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zero. jane dutton this is the news live from coming up in the next sixty minutes donald trump blames bashar assad for that suspected chemical attack in syria now the white house is threatening to retaliate. hungary's right wing anti immigrant prime minister viktor orban is all set for another two thirds majority in parliament after sunday's election victory. thousands of protesters from pakistan's pashtun community rally to demand a better rights and better protection. and i'm far is small with all the day's sport our top story american patrick reid has just been crowned masters champion and aghast that he beat ricky fowler by a stroke for his first major title. donald

trump is threatening to retaliate against syria for that suspected chemical attack on the syrian rebel held area of eastern goes with the president warned that there will be a big price to pay and for the first time since he was elected he blamed russian president vladimir putin for backing syrian president bashar al assad more than forty people were killed in the chemical attack syria and russia have denied any role in the strike the u.n. security council will hold an emergency session on monday to discuss the syrian conflict it's actually going to as the story. entire families babies children adults dead the people who remained in dumas thought they could shelter from the air strikes in the basements of buildings instead witnesses say they suffocated from a suspected chemical attack. ducking duma with chemicals many children have been

killed in tents airstrikes by the syrian government and its allies began on saturday. when this is report of barrel bombs with some sort of gas being dropped we were trying to hide being in shows but when the city was hit but that's a good. and there was no the white people became sort of fights scared on prison rescuers say they're struggling to get to the survivors and retrieve the bodies of the dead because of a strong fluorine 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 sometimes and the treatment and shoot people and we've seen people. have seen people should dying 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 un and the chemical weapons convention people say life in dumas already difficult after weeks of intense fighting has become even more miserable. local officials say the russians negotiated a deal with the remaining rebel group duma jaish

a slam buses began arriving to evacuate the fighters their families and anyone else who wanted to leave with recent gains by the syrian forces in the strategic town on the outskirts of damascus j.c.l. a slam had limited options left. natasha going to. amman in the last few hours some of the evacuees from duma have arrived in government controlled areas as part of the deal between the rebels and russia syrian state t.v. it showed pictures of them being greeted by jubilant crowds more buses carrying jaish fighters and their families of also live duma as they are headed for opposition controlled areas in northern syria under the agreement russian military police are expected to enter duma to prevent rebel fighters from returning to rise mahmoud is a spokesman for the syrian white helmets he told al-jazeera the evidence shows that

chemical weapons were used in saturday's attack and i'm not. getting you know we have a lot of videos and photos published by the what helmets and we also published a statement this morning to clarify the details of what's being done in duma the times of fixed consequences and how women and children have been affected we have also published videos of the arrival of white house wants to be picked to be places to treat the civilians. i'm on the white house response stunnel times warned of consequences for the suspected attack he's treated many dead including women and children in what he calls a mindless chemical attack he says russia's president vladimir putin and iran are responsible for backing syria's president bashar al assad who he labels another animal trump warns of a big price to pay and demands the area is opened up for medical help and evacuations for more on the reaction from trump and other u.s. politicians to the events in syria that speak to mike hanna what are you hearing

mike. well president tramples described this attack as sick and he's insisting that some steps are going to be taken but what that is not particularly clear there's been criticism of the president from republican senator john mccain who says that president trump's comments about pulling out of syria in the past week encouraged the assad regime to carry out this attack the idea about what should happen next weld another republican senator lindsey graham has his own ideas about what should president trump can reset the table here to me i would destroy a city or force our create safe zones in syria where people can come back to their country from surrounding area and live a better life train up syrians to take on assad so we can negotiate in geneva from a position of strength if it becomes a twee without meaning then he's hurt himself in north korea if he doesn't follow through and live up to that he's going to look weak in the russia and iran so this

is defining moment mr president you need to follow through that tweet show resolve that obama never did to get this right and mike tell us how the u.n. is going to respond to this. well there are a series of meetings now taking place at the united nations in the course of monday the u.s. and france have called for an emergency meeting of the security council to expose as they put it the actions of the syrian regime but the syrian government and its close ally russia have continued to deny that syria had anything to do with this attack and russia has now called for its own meeting of the security council to discuss what it describes as threats to world peace so two meetings at least taking place in the security council in the course of monday one called by the u.s. and france and western allies the other called by russia in effect in protest

against accusations against the syrian government. and the public my can i mean what are you hearing from there i think it's fair to say that there's a collective disgust at what we have seen happen so blatantly in syria what is it that they'd like to hear from the leadership in this. well certainly there is but what you did hear is urging from republican senators that president trump now put his money effectively where his tweets are and actually go ahead and not just make empty threats but there are concerns as well about the state of the relationship between the white house and the department of defense for example it is known that they are at odds about the issue of u.s. troops within syria they have been arguing that the defense secretary and president trump are different opinions as to whether or not u.s. troops should pull out of syria now all this talk of pulling out of syria is

courting too many senators as i said a reason for the syrian government's actions or alleged actions in the past twenty four hours so there are concerns within the u.s. political circles about that degree of disunity between the defense department and president trump which would make any kind of effective response a complicated and difficult to the extreme thank you for that michaela max abrams is an assistant professor of political science at northeastern university joins us by skype from boston it's good to see you max what's going to happen now trump has tweeted about this does he need to follow through. well if you know our power to care or to runs u.s. policy in syria now troops during the trump administration but going back through obama's administration it would be one of inconsistency confusion murky

notes a lack of strategic vision and i think both presidents are really struggled to establish a co-creator and strategy for dealing with syria obama for example you know q.m.p. him against regime change but then you know at least initially supported the rebels except later he didn't support the rebels of trouble has campaigned against regime change but just last year attacked him assets last week he said he wanted to get out of syria very soon and then you know almost you know the next day he said well actually we're going to stay in syria for the foreseeable future so he doesn't want us to be there and so i really have no expectation that u.s. foreign policy is going to suddenly become cohesive on syria i've been looking for that to happen over the past several years oh i don't like you they are saying is

doing this i mean if are they doing this in response to the united states flip flopping around you i mean it's quite a message isn't it i mean look at what sort of a verse three they've set up now to the u.s. . you know i think you might be alluding to john mccain's track in duma op and as a response to something that trump said i think that there is a tendency to blame trump not only for things that he certainly should be blamed for but but absolutely for everything including and over which he didn't have control there's also a tendency for americans to think that regions outside of the united states are paying more attention to internal u.s. domestic politics than they actually are are i remember when people said for example that isis really want to trump to win. and this was repeated ad nauseum but in western media are so much except there was one group that wasn't

actually saying it and that was islamics and so it's oh no i don't think that what happened over the past couple news is a response don't you think that cuba trumps about ok let's talk about islamic state many people said particular from the u.s. and advisers to the white house that once the islamic state goes assad will go to or you can't defeat the one without the other clearly that was incorrect. no you just write it right i mean mohan popular i've been opposed to regime change in syria because not that i think that assad's could great calm but because i thought that if you were to be removed that power vacuum would be filled with islamic stevie and other radical groups and that indeed it would be possible to if not to feed islam experienced syria to at least seriously you know crushed the

group and in just drawing the elephant i've looked at u.s. intervention in the muslim world you know starting over i mean going back to our most set active in iran and saddam hussein and iraq and khadafi and libya and the u.s. frankly does not have a good track record when it comes to removing peterson so for this reason i've been favoring oh really people like us to touch when it comes to leadership removal but at the same time aggressively going after terrorist groups like isis ok last year we saw reaction from the u.s. upon the bombing of so here we know that united nations security council is having an emergency meeting nobody's expecting anything from that right. well i wouldn't at all be surprised if there is a u.s. military response for all sorts of reasons i mean tremendous relief in up on obama for not going forcing the so-called red line and now i think that some of trump's

own credibility is at stake. you know you look at you reference some of his tweets this morning he said that there's going to be a price to pay for what assad allegedly has taught furthermore it just so happens that tomorrow is national security advisor all ins very first debt all in boy and has been a long time supporter of greater u.s. intervention but he's considered a strong tightly run hawk and i think that the national security council is going to be interpreted in some of this evidence to try to figure out what actually happened in doom up and to recommend a possibly a military response and so i wouldn't be surprised at all if that were to happen however that's that he has with the short term spots in terms of the more long term response will the united states now shift towards a policy of regime change and not just sort of limited military strikes like we saw

last year against the regime that remains to be seen maxime thank you very much for talking to us. sir. hungary's prime minister viktor orban has just declared victory in parliamentary elections with the nellie all of the votes counted or runs right wing anti immigration fears party won a third successive term in power and possibly another two thirds majority in parliament this gives him enough votes to continue controversial constitutional changes of his when or been addressed a crowd of supporters in the capital budapest where he reaffirmed his policy of protecting hungary's borders. illegally not only want to show you this was a big fight a life changing when we created an opportunity for us to protect hungary the country hasn't yet reached the point where we want to be but we're on the way on the road we selected together we will. i thank all of you for this journal has more

from the garion capital. viktor orban you heard him speaking there this is the fruition now of a particularly nasty campaign run by his. party here in the last month two months in hungary that has basically been a single issue campaign based on the specter of the invading hoards of muslim refugees being held back by a fence that he's built on the southern border he paints himself as the sort of savior of hungary from the refugees the enemies here not just the refugees but the controlling power center of brussels threatening all demanding that hungary open its borders and and even the billionaire george george soros as a man painted as a man who would flood this country with millions of refugees every year it has been a virtually hate based campaign it is verge on anti semitism certainly xenophobia there have been some who had hoped that the message of refugees was going stale that it wouldn't find fertile ground again it clearly has there's been little talk

about anything of any domestic interest widespread allegations of corruption or crumbling health care system and education people his few days grassroots supporters indeed he may have even increased his support this time around seem still fixated on this idea of hungary a fortress white christian largely fortress under siege by invading muslim hordes of x. it's an extraordinary thing an extraordinary result for victory they'll be a lot of bitterly disappointed liberal left wing opposition activists seen those rising numbers of turnout during the course of the day and hoped that that meant that they'd managed to get large numbers of left wing opposition voters to the polling booths instead it rather looks like the high turnout was in rural areas not the urban city areas and that that may have favored possibly equally feeders and the now cemented main opposition party don't forget that is a party called your pick it is

a formally until very recently staunchly fire. right party anti immigrant with neo nazi roots this is now the main opposition in hungary so the era of the populist staunchly rightwing nationalism xenophobia as i said in this country is very far from over. mark simone is a nonresident senior fellow at the land tick council new asia center joins us by skype from washington d.c. very good to see they told him he seems unstoppable doesn't he what's he got you know i mean you know obviously he is running on. is now two terms of what he claims is success as to hungry from the islamic press and cheese is running out and all see and it is running on a very nationalistic area so in many ways is a referendum of his last two terms and are also it's a showcase of use of them here in opposition particularly liberal opposition and

it's again trust on here and people have skepticism that the past is anti the policies again which she stares for so many ways orbán is a stabilizing force under it and of course this is going to have to book a she's not only for the europeans to believe but also for russia sees hungry as a role of the place and actually to buy i'm sure this all sounds good for his supporters but is it good for the economy these anti immigration policies. you know i think the longer people are looking for stability and many ways there are people first to build it they're not necessarily happy with everything goes on or on but he's someone that they trust it trusts to represent gary and also it's not necessarily paul says the e.u. so in many ways if they're looking to look past some of the corrupt some of the more inflammatory or rhetoric and there are probably truly conservative issues on

me with being honest a defender on grid and because they don't seal very positive alternative he's someone that has significant support of population and you mentioned the regional and pact tell us more about that and what role do you think russia will have with hundley going forward you know of course it is election isn't as an indicator of continuing strength of nationalistic conservative political leaders and movements in eastern europe and poland in slovakia and the czech republic and hungary you have polluted leaders that are trying to cast their lot against brussels and against you while maintaining their country's position so many what is again is a referendum that anti-corrosion conservative movements are not going anywhere or actually likely going to be trashed for many years and eastern europe until liberal opposition to surat together until things change and of course hunger is an example

because or often is one of the strongest leaders in eastern europe is one of these leaders a stood up brussels and also in many cases where washington. oregon has been more divisive in support of president putin now that said hungary is not germany and is not a threat does not just force an influence in the e.u. so despite congress opposition to sanctions say on russia it not been able to stop or do. so we have to look at why role it plays is important sam. under you just. say were you struck of course. thank you mark sim across the page of my head on the news including. the city wanting to know why the motive behind the attack the vehicle in germany is still

a mystery. and we'll have the details on the race killed one hundred forty nine women and children who were held hostage by a nigerian group disasters pitstop for a formula one driver forces him to quit the race or later. u.s. media are reporting that north korea has told u.s. officials it is willing to discuss the denuclearization of the korean peninsula the two countries have been in contact ahead of the expected meeting between kim jong un and president trump next month it'll be the first time a sitting u.s. president holds talks with a north korean leader. international criminal court says israel and hamas may have committed war crimes during mass protests in gaza thirty people including one

journalist were killed and more than two thousand injured by israeli forces since the demonstrations began on march the thirtieth israel's defense minister told reporters that all the protesters were linked to hamas in that smith has more from west jerusalem israel's defense minister of adore lieberman says that all the activists trying to challenge is in gaza a hamas military activist she 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 that 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 what people want to try and make life in gaza more bearable doctors in gaza are struggling to treat those palestinians injured in the protests hospitals have declared a state of emergency due to a severe shortage of supplies about to hameed as 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 at 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 the it is an emergency situation yesterday the health officials here in gaza have actually declared a state of emergency for the whole system it is an overload in germany more than seven hundred people attended a memorial service for the victims of saturday's attack family members friends and emergency workers gathered at the city at a cathedral in the city of munster for this special service on saturday a man drove a van into a crowd killing two people and injuring twenty others shortly after the attack he took his life. authorities say they don't know what the motive behind the

attack was but assume the suspect acted alone there's been heightened security in europe after some a vehicle attacks in the u.k. france and sweden but german officials say complete security is not possible against lone attackers dominic kane has more. on a normal weekend in april the center minster should be packed with tourists and locals this weekend was not know the violent incident that killed and wounded so many was still fresh in people's minds particularly those who were trying to find out the attackers motives. in men start far far the perpetrator was known to police we have had three criminal proceedings against him in minster and another in and these accusations are from two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen. but none of those gave any inkling that he

was capable of carrying out saturday's attack. as the immediate sense of shock following saturday's incident has begun slowly to recede it's been replaced by a sense of grief and condolences with germany's politicians coming to pay their respects to those who lost their lives and many people in this city are asking the question how could such a thing happen here in munster was what i think. something like that shouldn't happen it's shocking i hope this doesn't happen more often but all this will bring themselves to do something like that. we didn't think that could happen here and that someone because of his private problems drove into a crowd with a vehicle that is not comprehensible for the moment investigators say there were no signs of what they call a terror based motives a search of the perpetrators home showed he had imitation firearms and other weapons some media reports suggest he previously suffered psych yet. disturbances

ministers have stressed the difficulty they face in protecting germany from these so-called lone wolf attacks me it's the readerly despite all efforts international community despite doing and having to do all that is humanly possible to protect our citizens unfortunately complete security is not possible and yet time and again we have to do everything in our power to continue to reduce perhaps even to prevent such crimes but for many germans the central question is why do these crimes happen dominick al-jazeera. also in germany police 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 one of the apartments raided by police before the race was also searched in connection with a twenty sixteen christmas market attack in berlin. still ahead on

al-jazeera digging in their work is a controversial war on kenya's borders helped keep them safe from armed fighters plus. i'm scott either in shanghai or one organization is teaching about the damage of plastic because the nearby yangtze river puts the most plastic in the world's oceans been any other river. and rafael nadal's winning return from injury but is it enough to get spain into the davis cup semifinals will tell us in school. hello there the storms are mostly clearing away from north america now they've been over texas louisiana mississippi and now edging away across parts of florida and georgia as well they're just really clinging on to florida as we head through the

day on monday and perhaps one or two a bit further north around the east coast but away from there it's largely fine and dry but what we are seeing is that it's not as warm as it might be safer chicago will get to around five degrees and it will be a good deal of cloud around times two that gradually clears away though as we head through the day on tuesday and chicago should see the temperatures rise a little bit higher towards the west the next system is we're rolling in here from the pacific so some of us are going to have some pretty heavy rain out of that even further towards the south and there's plenty of dry weather here but there are also one of two showers that we'll see and we'll see a few more of those as we head through the next few days also more sherry weather through parts of el salvador and all the way down towards costa rica and into colombia as well and it looks like it's the southern belt will see some of the wettest of the weather as we head through tuesday of a further towards the south and plenty of showers every many parts of brazil as you'd expect at this time of year for the south a good deal of dry weather but not quite for all of us force in santiago looking

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the day watching out his own mind of top stories this hour donald trump is threatening to retaliate against syria for suspected chemical attack on a rebel held area of east and go to more than forty people were killed in the attack on the town of duma on saturday. and evacuees from duma have been arriving in government controlled areas while about eight thousand fighters from the jaish al islam rebel group and their families are headed for opposition controlled towns

in northern syria this is part of an agreement struck between russia and the rebels . hungry as prime minister viktor orban has declared victory in. parliamentary elections with nearly all of the votes counted his party won a third successive term in power and possibly another two thirds majority this gives him enough focus to continue controversial constitutional changes. pakistans some in the u.s. ambassador to lodge a formal complaint after the death of a motorcyclist in a crash with an embassy car police in islamabad released security camera video showing the moment of impact at an intersection it's not been confirmed if the diplomat was driving the car he has diplomatic immunity and been arrested the family of the motorcyclists once the driver charged saying he ran a red light. thousands of people from pakistan's past and community have rallied demanding rights and protection their pakistan second biggest ethnic group making up fifteen percent of the population of two hundred seven million me they have long

been the targets of military operations internal displacement ethnic stereotyping and abductions by security forces their heartland near the border with afghanistan has suffered from years of conflict the passion protection movement is demanding the removal of landmines from these areas group is also calling for justice for the killing of aspiring pash to model a keeper should in january it's alleged that he was the target of an extradition killing by police from rob matheson. fury and frustration and push 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 get there and they started this moment

and i think they believe you there we will continue this moment across and it's not only the first one from the tribal territories and even the pakistani government are going to ization civil society they are also supporting the demands of the parchment to help woman. 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. but. the most recent killing in karachi was not people must suit an aspiring pashtun model who his father says had no links to. groups pashtuns say they want the senior police officer involved in the killing of not keep to face the death penalty i they deny these anti-government demonstrations and say their demands

a simple first demand was to arrest the girls read the second was stop him alleviation pushed on women specially the tribal women and children at the security check for thirty one was a two cleans the learn mine which was given in especially in the south of us back but as support for the protests grows the government may be forced to do more to show that pastors are not being targeted rob matheson. nigeria's army says it's rescued one hundred forty nine women and children from the on the group boko haram the hostages when the village of yeti money could are in northeastern borno state they're not part of the group of schoolgirls kidnapped from the towns of chibok and who are still missing i mean it just reports from a butcher. the army said those rescue are residents of yet ameri corps a village in northeastern nigeria was held captive by boko haram but they didn't

know say for how long they've been held captive by the fighters the army said eight followed and of the rescue followed an operation that conduct they conducted on saturday where they encountered bokhara fighters in the ensuing firefight 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 forty's now what we've seen over the last few months or so is that both what arms ability to continue to adopt its losses they've been chased 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 within the 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 at such an isolated communities abductions and kidnappings in the north east of nigeria in other words spoke out on is telling the nigerian society that we are still very much on kenya has suspended construction of a seven hundred kilometer border wall along the frontier with somalia of the confrontations between security officers and people from a nearby somali town but locals on the kenyan side say that partially build a wall is help prevent al-shabaab fighters from crossing into kenya from and they're on the kenya somali border crosser and so in parts. this is what is meant to keep out fighters based in somalia part of a larger government project to protect the park. in the kenyan county town of

mandela clan elders say the border barrier has helped along with other security measures including arming vetted civilians and better cooperation between different clients and security forces. for there to be peace we have to look out for. us my neighbor result issues how can we let the enemy. was killed almost three years ago when gunmen attacked a bass he was shot trying to protect christians who are the target. for ten years and we have six children when i look at them i see him i will never forget him. and there has been an entry point for. sympathetic locals say to them with crown was making the situation was some security analysts say building a barrier is not in itself

a solution. needs to its. people here. monday or on all the parts of these countries so there. you have the building or just give it a warning because it's not i was just a fence i think for me i think you know again demonstrate they maybe to you from the policymakers when it comes to believe you know so much even after all these years. in this region the attack has mainly target holds who come here to walk in schools and parties. where most people from other parts of the country. and twenty fourth six stone would what killed. along the border with somalia. watched his friends die but he says the security situation at least within town and the surrounding areas has improved and as this is. the work. we

do not only one. we have spread out to other areas where the locals. people living here may have found relative peace but several other parts of the region remain unsafe some of these travelers are going farther east taking a route so dangerous that they have to be escorted by armed police who themselves are a target catherine saw al jazeera and daraa not eastern kenya brazil's former president lula da silva has started his twelve year jail term for corruption on sunday spent his first full day behind bars little arrived at the prison under the cover a cover of darkness late on saturday after finally agreeing to hand him self in following a twelve hour standoff with authorities his supporters of protesters against his imprisonment others celebrated saying the guilty must pay for their crimes. fishermen in the u.k.

rally to protest against the transitional deal struck between london and the brakes at some fifty boats five of flares and fireworks as part of a nationwide protests during the referendum campaign the breaks it is a promise to take back control of u.k. waters a march the twenty ninth next year the day the u.k. formally leaves the e.u. but the government later renegotiated the breaks that transitional period that means that london will only be able to take full control of its territorial waters in twenty twenty one qatar as a mayor has begun his tour of the years ahead of talks with donald trump on chooser the us president is said to want to ease tension between the gulf countries after initially supporting a blockade against qatar the emir's first stop was in miami and from there. after. a crucial visit. ton months into the blockade that was imposed by saudi arabia the united arab emirates behind and egypt

the gulf diplomatic crisis is likely to be at the center of talks between shaped i mean been hammered out of fannie and us president donald trump i think all the parties have to come to the table with not sitting at a conditions. if the country willing to engage in a productive. serious discussion. and willing to sit and discuss. the issue of our sovereignty is an issue that in the be addressed the qataris charm offensive in the u.s. is in full swing. a curious crowd gathers at the landmark bayfront in miami what an exhibit promoting the gulf nation is underway while trying to leverage the road show will move on to other u.s. cities in the coming weeks my belief as ambassador was that relationships matter not just between governments but between people who feel very honored i mean they

can choose any more of the world that they chose miami and we see that narrative playing out over and over again and we see so many different countries throughout the world choosing miami to do business trips in miami. and visit try to create more economic opportunities i met bin jasim is minutes of economy he leads a delegation of businessmen seeking to expand trade with the u.s. for us the blockade the state whatever from economy point of view will find we can live with of those companies as the gulf diplomatic crisis drags on the qatari government continues to diversify its trade potus cottle's investments in the u.s. for example as to mated at one hundred forty six billion dollars. including ninety two billion dollars in plane purchases for national carrier the u.s. has a long standing relationship with the gulf rivals it's been trying to broker

a deal of has been no breakthrough so far raising fears of further instability in the region about al-jazeera miami still ahead on al-jazeera all the sports and what's described as the toughest foot race on earth is under way in iraq and details just ahead but. april on al-jazeera. from the stories beyond the headlines phone lines examines the u.s. is role in the world's fifty years since the death of martin luther king we examine the impact of his assassination and the state of race relations in the u.s. today the award winning show earthrise returns for another season with stories about solutions to some of the greatest manmade environmental problems as the first meeting since the bridge that vote is set to take place in the u.k. we examine how relevant the commonwealth is today between corporate and public

interests up to the last drop unveils the longstanding rule for water in europe april on al-jazeera. china's big brother is always watching at home and abroad. how far in china will go to control its citizens. on our music. has long been one of the world's strictest male dominated society years of conflict and an increasing lawlessness has marginalized woman even more but female activism

is on the rise in some areas would go ahead reports from misrata. their voices are not often heard but a community leader is determined to change that she wants women to play a bigger role in improving society. at this fair she and other female campaigners have taken the initiative to fundraise for those most in need the sick and the poor . the income of this fair is dedicated to cancer patients in the city other than that we've also created job opportunities by opening a weaving workshop or poorly and we've also trained. but it is not easy women find themselves at the back of every queue and it comes to seeking help even when it is not for themselves women here say they're the first female activists to do this type of work helping others in the city of misrata and they're planning to

continue but in a maze dominated society they say they face a lot of the challenges. a radio announcer says in libyan society social restrictions on women are a major handicap and whenever a woman progresses she gets picked on not just by the men but other women too she tries to address those issues through her radio show or didn't couldn't. there are several obstacles derailing women's activism i faced a lot of difficulties at first our society did not accept the idea of a female presenter media used to be politicised during the former regime and as female activists in order for us to express ourselves we need a lot of strength and resilience. this presentation to cancer patients is proof altima and her friends are making some progress it is want to step out of time but

they remain hopeful gender equality is not just a distant dream. misrata and it's time for sports has a high chain thanks so much american patrick reid has won his first major golf title at the masters the twenty seven. year old had lead from the halfway point at augusta and shot a one hundred to par final round of seventy one to win by a single stroke from compassionate rickie fowler jordan speed shot and eight under par round on sunday and briefly shared the lead but finished two shots back in third place and in his first masters since two thousand and fifteen tiger woods saved his best for the final day going three under to finish and a tie for thirty seconds a belgian cyclist has died after a crash in the perry rebate a race michael was airlifted to hospital following an incident in the race on sunday in which several riders went down the twenty three year old suffered

a cardiac arrest sebastian vettel has won the formula one bahrain grand prix for ferrari extending his championship lead over lewis hamilton the german lead from pole position but was chased down by mercedes of l.t.e. botha's in the closing lap of the race but vettel managed to hold him off to win by less than a second teammate camille reichen and was less successful he was forced to retire after running over a ferrari mechanic during a pit stop running champion and mercedes driver lewis hamilton came from ninth to finish third there was some frustration points in the race where you know they could hear me so i had to choose particular points of which i could speak to them so communication is really difficult when you're trying to catch sebastian is twenty five seconds ahead to know exactly what you need to do in order to not kill your tires but make it so that you can catch him at the end is difficult and you know it makes it a frustration. britain's cow crutchlow has won the argentina moto g.p.

and damp conditions the honda rider fought off a last ditch effort from john zarko to win his third moto g.p. title reigning world champion mark mark has prince penalized for a collision with valentino rossi knocking him back to eighteenth crutchlow lead to world championship after two races it was nice to win there's no doubt about that but it was to be expected to be honest i came into the weekend thinking i could leave here with a chance of being first or second with mark and we ended up winning i was comfortable in the bio i felt i took my risks i stayed with riders that i probably should should have and would have been able to drop if i needed to christiania rinaldo found the back of the net for the tenth real madrid game in a row on sunday but his side had to settle for a draw against local rivals at logical madrid in their spanish league clash gareth bale set up an all go for the opener shortly after half time but just four minutes

later and one griezmann levelled for athletico the draw means at logical stay four points clear of reality and second place in the league standings there were two games in the english premier league on sunday chelsea were held to a one one draw by west ham an arsenal came from a goal down to beat southampton three two meaning they are now just three points behind chelsea in the race for a top five finish so we're leading one knew we came back to two two with every time i believe we have shown great spirit and one new game even if game goes be taken but i must say when you come to. a gold. watch what you want to give to all of. and tennis world number one rafa nadal made it two wins out of two in his return from injury to help spain reach the semifinals of the davis cup playing in his first event since

a hip problem forced him out of january's australian open the del thrashed world number four alexanders of streets to level spain's quarterfinal with germany and two matches each devant for air then defeated philipp kohlschreiber in a five set thriller to win a tie for spain in front of a delighted home crowd. will now meet defending champions france in the last four they made it through to a third straight semi final with a three one win over italy world number eleven lucas point sealing their progression with a four set win over fabio fognini france are bidding to win back to back davis cup titles for the first time in more than eighty years. croatia also reached the last four on sunday after convincing a three one win over kazakstan world number three martin challenged the russian macao christian in straight sets to book a semi final clash with united states in september the thirty third edition of the marathon or the marathon of the senses under way in morocco so hard desert is

described as the toughest foot race on earth the sixty event sees more than one thousand competitors taking on a two hundred fifty kilometer course rocco's mohamed el more beauty beat out his brother rushed to claim a first stage victory while russia's italia won the opening stage of the women's race and north korea's capital pyongyang hosted its annual international marathon on sunday the race is part of the celebrations to mark the nine hundred twelve birth of north korean founder kim il sung read four hundred runners from forty three countries took part in north korea's. won the men's full marathon while his compassionate kim won the women's race. and that's all your support for that war later thanks very much for that now the longest river in asia has become one of the world's most polluted the young sea has long been a lifeline for millions of chinese but the plastic from the rivers slowly killing

marine life in the east china sea and beyond scott hi there 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 inhaled a straw and it bled a lot so when people try to help get the straw out of its nose littering in 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. i think we can look beyond the numbers we were talking about the marines waste to public statistics other abstract media 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 the repast us 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 twenty fifty the amount of plastic in the oceans will outweigh the fish it's got to al jazeera shanghai and that's it for me i'll see you again with more news stay with us.

the farthest from. the streets is quiet the signal is given. out so it's safe to walk to school last year there are more than thirty minute is in this community in one month the police say this area is a red zone one of several in some townships in cape town children sometimes it caught in the crossfire when rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call

a walking us to try to take them from gang violence i lost my son good looking while i'm doing yes the go i also lost my but there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards he ruled for nearly half a century. a controversial political figure in the cauldron of the middle east and one who was never far from crisis at home or abroad. in a two part series al-jazeera world tells the story of king hussein of jordan. episode one so far the only options here.