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the alleged chemical attack in syria the french and british leaders agree with the u.s. president that the world needs to respond. this is live from london also coming up president trump praises ties with cuts and as he meets him there at the white house. a tough day for mark zuckerberg as he prepares for a grilling by u.s. lawmakers of a facebook failure to protect its users data. on. israel confirms that a video showing soldiers celebrating off to shooting palestinians is all things to . say that the u.s. president on

a trump has discussed the alleged chemical weapons attack in the syrian town of do met with the french president and the british prime minister have agreed the international community needs to respond this comes as the u.n. security council prepares to face on a new resolution to set up an inquiry into the attack well video has a mud showing what's said to be the remains of a missile used at the syrian relief groups say at least sixty 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 sent a halt to reports on what that might involve. 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 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 on 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 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. 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 as i mentioned there is this u.n. vote on setting up an inquiry into the speak to mike hanna in new york on that mike what do expect to happen. well in about two hours' time the security council will convene to discuss a united states resolution which proposes the formation of a un independent mechanism of inquiry now this would be established for a minimum of a year the intention is that it would investigate chemical weapons attacks and importantly have the power to be able to create some kind of accountability or

identify the perpetrators now the idea is that this would replace what was jim the joint investigative mechanism which had been in place for a number of years investigated a number of chemical attacks in syria that was then the mandate lapsed when after back to back vetoes by russia did not allow the mandate to be extended so the us intention is that you knew me would replace jim as a mechanism to both investigate chemical weapons attacks and also to apportion blame or might there are two russian proposals on the table as well. well we haven't had direct confirmation from the russians yet that these proposals will be brought to the security council but there has been talk that there will be a one motion which would suggest a nother form of investigative mechanism importantly though this mechanism would

report back to the security council which would then have the power to apportion responsibility or blame this is basically a nonstarter russia bandied about before and did not get the nine votes needed within the security council then there is talk of a second russian vote this would be simply and blandly expressing support for the fact finding mission of the international chemicals watchdog which has already announced that it is going to investigate these attacks and has begun investigating these alleged attacks in syria once again not quite clear how much backing that particular proposal would get we have heard from the swedish ambassador for example that many think it's a necessary as the fact finding mission is already doing its job or i might thanks very much indeed mike hanna there at the united nations in new york well the u.n. says more than one hundred thirty thousand people have fled syria 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 are in overcrowded camps nearby after being screened by government or for two days or tehran says seven iranians were killed in airstrikes and two for military base in syria on monday is blaming israel for the attack and is warn that the strike will be met with a response israel has not commented on the strikes but the netanyahu government has repeatedly said that the base was being used by iran to supply arms to lebanon's hezbollah group. u.s. president donald trump has praised his ties with cuts are saying they are working extremely well he made the comments while welcoming the country i'm in shape i mean been to the white house for bilateral talks the pair discuss the syrian wall kind of sort of a role in the combative groups that sponsor terrorism and the g.c.c.

crisis. 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 do not tolerate with people who support and on 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 he's been supporting us during this blockade and i would like to also fungi merican people for being very supportive and his role is very vital to end this crisis in our region thank you sir. thank you very much it's a great honor to have the amir of qatar with us it's a friend of mine knew of long before i entered the world of politics he's a great gentleman it's 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 us 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 and. we'll talk about that in just a moment but first president manuel macro is pretty commonly holding talks in the french capital with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon is in paris for a three day visit aimed at improving diplomatic relations at micron hosted a private dinner for the prince inside the loop on sunday the leaders are expected to sign a strategic partnership agreement to hold a joint news conference after their meeting. all right let's take a closer look at this diplomacy that's going on these visits by middle east leaders are starting within the hour of qatar. political on this moment bashar joins me

live what did you make of that that brief press conference we saw that between the in the air and president trump certainly short and sweet certainly a major departure from the statements we've heard from president trump in june last year when he sided with the united arab emirates and saudi arabia again scott that of blaming it for tat or blaming it for instability. at this point in time referring to the emir of qatar in his first name to mean talking about the gentleman the gentleman i knew from before i entered politics clearly the administration the top administration has moved hundred eighty the greens from being a bit hostile since the stomach saudi summit in riyadh into today now of course at the top and mr should have moved back and forth on a number of issues but clearly on this issue there has been many pure nation of information and manipulation of lobbying and manipulation of various administrations including apparently the president's son and lo by the united arab

emirates so i think we've moved in a way nic from the shock of the blockade against qatar to the revelations what's who's behind the blockade of qatar into what you would call now the clarity whereby now the americans and the qataris are back to where you where they were last year or they have before and we have all this diplomacy ongoing right now we have one of the protagonists if you want to put it that way of the gulf crisis meeting the president president in paris and you know him in both cases of course the cut that he's on the so there's the saudis are certainly you know a larger and wealthier country but clearly money talks clearly the cut that is on the saudis are received in west and. but those with open arms and hearts and pockets because there is money to be spent there are investments to be made and

clearly the petro dollars that expression that we've lived with for the last four decades continues to be effective especially when western economies go through ups and downs in their own you know inflation inflation their economies or what have you so to have the likes of the emir of qatar or of the saudi crown prince is always something. like appreciated if you will in paris or in washington now if the saudi crown prince of course has made major strides in the united states because he promised hundreds of billions of dollars especially of arms and of heavy sort of industries apparently in fronts the investment is going more towards the so-called cultural investments apparently an opera and other like investments would be made by saudi arabia in saudi arabia but supported by by france for a moment even if it's i mean things for which the shark now the facebook chief

executive mark zuckerberg is set to appear at the first of his two congressional hearings in washington d.c. in about an hour's time is expected to face tough questioning over how eighty seven million facebook users data was improperly shed with a british political consultancy it comes as face but launches its own bounty program to reward people who report data abuse by developers particle hain 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 as you know as to time clean white shirt because you know that is i think you're right that is my thought is our last year you know do you think they succeeded 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 reason it was a 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 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 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 bat 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 billing 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 to call hane al-jazeera washington. all right let's go to alan fischer who's standing by for us in washington d.c. alan said this is a big moment for. whether he wears a hoodie or a full suit. and he's never given evidence in front of any congressional committee before even when there was the fury abodh thing the russian meddling on facebook

during the u.s. presidential election he sent deputies and live tenants to address congress then this perhaps shows just how serious facebook and other tech companies are taking this more will mark zuckerberg do well he'll admit that there was a failure on their part he will promise that they're never going to do it again and that they're going to put things in place to make sure that users data isn't harvested in the way that it was will that be enough for senators and members of congress well it might just be enough because they don't want to start getting involved in legislating an entire industry that would be very difficult and if there was just a small change in the legislation then perhaps facebook might not be that upset because it sets another bar for competitors who might come after them to try and reach as well and of course facebook have this huge advantage of being in business for a very long time at but mark zuckerberg has been coached for his appearance here he's

been sitting down with members of his team that he uses to lobby on capitol hill how he would react how we should expect questions to go this will be a very difficult few hours for mark zuckerberg there are forty four senators who share jeweled to speak that's almost half the chamber will be given about four minutes each and you can guarantee that people from twitter from google from you tube and from all other online platforms will be watching to see how much it's like a bug does because that might dictate whether or not congress the senate and the house of representatives are coming after tech. well we'll be listening to those hearings as when they happen in iran about an hour's time and we will be hearing from you again after that and thanks very much indeed time. all right still to come here on al-jazeera a warning from russia scribbled the poison daughter of a former spy is discharged from a u.k. hospital. once upon

a time in the city of dallas. and twenty years after the good friday agreement snored niland now has a grieving film industry but. we're still hanging on to the spring shadows the disturbed weather across parts of the middle east at the moment a little area cloud here spinning out of turkey southern areas the turkey into syria that will continue to make its way further east which as we go through the next there is a system down weather there you can see into southern parts of turkey just around the border with syria twenty celsius the beirut little cooler and it has been recently a lot of sunshine for many but a little bit of cloud day notice into southern parts of iran out across the other side of the gulf when she whether that's in the process of pulling away from afghanistan brought to skies now coming back in couple of eighteen maybe twenty celsius by the time we come to thursday here slushy dry but we have got that cloud

that wetter weather coming out of syria pushing across iraq pushing into that western side of iran some heavy downpours certainly a possibility could see a little bit of localized flooding once again by right meanwhile warms up temperatures get back up to around twenty three degrees now that west of weather that cloudy weather that does extend its way down into the arabian peninsula maybe one of two showers just around the southern end of the red sea from time to time trying to move a little further was that he one celsius here in doha put at thirty five for riyadh so the heat never really too far away meanwhile she was never so far away from southern part of africa with some heavy downpours for the eastern cape.

well again a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera and u.s. president donald trump has discussed the suspected chemical weapons attack in the syrian town to meet with his french and british counterparts who agreed the international community must respond new video is said to show a missile used in the attack. us president donald trump says ties with cuts

a working extremely well during a meeting with the enemy shake time and become at all times at the white house. and facebook chief executive mark something that will start testifying before a congressional hearing in washington d.c. in round about an hour's time where he'll be questioned over the improper use of millions of members date. the israeli military has confirmed a video that shows an army snipers shooting a palestinian on the gaza border is authentic and that the soldiers involved will be disciplined palestinians say it shows gazans are being shot while posing a threat to soldiers israel's defense minister as defined in the action of the soldier saying that the sniper deserves a medal but a smith reports from west jerusalem. this israeli soldier has in his sights a palestinian apparently unarmed standing a few meters beyond the separation fence that 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 take in hitting that target doesn't change the fact that the israeli military won't consider the sniper's actions unlawful but it's according to one human rights group here. we have and keep hearing that anybody who is coming close to their for defense will be shoot anybody who supported

a thing in those demonstrations is part of the hamas and they want to destroy israel everybody is a terrorist then what's rationed so totally to me so if the public debate here that is being conducted by the being led by the political level. showing the prettiest thing in the snow observing 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 iraq 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 lag 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. years president don't trump has blasted the f.b.i. his raid on his lawyers office is a disgrace and a witch hunt agents raided the new york offices of michael cohen on monday seizing his work files which included details of an hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to a porn star before the two thousand and sixteen election kerns attorney says the agents were working on behalf of the special investigator wrote miller who is looking into alleged links between russia and the trump campaign the daughter of a former russian spy who was poisoned in the united kingdom has been discharged from hospital and taken to a secure location russia's embassy in london says any plans to resettle yulia and

against group well will be seen as an abduction of its citizens u.k. and its allies blame moscow being behind the nerve agent attack on march fourth a claim the kremlin denies so i gave remains in hospital is now said to be in a stable condition although to say that you are and her father have responded well to treatment are different stages in their recovery we have now discharged from salzburg 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 you only a well this is not the end of her treatment but 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 is recovering more slowly than you we hope that he too will be able to leave hospital in due course. it is no exactly twenty years

since the good friday agreement was signed ending more than three decades of violent conflict in northern ireland the area which is part of the united kingdom has seen growth in sectors like tourism in the film industry but serious political divisions have been sharpened since the u.k.'s decision to leave the european union to be phillips's in belfast for us covering events to mark the occasion this anniversary being marked by a ceremony here at queen's university in belfast and visits by some of the keep us now these who help the good friday agreement and former president bill clinton former prime minister tony blair but what does twenty years of peace means in northern ireland i've been travelling around belfast and the surrounding countryside to find out. 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. we are so so busy there are huge companies coming here and that he would never have dreamed twenty years ago companies though otherwise would never ever have dreamed of what was considered to be a war zone so it's not a 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 clams the titanic museum and yet northern island has not had a government for over a year because of feuding between the pro british do you and the irish nationalists shin fein this politician or from a moderate nationalist party worries where all this will lead us to situation where

the 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 so a day of mixed emotions here in northern ireland undoubtedly enormous satisfaction that throughout the past twenty years there has been a sharp decrease not an elimination but a sharp decrease in political violence but also an acknowledgement that if peace is to mean more than the absence of violence well it's still a work in progress here. about to be phillips reporting there are plenty more on that story and all the other stories of course that we're covering plenty of comment and analysis right there on

a website al-jazeera dot com is the address. so let's a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera and u.s. president donald trump has discussed the suspected chemical weapons attack in the syrian town of duma with its french and british counterparts who agree the international community must respond new video is said to show what is left of a missile used in the attack which reportedly killed at least sixty people the u.n. security council is preparing to vote on a new resolution to set up an inquiry into the incident. donald trump has praised his ties with cutters saying they are working extremely well he made the comments while welcoming the country him in a shake them been hammered on tony to the white house for bilateral talks the pair discuss the syrian war cut his role in combating groups that sponsor terrorism and the g.c.c. crisis 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 do not tolerate with people who support and fund 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 he's resupport ing us during this blockade and i would like to also thank you american people for being very supportive and his role is very vital to end this crisis in the region thank you sir. president emanuel mccrone has held talks in the french capital with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman is in paris for a three day visit aimed at improving diplomatic relations that the leaders have signed a strategic partnership agreement worth eighteen billion dollars. facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg will testify before a congressional hearing in washington d.c.

in less than an hour's time he's expected to face tough questioning over how eighty seven million facebook users data was improperly shared with a british political consultancy. the israeli military has confirmed that a video showing an army sniper shooting a palestinian across the border in gaza is authentic and the soldiers involved will be punished the fate of the victim is not yet. up to date with the top stories inside story is coming right up africa. an ambitious process of consulting the libyan.