that's. where every. in recent years the sawhill of north africa has witnessed the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara at this time on al-jazeera.

donald trump blames syria's president for the suspected chemical attack in eastern guta and threatens to retaliate. peter w. watching al jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up. under his right wing leader secure after a landslide win in sunday's election. no. anybody doing paying for losing hope for any justice we'll talk to a man whose brother died in an ira ambush during the troubles in northern ireland plus. i'm scott either in shanghai or one organization is teaching about the damage of plastics because the nearby yangtze river puts the most plastic in the world's oceans than any other river.

serious state media says there's been a missile strike at one of the country's major air fields and comes hours after the u.s. president all trump warned of consequences for a suspected chemical attack in eastern guta syrian t.v. says several people were killed at the t.v. for military base near the ancient city of palmyra in homs province it also says the military shot eight of the missiles the u.s. department of defense denies conducting any air strikes in syria but has told al jazeera it's closely watching the situation the pentagon says it will support ongoing diplomatic efforts to hold those who use chemical weapons accountable mike hanna has the latest now from washington. 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 this. 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 but at the same time we do know that president obama meeting with his military leadership in the course of monday his defense secretary james matters being discussed there no doubt an appropriate response to what the u.s. insists was a chemical attack carried out by the syrian government in east new to province also in the course of monday the u.n. holding a security council meeting an emergency meeting to discuss exactly that but here another complication the u.k. and france and other western allies have called for this meeting but russia has also called for its own security council meeting in terms of what it says to

discuss the threat against international peace being posed in recent days so there will be argument in the next few hours there will be arguments certainly at the united nations security council in the course of monday will the u.s. president that there will be a big price to pay for the doom and 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 hold him and iran responsible syria and russia have tonight any role in the bombing on duma which killed more than forty people but i'm sure going to him 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 i saw not how not to look at there that can do more

with chemicals many children have been killed in tents airstrikes by the syrian government and its allies began on saturday. when this is report a barrel bomb with some sort of gas being dropped we were trying to hide. and show those look when the city was hit but looks ago. there was no longer 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 do them a number of medical stuff right now it's to go to. the sometimes and the treatment and shoot people and we've seen people. people should dying with them to get it's reported that ambulances and

a hospital were hit by air strikes 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 right. it was betraying its commitment to the u.n. 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 dumas jaish islam 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 jason ellis had limited options left natasha going to. amman rebel fighters have started leaving duma as part of that russian sponsored evacuation deal these are state t.v. pictures of some of the buses crossing into a government controlled area on their way to opposition held areas in northern syria but eight thousand jaish al islam fighters along with their families are set to be evacuated in the coming days under the agreement russian military police are expected to enter duma to prevent rebel fighters from returning. soroush mahmud 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 hungary's prime minister viktor orban has declared victory in the parliamentary elections there with nearly all of the votes counted or bans right wing anti immigrant fit as party one third successive term in power this now gives him enough votes to continue constitutional changes john a whole reports now from 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 victory 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 will see is. on these n.g.o.s especially leftwing and liberal n.g.o.s that operate in hungary and i think that to be the first reaction after the results because they will blame these n.g.o.s for. the balance of power in parliament is largely unchanged and many hung 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 hungary 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. official in the u.k. had been protesting against a transitional deal struck between london and the e.u. over fifty boats fired off flares and fireworks as part of a nationwide protest during the referendum campaign the break city years have promised to take back control of u.k. waters on march the twenty ninth next year that's the day the u.k. formally leaves the european union but the government later renegotiated the brics it transition period that means that london will only be able to take full control of its territorial waters in twenty twenty one families of people killed in the

conflict in northern ireland say their fight for justice has not been forgotten between the late one nine hundred sixty s. and early 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 thousand nine hundred eight with the signing of the good friday agreement however twenty years on this still some bitterness many believe in justice hasn't been served barnaby phillips now reports from the rural county of amanda. 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 for us a little blank there are those who are old and they opened up on us here just. three gone and i was just thirty two full of holes in it 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 caught not after but hey i'm hoping. it's quite possible a man overboard or either very old man or. one horse a point but no one monitored you. know turned over say. anybody doing time for. something awful overthrust almost all of the violence of the troubles with here in northern island 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 bomb berea his wife he's struggled not to let his loss define his life for three of the sort of. let go of a 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 don't take this as a not differ. but these are what i hope for the of them never happen a good burning return so. it's good and right still like that it's happening at the moment in the north you know where there is no government for a start you know but i do know that the people want peace and we want peace here as well to families justice has eluded them both and yet they cherish this peace even as they fear its fragility. to be phillip's al-jazeera county for manna for the

night. lost one you still to come here on al-jazeera including these ones we have details on the rescue of one hundred forty nine women and children that were kept hostage by the nigerian armed group. also ahead a few home comforts the special treatment resource former president is receiving despite being in prison. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. hello there we still got a ribbon of cloud over parts of the middle east at the moment it's originating still over parts of saudi arabia crossing us in qatar and then working its way through parts of afghanistan and up towards the northeastern part of our map and this region is where we'll expect to see the heaviest of the damn poles as we head through the next few days and still over many of the mountains we are expecting to see a lot of that turn to snow so that sticks around then as we head through the day on

tuesday towards the west we've got another weather system that's pushing its way and so for some of us in the southern parts of turkey it does look pretty soggy there as we had three cheese day that then works its way further south and for some of us in iraq there's likely to be a good deal of cloud around times further south and we're seeing that cloud then over parts of saudi arabia also over qatar and as we head through the next few days we could also see a fair amount of it over the u.a.e. and bahrain as well at times it could be taken off just to give us the odd shower but for the majority of us it will just make things a little bit grayer than we're used to down towards the southern parts of africa and there's certainly been a lot of what weather here recently more still to come plenty of it over parts of mozambique and that's stretching all the way across into angola and there may be a two five in talk we'll see a few more showers all monday but they should clear as we head into tuesday. the weather sponsored by qatar and peace. when the winning the will of the people

hinges on the mass media state p.r. machine is going to overdrive. but just he's been feeling saying. we just don't know yet where the lines when drawn between what can be said and what comes after that. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for outside the media opinion the listening post base time on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. assistant i conducting air strikes in syria after state media there reported a major air fields being hit in

a missile attack it says several people were killed at the t four base in homs province the spot comes hours after the u.s. president donald trump want to consequences for a suspected chemical attack on the duma in rebel held eastern ghouta. rebel fighters have begun leaving the syrian town of duma as part of the russian brokered evacuation deal these are state t.v. pictures of some of the buses crossing into a government controlled area on their way to opposition held areas in the north. one of the story hungary's prime minister it all than has to victory in parliamentary elections with many old of the votes now counted his party won a third successive telling us possibly another two thirds majority to give him enough votes to continue controversial constitutional changes. the international criminal court says israel and hamas may have committed war crimes during this protest in gaza thirty people including one journalist were killed and more than two thousand were 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 burnet smith has more now from west jerusalem. israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman says that all the activists trying to challengers in gaza are hamas military activists he says that everyone is connected to hamas everyone gets a salary from hamas in gaza because 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 call trey israel's government and israel's military that these are hamas led protests that these protesters are trying to breach the fence to invade israel to try and challenge israel's territorial integrity and so it's defending itself against that of course our reporters have seen on the ground from the side from the gaza side that essentially these protests are peaceful but the challenge for israel is that if it excepts the majority of peace people are protesting peacefully then

there has to acknowledge the demands those protesters are making the demands for a relaxation of the blockade over gaza a chance to allow exports from gaza a chance to allow people to travel more freely and expand fishing zones these are what people want to try and make life in gaza more bearable the nigerian army says it's rescued one hundred forty nine women and children from the armed group boko haram the hostages from the village of yet coulda in the northeastern borno state they're not part of the group of schoolgirls kidnapped from the towns of chibok and that they're still missing woman interest reports now from. the army said those rescue 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 that they conducted on saturday where they encountered bokhara fighters and 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 product is now what we've seen over the last few months or so is the book what 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 interchange 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 boko haram 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. no turkey has do ported the first batch of illegal afghan migrants as part of a move by the turkish government to deport over six hundred people and process has been a big influx of migrants crossing over from iran rights groups of condemning turkey for deporting migrants back to conflict torn countries saying it's putting their lives at risk. brazil's former president is not missing out on seeing his favorite football team in action despite the fact he's now locked up luis enough feel a lot of silver has some home comforts now that he's in prison for corruption and money laundering reports from the southern city of critique. the silva spent the first full day of his twelve year sentence here at the federal police prison in could achieve a small crowd of supporters with a police 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 the 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 feature of brazilian politics for generations the president in 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. the pressure is building on the australian prime minister malcolm turnbull has failed to top an opinion poll forty thirtieth time in a row he's a year away from a general election but the latest result raises questions about his future thomas reports now from sydney back in september twenty fifth eighteen 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 had shown 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. u.s. media is 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 a meeting planned between kim jong il and president trump next month that'll be the first time a sitting u.s. president has held talks with a north korean leader the longest river in asia has become one of the world's most polluted plastic from the yangtze river is slowly killing marine life in the east china sea and beyond scott has that story 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. and 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 they pull out a lot when people try to help get the straw out of its nose littering endangered

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 when we're talking about the marine waste to the public statistics of their 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 year the repast is 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 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 to al jazeera shanghai now the shipping industry which ferries everything

from food to gadgets is one of the world's biggest polluters it has largely escaped tighter emissions regulations seen on land based transportation but that may change very soon there's no clocks. 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 sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide indeed if this 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 and 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 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 may be some way off yet but all electric ferries are even now at sea in scandinavia the future is already here more than seven hundred people have attended a memorial service in the german city of munster the victims of a vehicle attack their family members friends and emergency workers gathered at the cathedral for a special service on saturday a man drove a van into a crowd killing two people and injuring twenty others. the canadian prime minister justin trudeau was one of hundreds of people who paid tribute to an ice hockey team at a vigil in the town of humboldt fifteen people died including ten players when their team bus crashed in the province of saskatchewan the police are still trying to determine what happened i don't want to be here.

first off because. it's good that we are. friday i didn't want to go to the game but my kids begged me to go to the hockey game we travelled up and arrived at the scene shortly after the bus. and walked up to the scene and i never want to see you again. to sound or never want to hear again. to greet troops. just feel so lost and you champions being front of goals first major tournament the twenty seven year old patrick reid led from the halfway point to the u.s. masters in augusta he shot a one of the final runs seventy one to win by a shot from fellow american ricky fowler jordan speed fit eight under par and briefly shared the lead but finished two shots back in third place and in his first masters since twenty fifteen tiger woods saved his best for the last day going

three under to finish on the time for thirty seconds. welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera we are live from doha these are your headlines so far now the u.s. has denied conducting air strikes in syria after state media there reported a major air fields being hit in a missile attack it says several people were killed at the t.v. for base in homs province the airstrike came hours after the u.s. president warned of consequences over the suspected chemical attack on duma in rebel held eastern ghouta mike hanna with more. the pentagon categorically denies that the u.s. is conducting any airstrikes in syria and also in a conversation with the 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 rebel fighters have begun leaving duma as part of the russian brokered evacuation deal these are state t.v. pictures of some of the buses crossing into a government controlled area on their way to opposition held areas in the north about eight thousand jaish of islam fighters along with their families are said to be evacuated in the coming days the prime minister viktor orban has declared victory in parliamentary elections with nearly all the votes no country to his right wing anti immigrant fitters party won a third successive term in power and possibly another two thirds majority 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. u.s.

media is reporting that north korea has told american officials it is willing to discuss denuclearization of the korean peninsula the two countries have been in contact ahead of unexpected meeting between. president on shuttle for next month. the canadian prime minister justin trudeau was one of hundreds of people to pay tribute to the ice hockey team at a vigil in the town of humboldt when fifteen people died including ten players when the team bus crashed in the province of saskatchewan those are the headlines up next is the listening post i will see you soon. getting to the heart of the matter if. the supreme leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification of look like there are two people think the peace for unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story and talk to al-jazeera. americans across the country are hearing similar problems.