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this is al jazeera. hello i'm sam is a dan this is the news hour live from dog coming up in the next sixty minutes u.s. president promises a forceful response to a suspected chemical weapons attack in syria russia says it never happened. the daughter of a russian form a double agent who was poisoned in the u.k. on with their father has been released from hospital. former fog rebel leader is arrested on drug smuggling charges in colombia raising concern about the country's peace process. will be decided late said this choose to liverpool hoping egyptians strike a most sala is fit enough to take on manchester city in their quarter final.

u.s. president says he'll make a decision soon on how to respond to a suspected chemical weapons attack in syria don trump insists all options are on the table including military action dozens of people were killed in do more on saturday syria's main ally russia denies it ever happened more from our white house correspondent kimberly how could. the 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 attack 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 days 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 were supporting the syrian government 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. no the answer is quite sure 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 qana 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. they're going. to go with russia with the framework. of the forward country for weapons u.s. president is promising a decision within the next day on any u.s. action in syria kimberly health at al-jazeera at the white house. how the attack on duma was the focus of an emergency meeting at the u.n. security council there was sharp exchanges between the u.s. and russia moscow is warning of grave repercussions if there's a stray u.s. strike on syria mike hanna reports from the united nations. 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 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 or french president emmanuel micron's spoke with donald trump again on monday evening both leaders agreed a firm response was needed fact france says it will retaliate against syria if it's

confirmed that president bashar al assad's regime was behind that suspected gas attack and joining us now from paris is france wise bird he's the chairman of the international institute for strategic studies and a former presidential advisor on national security issues to nicolas sarkozy and francois hollande good to have you with us so looking at micron statement of retaliation what kind of options do you think he's considering right now. i think women really has a central option joint operation with the united states of america possibly with the world in which case i would expect the french military component to be essential born with maybe also some missiles launched from the craft. but if there were for some reason lower greenman on the american side to do joint

strike front. digs acute a strike of their own to do relevant. close enough to the theater of operations the u.s. launch strikes in syria last year here we are a year later the regime in syria stands accused once again of gassing civilians would any strike this time be actually designed to stop the regime from carrying out gas attacks. well given the location that is right next to damascus and given. a fact that a number of specialist syrian military units are based in the capital with chemical capabilities. these would be the logical target set and of course this is a rather different from what happened last year which was comparatively. out in the sticks. whereas here you would really have to ask the question where is bashar al

assad going to spend the next few nights the very many reports of chemical attacks why do you think the world powers are keen to react this time. it happened practically in the same place in two thousand and thirteen in two thousand and thirteen the syrian regime escaped military operations and they were committed via the security council to getting rid of one hundred percent of their chemical capabilities they have not done so and you know as it were the. revisit the scene of the crime that usually draws more of a response than something which happens. a in an out of the way place more limited circumstances but is part of the motive for most of my

compacts also designed to show that himself in a global leadership role. i think with them our core has as its first concern the fact that he has drawn a red line a last year on this issue and if he doesn't abide by ozone red line his credibility would be hurt much as president obama as was hurt in two thousand and thirteen. that's the first consideration in the second consideration which is often forgotten is that france for historical in legal reasons considers that it has a special role when it comes to come accord weapons issues the first military use of chemical weapons happened on french territory exactly a hundred years ago during the first world war five thousand of our soldiers were killed on april twenty second. two thousand. in one thousand nine hundred

fifteen. and france has been the guardian of the treaties which prohibit the use and possession of chemical weapons that is also part of the story and of course is going to washington in fifteen days time and that is also an incentive to work with the americans a lot of things to watch out for them thanks so much for your analysis on that one swat iceberg. of plenty more still ahead on the news hour including the mentor versus the project managers prime minister faces an unprecedented challenge in next month's election. china's president sends a veiled message to the u.s. in the latest move to prevent a possible trade war and its board we'll hear from the new masters champion who's enjoying the view from the top of the gulf in walls.

a daughter of a russian former double agent who poisoned who was poisoned rather in the u.k. has been released from hospital the authorities in britain say usually a script pala and their father surrogate were exposed to a military grade nerve agent in the town of sols for in early march moscow denies any involvement christine blind child is the medical director at salisbury district hospital she says union her father surrogate responded well to treatment but they're at different stages in recovery we have now discharged from salisbury district hospital yulia has asked for privacy from the media and i want to reiterate her request i also want to take this opportunity to wish her well this is not the end of her treatment that marks a significant milestone her father has also made good progress on

friday i announced that he was no longer in a critical condition although he's recovering more slowly at the new year we hope that he too will be able to leave hospital in due course because lawrence lee now he joins us live from london so what condition is usually in now that she's out. well i think i think you can only assume sammy that if if not entirely better then vastly improved they don't discharge people for most people in this country unless unless they are genuinely satisfied that they're going to be ok and it's absolutely extraordinary isn't it just over a month since she and surrogates crippleware both poisoned with something that was widely described as being enormously potent and it was just assumed by everybody that they were both going to die and so you know here you have the hospital saying well we gave him these treatments the nerve agent attaches itself to enzymes and then we had to give them treatments so the enzymes could rebuild themselves and and

we decontaminated them and did all these things about responding well but but of course it just leaves hanging in the air this enormous question how come nobody shocks so powerful and yet they're both going to get better. and her father because she is the hospital director is not her place to answer these very very difficult questions but nobody else is onstream the question either what about surrogate or you know if he's conscious what sort of condition he's in well he's not critical anymore new soon based on that he's i mean she said they're in different stages of recovery. obviously was well enough at some point of the last few days to make a phone call to a cousin which got recorded and then played on russian television and so if you assume that sergei is on the same sort of should directory as you then he'll he'll be getting better perhaps more slowly but but broadly at the same rates and of course then he'll presumably be secret is out of hospital in the same way that she was yesterday without anybody knowing under the protection of the police who of

course we will him to know exactly what he thinks or who he thinks we did this to him and his daughter is a bit of controversy over uli is location right now isn't she helping investigations what we know about that. well yeah of course i mean you know she's been a hospital for a while now conscious and if if they haven't been asking her who might have done this to you then you can guarantee that they are now given that she's out but of course the question is where is she and who's got control and access to her we asked the metropolitan police terrorism unit they said we will not comment on protective security arrangements for personal safety reasons so that means the british are gotter she's probably in a safe house somewhere and they will be asking what what she knows equally they will with surrogate in the fullness of time the russians of course hates all this because they regard. as one of their as a pair of their eyes even if surrogate was actually a british boy. and they're obviously infuriated they put on twitter short time ago

listen to this we congratulate you on your script on her recovery yes we need urgent proof that what is being done to her is done on her own free will which is enormously provocative clearly being done to implies it should not be sort of locked up in a house somewhere the needle stab into her arms or something and it's her own free will and so is this. because the british aren't saying what's being done the russians are trying to create this idea that this something sinister going on being done to her rather than with her consent interesting lansley updating us there china's president is offering possible concessions to the u.s. in hopes of defusing a trade dispute with washington after president donald trump impose new tariffs on imported steel and alum indium our john a 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 significantly lower the import tariffs for vehicles and also reduce tariffs for some other products we will 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 wants 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. voters in malaysia will head to the polls on may the ninth an election seen as a big test for prime minister najib razak he's been under severe political pressure because of corruption allegations which he rejects now faces a challenge from his former mentor the jeeves ruling national front coalition has been in power for more than sixty years and supporters eroded over the past two elections former prime minister mahathir mohamad who criticized was criticized for his all for tarion allegedly author a tarion rule in his twenty two years in charge is now returned to politics with a new party but now had his opposition of minds is criticizing the vote saying electro boundaries of been redrawn in the ruling party's favor and on thursday the

opposition was banned from campaigning for thirty days prime minister najib dissolved parliament last week nearly fifteen million malaysians are expected to vote florence lowy as more from water in southern malaysia. norrish ambon am i used to be very certain about which political party he supports not any more the businessman who lives in the southern shore state says it's getting harder to make a decent living the price of making goods the price of making the recess is no longer that never was. and then the cost of making money this is how you are 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 to every single election but in the past couple of years the opposition coalition has been gaining steady support the ruling bars a 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 job and 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 unseating the incumbent will be tough the ruling party here you know have been in power for so long and this kind of must of managing the goal but they also working with

the rules so that it helps in a way when it's needed 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 mahathir is opposition party has been ordered to thirty days because of missing paperwork florence louis al-jazeera johor state malaysia the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court says she should be allowed to bring a case against me and forcing wrangle muslims to flee more than six hundred seventy thousand during a half. crossed into bangladesh since me and miles military launched a crackdown in august the un is called it a textbook case of ethnic cleansing photo been sudha says her arrest for a ruling on whether she has jurisdiction was prompted by what she calls exceptional circumstances more than fifty seven thousand people in eastern democratic republic

of congo fled to uganda since december according to the u.n. most of the refugees are fleeing due to attacks on villages by militias in the northeastern province of the truly second closer look at the humanitarian crisis then in the d.r. see over thirteen million people need help that's twice as many as last year and more than seven million face severe food shortages more than half of them children the political situation of the country is unclear president joseph kabila is still in office even though his term officially ended december two thousand and sixteen and his government has repeatedly perspire own presidential elections al-jazeera as malcolm webber is retracing the journey of the refugees he's travelled from uganda's capital kampala to the chance refugee camp from where he now joins us so malcolm will call the sort of conditions are people facing there in the camp where you are. the people here lined up waiting there they've

just arrived within the last few days having made a fairly difficult journey covering long distance on foot and also travelling across the nearby lake albert by boat to get to here right now they're waiting to get a few items from u.n. workers and manage their own workers from plastic sheets and a few other utensils out of which they'll go and build themselves a small shelter on a plot of land that they'll be given near here those conditions are very basic indeed every living under these plastic sheets for many weeks ahead until they can build some kind of heart so more substantial shelter but everyone here says that this is better than the conditions that they've come from and the journey itself has been just saying is that it is also quite risky lake albert where people have to cross on posts that comes along the border with uganda and the democratic republic of congo it's very prone to storms the boats tend to be overloaded boats in the last few weeks have capsized of course is

a very very high risk of people drowning erikson all able to swim or if they're not near the shoreline or if they don't have a light jacket when the boat hit so people have come from a bad situation to a slightly better when everyone here says least they're glad to be here in the u.n. says that more than seventy thousand arrived here in western uganda since the beginning of january fleeing conflict over the border in the democratic republic of congo and when you talk to people there malcolm what sort of stories are you hearing about the conditions that prompted them to flee home. everyone talks about similar things happening in their villages they say militias belonging to the. lendu ethnic group and there's militias attack people killed people some people have been cut with machetes other people have been shot hart says but the civilian population soon as this starts happening flees a lot of their wares they don't really know the reason why this has been happening

in the last few months and many people are skeptical that people in the government in kinshasa are behind it because they want to create a situation which is not possible to hold the already delayed election as he said but that's something the government's always denied that opposition and activists have been skeptical over the last couple of years regarding not just this conflict but a number of other conflicts in different parts of the democratic republic of congo and in any case. a lot of the people in the international community are involved saying that the postponement of the election is going to cause instability whether that's on the rest from people who are not happy about the election not going ahead or anti government militias taking up arms or even as many people here believe the government itself stoking those conflicts to make the election not possible but many people here say they don't have any intention of going back north until there's been an election and a peaceful outcome of a. refugee camp malcolm won't. people are protesting

in colombia after the president said he wouldn't hesitate to extradite a former fark negotiate those facing drug smuggling charges he says sandra's was due to take up a parliamentary seat which fark had been promised as part of that arrangement his arrest could cause problems for the colombian peace deal signed back in two thousand and sixteen rob 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 but 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 these two centuries enters a hunger strike. these cell phone pictures are said to show the arrest of places son treece whose real name is say also hernandez is accused of trying to smuggle

several tons of cocaine into the u.s. and colombia's president says he won't hesitate to extradite sentries because he's been told there is conclusive proof of his guilt see when they were processed if g. process is fulfilled and if there is irrefutable evidence 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 high so son treece who is blind has played a key role in the talks which led to the signing of the twenty sixth peace deal when fark wearables put down their weapons reformed as a political party and agreed to stop dealing in drugs park members now can't be prosecuted for drugs offenses committed before the agreement was signed but sun treece 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. guarantee. you know 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 now real concern for the future of the peace deal which ended over fifty years of violence in colombia rob matheson al-jazeera. and there are few moments we'll have all the way over with our return but still ahead here now just zero two decades on from the deal was sealed peace in northern ireland serious political divisions remain. a public grilling for facebook's chief over the failure to protect the first nearly nine hundred million users. in sport to more teens book their playoff spots and basketball's biggest li.

from brisk noise and fuel. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. we still have some really nasty weather making its way across fiji in the form of a tropical side clone caney that's the system still pretty well organized to see just running over the million dollars loss of heavy rain coming in behind the head actually hundred twenty nine millimeters of rain here twenty four hours and we could see a similar total over the next twenty four hours or so so that's the center of the storm just to the south of the main islands still packing winds around one hundred thirty kilometers per hour gusts around one hundred sixty kilometers per hour and it may still intensify further as we go on through the next twelve hours or so then they will start to weaken as it drifts further southwards into the cooler waters and begins to fall apart somewhat but still a lot of very heavy rain and damaging winds coming through those winds requirements

to a category one hurricane and it may well pop up further as i said this was the same earlier as the system made its way across the far north of the of the main island there you can see some very very very heavy rain and also some damaging winds as we go on through the next twenty four hours or so will continue to drift its weight just to the south of town or clearer skies eventually do come back in behind as we go on into thirty six things started to quieten down but still some very heavy rain making its way towards samoa. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. in the next episode of techno team looks into the environmental impact of waste management trash is a big business and for some of the smelly business to the complexities of recycling with different plastics and landed together then the recycling becomes difficult to impossible and the science that often solution is very easy for us to have one

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you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now u.s. president dog trump says all options are on the table including military action in response to a suspected chemical attack in syria on saturday britain's prime minister and france's president of echoed similar sentiments saying assets government and its backers including russia must be held accountable. daughter of a russian former agent who was poisoned in the u.k. is being released from hospital. her father surrogate were exposed to a nerve agent in march the incident sponsored diplomatic crisis between the u.k. and russia. china's president has promised to open the doors of foreign investment xi jinping said it cut tariffs on car imports and open the banking sector to foreign ownership it's the latest move in a trade dispute with the us. the united nations says more than one hundred thirty thousand people have fled syria's eastern alter in the last four weeks

officials describe the situation as spiraling aid workers are concerned forty five thousand people are now living in a shelter in the massacres countryside and others are in overcrowded camps nearby after screening by government authorities. so in the whole the joins us now live from beirut so from some of the stats i read out there it sounds like people are heading into almost nothing is there no preparation for these hundred thirty thousand people who have been evacuated. you know the united nations is worried about their well being these people used to live in what was the rebel controlled enclave of eastern who turned these suburbs of damascus the pro-government alliance launched a military offensive on february the eighteenth and since then tens of thousands of people have fled tens of thousands moved into government controlled territories there are government run shelters but the united nations there's not have access to

all of those people and up to fifty thousand people have been bussed out of the eastern enclave taken to the north of the country the rebel controlled north and fifty thousand more will be bussed out of duma so you're talking about one hundred thousand people arriving in the rebel controlled regions in the north of the country either the province of idlib or in areas under the control of turkey backed rebels one hundred thousand people many of them to not have anything they don't have any money to rent apartments so they're you know attempts are being built for these people and they left behind their lives and their livelihoods really and live is not a safe place that comes under constant bombardment even refugee camps have been a blow bargeman to the united nations calls the world's biggest displacement camp so more than one hundred thousand people fled. all right zain thanks for that

talks of being held across libya as part of efforts to resolve the recent conflict u.n. officials hope dialogue will help usher in presidential and parliamentary elections by the end of the year. has more from tripoli. these meetings are supposed to be held in civil libyan cities and will gather all categories of the libyan society especially those who have not got a chance to take part in the libyan current political landscape an amateur who had been more tomorrow i'm optimistic about this conference hopefully we will have a reconciliation in place and then we can return to the good old days we are one nation after all libyan of course all had been occupied with and with and we hope these talks will achieve reconciliation between tribes and cities so that we can be one hand in one state one government and one people other than the veto are all the stakeholders should be one woman they should speak openly to each other that's the

way it should always have been also the meetings will gather former rebels those who support the arena gaijin that of the heftier minorities miss ability heads even those who support the former regime of them and will get death and the aim of all these meetings is to come up with a solution to the libyan crisis after gathering as many opinions as possible. when it comes to libya's politics its security and its economy one word sums it all up fragmented in the to mulches years following the death of above in two thousand and eleven two separate controlling bodies emerged. as head of the government of national accord in tripoli it controls much of the west of the country the un says this is the official government of libya but there's another parliament further along the coast to the east the city of tal broke its speaker is

after all a solid it's known as the house of representatives it's also has the support from another player renegade general hurley for half that he leads large parts of the libyan national army which also holds a lot of eastern libya importantly house there also controls these four oil ports libya gets ninety seven percent of its income from oil and a lot of it flows through these ports both governments have also have the backing of individual armed factions parts of the south of libya are split between the two governments have to and supporters of the former qaddafi regime christopher thornton is the manager of the libya program with the center for humanitarian dialogue joins us now from geneva good to have you with us so this dialogue initiative has been going on for a while is it making progress thank you very we're actually very optimistic about the progress that's been made so far in fact the process was

launched last week with events newswire and benghazi and so far we've held events in over six locations throughout the country with more than fifteen more planned in the coming weeks what sort of concerns are coming out at the grassroots level now when you're having these town halls. the majority of people in libya want what all of us want they want public services they want security they want stability they want prosperity and economic opportunities and basically they want to better future for their children and once. is this initiative actually able to deal with people's grievances like the ones you've mentioned. selami has been very very clear that this priest taking this process very very seriously and that the outcomes of this process will help inform both domestic and international policy viz a viz libya so really we see this is

a sort of bottom up process to find the resolution a sustainable resolution to the crisis in the country you've got many parties to the conflict taking part in this dialogue initiative and i'm wondering what that goal is do you think this could lead to the creation of conditions for peace. i think one of the most important things about this process is that it allows people the opportunity to be heard so many people who are participating in this process have never been heard before meetings are taking place in the deep south of the country meetings are taking place in cities and on the mountain region throughout the eastern part of part of the country so people really feel that they are being listened to that they're being given the opportunity to participate in the search for a solution and i think that that's the first time people have really felt that they are being consulted and the people that the international community in the united nations in particular is coming to them to listen to their concerns and also listen

to their solutions their proposal lucian's the crisis all right thanks for joining us there. tuesday marks twenty years since the signing of the good friday agreement which ended more than three decades of conflict in northern ireland in many ways the country seems rejuvenated to resume in film production of help to bring the divided communities together but this may be under threat as britain has to leave the european union on the phillips reports from 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 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 and that you would never have dreamed twenty years ago companies the otherwise would never ever dream to come into 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 define 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 esmie 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 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 development and then there's brics it some fair 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. phillips is in belfast and joins us now live from there so how people reflecting on the anniversary. i think with mixed emotion sunny i think there's obviously great satisfaction that for twenty years there's been a sharp demand you ition decrease in political violence and that's invaluable but of course it's rather ironic and sad that the anniversary comes at a time as i was saying in my report that there isn't a devolved government here there's been a breakdown between the two parties that represent the two communities but let's get more reflections on this from my guest ben larry who is a deputy editor of the newsletter a newspaper which has a mainly unionist that is pro british readership here then a jew you think my analysis is is correct peace is still

a work in progress well it's very peaceful here but i think that your analysis is correct is that there's a stalemate and it's a sad thing on the twentieth anniversary of a huge political agreement i mean think of the names that we have coming in today president clinton and tony blair and senator mitchell so there's definitely a political stalemate but northern ireland itself is very prosperous nor its really a very good place to live at the same time as this political stalemate there's very little political violence and that's a good way of looking at it in my report ben we were seeing some neighborhoods on the edge of belfast which are to an outsider i think still shockingly sectarian in day to day life are protestants and catholics interacting more than they were twenty years ago well the funny thing is you could probably say yes to that in that if you go to a bustling bars in the city center and this is a popular place to be for people to come for a weekend breaks yes they are but one of the paradoxes of the agreement one of the

criticisms of the agreement of twenty years ago is that it enhanced the divisions by recognizing the divisions and by making sure that everybody had a place and that you could say that it is enhanced the divisions the other thing that i would say about the divisions is that. when you look around the western world let alone other parts of the world look at the divisions in america between trump and opponents look at the divisions and fronts look at the divisions between briggs appears and remainders the divisions between corben and on and on people on the political right so inevitably a place like this that ties centuries of division for centuries of very significant division there are going to be problems at this time internationally throwing it forward breck's it what does it mean for northern ireland i think that the single biggest imponderable the single biggest uncertainty the thing that has thrown everything in the air is breaks out i think even a lot of unionists who supported bragg's

a tear didn't actually think it was going to happen and one of the reasons that we have the stalemate is that nationalists irish nationalists and republicans the people who want us to no longer be in the u.k. . perhaps see the and game they if they can convince enough of the political center grunty here that our future is not with the united kingdom but to unite with the republic of ireland and stay in the european union then unionism where the unionist papers he said is in deep trouble ben-ari reflections from belfast we'll have more throughout the day sami back to you and thanks so much barbie now this crazed fall and a witch hunt that's how dogs describe the raid by federal investigators on his personal lawyers home and office why call cohen is at the center of a control with the surrounding trump an appalling graphic film actress diane easterbrook reports before a meeting with military advisors over syria and angry president donald trump

blasted a new federal investigation into personal attorney michael cohen it's a disgraceful situation it's a total which out there 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 pornstar 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 facebook's chief executive has

apologized to u.s. politicians for a privacy breach affecting millions of uses zuck above will appear before two congressional committees over the next two days in washington d.c. . i think ohio has mall. 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 adviser to the president as you know as to time to 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 reasoning was that kind of save yourself 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. stands 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

assuming that the company that cause these problems is going to fix these problems this is precisely why we need democratic how to believe 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. al-jazeera washington well still ahead on al-jazeera and. had to face romo with a place in the champions league semifinals andy's here with that story.

highs catch up with some false news with andy thank you so much sammy well barcelona and little polar in pole position ahead of their champions league quarter final games barcelona serrano with a four one lead while liverpool fans are hoping strike and wins his rights to be fit for the match against manchester city paid to stand that reports. liverpool find themselves in an excellent position ahead of a quarter final second leg champions league match against mentions the city they lead three nil off to the first leg and star striker mohamed salah has been back in training ahead of the match he left the field injured in the first leg to emphasize how important the egyptian is to liverpool's calls he has made at thirty eight goals in all competitions the season but the reeds cannot rely just on one player if they hope to progress to the semifinals. it's pretty clear that you know defending a tree no leave here this is going to be a bit of

a strange situation but i think we need to come in with the mindset that it's still no no we want to win the game. and we know we capable of scoring goals. as for man city they are coming off a second straight defeat after the liverpool loss at anfield pep guardiola as men wind down three two to local rivals manchester united in the league the premier league leaders not only need to regroup but must overturn a big deficit in order to go through to the final four to go through you have to make almost a perfect game so great a lot of chances between incl when you create the chances considerately chances and the chances we're going to receive. you know do so well and or keep receiving all the conditions you have to miggles or for game two to go through because there is all this stuff is really did about two hundred ninety minutes elsewhere five time european champions barcelona had to rome with a four one first league lead the legal leaders are hoping to book a first semifinal spot since they last went all the way and won the tournament in

twenty fifteen you're going to if we stay focused on our game we have an advantage that is hard to overcome for wrong but roma may have many qualities you never know what can happen in a match but we want to stay one hundred percent focused on our goal but we really want to win this match. as for roma they will be hoping to make home ground advantage count they appear to have a mountain to climb as they aim to reach the semifinals of europe's elite club competition for the first time since one thousand nine hundred eighty four peter stammered al-jazeera argentina perigal and uruguay have officially launched their joint bid to host the twenty thirty world cup the tournament will coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of the first world cup which took place in europe why the proposal features eight high cities in argentina so in paraguay and seeing in europe quite san antonio spurs in the oklahoma city thunder clinched their spots in the n.b.a. western conference playoffs of wins on monday night oklahoma and their rights trip

to the postseason in the last nine seasons of the one fifteen to ninety three when against the miami heat paul george tops going there with twenty seven points they hate already is short of a place in the playoffs. now coming off games one hundred meter champion a carney symbian a of south africa says he's aiming to replace the same bolts of the top of the sport symbian i pulled off a shock when the final on australia's gold coast jamaica's former world champion your home plate was the favorite behave finish down in third at south africa's first ever wonder major title at the commonwealth games. are you saying is a really great he's the greatest sprinter to have a live band. to. be in a sentence with him is really great and motivating and i believe in myself to go out there and put the bits that can and you know always make sure that i'm the best i can be and the bit that got me in that can be on the check and if that brings out you know the best time then i would take you know but i know that i'll be working

hard to be you know number one sprinter to be the top bent and just you know feel that void that he had left and scottish cyclist john archibald was feeling the pain after a painful crash in the men's individual time charlotte won silver in the individual pursuit on the track still managed to get over the finish line in eleventh place as the men's and women's events were won by australia. new masters champion patrick reid is already focused on adding to his major title collection the american celebrating the biggest win of his career so far with a trip to new york and new york's empire state building read held off strong challenges from rickie fowler and jordan spaced out to win the famous green jackets . you know once you win one of the guys always say sometimes i know now sunday kind of you know you kind of slack off a lot of stuff but all of us lee the feeling you had yesterday on a made up of the last even those three feet the journal and rush they had going

through a body that feelings i believe why i can't wait to get back out grinding and get back out you know in the trenches against these guys and you know try to win some more and the los angeles angels breakout star sure hired sawney has been named american league player of the week the japanese europe he has stood out of spite of the hits and pitcher in the opening games of the m.l. b. season he didn't play at they have to striking out twelve in seven schools innings against oakland but that didn't stop the angels beating the texas rangers as they continue their best starts with season in more than three decades. ok we'll sports throughout the day but that is it for now sammy and so on and be well that's it from me richelle carey is next with more of the day's news so do stay with us here nonzero.

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