what is still making statements that they're still very much around in the theater of operations in northeastern nigeria why that and intrigue that thanks so much. still had on al jazeera thousands of pashtoon rally and to shower angry over how the government has treated their community.
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hello the potential spring rains have backed off for a while through china there's a good feed of moisture as you can see but there's no real significant rain in the forecast the temperature rise even if you've got twenty nine in shanghai thirteen showing do but twenty seven steadily in the increase in humid hong kong so dry spell here but increasingly we're seeing showers in india and bangladesh and they can be some pretty nasty ones they tend to bring hail with them certainly pick up the winds even that low level this is a lot about just to show you the strength of the wind in the fatties quite a dusty atmosphere of course it would be wouldn't talk about the pre monsoon heat now increasing temperatures and humidity slowly around the edges it's clearly cloudy in pakistan the far north of pakistan both india and readily will see snow for up in the himalayan chain and then you've got the green dots which is showers
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significant showers through the polgar time and the northeast of india possibly bangladesh so they backed off a bit here we've seen a few spots or very recently in fact significant showers last couple of days in northern side here you can see the remains of that cloud are just hanging around towards the u.a.e. qatar bahrain this is generally fine picture the skies are by no means blue they're often white keighley spotty was rain and often dusty. when the winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media state p.r. machine it's going to overdrive it's. just he's been feeling saying. we just don't know yet where the lines when drawn between what can be said and what conduct that. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for access to polling the media opinion the listening post base time on al-jazeera.
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back you're watching our time to recap our headlines the us president donald trump says syria's president will pay a big price for a suspected chemical attack on the east in the water dozens of people have been killed in the rebel held town of syria and russia or its biggest allies say reports of the attack are false. syrian state media say the last rebel group holding out against a government offensive near damascus has reached a deal to end fighting in the jaish of control in the north and possibly eastern with the agreement would see the remaining fighters and their families leave for
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a rebel held area in northern syria. but i jury now he says it's rescued one hundred forty nine hostages held by boko haram in borno state that's in the northeast of the country women and children were being held in the village of yet america nigerian soldiers killed three of the fighters. israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman has spoken out about the violence in gaza saying there are no naive people no innocent people in the occupied strip israeli forces have killed thirty palestinians during protests along the israel gaza border which began ten days ago thirteen hundred palestinians have been wounded by live israeli fire palestinians plan to hold protests against israeli occupation for the next five weeks and smith has more from west jerusalem israel's defense minister of it all lieberman says that all the activists trying to challenge is in gaza
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a hamas military activist he says that everyone is connected to hamas everyone gets a salary from hamas in gaza of course not everyone in gaza is connected to hamas but what the defense minister is trying to do is continue the narrative that israel has tried to portray israel's government and israel's military that these are hamas led protests that these protesters are trying to breach the fence to invade israel to try and challenge israel's territorial integrity and so it's defending itself against that of course our reporters have seen on the ground from the side from the gaza side that essentially these protests are peaceful but the challenge for israel is that if it excepts the majority of peace people are protesting peacefully then there has to acknowledge the demands those protesters are making the demands for a relaxation of the blockade over gaza a chance to allow exports from gaza a chance to allow people to travel more freely and expand fishing zones these are
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what people want to try and make life in gaza more bearable. doctors and gals are struggling to treat hundreds of palestinians injured by israeli forces during friday's protests along the israel border hospitals of declared a state of emergency due to a severe shortage of supplies what are the reports. there isn't an easy atmosphere in the ward the patients are in pain but is the silent worry of those around them that is most striking. when not in the hoody cannot contain his despair he has three sides all three maimed to protest yet is the last one to be injured and his condition is the most worrying 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 have one would agree to transfer him the other would refuse i call on anyone who cares about us please help me get my
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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 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. most injuries are in the lower part of the body external fixators for limbs antibiotics anesthesia and other necessities
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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 shortages about half of the drugs needed and a third of the equipment 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 paperwork 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
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generation has lost the one after me that's why we go to the. vents to express the misery we live in. it's that sense of hopelessness that continues to draw do you still was do border fence many might come back on a stretcher some will never fully recover but at that hammy. i'm gary and the voting in a parliamentary election following a campaign dominated by one issue immigration polling stations were busy on sunday raising hopes among opposition parties the prime minister viktor orban and would not secure a third term journal has more from budapest. there were early signs of a record high turnout that could favor the opposition in preventing hungary's ruling party feeders and prime minister viktor orban from winning a third consecutive two thirds majority in parliament through what's at stake well we've already said everything about that what's at stake is the future of hungary
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it's not only parties a government or a prime minister that we're choosing for ourselves but a future as well voting is secret but i'll reveal what i voted for for this two votes for this because i thought that was the safest bit in the past or ban has altered the constitution changing the electro law and curbing media freedoms and he's promised to go further targeting n.g.o.s and civil society possibly even the independence of the judiciary. this is a country in which allegations of high level corruption rife in which public services like health and education are in desperate need of investment and yet state run media is full of scare stories about muslim migration and even an anti semitic campaign aimed at the billionaire george soros and his network of pro-democracy probably immigration n.g.o.s here he is surrounded by the opposition figures holding bolt cutters getting ready to tear down the fence that big band built to keep the refugees out. when the opposition figures say hungary's future
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in europe is at stake twenty eight years after the change of regime this is the first election the beach has some not just political but he's told the core comedians. all about hesitation between a vest then the east who is our friends are barely in the poll really. most coal as a by jar this is under stake. yet it is the same opposition figures whose failure to unite behind a single party makes it so hard to be treated as and or panel the prime minister has used his power not just to undermine democratic values at home but also in building fences and rejecting refugee quotas to go and test the european union in a wider sense therefore that is not a two thirds majority when would amount to a substantial defeat jonah al-jazeera budapest former president of
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brazil louise in our salute to the silver has begun his twelve year jail sentence for corruption his supporters reacted angrily with protests taking place across several cities police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at the crowds and. spent his first night in jail. elsewhere lula's opponents marched and cheered through the streets only of them are in support of locking up corrupt politicians now the first former brazilian president to be convicted of corruption and jailed. thousands of people from pakistan's pashtun community are attending a rally in fresh hours to demand rights and protection the so-called protection movement says security forces a carrying out extrajudicial arrests killings matheson reports. and frustration and push all the posted above the chanting crowd photographs of
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pashto said to have disappeared or be killed these protesters blame the police and the military i think this was this was an emotional eruption. young. they get there and they started this moment and i think they believe. this moment across and it's not only the question from the tribal identity and even the pakistani. civil society they are also supporting the demands of the moment. thousands of pashtun have moved to the southern port city of karachi fleeing from their homes in northern tribal areas to escape violence along pakistan's border with afghanistan but pashtuns say they've been targeted by the police and the army since the emergence of the pakistani taliban whose leaders are also said to come from close to the pashtuns northern tribal homeland. the most recent
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killing in karachi was not people must suit and aspiring pashtun mortal who his father says had no links to rebel groups pashtun say they want the senior police officer involved in the killing of not keep to face the death penalty i they deny these are anti-government demonstrations and say their demands a simple first demand was to arrest the girlfriend the second was stop him alleviation push the women especially the tribal women and children at the security check the third was a two cleans the land mine which was given in specially in the. but his support for the protests grows the government may be forced to do more to show that pastors are not being targeted rob matheson algis you. know you can find much more on our web site the address for you there is w w w dot al-jazeera dot com.
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and let's take you through some of the headlines now syrian state media say the last rebel group holding out against a government offensive near damascus has reached a deal to end fighting and leave jaish al islam controlled duma in the north part of eastern of alter the agreement would see the remaining finds in their families leave for rebel held area in northern syria. army says it's rescued one hundred forty nine hostages held by boko haram in borno state that in the northeast of the country the women and children were being held in the village of yelling my recorder nigerian soldiers killed three fighters they say israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman has spoken out about the violence in gaza saying there are no innocent people in the occupied strip israeli forces have killed
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thirty palestinians during protests along the israel gaza border which began ten days ago thirteen hundred palestinians have been injured by live israeli fire palestinians plan to hold protest against israeli occupation for the next five weeks. gary and have begun voting in a parliamentary election following a heated campaign dominated by immigration prime minister viktor orban is seeking a third consecutive term despite claims of widespread corruption within his government. syrian medics say dozens of people have been killed in a suspected chemical attack on a rebel held parts of eastern the halter the u.s. is calling for an international response if the reports are confirmed syria and russia its biggest allies say reports of the attack are false. police in germany say they don't know why a man drove a van into a crowd in the city of months to killing two people germany's interior minister and other leaders laid flowers at the site of the attack will be rolled cloud is banned
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in two diners sitting outside a restaurant and saturday police say the incident is not terror related. thousands of people from pakistan's per student community are attending a rally in push our to demand rights and protection for the minority group opposed to protection movement once put government accountability for the way they've been treated the group says thousands of passion have disappeared over the years or been the target of extra judicial killings. the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after listening post. china's big brother is always watching home and abroad. when he still believes how far the minor will go to control its citizens. on his era. americans across the country are hearing eerily similar probably trying to your response all the sharing of fire standoff a chance to become. obvious.
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