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u.s. president donald trump warns of action over the latest suspected chemical weapons attack in syria which russia says never happened. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera life and also coming up the daughter of a russian former double agent who was poisoned in the u.k. with her father has been released from the hospital. they arrest of a former far probably her on drug smuggling charges in colombia reignites charged divisions over the country's peace process. and two decades on from the deal which sealed peace in northern ireland serious political divisions from a. u.s. president says he'll make a decision soon on how to respond to

a suspected chemical weapons attack in syria donald trump insists all options are on the table including military action dozens of people were killed and on saturday syria's main ally russia denies that ever happened or now from our white house correspondent kimberly. u.s. president donald trump says he wants someone to pay for the suspected 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 first supporting the syrian government and potentially being complicit in the duma attack if it's russia if it's syria if it's already 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 in a syrian air field following a chemical attack on civilians in the town of clothes she cooed and nearly a week after he said he wanted the u.s. 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 also questioning the role the russians played in the latest attack why did the weapons you'll be all right to leave the framework. of the belief for the country for weapons us 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. they attack until now was the focus of an emergency meeting at the u.n. security council there were sharp exchanges between the u.s. and russia and moscow is warning of grave repercussions if there is a u.s. strike on syria like anna 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

days in the light of what we know we start with the proper investigation but we will keep in touch with. us and 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 get of the din intense conversation the possibility that in the face of ongoing security council division some members could contemplate unilateral and forceful action my kind of united nations the daughter of a russian former double agent who was poisoned in the u.k. has been released from the hospital authorities in britain say you'll scriptural and her father served a were exposed to a military grade nerve agent in the town of southbury in early march moscow has denied any involvement for saying it is the medical director at salisbury district hospital she says children and her father sergei responded well to treatment but there are different stages and their recovery we have now discharged from salzburg

district hospital yulia has asked for privacy from the media and i want to reiterate a request i also want to take this opportunity to wish her well this is not the end of her treatment but marks a significant milestone her father has also made good progress on friday and i'm still if he was no longer in a critical condition although he's recovering more slowly than you we hope that he too will be able to leave hospital in due course lawrence lee joins me live from london it's it's quite a thing that one moment you're poisoned by a nerve agent and then you're actually able to leave the hospital what else are we hearing from the hospital. it isn't it quite a thing yeah. you know the plot thickens again doesn't it i mean she didn't answer the questions a loss of her statements was about the sorts of things they've been doing to

treats yuliya and surrogates cripple she explained that nerve agents work by attaching themselves to a certain enzyme in the body which stops the nervous system from working and that then causes things like hallucinations and all sorts of other business suffering and so she said that what they did was to treat them with a number of things that allowed them to be stabilized while their bodies started to create more enzymes which could then attack the nerve agents and so get themselves better but of course what she didn't answer to your excellent point in your question is how come if this nerve agent novacek is so powerful so much more powerful other things on they date which is what everybody assumed was was going to happen that question is still absolutely left hanging and she said in the end the hughleys been discharged she'll come back and have some checkups and stuff like that her dad's going to get better too but it does leave

a lot more questions and answers in the end about what it actually was and what what level of it's where they really exposed to because we still don't know any of the answers of these things and i'm sure that there are still many questions that authorities want to point to her so where do what do we know about where she is and about what happens now. well that's the other thing of course it didn't get mentioned at all in the metropolitan police terrorism command who were in charge of this have been very silence over the last week or two about about what's going on we phoned them up this morning and said well where is she because you know you can just imagine the russians say well she's one of aus they would want a no doubt they would want to have or the russian embassy you know if they could get their hands on but equally the british want to keep her as well in the metropolitan police said quote we will not comment on protective security arrangements for personal safety reasons which can only lead you to the conclusion that she's with the british and the british will if they haven't already walter is

getting better and hospital will now be saying to a who do you think might have done this you know who did did did your father say nothing and then presumably if they haven't already in the coming days as a dad gets better as well they'll be asking him exactly the same things who might have actually done this to you whether or not either daughter or father actually say anything to us you know the public about what they think about all this and who might have done it is is a completely open question and clearly it still adds to that the general sense of confusion because the british are still saying on the balance of probabilities it must have been the russians without providing empirical evidence of that and the russians are still saying well you can't prove it with us so stop saying it and so in the end there's a lot more questions still than answers absolutely lawrence lee live for us in mind thank you. north korea's foreign minister ray young who was in russia for talks he

is meeting foreign minister sergey lavrov are expected to discuss ways to resolve the crisis over pyongyang's nuclear and missile tests other issues include a ransom nuclear program as well as trade and security in the asia pacific region. china's president has promised to open the doors even wider for foreign investment in the latest move in a trade dispute with the u.s. she's been paying to hold a conference in anon that he would cut tariffs on car imports and open up the banking sector to foreign and ownership but he didn't mention the recent us decision in his speech our china correspondent adrian brown has more from shanghai . well this city shanghai is of course emblematic of china's economic achievements during the past forty years but it was in another part of china hina an island in the south of the country where president xi jinping on tuesday announced that he wanted to deepen economic reform in china he said he wanted to improve the investment environment for foreign companies doing business here but of course

these were his first comments since the start of the current trade friction with the united states president xi jinping said china didn't want to seek a trade surplus children as young without we have a genuine desire to increase imports and achieve greater balance of international payments under the current atmosphere this year we will see how difficult it lowers the import tariffs for vehicles and also reduce tariffs for some other products we work hard to import more products that are competitive and are needed by our people these could be regarded as conciliatory words by president xi jinping but while there were plenty of promises there was very little in the way of details especially when these new policies will be enforced president xi jinping once those in the audience to sign up to china's position in its current trade standoff with the united states he wants to demonstrate that china is a rule abiding member of the international trading community and it stands for free trade and always will china analyst dan lang from the economic intelligence unit

says it wants to prevent a trade war. i think his comments are quite large and i expected actually he talk about those issues the us care about the most like reducing the trade deficit by protecting ip be honest i think at this point there's not much he can commit because so be dangerous for him to give away too much before securing and serve from the u.s. side at this point the trade war hasn't started yet or won't know if there are any specific trade measures into mid june and before then i think china's main strategy will only be react now it is in this period of public consultation on the u.s. side and still for it doesn't look like that a trade war is a horizon because so far china's response is quite proportionate it's not trying to ask and according to see speech in

a ball forum china is opening up it's going to open up more in his financial market in automobile and those are issues that china has discussed with donald trump or he visited last year still had on al-jazeera. a video reveals how the israeli military interrogated palestinian teenager ahead to me. we got the usual rash of showers across southeast asia some rather lively ones making their way from east to west since a mother whether into the philippines recently seventy two millimeters of fright twenty four as a larry a cloud just spilling out of borneo that will make its way over towards smarter over the next day or so but as we go through wednesday some very heavy rain in

place there for that western border that will make as well little further west which as we go on through thursday but some pieces of cherry never too far away from the philippines but already looking to back plenty of warm sunshine manila thirty five celsius that's the sort of temperature that we saw yesterday in sydney still very warm into the southeast of australia a little bit of cloud coming into the bite though that will introduce something of a fresher feel as we go on through this week but still getting up to thirty celsius in adelaide with that northerly wind that break feel the wind coming through this is in effect our southerly busted will sweep through thames just fall back to around twenty two celsius but notice the heat still very much on there for sydney getting up to around thirty one degrees celsius not in perth temperatures here around twenty three degrees meanwhile we've seen some rather lively rain making its way across new zealand recently that will continue to track its way further east with with the possibility of snow for the high ground.

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in response to a suspected chemical attack in syria on saturday russia's ambassador to the u.n. told the security council the attack was staged and warned of crayford percussions if the u.s. strikes syria. the daughter of a russian former double agent who was poisoned in the u.k. has been released from the hospital with a script on her father survey were exposed to a nerve agent in march that incident sparked a diplomatic crisis between the u.k. and russia. china's president has promised to open the doors for foreign investment banks says he would cut tariffs on car imports and open the banking sector to foreign ownership it's the latest move in a trade route with the u.s. . people are protesting in colombia after the president said he wouldn't hesitate to extradite a former fark negotiator who is facing drug smuggling charges. to take up the parliamentary seat which fark had been promised as part of the arrangement as a cost problems for the club back in two thousand and sixteen matheson reports.

drumbeats in bogota marking what these protesters believe could be the end of colombia's fragile peace deal supporters of the former fark negotiator known as hi sue son to say his arrest brings the shaky agreement to a halt. to the colombian people what today shows is that it's a failed peace process and with this peace process all of the fark should prepare themselves for what is coming from today on his two sentries enters a hunger strike. these cell phone pictures are said to show the arrest of cases son treece whose real name is say also come monday's he's accused of trying to smuggle several tons of cocaine into the u.s. and colombia's president says he won't hesitate to extradite some trees because he's been told there is conclusive proof of his guilt see. if g. process is fulfilled and if there is irrefutable evidence and there are grounds for

extradition for crimes committed since the signing of the accord and i will not stay my hand in authorizing that the man known as hi sue son treece who is blind has played a key role in the talks which led to the signing of the twenty six peace deal when fog wearables put down their weapons reforms as a political party and agreed to stop dealing in drugs fog members now can be prosecuted for drugs offenses committed before they go. it was signed but sundries is accused of importing the drugs to the us after the deal was done he had been expected to take up one of ten parliamentary seats which the fark party had been guaranteed. this is extremely serious because it sends a very disastrous demoralizing message that creates a lot of uncertainty it's a very bad message for the colombian people for the former combatants and for the peace that our country so badly needs so far the demonstrations have been small but

there is no real concern for the future of the peace deal which ended over fifty years of violence in colombia rob matheson al-jazeera. to say marks twenty years since the signing of the good friday agreement which ended more than three decades of conflict in northern ireland they are just part of the united kingdom. but serious political divisions have been sharpened since the decision to leave the european union barnaby philip supports and 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 of northern ireland scenery talent affordability and yes even its divisive history make for a blooming 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 and that you would never have dreamed twenty years ago companies the otherwise would never ever have dreamed of what was considered to be a war zone so it's not the change in the last twenty years as night and. the troubles the pitches look great days but in northern ireland of places. can 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 so there is a certain resilience there's a real i think substantial bit of work has been done here in 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 of feuding between the pro british do you and the irish nationalists shin fein this politician or from a moderate nationalist party worries where all this will lead us the situation where a the big parties are of the of the arm's length and if you like with diagnosed draw. it means that the political support that we need to build the prosperity justice and available and then those bricks 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 phillip's al-jazeera belfast. the gulf crisis in serious war expected to feature in talks of playing qatar samir 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 and to ha. our reports from washington d.c. . is shaped i mean been authorities first official visit to the u.s. since president donald trump took office his first formal meeting in the u.s. capital was with the u.s. defense secretary james mattis expanding military cooperation was near the top of their agenda or were you very close to going to a specialty coffee fairs and we've moved to more than a week if you or many meet side by side. qatar

hosts the americans forward military headquarters in the middle east centcom their date military base is give a toll for u.s. operations in the region we can get you working together with debility in the caribbean the caribbean or italy and that can work both good or effected by many fronts and particularly one coming coming terrorism between the united states. was becoming the spread of iran aligned influence in the region this is a crucial visit for qatar's him in for the last ten bones his country has had to deal with a blockade imposed by saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind rein and egypt. remains open for the dialogue as long as it's. there is nothing confined to the sovereignty of the states but that as long as they are respecting the international law has mobilized the office specter and our people

and their whites 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 sound principle had been sent and met the u.s. . saudi arabia. say the embargo imposed. won't be lifted alas though changes its foreign policy what we have seen so far is that the crisis has brought in external actors such as russia 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 which indeed g.c.c. itself the meeting between gulf is was shuttled in the u.s. for next month but it's now expected to take place later this year the u.s. is trying to not have differences among its rival biggest concerns that

a 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. the chief prosecutor at the international criminal court says she should be allowed to bring a case against me and maher for forcing. muslims to flee or the six hundred seventy thousand right hand to have crossed into bengal there since me and maurice the military launched a crackdown in august the un has called it a textbook case of ethnic cleansing but to. request for a ruling on whether she has jurisdiction has been prompted by what she calls exceptional circumstances. thousands of passengers are stranded at roman airports as workers from the country's biggest showing in on strike over pay airline says canceling for the eight hundred flights the union there is a once a six percent pay rise for public sector employees the strike is also affecting nurseries rubbish collection and swimming pools and again has more from berlin.

here in berlin several hundred fifty workers have come to be free to start this nation not very far distance from the federal parliament to demonstrate there is a. well the reason why they're striking today they want to have a six percent paying crease across the board for the two million very workers at least two hundred euros more for each worker and they are determined to strike today to show their resolve the point to make is that this strike is patchy across the country here in the federal capital not that many services have been affected elsewhere it's a very different situation in germany's most populous state of north rhine-westphalia public transport has been very badly affected particularly the sector the national airline lufthansa which operates its international flights from frankfurt and from munich has had to say to cancel many hundred flights perhaps eight hundred flights

canceled by live transit and tens of thousands maybe even more than one hundred thousand passengers having their flight journeys effected badly by this strike the point to make is the very says this is the only action it can really take to demonstrate how important it is with their members of the workforce has a sense that things are being done and let's be clear that two million people work through so this is not an insignificant in consequential union the question will be what sort of effect this industrial industrial action will have in trying to see their demands mess the day has been set for malaysia's early elections voters will head to the polls on may ninth and in that scene is a big test for prime minister announcing a profit he's been under intense political pressure because of corruption allegations which he rejects the now faces a challenge from his former mentor james ruling national front coalition has been in power for more than sixty years that support has eroded in the past two elections former prime minister mahathir mohamad was criticized for authoritarian

rule during his twenty two years in charge is are trying to politics and start a new party after main angered by the corruption scandal my tears opposition alliance is already claiming unfairness holding the vote on a week day as. to see lower turnout and also electoral boundaries have been redrawn in the ruling party's favor on tuesday the opposition was banned from campaigning for thirty days only fifteen million people are expected to cast their votes on may ninth ward slowly. and southern malaysia. norrish ambon nama used to be very certain about which political party he supports not anymore the businessman who lives in the southern georgia state says it's getting harder to make a decent living the price of making goods the brize of making the resource is no longer that that labor is. and then because of making money this is higher but the cost of living becomes higher. malaysia's economy grew by five point

nine percent last year but rising living costs has become a concern for many people who have returned to the ruling party in every single election but in the past couple of years the opposition coalition has been gaining steady support to the ruling bars our national coalition has been in power since independence more than sixty years ago but lost the popular vote for the first time in two thousand and thirteen since then the prime minister has been caught up in a corruption scandal surrounding malaysia's state investment fund known as one m d b more than four and a half billion dollars has allegedly been misappropriated from the fund set up by not malaysian police and the attorney general have so far not found any evidence of wrongdoing but not been his allies are said to be facing the strongest challenge former prime minister mahathir mohamad is leading the opposition coalition's bid the ninety two year old veteran politician fell out with not over one empty and has

returned to politics to try to oust him but political analysts say on seating the incumbent will be tough the ruling party here you know have been in power for so long and they've got a must of managing the go but this and also working with the rules so that it helps them. in the last few weeks the government redrew the electro boundaries in a way opponents say gives it an unfair advantage there's also a new law to ban so-called fake news which critics say is an attempt to stifle dissent more recently there is opposition party has been ordered to do thirty days because of missing paperwork florence louis al-jazeera. state malaysia. quick recap now in the headlines u.s.

president donald trump. says all options are on the table including military action in response to a suspected chemical attack in syria on saturday russia's ambassador to the un told the security council the attack was staged and warned of grave repercussions at the u.s. strikes syria the daughter of a russian former double agent who was poisoned in the u.k. has been released from the hospital cripple and her father sergey were exposed to a nerve agent and march and that and so that sparked it to the whole matter crisis between the u.k. and russia the colombian government's peace agreement with dark rebels is looking more fragile after the arrest of one of the group's leaders on drug trafficking charges trace was arrested following a request from the u.s. is accused of conspiring to smuggle ten tons of cocaine into the u.s. colombia's president says he's willing to approve the extradition. we'll do. equal if g. process is fulfilled and with irrefutable evidence there is a place for extradition for crimes committed after the signing of

a cooling my hand one show you can authorizing it subject to the supreme court malaysia's general election has been set for may ninth the prime minister. ruling coalition has been in power for more than sixty years but initiave has been accused of corruption corruption which he denies it faces on opposition alliance led by the former prime minister mahathir mohamad. those are the headlines to keep it here on al-jazeera much more news throughout the day rebel education is next. in australia more indigenous children are being taken from their families than ever before. when east investigates where their history is repeating itself. on al-jazeera. education. the universal rights to expand. the post to about tonight.