people are saying if my government when took off to my interest then i will know for a strong narrative here if he's a fascist i don't care if he promises to secure the stability of my life and my people i will fight for him i think that's where we're heading and i don't think our new beaches have the vision to understand that's the threat that we face. in the next episode of tech note the team looks into the environmental impact of waste management trash is a big deal go for them and forth with a smelly bill goes to the complexities of recycling when these different plastics are landed together then the recycling becomes difficult to impossible and the science that offers solutions is very easy for us to have a hundred percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera.

this is al jazeera. and i'm jane dutton this is the news live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes u.s. and russia trade threats at the united nations over suspected chemical attack in syria as donald trump puts military action on the table. the f.b.i. raids the home and office of donald trump's long time a lawyer the man at the center of a hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to a porn star. mark zuckerberg admits facebook could have done more to protect user data as he apologizes to lawmakers on the eve of his congressional testimony. and under siege world heritage sites in yemen could be destroyed because of the fighting between the saudi led coalition and the women's.

we begin this news with the syrian conflict and news out of the white house about thirty minutes ago donald trump said he would make a decision shortly on how the u.s. will respond to that alleged chemical weapons attack in syria president trump was meeting with his military advisers in a closed door session when it was open to the press here is more of what he had to say we're making a decision as to what we do with respect to the horrible attack that was made near damascus and it will be met and it will be met forcefully. when i will not say because i don't like talking about timing so we're going to make a decision tonight for very short leave thereafter. and you'll be hearing the decision

but we care let atrocities like we all witnessed and you can see that this horrible we can't let that happen and that alleged chemical attack in syria was the focus of a tense meeting at the u.n. security council there was a fierce exchange between the russian and american envoys moscow warned of grave replications in the event of a u.s. strike on syria mike hanna joins us live from u.n. headquarters in new york what happened there mike well there was a plea for unity from the u.n. representative the special envoy to syria but little unity was evident during the course of the security council meeting russia gave what a cute looked like some kind of alternative narrative it insisted that the syrian government was not responsible for any chemical attack and said if there was a chemical attack then it would have been carried out by opposition forces under

the direction of american instructors the intent the best of the claimed to give some justification for a military strike on the syrian government this is what the russian ambassador had to say. you know. the would you do is to put i call for those who will speak against me slandering the regime to proceed with the premise that there was no chemical weapons attack sweden drew up a draft resolution to investigate the incident we are willing to consider this resolution today we propose to let the o.p.c. doubles fly to damascus immediately tomorrow they're the syrian or thora teasin russian troops will provide conditions to travel to the area of the alleged incident for them to familiarize themselves with the situation this is what president trump and other western leaders called upon us to undertake i mean. you heard their reference to the o.p.c. w that's the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons the russian ambassador saying that passage will be given to its members to investigate the

incidents over the weekend however whether the o.p.c. w. regards this as an independent operation and the guidance of syrian and russian forces is something that the organization will obviously be looking at in the hours and days ahead now the u.s. has proposed that a independent mechanism be set up before by the u.n. to investigate attacks by chemical weapons this would have a one year mandate the u.s. be pushing very strongly for this there may even be a vote on this issue in the course of tuesday data from ambassador nikki haley she made very clear that it's time for the security action to security council to take action or else. we are beyond showing pictures of dead babies we're beyond appeals to conscience we have reached the moment when the world must see justice done. history will record this as the moment when the security council

either discharged its duty or demonstrated its utter and complete failure to protect the people of syria either way the united states will respond to mike you can pick up the opposing viewpoint there what is needed now to move this on whatever this is well the security council's beginning closed session discussing what to do next we've heard from the present president of the security council that there is some vague agreement to allow the o.p.c. w in to investigate this this year of these events however the o.p.c. w. was already in the process of doing that so there's no real agreement among the security council members at present in terms of exactly what to do next likely another argument coming up in the course of tuesday if that u.s.

proposal is brought to the security council for vote russia in the past has vetoed similar such proposals setting up an independent mechanism to investigate chemical attacks particularly within syria so no clear light at the end of this particular tunnel the security council remains completely divided and in this division remains it appears able to act particularly in the face of the crisis that we're seeing over this weekend all right mike let's leave it there but bring in jim welsh is a senior associate at the mit security studies program he joins us now from watertown massachusetts good to see you jim welsh we are waiting on donald trump now what should he do what do you think he will do as far as syria is concerned. well what i think he will do is i think the chance of a military strike is probably pretty high certainly given his most recent words that you quoted today and even if he hadn't said anything today given that

a year ago i mean almost exactly to the day a year ago we had a use of chemical weapons the president took out what i would say took what i would say was a fairly limited strike against air bases and now we're back to back here year later. i got to believe that the president wants something bigger and more robust will that really solve the problem no but the u.s. will be taking a stance against the use of weapons of mass destruction but it's going to be hard to deter a determined assad from using these weapons he's used them thirty three times or and i should say let me correct myself chemical weapon attacks of happened thirty three times in syria and the u.n. independent investigators have said that in twenty seven of those thirty three over eighty percent of the syrian government was responsible so you know there's a track record here and i'm afraid it's going to continue. what factors will come into play when he makes up his mind and is it a good day to go to war considering he's know as offices have been raided.

well first things first you know of the considerations and i think you're right to raise that because conditions have changed since we revisited this or visited this last year the u.s. has two thousand troops on the ground in syria if the president takes out a big strike against syrian military political targets then it may very well be that those u.s. troops will be targeted themselves and are in some danger also the choice of targets you know this is something that president obama confronted if you go after a chemical agent stockpiles you know and weapons themselves you run the risk of if you blow them up or you create a plume of toxic gas it would waft over syria killing other civilians and so your target set has to be very carefully chosen because you don't want to make things actually worse than they already are but i think one of the key considerations will be those those troops u.s.

troops in syria and whether they will be vulnerable and how the u.s. plans to protect them as for timing you know i i know there's a an understandable bit of cynicism about all politics it seems to me though that the president has shown over this past year that he tends to react very strongly to photographs of children that's what drove the last intervention and we've had chemical weapon attack since then and he hasn't done anything but now again we have these dramatic photos i really think that's what's driving this and other news items in the agenda well that's good to have and i'm wondering what's in the fullness is going to take i mean you raise some of the problems you don't hit a chemical weapons make it even worse one strikes not going to do it isn't and i wonder who the u.s. can rely on here and what sort of conversation the u.s. should be have having with iran and russia. well. i mean that's a good question there are rumors that france might be willing to participate in

this there might be other european allies perhaps the british i think this the form of the strike is most likely to be cruise missiles so you know we're not going to put u.s. troops on the ground additional u.s. troops to attack people there might be some aerial bombardment but then again it's important to remember that syria has air defenses and so the safest way to enact a strike against military targets would be the use of cruise missiles and i think that's that's what they used last time that's likely to be what it is in the future in terms of a dialogue with the russians i think the most important thing will be to have a conversation just before the strike giving the russians a sense that if you have personnel at you know base x. y. or z. you've got thirty minutes to get them out of there because we're coming after that base thanks for sharing your expertise with us jim walsh as we touched on a little any of the f.b.i. has raided the home and office of donald trump's personal attorney michael cohen

has been at the center of a control the scene valving the president and a porn star f.b.i. agents seized documents relating to one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment cohen said he made to stormy daniels she claims she was paid to keep quiet about a sexual encounter she had with trump twelve years ago trump says he has no knowledge of the payment let's speak to dine he spoke in washington d.c. for more on this raid what happened talk us through a time. well jane you know it is a bombshell tonight in washington this is not only the president's personal attorney he's an advisor he's been at the president's side for more than a decade he is the attorney who says that he paid stormy daniels one hundred thirty thousand dollars she says to keep quiet about an affair that she had with the president more than a decade ago now president trump said he didn't know anything about the payment he never had an affair with with stormy daniels what was confiscated the say afternoon

in this raid were e-mails personal correspondence between the president and cohen bank documents business information tax documents all of this information that could have been related to stormy daniels what was the f.b.i. looking for was there some sort of a connection between the president maybe making a statement or coins cohen making a statement in an e-mail about stormy daniels did this payment somehow resurface in bank records that's what apparently these investigators are looking at now this wasn't heart of the mole or probe into russia however information that robert mueller uncovered during his probe he handed over to the u.s. justice department which prompted this action the say afternoon and this evening the president reacted very strongly condemning moeller and contempt condemning the justice department over this raid this afternoon and this investigation it's

a disgraceful situation it's a total witch hunt i've been saying it for a long time i've wanted to keep it down and we've given. i believe over a million pages worth of documents to the special counsel. they continue to just go forward and here we're talking about. syria we're talking about a lot of serious things with the greatest fighting force ever and i have this witch hunt constantly going on for over twelve months now. so another major distraction for this white house cohen has not said anything about this publicly but his attorney says that he is cooperating his attorney says the way that this was the way the federal agents went about this today was unwarranted and inappropriate thank you diane melanie sloan is a former federal prosecutor and she joins us now from washington d.c.

hello middle east how big is this. this is huge jane this is going to be causing all sorts of major issues in washington for the next couple of days because going to be very difficult for other things to get done what we have seen also is that donald trump is now looking again at whether the special counsel should be fired but what's really important here is the special counsel is not behind this action this was taken this this search warrant was done in this by the southern district of new york the southern district of new york u.s. attorney is the person who approved this and it looks like rod rosenstein the deputy attorney general also was involved in approving this so what happened here was it looks like bob muller this sorry go ahead just in to say what you're saying there's got nothing to do with the russian investigation but continue to ratchet us . right well it would if it appears that bob muller uncovered some information and this information was outside the russian investigation and so that

what had happened was rod rosenstein had a memo talking about what muller was supposed to do if in fact he came across criminal information beyond the central investigation that he is undertaking the russian investigation and so rosenstein looked at what muller had found and then he chose to refer it to the u.s. attorney's office with jurisdiction and that would be the southern district of new york where michael cohen's office was located and that's often is that then was responsible for this so in fact it is not the special counsel who took this action today it is in fact the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york who by the way is a trump appointee and what does it mean for these still be done ewell's if it. well i think this may started months ago apparently in march when muller's became interested in the stormy daniels issue and he apparently uncovered information my guess is it may have also new things new evidence may have come out

and then last thursday night president trump got on the news and said that he had no idea how this payment was made one hundred thirty thousand dollars that was paid to stormy daniels michael cohen was his lawyer but you'd have to ask him so there are so many questions and now it's being reported that mr cohen is being investigated for bank fraud wire fraud and campaign finance violations that would be was that one hundred thirty thousand dollars paid to stormy daniels in order to hush her up in order to help mr trump's chance of winning the presidential election this happened remember only twelve days before the election so there are a myriad potential charges michael cohen is facing and no wonder mr trump is very anxious michael cohen seems to be the person who knows everything and if mr cohen decides that he wants to save his own skin and he wants to speak about the president trump if he's going to in fact turn state's evidence against mr trump then this is very bad news indeed for the president only the president knows

exactly what michael cohen knows about his business dealings and his relationship with stormy daniels did ask you to speculate what happens now from a legal point of view in tom's company codes. well in trump's camp trump is right now apparently deciding whether or not he wants to fire the special counsel as if that would put an end to this and that is just a complete fiction that would not in any way put an end to the what's happening with michael cohen i guess he could decide to pardon michael cohen and that would certainly have some impact. that he could pardon michael cohen for any federal crimes but then there's the question of my guess is attorney general eric schneiderman who is a state prosecutor in new york the state attorney general my guess is he'll be looking at whether there are also care charges that he could level against michael cohen the president cannot pardon michael cohen for state charges only federal charges so michael cohen is facing a world of hurt and this also means that mr trump is going to need yet another

lawyer because when your lawyer is now being investigated and needs his own lawyer then you need a whole nother set of lawyers and mr trump as we've also seen has had a lot of trouble coming up with lawyers lawyers that the top lawyers in the country have been turning him down left right and center both not wanting to be tarnished by mr trump feeling like he doesn't listen to legal counsel that's why his last lawyer john dowd left and then there's also the issue of apparently he doesn't really pay his legal bills so for many reasons mr trump is currently without very much counsel melanie sloan thank you. in this case you go ahead on the news. you're not going to convince the israeli public of anything peaceful coming out of hamas how the israeli media opera training protests in gaza. getting to grips with turbulent times why military's cooperations a major talking point between cattles and mia and the u.s.

secretary of defense. and tiger woods surges up goals world rankings off to his master's performance follow have the details feel a transport. supporters of jailed palestinian teenager ahead to many have released footage of her being questioned by the israeli army in the video two men are heard making comments about the seventeen year old's fair skin and eye color to me was detained in the same bafta being filmed slapping and israeli soldier near her home in the occupied west bank has more from. it's a video that supporters of a had to be me say exposes the abusive tactics used against the palestinian teenager in an attempt to coerce her into a confession members of to me his family say the video highlights verbal harassment and intimidation by two male israeli interrogators they say one portion showing the

two men referring to me as hair color and eyes is particularly troubling and inappropriate. and i. feel that. the free the to me means campaign released the footage to the media at a news conference on monday in vermont law in the occupied west bank her father says israel decided to make an example of his seventeen year old daughter in order to discourage palestinian children from resisting the occupation. they wanted to break it to break her is the symbol she represents in front of her generation. to me was arrested in december after this video of her slapping and hitting two israeli soldiers outside of her house in the village of. went viral her younger cousin had been shot in the head by the israelis with a rubber coated steel bullets during protests against settlement expansion in the

area her case through international criticism and to me became a hero to many palestinians israeli officials have defended to mimi's arrest saying they're protecting their soldiers and stopping what they call the incitement to violence. last month to mimi agreed to a plea deal with israeli prosecutors to avoid more serious charges that could have led to her being imprisoned for years human rights defenders say what happened to me is not an isolated incident it's represents i think there's only. widespread practice and all sure to represent is a very new. target. and they target children by different means for instance by torturing them by others through them by detain them many are outraged by the video especially by the presence of one of the two interrogators i've seen i don't know hundreds of off interrogation sessions i have never seen

a military intelligence officer present in one of these interrogations simply never seen it in hundreds of interrogations if he is not he's not. he's not believed his military intelligence why was military intelligence presence there the israeli army says it's passed a complaint filed by to me is lawyer of improper conduct by the investigator to the justice ministry and it's being examined palestinian activists say that perhaps most of all i had to mimi's case has highlighted the plight of palestinian children . aid organizations say there are around three hundred palestinian minors currently being held in israeli jail and whose cases by god to me are being heard or will be heard before a military court and according to activists those miners will ultimately also have to enter into plea bargains or risk facing long term detentions how much improvement. in the occupied west bank thirty one palestinians are now confirmed

dead in gaza after these really on the open fire on demonstrations that began ten days ago gaza's health ministry says a forty five year old man was killed on monday from wounds he sustained during protests on friday tens of thousands of people to travel to the border with israel to my. a right of return for palestinian refugees more than two thousand four hundred people have been injured most of them by live ammunition from israeli army gunfire but it's with reports now from west jerusalem how the protests in israel's response are being reported by hebrew language media. most israelis get their news from television and newspapers and this is how they've seen garza's march of return a lot of focus has been on how much here there's no mention that those taking part from across section of gaza society. this leaves.

no mention in this report that most of the demonstrators were peaceful or of what has prompted this apparently you approach to protest in gaza. i think the media is reflecting that they're calling them peaceful protests the problem is you're not going to convince the israeli public of anything peaceful coming out of hamas maybe it's peaceful out of friday but saturday sunday monday tuesday wednesday and thursday it's going to be back to the hamas violence israel's mass circulation newspapers in print and online have largely maintain the government's narrative israel today uses an army quote in its headlines it says we will not allow the hamas protests to become the norm another popular newspaper get off not terror disguised and hamas up to friends against photographs of protesters in costumes only all of the newspapers only the left leaning haaretz quotes directly gars officials in its headline referring to last friday it says nine people killed

three hundred injured by live fire and it has an op-ed in that a toilet by a contribution with the headline closed heart referring to israel's close hard success the killing of gaza journalist yasser was covered by one of the main channels. in a report that carried a lot of input from other palestinian journalists. as well mr donnelly confidentiality and i thought. yeah this again is the kind of short. there. less coverage from the palestinian perspective on the renault israeli journalists in gaza a couple of hours after this report israel's military said it will investigate the deaths of people it considers civilians including photographer. al-jazeera west jerusalem. still ahead on al-jazeera independence monitors question the fairness of election victory in hungary. another former south korean

president is now facing corruption charges. and sport liverpool star most raises hopes about his fitness ahead of their champions league quarter final. hello there is pretty cold for some of us in north america at the moment the satellite picture is showing this area of cloud that's marching its way towards the east but it's not bringing us a great deal of wintery weather it's just hiding the sunshine a little bit so staying disappointingly cool and as we head through choose a winnipeg one degree is a maximum for us we normally at around ten and for toronto we've got six as our maximum normally would be around eleven so the temperatures are a long way below what they should be and then not really showing

a great sign of recovery even as we head through wednesday meanwhile towards the west more wet and windy weather is piling in here so if seattle expect it to be another soggy one if we head further south we can see the rains over some parts of mexico we're going to get going over the next few days just a few showers here and there at the moment but look at the cloud build as we had three choose day for the eastern parts we are expecting quite a bit of wet weather and that does look pretty heavy it sink this way southwards as we head through the day on wednesday we could also see some outbreaks of rain there in mexico city and the showers then get going further south stretching all the way down towards colombia that's pretty wet for some of us here for south america plenty of showers in the northern parts of i'm up i would you would expect but we're also seeing some rain in the south now too edging its way towards point as aries for wednesday. tracing the four from prosperity to financial ruin this is precisely the movement

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they get you watching al-jazeera mind of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump says he will make a decision shortly on how to respond to suspected chemical weapons attack in syria trump says all options are on the table including military action dozens are said to have died in the attack on saturday. and this was the focus of an emergency meeting at the u.n. security council there was a fiery exchange between the u.s. and russia which denies the attack took place moscow warned of grave. questions in the event of a u.s. strike on syria. and donald trump has described an f.b.i. raided the home office of his personal lawyer michael cohen as a disgrace and

a total witch hunt his words kerns been at the center of a controversy involving the president and a porn star stormy daniels claims she was paid to keep quiet about a sexual encounter she had with twelve years ago. the gulf crisis and syria's war expected to be at the top of the agenda in talks between cats as a mirror and the u.s. president but in the lead up to that meeting on tuesday the focus has been on the importance of america's military base in doha. reports from washington d.c. . it's shaped i mean been acehnese first official visit to the us since president donald trump took office his first formal meeting in the u.s. capitol was with the u.s. defense secretary james mattis expanding military corporation was near the top of their agenda or were you very close to each other especially in coping terrorism we've moved to more than

a week of your many moods. side by side in. qatar hosts the americans for what military headquarters in the middle east centcom there were date military base is typical for u.s. operations in the region we didn't get to continue working together with debility in the caribbean the caribbean or italy and that can work both the door affected by many fronts and particularly encounters coming terrorism between the united states . was countering the spread of iran malign influence in the region this is a crucial visit for qatar. for the last ten bones his country has had to deal with a blockade imposed by sandy arabia the u.a.e. behind rein and egypt. remains open for the dialogue as long as it's. there is nothing in trying to the sovereignty of the states but that as long as they are respecting the international law as mobilized they are spec and our people and

their lights this is what's up until we know what that region entire region is suffering from a lot of crises and cannot afford more because two weeks ago sounded a crown prince mohammed bin send than met the u.s. president saadi arabia and its allies say the embargo imposed on qatar won't be lifted alas doha changes is foreign policy what we have seen so far is that the crisis has brought in external actors such as russia to. turkey and iran into the region which makes it even more dangerous because the instability there. would increase if the us is perceived to lose influence and able to solve the crisis would indeed g.c.c. itself a meeting between gulf as was shuttled in the us. but is now expected to take place later this year the u.s. is trying to nara differences among its rival our allies this biggest conservative

failure to find a political solution to the quizes could further erode its standing in the region and undermine its push to defeat i still. washington d.c. iran's president has warned the us against withdrawing from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal hasan rouhani says iran's response will be quote stronger than imagined he was present on trump has repeatedly said he'll pull out of the deal which was agreed to by iran and major western powers iran is curbed its nuclear development program in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions the family of a u.s. journalist killed in syria is suing the government of president bashar al assad over her death marie colvin was working for the london based sunday times when she was killed in homs in twenty twelve ellen fishes more from washington d.c. . recall there was a well known and hugely respected foreign correspondent who spent time in conflict

zones she wore a distinctive eye patch the result of an injury when a grenade exploded while reporting in sri lanka she was killed in holmes and twenty twelve the early days of the syrian civil war no new lawsuit lodged in court in washington d.c. alleges she was deliberately targeted by senior syrian government figures the documents they were submitting into evidence illustrate that the regime really at the highest level had adopted a policy of launching joint military and intelligence operations against media workers and their sources of this included both foreign journalist syrian journalist media activist even everyday syrians that were you know recording a demonstration on their cell phone. colvin was an american citizen she was buried near where she grew up in new york state her family are behind the lawsuit foreign governments normally can be sued in u.s. civil court but there are exceptions for countries designated by the state department sponsor of terrorism syria is coming on that list her sister says she

thinks of marie every day we filed the lawsuit as soon as we could collect enough evidence to prove that rae had been targeted and i really did that one of the motivations was personal like i just talked about but i also wanted to bring attention to the suffering of the syrian people for all the pain that my family's gone through there are thousands and thousands of syrians who have suffered in the same way one of the key pieces of the lawsuit is the testimony from a former syrian intelligence agent could named ulysses who confirmed the idea of targeting colvin was discussed and agreed at the highest level among those also lodging testimony with the court former u.s. ambassador to syria robert ford it is important. to record their own judicial manner. for press of the acts the kinds of

war crimes that the syrian government committed the family is hoping there will be no hearing and the judge will simply make a recommendation for damages against the syrian state the only reaction from damascus syrian president bashar al assad one said marie colvin goat was she deserved alan fischer al-jazeera washington at least fifteen people including children have been killed in an air strike in yemen local officials say saudi led coalition planes targeted a house in the south western city of tire is the area has seen heavy fighting between saudi backed government forces and the heathy rebels they are backed by iran the international red cross has called on all sides in the yemen conflict not to show one of the country's oldest towns as a bid is a u.n. world heritage site but there are fears many of its historic buildings will be reduced to rubble and copper reports. sabots fortified walls and minarets have stood for more than a thousand d.s.

but the war during the last three years has left its mark on this concern continued fighting between the saudi led coalition and who three rebels could damage the town's archaeological sites beyond repair. some of the bombing around the city of sabot and inside the city of zab it resulted in damage of some building ceilings and walls cracks and we as a public body to preserve the historic cities cannot do anything. that was yemen's capital between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries it sits south of today's capital sana in an area largely controlled by heathy rebels it's also close to the main highway linking the port of data and the city of thais a crucial supply line where there's been some of the heaviest shelling. the town's heritage was already under threat before the war began in twenty fourteen the un's cultural agency to place it on the danger list almost twenty years ago more than

a third of its ancient buildings had been replaced by ones made of concrete and recent bombing has any made things worse a lot of. the bombing of a restaurant affected our houses they cracked and some wasn't because of the shelling. when zob it was yemen's capital seven hundred years ago the town's islamic university was known as oxford of the east a reference to one of the world's famous universities in the u.k. there's glory days are gone but conservationists don't want what's left of the ancient city to disappear completely barbara and go out to syria. gerry as president mohammed do bihari says he'll run for reelection next year the announcement ends months of speculation the seventy five year old came to power on twenty fifteen promising to be tough on security and vying to end corruption but africa's top oil producer went into recession a year later many blamed for in crude prices and attacks by rebels in the oil rich

niger delta bihari also spent five months in the u.k. last year for treatment of an undisclosed condition that led his opponents to say wasn't fit enough for the top job independent monitors are questioning the fairness of hungary's elections which saw over to obama win a third straight term as prime minister the organization for security and cooperation in europe says other candidates weren't able to compete equally with the ruling for theirs party voters had a wide range of political options but intimidating and zina phobic rhetoric media bias and opaque campaign financing constricted the space for genuine political debate. hindering voters' ability to make a fully informed choice the ability of contestants to compete on an equal basis was significantly compromised by the government's excessive spending on public

information advertisements that amplified the ruling coalition's campaign message obama's two thirds majority will allow him to press ahead with constitutional changes and hardline policies on immigration journal reports from budapest. analysts to all bone fatigue left wing activists fulton energized opposition would strike a blow to victor all bands power they were wrong maybe name starting to look i mean our country hungry is still not there where we would like it to be but it's already started to go the way that it chose for itself we are going to go together this way in victory or been declared himself the defender of traditional hungary and values a familiar theme the enemy mainly muslim refugees poised to invade despite a large fence built on hungary's southern border in defiance of brussels also those who enable the pro immigration n.g.o.s and independent media. he's changed

the constitution before. mike vick to be prepared to go now it's really on for seeable i mean i'm pretty sure that he will go against civil society organizations trying to shut them down he probably tried to limit their finances i think he will go against independent media outlets would still exist in the country and i also think that he might go against independent judiciary. there's a name for victor all bans system of government he calls it a liberal democracy it's basically the primacy of populist nationalism over individual freedoms and along with popular economic policies half the voters of this country support it those who don't are in for a troubling four years but isn't a bust choice for us because they are. every rule hungary they are didn't respect the people of hungary they think they can do anything to hungry people.

very much like these from oregon. in the sun outside hungary's impressive neoclassical parliament building on the banks of the danube a military guard is on call. instant parade where once an e.u. flag flew there are now hand banners invoking nostalgia for a lost imperial past. these are all bands innovations in a country cementing its place as a standard bearer for rightwing nationalism in europe jonah how al-jazeera budapest . former south korean president lee myung bak has been indicted on several corruption charges lee has been accused of bribery corporate tax evasion and embezzlement comes three days after his successor paquin hay was sentenced to twenty four years in prison for corruption kathy novak is in seoul with more. lee myung bak was president between two thousand and 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 in her corruption trial accused found guilty rather of abuse of power and bribery

amongst other charges at least twenty seven children were killed when the school bus skidded off a mountain road in india the crash happened in the northern states of him official pradesh initial reports suggest the driver was speeding when he lost control and the bus plunged around sixteen nieces the children were on their way home. and killed and injured on the island of malta in a bus hanging tree the open top bus. a popular nation just outside the capital. six people. in the raid to kill environmental activists on the site of an abandoned project. battled with the protests.

approaches but many of the activists. still ahead on the hype surrounding breakout star. would expect a blind school. facebook

chief executive mark zuckerberg has apologized to u.s. politicians for a prophecy breach affecting millions of users so coburg will appear before two congressional committees on tuesday and wednesday in washington d.c.

he'll answer questions about the misuse of data from up to eighty seven million users facebook is also contacting the people affected to tell them what happened and how they can protect themselves patrick lang has been following developments in washington d.c. . c.e.o. and founder of facebook mark zuckerberg has really escaped much public scrutiny in the past that is changing with this cambridge analytical scandal people just didn't realize that if their friends downloaded apps that their profile could be targeted as well and so now facebook c.e.o. is trying to get ahead of what has been growing outrage that the company's been slow to react to he's up on capitol hill meeting privately with key members of the senate and then he's going to have two days of testimony music spec to deface improved tough questions so in ahead of that they're announcing some steps that they will notify the eighty seven million users affected by the cambridge analytical gandel they're going to change how their website works that they're going to add almost five thousand new employees to work on security also saying

that they are going to follow the new european union step privacy standards that are pretty strict that they're going to apply to every facebook user across the globe in the near future and that they're going to work with foundations and academics to study exactly how social media impacts elections so basic message today in this testimony that was released ahead of his visit is that he is sorry that he should have done better the company should have done better and they will in the future still probably not be enough to keep him from getting some pretty tough questions when he sits down with members of the u.s. house and senate a so-called controlled demolition in southern denmark has gone totally out of control leaving a trail of destruction this fifty three meta silent in the city of was brought down by explosives but fell the wrong way and nobody was injured but a nearby building was extensively damaged an investigation is underway into the demolition which took six months of planning. time to get the latest on his fire.

thanks very much tiger woods his performance at the masters has seen the forty two year old move back into golf's top one hundred for the first time in three years but his display wasn't as good as patrick radio was celebrating his first masters when the twenty seven year old had led from the halfway point of augusta and shot a one under par final round the seventy one to win a single stroke from compact rickie fowler jordan speed shot an 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 in a tie for third. it's disappointing that i didn't hit the wall off. the bill just to be out here competing and if you had said that last year at this particular time i would've said you're crazy. at heart i'm just sitting or walking

. now to be able to play and compete and hit the ball away i did. and that's. quite a change from watching. manchester city boss pep guardiola says his side will need to find perfection if there have any chance of reaching the champions league semifinals the english premier league leaders will try and overturn a three male deficit on choose day when they host liverpool in the second leg of their port of final tie city had into the match coming off back to back to feet first to liverpool and then to local rivals man united to go through have to make almost. some group of chances be clinical when you could the chances concede chances in the chances are going to receive you know do so well in the old keep receiving all the conditions so you have to make goals for the game to to go through because that is all the stuff yes we did about two hundred ninety minutes. liverpool's hopes of being available for the match have been boosted after the word

took part in training on monday the egypt international picked up an injury and the reds first leg victory at anfield folly didn't play in their goal a strike against everton on saturday even though liverpool go into the game with a three nil advantage players are so focused on attacking rather than defending. it's pretty clear that you know defending a tree. is going to be a bit of a strange situation but i think we need to come in with. you want to win the game. we know we will scoring goals barcelona hold a four one lead is the travel to rome for the second leg of their quarterfinal on choose day then on wednesday barring munich host sivia with a two one advantage from the first leg of our three against juventus jamaican sprint star yohan blake has been upstaged in the men's hundred meter final the commonwealth games on the gold coast in australia is the twenty eleven world

champion in this event and was the strong favorite but he had to settle for second the county simply day one in a time of ten point zero three seconds south africa's first ever hundred meter hole . and there was a great display of sportsmanship in the women's ten thousand meters australia's three runners waited for lucy to run early on a shocker who crossed the line three and a half minutes after the rest of the field had finished the race. shohei otani has picked up his first u.s. baseball ward as the american league player of the week labeled the japanese babe ruth otani continued a remarkable start to his major league career on sunday police home and reports we go back to back story if you haven't heard the name show high autonomy then you might want to get familiar with it he dominated the highlights rails for the los angeles angels against the oakland a's on sunday the latest chapter in a building narrative down was up thank god for joe johns

the twenty three year old signed with the angels last year from japanese signed the hokkaido in nippon ham find has it followed a frenzied bidding process that he services why otani has a rare talent of being both an exceptional baton and pitcher few in baseball history of had that skill legend reply a babe ruth was one i was on sunday otani struck out twelve oakland players in his home pitching to a boo he pitched a perfect game up to the seventh inning chill it was thanks to thanks to dr phil so thank the fall of this game he hit hard runs in three straight appearances that statistic combined with a double digit strikeout has only been matched twice in the sports history lost in one nine hundred seventy three and before that by ruth in one nine hundred sixteen

the angels crowd of forty five thousand on sunday was the biggest for a regular season game in two decades a great job was thank you joe thank you to the fish tank and with his major league baseball career are only two weeks old what comes next for the show high otani will likely have the fans coming back from all elite hall. when al-jazeera. the second stage of the world's toughest foot race has been completed the marathon day south of the six day event has more than eight thousand competitors taking on a two hundred fifty kilometer course through the sahara desert rocco's rashid al more of his brothers stage one winner mohamed to claim a victory and the women's category russia's new tally said i secured her second stage when and that's all your sport for now more later so that restaurant in

jordan's capital which started a did to one man has transformed an entire community in a test again and reports from amman mahmoud 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 afford one it's called as whitey and means my support system in arabic 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 to the people who 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's a drain 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 rural areas. volunteers say they love giving back and are also learning about entrepreneurship bushra says no one cares that she's a syrian refugee. that's a problem with my nationality i work with the french companies they treated me kind of in a. way so i love to be with people they accepted me as

a man as what he has been such a success it's expanding later this month the doors will 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 from diverse segments of jordanian society natasha to name al-jazeera amman. wraps up this news but i'll be back in a moment or two with more on the day's news see you again then.

the carter center. the nativist news as it breaks this was in great a lecture about it was going to win but it was about by how much with detailed cover each the syrian civil war and the moves into the states but what is new or different is that each day some people will live until to morrow so many innocent

people will die from around the world the bats and balls are several years old the really good players should end up creating a cricket academy and maybe one day play for the next nineteen. as we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group of people that begin to think that maybe this was related to the temple fish closure on the job and investigation reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health comes we think ok we'll send waste to china but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe death by design on al-jazeera. is no one way of telling the story keeping is telling right and to be respectful best of us it was great to get to know the person for he tells .