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claims of a chemical attack on eastern goods or in syria president trump warns there will be a big price to pay. and i mean this is live from london also coming up counting after a high turnout in hungary's parliamentary elections prime minister viktor all dance party is expected to win. the nigerian army says it's rescued one hundred forty nine hostages held by boko haram. and plastic pollution on the yangtze river cleanup efforts on that one of the world's worst environmental black spots. so u.s. president all trump has attacked syria russia and iran there are a suspected chemical attack on a rebel held area of eastern ghouta saying there will be

a big price to pay the syrian government to dismiss the reports as fabrication united nations has demanded an urgent security council meeting on monday to discuss the alleged attack attack you can name has the latest and a warning you may find some images in this report distressing. entire families babies children adults dead the people who remained in dumas thought they could shelter from the air strikes in the basements of building instead witnesses say they suffocated from a suspected chemical attack. with chemicals many children have been killed in tents airstrikes by the syrian government and its allies began on saturday. witnesses reported a barrel bomb with some sort of gas being dropped rescuers say they're struggling to get to the survivors and retrieve the bodies of the dead because of a strong chlorine like smell they don't have the protective gear they need the

health care system in duma has been decimated. unfortunately would deliver that number of medical suffering not sticking to. the some terms and the treatment people and we've seen people have seen people should dine with you to get it's reported that ambulances and a hospital were hit by airstrikes and the red crescent can no longer operate leaving a small team of medical professionals with scarce supplies to tend to the injured the familiar cycle of recriminations denials and calls for action has begun using language heard after last year's confirmed chemical attack in qana coom which killed more than eighty people the syrians and the russians called the allegations farcical and staged the russians offered to send their own experts to investigate and disprove the claims the united states called for an immediate end to the

attacks and for the international community to respond it said russia was betraying its commitment to the u.n. and the chemical weapons convention people say life in duma already difficult after weeks of intense fighting has become even more miserable on sunday the syrian government says it met with members of jaish alice lamb and reached a deal in exchange for the release of prisoners fighters and their families will be allowed safe passage out of duma jaish al islam has not confirmed that but with the syrian government's recent advances in duma it appears their options are increasingly limited natasha going to name el does era i'm on and in the last few hours buses have begun entering doomer as part of the agreement between the army of islam in russia the pipes includes a ceasefire in the evacuation of civilians from the area where let's say were to announce an intoxicant and he joins us live from amman to tell us

a bit more about this agreement. the last remaining group nic rebel group in duma is jaish is slam their options had been increasingly limited they've lost territory and they'd lost fighters about four thousand of their fighters and their families were evacuated in recent weeks so now according to people who helped negotiate this agreement jaish agreed with the russian forces to begin evacuating with their families as well as with anyone else who wants to leave it's expected that they will travel to northern syria it's worth noting that opposition and human rights groups call these evacuation forced displacement and say that this is a violation of international law now in addition to people being allowed safe

passage there's still a number of people who are expected to want to stay they've been given assurances that if they do stay syrian forces will not pursue them nor force them to join the army for the next six months and the russian military police is going to move into duma to keep syrian forces out now nick that. there's been a ceasefire the very grim task of recovering from what appears to be a suspected chemical attack and of course several days of a tense heavy bombardment begins people have been coming out of their homes many of them hunkered down in their basements where they had sought excuse me such shelter from the air strikes they're checking on their loved ones to see if people survive to see people see if people have been injured and rescuers are beginning the task in earnest of looking for survivors. natasha right we'll leave it there thanks very

much indeed and good name reporting there from amman and the u.n. security council is meeting on monday to discuss the alleged chemical attack and its joint she ever tansey in washington d.c. as she have tell us what we can expect from this forthcoming meeting the meeting was requested by several members of the u.n. security council both temporary and permanent to the u.k. france the u.s. poland the netherlands sweden kuwait peru to cote d'ivoire we know the e.u. has already called for the u.n. security council to reestablish some sort of joint investigative mechanism to find the perpetrators of chemical weapons attacks but meanwhile just in the last hour or so the russians also called for a u.n. security council meeting they said they would still discuss threats to international security and after that but it's not entirely clear whether that is connected to what's happening in syria right now but the russians also requesting a u.n. security council meeting if it does happen it will be at one hundred g.m.t.

and in new york on monday nov rule was be the reaction in the united states to this . well overnight we have a statement from the state department much of it was concentrating on russia being very critical of russia's support for assad and that was a theme that was taken up in several tweets from donald trump on sunday sunday morning he said and this is quite interesting because he actually named president putin he said president putin russia and iran are responsible for backing animal big price to pay so clearly a lot of questions there as to what that big price means or what that might might consist of but also interesting that donald trump for the first time that mentioning president putin has been very careful up to this point of having a twin track approach of having his administration be pretty tough on russia for a sanctions and arming the ukrainians and all sorts of other topics a concern but for don't trump there to be very very very diplomatic when it comes

to president putin himself talking about their shared interests this is the first time that we've seen donald trump actually attack president putin personally or as she had leave it at the moment she returns reporting from washington. the garion prime minister viktor orban is expected to address supporters in budapest as vote counting continues in the general elections a politician from hungary is that ruling if it is parties says it's likely to lose its two thirds super majority but obama is still expected to win a third consecutive term agenda hall has more from the capital of 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 after all what's at stake

well we've already said everything about that what's at stake is the future of hungary 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 that i voted for thirty two votes for this because i thought that was the safest bet 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 in benghazi opposition figures say hungary's future

in europe is at stake twenty eight years after the change of regime this is the first election long beach has some not just political but he's. going seconds. hesitation between a vest then the east who is our friends are barely in the probably the. most coal. this is on the stake. yet it is the same opposition figures whose failure to unite behind a single party makes it so hard to beat three days 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 a win that is not a two thirds majority win would amount to a substantial defeat. over a piece

a we can speak to join a live now from budapest to engender what's all the latest expectations on the result. well those high turnout figures have been borne out of the polling now pretty much closed a few stations still open with long queues they delayed closing one or two stations but in the vote counting is underway there may have been a good showing here for the opposition with that high turnout the consensus is that may have jeopardized victor obama's two thirds majority hopes but not necessarily his hopes of governing with a simple majority let me bring in my guest go gay roy with the center for fair political analysis and it did seem didn't it going into this that there was a stirring among the opposition parties that there was going to be a high turnout a lot of people want change in this country don't they. because oregon has a large fan base of diehard walters but he doesn't have a lot of lot else stepping to he doesn't have other sources of waters why the

opposition parties they can they can reach those who are not satisfied with this current system now the question is the high turnout which opposition party benefits from them from at the most because there are lots of opposition parties here and because the turnout is higher in the countryside than usual we can assume that it's your big actually writing party the second largest party in hungary right now who gained a lot during this election even if viktor orban does retain a simple majority and he's able to govern without a coalition partner the second biggest party will be because let's not forget it's not just a right wing party it's formally a far right party with neo nazi roots this is not exactly an appealing opposition prospect for the country is it while they are very far right but can't at least they used to be on immigration they are even more far right then. at least what they say is that they should be even more strict rules gratian and their flats. why

they are not talking about that as much as they used to is still very far right but they are committed to some kind of democracy at least that's what they say so in that they are allied with the left wing parties funny but previously this would have been unheard off to the far right party and left wing parties are you planning on a coalition should that situation arise you talk about that commitment to democracy because one of the big fears going into this election was if there was to be a two thirds majority for all bomb again if he was to be able to continue travelling on this country's democracy that perhaps it would lose its democratic credentials altogether a high turnout at least indicates that democracy is still alive and well in this country and that's got to be a good thing doesn't it yes it is i mean or bounce the fury of democracy is basically that is the most important thing election day is where things get decided if they don't did he doesn't care about checks and balances and other institutions

rule of law all that much but what he really cares about this election and the height there now especially compared to western european countries it's very hard turn out so he can show you the euro that this is a more democratic country than the western european countries because their days and they're more waters they're more waters working for him so if he wins that will be a very big win for him and yet the indications are of course that he may not have things all his own way for much longer go go and i will leave it there and i will bring you the results as soon as we get to. all right jennifer thanks very much indeed journal reporting. now the nigerian army says it has rescued one hundred forty nine hostages all women and children held by boko haram in borno state in the northeast of the country that women and children were being held in the village of yeti money the rescue people were not among the kidnapped schoolgirls injured book and dutchy who are all still missing i'm address has details now from beijing. the army said those rescue who are residents of yet ameri corps a village in northeastern nigeria was held captive by boko haram but they did not

say for how long they've been held captive by the fighters the army said eight followed and the rescue followed an operation. conducted on saturday where they encountered bokhara fighters in the ensuing five fight they killed three of them and also captured five now these people have been taken to hospital and are being treated and later to be profiled by the nigerian army and nigerian or for two years now what we've seen over the last few months or so is the book white arms ability to continue to adopt its losses they've been changed out of most of the areas they have occupied but they are able to adopt in smaller groups to attack isolated and vulnerable communities recently with seen them launch during attacks on the capital coming to the outskirts of my degree which is a city that has been in the crosshairs for a very long time since the start of this insurgency the nigerian army said and the nigerian government confirmed that the book was around fighters have been sort of

degraded but what we've seen over the last one year or so is the strategy by blackwater to launch several types of operations suicide bombings during attacks on military formations ice at such an isolated communities abductions and kidnappings in the north east of nigeria in other words boko haram is telling the nigerian society that we are still very much on. all right still to come here on al-jazeera . confrontations and celebrations in brazil that former president lula da silva to begin serving a prison sentence for corruption. and a state of emergency in gaza with hospital struggling to treat hundreds of people injured in print.

hello there there's plenty of fine settled weather across many parts of europe at the moment but not quite for all of us if we look at the satellite picture we can see the clouds here marching its way northwards across britain and up into scandinavia and that's making things rather grey and at times a pretty way for us to that area of cloud is working its way eastwards and so here it is there is a pos of italy as we head through monday heavy downpours out of that and it's not feeling that call behind it look at that in madrid ten degrees that's quite disappointing for april and as we head through into choose day the temperatures will drop even further so this time a maximum will just be nine there's also likely to be some snow over some of the higher ground as well to generally quite cool lame for the western parts of europe of further east it's very different there's plenty of sunshine it's also very warm twenty two in berlin and twenty four in warsaw for the other side of the mediterranean also plenty of fine settled weather to be found here as well but not quite for all of us for the west more in the way of cloud and that is edging its

way eastwards as we head into tuesday we'll see that over parts of our area and into choosier the as we head through the day could be thick enough just to give us one or two showers and should be a brighter day for us in morocco there looks like robots will see a maximum temperature of around seventy degrees. tracing the fall from prosperity to financial ruin this is beside need a moment where we hear lies nothing worst first world be in three years the devastating impact to save the big means also perceived that deposits of in those sectors and the failure to prevent disaster banks and political leaders are the people who need to learn of us our gora from democracy to the markets on al-jazeera .

again a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera and the u.s. president donald trump says there will be a price to pay if syria russia and iran are found to be behind a chemical attack and it seems revealing clothes medical staff say dozens of people have been killed. a politician from hungary is ruling for days party says it's likely to lose its two thirds super majority in sunday's general election and the immigration prime minister viktor orban is still expected to win a third straight of. the nigerian army says it's rescued one hundred forty nine hostages held by boko haram in northeastern corner of the state. police in germany say they may have foiled a potential attack on the berlin half-marathon on sunday when it came as more from

. berlin and police confirming that they have arrested six individuals varying in age from eighteen to twenty one in connection with what they say was potentially preparation for a crime targeting the burnin half marathon that's been staged in the german capital today a point to make is that that event attracts thousands of people not only as participants but also as spectators the point that police are reinforcing here is that they believe that the elevated sense of tension in germany following events here in munster on saturday where a vehicle was steered into a packed crowd and people were killed in that incident and then the perpetrator killed himself that they believe that was a reason for them out of an abundance of caution to move to make the arrests concerned and to search properties in different parts of the city and to search vehicles associated with those individuals brazil's former president lula da silva had started his twelve year jail term for corruption. could achieve

a prison under the cover of darkness after finally agreeing to hand him selve in following a twelve hour standoff with authorities his supporters have protested against his imprisonment while other celebrated saying the guilty must pay for their crimes. has more from outside the prison in could children. the former president lula da silva is serving the first day of his twelve year sentence in the top floor of this federal police prison behind me he's been given a special suite he's had a television installed so he can watch his favorite football team corinthians play a live game today against biomed. he's separated segregated from the other prisoners perhaps treatment that befits a former president but he is still a convicted prisoner he will be spending twelve years in prison probably not the whole time here he'll probably be moved to another prison at some stage perhaps closer to sell paolo which is where he used to live there have been some

demonstrations of support and against in the days leading up to his imprisonment they've pretty much subsided now here outside the prison including chiba there's a small group of protesters over there over to that side behind a small police cordon really expressing support for lula his legal team all still planning to try to resist the fight against the imprisonment but there are other cases pending against him so this twelve year is one month that he's been sentenced to for money laundering and corruption could be increased if he's found guilty of those other crimes in the meantime he says that he's innocent of all the charges against him that it's a political campaign to stop him running in october's presidential elections something that he still plans to fight and something his supporters say that he could and should win israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman has had palestinians by saying that no naive people in gaza those taking part in protests

are hamas military wing activists at least thirty palestinians have been killed by israeli forces since demonstrations along the gaza israeli border began ten days ago thousands more have been injured palestinians plan to hold protests against the israeli occupation for the next five weeks. well doctors in gaza struggling to treat those palestinians injured in friday's protests hospitals have declared a state of emergency juju a severe shortage of supplies hoda abdel-hamid has more from one of gaza's hospitals. this is just one of the rooms and you have to understand that the whole hospital looks like this we have injured after injured now this young man was had received two bullets in his legs he needs further treatment he needs to get out of gaza for that treatment but that the moment he won't be able to and then we have this young man who is also in that situation these two were quite close to the fence however in the bed next door there is young amir he is only nineteen years

old and actually he was not anywhere close to that no go zone he was watching for my father when he got hit by a sniper now what i showed you now is what you will see from room to room. patients suffering doctors working over hour to try to solve this situation certainly it is an emergency situation yesterday the health officials here in gaza have actually declared a state of emergency for the health system it is an overload thousands of people from pakistan's punched in community are attending a rally in pressure to demand rights and protection the so-called pashtun protection movement says the security forces are carrying out and should you do arrest some killings matheson has this report. fury and frustration. posted above the chanting crowd photographs of 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 gathered in their started this moment and i think they believe you can do you just want to cross that is not only the tribal territory and even the pakistani. civil society they are also supporting to be mindful 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. border with afghanistan but pashtun 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. but. the most recent killing in karachi was not. an aspiring pashtun model who his father says had no links to rebel groups pashtun

say they want the senior police officer involved in the killing of nucky to face the death penalty. they deny these are anti-government demonstrations and say their demands a simple first demand was to arrest the culprit the second was stop him alleviation pushed on women especially the tribal women and children at the security check they had thirty mon was it took cleans the land mine which was given in a specially invidious. but as support for the protests grows the government may be forced to do more to show that pasta rooms are not being targeted rob matheson al-jazeera. central american migrants traveling across mexico in a caravan have protested outside the u.s. embassy in mexico city against donald trump and his anti immigration policies the demonstrators who have traveled from the guatemalan mexican border to the capital have called for justice for migrants the group's traffic has angered trump who's

deployed the national guard to reinforce the border every year thousands take part in what's called a caravan trying to ensure safe passage for migrants and draw attention to their rights. the longest river in asia has become one of the world's most polluted the yangtze has long been a lifeline for millions of chinese but now plastic from the river is slowly killing life in the east china sea and beyond scott hardly reports from shanghai. three generations of new ijaz family are out cleaning up plastic along the mouth of the gang's the river one of the worst spots in the world for plastic pollution. but. i'm here to protect the ocean there's a lot of trash on the beach we saw a video where turtle and held a straw and it bled a lot so when people try to help get the straw out of its nose littering and dangerous marine species. one of the biggest plastic consumers in the world china's

numbers are staggering for instance package delivery services in two thousand and sixteen used fourteen billion the plastic bags and with the rapid increase of food delivery options it's estimated that sixty million plastic containers are used each day many cannot be recycled. one campaigner at the environmental group that organizes these volunteer cleanup outings says people seeing the pollution drives the message home alone. i think we can look beyond the numbers when we're talking about the marine waste to the public statistics of their abstract it's easier to bring them here to see with their own eyes and participate in activities like this that's a more direct way to make the public realize the severity of the problem. according to an environmental journal the yangtze river and its tributaries here carries one point five million tons of plastics into the sea each year through some of china's biggest cities the last one here in shanghai before it meets the east china sea and

then the plastic makes its way to the pacific ocean nature magazine recently reported that what's known as the great pacific garbage patch is much larger than previously thought twice the size of france and containing seventy nine thousand tons of plastic china's environmental protection ministry admits there's a big problem and recently announced that a restructuring plan is in the works. the plan will create better conditions for fighting the uphill battles against pollution and improving ecological environment we're obliged responsible and have every reason to do a better job in coming days. and the pace of that job needs to quicken as scientists predict that if the flow of plastic into the oceans is not slowed by two thousand and fifty the amount of plastic in the oceans will outweigh the fish it's got hotter al-jazeera shanghai. side al jazeera dot com is the address all the

stories we're covering and plenty of comment and analysis to. so i reminder the top stories here on al jazeera and u.s. president donald trump attacked syria russia and iran over a suspected chemical attack on a rebel held area of eastern saying there will be a big price to pay the syrian government has to dismiss the report as fabrication united nations has demanded an urgent security council meeting on monday to discuss the alleged attack as mahmud from the civil defense group the white helmets says there is clear evidence of a chemical attack. and we have seen. we have published this we have seen a lot of things we have we have photos we had. we have. been

evacuated after being. what in the last few hours buses have begun entering do murders part of the agreement between the army of islam and russia the pact includes a ceasefire and the evacuation of civilians from the area a member of hungary and prime minister viktor all bans a ruling if it is policy says it is likely to lose its super majority in parliament obama still expected to win a term in sunday's elections after campaigning heavily against immigration however he needs to retain a two thirds majority to continue pushing ahead with changes to the constitution preliminary results are expected any moment now nigeria's army says it has a rescued one hundred forty nine hostages held by boko haram in northeastern borno state the women and children were being held by the armed group in the village of yet it could only coulda nigerian soldiers killed three of the fighters and injured

another five whose rescued do not include kidnap schoolgirls from the book who are still missing. police in germany say they may have foiled a potential attack on the berlin half-marathon on sunday they've arrested six people aged between eighteen and twenty one whom they suspected of preparing a grave city endangering the violent act they are investigating whether the half marathon which attracted more than thirty five thousand runners was a potential target those are the top stories stay with us at the top jobs or is it coming right up.