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a syria and russia tried to avert western action though the alleged chemical attack and doom are inviting inspectors to visit the site. this is live from london also coming up in the program a tough day for mogs because he prepares for a grilling by u.s. lawmakers over facebook's failure to protect its users data. israel confirms that a video showing soldiers celebrating up to shooting a palestinian is authentic. and a warning from russia as. the poison daughter of a former spy was discharged from the u.k. .

international inspectors have accepted a syrian government invitation to visit the site of saturday's alleged chemical weapons attack in the town of do but it comes as the u.n. security council prepares to vote on a new resolution to set up an inquiry into the attack video has emerged showing what said to be the remains of a missile used as syrian relief groups say at least sixty eight people were killed many of them children and babies and more than one thousand others were injured russia denies the attack took place while the united states is threatening a quick forceful response to reports on what might unfold. tomahawk missiles launched by the us 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 a military action against the syrian government the us disagrees trump has promised to retaliate. by. president trump will 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 bag 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 are known 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. where the united nations says more than one hundred thirty thousand people have fled syria's eastern guta in the last four weeks officials say the situation is spiraling aid workers are concerned that forty five thousand people are now living in eight shelters in the damascus countryside roughly the same number of women children and elderly people or an overcrowded camps nearby after being screened by government authorities. says seven iranians were killed in strikes on the military base in syria on monday it's blaming israel for the attack and is warn the strike will be met with

a response israel has not commented on the strikes but the netanyahu government has repeatedly said the base was being used by iran to supply arms to lebanon's hezbollah group. facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg is set to appear at the first of his two congressional hearings in washington d.c. in two hours time is expected to face tough questioning over how eighty seven million facebook users data was improperly shared with a british political consultancy this comes as facebook launches its own bounty program to reward people who report dates for abuse by developments because he has more now from washington d.c. . mark zuckerberg up until now known for his laid back style his stunning college invention that made him a very young billionaire but perception of the facebook founder seems to be

changing just listen to the chief economic advisor to the president so you know where it's time to clean white sure you know that is i think you're right that is my last year you know do you think this is going to behave like an adult as a major corporate leader or give me this phony baloney look what is it for these younger release of the boys that kind of signal that 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 if federal 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 soon ing that the company that cause these problems is going to fix these problems this is precisely why we need democratic how to billet 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

or let's get more from alan fischer our correspondent in washington d.c. and not on this is a pretty big moment to talk about and facebook. it really is mark zuckerberg has never appeared before a senate or house committee before when we had all the problems with facebook and russian influence during the presidential election he sent aides number two tenants people to speak to congress then this is going to be a big hearing for him it's a joint senate committee forty four senators that's almost half the chamber have decided that they want to ask him questions what are we going to hear from our soccer birdwell he will see saudi didn't do enough and that they are going to put new security measures in place he will hope that that will stop any possibility of congress looking at regulation but as you've hair there are those who believe that the companies simply can't regulate itself and that's going to be down to congressman and senators to take that sort of job are they going to do it well

facebook has got a big law being effort on capitol hill always has had its communications and lobbying stuff in washington d.c. number and somewhere in the region of five hundred there wouldn't be too upset if there were some regulation because that might make it harder for companies to challenge facebook but there's also a problem for mark zuckerberg and he knows that he knows his reputation has been hit by this he knows that people are watching to see what he says here and how he reacts to intense pressure and intense criticism he knows too that the share prices dropped a stone sixteen percent in the six weeks since the scandal erupted and he also knows that while it's just facebook he's going to be talking about other companies are going to be watching the hearings as well and what what it means for them so the likes of twitter and you tube and google will all be waiting to see how mark zuckerberg does on the hill in the next few hours or out and back with you as the

day progresses thanks very much indeed for the time being. well a new report by the nonprofit web browser has revealed the biggest dangers posed by the internet today warns that privacy competition and openness are being undermined by the by the consolidation of big technology companies like facebook google and amazon and it says fake news is rejected every proportions worldwide due to an online advertising economy that rewards abuse fraud and misinformation and is also calling for people's privacy to be more protected with approximately thirty billion connected devices going online over the next two years it says they must not be used to harvest the data or salon alas it is editor of the. internet health report she believes the leaders of the internet need writing him i do think that it's important to rein in the the consolidation of power and wealth of just a few very powerful companies that we're not actually seeing the best outcomes for

users of the internet around the world by allowing so much power. to be concentrated in such few hands. it creates a negative effects for competition negative effects for innovation i think what we're seeing in the current scandal over facebook is the result of many years of of inaction on this topic of of not thinking about what would serve the best interests of people now that the israeli military has confirmed a video that shows an army sniper shooting a palestinian on the gaza border is authentic and that the soldiers involved will be disciplined palestinians say it shows gazans of being shot while posing nude threat to soldiers but israel's defense minister has defended the action of the shot soldier as saying the sniper deserves a medal and smith reports not from west jerusalem. this israeli soldier has in his sights a palestinian apparently unarmed standing a few meters beyond the separation fence the divides israel from gaza just by being

there this man is according to israel's military regulations a legitimate target for a sniper the army imposes a minimum one hundred metre buffer zone into garza's territory it's a regulation with no backing in international law the video seems to have been shared on social media by one of the soldiers. we don't know who the victim is or what he was doing in the time before he was shot israel's military says it happened in december the delight the snipers colleagues taken hitting their target doesn't change the fact that the israeli military won't consider the snipers actions unlawful but it's according to one human rights group here.

we have and keep hearing that anybody who is coming close to there for defense will be shoot anybody respect to see if anything in those demonstrations is part of the hamas if they want to destroy israel everybody is a terrorist then what's rationed so totally huge it to me so if the public debate here that is being conducted by thing and being led by the political level. that level showing the prettiest thing in the snow deserving the same rights as any other person. it's not surprising that they think they're in a statement israel's military says the video depicts a short part of the response to a violent riot which included rock hurling and attempts to sabotage the security fence and lasted about two hours during the riot means were taken in order to disperse it including verbal warnings and calls to halt using riot dispersal means and firing warning shots into the air after none of these were successful a single bullet was fired towards one of the palestinians who is suspected of organizing and leading this incident well he was

a few meters from the fence he was hit in the leg and injured. i don't talk at shot that might earn a sniper high fives from his buddies has of course devastating real life consequences in the last two weeks in gaza more than fourteen hundred people have been injured by live fire from israeli snipers many crippled for life thirty one people have died. west jerusalem. all right still to come this half hour the mayor of qatar arrives at the white house for talks with the u.s. president with the ongoing gulf crisis and conflict syria. once upon a time in the city about. twenty years after the good friday agreement in northern ireland now has a booming film industry but the walls remain. fellow

we've got the spring showers for turning to central parts solve china over the next little bit of weather coming in here is a go one 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 croppers 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 a 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 that pool this wet weather the wintry weather over the high ground that will closely process guys come back in new delhi

get around thirty seven celsius still a fair bit of 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 its way across here in carter as we go through wednesday bryce's guys come back for thursday talk to the thirty one. we're heading to the place so deep in the proving amazon it's taken us two days on this boat just to get there from the search current dangerous macaws techno look at what is being done to protect one of the region's most iconic creatures of files where disappearing because legal pads changed with the looming face it just wanted to see if reintroduction of mikhail's was a viable option to save some of these population pretty good young techno on al jazeera and.

i gain a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera international inspectors have accepted a syrian government invitation to investigate a suspected chemical weapons attack in dubai a new video is said to show a missile that was used. facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg will start testifying before a congressional hearing in washington d.c. in two hours time where he'll be questioned over the improper use of millions of members. and the israeli military has confirmed that a video showing an army sniper shooting a palestinian across the border in gaza is all things taken the soldiers involved

will be punished. now the emir of qatar is meeting u.s. president all chump at the white house right now to me and been how many arrived just a short while ago with discussions set to cover the gulf crisis in the critical situation in syria it follows his successful meeting with defense secretary jim matches on monday following the approval of a deal to sell three hundred million dollars worth of guided missiles well. is live at the white house for us just following this event tell us about this meeting is a pretty important one for the for the and marry for the country and then. indeed very important for the i mean yes i mean but how death any of those countries and posed by saudi arabia the united arab emirates bihari and each of the meeting starts with president trump saying that he's happy to meet with the emir of

qatar home he described as someone who's very popular in his own country and saying that the two countries would like to move forward in terms of expanding. their alliance has said that at the same time that he's seen countries like saudi arabia and the united. states will jump in there because here we are inside the white house sitting alongside the emir of qatar answering questions right now let's take a listen in as a friend of mine knew it long before i entered the world of politics he's a great gentleman very popular in his country his people love him we're working on unity in that part of the middle east and i think it's working out very well there are a lot of good things happening also we have a gentleman on my right who buys a lot of equipment from a lot of purchases in the united states and a lot of military. airplanes missiles lots of different things but they've been

great friends in so many ways and. we're working very well together and i think it's working out extremely well so amir thank you very much for being here. thank you very much mr president i'm very happy and on there to be here and thanks for the situation our relationship between qatar and the united states has been more than forty five years it's a very strong solid relationship and. our economy quarter ship is more than one hundred twenty five billion and our aim and goal is to double that in the next coming years our military. cooperation is very small. very strong as everybody knows that the heart of fighting terrorism is from a low data base and. thank god it's been very successful campaign against. terrorist groups a region lately before i come here i was in tampa i visited the centcom and

we met with the generals and it was. a very important visit and it shows how strong our cooperation and cooperation is between. the armed forces of course we speak today and we see the suffering of the syrian people and me and the president we see eye to eye that this matter has to stop immediately we cannot tolerate with a war criminal we cannot tolerate was someone who could more than a half a million of his own people and this matter should end the media thank you very much mr president thank you and to me and i have been working for a number of years now actually even before the fact on terrorism and we're making sure that terrorism funding is stopped in the countries that we are really related to because i feel related but those countries are stopping the funding of terrorism

that includes u.a.e. and includes saudi arabia it includes guitar and others. a lot of countries were funding terrorism and we're stopping at it's getting stopped and fast very important and. you have now become a very big advocate appreciate thank you president. i want to make something very clear mr president we do not and we will not tolerate with people who fund terrorism we've been cooperating with the united states of america to stop funding terrorism around the region we don't not tolerate with people who support and want terrorism i would like to also thank the president for him being involved personally in solving the g.c.c. . crisis he's been very helpful to be supporting us during this a blockade and i would like to also funfair american people for being very supportive and his role is very vital to end this crisis in the region thank you sir thank you. thank you.

thank you very much. thank you very much everybody. thank you say judging from no questions will be taken there just posing for the cameras now there is the u.s. president donald trump and the emir of qatar ahead of that meeting just exchanging platitudes really donald trump saying that kind of a great friend united states him is saying that the relationship was strong and solid and has been that for forty five years as a partnership with one hundred twenty five billion dollars they want to double that he also spoke of the suffering of the syrian people and how he sees eye to eye with donald trump on that and how they cannot tolerate a war criminal let's bring in our correspondent barbara who is at the white house and has been listening in and how she was a say both sides emphasizing the importance of the mutual relationship.

indeed nic from a car tire perspective this is a major diplomatic victory if you remember the start of the crisis in june. the president donald trump singled out qatar for funding extremism today he's saying that he's happy he's been working with the amir of qatar name one hundred thirty to combat terrorism but has said at the same time he is glad that the united arab emirates saudi arabia and qatar are stopping the funding of terrorism i mean this is quite significant and also the emir of qatar is saying that he's determined to work hand in hand with president trump to ensure that. president bashar assad is to be held accountable for the atrocities committed against his own people now over the last forty eight hours what we've seen basically is secretary of

defense team spirit is. praising saying that the u.s. and are working together to combat. extremism and the military base which is the most important u.s. military base in the middle east has been pivotal in the fight against isis and then the state department approving the sale of three hundred million dollars of advanced system still cuts are describing qatar as a straw as an important political force of stability and economic progress in the region says it is quite significant from a qatari perspective for them i think from now on the words they would consider that they have moved biassed the crisis that has crippled the region for the last ten months of their looking forward to see an immediate and to the blockade that has been imposed on them now it remains to be seen whether the u.s. administration is going to be able to bring all the parties to negotiate a settlement and put it and to the crisis or how should thanks very much indeed

that's a picture from the white house from our bar reporting that. and in the last few minutes the french president a man with his welcome the saudi crown prince for talks in parents in solomon is there on a three day visit aimed at improving diplomatic relations hosted a private dinner for the prince inside the loop on sunday the leaders are expected to sign a strategic partnership agreement a lot of diplomacy going on right now let's talk about all of this with al-jazeera senior political analyst mo and bashar and mo and that's going on in paris what about this press conference that we just saw this brief press called as we saw between the layer of carter and and donald trump whose opinion seemed to have moved on somewhat clearly it's what you call short and sweet. so much so that there are a few things that one notices in those. sit downs at the white house in front of cameras i think two things i got my attention one he actually referred to him and

his first name it was a first name bases i mean. it wasn't. all kinds of. introductions and an titles and so on so for so to actually say to mean. you know go a long way even before i entered politics and it's course it's also important to note that they met before trump became president when he was a candidate in new york. so i think in a way nic we have gone almost three hundred sixty degrees almost a full circle since they met back in september one trump where the candidate they were friends american qatari relations were at their best strategic etc etc and then we had the downfall in may in june last year when the united arab emirates apparently the united arab. emirates helped hack the qatari. news network and inserted all kinds of false news and so on so forth and then that

that to the blockade where trump sided openly with saudi arabia and the. not that of him it's against the almost accusing it of to supporting terror and so on so forth since then we've really moved full circle now you know friendly relations on a personal level qatar is an important strategic ally and a force of stability in the middle east full partner with the united states as you stated earlier for economic partner as well so i don't or you could say that the lobbies but also cut thirty position and apparently the administrations have really moved back and forth but now we're back to where they were right so what it is going to mean for the crisis itself. if you take the new york times reporting on this issue face value and i think apparently they did speak to

high up admit station officials and their report this morning on the new york times was that the trump administration at this point in time blames the united arab emirates for the deadlock in resolving this crisis not qatar so i think for american officials high official to speak the new york times you know with the fake news and also what about an issue like that i think it's key will that will the saudi arabia and the united arab emirates help resolve the crisis it seems like for the time being they are not being helpful in resolving the crisis but they have less history low down on their incitement against cut a least in washington at least in any explicit manner or imo and thanks very much indeed more on this is the day goes on that up of the time being thank you very much indeed and that is it for this off i'm going to have the headlines in just a moment to get a website al-jazeera dot com is the address. so

yes every couple headlines here and how it is there and the syrian government has invited international inspectors to investigate a suspected chemical weapons attack in duma new video is said to show what's left of a missile used in the attack which reportedly killed at least sixty people russia denies the incident took place while the u.s. is threatening to respond once responsibility is established the u.n. security council is preparing to vote on a new resolution to set up an inquiry into the attack. facebook chief executive mark zuck a bird will testify before a congressional hearing in washington d.c. in about two hours' time he is expected to face tough questioning over how eighty seven million facebook users data was improperly shared with a british political consultancy out official has more now from washington d.c.

this is going to be a big hearing for him it's a joint senate committee forty four senators that's almost half the chamber have decided that they want to ask him questions what are we going to hear from our soccer birdwell you'll see saudi that they didn't do enough and that they're going to put new security measures in place he will hope that that will stop any possibility of congress looking at regulation but as you've had there are those who believe that the companies simply can't regulate itself and that's going to be down to congressman and senators to take that sort of job the israeli military has confirmed that a video showing an army sniper shooting a palestinian across the border in gaza is authentic the soldiers involved will be punished. the fate of the victim is not yet known israel says the video was filmed in december following riots and warnings from troops. the daughter of

a former russian spy who was poisoned in the u.k. has been discharged from hospital and taken to a secure location russia's embassy in london says any plans to resettle the surrogate's group or will be seen as an abduction of its citizens u.k. and its allies blame moscow of being behind the nerve agent attack on marshall forth and that's a claim the kremlin denies so gay remains in hospital but is not said to be in a stable condition all right you're up to date with the top stories here on al-jazeera techno is coming right up. in a country with high youth unemployment one organization helps turn school children

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