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all of us say we want an independent investigation our resolution achieves that goal russia's does not deadlock at the u.n. as u.s. and russian resolutions on investigating chemical attacks in syria fail to go through. them jailed up this is al jazeera live from doha it was a coming up president donald trump welcomes the amir of qatar to the white house less than a year after accusing doha of funding terrorism. but i'm sorry. i started facebook i run it and i'm responsible for what happens here. under pressure mark zuckerberg faces members of congress and takes responsibility for facebook privacy breaches plus. the.

proof avaya palestinians say gazans were shot despite posing no threat to israeli forces. rival proposals from the u.s. and russia to investigate chemical weapons attacks in syria have failed to pass at the un security council both sides called for new inquiries but a u.s. plan to assign blame was rejected by moscow rescue workers say dozens of people died in this is specks of chemical attack on the town of duma on saturday mike hanna reports on the united nations. yet another security council session on syria and yet another veto. the twelfth exercised by russia since the conflict began twelve members were in favor of a u.s. led proposal to set up an independent body that would investigate chemical attacks

and identify perpetrators voters old reconstitute and similarly this is a moment of truth the vote that we are faced with today so i would call upon each of the members of the security council speaking on behalf of france to take proper stock of what is at stake here and to live up to their responsibilities and to the us vote in favor of the american draft resolution as the day was the council continue to splinter a russian proposal for an investigative mechanism fails to get the mind votes needed to pass the u.s. not even needing to veto and an explanation of how it differed in two ways from the u.s. led resolution the key point is our resolution guarantees that any investigations will truly be independent russia's resolution gives russia itself the chance to choose the investigators and then to assess the outcome there's nothing independent about that. the tone of discussion was no listen to serve big than in

previous sessions the russian ambassador repeating his assertion that the u.s. and its allies were seeking a pretext to take unilateral action against the syrian government. if you take the decision to carry out an illegal military adventure and we do hope that you will come to your senses well then you will have to bear responsibility for you so. what you're trying to do is plant a resolution that has been on the show for a long time in order to find a pretext in the course of the session all members expressed support for the fact finding mission of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons or p.c. w which will investigate this past weekend's alleged attack the key issue though while the o.p.c. w. is empowered to establish whether or not a chemical attack took place it has no mandate to identify the state or non-state actors that may have been responsible. for

a second russian proposal failed to pass an apparently non-controversial resolution supporting the work of the opi c.w. failed to get the necessary votes those opposed to pointing out the chemical watchdog was already at work arguing such a resolution was superfluous and at the end of this day so too it appears for the security council. mike hanna of his era united nations the gulf diplomatic crisis was also on the white house agenda on choose day president donald trump played host to the cattery amir in the oval office trump said the relationship between the u.s. and cata is working very well ashleigh has more from washington. a crucial moment for the emir of qatar he meets the man who just a few months ago publicly sided with his country's we gen y. balls but in the white house a clear sign of chopped being turned in march it's a great honor to have the amir of qatar with us

a friend of mine 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 this country is under blockade by sandy arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain reiterated his commitment to build a strong relationship with washington our economy partnership is more than one hundred twenty five billion and our aim and goal is to double it in the next coming years our military. cooperation is very solid very strong as everybody knows that the heart of fighting terrorism is from a low data base last year donald trump accused qatar alone of financing extremism. he says all of the gulf rivals have a part to play those countries are stopping the funding of terrorism that includes

u.a.e. it includes saudi arabia it includes guitar and others who have now become a very big advocate appreciate. the events in syria also near the top of the edge and the u.s. administration is said to be seriously considering as riots following alleged chemical attacks by syrian army in duma on the outskirts of damascus the president and the emir one in blaming syria's for the atrocity and seventy years of war we can't tolerate with a war criminal record to tolerate was someone who could more than half a million. his own people and this matter ship and the media but u.s. officials are concerned they own going d.c.c. crisis could undermine a coup dated bush to the syrian conflict this still talk of trump leading a summit meeting and the almost year long diplomatic standoff but divisions among

the rivals persist this is a significant moment for the emir of qatar months ago president trump singled out qatar accusing it of funding extremism now the emir of qatar is being commanded by the same president and top u.s. military commanders for fighting terrorism and promoting stability in the middle east. washington d.c. facebook founder and chief executive mark zuckerberg has told a u.s. congressional hearing sorry about the privacy data breach at the social media giant second bag admits the way facebook connects with other apps wasn't good he was questioned on capitol hill for five hours about the recent privacy breach that saw the misuse of data from up to eighty seven million uses mr zucker burge would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night.

i. know. if you message to anybody this week would you share with us the names of the people you've messaged senator no i would probably not choose to do that publicly here i think that maybe with this is all about your right to privacy the limits of your right to privacy and how much you give away in modern america in the name of quote connecting people around the world. the question basically of. what information facebook's collecting who they're sending it to and whether they ever asked me in advance my permission to do that and fisher has more from washington d.c. . this is all about privacy and regulation privacy because eighty seven million facebook users had their data breached and regulation because the pending on home mark zuckerberg performs amy will lead to members of congress and the senate

deciding that the tech industry can't be allowed to self regulate itself and they have to take action to protect consumers no mark zuckerberg spent the entire weekend in washington d.c. preparing for this meeting and you could tell he ditched his normal great t. shirt for a suit and it was a polished performance from the facebook c.e.o. as well you know interestingly enough there a couple of very testy exchanges one where dick durbin a democratic senator from illinois asked him if he would like to reveal where he stayed in washington on monday night and as a couple of said he wouldn't be comfortable with that making the point that this is all the books privacy and who knows what about whom and then there was a testy exchange with ted cruz that's a name you might remember he was the republican senator from texas still is in fact and ran for president back in twenty sixteen and he suggested that facebook was politically biased something that mark zuckerberg absolutely rejected no mark zuckerberg has apologized for the data breach says that facebook is taking action

to make sure it can't happen again one senator said look we know you have the talent to do this but do you have the world he insisted absolutely and there was talk of some sort of introduction of possibly european style privacy regulations privacy is much tighter controlled in europe and mark zuckerberg said it was important it was the right regulation rather than just any regulation and made the point perhaps rightly that sensibilities in the united states are slightly different let's bring in and share is the executive editor scene at news for the west coast which is an online tech magazine he joins us from washington d.c. thank you very much for joining us what did you make of that harry and what did we learn. we learned that the united states senate does not understand technology very well and this is not a new thing that we learned but it is a critical piece of information when you consider whether or not they're going to try and regulate this industry that is on its own the third largest economic power

in the world behind the u.s. and china i mean how do you engage in name to say so as you as you said if you don't understand it i mean that's a an incredible problem. that is an unbelievable problem and what was really shocking about today's testimony was that how obvious it was i mean at one point one of the senators actually asked how facebook makes money i'm sorry that they actually put out that information with these security things change commission is very clear how they make money and mark zuckerberg to his credit was not terribly can be condescending when he said senator we sell ads and so it's very it's really it's really interesting to watch that happen and it raises the exact point you bring the other thing is that it asks ok well if this these senators walked into this room fired up ready to regulate this company and they were made very clear that they didn't know what they were talking about what do we end with right how do we deal with this the next step and it was very unclear what the next

steps are the most clear thing that the senate asked for was they asked for his help mark zuckerberg zone help crafting write legislation to regulate himself and that is a hole in his that he hasn't been able to do it is not a good idea on his own platform he's apologized in the hospitality hasn't done nearly enough so why should he stop now yeah i know it's a it's a it's a huge problem for people who are worried about this and look you know there are other places where regulations are coming down europe is the best example in a couple of weeks it's going to enact this new legislation that is around privacy rights called g d p r and so there are those things that are happening and but the united states very clearly is taking a backseat on all of this stuff so clearly little surprise then that russia has been involved as they allegedly have been accessing information and doing what they will. well the russians to be clear what we've learned so far is that they used.

they placed the ads right for political reasons that there are reported to have done this and also that they meddled in the election in ways of sending around misinformation and so that we don't we aren't aware yet that they may have access to any information that's that's more of the the other problem that facebook is dealing with but it underscores how i mean this company is facing scandals on multiple fronts this is one of those critical weeks that facebook has ever had and the people who are supposed to be standing up to them the united states senate clearly just fell down on the job. thank you very much still ahead on. why move to legalize abortion in argentina is sending people on to the streets. and a former u.s. president gets the freedom of belfast as northern ireland mocks a historic peace agreement.

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episode one on a jazzy the. last . laugh. and again you're watching al-jazeera mind of top stories rival proposals from the u.s. and russia to investigate chemical weapons attacks in syria a failed to pass at the u.n. security council both sides called for new inquiries to be set up by the u.s. plan to assign blame for the attacks was rejected by moscow. the crisis in the g.c.c. and security issues dominated the meeting between the emir of qatar check to mean bin how mental funny and us president donald trump at the white house trump says

he's working stream you well with cattle. facebook founder and chief executive mark zuckerberg has finished nearly five hours of testimony before members of congress he said he was sorry about the privacy data breach at the social media giant. admits the way facebook connects with other apps was designed in not a good way. on our top story the resolution on chemical attacks in syria that failed to go through at the u.n. robert ford is a former u.s. ambassador to syria he joins us by skype from greenville in the state of maine very good to see you what's going on here at the u.n. security council is it about the u.s. and russia scoring points or syria. certainly some amount of point scoring doing the united states and russia you can see that from the sharp rhetoric exchanged between the american and russian ambassadors but there is a deeper point which is important the american draft resolution wanted to

give the independent experts from the united nations and of the chemical weapons watchdog based in the hague in the netherlands the american draft resolution wanted to give them the authority to speak for themselves and give their expert opinion about the responsibility for the saturday attack in duma the russian draft resolution wanted to give the independent experts and investigators no authority to speak about responsibility and instead for the security council to meet and agree within the members of the security council about who was responsible regardless of what the experts said it was a way for russia to maintain control over the process and where does this leave

syria then i mean it seems that the perpetrator is will not be found if this standoff continues so who would benefit from the sort of stand off. well the country which stands to benefit is syria or the syrian government i'm not so sure about the syrian people there is a separate issue going on which i'm curious to watch in the next few days there is a team from this independent watchdog i mentioned the organization of prohibited chemical weapons based in the hague they have offered to go to syria immediately and to go to do a month to conduct an investigation i think that the syrian government in principle in principle has agreed to their visit that's not the same thing as saying they can come right away. but if the syrian government were to let them in to do an

investigation on the ground it might complicate the timing of an american led military action. the investigators are not on the ground yet but once they are on the ground it will be difficult for the americans to strike first without waiting for the investigators to at least have the opportunity to speak it's a very interesting point rather than a brief one if you will considering this is being done outside of the u.n. and this standoff that we see constantly at the and security council doesn't make it redundant do you think i mean will we ever get any progress with both u.s. and russia being so represented there. i think the odds of any productive united nations security council resolutions addressing the syria conflict are nil are zero and i'm going to be very frank here. i was involved

in the two thousand and thirteen negotiations with the russians with secretary john kerry. russian foreign minister lavrov was there and the russians pledged that if the syrian government used chemical weapons again the russians would accept that chapter seven measures be discussed in the security council resolution for the russians broke there were many times issued the toes and the russians simply aren't credible and i think the americans have reached the point where they no longer have confidence that anything productive can come out of the united nations and therefore as ambassador halley said they are prepared to act out side the framework of the united nations public for thank you very much my pleasure israeli military has confirmed a video showing and ami snipers shooting a palestinian on the guard a border as gaza border as authentic and says the soldiers involved will be disciplined palestinians say it shows how gazans were shot despite posing now

straight to israeli forces bennett smith reports from west to receive them. 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 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're going to keep hearing that anybody who is coming close to there for defense will be shoot anybody resupport dissipating 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. that level of showing the palestinian 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 leg and injured i don't talk shop that might earn a sniper high fines from his buddies of course devastating real life consequences in the last two weeks in gaza more than fourteen hundred people have been injured by. israeli snipers many crippled for life thirty one people have died. west jerusalem leaders of colombia's former fock rebels have accused the u.s. of sabotaging the country's peace process after a key negotiator from the group was arrested this is some trade she was taken into custody by colombian authorities based on drug smuggling charges filed in the u.s. court dismissed the accusation saying washington wants to use sentry to cover up

its failed war on drugs in colombia. argentina's congress has started public hearings of whether or not to legalize abortion a growing demand for changes in the law has led the conservative president with theo mark create to soften his pro life stance at the moment abortions are only legal if the mother's life or health is in danger and when the pregnancy is a result of rape it is a ball reports. it's a debate that divides this country deeply and that's why on tuesday hundreds of people took to the streets to make their voices heard field will not join an obvious says that abortion needs to be legalized in argentina so that women like her have some type of protection i am poor i hardly make enough money to support my child and i'm tired of seeing women living in shelters taking care of children they cannot support and the reason they have them is because there is no education we need a law that would guarantee sexual education that will assist women to get concert

since i will allow women to have an abortion if they don't want that child. abortion is illegal in argentina in most cases but the health ministry says that between three hundred seventy and five hundred thousand clandestine abortions are carried out every year. thousands of women are hospitalized because of complications in the procedure some of them die there also are driscoll being detained. the hearings are going to be ongoing for over a month when at least one thousand people will have the right to express their views on abortion the vote is expected to happen in june and it's going to be the first time in this country's history that congress will debate the legalization of abortion. but there are many who are not happy with the possibility of decriminalizing abortion in the country. they also took to the streets on tuesday. we want to save the mothers but also the babies all lives are important and that's

why we're pro-life in argentina we defend life not. the hearings include we now doctors journalists and doctors who are hoping abortion will be legalized in the country. against it are members of the powerful catholic church and politicians among others the debate has already polarized argentinean society and he will probably. intensifying in the months ahead. northern ireland's been marking the twentieth anniversary of an agreement which ended decades of killings and violence but it's still a time of mixed feelings because of a political deadlock and breaks at uncertainty to be phillips reports from belfast the class of ninety eight told their reunion at queen's university belfast the men and women who made peace a day to celebrate the dramatic reduction in violence that good friday agreement brought to northern ireland but what else the devolved government that was an

essential component of the agreement has not function did over a year. one key player insisted peace is not at risk. we'll be back on. the good friday agreement. the accord which is going to politics. and relationships in the and to the. future so i think the future is very bright from the opposite side of northern ireland's divide another key player said britain's withdrawal from the e.u. should not damage the agreement perhaps it is. completely different there is no interaction between them all but what is happening at the moment is some people are trying to use it to agree. and i hope that they successfully.

later the chief negotiator for the united states senator george mitchell and former president bill clinton were honored with the freedom of belfast i will always be grateful i came to belfast when piece of been made but the city was still troubled when was it good and decent people had to actually make a decision to do the right thing to be the right sort of person to give children the right sort of future. it was a fortunate. the only here one of the best things in the private life but outside pressure you needed to bring to the world. it's being celebrated that i think it was the day i turned out i think they would be no longer back and that brings me. it was a time when as the irish poet seamus heaney wrote hope and history rhymed an

elusive harmony that can never be taken for granted was. bought to be phillips al-jazeera belfast. results are these are the top stories rival proposals from the u.s. and russia to investigate chemical weapons attacks in syria have failed to pass at the un security council both sides called for new inquiries to be set up but u.s. plan to assign blame for the attacks was rejected by moscow. you have already appointed the guilty party before the investigation you do not need the investigation you do not want to hear anything you do not want to hear that no traces of a chemical attack was found in duma you've simply been looking for a pretext all this time there were really only two key differences between our draft and russia's but those differences speak volumes first russia

wanted to give themselves the chance to approve the investigators who were chosen for the task and second russia wanted to have the security council assess the findings of any investigation before any report was released does any of that sound independent or impartial. so russia's proposal wasn't about an independent and impartial investigation at all it was all about protecting the assad regime the gulf crisis and security issues of dominated the meeting between cattle to mean been hammered of funny and the u.s. president at the white house donald trump says he's working quote extremely well with cata facebook founder and chief executive mark zuckerberg has finished nearly five hours of testimony before members of the u.s. congress he says he's sorry about the privacy data breach at the social media giant

zuckerberg admits the way facebook connect with other apps was designed in a way that's not good. leaders of colombia's form of rebels have accused the u.s. of sabotaging the peace process after kenya goes from the group was arrested as was some trades was taken into custody by colombian authorities based on drug smuggling charges filed in a us court fogged in dismisses the accusation saying washington wants to use sun tritch to cover up its failed war on drugs in colombia those are the headlines inside stories up next. an ambitious process of consulting the libyans.