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the u.s. and russia trade threats of the un never suspected chemical attack in syria has donald trump us military action on the table. hello i'm daryn jordan this is on jazeera live from doha also coming up china's president promises a more even playing field for foreign firms as a trade war looms with the u.s. . a peace accord in peril as a former colombian rebel leader is arrested for alleged drug trafficking. and unapologetic mark zuckerberg admits facebook could have done more to protect the person information of millions of people. but u.s. president says he will make a decision shortly on how to respond to a suspected chemical weapons attack in syria donald trump says all options are on

the table including military action a syrian aid organization says dozens died in south of his attack in the rebel held town of duma in the capital damascus the syrian government's main ally russia denies it happened one hour from our white house correspondent kimberly help. u.s. president donald trump says he wants someone to pay for the spec did chemical attack in duma on monday he convened his cabinet to discuss it it was an atrocious it jack . it was horrible when you are studying that situation extremely closely we are meeting with our military and everybody else. will be making some major decisions over the next twenty four to forty eight hours to help make those decisions seated directly behind the president and marking his first day as trumps national security advisor john bolton and chief architect of the u.s. led invasion of iraq fifteen years ago and known for his hawkish views on north

korea and iran trump is pointing a finger at iran among others for supporting the syrian government and potentially being complicit in the duma attack if it's russia if it's syria if it's a red if it's all of them together we'll figure it out and we'll know the answer is quite soon trump has even taken the rare step of directly naming russian president vladimir putin in proportioning the blame. trans threat of retaliation comes one year after launching airstrikes on a syrian air field following a chemical attack on civilians in the town of clarence she cooed and nearly a week after he said he wanted the us to get out of syria i want to bring our troops back home i want to start rebuilding our nation it's time it's time. there was no hint of that on monday as the defense secretary said the pentagon is now

considering its options he's also questioning the role the russians played in the latest attack why did the weapons still be the goal with russia with the framework going to. leave all the countries for weapons u.s. president is promising a decision within the next day on any u.s. action in syria kimberly help at al-jazeera at the white house. well the attack on tumor was the focus of an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council there was a fiery exchange between the u.s. and russia moscow's warning of grave consequences in the event of a u.s. strike on syria mike hanna reports from the u.n. despite a plea for unity in the council there was little in evidence the emergency session originally called by nine security council members and the new british ambassador summed up the majority position options are on the table we will want to evaluate based in the light of what we know we prefer to start with

a proper investigation but we will keep in touch with our very close allies to us in front from the russian ambassador though an alternative narrative his argument that any chemical attack would have been carried out by opposition groups under the direction of american advisers the intend t. claimed to justify military action against the syrian government and scathing words directed at the us ambassador across the chamber. you're misguided if you think you have friends the so-called friends of yours or only those who cannot say no to you and this is the sole criterion for friendship in your understanding the us has proposed the establishment of a un investigative mechanism with an initial one year mandate to identify perpetrators of chemical attacks and while calling for security council action the ambassador made a not so veiled threat 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. as the western allies gathered in intense conversation the possibility that in the face of ongoing security council division some members could contemplate unilateral and forceful action mike hanna al-jazeera united nations the u.s. president's described the latest federal probe into his personal attorney as disgraceful and a neverending witch hunt michael collins at the center of the controversy surrounding donald trump and a porn star danis to reports before a meeting with military advisers over syria and angry president donald trump blasted a new federal investigation into personal attorney michael cohen its interest graceful situation it's a total witch hunt i've been saying it for

a long time i've wanted to keep it down we've given. i believe over a million pages worth of documents to the special counsel the investigation into cohen stems from special prosecutor robert miller's probe into russia's meddling in the twenty six thousand presidential election moeller apparently found information about cohen that he turned over to federal prosecutors cohen has been under scrutiny for admitting that he paid adult film star stormy daniels one hundred thirty thousand dollars less than two weeks before the election daniels claims the payment was hush money over an affair with the president trump denies the affair and any knowledge of the payment but a former federal prosecutor says the documents confiscated in monday's raid could show a connection between the president and the porn star it is very unusual for a lawyer to have his office served a search warrant by the f.b.i. and that means there it happens when there's something called the crime fraud

exception so there is obviously a belief by somebody who has looked at the evidence that mr cohen and his client mr trump may have been involved in some kind of criminal activity cohen's attorney says his client is cooperating with investigators but said the decision by the u.s. attorney's office in new york to conduct their investigation using search warrants is completely inappropriate and unnecessary it resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney client communications between a lawyer and his clients the new investigation could put president trump on a collision course again with special prosecutor robert mueller who he threatened to fire last summer and who he now says the stepped over a line die in us to broke al-jazeera washington. construction has started on president trump's long promised wall on the border with mexico it's along a thirty two kilometer stretch in the state of new mexico where thousands of

migrants of attempted to enter the u.s. in the past year last week the president accuse mexico of doing nothing to stop illegal migration. china's president says he'll cut tariffs on auto imports in the latest move in a trade route with the u.s. cim ping is also promising to offer an easier business climate for foreign firms in a speech at a conference in heinen island he pledged to open china's markets even further brown as more from shanghai. president xi jinping doesn't really give many speeches to international audiences he doesn't do twitter he doesn't do facebook he doesn't do one on one interviews or indeed news conferences but he chose the. economic forum the bow economic forum on the island of hina and to deliver what is in a sense a keenly anticipated speech. we have a genuine desire to increase imports and achieve greater balance of international payments under the current atmosphere this year we will see if we can lower the import tariffs for vehicles and also reduce tariffs for some other products we work

hard to import products that are competitive and are needed by our people. significantly he said he was going to open the service sector which has been closed to foreign banks and insurance companies for a number of years he says that's not going to change he didn't mention the united states for president. but he did say that the cold war mentality was now out of fashion this was a speech i think which probably is deepening reform but was very low on specifics i think the president wanted to in a sense demonstrate that china is a rules abiding member of the global trading system and he wants the countries who are present in the audience that there are a number of asian heads of state prime ministers as well as the u.n. secretary general and the head of the i.m.f. in a sense to sign up to china's position in the current trade friction with the united states talk of a chinese military base in the south pacific is raising concern in australia the

government says it's having discussions with the chinese under thomas has more from sydney. china has had a significant presence across the small island states of the pacific for years after able to many of those countries and seen chinese workers building roads chinese money and loans place for infrastructure development and for development projects but if this were confirmed this would be the first time china has set up a military base in the pacific then we actually have one outside china anywhere in the world in djibouti so this would be a significant step there is concern in australia about the potential here because australia like to think that it has to teach it control over that part of the pacific france too has a military base in nearby new caledonia but this is a very early in the process it is some sources within the vanuatu government have spoken to this in the morning herald newspaper but it's a long way from this being

a formal decision to set up a base in the pacific ocean and all that that could lead to colombia's peace process is looking more fragile after the arrest of a former negotiator for the fog rebel group who's wanted in the u.s. on charges of drug trafficking has a son trig was about to take up one of the ten seats in parliament guaranteed to the group which became a political party after a peace accord was signed in twenty sixteen he's accused of conspiring to smuggle several tons of cocaine into the us president one man or santos says he's willing to approve centric such edition. seek real due process or equal if g. process is fulfilled and with irrefutable evidence there is a place for extradition for crimes committed after the signing of a cool my hand one shaken authorizing it subject to the supreme court well eric fans worth is the vice president of the council of the americas he says the latest development is a blow to colombia's efforts to move on from fifty years of conflict. well it's

clearly a shock and a bit of a surprise that somebody so senior would be caught up so directly in drug trafficking in direct violation of the peace accords that were signed so this is clearly a setback but i think president one will found out from colombia has that right if the charges are can be proven and are clearly shown to be not political in nature the fark doesn't have much of a leg to stand on this as i said is clearly a violation of the peace accords and so will have to be prosecuted accordingly there is still a deep mistrust of the fark and in some quarters really dismissal of the fact that they should be part of the political process and also this will give ammunition to a large segment of the population who said from the beginning you can't trust the far to uphold the peace accords that they've signed and i think president santos is really trying to maintain

a very difficult road here he's trying to maintain the momentum of the peace accords from both sides on both the implementation by the fark and also the political support of the colombian government and the people meanwhile you have an election for president of colombia will be occurring in may and this issue is clearly going to be part of that because the candidates for president are from both the left and the right and the implementation of the peace accords and how much. political space should be given to the former. violent revolutionaries is clearly going to be part of the political discussion so that's something that i think we have to watch very closely. time for a short break here now just about when we come back. you're not going to convince the israeli public of anything peaceful coming out of hamas how the israeli media are portraying protests in gaza. and on the changing face of northern ireland twenty years on the peace deal and the shots of it small enough statements.

from the blue sky the top. to the french autumn breeze in the c.t.v. looking like. hello there we still got a good deal of unsettled weather across the middle east at the moment most of the heaviest rain is in the far east in parts of i'm up through parts of afghanistan and then up towards tajikistan plenty of cloud plenty of rain and snow out of this then there's a bit of a break before you can see the next system plenty of cloud here working its way through parts of iran through iraq and down through parts of turkey as well so heavy downpours here plenty of cloud as well and that's really not moving anywhere in a great hurry even as we head through the day a wednesday that system of cloud and rain is also been affecting us across parts of the arabian peninsula recently too we seeing quite a few showers parts of saudi and we've got plenty of cloud is sticking around as we

head through chews day and wednesday in fact if anything it looks like it's thickening up again so on wednesday there's a chance we could see the old shower here in bahrain or perhaps in saudi arabia and on thursday that could be a few thunderstorms for us as well down towards the southern parts of africa and hey we've got plenty of showers a very lively ones over the eastern parts of south africa at the moment all of that pushing its way towards the north and more of an mozambique there as we head through wednesday but we could see one or two showers over parts of zimbabwe as well to the north of that plenty of showers as usual but for the south luxury dry. the weather sponsored by cats on. the scene for us when they're on line once is a very nice time in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people there to choose between buying medication and eating this is

a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here this hour u.s. president donald trump says he'll make a decision shortly how to respond to a 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 donald trump has described the f.b.i. raided the home and office of his personal lawyer michael cohen as a disgrace and a total witch hunt but 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 trump twelve years ago. and china's president says he'll qatar a song or two imports in the latest move in a trade with the u.s. sheesh him ping is also promising to offer an easier business climate for foreign firms at a speech at a business conference on highland island he pledged to open china's markets even further. facebook chief executive has apologized to u.s. politicians for a privacy breach affecting millions of users in a paper for two congressional committees on tuesday and wednesday in washington he also questions about the misuse of data for up to eighty seven million uses particle again as a story. mark zuckerberg up until now known for his laid back style his stunning college invention that made him a very young billionaire but perception of the facebook founder seems to be changing just listen to the chief economic advisor to the president as you know as

to time clean white shirt because you know that is going to get you right as my funds are last year you know do you think this is you going to behave like an adult as a major corporate leader or give me this phony baloney look what is it but he's a sound reasonable was a kind of signal you know wearing a suit instead of that trademark gray t. shirt and mobbed by reporters zuckerberg met privately with key senators monday his message he's sorry he made a mistake it won't happen again after their meeting senator bill nelson explained zuckerberg has reason to take that tone my sense is that he takes it seriously because he knows that there is going to be a hard look at regulation if it's not his site someone else can be misused for people who are trying to do us harm. and i believe he understands that regulation could be right around the corner so could big fines millions of

dollars ephemeral investigators conclude that facebook wasn't living up to a past agreement to protect privacy so now facebook is promising changes restricting who can see user data expanding new stricter privacy protections demanded by the european union to all of its users worldwide allowing research into the effects of social media on elections and increasing security staff privacy advocates say that won't be enough i think it's frankly absurd that people are soon going that the company that cause these problems is going to fix these problems this is precisely why we need democratic out ability we need public oversight for these companies zuckerberg performance on the hill could have a big impact on whether there is new oversight and accountability and whether a growing number of people continue to unfriend the site to call hane al-jazeera washington. thirty one palestinians are now confirmed dead in gaza after the israeli army opened fire on demonstrations that began ten days ago gaza's health

ministry says a forty five year old man died on monday from wounds he sustained during protests on friday tens of thousands of people have travelled to the border with israel demanding a right of return for palestinian refugees more than two thousand four hundred been injured most of them by live ammunition from israeli army gunfire. a bonus myth reports now from west jerusalem on how the protests and israel's response 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 of from a cross-section of gaza society. shallots leave. well at least you know no mention in this report the 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 and only all of the newspapers only the left leaning haaretz quotes directly gars officials in this headline referring to. as nine people killed three hundred injured by live fire. and that its contribution with the headline

closed heart referring to israel's close hard since 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 canceled the short and i thought i'm sure. there's less coverage from the palestinian perspective and there are no 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. bernard smith al-jazeera west jerusalem at least fifteen people including children have been killed in an air strike in yemen officials say saudi led coalition planes hit a house in the southwestern city of tire the area seen heavy fighting between saudi

backed government forces and the who thing 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 so be this a u.n. world heritage site but there are fears many of its historic buildings were reduced to rubble barbara 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 and there's concern continued fighting between the saudi led coalition and who three rebels could damage the town's archaeological sites beyond repair. or. some of the bombing around the city of sabot and inside the city of stab 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 when. the sabbath was yemen's capital between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries it sits south of

today's capital sana'a in an area largely controlled by heathy rebels it's also close to the main highway linking the port of her 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 a place that bet 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 sheer restaurant affected our houses they cracked and some was a month because of the shelling when zab 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 of gone but conservationists don't want what's left of the ancient city to disappear completely barbara and get out to syria. at least sixty

people are believed to have died in indonesia in the past week from drinking illegal homemade alcohol police have raided properties in and around the capital jakarta looking for those responsible for producing the link up rising alcohol prices and fill the black market for bootleg alcohol consumption in a major is not illegal even though it's the world's most populous muslim country. at least twenty seven children were killed when their school bus skidded off a mountain road in india the crash happened in the northern state of him a child pradesh initial reports suggest the driver was speeding when he lost control of the bus plunged around sixty meters the children were on their way home . and two people have been killed in the early fifty injured on the island of malta when a bus hit a low hanging tree the open top double decker bus was ferrying tourists and zurich a popular destination just outside the capital letter police say six people remain in critical condition. french police have used tear gas and stun grenades in

a dawn raid to clear out environmental activists on the site of an abandoned airport project about two and a half thousand police battle with the protesters who fought back with stones plans for the airport at not a dummy delonte in western france were abandoned in january after years of protests but many of the anti-capitalist activists refused to leave. now northern ireland seems to be a rejuvenated province tourism economy it picked up in the last twenty years since the good friday agreement brought to a region divided between many catholic irish nationalists and pro british protestants but all the two communities closer together phillips reports in the capital belfast. it's the new northern island where tourists come from across the world to take selfies in an avenue of beech trees because it features in the hit t.v. series game of thrones. once upon a time in the city about northern ireland scenery talent affordability and yes even

its divisive history make for a booming film industry. but none of this could have happened without peace says this busy location manager i've had discussions about for jobs in the last week in northern ireland significant jobs. there are huge companies coming here that you would never have dreamed twenty years ago companies though otherwise would never ever have dreamed of common to what was considered to be a war zone so it's named the change in the last twenty years as night and. the troubles the pitches grady these days but in northern ireland of places in the past ever be a foreign country central belfast is transformed nobody comes into the city fearing that they'll get caught up in a bomb attack and yet you don't have to go very far from here to see how divided this aside he still is. the first residential streets we come to

a protestant enclave surrounded by catholic streets yes people still defined neighborhoods in those terms still live behind what they call peace walls are still so fiercely tribal my guide from a party connected to protestant paramilitaries we could go back to the bad old days it would be naive to think that that could never happen. there is a certain resilience there's a real i think substantial bit of work has been done here northern ireland real progress will be it but there still is a fragility to it belfast has regenerated doc lands the titanic museum and yet northern ireland has not had a government for over a year because the feuding between the pro british d u p and the irish nationalists shin fein this politician from a moderate nationalist party worries where all this will lead us the situation we're in are the big parties are of the of the arm's length and if you like were

diagnosed drawn. it means that the political support that we need to build the prosperity justice and development and then there's bracks it some fear with the potential to inflame those issues of identity which the good friday agreement has helped contain twenty years is a long time and yet not long enough to take progress for granted to be philip's al-jazeera belfast where our circle controlled demolition in southern denmark has gone totally out of control leaving a trail of destruction this fifty three meter silo in the city of voting borg was brought down by explosives but fell the wrong way nobody was injured but in there by a building was badly damaged an investigation is underway into the demolition which took six months to plan. all the news of course on our website there were days on your screen the address down to zero dot com.

our time for a quick check of the headlines here u.s. president donald trump says he'll make a decision shortly on how to respond to a 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. 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. and when i will not say because i don't like talking about timing so we're going to make a decision tonight or very shortly thereafter. and you'll be hearing the decision but we can't lead atrocities like we all witnessed and you can see that it's horrible. we can't let that happen while the attack 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 happened moscow warned of grave consequences in the event of a u.s. strike on syria donald trump described an f.b.i. raided the home and office of his personal lawyer michael cohen as a disgrace and a total witch hunt cummings at the center of a controversy involving the president and a porn star stormy daniels says she was paid to keep quiet about a sexual encounter with trump twelve years ago china's president says he'll cut tariffs on auto imports in the latest move in a trade route with the u.s. xi jinping is also promising to offer a more level playing field for foreign firms in a speech at a conference on the island he pledged to open china's markets even further. colombia's peace process is looking more fragile after the arrest of a former negotiator for the fog rebel group who is wanted in the u.s. on charges of drug trafficking as of some trick it was about to take up a seat in parliament for the group which became a political party after

a peace deal was signed in twenty sixteen he's accused of conspiring with three others to smuggle several tons of cocaine into the u.s. . more than forty eight groups and charities are calling on south korea's president to press for human rights to be on the agenda during a summit with the north's leader kim jong il the divided countries will hold their first official talks for more than a decade on april the twenty seventh but those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the street station that's watching live. getting to the heart of the matter if. the supreme leader calls you today let's have talks would you accept realities what do you think reunification of look like there are two people think the peaceful unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea here the story on talk to how does iraq.