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al-jazeera. and why from studio fourteen you're at al-jazeera headquarters in doha i'm dreading obligato welcome to the news grid an algerian military transport plane crashes shortly after takeoff killing more than two hundred fifty people it's one of the deadliest crashes in recent years. the rhetoric over syria's war intensifies between the united states and russia donald trump takes to social media telling moscow to get ready for a missile attack after russia's vowed to shoot down any american missiles aimed at syria and back in the hot seat facebook founder mark zuckerberg giving further testimony about how this company has handled the data of its users are members of the u.s. congress asking the right questions. legal abortion. now has been trending long dry

and on threat of fire for you the latest details on why women in argentina are marching to legalize abortion. your rhythm is good relied on our streaming online for you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com so in the past few hours donald trump's sawed off an incendiary tweet warning moscow a missile strikes in syria we'll have more on that story in a moment but first to some developing news coming out of algeria and a military plane has crashed near the airport that's south of the capital algiers algeria as defense ministry says at least two hundred fifty seven people have died most of the victims are military personnel there is no word yet on the cause of the crash we'll speak to how he's a journalist in algiers he's joining us on the telephone any clear idea on how this

crash actually happened. a lot. of you know we have no official word on why the let it be crushed up and. some sources say that one of the year and into the plane it to cry or shortly after that they come up and then it exploded or stood to be crushed. this is an old you know very open investigation to determine precisely what caused the crash but there's already also hold what can you tell us about the death toll because the latest death toll we have is a two hundred fifty seven are authorities hoping that they will find any survivors . apparently there are no survivors unfortunately all of the passengers bankroll members were killed in this. tragedy two hundred fifty seven people were were killed the two hundred forty seven passengers and thing crew

members all of them were killed unfortunately we understand that dead or most of the dead rather are military personnel army personnel as well as their families that's according to what the defense ministry is saying what more can you tell us about the passengers themselves. some of those where we nationalize from the western part of the police letter from the referred to so how are people playing there were being treated in an algerian hospital and they were being taken back to washington to have them what about the investigation you mentioned a moment ago that an investigation has been opened what is the status of that and how long before all sorties may release any more information yes as you know many of these cases the investigations take a while especially due to the nature of the crash it's a military plane so we're looking to.

take a while until we know what exactly happened ok we'll leave it there one day bother we thank you very much for speaking to us from algeria giving us that update we will now see to justin bronc is a research fellow specializing in combat air power and technology at the royal united services institute joining us from london thanks for speaking to us on the news read some i guess just a moment ago was are really saying that there's a lot we don't know yet about this crash and why it happened why do you think it happened what could have gone wrong with the aircraft. well again initial reports suggesting a problem with one of the engines the aleutian seventy six is a complete work course of. the russian air force of pure enough force in most states and indeed it's used by china interview to fulminate you know it's all over the world traditionally a reasonably reliable piece of kit it's considered it still will regulate

contracted by western militaries from various countries for use so this isn't a type which is known for being chronically unreliable or anything like that so you would say that it has a reliable track record how would you evaluate its track record well there have been various crashes and indeed shoot downs of seventy six in the past but again as i said this is a type which has been used by huge numbers of countries and i force is around the world flies you know very very large numbers of sorties on a daily basis and so you know its safety record is comparable to most civilian airliners you know it's not something which is known for having you know a spate of crashes but what will you be looking for to come out of this investigation. well any aircraft is only as reliable as its maintenance and safety regime under which it's kept the storage conditions so it would be interesting to see if there are any irregularities that shocking

investigation on how the aircraft been maintained whether it's have been kept up to date i was there all the flight logs and technical logs are all as they should be and accounted for in the end however it is fundamentally a risky business and it may just be that these guys were very unlucky ok we'll leave it there we thank you very much justin brown for speaking to us from london to syria now and russia says it will deploy military police to duma within the next twenty four hours it's at that's how it's the town rather at the center of a suspected chemical attack over the weekend meanwhile russia's ambassador to lebanon is warning that any u.s. missiles fired into syria will be shot down and that prompted a furious response from the u.s. president donald trump who tweeted this russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at syria get ready russia because they will be coming nice and new and smarts so while trump is talking about possible military action the russian

presidents pressing for common sense to prevail listen. to blow mighty egypt today they're all of diplomacy and diplomats quizes special importance really the situation in the world is very worrying is the situation in the world becomes more and more chaotic and nevertheless we still hold that the commonsense finally will prevail and international relations will take a constructive for tendency all the while sr will become more stable and more predictable. well on choose they world leaders failed once again to come up with a unified diplomatic response to the use of chemical weapons russia and western countries faced off at a u.n. security council meeting they voted against each other's proposals to set up a body to investigate saturday's attack that killed at least forty people. joining us from washington d.c. to discuss the tweets that was put out by the president is he in effect here

declaring military action on syria via twitter can really. that is what appears to have just taken place pretty astounding and making a lot of people nervous here in the united states we do know that the president often speaks very boldly and brashly and then dials back his rhetoric as a negotiating tactic whether or not that's the case this time it's very unclear what we do know in terms of facts is that the president on monday said that he would be making a decision in terms of some sort of military response within the next twenty four to forty eight hours it appears that window is closing we still have not heard from the president but we do know that he has been consulting with top military leaders for days on exactly what the united states response should be he is conferred with the french leader the british leader all believing that there is a need to held to hold to account ever it is that is responsible for that chemical attack that has occurred and duma the united states building the case they believe it is the syrian government along with the support of russia even pointing the

finger at iran we should point out that there have been denials by both russia and syria at the same time we've seen the president also canceling a planned trip to latin america to the summit of the americas because in the words of the white house it is so that he can oversee the syrian response so there's no question that the white house is moving forward moving forward we are told in partnership with international allies and it maintains at this hour that all options remain on the table in terms of some sort of military response the white house has also said the president also said however we may not find out what that response is until after hit has already occurred ok kimberly thanks for that update from washington let's cross over to really challenge now he's joining us from moscow so clearly there's a message in that tweet by trying to russia rory when he actually says get ready for russia has there been any official response from the kremlin.

well yes that has but it seems as if the russian leadership the kremlin the foreign ministry and the defense ministry is not prepared to take donald trump's bates' on this at the moment certainly the language they using is not escalating the rhetoric any further and it seems possibly the the tweet that was put out by donald trump responding to something that was said by the russian ambassador to lebanon well perhaps that ambassador to lebanon wasn't quite quoted saying he is chief of the general chief of staff the russian armed forces correctly now a month ago general russell said that if u.s. strikes were launched in syria that threatens russian personnel then they would be shot out of the sky and the launch sites would would be hit as well where as ambassador said that if any russian in any u.s.

missiles went to syria at all they would be shot out of the sky and i'd say it's unclear at the moment whether he was misquoted saying the chief of general staff that but we have heard from the russian defense ministry about the goods or its ak . doomer attack basically re. underlining the the the message the narrative the russia's position now that this was a provocation it was a false flag operation that russian analysts and experts of been to the sites that they took samples which showed that it was no chlorine or nerve agent used that there were no bodies that could be found no ill people in hospitals the defense ministry is says it is very concerned therefore that the world health organization has come out to say that five hundred people were affected in duma. the defense ministry here is saying that well well health organization people should go to the site and have a look at it themselves. he's going to be doing so yeah that the russian message of

the most humans the vast this attack never took place but they are not responding directly to what donald trump a said said he no escalating the situation any further ok we're a challenge thank you for that update from moscow well what we do know is that inspectors as warry was just saying from the world's chemical watchdog are preparing to travel to syria on a fact finding mission so the nobel peace prize winning organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has one hundred ninety two member states it oversees efforts to eliminate chemical weapons in the world the syrian government has invited its team of inspectors to investigate the alleged attack in duma but it's unclear if it will be granted full access to these sites and here's the other thing though the o.p.c. w. can verify if there has been a chemical attack but it doesn't have the mandate to say who was responsible for its we cannot speak to lawrence korb he's the former u.s.

assistant secretary of state for defense and a senior fellow at the center for american progress he's joining us live from washington d.c. d.c. thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera i know that you saw that tweet that was put out by a president trump is what's being done here is the public being prepared for some sort of military strike on syria before impartial international investigations can actually take place in the o.p.c. w. can actually go and establish the truth i think there will be a strike before the all the inspectors come up with their findings because when they get in there the question is how much access to they have had the russians have said no it was really you know the rebels that did this so this is spectrum is not going to really you know put the put the blame where it needs to be so what you're saying is an american strike on syria is imminent it's. i would say it's pretty americas remember as your correspondent pointed out trump cancels this trip

to latin america on monday he said twenty eight to you know of twenty four to forty eight hours and today and basically he's told the russians that you know you won't be able to shoot down those missiles so my guess is there will be a missile strike like we had about a year ago but they'll go after a much more important facilities than they did the last time they just hit a runway there public go after some of the planes and maybe some of the places where they make chemical weapons does the u.s. president need to go to congress to get the necessary approvals before taking any sort of military action what are the president's constitutional powers when in the context of limited military action on another country well under the war powers act which was passed after vietnam basically if he goes more than thirty days he has to go to congress and obviously i doubt that this is going to go more than more than thirty than thirty days so no he doesn't have to go to congress and in fact

president obama went to congress before he wanted to launch the attack congress didn't give him the approval and now some of the same people who complain that obama didn't do anything or now are urging trump to do it so now the congress really unfortunately has not played the role that it should have after they passed the authorization to use military force if the attacks of nine eleven what about the response of the russians do you think that worries the president at all or or the people around him and how do you think russia will respond should the u.s. strike syria. well i think you know we have this de confliction arrangement with the russians i suspect that before they do it they'll tell the russians where we're going to head and make sure it doesn't hit and he and the russians this is you know what we did the last time too we didn't kill and the russians a year ago entrenched what trump launched the fifty nine cruise missiles against

against syria there will be complaints but it's important to keep in mind we've killed some russians already we killed the russian mercenaries from the sole call wegner group when they came after the syrian democratic forces who we are supporting all right so we'll leave it there we thank you lawrence korb first joining us out of washington giving us your point of view on the story thank you well the international air traffic control agency is warning that airlines need to be cautious due to the possible launch of air strikes into syria so you're in control said that air to ground and cruise missiles could be used and there was a possibility of intermittent disruption of radio navigation equipment so if you take a look at this map right there it shows flights that are already diverting their routes after that warning was issued more details on al jazeera dot com just had their we are getting some breaking news out of saudi arabia this

is what we're hearing that's yemen's philthy rebels say they've launched a ballistic missile targeting the saudi defense ministry earlier the royal as news agency reported three loud blasts heard in the capital. and saudi television reports of the country's defense forces intercepted the ballistic missile over the city there have been a series of recent attacks by houthi against targets in saudi arabia. if you have any comments or questions about anything you're seeing on the newsgroup you can contact us we're on facebook at facebook dot com al-jazeera we're also on twitter our handle is our ageing was we're use the house to a.j. news grid and you can contact us via whatsapp or telegram at plus line seven four five zero triple one one four nine well it is they too off testimony by thirty three year old billionaire and founder of facebook mark

zuckerberg so he's facing politicians in the u.s. congress well on choose day he was grilled in a marathon senate hearing for failing to protect users data and at the time zucker berger apologized several times and he promised meaningful reforms to protect data privacy facebook has been in the spotlight after the personal information of eighty seven million of its users was harvested by the political consultancy firm cambridge analytics. but a lot of people feel the hearings sounded less like an interrogation and more like a face book to tauriel sarah been looking at that conversation sarah saying quite the hot topic face because moment soup billion users worldwide so it's no surprise that the hashtags like a book is topping the trending lists online so much so that there have been almost a million tweets in just twenty four hours on a book and we expect this trends continue into his second day of herring in congress now the most popular comments online seem to mock the u.s.

senate says questionings like a bow because of questions like this. how do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service senator we run ads and i say i believe you have all the talent my question is whether you have all the will to help us solve this problem do you do you agree with me that you better come up with different ways because this isn't working would you agree that. users should be able to access all of their information. senator we have already download your information tool that allows people to see and to take out all of the information that facebook that they've put into facebook or that facebook knows about them so yes i agree with that we already have that in fact talk show host stephen colbert sweet in there he almost fell the. thing there's no way he left that room full of old people without having to set up their wife eyes but others

feel the senator's went easy on sucker because of past campaign donations and let me just bring up that link feed a guy the center for responsive politics released this state said just here all the different amounts of donations that showing how much money facebook has contributed to members who sit on different congressional committees each election cycle now if you go through the data you find those from to say just three committee received more than two hundred thousand dollars in funds from facebook since twenty ten and some people online are quite keen to point to how the number of times mark mark zuckerberg said he'd get back to the senate is on a specific and so this person says i summarized eighty percent of the speech community committee i'll get back to you on that community community i'm not where you know everyone was critz of coke because the wall street journal also crisis management experts how they think stock

a book handles the questioning and they were mostly positive and this moment has been widely shared as a winning point for the sentences 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 it might be with the is all about and some people have been using humor while tweeting about the herring many pointing out the basic question the stock back was just sell now that's been quiet talking points online but if you're following day to see it harry want to hear from you the hash tag is a.j. . sarah thank you well moving on them i mean mars army has sentenced to seven soldiers to ten years each that's for their involvement in

the killing of ten men during a military crackdown on muslims the military says the soldier is joined police on buddhist villagers and the killings in rakhine state last september mean mars' army has been accused of carrying out ethnic cleansing benjamin is a walk he is an independent southeast asia analyst he says mean war is treating journalists more harshly than it's treating soldiers who commit atrocities. well certainly the first convictions in this latest wave of violence against the ethnic minority or hinge of what has constituted ethnic cleansing and potentially genocide as well what's interesting is that it's only seven low level soldiers convicted to ten years each essentially one year for each of the the richest civilians that were that were killed and it comes a month after these after the beginning of this ethnic cleansing began and of course in the wake of up to seven hundred thousand bridges having left the country

ten people killed and seven soldiers convicted for this is a start but it's insufficient when you consider that hundreds of hinges were killed and continue to be killed in this in this campaign these soldiers have been convicted and sentenced to ten years in contrast the two journalists working for reuters are facing up to fourteen years for the possession of on lawful documents or unlawful possession of classified documents rather as opposed to murder so you have potentially our two journalists who are sentenced to four years longer than then soldiers for for an offense an alleged offense that of course would be much less than the mass murder for which the soldiers have been convicted and secondly there's the irony of the fact that the documents that the journalists were allegedly in possession of were related to that very same massacre to the very same mass killing of ten ethnic minority wrenches so you have a situation in which the government seems to be coming down much harder on on the

possession of documents related to a massacre on the on the reporting by these journalists than on the the actual killing by their soldiers. well more than sixty two thousand live in malaysia escaping persecution at home in myanmar but they are unable to settle down as malaysia is not a signatory to the un refugee convention and doesn't grant refugees protection our reporter florence louise speaks to refugees vulnerable to exploitation unable to work legally or access public services you can read their stories by heading to the moore tab on al-jazeera dot com and then selecting reporter's notebook or international news from london now with the maryam namazie. thanks very much terry and that's right we begin in azerbaijan where voting has just closed in a contentious not presidential election results will likely extend the autocratic rule of president ilham aliyev is seeking

a fourth consecutive term in office the election was boycotted by opposition parties who describe it as a sham they've accused the government of preparing to rig the vote u.s. republican house speaker paul ryan says he won't run for reelection in november midterm elections ryan the highest ranking congressional politician will serve out his current term ryan's announcement follows a series of regional election wins for democrats and mounting republican concerns about holding on to them majority in the house of representatives. i really do not believe whatever i stay or go in twenty nineteen is going to affect a person's individual race for congress i really don't think a person's race for congress is going to hinge on whether paul ryan speak or not so i really don't think it affects it look if we do our jobs which we are we're going to be fine as a majority. conflict and instability in the democratic republic of congo has caused a new exodus of displaced people doctors without borders says more than fifty seven

thousand of fled fighting in a teary province heading to neighboring uganda in the last four months there is malcolm webb is following their journey i'm now standing in the democratic republic of congo and it's up in these hills where the beginning of the militia of me in the villages setting huts on fire and killing people with machetes that's why tens of thousands of fled many of them in come like this to very basic conditions are good just plastic sheeting stretched over sticks lucky people those that can afford the fee for being coming down here to lake albert getting in rickety wooden boats and crossing to neighboring uganda they're picked up by the un refugee agency in uganda government officials taken to a refugee camp with a couple of hours drive inside uganda a memorial service has been held in south africa for the woman many called the mother of the nation thousands went to sam many for winnie magic. where she lived

and fought against apartheid the activist and former wife of south africa's first black president nelson mandela died last week at the age of eighty one she played a leading role in the fight against white minority rule catherine so he has more from still at her. it is quite. good here. as it. was now we might be hearing something that he meant. was that he did. have to leave the key note address and a lot of people i say wife yeah i saved it just here to celebrate the extraordinary life to celebrate the struggle that she face she was literally the face of the struggle for liberation and for that she suffered immensely she was a pretty song she was held in solitary confinement was kept away from her children

she was a banished to some far away village where she didn't know any bodies of people here say that they just how are the how the carriage and that's why they're here this is a stadium along the stadiums the forty thousand capacity stadium but it's not because today is a walk day it's a school day but the funeral service is going to be held here as well on flights a day and it's a fact that stupid the stadium is expected to be to move to the breed even exist. and these blades olanda stadium is in so wet a which is hugely significant and symbolic because so when it was very much the heart of the struggle for liberation and the movement against apartheid movement as a people i hear a lot of people here relates to winnie mandela and then there was they tell us just

celebrate ha and what she did for this country and the running libyan general had a five to has reportedly suffered a stroke and is in europe for treatment some media outlets have been reporting that have to i was initially taken to jordan before being moved to a french hospital but other reports quoting a spokesman i have to is in good health and militia known as the libyan national army. the u.n. accuses forces loyal to him of carrying out mass killings. i'll have more from london in about thirty minutes time now back to terry and i am see you then thank you well you're watching the news grid and if you're watching us on facebook we have a facebook live that is we've got a story about underfunded schools in the u.s. state of arizona that's where teachers are using social media to expose the conditions children are working in and then later coming up the push to legalize abortion in argentina signs people to destry.

how either weather still remains a little disturbed across the middle east a fair amount of plants spilling out to the northern parts of syria saying some damn weather pic of your class you just notice making its way into that east assad of the bed it's right in this is quite mobile all the little edges way for a swiss western parts of iran seen some clout of the right level just slide out of iraq baghdad around thirty two celsius brightening up as we go through day as was going into friday that rain will start to a peach of a little bit but still some pockets of heavy rain still in place fair amount of cloud into the caspian sea pushing a little further east was kabul will be dry temperatures here at around twenty two celsius where most laws are dry across the robin peninsula but we have got this long line of cloud running right down into the southeast and cool to see a few showers just around concept was more than the end of the arabian peninsula

further south some rather big storms around the southern end of the red sea this is the scene in santa capital of yemen the coast we have had some flooding right here over the past couple of days a really big down poles and we may well see a few more of those as we go on through the next couple of days that what's the weather never too far away possibility of a little bit of rain making its way towards oman as we go into friday afternoon. on the benefit of saddam people. see the importance of. witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera.

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so those are the headlines on al-jazeera and this is what's trending right now on our websites al-jazeera. dot com the first story no surprise there trumps message to russia get ready for syria missile strikes read more about that on al-jazeera dot com and also you can find out about the plane crash that took place in algeria with two hundred fifty seven people killed so far so that's what's trending right now on al-jazeera dot com. let's just show you the scene in

washington d.c. in just a moment there it is right there in fact that is the u.s. president's donald trump and he is proposing the legislation that he wants to push through in fact were keeping an eye on developments out of washington will let you know what it's about when we find out more detail also what's going on mark soccer burned areas so this is the second day off his testimony at congress and it began with questioning about in fact the first day began about questioning about the broad scope of facebook's a feature as let's listen to sound we've had previously facebook has created its own video series starring tom brady that ran for six episodes and has over fifty million views it's twice the number of the viewers that watch the oscars last month also facebook's obtained exclusive broadcasting rights for twenty five major league baseball games this season is facebook

a media company thank you mr chairman i consider us to be a technology company because the primary thing that we do is have engineers who write code and build products and services for other people there are certainly other things that we do too we do pay to help produce content we build enterprise software although i don't consider us an enterprise software company we build planes to help connect people and i don't consider ourselves to be an aerospace company. but overall when people ask us a poor media company what would i hear is do we have a responsibility for the content that people share on facebook and i believe the answer to that question is yes let me ask the next with you can send money to friends on facebook messenger using a debit card or a pay pal account to quote split meals pay rent and more clothes quote people can also send money via them over their bank is facebook a financial institution mr chairman i do not consider ourselves to be

a financial institution although you are right that we do provide tools for people to send money given the situation or can you manage the issues that are before you or this congress need to intercede ok so that was a second day of congress and it began with questioning as you can see about the broad scope of facebook's feature as well now speak to eva kylie's she's a member of the european parliament who advocates for a greater regulation on the use of dot us is joining us live from brussels thanks very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera so sucker going through the second day of questioning but what when you heard just twenty four hours ago when he was giving testimony event oh what do you make a photo what he what he had to say did you hear everything that you wanted to from him when it comes to. privacy and data. well first of all thank you for having me let me say i am happy because i heard

that she mentioned g.d.p. are this means that europe is leading in the regulatory framework. based on basic principles of transparency in lay ability but also a cause for why somebody would keep your data so we give back control to the citizens of the data i think it's important that this has been acknowledged of course there were some questions that they do expect to be answered the next few days if there was a cover up if the data were being sold and the you about it i think these are questions that need to be answered but the nine case i do believe that politicians have a responsibility to apply g.d.p. are we fighting a lot here in the european parliament to make this legislation go through in fact that or the funding that you do work or long time ago you doing work on pushing for tighter regulation when it comes to the european union and we know that regulation is going to go into effect in europe the g.p.d.

are what's known as the general data protection regulation that's going to happen on the twenty fifth of may just give me your point of view on that regulation and do you think that it does enough to protect against data breaches. well it's an excellent base to start with it talks about transparency and liability this means you have to know who is responsible for your data you have to know why somebody keeps your data and for what so this is already a very good start that we all agree on secondly they have to be anon it was the tone of this means they cannot be salt and make profit without your consent this is essential and it's not only for european companies but anybody that wants to work to work with european companies so i think it's really important to know who is the responsible of data it's a fire away from protectionism we just protect the privacy of citizens and we want

to make data explainable we want citizens to understand how their data are being used so we're expecting the next few days we're going to follow with some guidelines and specific cases of how did the p.r. can be applied and i do hope the u.s. will will follow this lead ok we thank you very much tiley for speaking to us from brussels well in this article trending on al-jazeera dot com you'll find some of the quotes during his testimony twenty four hours ago as well as some of his exchanges with the senators if you scroll all the way down. qatar's emirs i mean bin hamad with me is seeking support in washington that's as the blockade on his country continues he's already held talks with the us president donald trump and he's set to meet top congressional leaders including paul ryan and nancy pelosi it's been almost a year since the blockade began saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahamian and

egypt cut ties with qatar back in june accusing it of supporting terrorism a charge qatar has strongly denied while saudi arabia close off qatar is only land border and air routes were sharply restricted nearly a year later doha has expanded economic cooperation with turkey and iran new supply routes have replaced those cut off by the blockade and the country is also pushing to replace essential imports with domestic alternatives poultry and very products for example are two areas in which the government now says qatar is entirely self-sufficient has some how about a joining us from washington d.c. to tell us more about the emir trip and what's on his agenda in the u.s. . drene today he's meeting with congress leaders and later he's going to have a meeting with the. chief of national intelligence dan coats this is part of

a qatari the diplomatic offensive we've seen the emir starting talks with top military commanders the sense of calm chief defense secretary jim madison then with president donald trump yesterday he met with the. secretary of the treasury with the business community and today he's meeting with congress leaders and this is part of trying to reach out to different decisive decision making is to to users in the united states to explain the position of qatar when it comes to the g.c.c. crisis different issues like syria like instability in the middle east but also about how to move forward says that they are now emerging more stronger than before the first days that characterized the position of the united states of america during the start of the crisis is water under the bridge they have more support now from the american administration they are looking forward to further expand trade deals military cooperation with the united states of america so from

a target perspective this has been quite a significant moment for them. there's a camp david summit for the g.c.c. countries that has now been tentatively scheduled for september is the u.s. administration saying anything about what will happen if that summit does not go ahead. they do realize that there needs to be some work to be done in the coming months to try to narrow differences and find a solution to the growing differences between the gulf why vors now after the visit of the emir we're expecting to see the prince of the united arab emirates hamad bin zaya to meet with trump a pushed for his visit to be the last one in in washington d.c. . and then that's where we go going to be able to gauge a sense of whether the u.s. administration is going to be able to call for that meeting now or indications suggest that this is not going to happen. before september because of the ongoing

difference of the saudis and the u.a.e. are still not willing to sit together with qatar unless qatar meets the list of eleven demands they made in the past which include qatar's downgrading its relations with iran shutting down the turkish military bases are also shutting down the al jazeera media network qatar has been saying there is absolutely no way is going to backtrack or what it considers to be issues of national sovereignty so i think this still a great deal of work to be done by the americans in the near future to be able to mend fences between the regional rivals and while i have you with us let me ask you this because you mentioned that the emir did meet with the president as we know and you said he met with members of the u.s. congress what else will he be doing in the time with his time in the in the states . so basically he's going to be meetings with. the business community who says he has been invest in something like a hundred and twenty five billion dollars in the united states of america but they

were looking forward to further expand that for for your cuttlefish to say that that investments even other states of america america contribute to the creation of something like one million jobs here in the us and they are willing to further expand that partnership we are also expecting expecting to see a senior qatari business delegation to further travel to different states in the united states of america with the aim of promoting. investment environment the reforms that have been made over the last few years in qatar to pave the way for u.s. business community to try and find a need. so what we're saying it what we're seeing basically over the next coming days is that in these continuing talks with different officials here in the united states of america before his trip comes to an end on friday but at the same time we're going to see many many officials continuing their trip with different

decision makers to try to narrow differences and also the same time see how to move forward ok has come out about a report from washington thank you what's a good time to remind you of this page you'll find all the latest updates here on the it kept our g.c.c. crisis on al-jazeera dot com. argentina's congress is holding public hearings on whether to legalize abortion a growing demand for change has led to the conservative president's remark create to soften his anti abortion stance at the moment abortions are only legal rights if the mother's life or health is at risk or when the pregnancy is the result of rape to raise a boy reports from one of sirees. 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 but 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 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 address gov been 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 probably live in argentina we depend 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 it will probably intensify in the months ahead. or so her other social media producer is here and dave is telling us on facebook sarah let women do what they want with their bodies what are you seeing online that's actually what a lot of people are saying the spanish phrase aboard has been trending worldwide

including argentina of course and it means legal abortion now but green is the color that people have been choosing and they have been saying online that they are encouraging others to wear a green bandana and it's thinks it's in the national campaign for abortion now most of the tweets have been speaking out about on social media about the fact that they are in favor of abortions are calling this debate historical not one of those screens there by mariella but women at the different marches the pro-abortion of also been sharing their photos to rally up support a live update people are unable to attend as well and there's been other than photo . there's been people sharing and sweeting. season fact this one is by family gangsters she's tweeted that one there with the bandana and then people have responded with the opposite suites this one says go power and this one here says which means fights now parts of that campaign as well as coming from both sides

people for or against the argument of pointing out the importance of sexual education to help women make those informed decisions and this one has been shed online this photo but also people have been attending the debate shed this photo is an anti abortion pediatrician who showed this photo of himself throughout several years to prove his argument saying it's because his mother didn't abort him he's been able to live life to the for what's right is a bone mentioned in her report the number of protesters are expected to increase and they already are in the moment argentinian or only permits abortions in certain conditions but the proposed bill would give the women the right to access a legal abortion in the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy for any reason without facing criminal charges and in argentina nearly one third of all maternal deaths come from complications during illegal abortions now most the last in most of

latin american far as uncreated in the list of the streets is countries in the world when it comes to an outright ban on all abortions three quarters of abortions in latin america are performed illegally putting the mother's life risk in twenty twelve you're required to criminalize the procedure mainly because of persistent efforts through feminist movements and in august he took a historical step to expand access to legal abortions but the streets as strict as country in latin america of all abortions is al salvador where women suspected of aborting could be jailed for up to fifty years for homicide but a bill proposed last august could change that by adding up at. bates' illegalized abortions in some cases so women have been trying to push for this before a conservative party is seems off this in may and they've been lobbying through a social media campaign not just focused on women's health but also on the harm done to families when a mother is prosecuted or her life is at risk and insolvent all the t.v.

stations there refused to run ads but campaigners in one have persuaded some journalists to cover the issue and every saved increase in support from doctors legal experts and the backing of the health ministry so of course that's quite intake growth so them getting that push through but the abortion debate affects millions of women around the world and we want to know what they're saying in your countries to get in search of those messages on any of the social media platform and here are the details of the hash tag janie's grids. thank you one other. quick break that is on the news but for our facebook got a story about the world's first space. it'll be open for business in two thousand and two. when in rome do as the romans do celebrate an incredible football comeback over barcelona. story coming up in just a moment. let's

find out what people are talking about in sports at a window during thank you well it's pretty much dominated social media in the last twenty four hours i'm talking about one of the greatest turnarounds in champions league history roman knocked five time champions boss line out of the competition with a three no when it was a huge comeback for the italians here trial for one from the first leg and it's right for him much as the semifinals winning on away goals is just the third time a team has come back from three goals down in the competitions knockout stage and just listen to the reaction of rome this commentator. was the daughter chloe

cross. thanks thanks. thanks i was was there or was was it was was so that our sorrow was that it was. far far. far far. i already going to do not go there will be an italian football media team fit for europe and we have beaches again but it's something that i've been preaching since i arrived here in rome and lucky i was able to communicate a certain mentality and we have a goal now because we reached the semifinals rather than saying whatever happens will be fine i say this team has aim at getting to kiev that's what we should use so off to such an achievement lacombe reach for something even higher but this is

what we must do because at the. well it isn't the first time roma has reached the semi since they maybe every european cup final in one hundred eighty four as you can see the party started in rome as dressing room after that victory thing they were celebrating winning the trophy well the coach has now called on his team to em for the final while rome as president was also in celebrate remove fans gathered around him as he threw himself into one of rome fountains in celebration video has had more than hof a million views on twitter by far and take a look at the heat map showing how many people are interested in this story globally almost every continent around the world is talking about it the trending hashtags hashtag roma botha housecoat over three hundred seventy thousand tweets in the past twenty four hours hashtag champions league has been tweeted almost one hundred thousand times and roma bosler know that double l. is in fact the italian spelling of the spanish city and it has had more than eighty nine thousand tweets nice or

a little bit earlier the italian sporting papers reflected front shuckin or a robust performance with headlines like the legend of rome coming from codee at a dallas boat imperio screens legs at the dallas sports and romas ecstasy is into toast for now roma social media game was also strong in fact they used the if you don't love me at mean thing if you don't love me for one day then you don't does the me when i win three no now and judging by the celebrations in rome after that when the club clearly thought this might be a good time to shift some much and guys through writing the baby collection saying we might be sending a few of these in nine months. well another social media story we've been following over the last few weeks was the n c double a college basketball championship and march madness one of the stars was a nun who gave team talks and scouting reports to yola chicago's fifty jean there has got a self something of an international following since then and throughout the first

pitch for the chicago cubs home opener on tuesday the ninety eight year old drew a big cheer for her effort at wrigley field she was also kitted out with a personalized cubs jersey unfortunately she was unable to give them any divine inspiration the cubs lost to pittsburgh eight to five will have more at eight hundred g.m.t. before now back to daryn joe thank you well let's just revisit the breaking news out of saudi arabia and yemen's filthy rebels say they've launched ballistic missiles targeting the saudi defense ministry and a distribution facility off a run co that's a state owned oil company well there appears to be two separate strikes on riyadh and the city of those running more on that story in just a moment with our teams from london thanks for watching news group see you back here on.

the scene for us where there online what is a very sound in yemen that peace is almost possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and she's close to the story join the global conversation. and at this time on al jazeera arabic surpluses for every gang member you will find in a climate of fear rhetoric is easily abused will be put to klein's investigative new initiatives to combat gangs simply being used to target the young documented

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