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other russian military blames israel for missile strikes against an airfield in syria. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a landslide victory for andres prime minister viktor orban as he went to a third consecutive term. becomes the latest former south korean president to face corruption charges plus. i do know that the people who run peace and people can see there is way more than ireland confronts a legacy of the troubles of twenty years after the end of the conflict. a military base in syria has been struck the airstrikes happened hours after news
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of a suspected chemical weapons attack in eastern guta the un security council will be meeting later on monday to discuss that attack meanwhile the rebels have begun evacuating to move which is an eastern good after a deal was reached with the government more on that in a few moments first though to this airstrike and homes russia says israel is to blame saying two of its fighter jets carried out the air strikes on that base and central syria killing several people israel has not responded to that claim but its government previously said the air base was off raided by iranian forces who backed . alongside russia. in the war serious calling the strike an israeli aggression now they tie as r t four air bases a key military location in the war in syria it's located in the middle of the country just west of palmyra and december two thousand and sixteen i saw briefly took control of thai as the same a russian syrian and pro rani and forces took it back and it became a main base for operations of iran's quds forces and february israel attacked the
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base saying it was being used to arm hezbollah say no to or has more from beirut. duma has surrendered the evacuation of up to eight thousand fighters from the racial islam rebel group now underway there leaving with about forty thousand members of their families as well as anybody else who wants to leave they've been given safe passage to go to rebel controlled areas in the north of the country it's part of a deal reached with the syrian government in exchange racial islam is to release a kept captives that they were holding for many years those prisoners arriving late on sunday to government controlled territory so duma now has surrendered just hours after a suspect in that chemical weapons attack that killed up to forty people and the surrender coinciding with reports of a strike targeting a syrian army base in the central province of homs both russia and the syrian government are blaming israel for that for that strike israel there's really
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government has not confirmed if it indeed carried out that attack but israel has targeted. installations in syria which accuses the of being either run by the iranians because for israel there is a red line and that is it doesn't want iran to entrench itself militarily in syria but what is new is russia actually pointing the finger of blame at israel because in the past it used to turn a blind eye and remain silent and it is even demanding israel demands an apology from. me demands an explanation from the israelis on why they targeted that base and the president of france and the u.s. say chemical weapons were used in syria on saturday more than forty people were killed in the attack on eastern good and near the capital damascus and security council's two to discuss that attack later on monday and run khan has more. entire families babies children adults dead the people who remained in duma thought
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they could shelter from the air strikes in the basements of buildings instead witnesses say they suffocated from a suspected chemical attack we were trying to. look when the city was hit but the. there was no longer a boost of heart and people became to refine its scare on pretty. intense air strikes by the syrian government and its allies began on saturday when this is reported barrel bombs with some sort of gas being dropped. it's reported the ambulances the hospital were hit by a strike on 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 accusations denials and calls for action has begun using language heard after last year's confirmed chemical attack on ship which killed more than eighty people the syrians and the russians call the allegations farcical and staged the russians offered to send their own experts to investigate and
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disprove the claims because. the united states called for an immediate end to the attacks and for the international community to respond it said russia was betraying its commitment to the u.n. and the chemical weapons convention president trump was more specific calling president assad an animal and a u.n. security council meeting has been cold and i mean well people say life india already difficult after weeks of intense fighting has become miserable and wrong card which is the. prime minister viktor orban has won a third consecutive term his party secured almost fifty percent of the vote and what he called a decisive victory the result paves the way for him to press ahead with hardline policies on immigration and clipping a law that would ban n.g.o.s that support new arrivals john hall reports i'm going to pass. things could hardly have gone better for prime minister viktor orban.
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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 few days 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 he promised some kind of retaliation towards the opposition parties and especially n.g.o.s i think what we'll see is our continued on these n.g.o.s especially leftwing and liberal n.g.o.s that are buried in hungary and i think that to be the first reaction after the results because they will blame these n.g.o.s for haidar now. the balance of power in
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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 right wing 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. is well powerless to do anything about it joe the whole al-jazeera depressed. over south korean president lee myung bak has been indicted on several corruption charges he's been accused of taking bribes corporate tax evasion and bessel it comes three days after a successor hey was sentenced to twenty four years in prison for corruption kathy novak has more from seoul lee myung bak was president between two thousand and
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eight and two thousand and thirteen and these corruption charges are linked to his time in office he is accused of bribery embezzlement tax evasion and abuse of power it's alleged he improperly received about ten million dollars from institutions including south korea's spy agency as well as the country's biggest conglomerate samsung he's been in detention since he was arrested last month and in that time has refused to be questioned by prosecutors but in the past he has denied the charges against him saying that his arrest was a politically motivated leak comes from the opposite side of politics to the current liberal president. in the past he has also apologized for causing concern among the south korean public he now becomes the fourth former south korean president to face trial over corruption allegations his arrest his indictment comes just days after former president park geun hay was sentenced to twenty four years
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in her corruption trial accused found guilty rather of abuse of power and bribery amongst other charges. yes me every port in that north korea has told u.s. officials it's willing to discuss the denuclearization of the korean peninsula but you countries have been in contact ahead of a planned meeting between kim jong un and next month it will be the first time a sitting u.s. president has held talks with the north korean leader supporters of jail palestinian teenager or head to me may have released footage of her being questioned by israeli military authorities and in that video two male interrogators were saying leaning towards a sixteen year old and can be heard making comments about her fair skin and eye color she was detained in december after being filmed slapping and israeli soldier near her home in the occupied west bank in march she accepted a plea deal which will see her in jail for eight months she's one of approximately three hundred fifty palestinian youth and children currently in israeli custody.
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mohammed has more from ramallah. according to supporters of the to me me and members of the free the to me means campaign this interrogation that is shown in this video took place ten days after the arrest of acted to mimi and her supporters say that this video exposes abusive tactics used against the seventeen year old in attempts to coerce her into a confession there is a point in the video in which you see these two male israeli interrogators and hear them speaking to me referring to the color of her skin and the color of her eyes we spoke at the mimi's father bassam after this press conference he said that that was entirely inappropriate and abusive behavior and the something like that should never take place her father also spoke about the fact that there was no lawyer present in that interrogation room and that that goes against international law now
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other members of her defense team and her supporters have said that this video really showcases the plight of palestinian children minors who were arrested by israeli security forces shows they say the abusive tactics that they must face when they are interrogated by israeli security forces one member of her team also said that this was the first time that he had ever seen a military interrogator involved in an interrogation of a minor not just a police interrogator he said that that was a very disturbing now her family says that they have lodged complaints with the israeli government since they obtained this video and that while they will continue to pursue it they don't expect much to happen. the chief prosecutor for the international criminal court says war crimes may have been committed during mass protests in gaza thirty people have been killed by israeli forces since the demonstrations began on march thirtieth more than two thousand have been injured
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with many suffering serious wounds from israeli gunfire the i.c.c. says hamas may also have committed crimes if it's determined civilians were used to shield military activities. still ahead on al-jazeera the reality of the shipping industry now it's figuring out new ways to clean up its act. busting hearts and minds a volunteer restaurant defies the odds to help the homeless in georgia. and imo rain is gathering for the korean peninsula and eventually for japan maybe not that obvious here but it's this massive cloud coming in behind my head is still got colder as communicants warms and more should brought up from the yellow sea or the east china sea so we got seventeen in pyongyang but the green suggests right
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it's cold enough for me to snow not far from that it will start a whole lot talks around itself goes across the sea japan very shot back east with other be i think quite stormy and whilst tokyo will be bright and probably draw to be a lot of rain on the western side and snow just catching the finals of hokkaido i suspect the sun's back up in the korean peninsula this twenty five in beijing indeed is quite woman most of china now we are gathering cloud once again a few feet up enough moisture from the sas china so you tend to produce cloud cherry one's going across the yangtze valley big showers developing not until wednesday and then not widespread by that time but they are back was to say there's a bit of a gap then running down to bottom answer it looks fine but we pick up showers in the philippines and but when you through malaysia and indonesia they're scattered not that i was heavy as they were and they're certainly developing more in the philippines and has been the case recently but figures are great flooding doesn't like much of a problem. tracing
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are watching out to zero let's recap the top stories for you now russia and syria say two israeli fighter jets carried out an air strike on a military air base and central syria several people are believed to have been killed at that high a space and homes israel has not responded as previously though said the site is controlled by iranian forces. the presidents of france and the u.s. a chemical weapons were used in an attack in syria on saturday more than forty people were killed in eastern canada it's a curate a council's through to discuss the attack later on monday. former south korean president lee myung oc has been indicted on several corruption charges he has been accused of taking pride square for tax evasion and last week his successor was sentenced to twenty four years in prison for corruption. iran's president has warned the u.s. against withdrawing from the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal saying his country's response will be stronger than imagined also rouhani was speaking at an
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event in tehran u.s. president donald trump has repeatedly said he will pull out of the deal which was agreed to by iran and major western powers including the u.s. based off of this a political commentator and professor of media it for us news agency he says the united states has changed their approach to iran since george bush's second term in two thousand and five. it's top priority shifted from regime change to containment george bush failed to rally international support for doing so only obama and hillary clinton could team up in the aftermath of post election riots in tehran two thousand and nine to enforce a set of sanctions to force the iran to contain its own nuclear industry but donald trump is not the president that could rally international support so he's using a different strategy intimidation through using the madman the strategy to seem
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unpredictable to seem like a madman and he managed to success in rallying european support to some certain levels but not with regard to iraq they have a couple of plans plan a is forcing you want to comply with the nuclear deal and agree to provide more and more concessions in other areas of its power that's a specifically it's regional influence and missile and this really this this plan has already failed plan b. which is now more in focus is forcing iran to continue to deal with europeans and also provide a smaller set of concessions in its other areas of power like missile and original powers and in return for a way the smaller package of economic merits iran that that's exactly why iran when the u.s. first warned to drop the deal like ten months ago said it would continue to deal with europeans but now it's
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a couple of months that it is stated that it would not continue the deal if the u.s. drops and kills the nuclear deal canada's prime minister has paid tribute to a junior ice hockey team at a vigil in the town fifteen people were killed including ten players when their team bus collided with a semi trailer in the province of saskatchewan on friday police are still trying to determine the cause. i don't want to be here. i prefer to be sure. it's good that we'll. friday i didn't want to go to the game i 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 you can. just sounds i never want to hear again. to greet chris. just feel so
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lost australia's prime minister is coming under more pressure to resign malcolm turnbull's party has failed to top thirty successive opinion polls and use that excuse to remove his predecessor tony abbott in two thousand and fifteen andrew thomas reports from sydney back in september twenty fifth 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 have shown that the government would lose an election to labor one held the next day. said that that was unsustainable it shows that the government at the time was on track to lose the next election it 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
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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 at 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 if they feel strongly in public has had enough of that so for now malcolm turnbull looks like. the first batch of six hundred afghan refugees to be deported from turkey has left the country ankara says the move follows a major influx of refugees crossing over from iran rights groups have criticized turkey for deporting them to countries where there is conflict saying it puts lives at risk herself former president isn't missing out on seeing his favorite football team in action despite being locked up. to silver house and home comforts now that he's in prison for corruption and money laundering. reports in the southern city.
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room of the silva spent the first full day of his twelve year sentence here at the federal police prison including. 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 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 presidents 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
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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 and brazilian politics. 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 generation president from two thousand and three to two thousand and ten and before that an opposition firebrand a new 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. families of victims in the decades long conflict in northern ireland who are still fighting to ensure their relatives get justice between the late one nine hundred
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sixty s. and one nine hundred ninety s. about thirty five hundred people were killed society was generally divided along political and religious lines with most catholics opposing british rule in northern ireland and protestants wanting it to continue a political resolution to the conflict known as the troubles was reached in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight with the signing of the good friday agreement but twenty years later the pain of those who are lost in the conflict that remains argued correspondent part of a fellow at support in the rural county a from ana. 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 all there was a little blank there knows her old they opened up on us here just. three gone and i was thirty two full of holes in which your soul like you can imagine it was like it was just after eight o'clock on a sunday morning in one thousand nine hundred seventy two richard and his brother
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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 the man overboard or either very old man or dead. what was the point but no one monitored you. know i can't ever see anybody doing home for something awful overthrust almost all of the violence of the troubles was 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 off to robin was killed so was she
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by a bomb planted by pro british paramilitaries she was buying chips on the high street but not a passing boy also killed antony is geraldine's brother he survived the ball maria his wife he's struggled not to let his last define his life put through a 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 to take this is not there for. the five things you know what i hope for the of them never have been a good to anyone and so. it's good to try to stay like that it's happened 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 fertility. fun to be phillip's al-jazeera county for mamma
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organized. the shipping industry which ferries everything from food to gadgets as one of the world's biggest polluters that's largely escaped tighter emissions but that may change soon that cork has more. 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 the shipping industry was a nation it would be the sixth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world well this week nations a 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
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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. restaurant and jordan's capital which started as an idea to help one man has transformed entire community it is so successful that it's expanding and reports on . mahmoud noble seen wanted to find a way to help the poor mobilize jordan's youth and support rural women but when he shared his ideas with others they were dismissive he decided to press on anyway he founded what he calls a social solidarity restaurant in amman offering free meals to those who can't
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afford one it's called as whitey and means my support system in arabic but that's the idea of where we can support the social fabric with. the restaurant is run solely by volunteers most are young women and college students paying customers purchase what's called an invite write a message and it's posted on this board of kindness noble see says it's intended to preserve the dignity of those getting the free meals and also make a connection. that people here treat us well there is a respect between the clients and the customers. in the last three years thousands of people have been able to enjoy good food for free especially with what's going on in jordan and syria with having to support so many refugees and that the dream is great and it's nice when you come to place and you're able to support the community and all the food is sourced locally and bought from women in
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rural areas. volunteers say they love giving back and are also learning about entrepreneurship bush says no one cares that she's a syrian refugee. lots of a problem with my nationality i work with the french companies they treated me. in that. way so i would love to be with people but they accepted me as a man as what he has been such a success it's expanding later this month the doors were open here at a second restaurant it's about an hour's drive outside of the capital in a town that's struggling the founder not only wants to keep growing across jordan but in other countries as well as as what he has thrived suit to has the surrounding area once dilapidated this is now a colorful stretch of small businesses and perhaps most importantly with people
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from diverse segments of jordanian society natasha to name al-jazeera amman. recap of your headlines right now on al-jazeera russia and syria say two israeli fighter jets carried out an air strike on a military air base and central syria several people are believed to have been killed at the taia space and ohms israel has not responded to and security council plans to meet later on monday to discuss a suspected chemical weapons attack in syria but the presidents of france and the us believe chemical weapons were used more than forty people were killed in eastern canada. syrian rebel fighters have begun leaving dumas part of a russian sponsored evacuation deal to me it was the rebels last stronghold in eastern guta as in a holder has more from beirut. of course has now surrendered to the rebel group in control of this town racialist agreeing to surrender up to eight thousand fighters
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and some forty thousand members of their families will be bussed out of duma given safe passage to rebel controlled areas in the north of the country and this followed a deal with the syrian government that also involves racial islam releasing captives prisoners of war who have arrived to government controlled territory supporters of jail palestinian teenager i had to meet me have released footage of her being questioned by israeli military authorities and in that video two male interrogators were seen leaning towards her she's sixteen years old and her making comments about her bare skin and eye color to me was detained in december after being filmed laughing in israeli soldier near her home in the occupied west bank in march she accepted a plea deal which will see her in jail for eight months former south korean president lee myung bok has been indicted on several corruption charges he's been accused of taking bribes corporate tax evasion also and it last week his predecessor was
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sentenced to twenty four years in prison for corruption the chief prosecutor at the national criminal court says war crimes may have been committed during mass protest in gaza thirty one people have been killed by israeli forces since the demonstrations began back on march thirtieth the i.c.c. says hamas may also have committed crimes if it's found civilians were used to shield a military activities those are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more news throughout the day inside story is next. oh populist as voters in hungary go to the.

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