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i'm sam he's a diamond dog with a look at the headlines here in al jazeera now 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 britain's prime minister france's president similar sentiments saying the shuttle as a government and its backers must be held to account more from our white house correspondent kimberly healthcare. u.s. president donald trump says he wants someone to pay for the spect and chemical attack in duma on monday he can he does cabinet to discuss it was 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 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 first of portie the syrian government potentially being complicit in the duma attack if it's russia if it's syria. it's already 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. trying to threat of retaliation comes one year after launching airstrikes in a syrian air field following a chemical attack on civilians in the town of could 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 them 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. if you. would run through the framework you're in. the. u.s. president is promising a decision within the next day on any u.s. action in syria kimberly help that al-jazeera at the white house of the united nations is sounding the alarm about the number of people who fled syria's eastern more than one hundred thirty thousand people have left the area in the last four weeks the u.n. describes the situation as spiraling about forty five thousand people are now living in shelters in damascus countryside others are in overcrowded camps nearby.

seven iranians were killed in airstrikes on the military base in syria on monday it blames israel for the attack in homs and warns it will not go without a response israel has not commented on the strikes and i said the government has repeatedly said the base is being used by iran to supply to hezbollah in lebanon. the daughter of a former russian double agent who was poisoned in the u.k. has been released from hospital usually a screwball and her father surrogate were exposed to a nerve agent in march the incident sparked a diplomatic crisis between the u.k. and russia china's president has promised to open the doors for foreign investment she said he'd cut tariffs on car imports and open the banking sector to foreign ownership it's the latest move in a trade dispute with the u.s. malaysia's general election has been set for may ninth prime minister najib results

ruling coalition has been in power for more than sixty years and the job is being accused of corruption which he denies he faces an opposition alliance led by his former mentor prime minister mohammed donald trump has described an f.b.i. raid at the home and office of his personal lawyer michael cohen as a disgrace and a total witch hunt cohen's at the center of a controversy involving the president and an adult film star as the headlines the news continues here now does it after the cave if stay with us. the caliph. a form of rule in a slam. that lasted for almost thirteen centuries.

from the death of the prophet muhammad. to the overthrow of the last ottoman caliph in one thousand nine hundred twenty four. the arabic ten to twenty eighth twenty five which actually in essence simply means a successor already adapted to. the ruler of the islamic world would call himself clifford resulin no successor goatse most of. the centuries. the title of caliph is a term that has been used. at the times abuse. in june two thousand and fourteen. a militant group calling itself the islam ecstacy and iraq and the levant or. declared the establishment of a caliphate. i call rejected by most muslims around the

world. my so proclaimed its leader of the balkans but that. a callous. no love with the. appropriate thing a title imbued with a religious and political significance. and cost in a dark shadow. over a rich history. discounted by god in the since destroying attempting to destroy. much of the legacy the scaly ifs i want to preserve and to to foster. in the setting with us and he said that the most steady let us unlock the assault and. the killing of a small god the kind of man to this is a menace to how the name of the messiah. this is the story of a tied to the originator one thousand four hundred years ago. that spawn

one of the greatest empires the world has ever known. this is the story of the count of. medina saudi arabia. last resting place of muhammad. the prophet of islam.

it was here in june of the year six hundred thirty two. that he died ofter a brief illness. the prophet left behind a young and fiber to samik state uniting most of the tribes of a arabian peninsula. with medina as its capital. amman plan was assessment. and noble so fought the net be in the zama main and something wrong with what was the many. of them in the us yet there is a mob and has to fight them. but. look at the hondas. and the reset it and who would lead. the. ten years earlier muhammad and a group of his early followers would come to be known as

a more headroom or the emigrants had fled mecca and persecution by the pagan leaders of their own try for a ship. or war will the prophet and the emigrants were given shelter by the citizens of the medina. with their off to be cold alone song. meaning the supporters. together these two groups formed. the close companions of the prophet the successor would come from one of them. and i would be in the home and he had been led to and i that when he then he can have him and yet the one who then bad done was to him. in

a humble building that used to stand on the sights of this public gone. but the supporters gathered to decide which of them would be the prophet successor. but two of the leading emigrants. and almost interrupting their deliberations. had util an idol internationally and i thought i cannot be landing on the land in islam and i was in the navy that it. gannett in mohajer. less as. after hours of heated debate. the claim of the emigrants was judged to have precedence. of. a done while a. yak in that it.

had his he elected. lando bad that and barry are all my buddy mckee by. the way out. in a humble building in medina a new age had begun. a new title written into history. a title that would ring down the ages. the first caliph of islam the successor of mohammed was to be a book a city. the following day a box position was confirmed when the most in community gave. an oath of allegiance

to the new caliph. o.-p. put a pic task has been assigned to me. now it is beyond doubt that i have been elected european. but though i'm not better than you. as long as i obey our laws and his prophet. when i disobeyed him and his. prophet. than obey me not. above was the first of four would be known as the russia doing. the right to guided caliphs. they were zero people who had been very close to the prophet muhammad during his lifetime as his companion as those who had converted. to islam

and had dedicated in sounds to the formation of the n.t. community the spreading of the message in the full in any campaigns and internet of the prophet mohammed in any way. there was a i didn't create out well the out. what the have. the call the body of rome out of the cup loblaws how about how. to. better have all your time even with him in the lobby in a struggle ok valdemar. mean that not to come and be too much. was a profoundly spiritual and modest man. but when some of the arabian tribes rose up in rebellion refusing to submit to the new caliphate he was quick to act. as

a much to someone who knows a hell of a rate that he knows all the tribal details the genealogies the clowns the weaknesses the strengths who could be employed against whom and he transformed himself into this extraordinary powerful man. of a book or a declared war on the rebel tribes and after a year of heavy fighting. he emerged victorious. his attention was now turned to the territory of the two superpowers of the era the sussan it's in persia. and the by sun times of the east and the roman empire. in an old day shift move taking on both empires at once he launched the most women

conquests. but crucially he gave his men orders to preserve not destroy. many of the. usual work and. well you will see. ballet i thought a little in the set now you. got of alluding with a day guinea and every man i've been there in the east had made good ground in iraq fighting the sauce and. the four armies sent to attack by sun time garrisons in the levant were meeting heavy resistance. on the order. which he moved his men across the desert to the west of the front.

and oldest six thirty four on the fields of here in palestine. the most i'm on he's gathered to take on the mike on to. the must have been what he. wanted and the room that has had will have been won the. autumn they've. been a human didn't pull any. so how some of the mob . but in the wake of victory it as that the. enough to just to use this kind. of a book. and to just sixty one. there's

no moment where there's an election or a council and we just have this placement as it were like a vice president coming on to the throne of the kind of what of the comes that. over the next ten years almost. the second right he got it kind of. would show himself to be a great strategist and state bill. a few days after he became kind of. almost on this once more undefended conquered damascus. but. was soon to be stripped of his come on.

obama i mean who you'll see in. what obama said that you know might have bought a lot of the of the law and the how did file add the new there and then had run out of the cut bob in them until suddenly well i'm the lab you're almost went out. after two years the calif would recalled his brilliant commander to the battlefront once again. this time here in northern georgia in the tranquil valley of the yarmouk river. in august six thirty six this was where the by sun times army clashed with muslim forces underfed. one small victory to the muslims. of good will by the.

influence to have. a man i didn't miss but they didn't have any i'm reducing their will. unless we. about. the muslim conquests moved on words in all directions capturing the rest of the live on of its great cities. finally they laid siege to jerusalem it's so. often making the list and i don't see. a woman. yeah. well you. see he lists of this. jerusalem significance lay as it still does today and its position as

a holy place for the three great monotheistic religions judaism christianity. and islam. only for jerusalem was almost prepared to make his first and last journey a scholar if. not . all more often to small who asked them. she had a malice allah give any medina again a dollar on. the whole does rock and that was a slam oh a levy yet. for death and. that. one i saw all well i'll tell ya.

sophronia is the patron of welcome to mon given the keys of the city and then told them to come and pray in the holy supple core of the holiest church of christe and . said no i will not pray here and when the patriarch asked why not because if i play here then after me muslims will come and want to pray here take this church from you and i want you to have this church. a instead almost prayed just outside the church. in later years on the exact spot. this mosque was a red. herring the caliph's name. to this day a copy of the pledge that almost gave to the christians of jerusalem could be seen

hanging on the walls of the smalls. this is an assurance of peace and protection given by the seventh of a lot of commendable to believe this to the people of jerusalem. he gave them an assurance of protection for their life property cherish and crosses as well as the sick and the. only three because. it's a wonderful journey and send me stories about o'mara back to puritanical commando but his journey jerusalem he's at his best he is sorting out the faith traditions honoring them in a city that can be shared by all faith communities. with the muslims now in full control of the levant so they moved west and conquered

egypt. in the east the caliphs armies triumphed over the south and it's that hard to say. an advanced on their capital. test before. yes. at the time the largest city in the world. all that remains today of tessie form. is the arch of course. once the throne of persia and grooms. you have to remember the two great superpowers of the. screwed the world for the last four hundred years they've been. putting it in a modern parlance it's

a bit like the eskimos taking on the united states of america and russia. in october six forty four at the height of his powers and while leading the feds don't prayers. almost was assassinated by disaffected persian slaves. that it is them who has allowed to visit many. who are. and you assistance oh i did it. yeah i need to stop the and. if you have your arm out of the cut up was a saturday idea. that did see has yes the m

y u if you have. a minute. to go when. you don't. believe the ship of the muslims now to a man with a markedly different character. became the third day of the russia doing the rocky guided caliphs. shrine in quite a one two zero. resting place of one of the. the prophet muhammad's close companion. was killed in the early attempts to conquer the area during the reign of the.

one. off man. the what i can change how any and. what has a. bizarre. at first successful the campaign soon run into problems over the division of the spoils of war. neff and so forth. i don't on that i'm afraid i'm not offended at the shia at all whether you go home with some hamas. that can be. off man that i've about can at them and i want to go ahead and ship but how many

a c. s. and yet the. how will they settle on that. the ruling elite of this empire where rules the right from hundreds tribe to tribe of carraige these people have become the rule is a very very wealthy empire and they also have laws that have been drawn from across the peninsula and now we're being settled in garrisons in egypt and iraq and so i think the politics and the economics of the situation who are almost inevitably going to drive conflict. in six fifty five mutinies broke out against the kind of uncalled for and bustle. and in the garrison that's a stall in egypt. a year later on gravels marched in medina and took up positions around off months house calling on

him to step down. he broke a disease has tended to see each things get ugly but she's broken into and he's assassinated killed and it's said that. full symbolic moment he was meditating reading the koran the company one of his wives of the blood of the third kid of the spilt on the cross to the got the emblematic moment when the word of god is splattered with blood and it's as if the islamic community will never know peace again. once again a caliph had been assassinated. but this time the killers were muslims. less than a quarter of a century after the death of the prophet. calles. we

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i'm sam is a down and dark these are the top stories here on al-jazeera now 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 britain's prime minister and france's president of echoed similar sentiments saying the syrian government and its backers including russia must be held accountable. the united nations is sounding the alarm about the number of people who fled syria's east in the water more than one hundred thirty thousand people have left the area in the last four weeks the u.n. describes the situation as spiraling about forty five thousand people are now living in h.l. to the damascus countryside others are in overcrowded camps nearby duran says seventy rain ians were killed in airstrikes on the military base in syria on monday it blames israel for the attack in homs and warns it will not go without a response israel has not commented on the strikes in the government has repeatedly

said the base was being used by iran to supply arms to hezbollah in lebanon the daughter of a former russian double agent who was poisoned in the u.k. has been released from hospital usually a script pattern her father surrogate were exposed to a nerve agent in march the incident sparked a diplomatic crisis between the u.k. and russia china's president has promised to open the doors for foreign investment xi jinping said he would cut tariffs on car imports and open the banking sector the foreign ownership is the latest move in a trade dispute with the u.s. . malaysia's general election has been set for may the ninth prime minister najib razak ruling coalition has been in power for more than sixty years has been accused of corruption which he denies thousands of passengers are stranded at german airports as workers from the country's biggest union go on strike over pay the

airline lufthansa's canceling more than eight hundred flights union verde wants a six percent pay rise for public sector employees. donald trump is describing an f.b.i. raid at the home and office of his personal lawyer as a disgrace and total witch hunt michael collins at the center of a control of a sea involving the president and an adult film star as the headlines the news continues after the cave with. the year six fifty six. just a quarter of a century has passed since the death of the prophet muhammad. and the foundation of the colors of. the third caliph osman

has been murdered by a group of rebels in the capital. baghdad as man of the a lot who on ghana living. joe will follow. that's the way can you not when i mean i mean. what in the hell do i could mean in my duty and. ali cousin and son in law of the prophet. to the pressure becoming the force of the russia doing the right he guided caliphs. the media's plunge fall from being a spiritual sort of lost philosopher poet theologian he's plunged into having to cope with a very very mucky political waters. iraq

. bedrock of support for the new caliph ali. abandoning medina he moved this capital here in the face of a growing threat coming from close to the prophet himself. calling for the punishment of off months killers. one of the prophet's wives and two of his closest companions. and his superiors gathered an army to do battle with the new caliph. it came to be known as the battle of the camps. they set the scene for violent conflicts between moments for my companions he was victorious and taught him so badly defeated are you sure withdrew from public life

after this defeat. the islamic state had fallen into its first civil war. the first but not the last. damascus the syrian capital. and six thirty four and after almost seven centuries of the roman rule. the city was conquered by muslims. an army commander was appointed governor of the mosques and later the entire

province. i mean i mean look at that he shot me well and good as an incentive. and yes done and that's where you are i mean a home with the idea that the n.c.i.c. who are let you lay if i lay in. some high level below i get my r. or d. there you show me you in shadow yeah and then wow yeah well as a law in a. law you have came from the same family of the correct strike the oh my yes as the murder caliph. he refused to give the oath of allegiance to the new college. many of us mons relatives began to mom but only hand over those killers for justice and the center of a myatt resistance to ali was syria which was governed by a member of a finance family his second cousin michael olea. and six fifty seven

ali marched northwards to quell malia's mutiny. they met a battle called prophecy feed which was inconclusive and they agreed to negotiate this proved to be a canny decision on the part of malawi because it's split a lease support some of his supporters felt that he shouldn't be negotiate. a thing as the if he should just fight until he to stop his power. in january of six sixty one. the dissidents and army decided to try to wrest power from the elite. they plan to assassinate ali. and as. the governor of egypt. but their conspiracy ended with only one victim ali

the cut. off to three decades the first chapter. of the russian to the right to god. was. going to say that they never do and. that would mean i still. really need denia lay in the sense that he is c.s.e. while we have been absent yet when at the end the c.s.l. now. i want to assure you that at the. law we emerged triumphant establishing the almighty caliphate. a new dentist no longer primarily religious. the caliphate now begun

to look more like a model. in the ruins of our job in eastern eleven i. once thought to be by some time roman the city was in fact my domain. they had adopted the architectural style of the by sun times along with the structures of imperial rule. but under all numbers is see but he was one hundred ten all at the last though and one of them and hawkman bizarre and put out the lead but is it for us or the one in the main the hut they

have no desire. but there's not much faith. in the ads the button. before arnold got enough to where solid in cern. under maja the caliphate changed its form. and as a king would have done he named his son yes he as his successor. be any caliphate was not dynastic people were chosen by being designated by fact trade assessed by groups and he consulted amongst themselves so it was if you like elect even the least this possible sense of the word and that's have a first for cain if which chosen by few not the consensus of the early misled community. became colored from his father's death and sixty eight.

his room was to plunge the states into another civil war. medina the first captive powerful figures in the muslim community were beginning to build strong opposition to his ear. particularly important examples are abdullah the son of the bear who were challenged ali in the first civil war also who is sane the son of ali who had been kailash during the first civil war he also resisted the call for a pledge of allegiance to his ear. to signal his rejection of years it's kind of. seen left medina for america from there he set off for coup for former stronghold of his father.

but in october sixth eighty here in karbala iraq has its forces truck and killed her same and most of the members of his family. nonetheless opposition to a made rule was far from over. and done remains a pair refused to pledge allegiance to yours and he described himself as the one who seek sanctuary in god's house and went to mecca sought refuge there easy decided to send an army against up to ribbons of bad but after a bit of the bear was saved by the premature death of years and at that moment in six eight three he proclaimed himself. meanwhile in damascus ma you know the second son of yours he was installed that's

the third column of the my dentist. but within a few weeks he died leaving no son no successor a power vacuum seized on by the rival caliph and. co yet the model that. let the. eleven exhibit such as that how the robot will cover a lot of the. iraq. welcome back i need. to see. a man the jordanian capital. city overlooked by the remains of a tynecastle. and the palace of the main government. the tribes of jordan were the last to stay loyal to the mites. in

six eighty four a tribal gathering held here chose marwan as a new in my youth count. and it was his son malik who would reunite the islamic state under the firm rule of the almighty it's. the dome of the rock. jerusalem's most recognizable lung. built on the odors of the in my youth caliphs optimistic this is the third holiest sites in islam. but at the time the two most holy sites the mosques of mecca and medina lay in the

hands of the almighty its rival calif it was obeyed. in six ninety one as a judge a ruthless a made general set off for islam's holiest place with a powerful army. sent him to mecca and defeat even sabbat perhaps because i'm dumb i can self didn't want to be too closely associated with the damage to the shrine. as jess put mecca under siege. and a desperate missile base shelter in the slums most sacred shrine. the kaaba. but the hijazi was not to be deterred and bombarded with a couple. after eight months of determined resistance.

that mr obaid was killed in last ditch fighting. was stopped by the management not one and your ego he did though and it's not me yeah mother left and jenny that was a new age see as if he had been checking in a lot why barack at the. woman just sad to see about that said the many below when you see i've been at the lot of the. after two decades as callous. the legacy of stability to the sun. and that foundation. would build are still great and.

it's the capital of modern morocco. it was here in seven zero eight that the armies of the color of. reached the atlantic coast. after more than fifty years of fierce resistance by local berber tribes the muslims had finally conquered the whole of north africa all. got our way before i don't mean that you want to fight or win and this out of one of his i met the crowd water avoid a shut up where the shade. having been conquered the berbers discovered that this land had much to offer. and began to convert and assimilate. one of them. thought of. was about to write his name in history.

thought. the mountain of thought. gibraltar. southern tip of the iberian peninsula. it was here in the spring of seven hundred and eleven torics army of berbers landed after crossing the mediterranean. inside three years he had toppled the visigoths rulers. and secured almost total control of the peninsula turning it into a colorful province known as under lucio. power about me when i can all mostly one public army doesn't f a did india did. the other thing a did and he did not follow. along with the great

conquests in europe there was more success in asia. muslim armies began advancing towards what is today pakistan afghanistan and the central asian republics. within ten years they had reached the borders of china. had built the biggest empire yet no. as you know has iemma entity macaria command general many military i mean us. command the general. municipality command the then forest coverdell minister thirty. meanwhile eyes while you nada here look at the solemn but.

unlike the traditions of earliest. the walls of foresight ombre in the jordanian desert are painted in a by sometimes style. here is depicted not as a religious figure but as an emperor. in just ten years he had made himself the most powerful man on earth. but the successes would struggle to retain that power. the peyronie's. the don't sing natural barrier between spain and france.

in seven thirty two under the command of up the russian monitors off of the governor of under lucio. them forces across these mountains into french territory. seemingly unstoppable they advance north capturing one city after another. from the left at the unity and it's look it does he think he. needs to be hugged. and at ease and know. when it's had this and solved. to me he let me. know what i need and how to look. on this field to the north of the french city of what he. did france and troops

were stopped by frankish army under shock not that. the muslims were defeated and their commander up to. kill. muslims remember this battle of the martyrs dog. but european history knows it as the battle of tools of victory that stopped the northern spread of islam and saved pristine europe. it then came to symbolize for later historians in particular for the great english historian edward gibbon he saw it as a decisive turning point in the battle between europe and the muslim world and he famously said that if it hadn't been for. charles martel and who are we would now

be preaching the koran in oxford. this defeat in europe in the reign of the tenth of may it caliph a sham brought an end to a my youth invincibility. and just as his palace in jericho palestine lies in ruins today. is shams death in seven forty three through the whole state into chaos. after almost two years of all made family infighting over the caliphate one the second emerged as the fourteenth and last in my youth calendar. for my javelin few of my one. gun a. well i guess that they are and

the arche. absolved by his efforts to contain trouble at the heart of the state the new caliph was oblivious to grave events unfolding in the east. a rather mysterious leader whose remember by the name of a muslim was calling for pledges of allegiance to the prophet's family and he managed to draw a substantial following from eastern iran into an army to oppose a mind to rule. the rebel army marched westward and captured coup folks in iraq. in november seven forty nine here in the city's mosque by on the oath of allegiance was given to the first a bus in calif. they proclaimed a man as called abu allah. and he was

a descendant of one of the prophet muhammad's uncles and he based his claim to the caliphate on that kinship with the prophet mohammed. in january at seven fifty. on the banks of the zab river in iraq the oh my it's led by their color i don't want for their last battle against the us at all. after a heavy defeat marwan escaped westwards. that summer of the year seven fifty he was killed by the a bus. after nineteen years in power you might caliph it had been brought to an end. why the mayans lost power and what exactly happened in the aussie revolution is a difficult question but it seems to be related to this ongoing sense that the

prophets family had a right to rule the kayleigh fight and this was a problem of the a my it's never really successfully contained. some muslims believe that the caliphate should always have remained strictly within the prophet's bloodline. this belief would lead to the biggest splits in the history of islam. a split which is still exploited to this day. the centuries old divide. between sunni and shia.

a story fourteen hundred years in the making. a story of succession and the leadership. as josie that has the story of dispute and division of the hall of an empire. the caliph episode two on a jersey. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the finest known for on a winter's day. however got plenty of heavy showers across colombia and

see the amazon basin much of brazil seeing some really heavy rain we've also seen some rather heavy rain a little further south just to the south of what a seris ninety four millimeters of rain coming down here in twenty four hours that's clearing through we will see it brightening up thirty one celsius and want to say as we go to eight or nine degrees above the seasonal average here that cloud will clear out of the way a brighter day coming in as we go on into wednesday for many but the rain as you can see just on the other side of the river plate sinking the south big showers continue across much of the amazon basin up into well venezuela some parts of venezuela more into work colombia but a little bit of that wet weather also affecting panama much he wanted to showers coming in here much of the caribbean that fatah draw some lovely weather coming through them so also sunshine for the most part kingston around thirty degrees celsius heavy rain the into where mexico that is this out of mexico we'll see some big downpours on choosing the slot a little further south which as we go on into wednesday elsewhere across the region

is fighting fire with more tropical sunshine it's a pretty wet weather to just developing just around the panhandle over the next big down poles coming through here some big down post to into the pacific northwest but in between is fine wall and sunny. there with sponsored by cats on nice. the scene for us when they're on line what is american sign in your mind that peace is only possible in number happens not because the situation. because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating basis is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who is an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.