in small phone whilst the c.e.o. . says some question. counting the cost. is quiet the signal is given. out so it's safe to walk to school last year the more than thirty metres 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 get caught in the crossfire when rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call a walk to try to take gang violence i lost my. daughter years ago i also lost my 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.

donald trump blames the syrian president the suspected chemical attack in eastern and threatens to retaliate. for my headquarters here in doha also coming up. hungary's right wing leader viktor orban secures a third after a landslide win in sunday's election. a few home comforts the special treatment brazil's former president is receiving in prison plus. no i can't over say. i voted for losing hope for any justice will talk to a man whose brother died in an ira ambush during northern ireland's troubles.

developing story coming to us out of syria where the state media is reporting a missile strike at one of the country's major air fields now it comes hours after the u.s. president donald trump warned of consequences for a suspected chemical attack in eastern guta syrian state t.v. says several people were killed at the t.v. for military air base near the ancient city of palmyra in the province of holmes it also says the military shut down eight of the missiles the u.s. department of defense denies conducting any air strikes in syria but told al-jazeera it is closely watching the situation the pentagon says it will support the on going diplomatic efforts to hold those who use chemical weapons accountable mike hanna is our correspondent following that story for us out of washington mike what else is the pentagon saying it. well peter we spoke directly to the desk officer at the pentagon who said mentioned that the u.s. is not conducting any air operations in syria that they cared categorical denial he

added as well that there is no awareness of any allies who might be doing so from that point of view the u.s. saying nothing to do with what is going on there the various reports we are receiving that some kind of missile strike did take place on that base in homs one must remember too that is just a year ago where the u.s. did carry out an air strike on an airbase in homs following a chemical attack in syria obviously the speculation that the u.s. was involved in this one originating from that and also from the tirade of tweets president trump has been issuing in the course of the day saying that the air will be consequences for the latest attack attribute to the syrian regime also remembering that of course russia and syria itself have denied that it was responsible for that apparent chemical attack peter so i guess this is not

a one size fits all element to the story in as much as if it's not the united states who might be doing this not least because at any one time there are craft from five countries in the skies of syria. well precisely serve if there are air strikes being carried out which we cannot confirm then there is a number of nations as you mentioned that would have the capacity to carry out such airstrikes so that would be just speculation at this particular point we have the denial from the u.s. we have the pentagon desk officer insisting that there is no knowledge of any allies carrying out such strikes so at the moment we just have to wait developments and understand exactly what is happening and precisely what kind of airstrikes if they were such strikes were carried out or whether or not it was actually tomahawk missile strikes which would be from a c. platform rather than from an air one so the situation at the moment clouded in

confusion and certainly we will get the facts and details as unfold peeta now the u.n. security council is meeting in special session a little later to discuss this just walk us through what we can expect from that. well once again as confused as the new situation we are dealing with perhaps is the un security council what we have in the course the next twenty four hours is an urgent meeting called by the u.s. senate france and its other western allies to cast a spotlight on the latest attack in syria but then of course the russians who deny that the syrian government were responsible for that attack it's close ally have also called for a security council meeting a separate one at the u.n. tomorrow there is going to be a degree of argument as there always is one side denying that has as any responsibility for what its allies are doing or that its allies did not do that at

all the other side insisting that the syrian government is responsible for yet another chemical attack this time in the area of east ghouta ok mike for the moment thanks very much well as mike was mentioning the u.s. president donald trump talking on twitter he has been tweeting that there will be a quote big price to pay for the dimmer attack and he labeled the syrian president bashar al assad an animal for the first time since assuming office mr trump criticized. the russian president vladimir putin and held him and iran responsible syria and russia have denied any role in the bombing on duma which killed more than forty people going to has more. 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 how not to look at their attacking duma with chemicals

many children have been killed in tent 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 looks ago. 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 the 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 treatment 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 russian's offer 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 duma 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 danes 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 zero. and in the last few hours some of the evacuees from duma have arrived in government controlled areas as part of that deal between the rebels and russia syrian state t.v. has been showing pictures of them being greeted by jubilant crowds more buses carrying fighters and their families have also left there 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. mood is a spokesman for the syrian white helmets he told al jazeera the evidence shows that chemical weapons were used in duma now and we're not. getting it and we have

a lot of videos and photos published by the white helmets and we also published a statement this morning to clarify the details of what's being done in duma the times effects consequences and how women and children have been affected we have also published videos of the arrival of white how much to the effect of places to treat the civilians moving on to the other top stories so far today hungary's prime minister that's viktor orban has declared a victory in parliamentary elections with nearly all of the votes not counted or bans right wing anti immigrant fit as party won a third successive term in power this gives him enough votes to continue constitutional changes john hall is in budapest. things could hardly have gone better for prime minister viktor orban. the queues of voters that stretched long and late into the night were not a sign of an opposition fight back as some had hoped it stayed the ruling few days party picked up strong support in rural areas cementing another big majority win

and a third consecutive term for mr all banned. in the past or ban has used his majority to alter the constitution changing the electoral system to favor a victory for food and curbing media freedoms some fear he wants to go further now threatening the independence of the judiciary and trouble is likely to beckon for those who worked against him. some kind of retaliation towards the opposition parties and especially n.g.o.s i think what we'll see is. on these n.g.o.s special the left wing and liberal n.g.o.s that operate in hungary and i think that to be the first reaction after the results because they were blamed. they're now the. center of the balance of power in parliament is largely unchanged and many hungary and will be bitterly disappointed according to the opinion polls there is probably a majority of people who oppose or ban and his brand of populist rightwing

nationalism amplified by xenophobia and even anti semitism but their efforts to unite a divided opposition to draw large numbers of people to the polls and to vote tactically have clearly failed these are worrying times not just for liberal minded hungry and concerned about this country's pariah status in europe but for the leaders of the e.u. as well who seem powerless to do anything about it jonah how al-jazeera budapest. u.s. media is reporting that north korea has told u.s. officials it's willing to discuss the denuclearization of the korean peninsula the two countries have been in contact them eating plan between kim jong un and president trump next month will be the first time a sitting u.s. president has held talks with a north korean leader kim met the chinese president xi jinping in beijing last month in his first overseas trip as the country's leader. brazil's former president isn't missing out on seeing his favorite football team in action despite being

locked up with an awful lot of disorder some home comforts now that he's in prison for corruption and money laundering. reports now from the southern city of critique . of the silver spent the first full day of his twelve year sentence here at the federal peace prison in could achieve a small crowd of supporters with a peace guard protested nearby the t.v. was installed in his cell so he could watch his favorite football team code indians play a big game salute a result there on the top floor of this federal police prison segregated from the other inmates receiving special treatment as perhaps befits a former president but nonetheless a prisoner a convicted criminal. who was defiant addressing his supporters before handing himself into police saying he's innocent he's the victim of a campaign to prevent him from standing in october's presidential elections

elections many believe he would win you. know i'm not hiding i'm going to go there and see their faces so they know i'm not afraid so they know i'm not going to run and so they know i'm going to prove my innocence they need to know that he said he'll put his name forward for those elections although his conviction means he's barred from political activity for eight years. even from behind bars lou they will keep all of us we believe he's the one to lead us out of the current crisis in brazilian politics. it's not just about punishing former president lula but all the brazilian people we are suffering the loss of the rights we fought so hard to achieve. the seventy two year old has been a huge teacher of brazilian politics for generations the president from two thousand and three to two thousand and ten and before that an opposition firebrand and union leader but now all sides in brazil's embattled political scenario will have to get used to life without the man the whole country simply knows as.

still to come here on al-jazeera. rallying for their rights thousands from pakistan's pashtun community protest and. will have the details on the rescue of one hundred forty nine women and children that were kept hostage by nigerian on call. 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 thing is this is 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 to gradually clears away though as we head through the day on tuesday in 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 hundred 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 west of the weather as we head through choose day 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 rather sulky for the next few days. with.

we're heading to the place so deep in the proving amazon it's taken us two days on this boat just to get there from the search current dangerous. look at what is being done to protect one of the region's most iconic creatures of where disappearing because a legal pad trained with the looming they said just wanted to see if reintroduction of mccahill is a viable option to save some of these population pretty good you know techno on al-jazeera and. you're watching al jazeera live from doha these are the headlining stories today

the u.s. has in the last hour or so denied conducting air strikes in syria after state media reported a major airfield has been hit in a missile attack it says several people were killed at the t.v. for peace in homs province a strike comes hours after the u.s. president warned of consequences for suspected chemical attack in eastern kentucky . meanwhile evacuees from duma have begun arriving in government controlled areas where the eight thousand fighters from the 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. top story in europe the hungary and prime minister viktor orban has declared victory in parliamentary elections with nearly all of the votes now counted his party has won a third successive term in power with possibly another two thirds of a majority this gives him enough votes to continue controversial constitutional changes. families of people killed in the conflict in northern ireland say their

fight for justice hasn't been forgotten between the late one nine hundred sixty s. and the early one nine hundred ninety s. three and a half thousand people died in violence between irish nationalists catholics and pro british protestants known as the troubles the fighting ended in one nine hundred ninety eight with the signing of the so-called good friday agreement between two years on there's still some bitterness many believe in justice hasn't been. a correspondent barnaby phillips reports from the rural county of. in small farming towns in gentle valleys and quiet country lanes they remembered dark days we came along after action and just as we're torn in the end here they were on the other side of the bank there are those who are old and they opened up on us here just. three gone i was thirty two bullet holes in which you're so lucky you can imagine what it's like it was just after eight o'clock on a sunday morning in one thousand nine hundred seventy two richard and his brother

robin protestants and part time soldiers of the british army and their father drove into their farm and an ira ambush robin died richard has lost hope the men who killed his brother will ever be called in order to put him think. it's quite possible a man overboard or either very old man or. one horse a point but no one monitored you. know it's. no time to oversee. anybody doing home for. us from now till over just almost all of the violence of the troubles was here in northern ireland part of the united kingdom but just occasionally it would spread to the south of the republic which you can see the other side of that water geraldine o'reilly a catholic was fifteen years old just two months after robin was killed so was she

by a bomb planted by pro british paramilitaries she was buying chips on the high street another passing boy also killed antony is geraldine's brother he survived the ball by ria his wife he struggled not to let his last define his life for three of a sort of. let go of it no because i don't think anyone's ever going to be brought to justice no you know what are we can do know is that with the peace agreement to take this is a lot different. from her what i hope for the of the never happen a good to anyone and so. it's good to stay like that it's happening at the moment in the north you know where there is no god for a start you know but i do know that the people want peace and we want peace here it's like two families justice has eluded them both and yet they cherish this peace even as they fear it's fertility. fun to be philip's al-jazeera county for manna

for the night. turkey has deported the first batch of illegal after migrants as part of a move by the turkish government to deport over six hundred of them and cross says there's been a major influx of migrants crossing over from iran rights groups of criticized turkey for deporting migrants back to conflict torn countries saying it's putting their lives at risk. pakistan some in the u.s. ambassador to lodge a formal complaint after the death of a motorcyclist in a crash with an embassy call the police in islam about really security camera video showing the moment of impact at an intersection it's not being confirmed if the diplomat was driving the car he has diplomatic immunity so hasn't been arrested. thousands of people from pakistan's past and community have rallied demanding rights and protection they are pakistan's second biggest ethnic group making up fifteen percent of the population of two hundred seven million pashtuns of long been the targets of military operations internal displacement ethnic stereotyping

and abductions by security forces heartland near the border with afghanistan has suffered from years of conflict the past protection movement is demanding the removal of landmines from these areas the group is also calling for justice for the killing of the aspiring pashtun model not keep missed sued in january it's alleged that he was the target of an extrajudicial killing by the police more now 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. they get there and they started this moment and i think they believe. that is not really the question from the tribal and even the pakistani. society they are also supporting the 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. 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 i they deny these are anti-government demonstrations and say their demands a simple. arrest the girlfriend the second was. pushed women specially the tribal women and children at the security checkpoint the third was

the land mine which was given in specially. but as support for the protests grows the government may be forced to do more to show the pasterns are not being targeted rob matheson al jazeera. now the pressure is building on the australian prime minister malcolm turnbull has failed to top opinion polls for the thirtieth time in a row he's a year away from a general election but the latest results raise questions about his future under thomas has that story from sydney. back in september twenty fifth dean one of the reasons malcolm turnbull gave for overthrowing his predecessor tony abbott was that abbott had lost thirty opinion polls in a row that means that thirty times in a row the opinion polls and showing that the government would lose an election to labor one held the next day. said that that was unsustainable it showed that the

government at the time was on track to lose the next election will now malcolm turnbull has failed his own test he has reached that milestone thirty times in a row opinion polls have shown that he and his government are on track to lose the one thing though that prevents a leadership challenge is that there is no clear successor to malcolm turnbull no one those in his party can agree who should take over from him and also that the same opinion polls show that the australian public does not want another new prime minister there were four changes of prime minister in the five years to twenty fifteen the australian public has had enough of that so for now malcolm turnbull looks like. nigeria's army says it's rescued one hundred forty nine women and children from the group because the hostages were in the village of yet a medic coup in the north east state of borno the not part of the group of schoolgirls kidnapped from the tons of cheap up and they are still missing and it

was reports now from a future. the army said those rescue were residents of yet a medic were believed in northeastern nigeria who were held captive by book or arm but they did not say for how long they've been held captive by the fighters the army said eight followed and over the rescue followed an operation that they conducted on saturday where they encountered book out of fighters and in soon 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 the book white 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 adapt in smaller groups to a type isolated and vulnerable communities recently within them launch during attacks on the capital coming to the outskirts of my degree which is

a city that has been in their crosshairs for a very long time since the start of this insurgency than i did an 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 bible quote to launch several types of operations suicide bombings daring attacks on military formations ice attacks an isolated communities abductions and kidnappings in the northeast of nigeria in other words spoken is telling the nigerian society that we're still very much on the shipping industry which varies everything from food to gadgets is one of the world's biggest polluters it has largely escaped tighter emissions regulations as seen on land based transportation but that may change very soon his name clark. from computers to close to children's toys it's estimated that nine out of ten consumer items filling the shelves of the world's shops get there by ship but ships use some of the lowest grade most polluting fuel

there is emitting not just c o two but poisonous gases like cell for dioxide and nitrogen oxide indeed if the shipping industry was a nation it would be the sixth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world well this week nations are meeting at the international maritime organization to try to draw up a strategy to eliminate carbon pollution there are proposals to cut emissions at least fifty percent by twenty fifty by this fall short of the seventy to one hundred percent reductions of that european and pacific island states say is needed and that figure is strongly opposed by nations like brazil india and saudi arabia who have raised economic concerns and then what alternatives are there well ocean going ships only powered by renewable energy maybe some way off yet but all electric ferries are even now at sea in scandinavia the future is already here

the canadian prime minister was one of hundreds of people who paid tribute to an ice hockey team at a vigil in the town of humboldt fifteen young people died including ten players when their team bus crashed in the province of saskatchewan the police are still trying to determine what caused it i don't want to be here. don't. it's good that we are. friday i don't want to go to the game my but my kids beg me to go to the hockey game we travelled up and arrived at the scene shortly after the bus and walked up on the scene and i never want to see again. to sounds i never want to hear again. to greet chris. just feel so lost.

this is al jazeera these are the top stories so far today the u.s. system night conducting air strikes in syria after state media there reported a major airfields been hit in a missile attack several people were killed at the t.v. for base in the province of homs here strike comes hours after the u.s. president ronald trump warned of consequences over the suspected chemical attack in eastern guta mike hanna has more the pentagon categorically denies that the u.s. is conducting any air strikes in syria and also in a conversation with a desk officer there an insistence that there's no knowledge of any allies doing the same so the situation at the moment clouded in confusion various reports indicating that such an airstrike or indeed a missile strike did happen at some particular point within the last few hours evacuees from the syrian city of duma started arriving in government controlled

areas and about eight thousand fighters from the jaish al islam rebel group and their families headed for opposition controlled towns in northern syria it's part of an agreement struck between russia and the rebels. hungary's prime minister viktor orban has declared victory in the parliamentary election there with nearly all of the votes now counted his right wing anti immigrant fit as party won a third successive term in power and possibly another two thirds majority. u.s. media is reporting that north korea has told u.s. officials it is willing to discuss denuclearization of the korean peninsula the two countries have been in contact ahead of an expected meeting next month between kim jong il and the u.s. president donald trump. the international criminal court says israel and hamas may have committed war crimes during mass protests in gaza thirty people including a journalist have been killed and more than two thousand were injured by israeli forces since the demonstrations began ten days ago israel's defense minister told reporters all the protesters were linked to hammer. thousands of people from

pakistan's passion community protested and push our demands human rights and protection for this minority group they say thousands have disappeared over the years or been the target of extrajudicial killings in pakistan's semi autonomous tribal region. those are your headlines so far more news at the top of the hour between now and then. it's the cheapest rail service in the d.r. congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to a labor. it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber the remaining seats people cram into

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