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president trump promises a forceful response to a suspected chemical weapons attack in syria russia says never happen. i'm sam is a than this is al-jazeera live from doha also coming out of his radio thirty's and the first the authenticity of a video showing soldiers celebrating after shooting a palestinian. daughter of a former russian double agent who was poisoned in the u.k. along with her father has been released from hospital. rebel leader is arrested on drug smuggling charges in colombia raising concerns about the country's peace process.

the diplomatic fallout from saturday's suspected chemical attack in syria is growing as the hostile rhetoric between western powers and russia intensifies britain's prime minister to resign may says the attack which killed more than forty people was barbaric and she echoed comments from the french president who has not ruled out military action russia insists the attack was staged by the syrian opposition the foreign minister has now invited international inspectors to visit the site. we have invited experience from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to duma and we will strive for this visit to happen we cannot blindly believe the results that are produced by investigations at a distance but to you at a tense meeting at the un security council on monday the u.s. ambassador implicated russia and iran in the attack also referred to syria's president bashar assad as a month later u.s.

president dollars from promised a response within twenty four hours we're making a decision as to what we do with respect to the horrible attack that was made near damascus and it will be met and it will be met forcefully and when i will not say because i don't like talking about timing so we're going to make a decision tonight or very shortly thereafter. and you'll be hearing the decision but we can't let atrocities like we all witnessed and you can see that it's horrible we can't let that happen. well if washington does decide on military action it would not be the first time the report's. tomahawk missiles launched by the u.s. military hit the syrian air base on the morning of april seventh two thousand and seventeen it was the first time the united states directly targeted syrian

government forces since the start of the conflict the raid was in response to this . president donald trump said the show your right to air base was used to launch a chemical weapons attack over one hundred people among them women and children were killed in the northern town of. the base was damaged but apart from that the strike didn't we can the government or its allies and it didn't prevent further chemical attacks the latest on saturday night reportedly killed dozens of people in the town of duma a suburb of damascus moscow says opposition rebels stage the attack to justify military action against the syrian government the u.s. disagrees trump has promised to retaliate. by. president trump would have to carry out a strike but he has limited options he cannot cross russia. they would have to

coordinate any strike with the russians like they did in the. air if not there could be escalation. some two thousand u.s. troops are in northeast syria and the location of their bases in the kurdish region . russia has warned the u.s. of what it called the grave consequences if it targets syrian government forces many believe trump cannot back down he has made public statements and threats so some sort of military action is expected but the action is likely to be limited in scale and scope because if it is a wide operation or if it's threatened syrian president bashar assad's hold on power it would risk open confrontation with his backers russia and iran. syrian government forces and their allies are now on alert they have reportedly moved out of their bases and evacuated military positions but washington is reportedly studying the possibility of

a multinational military response we are clear that those responsible should be held to account with as i say working urgently with our allies to assess what has happened but we are also working with our allies on any action that is necessary. the u.s. reportedly gave russia advance warning before last year's strike that allowed the syrian military to move its assets this time around trump is warning russia and iran that they too can be held accountable the stakes are high but few expect the response to be a game changer. beirut. kimberly joins us now live from washington d.c. and kimberly we're hearing that don't trump has canceled a trip to latin america why. well the statement from the white house press secretary sarah sanders explains exactly that that the president has canceled his planned visit to peru and colombia for the summit of the americas because he

wants to remain in the united states to oversee the american response to syria and monitor developments around the world as you pointed out the president said on monday that he would have a decision on that american response to that chemical weapons attack in duma sometime within the next twenty four to forty eight hours we are within that window now we know that the vice president will go to the summit of the americas in place donald trump who has said that he is considering some sort of military response he has been consulting with military leaders extensively on monday evening and of course his national security team throughout the day on monday and is continuing to do so the president has been very very strong in his wording as you point out he's called bashar last of the syrian president an animal he has said that there will be a big price for those responsible pointing the finger at not just at the syrian government but also at iran and as well at russia even taking the rare step of

naming hooten by name something he has been reluctant to do up to this point so again watching very carefully the developments here in washington what the next steps will be certainly the this president has said he doesn't like to telegraph his next steps militarily but certainly he has given indications the latest being his cancellation of the trip to the summit of the americas that something is imminent terms of a military response by the united states to that chemical weapons attack in duma will tell kimberley how from washington d.c. false was bogus the chairman of the international institute for strategic studies and a former presidential advisor on national security issues to nicholas. wall and he says the french could choose to arks alone. i think women really work or there's a central option joint operation with the united states of america possibly with the u.k.

as well in which case i would expect the french military component to be essential the born with maybe also some missiles launched from naval aircraft. but if there were for some reason there were grievance on the american side to do joint strike the front. digs acute a strike of their own to do have the relevant search close enough to the theater of operations to her and says seven iranians were killed in air strikes on the three ass military base in syria on monday it blames israel for the attack in homs someone's it will not go without a response israel has not commented on the strikes the netanyahu government has repeatedly said the base is being used by iran to supply arms to hezbollah in lebanon and the israeli military has confirmed that a video showing an israeli army sniper shooting a palestinian across the border in gaza is authentic.

the footage was broadcast on israeli television israel's army says the incident happened in december the revelation comes as thirty one palestinians die after the israeli army opened fire on demonstrators have been protesting for more than a week at the gaza israel border. i'm only worried about what it what it will. eventually thrower. the words of the biggest.

were really. clear with them work on burn and smith has more from west jerusalem now the video started circulating on social media in israel on monday evening and was received widespread coverage in the domestic media particularly because of the celebrations that the snipers colleagues go into after the palestinian is shot the israeli military says that this palestinian was only shot at the end of a two hour long riot along the gaza border fence in december he was shot after

verbal warnings and tear gas was fired and that didn't disperse the crowd israel's defense minister says that the sniper deserves a medal but that the soldier who recorded the video should be demoted down the israeli military said that these statements the comments made by the soldiers on the video do not suit the degree of restraint expected of i.d.f. soldiers and they'll be dealt with by commanders accordingly but it's prompted of the secretary general of the p.l.o. executive committee side air account to say such hate and contempt for the life of a palestinian flex the cruel mentality of israel's military up occupation posted ahead on al-jazeera rare public grilling for facebook's chief over the failure to protect the personal data of nearly nineteen million users and demands of verses the president j.a. the nation's prime minister faces an unprecedented challenge next month's elections

. hello we've got the spring showers returning to central parts solver china over the next day also a little bit of weather coming in here is a go on through wednesday twenty four celsius in shanghai as we go on into thursday that's when the the rain does gather for those central areas warm to the south of that southerly winds there in hong kong temperatures at around twenty nine degrees celsius should be lucky fine and dry as you try to across a good part of south asia of course but this little crop of showers heavy downpours by this way across northern parts of india just to the north of new delhi cause some flooding in this particular town where they were actually laying out the wheat crop for drying out some fortunately that's a heavy rain has ruined the crop here the wetter weather will clear through we'll

see prices cause eventually coming back in as you can see much across much of india warm dry and sunny forty one celsius again in poor this wet weather the wintry weather over the high ground that will clear through brighter skies come back in new delhi get around thirty seven celsius still a third but a cloud there into southern parts of india maybe a few showers there into sri lanka a little bit of cloud too around the gulf we might see a little bit of cloud just making is where across here think carter as we go through wednesday bryce's guys come back for thursday to talk to the thirty one. the scene for us when they're on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is almost possible in number happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is

a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and she's posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. are watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now the u.s. president says all options are on the table including military action in response was suspected chemical attack in syria on saturday britain and france have echoed similar sentiments saying regime and its backers must be held accountable. president doll trump has canceled his upcoming trip to latin america it was scheduled to attend the summit of the americas and who also visit colombia but he

will stay in washington d.c. to focus on the syria crisis for now vice president mike pence will attend the summit in his place israeli military has confirmed a video showing an israeli army sniper shooting a palestinian across the border in gaza is authentic before d.h. was broadcast on israeli television the revelation comes after thirty one palestinians were killed also the israeli army opened fire on demonstrators protesting for more than a week at the gaza border. the daughter of a former russian double agent who was poisoned in the u.k. has been released from hospital police in britain say yunior script holland her father surrogate were exposed to a military grade nerve agent in the town of solsbury in early march moscow denies any involvement christine bruhn charge is the medical director at solsbury district hospital she says yulia and her father responded well to treatment but there are different stages in recovery we have now discharged from salisbury district

hospital yuliya 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 and names to 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 along and slowly has more from london. well if anybody had said just over a month ago when union sagesse tripple were poisoned they'd be getting back i dare say nobody would have believed it at all because it's supposed to be extremely powerful nerve agents and yet here we are now sufficiently well vastly improved if not completely better to have been discharging her father surrogate who it is

guests or assume was the actual targets of the nerve agent attack by whoever was behind it is going to follow as well and so it does raise the question which is still completely unanswered how come if it was not aren't they both dead and was it as powerful as people say or what actually happened we don't really have any answers those questions at all and of course because there's a there's a bit of a gap in what the british authorities are telling us that's trying to still be exploited by the russian side so where is yulia now well the metropolitan police say we will not comment on protective security arrangements for personal safety reasons which means that the british have got or it is assumed that they'll be asking what she knows and who might have wanted to do this which of course is infuriating to the russian side since they would very much like to have her as well for their own purposes and a half and it seems at the moment and so they put on twitter a short time ago we congratulate you liz cripple on her recovery yet we need urgent

proof that what is being done to her is done on her own free will and implicit in that very provocative statement of course is the idea that the british are doing things to her but initially against her wishes which is an implication of something very sinister and so you still have this unanswered situation how did the british know with the with the russians when they won't provide imperial proof and the russians still saying well if you can provide that proof then why do you still say it was us in this bitter bitter war of words between the two sides carrying on just as you are is seemingly much better. china has filed a trade complaint with the world trade organization against the u.s. at issue is donald trump's announcement to impose new tariffs on imported steel and alum indium but a speech on tuesday president xi jinping sought to reassure foreign investors worried about a potential trade war 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 inforced 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 ninth it's an election seen as a big test for the prime minister najib razak he's been on the political pressure because of corruption allegations which he denies now energy faces a challenge from his former mentor florence lowy has more from water in southern malaysia. norrish ambon are 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 resource is no longer at that level this is up and then the cost of making money is just 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 in 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 over one. and has returned to politics to try to oust him but political analysts say unseating the incumbent will be tough ruling party have been in power for so long and this kind of managing the goal but they're also working with the rules so that it helps. 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. johor state malaysia. the

chief prosecutor of the international criminal court says she should be allowed to bring a case against me in march for forcing me to flee or six hundred seventy thousand have crossed into bangladesh since mia mars military launched a crackdown in august the un has called it a textbook case of ethnic cleansing more than fifty seven thousand people from the eastern democratic republic of congo have escaped uganda since december according to the un many of the refugees are leaving because of attacks on villages by militias in the northeastern province of the tory let's take a closer look at the humanitarian crisis there than over thirteen million people need help that's twice as many as last year and more than seven million face severe food shortages half of them children the political situation in the country is unclear president joseph kabila is still in office even though his term officially ended in december two thousand and sixteen and no date has been set for elections

which have repeatedly been perspire on al-jazeera as malcolm webb is retracing the journey of the refugees he's travelled from uganda's capital kampala to the chiang wali refugee camp. all of the people here who arrived here in uganda in the last few days having fled violence at home in the democratic republic of congo and all the people that we've spoken to tell similar stories they say militia came to their villages with guns machetes people were hacked to death people had limbs cut off or shot hearts were set on fire so they fled to make the perilous journey here many walked for days on foot and crossed by lake albert in rickety boats overfilled is a strong risk of storms some boats that capsized but those that have made it here say they're glad to be here it's safer than what's going on at home and now they're in this refugee settlement they're waiting for humanitarian workers to give them a few simple islands' to get started they were given

a plot of land where the have to make a shelter out of sticks and plastic sheeting start digging the ground so they can start to produce their own food now we're living like that for months until they can build anything more substantial but all the people here say that this is a better deal than what's going on at home at the moment and one thing that many people have said is that they're not willing to go back or not in till there's been an election in congo and one that's had a peaceful outcome from people in colombia are protesting after the president said he wouldn't hesitate to extradite a former fox negotiator who's facing drug smuggling charges he's a santos was due to take up a parliamentary saint which far has been promised as part of the arrangement matheson now. 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 a place who sometimes 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 he says sentries enters a hunger strike. these cell phone pictures are said to show the arrest of her sue 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 rexford son 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 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 six peace deal when fark wearables put down their weapons reforms as

a political party and agreed to stop dealing in drugs park members now can be prosecuted for drugs offenses committed before the agreement was signed but santry says 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. 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 no real concern for the future of the peace deal which ended over fifty years of violence in colombia rob matheson al-jazeera facebook's chief executive has apologized to u.s. politicians for a privacy breach affecting millions of users. will appear before two congressional

committees over the next two days in washington d.c. patrick hyun has more. 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 are still time for a clean white shirt because you know that isn't going to get you right as my funds are last year you know do you think this is you going to behave like an adult as a major corporate leader or give me this phony baloney look what is it but he's a sound reasonable was that kind of signal you know wearing a suit instead of that trademark gray t. shirt and mobbed by reporters zuckerberg met privately with key senators monday his message he's sorry he made a mistake it won't happen again after their meeting senator bill nelson explained zuckerberg has reason to take that tone my sense is that he takes it seriously because he knows that there is going to be

a hard look at regulation if it's not his site someone else can be misused for people who are trying to do us harm. and i believe he understands that regulation could be right around the corner so could big fines millions of dollars ephemeral investigators conclude that facebook wasn't living up to a past agreement to protect privacy so now facebook is promising changes restricting who can see user data expanded 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 soong 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 pedicle hain al-jazeera washington. this is out of syria it's time to take a look at the headlines the u.s. president says all options are on the table including military action in response to a suspected chemical attack in syria on saturday britain and france have echoed similar sentiments saying acid's government and its backers must be held to account president dog trump has canceled his upcoming trip to latin america to focus on the syria crisis he was scheduled to attend the summit of the americas in peru and also visit colombia vice president mike pence will attend in his place. the daughter of a former russian double agent who was poisoned in the u.k.

is being released from hospital police in britain say you'll be a script part of their fathers were exposed to a military grade nerve agent in the town of solsbury in early march moscow denies any involvement the medical director at salisbury district hospital says junia and their father surrogate responded well to treatment but they're at different stages of recovery we have now discharged from salisbury district hospital yuliya 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 the israeli military has

confirmed that a video showing an israeli army sniper shooting a palestinian across the border in gaza is authentic. the footage was broadcast on israeli television israel's army says the incident happened in december 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 to foreign ownership as the headlines the news continues after the stream stay with us. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current events that matter to. zero.