the distortion isn't. supposed to be about the context it's hugely important. to publish it. to be. setting the stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. and. on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly been able to escape the war.

all of us say we want an independent investigation our resolution achieves that goal russia's does not. stand off on syria as u.n. base by the u.s. and russia to investigate chemical attacks failed to go through. a line from doha also coming up. and i'm sorry. i started facebook i run it and i'm responsible for what happens here. mistakes as he faces questioning on privacy breaches. a patch of land for a makeshift home we follow one of the thousands of desperate families who fled the democratic republic of congo plus. why a move to legalize abortion in argentina is sending people onto the streets its.

rival proposals from the u.s. and russia to investigate chemical weapons attacks in syria have failed to pass at the u.n. security council both sides called for new inquiries but a u.s. plan to assign blame was rejected by moscow. dozens of people died in a suspected chemical attack on the town of duma on saturday mike hanna reports from 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 similar markley 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 nine 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 big than in previous sessions the russian ambassador repeating his assertion that the us 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 yourselves. what you're trying to do is plant resolutions 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 o.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 states 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 a review of work arguing such a resolution was superfluous and at the end of this day so too it appears was the security council. i can i'll just hear a united nations. global chemical weapons watchdog has accepted an invitation from syria's government to visit the sites of sas a suspected chemical attack and duma there was a sin for the prohibition of chemical weapons as a fact finding mission will be deployed shortly syrian aid workers said at least sixty people were killed many of them children and more than one thousand and. robert ford is a former u.s. ambassador to syria he says the presence of weapons inspectors could stop the u.s. from taking action if the syrian government were to let them in to do an investigation army 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 be. the un says it's the law and what it calls the spiraling number of people fleeing the syrian enclave of eastern ghouta says more than one hundred thirty thousand have left in the past four weeks a third of them are now levering living in shelters in the damascus countryside roughly the same number of women children and elderly and overcrowded camps nearby after being screened by government or thora to. facebook founder and chief executive mark zuckerberg has admitted making mistakes as he gave nearly five hours of testimony before u.s. congress he says he's sorry about the privacy data breach the social media giant alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . ditching his favorite group t. shirts for a suit this was a polish to facebook c.e.o. with a performance to match mark zuckerberg apologize for the massive data breach that

impacted eighty seven million users worldwide we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry but the importance of this appearance was not lost on me and senator it should be a wake up call for the tech community we want to hear more without delay about what facebook and other companies plan to do to take greater responsibility for what happens on their platforms the core issue was summed up with one question from democrat dick durbin mr second bird would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night. no. mark zuckerberg was called in front of the senate after it was discovered millions of users data was improperly obtained by yuki beast political consultancy cambridge analytics the use that information to target ads to help donald trump's

presidential campaign and the bricks at referendum in the u.k. the facebook founder says steps will be taken to ensure such a data breach can never happen again but one senator asked if he was ready to follow through on that promise i believe you have all the talent my question is whether you have all the will to help us solve this problem yes senator do you believe the european regulation should be applied here in the us regardless of whether we implement the exact same regulation i would guess that it would be somewhat different because we have somewhat different sensibilities perhaps the most contentious exchange came when republican ted cruz accused facebook of political bias are you aware of any and or page that has been taken down from planned parenthood senator i'm not but let me just ask and i have on another work sorry about move on dot org i'm not specifically aware of about any democratic candidate for office i'm not specifically aware i mean i i'm not and i'm not sure

mark zuckerberg revealed facebook is looking into potential russian links to the cambridge analytical breach and also that the company has cooperated with special counsel robert mueller who's investigating possible collusion between the russians and donald trump's presidential campaign mark zuckerberg spent the weekend preparing for this appearance and it showed he'll no fees members in the u.s. house at a separate hearing on wednesday with the threat of greater regulation for the entire tech industry standing on the other side of that performance alan fischer al-jazeera on capitol hill. of course in me and maher has refused to drop a case against two reuters journalists accused of obtaining secret government papers while alone and chaucer were arrested in december also investigating the killing of ten men during a meant to crackdown on the hinge of muslims in iraq and state it could face charges of violating mammals official secrets act which carries a prison sentence of up to fourteen years boys have been trying to get their case

dismissed on the grounds of insufficient evidence. more than fifty seven thousand people have nice and democratic republic of congo congo have fled to uganda since december as according to the united nations many are leaving because of attacks on villages by militia in the north eastern province of it turi the exodus has led to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis more than thirteen million people need help that's twice as many as last year and more than seven million faced severe food shortages half of them children the political situation is unclear president joseph kabila is still in office even though his term officially ended in december two thousand and sixteen and no dates been set for elections which have repeatedly been postponed. following the refugees journeys and joins us now from the sever gar landing site on the shore of lake albert in uganda's

american explain the significance first of all of where you are. we're in uganda as you said on the other side of lake albert over there it's a democratic republic of congo you can just about see some hills on the far shore line and in those hills in the last few months the militia have been attacking villages setting houses on fire chopping people with machetes and shooting them and that's prompted tens of thousands of people to get in boats and flee across the lake to come here and you can see some of the kinds of boats they've been coming in they're made of wood normally these boats have an engine straps on the back this is the best way to cross for those who can afford to pay the ticket for the boat ride other people have to paddle across in canoes the most about takes about three or four hours to clean you can take one or two days legs prone to strong winds heavy rains and storms it's not so uncommon for boats to capsize some refugees have drowned on the way those that do make it picked up here by ugandan government

officials and u.n. officials and then taken a couple of hours drive into uganda to the tango ali refugee settlement we went there and we spoke to some of the recent arrivals let's take a look at our story know. all these people ran for their lives. now patience runs thin they're waiting for buses to take them to a place to make new homes in this refugee camp in uganda. wheat elisa's stories typical a few days ago a militia or attacked a village in congo they killed her neighbors with machetes she fled with her five children she's pregnant with her six if you don't want to get one can't we start the fighting had started then they started burning houses with people inside so we went into the forest and hid for us to be dazed then we decided to run and we came to uganda. militias from the lendu ethnic group has been attacking villages in rita's province called it to worry since january the u.n.

says that forced more than seventy thousand to sleep here. you can and many more displaced back at home people have lost their family ministers and women are subjected to a sexually gender based violence before enduring. so they came very traumatised very tired in some needed a very raw and they needed medical attention so. some people describe the violence as ethnic return says it's not she says the attack has killed anyone and everyone she said i think lendu has the same as them some people here say they don't know why they've been forced from their homes now other suspect congo's government is behind it trying to stay in power by further postponing the long overdue presidential election the government denies it regardless people keep arriving here in uganda. the u.n.

says more resources donors threatened to cut funds for refugees in uganda when government officials were implicated in a corruption scandal earlier this year but new arrivals still need help at the moment a lot of the refugee settlement is a vast expanse of bush people are given plots wreath has been given her here she's got some plastic sheets a few simple rules now she asked to build a shelter that's what she'll be living in for the weeks ahead and use the tools to start selling the land and growing some food and now it's starting to rain rita lost her husband when she fled she and her children now have to wait for somebody to help them put up shelter it might be safer here for their struggles over the muck and this movement of paper has been going on all day so yeah is it showing any signs of a basic. not really since it peaked

in february the flows reduced a bit that's when most people were arriving from congo coming here but this still the u.n. says about fifteen hundred a week coming over and we've spoken to people who said that attacks have been happening over there still right in the last couple of days there's also a campaign over there on the outskirts of the town with tens of thousands of internally displaced people there who weren't able to make it to the lake shore can't afford the pope to come across. with him planning to travel over there in a boat to retrace the route of the refugees will go into that camp for displaced people will be finding out what's going on there being more reports on that in the days ahead. thanks very much for joining us from. still ahead here on al-jazeera a shaky relationship grows stronger. less than a year after accusing financing terrorism. and.

palestinian protesters have opposing prat. hello it's still raining in tajikistan in northern afghanistan that frontal system is longleaf deedes fadia way they can see there's more cloud behind me and that's the spinning system slowly dying in the eastern side of the mediterranean producing rain for sun and northern syria south of that the sun's back out again only nineteen in jerusalem you notice thirty three is a contrast in baghdad and the still cloud hidden through the eastern side of saudi kuwait and bahrain that's produced a few thunderstorms recently i think it's on the way out now but it's still there

as a form of cloud and the showers now are showing themselves in the eastern side of iraq thermite or when the red particularly further south it's been bringing the dust in from the northwest all the southeast depending on where you are with rather peninsulas sand of the dust has been in the air and it's still a fairly cloudy picture when you knew that already well two showers are showing themselves every now and again the western side of society west and yemen and the trials always a bit suspicious in nature when it's there showers are possible mostly dry picture all the same and it's going that way in southern africa should be really what we have seen is a big house recently and i think we're on wednesday on the eastern side of south africa through crosses on a towel but it's a dry looking picture on thursday. winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media state p.r. machine it's going to overdrive. but just who he's been feeling seeing.

we just don't know yet where the line sweeping drawn between can be said and what constituted. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for outside polling the media opinion the listening post base time on al-jazeera. or watching our serious reminder of our top stories this hour rival proposals from the u.s. and russia to investigate chemical weapons attacks in syria failed to pass up the un security council that follows instructional outrage over suspected chemical

attack on the town of duma on saturday. the gulf crisis and security issues have dominated the meeting between castles a mistake to me been how middle tahnee and the u.s. president the white house told trump says he's working extremely well with qatar. and the corps in manaus refused to drop a case against two voices journalists accused of obtaining secret government papers . through or were arrested in december last investigating the killing of ten men during a military crackdown on ranger muslims in rakhine states. the gulf crisis of on the agenda white house agenda on shoes day the us president's hosted castles amidst saying the relationship between the countries as working very well we'll have reports from washington. crucial moment for the emir of qatar homies 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 emir of qatar with us it's a friend of mine who of 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 this country is under blockade by saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain reiterated his commitment to build a strong relationship with washington our economy quarter ship 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 other database last year donald trump accused qatar alone of financing extremism now 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 one in blaming syria's for the atrocity and seventy years of war we can't tolerate with a war criminal record to tolerate will someone who could more than half a. million offers on people and this matter should be media but u.s. officials are concerned they own going d.c.c. crisis could undermine dated bush to the syrian conflict still

talk of trump leading a summit meeting to 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. the french president is adding saudi arabia to end the war in yemen manual macro held talks with the saudi crown prince bomb in selma and paris expressed concern at the humanitarian situation in yemen he says france will host a conference on the issue in the coming weeks and on a three day visit and six-pack to sign a strategic partnership agreement with from. the israeli military has confirmed

a video showing an army sniper shooting a palestinian on the gaza border is authentic and says the soldiers involved will be disciplined centers that shows how gazans were shot despite posing no threat to israeli forces but a special report 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

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 who support this if they think in those the most regimes 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 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 a 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 fines 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 life israeli snipers many crippled for life thirty one people have died. i'll just era west jerusalem. said jenin is apple is expected to return to normal wednesday a day after a strike that thousands of passengers stranded. cancelled eight hundred flights as

workers from the country's biggest union walked off the job but is seeking a six percent pay rise for two point three million public sector employees because a nursery school is rubbish collection and transport have joined the industrial action. daughter of a former russian spies been discharged from hospital in britain as she recovers from being poisoned. or has been taken to a secure location russia's embassy in london says any plans to resettle her and her father surrogate will be seen as quote an abduction of its citizens britain and its allies blame moscow for the nerve agent attack on the fourth about which the kremlin denies so yes cripple remains in hospital but is now said to be in a stable condition we have now discharged from salisbury district hospital yulia 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 it marks a significant milestone her father has also made good progress on friday i announced 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 leaders of colombia's former farm gravels have accused the us of sabotaging the country's peace process after a key negotiator in the group was arrested. was say taken into custody by colombian authorities based on drug smuggling charges filed in a us court suspects the accusations say washington wants to use sandridge to cover up its failed war on drugs in colombia is due to take a parliamentary seat which far had been promised as part of the arrangement with the government. at least twenty people have died during an attempted prison break in northern brazil it began when gunmen attacked the perimeter wall of the northern

city of the lane they tried to help inmates escaped also exchanging fire with police and guards most of those who died were part of the group that stays the attack. panama has banned all venezuelan allan's from flying into the country for the next ninety days that's in response to venezuela pushing a three month ban on key panamanian businesses including alan kohler from operating within its borders the dispute started when panama labeled president nicolas maduro a high risk for money laundering. argentina's congress has started public hearings on whether or not to legalize abortion a growing demand for changes in the law has led the conservative president. to soften his pro-life stance at the moment abortions are only legal if the mother's life or the health or health is in danger and the pregnancy as a result of rape 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 you cannot 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 recognize 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 civs 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 murder. the hearings include we know 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 intensify in the months ahead.

as there are these all the top stories arrival proposals from the u.s. and russia to investigate chemical weapons attacks in syria have failed to pass at the u.n. security council both sides called for new inquiries but a u.s. plan to assign blame was rejected by moscow one of the most of the new rules 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 impartial investigation at all it was all about protecting the assad regime. facebook's chief executive has testified for nearly five hours in the u.s. congress logs uk about says he's sorry about the privacy data breach at the social media giant image the way facebook connects with wasn't designed well of course it has refused to drop a case against to doit's his journalistic use of obtaining secret government papers while lerner and charles so who were arrested in december investigating the killing of ten men during a military crackdown on the hinge of muslims in rakhine states the gulf the crisis and security issues have dominated the meeting between castles

a mistake. pani and the us president at the white house donald trump says he's working extremely well with cattle it is of colombia's form of rubbles have accused the u.s. of sabotaging the peace process after a key negotiator from the group was arrested his son tritch was taken into custody by colombian authorities based on drug smuggling charges filed in a us court those are the headlines more news accounts they're off the listing. tracing the fall from prosperity to financial ruin. first will be entering the devastating impact to save the banks to save the day. every citizen and the failure to prevent disaster banks. the people who. are gore.